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...and my whatever god you believe in, have mercy on your soul.

phoenix

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> Just as long as they use the concept and not BSG's poor writing practices

Oasx

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> Wow, I thought the title said "Soon all Scifi will Look Like Battlestar Galactica". Judging from the picture, that wouldn't be so bad either.

Dr. Futurity

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> I'm rooting for a "Crawling Eye" remake.

Nebris

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> DS9? B5. QED.

Marcus

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Dunny0: lol. Yeah, sexy robots! Oh the temptations those poor Mormons must've had to deal with!

CmdrHunt

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @PVIII:

I'd agree with that. I think people give them both too much credit the way they've destroyed the potential and direction BSG once had. It's been nothing but shark jumping and force fed soap opera moments ever since the nuke went off and they changed teh rebellion/revolution from being a human one to a Cylon one.

The true sign of a hack is when they double back on the direction they followed and try to rewrite something they think makes more sense. It shows they didn't know what they were doing/had in the first place, and they really did have something.

The darkness of the premise once made sense, and they even had built up a pretty good argument that maybe the human race should be destroyed or merge with the Cylons and even had a group of rebels/revolutionaries that could have heralded in a new age without getting religious but by focusing on real world issues. What did we get? Plot contradictions and storylines that negate the significance of what was built up before.

And to screw up the Bionic Woman you have to be a hack. The premise is Robocop and what did we get? Female angst and relationship BS that we could have seen on Sex in the City. What they should have focused on is the fact that technology was introducing the latest evolution of mankind and the impact of that on the characters and society, not 'oh my greatness is interferring with my personal life'. That and it became yet another excuse to have Starbuck be the troubled angsty strong female character.

They are just writing scenes and stories around scenery chewing emotional outbursts by Starbuck now. The Lost trick I call it. Good dramatic scenes with no long term relevance or resolution because it can and will all be contradicted or negated. I gave up on Lost when season 2 ended without them addressing or resolving anything from season 1. It's micro-drama. It's junk food drama. It becomes forgettable.

Kill Starbuck off already, she's a one trick pony and we've seen the trick over and over and over and over.

psych0fred

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Jeff-Minor: I am with you. Hollywod finally knows SKIFFY SELLS but the retreads are going to kill the trend and we'll be back to nothing but buddy movies and teen comedies. If these doofuses are only going to making franchises based on existing properties why not poke their point 'lil heads out of the box and use something beside a cheezy show or movie they remember from childhood.
Ringworld would be a great possibility. The success of the Halo games has already created a load of folks primed to be interested.


Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @daveNYC: The Mormons fought robots? o_O

Dunny0

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> BSG is a bit more than just a remake of the original. The first series was just a poorly done retelling of the Mormon trek to Utah. They used the setting and characters, but it's not just a remake.

daveNYC

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> Why don't they just take Niven's ringworld and use it as a setting for a series? The setting, the characters, the conflicts the vampires, floating cities, giant kitties. I want it now!

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> coming soon from the pen of ultra-mega-super-genius ronny d. moore, 'space 2199'. a stunning re-envisioning of the classic series featuring hot chicks, explosive effects and extra darkness and grit. every episode chock full of podcasts describing his diet and beverages while his wife, kids and pets add new, exciting distraction.

these dudes are so over rated, the 'bubonic woman' is the harbinger of things to come from these two.

lazlopink

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @jbq: Sorry, sorry...
Although, the idea of a sweded Thing is rather fun.

I've got a camera and a weekend... There's still some snow on the mountain.

Dunny0

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Jeff-Minor: And you're a poet and you didn't even know it!

You know, I just wish they'd do another Blade Runner-clone (or should that be "replicant") like Total Recall 2070 (only with actual actors). That's the kind of sci-fi I like best (apart from Doctor Who, of course)! These days it's all space-opera and time travel. Where's the love for future noir, or even cyberpunk? (and I realize I contradict myself there with loving Doctor Who, but I don't care).

jbq

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> I hope all sf will not be like BG, because enough is enough. Too much filler, not enough thriller. I'm board already. Someone just kill 'er!

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Goodnightbabytron: I meant "retread" in the sense of "redo," purely neutral...

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: really? I don't see it... BSG is moving, while DS9 is stationary. And I feel that in a figurative sense as well as literal. to each his own, I suppose.

dirtybacon

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: Oh and yes, the end of DS9 was a big bad thud...let's hope that isn't repeated.

Goodnightbabytron

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: I'm not sure "retread" is fair -- maybe I'm reading that as too much of a pejorative -- but it's certainly exploring many of the same themes. Looking at the world around us, those themes still need exploration. Anyway, DS9 was far and away my favorite Trek, so I've enjoyed the parallels.

