Sunday, October 02, 2005
Pegasus
Ronald Moore once again manages to pervert the storyline of the original series.
Ever fond of gender benders, he makes Admiral Cain a woman. And of course, the new Cain is a very bad and evil woman, unlike Admiral Cain from the old series who, although misguided, we still liked him and in the end he redeemed himself.
In the old series, it was apparently very common for children to server under their parents, because Cain daughter Sheba seemed to have the same rank on the Pegasus as Apollo had on the Galactica. But in the new series, Cain looks down on this relationship. But I have to give Cain’s viewpoint, I don’t understand how Adama was able to get away with rebellion and pointing a gun at Colonel Tigh’s head. Or am I the only person who still remembers that?
In the original series, Commander Adama, a member of the Council of Twelve, outranked Admiral Cain, but in the new series, it’s Adama who is outranked.
But is Adama truly outranked? In the United States, the President is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces. If the government of the fleet is in any way similar, Laura Roslyn can simply promote Adama to a rank higher than Cain’s. Why doesn’t she?
However, I think that Cain’s crew had the right idea regarding the Cylons. Hello! They destroyed all of humanity. Whether machines or biological creatures, they were genetically engineered to kill us. Any torture inflicted on them for the purpose of getting information out of them is entirely warranted. There is absolutely no excuse for Tyrol and Helo killing a human in order to save a Cylon from being tortured.
On the other hand, Sharon the Cylon seems to be helping the humans, so it’s a very bad idea to ruin a source of good information. But then it’s really hard to understand whether or not the “help” is part of the nefarious Cylon “plan.”
There are no scuses to torture someone/something! Torture belows the botton line where the human being can be.
I know that... my country (from 3th world) some 30 ago used torture to empower his military dictatorial regim.
: 10/03/2005 1:04 AM : 10/03/2005 1:28 AMOTOH, Adama has managed to get help/info from Sharon by ... being a bit nice. And, Sharon gives a damn about the humans and herself. Big difference.
That said, have the words "Abu Ghraib" crossed anyone's mind? Military people accountable to nobody will do all sorts of sh*t to prisoners under their control.
I'm very very very disturbed at this turn of events.
I think Sharon is the key character who will help the humans to get to earth, and maybe she becomes human in some weird way, who knows, maybe she gains a soul( IS that a stupid idea?), and yes season 2 is not out hgere until next year, so so CR*P!
: 10/04/2005 4:54 AMThis show just keeps spiraling downwards, and it will no doubt achieve its highest popularity just as it hits rock bottom creatively.
Awful.
: 10/09/2005 3:49 AMand it sucks because from what i cna tell battlestar has a huge folowing downunder i no everyone i talk to about the show loves it but im pissed off that everyone i talk to has no idea about what im talking about here because im further ahead then anyone that watchs it on T.V because i get it off a freind (torrentreactor.com)
: 10/15/2005 7:33 AMWhy pour all the time in it.
Couldn't you just say:
I enjoyed the 1970s Galactica. I don't enjoy the 2000s version. That's my opinion. Have a good day.
And be done?
There, put that paragraph on your website, and just leave it at that.
It would save everyone a great deal of time and effort and pain and saddness and nausea.
: 10/17/2005 1:36 AMNobody's redoing to 70's version, and if weren't for Ronald Moore's talanted writing (no matter how different from the 70's) no one would even bother talking or much less watching a 70 exact remake.....
IT's 2005....deal with it, or grow old, rot and complain about things gone by for the rest of your life if that's what you want....
: 11/07/2005 8:41 PM : 11/08/2005 6:43 AM : 11/29/2005 10:42 PMSo when you say "pervert", I assume you mean that this is a bad thing. You are an idiot. Basically, the original series was an unmitigated pile of garbage. The actors were third-rate. The production quality was puerile (and that's compared to other shows of its time). The writers couldn't write dialogue to save their lives. It's only redeeming quality was that it was based on an interesting premise (which, lest you forget, is by no means original in ANY sense of the word). Moore has actually injected some substance into the tired "alien-of-the-week" shows that syndicated science-fiction has become - and he should be lauded for doing so.
: 12/23/2005 3:18 PMAnd, by all appearances, her ship seems very well manned for losing 700 men in the first attack.
: 1/07/2006 7:43 PMBeyond nitpicking (e.g. convienient human controls in the bio-controlled Cylon raiders!?), this is a fascinating question being posed by Ron Moore and typifies what good thought provoking Scifi should be like.
Middle of Jan and still no sign of BSG on ten in OZ in 06 >:[ Thanks BitTorrent!
: 1/15/2006 9:49 AM : 1/20/2006 11:26 PM