Welcome Visitor! Please take a few seconds and 
adsm08
Senior Master Grease Monkey
Supporting Member
Article Contributor
Ford Technician
TRS 20th Anniversary
- Joined
- Sep 20, 2009
- Messages
- 34,623
- City
- Dillsburg PA
- Vehicle Year
- 1987
- Engine
- 4.0 V6
- Transmission
- Manual
- Tire Size
- 31X10.50X15
Ok, so I have been watching the 1978 series Battlestar Galactica and the 2004 reimagined BSG together and comparing them. I just finished the 2004 series but I am still watching the older one. I have watched both before but wanted to compare them side by side.
I have noticed a few things.
1) Ron D. Moore made lots of references and throwbacks in his version, something I do like. If you listen carefully at some of the most epic moment of the newer version you can hear a slightly remixed version of the original score playing.
2) The high points of the original story were all preserved. The sneak attack at the peace accord, the emergency escape, the need for fuel, the secret cylon mining operation, Kobol, Pegasus, the need to train more pilots. At some points you can even see old version Centurions and Raiders in the new version.
3) The original one seems very hopeful while the newer one is far more realistic, and they definitely reflect the time periods they were written in. the 1978 version was produced during the cold war and has a tone of hope and trying to make peace with cold, almost implacable enemy. The RDM version is full of terrorism, suspicion of those in your own ranks, the need to figure out who is with you and who will betray you. It is most certainly a product of a post 9/11 world view.
4) These people are far too lucky. Out of the ashes they manage to pull at least one mobile fuel refinery and one mobile farming facility that manage to supply the remainder of humanity from.
Finally, I have noticed that Lorne Green and his band of refugees were far to well adjusted. These people were a major interstellar power, 12 worlds, a powerful fleet, they intervened against one of the strongest powers in known space on behalf of other nations. Then in a single sneak attack they have their entire civilization shot out from under them, driven from their homes and put on the run with limited resources, a mere 220 ships, only one being a true military vessel, yet they don't freak out, they don't get mad, in fact the biggest actual eruption I can think of related to the loss of their civilization is when Apollo yells at Serina for signing up for flight training. That and some old people disapproving of a hooker.
By comparison the folks driven out in in 2004 are much more believable. They are angry, hurt, tired, hungry, and desperate. They shoot each other, they steal, cheat, lie. After the escape from New Caprica they flush 13 people out an airlock just because they were suspected of collaborating.
Thoughts?
I have noticed a few things.
1) Ron D. Moore made lots of references and throwbacks in his version, something I do like. If you listen carefully at some of the most epic moment of the newer version you can hear a slightly remixed version of the original score playing.
2) The high points of the original story were all preserved. The sneak attack at the peace accord, the emergency escape, the need for fuel, the secret cylon mining operation, Kobol, Pegasus, the need to train more pilots. At some points you can even see old version Centurions and Raiders in the new version.
3) The original one seems very hopeful while the newer one is far more realistic, and they definitely reflect the time periods they were written in. the 1978 version was produced during the cold war and has a tone of hope and trying to make peace with cold, almost implacable enemy. The RDM version is full of terrorism, suspicion of those in your own ranks, the need to figure out who is with you and who will betray you. It is most certainly a product of a post 9/11 world view.
4) These people are far too lucky. Out of the ashes they manage to pull at least one mobile fuel refinery and one mobile farming facility that manage to supply the remainder of humanity from.
Finally, I have noticed that Lorne Green and his band of refugees were far to well adjusted. These people were a major interstellar power, 12 worlds, a powerful fleet, they intervened against one of the strongest powers in known space on behalf of other nations. Then in a single sneak attack they have their entire civilization shot out from under them, driven from their homes and put on the run with limited resources, a mere 220 ships, only one being a true military vessel, yet they don't freak out, they don't get mad, in fact the biggest actual eruption I can think of related to the loss of their civilization is when Apollo yells at Serina for signing up for flight training. That and some old people disapproving of a hooker.
By comparison the folks driven out in in 2004 are much more believable. They are angry, hurt, tired, hungry, and desperate. They shoot each other, they steal, cheat, lie. After the escape from New Caprica they flush 13 people out an airlock just because they were suspected of collaborating.
Thoughts?
