I salute the grand old lady
I know I may get some flax for this, but I have to say it
As grand as Star Wars was, there is one element that is missing from it, that only Star Trek, and now Battlestar Galactica can have in it. They have a ship, that we can emphatically link too and Star Wars doesn't.
True, the ship isn't organic, she's not alive in the normal sense. But I can see how Kirk, and now Adama can be "In love" with the ship. In many ways, it is a friend, a mother, a secret lover.
I can remember the day when I was in the theater, and saw Enterprise - the original one, explode, and it's swan dive into the Genesis Planet's atmosphere. It was like watching a friend passing. For in a way, it was a link to my childhood. For I was just old enough to watch the very first episodes when they was originally aired, and Star Trek taught me a lot. The Enterprise was my teacher, mentor, and friend.
Then watching her sibling, Enterprise D exploding, and crashing onto the planet, I can remember that vividly as well.
How then, can I not feel for Pegasus? Just when you thought that Galactica was done for, and the camera pulling back, back, back. As though we was pulling away from her final minutes, there is a missile, then in flies the Pegasus, the camera standing there, as her flight deck with the words "Pegasus" flies by. Watching her, as she faced three base-stars in battle. Blasting them out of the sky. Rescuing her mother, and her father as it were. The final scenes, when Lee said "thank you" then it ramming the one base-star. But just before it was totally finished it was like she threw her hanger deck at the other base-star, destroying it as well in a last act of bravery for it's human creators. That is why Pegasus will always be "My Battlestar" Even though her name is reminiscent of my favorite mythological character.
Now we're seeing the end of the Galactica. She has carried her fragile, and precious cargo for 4 straight years. In "Exodus Part 2" I saw her drop though the atmosphere, face 3 base-stars, and jump away as her 'son' is 'killed' in battle. After 4 years she's old, she's thin, - she's dying.
It's going to be hard to say goodbye to the grand old lady. I only hope that they let her go the way her 'son' did. That's the way she should go, no dismantling, no cannibalizing her. Just send her off for one final battle, for she's a warrior.
That is all.
- Shado
As grand as Star Wars was, there is one element that is missing from it, that only Star Trek, and now Battlestar Galactica can have in it. They have a ship, that we can emphatically link too and Star Wars doesn't.
True, the ship isn't organic, she's not alive in the normal sense. But I can see how Kirk, and now Adama can be "In love" with the ship. In many ways, it is a friend, a mother, a secret lover.
I can remember the day when I was in the theater, and saw Enterprise - the original one, explode, and it's swan dive into the Genesis Planet's atmosphere. It was like watching a friend passing. For in a way, it was a link to my childhood. For I was just old enough to watch the very first episodes when they was originally aired, and Star Trek taught me a lot. The Enterprise was my teacher, mentor, and friend.
Then watching her sibling, Enterprise D exploding, and crashing onto the planet, I can remember that vividly as well.
How then, can I not feel for Pegasus? Just when you thought that Galactica was done for, and the camera pulling back, back, back. As though we was pulling away from her final minutes, there is a missile, then in flies the Pegasus, the camera standing there, as her flight deck with the words "Pegasus" flies by. Watching her, as she faced three base-stars in battle. Blasting them out of the sky. Rescuing her mother, and her father as it were. The final scenes, when Lee said "thank you" then it ramming the one base-star. But just before it was totally finished it was like she threw her hanger deck at the other base-star, destroying it as well in a last act of bravery for it's human creators. That is why Pegasus will always be "My Battlestar" Even though her name is reminiscent of my favorite mythological character.
Now we're seeing the end of the Galactica. She has carried her fragile, and precious cargo for 4 straight years. In "Exodus Part 2" I saw her drop though the atmosphere, face 3 base-stars, and jump away as her 'son' is 'killed' in battle. After 4 years she's old, she's thin, - she's dying.
It's going to be hard to say goodbye to the grand old lady. I only hope that they let her go the way her 'son' did. That's the way she should go, no dismantling, no cannibalizing her. Just send her off for one final battle, for she's a warrior.
That is all.
- Shado