Post by koenigrules on Jan 3, 2005 23:43:42 GMT -5
I posted this at the galacticastation home page, but am reproducing it here for discussion.
Taken from TV Guide January 9-15 Issue, pp. 53-54
10 Things You Need to Know About Battlestar Galactica
A Megahit Miniseries on Sci Fi Channel Spawns a Retooled, Gender-Bending, Darkly Cool Series by Greg Emmanuel
1. The new Battlestar Galactica series wouldn't be on Sci-Fi Channel's Friday-night schedule had viewers not come out in droves for the 2003 miniseries. The creators of the miniseries saw it as a dramatic way to start the franchise and introduce Galactica to a new generation.
2. Die-hard fans of the original series (1978-79) at first sneered at the idea of a new Galactica, but they came around. An average of 4.2 million viewers tuned in over two nights to watch the saga of a sole surviving band of humans that gets blindsided by the Cylons, an enemy that went unseen for 40 years.
3. The Cylons, descendants of a race of robots gone bad, are up to their old tricks and trying out some new ones. They formerly only came in metallic (with a laser-red eye accent). Now Cylons can look like us.
4. Central to the new Galactica is that it's hard to tell humans and robots apart. It adds intrigue and appeal to new characters, like Lt. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii (Grace Park). Is she one of us? Or one of them? (Hint: If you have to ask, you already know).
5. A fan-favorite from the original series is back- with a twist. This time, Richard Hatch, the original Captain Apollo, is playing Tom Zarek, a Nelson Mandela-like imprisoned freedom fighter. Jamie Bamber is the new Apollo, and Edward James Olmos is back from the miniseries as Commander Adama, Apollo's father.
6. Starbuck now wears a bra. Dirk Benedict played the hard-ass fighter pilot in the original series. In the miniseries and new series, the role belongs to Katee Sackhoff. (We'll soon learn she had a relationship with one of Adama's sons.)
7. The original TV series had a cheesy robot dog. It was sooooo '70s. Mercifully, there are no cutesy elements in this updated, brainier Galactica. It's handsomely staged sci-fi, rather serious and dark.
8. In the future, adventurers find time for sex in space. Teenage boys, prepare to encounter Tricia Helfer. She plays Number Six, a killer blonde Cylon who hooks up with untrustworthy scientific genius Dr. Gaius Baltar (James Callis).
9. Earth exists in this series. It remains a mythic place, the legendary 13th Colony of Man and the wanderers' last hope. The new president of the known 12 Colonies is Mary McDonnell, the former secretarty of education. She and Adama get along like liberals and neocons.
10. This is not your father's Galactica. An allegory of our times, it touches on war, terrorism and torture.
KR
Taken from TV Guide January 9-15 Issue, pp. 53-54
10 Things You Need to Know About Battlestar Galactica
A Megahit Miniseries on Sci Fi Channel Spawns a Retooled, Gender-Bending, Darkly Cool Series by Greg Emmanuel
1. The new Battlestar Galactica series wouldn't be on Sci-Fi Channel's Friday-night schedule had viewers not come out in droves for the 2003 miniseries. The creators of the miniseries saw it as a dramatic way to start the franchise and introduce Galactica to a new generation.
2. Die-hard fans of the original series (1978-79) at first sneered at the idea of a new Galactica, but they came around. An average of 4.2 million viewers tuned in over two nights to watch the saga of a sole surviving band of humans that gets blindsided by the Cylons, an enemy that went unseen for 40 years.
3. The Cylons, descendants of a race of robots gone bad, are up to their old tricks and trying out some new ones. They formerly only came in metallic (with a laser-red eye accent). Now Cylons can look like us.
4. Central to the new Galactica is that it's hard to tell humans and robots apart. It adds intrigue and appeal to new characters, like Lt. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii (Grace Park). Is she one of us? Or one of them? (Hint: If you have to ask, you already know).
5. A fan-favorite from the original series is back- with a twist. This time, Richard Hatch, the original Captain Apollo, is playing Tom Zarek, a Nelson Mandela-like imprisoned freedom fighter. Jamie Bamber is the new Apollo, and Edward James Olmos is back from the miniseries as Commander Adama, Apollo's father.
6. Starbuck now wears a bra. Dirk Benedict played the hard-ass fighter pilot in the original series. In the miniseries and new series, the role belongs to Katee Sackhoff. (We'll soon learn she had a relationship with one of Adama's sons.)
7. The original TV series had a cheesy robot dog. It was sooooo '70s. Mercifully, there are no cutesy elements in this updated, brainier Galactica. It's handsomely staged sci-fi, rather serious and dark.
8. In the future, adventurers find time for sex in space. Teenage boys, prepare to encounter Tricia Helfer. She plays Number Six, a killer blonde Cylon who hooks up with untrustworthy scientific genius Dr. Gaius Baltar (James Callis).
9. Earth exists in this series. It remains a mythic place, the legendary 13th Colony of Man and the wanderers' last hope. The new president of the known 12 Colonies is Mary McDonnell, the former secretarty of education. She and Adama get along like liberals and neocons.
10. This is not your father's Galactica. An allegory of our times, it touches on war, terrorism and torture.
KR
