what would you like to see in the movie

[gmd3d]

When CFF deliver and we get the orignial Galactica team back on the big screen
what would you like to see in it.

[Count Iblis]

Assuming that comes about, many fans have posted good ideas about what should be in a new film.

In my humble opinion the core/heart of the original should be left alone. TOS ideas like the opening narration and Exploding Starfield concepts should be updated but necessarily drastically changed. I was hoping they might use images from the Hubble to honor that soon to be retired program, and flash these during the narration of the "There Are Those Who Believe" etc.

I've said it before many times, there was a lot from TOS that still works in todays market, with the proper updating/modernizing of effects that were basically just ignored in the new BSG production.

There is nothing wrong with a "Peace Conference" instead of "Armistice" for example, and the fictional time lines from TOS also work, unless you want to make it 25 years later to include some of the Original Cast for some of the rolls. Some of the younger cast members might now be part of the Command staff, or even on the Counsel of the 12?

The point is I would leave anything that could work in todays film market with the proper attention alone. Of course there will need to be some new faces, possibly some updated/modernized designs, like in the Cylons. I think most TOS fans would expect and welcome some reasonable changes and differences from TOS.

I won't be missing the "Chimp in the Daggot Suit" should "Muffet" not return.

That's my two credits worth.......Cheers!

Iblis.

[Dawg]

Iblis, you've managed to state in a few short paragraphs what 99.99% of TOS continuation fans have been trying to say for years, now.

Very well said. I echo your words.

I am
Dawg

[gmd3d]

that was fast I thought I was posting a poser question and i would be waitin for at least a day for a responce.

A question would you also like to see the effect on the TOS updated give a fresh feel.
and although the old show was released in DVD i have read some where that its a bit rough looking in places.
any info please
and is it available in Ireland i can't find it anywhere.

I am about a third of the way through the story "Dark Exodus" by Steve Dunlap at the Colonial Library. I don't know how the rest of his story will go but I think the first third would be a good script for a movie. I think the theme is better than what we have with Desanto. If we are going to make a movie and we don't know if Battlestar will be aired again let's at least get to Earth and spend some time showing the reaction of Earth to meeting the colonials. I would also like to see into the mind of the cylon. Something else Dunlap has done and Moore is attempting to do.

Recommend everyone (including Larson, Desanto, and Hatch) check out "Dark Exodus" from the colonial library.

[Rowan]

For me the whole thing died when they reached earth. The great and fun thing about BSG was that it was a completely unique space faring culture, and that fascinated me and intrigued me ...as soon as they reached earth I got bored the adventure was over. I know earth I don’t want to see earth there's no excitement there for me it’s familiar not exotic. I want my mind to be taken far away from earth and it's limitations I want to be out adventuring into unknown space with danger, adventure and mystery. I want the people who share this journey to be a family with the usual ups and downs all the while realizing how tenuous, fragile and precious their hold is on each other, life, the Galactica and their small fleet. united in their goal to vanquish cylons, but still encompass areas of intense conflict such as their destination (meaning some of the fleet might like to drop out and colonize a viable planet and how this would impact the rest of the fleet), the pressure of confined space, the long journey, the limited supplies, access to supplies, personnel conflicts and personal struggles towards growth, and how they maintain a working and viable society within their physical limitations.

[ernie90125]

Hi all,

I have one question about what we might be seeing in a movie....

As I understand it, Glen Larson plans to destroy the Galactica, and transfer cast members to the Pegasus. He also had an idea about a Battlestar Atlantis project (I know nothing about this, if anyone can fill me in ?)

But my question what is wrong with the Battlestar Galactica ? Why destroy it, and transfer to the Pegasus ?

For those who know of the classic UK scifi show Blake's 7, it was a fact that ratings went down then the destroyed Liberator, and transfered to Scorpio.....

I don't know what is wrong with the Galactica, but Larson seems to trying to distance himself from that ship...... And what would the call the movie without the Galactica in it ?
The Late Battlestar Galactica ?

