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Re: What Did You Watch? 2018-07-16 (Monday) [message #370930]

Tue, 17 July 2018 20:49

Ubiquitous
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atropos@mac.com wrote:

> BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (1978) - Premiere episode. I haven't watched this
> in more than 30 years. It's amazing how much of it makes no sense at
> all, yet didn't seem to register at the time.
>
> The Cylons somehow managed to utterly destroy 12 entire planets in about
> a half hour with just a handful of fighters that did nothing but make
> strafing runs on the surface, literally shooting at individual people.
> One would think that they'd need to deploy nukes to take out whole
> cities in one blow or something like Imperial Star Destroyers' orbital
> bombardment. But no, they use fighters. It would be like us going to war
> with China and trying to take down the whole country with a dozen
> fighter planes.
>
> And why wouldn't the homeworlds have *any* kind of defense systems? This
> is a society that has-- according to the president of the Quorum of 12
> in his toast-- been at war with the Cylons for 1000 years. Yet their
> home planets have no way to defend themselves, not even a fighter wing
> or two they could have launched?
>
> There was some surprising locker room near-nudity from Maren Jensen
> (Athena) that I wouldn't have thought would make it past the network's
> censors back in 1970s for a family show.
>
> The show's writers don't seem to understand the difference between a
> solar system and a galaxy.
>
> I enjoyed it for its nostalgia, but if this was a new show, I'd be
> skipping the rest.

I remember my friends and I liking that show in first run, but am
hesitant to watch it again and destroy the nostalgia.

Actually, I think SFC played it as part of their "lost SciFi" show,
back when they actually played SciFi.

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		Re: What Did You Watch? 2018-07-16 (Monday) By: Ubiquitous on Tue, 17 July 2018 20:49
		Re: What Did You Watch? 2018-07-16 (Monday) By: Anonymous on Wed, 18 July 2018 19:38
		Re: What Did You Watch? 2018-07-16 (Monday) By: anim8rFSK on Wed, 18 July 2018 20:57
		Re: What Did You Watch? 2018-07-16 (Monday) By: BTR1701 on Wed, 18 July 2018 20:58
		Re: What Did You Watch? 2018-07-16 (Monday) By: Ubiquitous on Wed, 18 July 2018 21:17
		Re: What Did You Watch? 2018-07-16 (Monday) By: anim8rFSK on Wed, 18 July 2018 21:40

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