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Park: New GALACTICA TV-Movie Is Slated To Shoot This August!!

SECOND! by Razorback	Jun 29th, 2008 01:59:02 PM
Crap, I am first?
by cesaria	Jun 29th, 2008 02:00:01 PM
bring it on
2nd? by cesaria	Jun 29th, 2008 02:00:47 PM
whoah. almost first. i was off by, like, one!
Filming this summer... by OlafStapledon	Jun 29th, 2008 02:03:58 PM
So this will be airing when, December 2013?
You know it doesn't bode well by DarthJedi	Jun 29th, 2008 02:06:49 PM
When the actors have to have the script explained to them.
bring it on! by ls420	Jun 29th, 2008 02:06:49 PM
hope the strike doesn't delay things.
Oh yeah! by TomHooligan	Jun 29th, 2008 02:14:06 PM
I had my doubts with 'Razor' at first, but that turned out to be a superb example of all that is right with the series. I think that BSG is probably the pinnacle of sci fi as a series. Mainly this is due to the writing, which just gets better and better with every season. Usually i'd be warey of such announcements, but with Battlestar, i know we are in safe hands. Bring it on. P.S. Lets hope we get to see more of young Husker kicking some Cylon ass eh!!
on the contrary, it bodes very well indeed by newc0253	Jun 29th, 2008 02:21:17 PM
complexity is good. complexity is our friend.
Couldn't say I really loved Razor... by IAmJack'sUserID	Jun 29th, 2008 02:25:48 PM
Feels to me like the story elements were shoe-horned in a bit. But everything else BSG is superb!
RDM & Co. - I suppose extra movies are great. by Mr. Nice Gaius	Jun 29th, 2008 02:54:32 PM
Just make sure those last 10-11 episodes of the final season are spot-on perfect.
Battlestar Galactica: The Lost Tales by KazamaSmokers	Jun 29th, 2008 03:11:12 PM
[[shudder]]
Season 4 DVDs by CellarDweller	Jun 29th, 2008 03:15:20 PM
Anyone heard when Season 4 is coming out on DVD? Are they going to split it in half like they did Season 2? I hope they don't make us wait until the end of 2009 or 2010. I need my Galactica now dammit!
Battlestar Galactica: Return of the Hairdo by TomHooligan	Jun 29th, 2008 03:18:50 PM
I think they should do a tv movie where they are all warped to a parrallel dimension where all the clothes, equipment and hairstyles are changed to the styles from the 70's series. The main plot point would be Starbuck coming to terms with her new found male genetalia.
I thought they already shot the finale by Montag666	Jun 29th, 2008 03:51:26 PM
I guess not
About? by NudeandAroused	Jun 29th, 2008 03:53:57 PM
What is the time period the movie takes place? Any information on what it is about? I guess this is set previous to the series?
Park is in something else? Cool. by Lance4431	Jun 29th, 2008 04:25:51 PM
I really wish Grace Park woulda done Plaboy instead of 6.
Darn by HornOrSilk	Jun 29th, 2008 04:41:46 PM
I wish they would do something courageous and did a TV movie completing the original Galactica era, merging it with the new series... through Doctor Z waking up and saying "What a nightmare."
don't trust her by zooch	Jun 29th, 2008 04:43:29 PM
she's a frakkin toaster.
Razor was crap though. by V'Shael	Jun 29th, 2008 04:56:19 PM
I can't see why the prospect of another p.o.s. is good news.
Excellent!!!! by metaluna	Jun 29th, 2008 04:58:07 PM
:)
I thought Razor was fantastic by snowpuff	Jun 29th, 2008 05:50:18 PM
But it seems most people thought it was just okay. Will the next movie be about Count Iblis? ...I'm a little worried about Grace Park having to read the "explanation" script three times and THEN having to speak with RDM about it. I fully support talking UP to your audience, but... her quote is just a bit disconcerting.
By your command.... by Han Cholo	Jun 29th, 2008 06:33:24 PM
I wish they'd say that more on the show.
Look on the bright side ... by Shan	Jun 29th, 2008 06:48:16 PM
Maybe the script is fine - maybe she's just not that smart. I kid! I kid!
"I had to read it three times" by chrth	Jun 29th, 2008 08:23:58 PM
So either it's really complicated, or Park is an idiot. Glad that could be cleared up for us. If anyone wants me to re-post my collected theories, let me know.
How can it NOT be complicated?? by performingmonkey	Jun 29th, 2008 08:55:12 PM
Jesus Christ just think what they have to answer! Personally I'd love a headfuck ending rather than every single thing explained. What I want to see more than anything is one final fuckass battle between the colonials and the Cylons, complete with the cool Starbuck dogfights like what we used to get on the show in the first two seasons. I want to see people go down in a blaze of glory. I want to see Husker actually getting action in the cockpit, like what I THOUGHT was going to happen only instead he read a book for two episodes while he waited for Roslin! I want the 12 models to be the 12 humans that left Earth hundreds of years before and who founded the colonies. Skinjob versions of them were created so they would never die.
Just No Sopranos Ending, Please by NoHubris	Jun 29th, 2008 09:22:46 PM
Since RDM has given the fans a continuing story from the miniseries through 4 seasons, with a beginning and a middle, we have to have a very un-Sopranos like ending (i.e. an ending that will tie up loose ends with clarity and make sense of the whole story).
Looking forward to the movies, though by NoHubris	Jun 29th, 2008 09:28:37 PM
Maybe we'll get some new revelations of Earth goings on and the 13th Tribe, along with a few epic space battles (as performingmonkey said).
Do this with Farscape and Angel please! by Judge Briggs	Jun 29th, 2008 09:39:21 PM
and Razor wasn't crap.
how stupid is Grace Park??? by Boomers_Lips	Jun 29th, 2008 09:45:24 PM
that she had to have a script explained to her about 4 times!
1970s aliens explained... by Demode	Jun 29th, 2008 10:45:36 PM
Remember all the "funky" aliens we saw on the old Battlestar Galactica... I would like to see those all get explained on the new series, as we never see aliens on the new show. ----- I actually had a thought about that one day while watching the new show... what if the 'aliens' we saw in the old show where really just Cylon cloning experiments.
Boomers Lips by chromedome	Jun 29th, 2008 10:50:38 PM
we'll stand ready to explain it to you after you have watched it four times and still don't get it insulting Grace Park in a BSG TB--how stupid is THAT?
The ending revealed by jbs0209	Jun 29th, 2008 11:06:43 PM
The camera pulls back to reveal that the entire RDM series is the dream of an autistic kid who was watching the 70s BSG on TV.
Milking a dead Cylon. by Mostholy	Jun 29th, 2008 11:17:15 PM
This will take place in mid-sharkjumping, I presume.
Adama's ladder... by MisterE	Jun 29th, 2008 11:19:06 PM
The camera pulls back to reveal that everything that's happened post season one finale was imagined by Bill Adama as he lay dying in a pool of his own blood.
SciFi executives call this: by SG7	Jun 29th, 2008 11:41:12 PM
Operation OMG! After BSG We Have Nothing Worth Watching!
I said "I kid! I kid!" by Shan	Jun 30th, 2008 12:58:32 AM
Obviously it was a joke! The setup was obvious. Mind you, Grace Park's acting is usually fine but she's not very good at acting out any emotional extremes like the classic example in Downloaded, when it comes out as really "off". runs away
(she's sometimes not good at acting emotional extremes) by Shan	Jun 30th, 2008 01:00:04 AM
sometimes I mean ...
Yes Razor was fantastic, so say we all, save for tools by Stormwatcher	Jun 30th, 2008 01:06:01 AM
Who for some reason don't like good tv. Seriously, how can you not like Razor? And Kendra whatever was a great character, I would watch that actress again in something.
BSG: A Very Battlestar Christmas by pokadoo	Jun 30th, 2008 03:31:04 AM
"Gods Bless Us, So Say We All"
Would that something be the original Life on Mars US Pilot? by Shan	Jun 30th, 2008 05:35:09 AM
She (the actress who played Kendra) was in that too.
you guys won me over by ghost_matt	Jun 30th, 2008 10:36:13 AM
Yesterday I went to Best Buy and bought the first season of BSG, having not seen any episodes, only hearing a lot of people say it's the best show on right now besides Lost. I watched the miniseries last night and it's awesome.
chrth by NoHubris	Jun 30th, 2008 12:53:53 PM
Go ahead and re-post your theories. Who knows, if RDM and company haven't written the scripts yet, maybe one or more of them will show up in the movies by chance.
BSGTV Movies by NoHubris	Jun 30th, 2008 01:02:17 PM
I like Chromedome's idea from a prior TB with respect to a movie about the Cylon home world. For what it's worth, I'd also like to see: -4,000 years ago story of the 13th Tribe's journey to Earth and Kobol prior to the 12 colonies. -Starbuck's visit to Earth before her return -A story about the man/woman behind the curtain controlling the In-Heads -The Cylon civil war -Some cool space battles -More on who the Final Five really are
I wonder if that means... by skiprat1	Jun 30th, 2008 01:57:22 PM
if they're all done shooting the series finale before they shoot these movies, are they going to be fill in the gaps/explain what stuff means stories, or will they be stand-alone episodes?
ghost_matt by secretcylon	Jun 30th, 2008 01:58:05 PM
Way to go. Welcome to the fold. The miniseries rules!
Explaining the Script by _Maltheus_	Jun 30th, 2008 03:52:40 PM
That's not a good sign. The last time RDM had to explain his ideas to people we ended up with Tigh humming All Along the Watchtower because of the mystical connection between all life that causes different cultures to come up with that song independently of each other. No shit, that was how he explained it to the guy who did the score. And that's when I knew RDM totally lost it. It's ok, I still love him for DS9 (despite the cheesy trekishness of it). Razor was ok though. It was certainly better than anything in S4 and most of S3. It was disposable, but watchable. I might look forward more to the movies than S5.
re: ghost_matt by _Maltheus_	Jun 30th, 2008 03:58:45 PM
Good luck. The only shows that get consistent love here are The Wire and Dexter. Every other show gets the love/hate treatment, it's just that the lovers are far more vocal than the haters.
If that's the in-show explanation by bellwether	Jun 30th, 2008 04:09:59 PM
for All Along the Watchtower I'm going to be sorely disappointed. I've been assuming it's because it's set far in our future and they (or at least the final five) are the descendants of an earlier cycle of human-cylon hybrids, so they've got some sort of genetic memory of previous events. Mystical connection between all life? Godammit... wanders off muttering
Quote on All Along the Watchtower by _Maltheus_	Jun 30th, 2008 04:22:26 PM
This is the exact quote from the blog of BSG's music composer Bear McCreary: "I happened to catch Ron Moore in the hallway at Universal and, in a brief conversation, got everything I needed to know. I learned that the idea was not that Bob Dylan necessarily exists in the characters’ universe, but that an artist on one of the colonies may have recorded a song with the exact same melody and lyrics. Perhaps this unknown performer and Dylan pulled inspiration from a common, ethereal source. Therefore, I was told to make no musical references to any “Earthly” versions, Hendrix, Dylan or any others. The arrangement needed to sound like a pop song that belonged in the Galactica universe, not our own." Source: http://tinyurl.com/6lcbax
Do an origin movie where the colonials.. by Banditmania	Jun 30th, 2008 06:18:29 PM
...leave Earth and populate the other 12 planets.
Movie Idea by MizzouStud	Jul 1st, 2008 10:42:25 AM
I'd like it if they re-did season 4 in movie format so that it could be watchable in an enjoyable manner.
re: Watchtower explanation by shran	Jul 2nd, 2008 01:40:55 AM
A little perspective. Do you really think RDM would be telling Bear McCreary crucial plot points about a storyline or that he just wanted Bear to score something that didn't sound like Hendrix or Dylan? Seeing how Bear apparently keeps a secret like most people's 10 year old sister. And Lance4431, I wish Grace Park had done 6. That would have been better than Playboy.
Alessandra Toreson by hebitudinous	Jul 2nd, 2008 04:08:16 PM
I read somewhere that in addition to Stolz being cast as Old Man Adama, they also cast his daughter. GOOGLE IF YOU DARE -- the script suggests that the first Cylon is cast in her image, which of course suggests the identity of the last remaining Cylon. Damn my eyes!!!
hebitudinous by NoHubris	Jul 2nd, 2008 04:16:37 PM
When CAPRICA says the skinjobs are NOT created by the Cylons but by Old Man Adama, that does change the BSG story at its roots.
Hey, Huberto!! by chromedome	Jul 2nd, 2008 08:26:21 PM
sucks waiting, don't it?

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