Ernie90125

I just think if we are getting a movie that does not merely act as a pilot I would like to see the ending be a real ending. Either they reach Earth at the end or somehow they destroy the Cylon Empire.

If the ratings are good they can always create a new enemy in a new movie or discover cylons in deep space they didn't know about. I just don't want to be left hanging for another 23 years.

[Rowan]

I agree with that antelope

Comparing the old and new BG, I like the characters in the old better. I LIKE the heroic, larger than life people. This is a MOVIE, not a psychology textbook. When the Alamo gets overrun, I want to see Davie Crocket swinging that rifle at the Mexicans. I don't want to see him curled up in a fetal position, whimpering for mercy. I want Baltar to be an evil, opportunistic serpent, not a spineless, self-pitying sex addict.

Having said that, I would like a new movie to be more scientifically real, or at least plausible. Let's do better than the Buck Rogers comic book style, without lurching all the way to Sex and the Spaceship.

They should find earth, but not the pathetically weak earth of 1980, or even 2004. Let it be the earth of, oh, 2304. An earth advanced and strong enough to be an ally, not an orphaned street rat. I don't think THAT earth would be boring.

Let Tom Clancy and Harlan Ellison collaborate as science/technical advisors. Keep the ghost of Gene Roddenberry FAR, FAR AWAY from the project.

Let the attack begin!

[warhammerdriver]

Tom Clancy write BSG? Hmmmmm...that might just work if he can keep Jack Ryan out of it.

Seriously, I never thought about Clancy writing anything other than techothrillers. He would be a good choice.

[gmd3d]

Thomasbombadil wrote

They should find earth, but not the pathetically weak earth of 1980, or even 2004. Let it be the earth of, oh, 2304. An earth advanced and strong enough to be an ally, not an orphaned street rat. I don't think THAT earth would be boring

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I like your thinking I disliked th 1980 Galactica although the one with starbuck was great.
tom clancy is an intresting idea.
and i like to old characters better too they were a lot of fun But we will see them soon WITH CFF hard at work

ernie90125 wrote

As I understand it, Glen Larson plans to destroy the Galactica, and transfer cast members to the Pegasus. He also had an idea about a Battlestar Atlantis project (I know nothing about this, if anyone can fill me in ?)

Whats the point in destroying Galactica I don't like that idea at all.

[Rowan]

Originally Posted by Thomasbombadil

They should find earth, but not the pathetically weak earth of 1980, or even 2004. Let it be the earth of, oh, 2304. An earth advanced and strong enough to be an ally, not an orphaned street rat. I don't think THAT earth would be boring.

ok I could totally live with that!

[Dawg]

They should not find earth - not unless you intend to end the story line.

The story is the journey. The question left unresolved is where Earth will be development-wise when they find it. Us. Whatever. The question is what drives the story forward. If they find Earth, what's the quest? What drives the story?

Ultimately they must find Earth - but let's not get there for six or seven movies, OK?

And then figure out a new quest/situation/conflict for the Colonials to overcome.



I am
Dawg

[gmd3d]

If they did find earth that should be the end of the odyssey of the colonials but I would like to see if Earth becomes their salvation as they hope for.

I see it like this the Fleet arrives in an Earth controlled system finding that it has strong military forces and they don't welcome the Fleet with open arms because as the Fleet has been moving at a snails pace through space the Cylon's who have lost the Galactica and her fleet for years went a head at lightspeed or whatever and incountered Earth vessels and so another war begins and the Earthlings are not to happy with there cousins who have brought so mush distruction on them.
So we could have a new show of the Galactica universe, Going back fighting the Cylons and to the home world of the Cylons with the help of some of the galactica forces and personel. I would just hated if they reached earth and it ended. like in Star Trek Voyager
or am i just being greedy

[Rowan]

Dawg, my big brother , you have to read my post #6 first ! what I'm saying is that at the end of the whole story I'd like them to find earth and I like the idea that the earth they find is far more advanced than ours is at present.

