Re: Galactica movie a "Go"

 > > > On 2022-12-04 08:40:05 +0000, Daniel65 said:
 > > > Your Name wrote on 4/12/22 8:24 am:
 > > > On 2022-12-03 19:16:17 +0000, MummyChunk said:
 > > >  > RT wrote:
 > > >  
 > > >
http://www.tracking-board.com/exclusive-michael-de-luca-boards-universals-battlestar-galactica-reboot/
 > > > 
 > > >  
 > > >  > Michael De Luca has signed on to produce UniversalŽs
feature
 > > >  > adaptation of Glen A. LarsonŽs beloved series BATTLESTAR
 > > >  > GALACTICA. The long-gestating project has reportedly been
in
 > > >  > development since 1999, but it was put on hold when the
Sci-Fi
 > > >  > channel picked up its series adaptation, which hailed
from
 > > >  > UniversalŽs sister company NBC Universal Television.
Sci-FiŽs
 > > >  > Battlestar Galactica ran for four seasons and is often
cited
 > > >  > as one of the netŽs best programs, but the feature
version is
 > > >  > expected to be wholly separate from the television
reboot,
 > > >  > drawing instead from the original 1978 series.
 > > >  > ....
 > > > 
 > > > And....  where is the movie?
 > > > 
 > > > As of January 2022, a movie (at least one, possibly two
different ones)
 > > > and another TV series were still in the works.
 > > > 
 > > > Memory failing ..... Hasn't Battlestar Galactica already had to
T.V.
 > > > series starts already??
 > > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > There has been Moore-Ron's awful "reboot" series and
its spin-off 
 > > TV-movies and shows.
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > And now another one!! Sure, it's a movie but which series is it
going
 > > to follow on from??
 > > 
 > Your Name wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > There are multiple projects in various states of progress, but none

 > remotely close to any casting or filming, and likely may never get
made.
 > 
 > 
https://collider.com/battlestar-galactica-movie-tv-show-shared-universe-simon-kinberg-comments/
 
 > 
 > 
 > 
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/battlestar-galactica-new-movie-tv-shared-universe/
 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > There are projects that ignore Moore-Ron's version and
"Galactica 1980" 
 > to be a follow-on to the original series (set decades later),
projects 
 > that somehow magically link the original series and Moore-Ron's 
 > version, projects that completely re-boot the idea again.
 > 
 > Like "Star Trek", and the Marvel and DC superheroes, the
Galactica 
 > franchise is now such a confused mess of conflicting versions
thanks to 
 > talentless idiots with their own ideas of what it
"should" have been, 
 > that it has been killed off entirely.  :-(


I rather enjoyed the series with Edward James Olmos

Just wish the ending had been better regardless of the visuals

From WP
*****

Other critics, even those who wrote rave reviews about the first two
seasons of the series, felt that a major drop in quality occurred in
the third season, continuing into the fourth and final season. In
particular, the controversial series finale drew heavy criticism,
largely due to the view that it failed to explain many of the main
plotlines which had been teased throughout the series' run. Charlie
Jane Anders of io9.com wrote:

Even Battlestar Galactica couldn't be Battlestar Galactica for longer
than a few years. By halfway through the third season, the cracks are
pretty apparent, as the show detours into romance subplots. The
writers start throwing out curveballs like randomly selected Cylons
and Starbuck's inexplicable (and unexplained) resurrection. By the
time the show ended, its mystique was somewhat tarnished, and its
ending remains controversial.[85]

Anders later included the series in her list of "10 Once-Great TV
Shows (And The Exact Moments They Started to Suck)", saying:

There was a time, not long ago, when BSG was considered the gold
standard for science fiction television. Tense, multilayered,
complicated, and filled with morally gray characters — it was all the
things we always clamor for but seldom get. The show stumbled somewhat
in its third season, with the boxing episode and a boring love
triangle. But it didn't actually become raw suckage until Starbuck
died for no reason, and then came back from the dead for no reason.
The writers have basically admitted they had no plan for killing and
resurrecting Starbuck — they just thought it would be a cool thing to
do, and they would figure out the reasons later. And thus, we ended up
with a year of Starbuck Interrupted, constantly shouting "You're
going the wrong way!" and playing the piano while talking about
her daddy.[86]

In a Commentary article on the prevalence of Bush Derangement Syndrome
in popular culture, Jonah Goldberg analyzed the show's "radically
bizarre and nonsensical turn of events ... that led inexorably to its
self-destruction":

Originally, the series was very difficult to pigeonhole ideologically.
.. When it came time to make the third season ... a show marked by
gritty realism about how a decent but flawed civilization modeled on
our own tries to cling to its decency while fighting an existential
war against an implacable enemy veered wildly off course. The humans
were no longer analogized to Americans; rather Americans were
analogized to genocidal occupiers. In other words, we are no longer
the inspiration for the futuristic Israelites trying to survive. We
are now the Nazis.[87]

Fantasy author George R.R. Martin expressed his dissatisfaction with
how the writers handled the ending of the TV series, commenting:

Battlestar Galactica ends with 'God Did It.' Looks like somebody
skipped Writing 101, when you learn that a deus ex machina is a crappy
way to end a story... Yeah, yeah, sometimes the journey is its own
reward. I certainly enjoyed much of the journey with BSG... But damn
it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more? Writing 101,
kids. Adam and Eve, God Did It, It Was All a Dream? I've seen Clarion
students left stunned and bleeding for turning in stories with those
endings.[88]

Josh Tyler of Television Blend concluded that the series finale made
no real attempt to resolve any of the plotlines or mysteries set up
during the earlier run of the show.[89]
 

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