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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Initial impressions: I really liked the visual effects in places- Caprica from orbit after the nuking was extremely well done and the new Galactica was acutally very well shot to look good (and I hate the design!). Considering taht the Galactica is aincent and about to be decommisoned, I was suprisd to see the wreck of the same CGI model in Caprica's orbit when Boomer is "gliding" toward it in the raptor. The cylon woman is just pointless: she's not a good actress, and the glowing spine thing is just ridiculous: what a terrible feature for an undercover agent! Am I the only one that thinks the Cylon woman looks like a (slightly) cleaned up Courtney Love? This just reenforces my theory that the Cylons killed Kurt Cobain. Still, I [i]didint [/i]hate it and I thought I would but despite a good acting job from both Olmos and his "XO" but I really didint feel any "like" either between the characters for for them personally and watching the original version I noticed the freindship between characters immeadeately while the new version is just about everyone screwing each other or having a giant chip on their shoulder. The sacrifice of Boomer's partner was VERY lame: He just gives up his seat (and thus his life) with no internal satruggle? It's like the guy was just waiting to give up his life. "Hmmmm who in the crowd is worth dying for....hey, Baltar!" Ug. After watching last night's episode, I watched the original TV movie and I noticed a lot of things there that would have made the current series much better: Firstly, part of the appeal of the original BSG was that the twelve colonies were more advanced both morally (in general) and technologically than we are. Last night's premiere showed what we'll be like within 100 years at best: in many ways, none of the characters is remotely likable (except mabye Baltar). The 70's show had a kind of psydo-mystical mythology to it that made learning their terms and history intresting but that's all been thrown out the airlock now: the newcharacters even use current era terminologies, inflections and curses- those were all creativly subbed in with terms like "feldercarb" instead of "bullshit". THe only visually disapointing thing about the premiere was that in the 70's version, the cylons send a whole armada to wipe out the colonies, but last night, the Cylons only sent what? Six fighters that we saw? It seemed too easy for them to defeat all of humanity and 120 battlestars, all their fighters and whatever system defenses there might have been. Even Wolf 359 seemed like more of a struggle. So far, it's pretty but about the same quality of stort as "Wing Commander" was. Still, I'll watch tonight's episode and judge the two parter as a whole. I'm hopful we'll see some kind of directed attack instead of a few fighters attacking in sets of two in tonight's episode: an Imperious Leader issuing directives would be nice. I cant believe all the cylons are just acting independantly after making an attack plan. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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