[Dawg]

Yes, lil sis , I got that. I'm just saying don't have them find Earth until you're ready to end the story line.

I am
Dawg

Originally Posted by Dawg

Yes, lil sis , I got that. I'm just saying don't have them find Earth until you're ready to end the story line.

I am
Dawg

End the first movie with a shot from Galactica's bridge:

Commander Apollo and Colonel Starbuck are looking out the positive shield. In the distance is the Earth, the same way you see it from the moon. The audience can tell it is our Earth because of the familar look of the moon and the outlines of the continents but the scene gives no sign of when it is and what the Earth technology is like.

Starbuck says to Apollo: "Do you think our quest has finally come to an end?"

Apollo replies, "I don't know whether our quest is ending or just about to begin. All I know is that things will never be the same."

With that the camara zooms out of the Battlestar and shows the entire fleet silhouted against a background of our bright shining planet.

If they never make another movie we have an ending.

If they make more movies we have a great beginning.

[Rowan]

Originally Posted by Dawg

Yes, lil sis , I got that. I'm just saying don't have them find Earth until you're ready to end the story line.

I am
Dawg

Then we agree!

[Rowan]

Originally Posted by antelope526

End the first movie with a shot from Galactica's bridge:

Commander Apollo and Colonel Starbuck are looking out the positive shield. In the distance is the Earth, the same way you see it from the moon. The audience can tell it is our Earth because of the familar look of the moon and the outlines of the continents but the scene gives no sign of when it is and what the Earth technology is like.

Starbuck says to Apollo: "Do you think our quest has finally come to an end?"

Apollo replies, "I don't know whether our quest is ending or just about to begin. All I know is that things will never be the same."

With that the camara zooms out of the Battlestar and shows the entire fleet silhouted against a background of our bright shining planet.

If they never make another movie we have an ending.

If they make more movies we have a great beginning.

Star

ok I could live with something like that too

[gmd3d]

Yes I could live with that ending but I would also like to see the Cylons get a good kicking, perhaps with a follow up film or am i asking to much??

[The 14th Colony]

Originally Posted by antelope526

End the first movie with a shot from Galactica's bridge:

Commander Apollo and Colonel Starbuck are looking out the positive shield. In the distance is the Earth, the same way you see it from the moon. The audience can tell it is our Earth because of the familar look of the moon and the outlines of the continents but the scene gives no sign of when it is and what the Earth technology is like.

Starbuck says to Apollo: "Do you think our quest has finally come to an end?"

Apollo replies, "I don't know whether our quest is ending or just about to begin. All I know is that things will never be the same."

With that the camara zooms out of the Battlestar and shows the entire fleet silhouted against a background of our bright shining planet.

If they never make another movie we have an ending.

If they make more movies we have a great beginning.

Either way, whether an end, or a prelude to more movies, it seems a perfect way to end the film. Not only would it mark the end of their 30+ year quest, it symbolizes the fan's long wait being rewarded as well. If the above scene found its way into the film's end, it would portray a feeling similar to my own (our own) when I pull into the parking lot of the theatre and see through my viewscreen the "Now Playing: BSG" sign, and sigh "I'm home again."

ANYWAY IS FINE WITH ME BUT.... if i was given the task of the opening scene i would Straightway have a fierce battle in progress that would almost immediately redraw the Pegasus back into this first picture. Any subsequent episodes would easily be able to include this Battlestar into the drama. The energy of the space battles are unmatched and would draw immediate attention and excitement as both side blast their way thru space.

Originally Posted by Rowan

Dawg, my big brother , you have to read my post #6 first ! what I'm saying is that at the end of the whole story I'd like them to find earth and I like the idea that the earth they find is far more advanced than ours is at present.

Right. You would have to do some slow pans of some evidence of that advancement. Perhaps the dialog between Strarbuck and Apollo could be voiced over the pan shots. Then the movie could end, but a sequel would be absolutely required. That sequel would detail the final victory over the Cylon empire.