Jolt Country

(That cat is also dead.)

Aww, really? :(

Wait, the alien or John Hurt?

That was John Wetton. And we missed Yordano Ventura.

I don't miss him one bit!

Is that really the best, most interesting picture you could find to memorialize Apollo?

He was better as Zarek. The original BSG was a pile.

The music was way better in the original. Also, the writers "lifetimeed"* the last season.




*To lifetime is to write the end of a story too quickly glossing over important plotlines as in almost every shitty movie created by television network lifetime.

Also, the writers "lifetimeed"* the last season.

I'm not going to argue that, not because I agree, but because there's no point, and everyone else here probably agrees with you. However:

CO wrote:The music was way better in the original.

The fuck outta here. You could, maybe, argue that the opening credits theme was better/more memorable in the original, but, I mean. The fuck outta here, otherwise.

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pinback wrote:He was better as Zarek. The original BSG was a pile.

It was not a pile of shit, SIR, it had different goals and TV still had a lot of maturing to do as a medium. Starbuck and Apollo were iconic characters from the moment they showed up on 70s TV. In a world where the most daring thing was Three's Company, you had in the original BG... in an absolutely groundbreaking decision ... to name a character race the "Daggit."

You couldn't do that today.

It wasn't great. But that's okay, maybe it was. More importantly is that nobody in their right mind can possibly disagree that the music in the new one wasn't just better than the old one, but was better than the music in 95% of TV shows that have ever existed.

Perhaps that should be a different thread, though.

pinback wrote:It wasn't great. But that's okay, maybe it was. More importantly is that nobody in their right mind can possibly disagree that the music in the new one wasn't just better than the old one, but was better than the music in 95% of TV shows that have ever existed.

Perhaps that should be a different thread, though.

The music in the new one just wasn't memorable and how dare they play the original theme only one time in the entire series.

Well, whether you remember it or not, the fact is that McCreary's soundtrack was brilliant, and way better than the original.

I consider the matter closed.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

pinback wrote:He was better as Zarek. The original BSG was a pile.

It was not a pile of shit, SIR, it had different goals and TV still had a lot of maturing to do as a medium.

I'm going to have to agree with Jonsey, here. Science fiction was one of the few things you could get away with examining critical issues other than in specifically "hard edge" drama shows like The Bold Ones where they did an episode about a woman being prosecuted for procuring an abortion.

But even as far as it went in the '70s it would never have gotten anywhere without the (for the time) groundbreaking innovations in Star Trek: multicultural cast, multi-racial cast, women treated relatively equal, and the first interracial kiss. All extremely controversial.

Despite the times changing they still had to tiptoe.

I consider the matter closed.

pinback wrote:I consider the matter closed.

Nobody gives a shit what you consider. No, strike that. I have much more respect and pay much more attention to my bowel movements and diarrhea floods than to anything you consider, so actually, your considerations have literally less relevance than our shit.

Tdarcos wrote:

pinback wrote:I consider the matter closed.

Nobody gives a shit what you consider. No, strike that. I have much more respect and pay much more attention to my bowel movements and diarrhea floods than to anything you consider, so actually, your considerations have literally less relevance than our shit.

since the Dr tacos has proclaimed it not closed, I'll say new bsg's reliance on the religion crutch was lazy writing. Why bother setting up elaborate science explanations for things like reincarnation and visions but oh wow Starbucks now an angel finding way to stupid pointless earth fake reveal. Sorry the writers went sort of on strike at the end but I'd rather watch bsg 1980 flying motorcycles than another stupid dream sequence that may or not have been real. You cut out the dream sequence bullshit you end up with two seasons so fast forwarding is the only way it's rewatchable.

This is the picture Hatch should have had: