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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2016 16:59:36 GMT
Not sure. All I know is that the actor who played Apollo in the 1970s series appears in another role in the new series. I wasn't aware there was a film as well. Will go googling. I would advise that you watch the series first before you watch the film. Otherwise the film makes absolutely no sense. Thanks for the advice. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 10:38:45 GMT
I remember the 70's series with Lorne Green and that actor who placed 'Faceman' in the (TV) A Team.
TBH I'm astonished the franchise is still going.
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Post by Miranda on Jul 20, 2016 9:12:45 GMT
nuBSG is utterly different to the 70s one. Pretty much the only thing they have in common is a few names and the basic premise.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2016 10:06:35 GMT
nuBSG is utterly different to the 70s one. Pretty much the only thing they have in common is a few names and the basic premise.  What irritated me most about the old series was the Cylons. I can say the same for the new series. I liked the basic premise of the story, and I wanted to like at least one of them; but, in both cases there were things that seriously irritated me; the new series more than the old. I can understand some of the decisions made, changing the gender of some of the central characters, but other things just made it impossible for me to watch either. |
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Post by Miranda on Jul 20, 2016 10:19:57 GMT
Which things?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 11:32:40 GMT
Wanderer. Your Cylon graphic, reminds me of the 'Five Items or fewer' queue, at Tesco.   |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 16:35:49 GMT
For over a year (last 15 mths maybe?) Amazon have been threatening us promising us a new series with the TG crew. By 'eck! They're taking their time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 16:42:21 GMT
No, they have been consistent in tehir outlook, and have announced that THe Grand Tour will be out in the Autumn of 2016. I will not be watching. Clarkson, Hammond and May have signed up to present three 12-episode series, with each episode set to be roughly 60 minutes in length. The show will debut in the autumn, and will be available to anyone who has signed up to Amazon’s £79-per-year Prime streaming service, which also includes free delivery of items bought on Amazon.Clarkson et al. really don't seem to be in a hurry www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/top-gear/jeremy-clarkson-new-amazon-show-latest-news-and-rumours/ |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2016 20:56:21 GMT
nuBSG is utterly different to the 70s one. Pretty much the only thing they have in common is a few names and the basic premise. What irritated me most about the old series was the Cylons. I can say the same for the new series. I liked the basic premise of the story, and I wanted to like at least one of them; but, in both cases there were things that seriously irritated me; the new series more than the old. I can understand some of the decisions made, changing the gender of some of the central characters, but other things just made it impossible for me to watch either. It's like I said about 'Humans', in one of my earliest posts. The 'uncanny valley' is difficult to represent with actors, but whether in the film, AI', the more recent 'CHAPPIE', the sadly short-lived 'Almost Human', or 'BSG/Caprica', human level AI just isn't credible. We shouldn't think of these 'characters' as anything but toasters, yet we're asked to have empathy for them. The original film/series, for all that it was a cash-in, was more credible because the Cylons were supposed to be reptilian aliens (check out the novelisation). The studio retreated from that because blowing up robots was an easier sell. Not so in reality, where nearly fifty years later, robot warriors are still fiction. |
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Post by Miranda on Jul 21, 2016 21:03:46 GMT
But why shouldn't we? I think it adds a lot of depth and story to nuBSG to see things from the Cylon perspective. Every villian is the hero of his own story.
I'm not sure I understand your point.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2016 17:10:55 GMT
Clarkson, Hammond and May have signed up to present three 12-episode series, with each episode set to be roughly 60 minutes in length. The show will debut in the autumn, and will be available to anyone who has signed up to Amazon’s £79-per-year Prime streaming service, which also includes free delivery of items bought on Amazon. Back in April Amazon were offering it at £59 - a 25% discount. Even better value for the free delivery of Prime purchases. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2016 11:31:53 GMT
One thing that occurred to me is that, with Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons take you back to something much closer to the original vision of Karel Čapek's R.U.R., the work in which the term 'robot' was first used (having been coined by his brother. The point is that, rather than being mechanical, they were artificial people (in Czech, robota means forced labour of the kind that serfs had to perform on their masters' lands), who rebel against their masters; they are living beings seeking their own value and identity. Čapek did not have the advantage of the discoveries in biological science of the 1950s and 60s to create something through genetic engineering. But he created something similar. As a side note, R.U.R. was the first work of science fiction ever televised -- in 1938.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2016 13:26:44 GMT
I am nearing the end of BSG and find the whole concept of man creating his own enemy/friend and all the emotional and belief systems they discuss/fight over is quite fascinating. An thought provoking concept in my opinion. I want to reach the end but know I'll miss it when it's over....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2016 8:15:36 GMT
I am nearing the end of BSG and find the whole concept of man creating his own enemy/friend and all the emotional and belief systems they discuss/fight over is quite fascinating. An thought provoking concept in my opinion. I want to reach the end but know I'll miss it when it's over.... Don't worry, as Steven Hawking seems to think, you've got real life in front of you: www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30290540 |
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Post by Miranda on Aug 1, 2016 10:00:44 GMT
I am nearing the end of BSG and find the whole concept of man creating his own enemy/friend and all the emotional and belief systems they discuss/fight over is quite fascinating. An thought provoking concept in my opinion. I want to reach the end but know I'll miss it when it's over.... I missed it as well when I'd finished it. |
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