by Dogpatch 34 Replies latest jw friends
Do you still have a messy car?
That "messy car" was my 1964 chev El Camino with a 327 and a muncie close ratio 4 speed.
It got messy when, Idiot that I was, I loaned it to an elders son. Afterall weren't we living in a spiritual paradise?
I did the same thing much later, again idiot that I am. I'd love to recoup the profit on the things I've given away to "brothers in the faith".
Heh, no matter, we're here and that's what is most important.
I recently watched a marathon of the first season and loved it!
Hi Dogpatch!
I am an original BSG fan. I was a bit dissapointed when the Sci Fi Channel rejected Richard Hatch's concept of the new series or movie....However, the new BSG is a good show!
Randy why did you missed the 80's series??? I guess you were to busy in Beth-hell running after evil "apostates"!!!
I did watch all the Episodes of the 80's, and I have also watched the new series of the Battlestar Galactica.
1.The 80's actors I find them more interesting as characteurs, plus they were more alive in their roles
2.Ok we are in the 3rd Millenium and for sure technology for sci-fi is high, and for sure I like it more from the technology from the 80's( I was teenager then hopping that the end will come and we JW's are going to use space technology to travel in space, kind of Gallactica!)
3. They kept close to the original senario, but they added Cylons in human forms living among the survivors of the destruction. Those Cylons some they turned more human in feelings. That wasn't in the first Galactica...Cylons=Evil machines that kill humans
4. So if I could mix the old characteurs with the new filming it would be greate
So I will give 7 out of 10
justhuman sez,
So if I could mix the old characteurs with the new filming it would be greate
Ya, the old stuff looks too much like "Lost In Space" for me, can't help but laugh and it kills the whole point when you are gagging on your food. :-))
Can't take low-budget sci-fi. Some exceptions out of character: RODAN I watched it over and over as a po chile to scare myself into facing life. :-))
Plus I felt sorry for the poor bird.
BTW The late Michael Piller was a friend of mine, I did an EC for him and he let me go on tour when Next Gen. was filming in studio. We talked about writing an episode on mind control, which Steven Hassan actually wrote I believe, but don't know what happened on that one.
BTW Here's one for the gay thread (ROB, I helped start you on your fabulous internet runway, darling, am I dirt now? :-))
Anyway, out of curiosity (never missing an opportunity to uncover gems of truth--LOL) I did ask Piller him why they decided against having a gay character in the series, since Roddenberry intended that,
http://archive.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/06/30/gay_trek/index.html
and the producers stalled over the AIDS crisis. Michael dismissed it as something they never got around to, but mentioned the episode or two which was a little suggestive. If Michael were still around I would ask him a lot more politically incorrect questions. What would be yours? :-))
I love the political intrigue in Hollywood, I get a lot of it here via neighbors. Just as cults have their secret agendas, so does the airwaves. :-))
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00280.html
Michael P. co-created Voyager, and wrote a lot of the stories in Next Gen. Also created Legend, I think with his son, who also tragically passed away, as well as his daughter! He is survived by his beautiful wife, which I baptized as a Christian, along with her dear mother.
Michael was a creative genius. Ony night we ate at Pancho's nearby, a Mex. restaurant a fave of locals, and he proceeded to tell me about his love of sc-fi, etc. The hair stood up on the back of my neck, he was so inspirational, yet meek and pleasant. The world lost a great man with him.
I was always a BIG FAN of Next Gen.
LOVE the BORG lady!!!!!!!
KNORR with t%&ts.
In honor of Michael:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Michael_Piller
love y'all,
don't disfellowship anybody,
Randy
How can you not like it?? Proudly a sci-fi nerd, thank you very much.
correction: Following a long illness, Piller died of head and neck cancer in his home in Los Angeles in 2005. He is survived by his wife Sandra, and his children Brent and Shawn.
It was Michael's young and beautiful daughter that had passed away.
I missed the funeral like a fool.
In 1989, Piller's long-time friend Maurice Hurley called upon him to script a few episodes for Star Trek: The Next Generation. His stories were widely acclaimed, and Piller eventually became an Executive Producer of the series. His tenure is noted for its character development, rather than for exploiting sci-fi gadgetry of the future. In 1992, Piller (along with Rick Berman) began the creation of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and he contributed to the series' writing, casting, and budgetary direction, all the while continuing his duties as executive producer of TNG. Piller was an avid baseball card collector, reportedly with a collection numbering in the hundred-thousands (hence Benjamin Sisko's affinity for the game). After two seasons with DS9, Piller left the show to help create Star Trek: Voyager, which launched in 1995 as the "flagship vessel" of the newly-created UPN (United Paramount Network). He left the staff of Voyager in 1996 after seven continuous years with the Star Trek franchise, but remained a "creative consultant" for Voyager. He subsequently returned to write and co-produce Star Trek: Insurrection in 1998.
