Saga of a star world and The lost planet of the gods

[vash26]

A couple of weeks ago I borrowed my brothers TOS dvd box. I was quite curious to see it now I've seen the reimagined series. And now I've finally recovered the remote of the dvd player, this was the time. I remember seeing the series when I was a child, so that makes it kind of nostalgic to rewatch. I just finished seeing the first two episodes,

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[scifi_mel]

No one had call signs in the original, that was just their names. Also Baltar was promised that his own colony would be spared and he'd be set up as ruler of it. So he did it for power, after that I think he just sided with them to stay alive, and well because they gave him a basestar.

I really liked the original when I was young and enjoyed rewatching it. There are things about it that make more sense to me, that they cylons and humans had been at war for a 1000 years, made them much more of a terrifying enemey I thought that ones who'd only been at war for 5 years and then disapeared. It also explained better why you had such a miliaristic society, whereas in the new series I kinda wondered why the military had such a huge budget, when they were the only living beings in the galaxy, why was their such a powerful colonial fleet?

But it is fun to compare! Even apollo turning into a lawyer was in the original!

My post on the rewatch is here
http://scifi-mel.livejournal.com/18650.html
But it's up till the end of gun on iceplanet zero so you might want to wait until then if you're worried about spoilers.

Though I have to warn you, lame cowboys are coming! The planet episodes really sucked! But the original pegasus episodes were very good!

[vash26]

No one had call signs in the original, that was just their names.

Apollo makes some sense to me, since he has a sister called Athena, I can go with that, but who would name a kid Starbuck? I thought it had to do with his love for gambling.

And Baltar being promised his own colony makes so much more sense. I somehow missed that. I was really wondering why one would want to be the only human left, it seemed lonely to me and makes no sense.

I'll check your rewatch as soon as I get passed the iceplanet episode. I think I saw the entire series, but I don't remember a lot of specifics.

Though I have to warn you, lame cowboys are coming!

That is something I do remember! What's strange is that there are so many asteroids and planets habited by humans that everyone seems to have forgotten about. That alway's puzzles me.

Another thing that I think is strange, is that every problem has to be solved by pilots. They have a really elaborate job description. And last but not least, Adama seems to be the most religious person in the fleet! There are so many noteworhty things, and that makes it fun to watch and compare.

[scifi_mel]

The names all seemed nuts to me! I blame it on being the 70s! But Starbuck was an orphan, so whether he was named that by his parents, or later once he'd developed his "skills" I can't really say.

Yeah, apparently they told him his own colony was to be spared.

I know it was funny the way Everywhere had loads of humans on it. The 13th tribe must have been down to about 5 by the time they finally got to earth for the number of people they'd been dropping off along the way. But then I guess it was more of an interstella society filled with habitable planets and aliens. Though they really don't understand the difference between star system and galaxy, the writers seem to use them interchangably.

To be fair they did that in the new show too, with Starbuck and Apollo doing lots more than just simply being pilots, security etc. It really is funny. The things that were changed and the things left the same. It's like Adama was split into two people, one the military leader and one the spiritual leader. In the old show he was very much the patriarch of the tribe, a moses figure bringing the people home. Where that moved onto Laura in the new show, and you have Laura saying a lot of the same things that Adama did in the original (though she's using them to convince adama which is quite funny).

[vash26]

Yeah, apparently they told him his own colony was to be spared.

Did they say which colony he was from? I'm now assuming he's not a Caprican like 'our' Gaius.

To be fair they did that in the new show too, with Starbuck and Apollo doing lots more than just simply being pilots, security etc.

Yeah, it always struck me as a bit strange that they had to go to the Astral Queen and Cloud Nine to help out. And later with the Gideon incident Tigh gets criticized for sending pilots on a croud control mission, while Adama send pilots off to do a lot of other stuff as well. Poor Saul, it's so unfair that in his case it didn't work out - lol. I do think it works well that they seperated the military leader and spiritual leader, although it's interesting to see how those two roles kan conflict if they're incorporated in one person.

But sometimes it's also a bit slow. There seems to be a lot of time for everything. Apollo and Adama have time to take a viper back to Caprica to visit their home and see if mrs. Adama made it. Apparently mrs. Adama's the only one in the family that doesn't live on the galactica.

[scifi_mel]

They did but I'm afraid I can't remember! No he wasn't from Caprica.

Yeah, it is kinda funny that the whole family (minus mom!) was on the same battlestar! She must have felt really left out! I think as they do more one part episodes it gets less dragged out. But I thought that part was sad! ;)

[vash26]

Just checked the battlestar wiki, it said that Baltar was from Picon.

And it's sad that the wife wasn't with Adama, it's not like there isn't any space on the damn battlestar. I'm wondering if Adama spend a lot of time planetside, since he was also a member of the council of twelve, otherwise it's really sad for mom to be living alone in her Caprican villa and the rest of the family away for months at the time. Or she must have had a really goodlooking pool guy - lol.

[scifi_mel]

Ah, thank gods for the battlestar wiki! :)

Lols at the idea of Mrs. Adama with a pool guy!