Galactica 1980

[BillJ]

Just wow.

I just finished rewatching the original Battlestar Galactica and really enjoyed the series. So I figured I'd go ahead and watch the seven episodes of Galactica 1980.

Just frustratingly bad, bad, bad. I'm on the second episode and am simply ready to jump to "The Return of Starbuck" and be done with this pitiful affair.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Tune in next episode, when Captain Troy says:

"I wonder what Marty Milner's doing these days...."

 

[Ovation]

Just wow.

I just finished rewatching the original Battlestar Galactica and really enjoyed the series. So I figured I'd go ahead and watch the seven episodes of Galactica 1980.

Just frustratingly bad, bad, bad. I'm on the second episode and am simply ready to jump to "The Return of Starbuck" and be done with this pitiful affair.

But then you'd...nah, never mind. Just jump to that episode and be done with it.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

I'd suggest using some mind altering substances, it's sort of tolerable that way. Sort of.

Actually it's probably worth watching all the way through if you can stand it. Good luck, we're all counting on you.

 

[BillJ]

What in the Hell was up with the disclaimer at the end of the second episode about the US government discontinuing searching for UFO's?

 

[Guy Gardener]

The reporter they hang out with is super hot.

Even with 80s hair.

Though in my mind, I keep interchanging her with a reporter that hung out with the A-Team in season one.

Bill. What you dislike is not that show that is coming up. The original idea is that (was diluted into what you saw) Apollo gets lost in Earth's history following that evil leaper who sided with the Nazis, and Apollo's only contact with the present is a hologram of Starbuck... No. I am not Joking. Donald Bellisario pitched this idea for Galactica 1980, and after it was rejected, he later used it for his own show Quantum Leap. Point being, Galactica 1980 was supposed to be endless time travel adventures, but the Network stepped in after episode 3 and said "stop this shit. It's awful, No more time travel, the audience isn't smart enough" and in stead something far worse begun to happen.

Supers####s.

You're old enough to know how cool the radio DJ Wolfman Jack was?

He's in the double episode Night of the Cylon. Well worth watching.



A couple years ago they redid Galactica 1980 as a (4 issue limited series) comic book with the hard ass sentiments of the new series while still keeping it a sequel of the original series.

Doctor Z decided that the only way to save the fleet was to conquer Earth and enslave the Earthlings, forcing them to mass produce new battlestars, because they were pathetic no help knuckle draggers left to their own devices.

There was a ICBM under the lawns at the white House, so when the Galactica tries to land at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in an effort to be completely transparent, Ronald Reagan gives the order to nuke the space Bastards coming to take his woman.

Hey-lerrrrious.

 

[BillJ]

Bill. What you dislike is not that show that is coming up. The original idea is that (was diluted into what you saw) Apollo gets lost in Earth's history following that evil leaper who sided with the Nazis, and Apollo's only contact with the present is a hologram of Starbuck... No. I am not Joking. Donald Bellisario pitched this idea for Galactica 1980, and after it was rejected, he later used it for his own show Quantum Leap. Point being, Galactica 1980 was supposed to be endless time travel adventures, but the Network stepped in after episode 3 and said "stop this shit. It's awful, No more time travel, the audience isn't smart enough" and in stead something far worse begun to happen.

It may have been just as bad. I did notice that Bellisario had writing and directing credits on the last episode of Battlestar Galactica.

This only having seven episodes plays in its favor, so I'll likely stick it out. But it is rough.

 

[Christopher]

Here are my blog reviews tearing this series apart:

http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/galactica-1980-thoughts-eps-1-3/
http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/galactica-1980-thoughts-eps-4-6/
http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/galactica-1980-thoughts-eps-7-9/
http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/galactica-1980-thoughts-ep-10-and-overview/

 

[auntiehill]

Just jump to "The Return of Starbuck" and be done with it. Don't torture yourself. The suckitude of that show was unbelievable.

 

[BillJ]

There are moments the show feels like an Incredible Hulk ripoff.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

Ya know, even though "The Return of Starbuck" is definitely the best episode of the series, it still isn't much to write home about. It's like an island in a sea of suck, but the island is barren and uninhabitable.

 

[Guy Gardener]

One rejected proposal that got me quite wet, was that when the Galactica found Earth, it wasn't 1980, it was the 25th century and Col. Buck Rogers was holding the line against the Cylon vanguard.

 

[BillJ]

One rejected proposal that got me quite wet, was that when the Galactica found Earth, it wasn't 1980, it was the 25th century and Col. Buck Rogers was holding the line against the Cylon vanguard.

That might have been good if Buck Rogers in the 25th Century had been a better show.

 

[Icemizer]

^Now that would have been cool. Twiki captured and turned by the Cylons writes itself.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Ya know, even though "The Return of Starbuck" is definitely the best episode of the series, it still isn't much to write home about. It's like an island in a sea of suck, but the island is barren and uninhabitable.

Bottlestore Metallica.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRxA4p62n6c[/yt]

In their eventual parody of The Return of Starbuck, Starbuck and the Cylon marooned on that planet, get drunk, bored and cold, so eventually, obviously are found doing but-stuff to each other when they are finally rescued.

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

This only having seven episodes plays in its favor, so I'll likely stick it out. But it is rough.

Actually there were ten episodes.

One rejected proposal that got me quite wet, was that when the Galactica found Earth, it wasn't 1980, it was the 25th century and Col. Buck Rogers was holding the line against the Cylon vanguard.

That was what I hoped at the time would happen (not Buck Rogers specifically, but that it would be the future and Earth would be able to fight the Cylons). The whole 1980 thing was a huge disappointment.

 

[sojourner]

One rejected proposal that got me quite wet, was that when the Galactica found Earth, it wasn't 1980, it was the 25th century and Col. Buck Rogers was holding the line against the Cylon vanguard.

That's an urban legend.

 

[BillJ]

This only having seven episodes plays in its favor, so I'll likely stick it out. But it is rough.

Actually there were ten episodes.

I wonder what episodes are missing from the Netflix set?

 

[BillJ]

This only having seven episodes plays in its favor, so I'll likely stick it out. But it is rough.

Actually there were ten episodes.

I wonder what episodes are missing from the Netflix set?

The first three episodes are missing, "Galactica Discovers Earth". That's odd.

 

[Guy Gardener]

WTF?

No wonder you're not enjoying yourself.

Maybe the first three are in the movie section as a movie and Netflix cannot abide redundancy?