During his Star Trek years, Piller only made one major venture outside the franchise. The result was the unusual sci-fi western series Legend, which he created with Bill Dial and which starred John de Lancie. This series had a very brief run on UPN in 1995.
In 2002, Piller co-developed (with his son, Shawn) the television series based upon the Stephen King novel The Dead Zone. That series featured DS9's Nicole de Boer and TNG guest star David Ogden Stiers.
Piller wrote a screenplay called Oversight, which he described as a Washington-based thriller that is not a big action movie but rather a "small personal character story." The screenplay has yet to be produced.
In early 2005, he created and produced a new television series, the family drama Wildfire, which starred DS9's Nana Visitor.
I watch it and it is not that bad. I see Tricia Helfer has popped up on Burn Notice and Grace Park on The Cleaner.
Blondie
Of Michael it said, which reminds me SO MUCH of Battlestar, and how the tech is dumbed down to make sure you follow the story. BRAVO! (As long as they do good stories, if not it sucks big ones.) :
His tenure is noted for its character development, rather than for exploiting sci-fi gadgetry of the future.
Of course, that was obvious in his work on Deep Space Nine, but I didn't care for that one
DRAT!
highliting demon, go away!
It is actually thinly disguised Mormon theology!
Well Terry in your new picture you look kinda Mormonish. Mormish?
Did you see the special episode, was it 2.5 or something? Absolutely riveting. My attorney roommate downstairs has watched all of them about 3 times and we discuss it regularly. I talked him into it, and he is sold. He loves Mary MacDonald, too. She is amazing. SO Understated.
I never miss an episode. I find the only way to watch it is to record it and acculate several episdoes so I can binge all at once.
Waiting from week to week leads to madness and nervous disorder.
Before this last season started I went to a special theatre screening preview of RAZOR. Watching that episode with an audience filled with BSG fanatics is as good as it gets!
It is hard to get people started on this show if they've never watched--but--once you do it is like hooking them on heroin!
There are maybe five episodic TV series I've ever loved.
In no particular order:
1.WESTWING
2.LOST
3.DEADWOOD
4.SOPRANOS
5.BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
I would have said ALIAS too--but, when Jennifer Gardner pulled out a hasty conclusions was tacked on that ruined it.
Born-Again 'Battlestar'
Drawing from Mormonism, Roman polytheism, and even Buddhism, the reimagined sci-fi TV series is steeped in religion.
By Ellen Leventry
In the coming months, television executives will be touting not one, not two, but four religiously themed shows to audiences. With the death of "Touched by an Angel" and the decline of "Joan of Arcadia," networks are scrambling to find the next spiritual sensation/Nielsen knockout. But viewers don't have to wait for September to enjoy the most religiously relevant show on television. It's already here in the guise of "Battlestar Galactica."
Once lambasted as a prime-time "Star Wars" knock-off, "Battlestar Galactica" has been reincarnated as an edgy, moody human drama. A "reimagining" of the original 1978 series, the current incarnation follows the survivors of the "twelve colonies of man" as they search for the mythical planet Earth following an apocalyptic sneak attack by the Cylons, a mechanical race created by human beings.
Brought back first as a mini-series in 2003, the show debuted on the Sci Fi Channel in 2005 with 3.1 million viewers, making it the network's most-watched premiere. Airing on Friday nights, the show is currently in repeats with the second season scheduled to begin in July.
While fans of the original series may notice some changes to familiar characters-Starbuck is now a woman and the Cylons no longer look like toasters-the truly devoted will also note a change in the show's theology.
Theology?
That's right. Amidst spaceship shoot-outs, bizarre love triangles, and sketchy political maneuvering is a great deal of theology and religious reflection in the show's writing.
Debates about sin and redemption? "Battlestar" has `em. Philosophical inquiries into religio-political motivations? Got those too. The idea of the legitimacy of the soul? The battle between monotheism and paganism? Holy lands and prophets? Check, check, and check.
But that's really nothing new for the "Galactica" series.
Unbeknownst to most viewers, "Battlestar Galactica" has been steeped in religion since its very inception. First pitched by uber-producer Glen A. Larson as a series of Bible stories set in space called "Adam's Ark," the reworked "Battlestar Galactica" was also influenced by another religious book: the Book of Mormon. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Larson borrowed plot points from his faith's sacred texts.
"'Battlestar Galactica' and the Book of Mormon both start from the premise that civilization is either about to be destroyed or has just been destroyed and that there's this remnant, this ragtag fleet that is preserved," explains Jana Reiss, author of "What Would Buffy Do?" "The story of the Book of Mormon is set in the time frame of the destruction of Jerusalem. The prophet Lehi has a vision of the destruction of Jerusalem and was able to get his family out in time."
