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OK, who is watching this? Our friends make their grand return after a 24-year wait. So, your thoughts on the first episode?
We forgot to set us up the DVR.
I was a middlin' fan of the original show....I liked it, but let's face it, it was done on a (relatively) shoestring budget for its time. Curious to see what they do with the concept now.
Not every 'reimagining' is doomed to failure: I was a fan of the original Battlestar Galactica series (yes, it could be very cheesy indeed, but I was, like, 15 at the time ) and I resisted the new version for years before finally checking out the BSG DVDs....and I loved the new show.
SPOILERS, BTW...
I never watched the original, or the miniseries that came out later, but I liked this pilot for the most part. It has a great cast (nice to see some more Firefly alums getting high-profile parts), and decent dialogue writing... but I agree with Shaye that they could have drawn out the resistance "reveal" for an episode or two. Have some strange deaths/disappearances that coincide with the "arrival", and explain them a little later on.
I thought it was well-done that they, jokingly, addressed the similarity of the "arrival" sequence to the movie Independence Day.
Oh, me too--I dressed up as Six for Halloween--
but I think BSG was, number one an exception, and number 2, only on for one season originally and thus easier to redo.
...and that whole "You WILL believe that Earthly computers will be able to interface with alien computer systems" thing.
As a devoted fan of the original series (I once owned the Visitor Military Uniform), I can say that I was disappointed. I felt the plot was rushed. <snipped> But, everything just seemed to have been rammed down our throats instead of the building of the "whys" and "hows". A disappointment to be sure.
Pictures or it didn't happen, Ms. Helfer!
Aha, completely disregarding the existence of Galactica 1980, are we?
and that whole "You WILL believe that Earthly computers will be able to interface with alien computer systems" thing.
Actually, it's not the plot hole it's made out to be. At the beginning of the movie, the aliens put a signal in our satellites to do a countdown. So they had already made an interface possible, or at least revealed how one could be created. And of course the only guy who could interface the two was the guy who first discovered that the aliens had planted a signal in our satellites.