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So NEW NEW Battlestar... I'll watch it no matter what they do with it.

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I don't know about that, but the psychic thing is straight from the mouth of Richard Hatch at a convention I attended about 2005 which had pretty much all the surviving cast bar Maren Jenson. He was going to develop some of the funky powers of the Lords of Kobol that Adama alluded to on occasion. I may be misremembering but didn't Adama display some limited telekinesis in War of the Gods?

There's a write up on the Battlestar wiki about one of the unproduced episodes that showed the direction it was going to head in:http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fire.

Edit: actually I'm just reading the second season proposal on the wiki right now. I'd not noticed it before. Interesting stuff. It confirms that Apollo would have left Blue Squadron and it would have been Starbuck that became psychic, not Apollo (so either Hatch misremembered or I did). I hate what they wanted to do to Apollo, and a complete contradiction of the character – he never thought about stepping down after Serena was killed. Don't like the idea of Sheba being killed either.

Larson was going to bring Isaac Asimov on board as a consultant and writer! Now that would have been interesting, especially with his fascination with robots.

Sounds like it would have been mixed - some good, some bad.

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Yup!

Someone on io9 said "They'll gender-swap starbuck into a guy, and then people will complain about it."

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Meaning no disrespect to Hatch, who's a super-nice guy, but he misremembers a lot. Listen to the commentary track for the BSG box set. The others are all like, "Yeah, I remember this scene. Right after this I got a haircut" and "Oh, sure, they signed me as a recurring character, but you guys got signed as principles for 24 hours," and other very specific memories. Hatch is like, "What's this? I don't remember this." and "Oh, yeah, this, this, this is the scene where...no, wait....what is this again?"

So talking about Season 2 is basically asking an actor to remember a show from 28 years ago THAT HE NEVER MADE. (Caps intended to be funny, not actually yelling). I'd be surprised if anyone could remember anything with any detail over that space of time.

Yes, he did. He moved a paperweight with his mind, and mentions that he studied psychic research at the academy in his youth, and drove his wife crazy bending spoons.

Probably Hatch.

Agreed. Apollo was kind of a schlub of a character, but he WAS a character. He was very duty-oriented, very loyal, none of this "I've got to find myself" touchy-feely crap.

I remember reading that a long time ago, but I'm not sure if it was a done deal or not. I know they'd talked, I think I read something where Asimov mentioned it in passing and was rather cool on the idea. Probably would have if they paid him.

Would it have been good or bad? "The Return of Pegasus" actually sounds kinda' cool, just based on death toll alone. The rest of the episodes sound terrible, though, and we both agree they were gonna' ruin Apollo.

I think whether it was good or bad would depend on how many BTS people they were able to bring over from the first season again. Because the first season didn't really figure out what it wanted to be until the Terra arc, and what we see here sounds like they were ditching that and moving in a safer direction.

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Very interesting stuff. Last summer I sat down and watched all of that first season for the first time. I had seen several episodes throughout my life, but never all of them end to end. I was very surprised how much I enjoyed it. And the reason I decided to sit down and watch them is because I met Dirk Benedict at a Con and then found out he and Richard Hatch were going to be at another Con near where I live together. It was at a little convention in St. Louis so I actually got to talk to Hatch for awhile, very nice man and very engaging. We didn't get into many details he could mis-remember. LOL Very sad that he passed away so soon after I met him.

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I've still never seen the original, but I own the entire series of the newer one. I'll have to check it out sometime. Any idea if it's on Netflix or Amazon Prime?

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Oooooo! Why?! :guffaw::lol::guffaw:

It is not. It is currently on Amazon, but it is Pay-Per-Episode. (Don't do that. It isn't that good. :lol:) I also checked Hulu and nope. I am sure it will be back on one of them soon. Or maybe Go90 will get it to go along with B5. :thumbsup:

I will say that it is not a show you should go into thinking it will be brilliant, unless you can put mind back in time to 1978. It is fun and at times has some brilliant qualities. Of course there are also annoying aspects as well. Basically don't have high expectations other than trying to enjoy the fun retro quality of it.

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I saw the original back it was first shown by ABC back when I was in the Navy.

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I only saw a few reruns when I was a kid. Then when I was older and SciFi Channel ran them. Last summer was the first time I could say I saw all of them. I don't think I am ever going to give Galactica 1980 a shot. The whole basis of that show is one of the main things I can't stand about TV. We are doing a space show, but to save money we are going to do as much of it as we can, or even all of it, on a planet. Then we can just film it out in the desert or the woods and claim it is an alien world. :klingon:

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In my memories, I grew up watching Galactica. Obviously, in reality, there wasn't enough of it to do much growing during it, but I was 10 at the time the show first came to Finland, and I guess that's how a child's memory works.
When I was even younger, I watched Space:1999 (which in Finland was titled like "Spacestation Alfa" - which doesn't matter much, just thought you'd like to know :lol: ). For me, that was it. So, I was like 6 when I got into certain kind of scifi, and 40 years later I'm still loving it.
After Space:1999, it was the Galactica. I was young and impressionable - and totally in looooove with Starbuck ;) He was ever so dashing!!
And the cylons... 'by your command'... oooooooh!

I've never seen the show since. I'm almost afraid to watch it - what if the childhood memories' magical glow will vanish?

I watched the first season of the new Galactica when it became available on dvd. I was suitably enraged with lady-Starbuck (couldn't really understand why it was done... it felt so contrived). I didn't 'get' the show, it felt fake and affected and overly mysterious.

Then, back when my second child had been born and I spent all my nights up, breast-feeding and holding a child who Would. Not. Sleep. during nights for the first couple years of her life. I watched ENDLESS amounts of series, voice muted, with Finnish or English subtitles. Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, whole of Friends, Las Vegas, Babylon 5, Odyssey 5. Whatever was available. Then after everything else was watched, I looked at the Galactica box and thought: what the hell, let's try it again.
You know what?
The second time's the charm. After I was maybe halfway through rewatching the first season, I was baffled: why hadn't I liked it earlier? I had absolutely no idea! None of the things that had annoyed me the first time "existed" anymore. I was totally hooked.
However. I've never watched the fourth season. Everyone I've told this has said "you haven't missed out on anything. Everyone should stop after the third season."
I do have the 4th season on dvd. So maybe one day I'll risk it...