Sci-Fi Trailer: Richard Hatch’s BSG Second Coming
Battlestar Galactica TV Series, Sci-Fi TV News, Sci-Fi Videos — By Nix on March 3, 2009
What’s this? A BSG TV show with actual space lasers? Guys and gals not shagging in the hallways or moping around pondering the existential nature of life? Dang, as cheesy as this trailer is, it actually looks sci-fi, not some arthouse bullshit dressed up as sci-fi. Really, Ron Moore? People are flying around in spaceships on your show, and your characters are still wearing eyeglasses and use 20th century phones to communicate? WTF.
In case you’ve never seen it, here’s the 4-minute trailer that original BSG star Richard Hatch hatched together (har har) in 1999 to sell a new BSG series called Second Coming. No one bought it, alas, and we now have Ron Moore’s version instead. You know, the one where everyone is miserable and you want to slit your wrist after every episode?
By the by, I once heard Dirk Benedict, the original Starbuck on radio once doing an interview, and he made a great joke about how Ron Moore attempted to emasculate the original show by basically turning the most “male” character on the show (re: Starbuck) into a woman. This, points out Benedict, backfired when, as it turns out, the female Starbuck was more manly and butch than the original Starbuck ever was. Good one, Dirk, good one.
Anyhoo. Trailer via Io9. They prefer Ron Moore’s version, but that’s probably because like most critics, Io9 has to constantly sniff Ron Moore’s jockstrap in order to remind their peers how “cool” they are and should be let into the party.
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Battlestar Galactica as it should be!!!
Not some Devoid of Imagination, Angst filled, Sex Drama in Space. Costumes that don’t look like someone snagged the wardrobe truck from General Hospital.
A Space Opera that didn’t look like it was cast with a reunion of the Jerry Springer Show.
Bring Back Battlestar Galactica.
Holy sour grapes aloft! Why is there this element in the BSG fan base? It’s as if Richard Hatch’s (Apollo in original BSG, Zarek in contemporary version) old quest to resurrect BSG won him a clique of disciples whose own doctrine qualifies all but a Galactica replite with references to pre-Ptolmaic Egypt as heresy; as if popular vote could negate the validity of one group’s creativity over another. Admittedly, there may well be room for less-contemporary, 20th/21st-century influences on the set and fancier special effects; but that needn’t somehow come at the expense of the real achievement Ron Moore’s BSG represents.
And I for one would like to hear less of this kind of undermining back-drama than more.
Talk about synchronicity. I just posted about Dirk Benedict’s “rant” on my blog earlier this week! You can read my comments (which includes a link to Dirk’s article) here: http://cosmic-cinema.blogspot.com/2009/02/dirk-benedict-strikes-back.html.
“characters are still wearing eyeglasses and use 20th century phones to communicate? WTF.”
So why was Captain Picard bald, and why was every Star Trek incarnation characterised by values straight out of the 50’s? What a ridiculous comment.
Sorry Ross613, the Fan base for the Real Galactica was alive and well, long before RDM and his GINO.
Richards appearance in it didn’t make him a lot of friends within the existing fan base.
If you RDM Trek fans are so hot for re-imagining, why don’t you get behind an RDMjob on Trek TOS?
I mean, let’s face it, by your standards, the original Trek was cheesy 60s drek. Let RDM have his way with that.
You know, Spock as a Woman, who is sleeping with every other person on Enterprise. Kirk as a drug addled, angst ridden, sex fiend. McCoy a drunken old Doctor with the shakes. Sulu and Chekov Klingon Spies. Klingon is actually a Human Colony. Uhura, well, we won’t even get into her kinky perversions, except to say a good watching of jerry Springer should give you some idea
Make the whole thing a psych drama aboard the Enterprise, kinda like a dark, gritty mating of Melrose Place and Love Boat. No Transporters, because that just isn’t realistic. Old brick style cell phones are the new communicators. And the costumes? I’m sure we could get ahold of the wardrobe truck from some Day Time Soap Opera, or just go with JC Penney off the rack.
Wouldn’t that be more Real?
We could even get a Cameraman with the DTs, because we know how much the RDM BSG fans like that shakey camera thing.
Now that sounds like a Re-Imagining you should get behind!
Dispite the obvious, the new BSG is by no means even the same thing as the TOS BSG. All the same names but not even the same feel or story. I view them as two seperate storylines all together.
One show offered a clear line of distinction of what was right from wrong, good from evil and the other offered nothing of the sort. Dispite the poor production, props and chopped up storylines, TOS BSG was a great SciFi show that had substance and a great sense of why they must survive.
This new BSG makes one to reach for the gun and put your last bullet in your brain…leaving you feeling like, “Why not? Nothing to live for anyways, I could be a fraking cylon and not even know it either way I am doing us all a favor.”
If this is the type of “good” entertainment to look forward too in SciFi then no thank you…I get enough of this from the media and newspapers.
to Jake Callahan,
I know you posted your comments 5 months ago so I am bit late but I totally agree with everything you have written. I thought I must be the only one who feels this way about the re-imagined BSG. I totally love the original BSG and I'm very excited about the possibility of a new movie. Your comments are not only spot on but extremely funny! You make me laugh sooo hard with you comments.
Let's hope this movie comes becomes a reality. Having said that I must say there is a lot of negative comments from both sides about which show is better. All I can say is that it's like saying an orange is better than an apple. They are both totally different fruits. Some people prefer oranges some prefer apples but that doesn't mean that one is better than the other. They're just different. I'm sure there is room two different visions of the Battlestar Universe.
Let's just accept the differences and enjoy the version that you enjoy.