Not much info yet, but this could be awesome. Especially since FFG has rights to make stuff with BSG. Imagine a flight-path BSG game, or a BSG Armada game?
Battlestar Galactica getting a new movie!
Oh god, I wonder if the 13th will come back.
Awesome. Give them another chance at ressurecting an awesome show properly, instead of the train wreck the reboot was.
The reboot was great until the ending.
Awesome. Just started watching the series, so I've got a lot of catching up to do, but I'm liking what I've seen so far.
On an unrelated note, I'm actually working with someone on another forum about a (completely unofficial, not for profit of course!) BSG game. It's more in the vein of Armada/Battlefleet Gothic than X-wing, but I imagine we might get to an X-wing style dogfighting game at some point...
Edited by ParadigmPaintingI hope the creators aren't dumb enough to think energy weapons are too magical for a setting with space warfare and FTL drives. the TV reboot had some awesome space battles but the fact Galactica and the Cylons were basically using upgraded versions of conventional guns always bugged me.
Love the new show possibly my favorite show of all time.
But I have very little interest in this movie.
If they have chromed out bling cylons I'll watch it.
The reboot doesn't require a reboot, it is great as is.
But they re very limited in what they can do in the first reboot's timeline. Galactica;s quest has been covered, the journey of the Pegasus has been covered, the Cylon side of the second war has been covered. Unless they Introduce a third surviving Battlestar there isn't much they could do there that would be worth shifting to the big screen unless they did a movie on the First Cylon War and I think that would make a better TV series then a film. And by rebooting they get to take the things the reboot did right and avoid its errors.
I hope the creators aren't dumb enough to think energy weapons are too magical for a setting with space warfare and FTL drives. the TV reboot had some awesome space battles but the fact Galactica and the Cylons were basically using upgraded versions of conventional guns always bugged me.
There was actually method to this madness...
Ron Moore, who'd written a few TNG episodes and was one of the executive producers and showrunners for DS9, said he always lamented the fact fans would just gloss over the numerous times a starship was hit by a barrage of photon torpedoes or phaser fire. But he also understood because - really? - what's the effect of a photon torpedo strike? It seems nebulous at best. So the suspense is nearly always gone in ST battles (with the possible exception of TWOK and a few DS9 episodes).
That led to him making sure everyone working on the reimagined BSG completely got why he was replacing laser torpedoes (an original BSG staple) with nuclear warheads and heavy machine gun and cannon fire... Because the average viewer would completely get how damaging and scary a nuclear strike could be...! It ramped up the suspense factor; the ships would appear to be in REAL danger.
As a kid growing up in the 80s, I adored the original BSG. And still do.
But I also freaking love Ron Moore's reimagining.
Looking forward to seeing what the future brings...
I liked the reimagining but I think the disconnect between ships that could take nuke hits and keep flying yet be ripped apart by conventional cannon fire was jarring to me. And there are lots of scifi settings with energy weapons, or rail guns or both where nukes are still terrifying things.
Really the only thing I outright hated about the reimagining was the new Cain. I didn't mind the gender change but the new Cain's personality is basically every negative aspect of the original series Cain's personality magnified a dozen times over or more with none of the original's redeeming qualities. Hopefully if the include Cain in the second reboot he or she will be much different then in the last reboot.
As a kid I watched the original series and loved it, rewatching it as an adult it's flaws were obvious. Dubious acting and plots, the battle scenes were good but used over and over again. But it at least had a sense of hope to it.
The reboot mini series was great, a few little negatives but it promised for an interesting series.
The reboot series started well, but it just lost its way early on during the first season. To me the makers had no idea what direction they wanted to take the series, what the Cylon plan really was, pretty much making it up as they went along. More interested in being edgy and dark, it became disjointed, with no narrative and with plot turns that made no sense. What it could have been with a story arc fleshed out like Babylon 5.
Bring on a reboot.
I think I may be the only around here that read the OP, shrugged my shoulders, and said "Meh." I watched the original series as a kid and thought it was good fun. I watched the reboot for a while then it just got boring and I lost interest. I barely remember the ending.
I really think BSG belongs on TV. There's not much of a way to really tell a complete story for it in 90-120 minutes.
They'd be writing to have sequels. Given the success of new trek and new wars its not like there isn't precedent.
I think I may be the only around here that read the OP, shrugged my shoulders, and said "Meh." I watched the original series as a kid and thought it was good fun. I watched the reboot for a while then it just got boring and I lost interest. I barely remember the ending.
The ending was pretty bleh though I will say that Galactica's final battle was good but honestly all the combat sequences were good IMO.
The reboot should have ended the season when they first found Earth, not going on to create our Earth.
If they did that everyone would be screaming to know what happened next for good reason. That would be a lousy point to end the story. Almost as bad as Galactica 1980 changing thing so the final episode of the original series has Galactica intercepting a transmission from Earth described as ancient from its signal strength before the signal was sent.
So instead they did what they did and continued on for another half season with one of the worst series finales I have ever seen.
I like the attack on the colony but yeah once the shooting stops, or most of it at least, things go downhill fast.
Stlll better a bad ending then having them find a bombed out wreck of a world and saying that's it IMO.
If the original series ending had been the end of that timeline's television run then sure they wouldn't have reached Earth but we would know they were on the right track. That provides a sense of hope that they might reach Earth and get the help they need even if we never see it happen. Where would the sense of hope be if they found the ruins of Earth in the new series nd that was how it ended?.
Yes, but they rebuild, with the human/cylon population interbreeding.