Goodnightbabytron

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Dunny0: The Norwegians, damn it! THE NORWEGIANS! (though I would LOVE a sweded The Thing. Just sayin'...).

But yeah, prequel = bad idea. It's like trying to come up with something original... and then failing miserably. Unless it is a prequel to the original, in which case I don't feel that strongly about it, other than shaking my head at the, wait for it, failure to create something original.
Do I detect a pattern here?

Mission Impossible II - sequel to a remake.
Various incarnations of Trek, including First Contact - spin-offs of TOS plus semi-prequel.
BSG - remake.
The Thing prequel - uh, prequel.

Not to be dissin' the BSG/Ron D. Moore-fans (or, gods forbid, the Trek-fans), but does this guy actually create anything original? Then again, who the hell in Tinsel Town actually does these days...

Also, working with UA? Sci-fi-related? The smell of Thetans is ominously strong...

jbq

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @edosan: "...in space."

> No word on what the trilogy will be
> called

How about Battlestar Virtuality.

And I want all the characters to have Ron Moore's hair.

ALL of them: male & female.

In the future, there will be only one haircut.

@Charlie Jane Anders: DS9 was burdened by the bias of What Had Gone Before, both ST: TOS, ST: TNG and whatever other "spin offs" preceded it. I think if they'd kept Avery Brooks in the shades and trenchcoat he used to wear on Spenser For Hire, it would've helped distinguish it a bit more.

darcymcgee

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @PVIII:
I don't know about Hack. He's just not the creative side of the partnership. From his past projects, he is a great producer in the classical sense of being able to get things done and in front of an audience.

He just has no sense of narrative or direction and needs a better half to run the creative side of things. So, if I was a director or show runner who was trying to get my show made having Eick on board would be a dream. If I was a studio exec looking for someone to guide a new (or old) idea, not so much.

Ryan H

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> David Eick is a hack. Just riding on RDM's coat-tails.

PVIII

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> So all sci-fi will have hot Blonde and Asian robots who like bone average guys? How revolutionary.

Macloserboy

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Goodnightbabytron: I've always thought that BSG was, in many ways, a retread of DS9. But with, hopefully, a less disappointing ending.

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @kstop: I think you're dead-on about the religious themes and the links between BSG and DS9. I was strongly reminded of that in the latest episode.

Goodnightbabytron

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @Dunny0: I thought it said "... prequel to 'Swamp Thing'" and nearly lost my goodies for a second there

DeepFriar

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> You could argue (if you were my girlfriend the trekkie) that ST:DS9 was the actual pioneer of feminine narrative in TV sci-fi, so all sci-fi, including BSG, is becoming more like DS9.

Personally, I'd rather hide the box sets so I can play me some Wii.

(Although now I think of it, the religious themes in DS9 might give some clues as to how BSG will end. Hmm.)

kstop

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @diverguy:
Only if they included some of the original tin cans.
"No baby, leave it on. I like the helmet."
"Say it! Say!"
...."By your command.."

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> "He's going to work on reinventing another, as yet unnamed, Universal franchise."

The Six Million Dollar Man? Let's see how he can make a campy 70s into an ultra crappy 00's show, again.

ManchuCandidate

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> Is it bad that "original science fiction movie trilogy" makes me cringe more than a little? I'd like to be jazzed about somebody cooking up a new idea. It should thrill me. I think I've seen too many things on SciFi with "original" attached to them. I do hope this project turns out well.

papercup mixmaster

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> New from United Artists.
The Xenu Saga.
A 3 part telling of the true history of the known universe. Now in glorious e-reader-vision.

btgoss

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> The Thing? Prequel?
Um... No.

I thought The Thing, as it stands, is a wonderful bleak film. What needs to be added to it beforehand? Where the ship came from? How it tore apart the Swedes?

Dunny0

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> @BullfightsOnAcid:
For the win.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> i've got my fingers crossed for abrams dark tower.

although, i really don't care if they produce the whole thing.

What would be awesome, was if they did only the gunslinger, and produced it with all practical effects and had it done in exaclty the same style as a sergio leone western.

get Ennio Morricone to do the music while he's still with us.

capntim

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> Little Miss Sunshine meets Thelma & Louise? If it has Abigail Breslin driving off a cliff in a car then I might consider watching.

BullfightsOnAcid

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> Enough with the reboots...I'd love to see what these guys would come up with working from scratch. Or at least use non-TV/film source material.

Goodnightbabytron

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> Based on that photo alone, I have to conclude that Cylon Porn would be absolutely amazing.

diverguy

]]> <![CDATA[Soon All Scifi Will Be Like Battlestar Galactica]]> "...Little Miss Sunshine meets Thelma And Louise..."

The key to a good pitch: take two things that have nothing to do with each other and slap 'em together.

edosan

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