On 08/27/2020 7:39 PM xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
That's where I learned my Buck Rogers and by this standard, as pulpy as it was in ways, the TV series was a big letdown. This story was one of America dominated by 'Hans' (aka the Chinese... and that was quite a few decades back!) who had impervious airships, impervious cities, and disintegrators for offense and point defense.
Meanwhile, all that the successors to a smashed and depopulated America had left were a bunch of regional tribes (Susquehannas, Delawares, etc) that fought with one another and stayed away from the Han cities.
Rogers arrives, via a non-space time trip (cold sleep of a sort still applies), and knows a bit about 20th century conflict and starts working to help the tribes get together and find ways to engage the Hans despite their technological superiority.
It's a bit like a 2nd American Revolution story if you really want to think of it in such a way.
Warning: Hans are a bit of a nasty depiction of what are obviously future Chinese. Pulp works that this was emulating often made the 'evil oriental' a staple so this is in that vein. But the story as a revolution by pulling together low-tech tribes and getting them up to where they could take on super-science baddies was fun when I was younger.
When I saw the TV series.... let's just say Deering was much more dangerous in the books....
Original BSG wasn't bad. But it should NOT have had a successor.
Reboot BSG ought to have started doing meth while writing mid to late season 3 and then moving directly into fentanyl and moonshine highballs for season 4.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 9:20 PM Zane Healy < xxxxxx@avanthar.com> wrote:
On Aug 27, 2020, at 1:39 PM, Thomas RUX < xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:
The original was fun and I loved Dirk Benedict in just about everything he did (even the little known movie he was in where he played a 'Rambo' esque war veteran coming home to a harsh welcome). I liked Lorne Greene - his bearing and voice well portrayed a good leader character I think. And everyone loved Vipers, Raiders and the Galactica itself. Some of the disco moments and music do not improve the re-watching. And the episode with the devil (Iblis?) was a bit odd to my thinking. Did love the Eastern Alliance destroyers and the destroyer Captain they captured.
But let's talk about where that fell off the rails:
Battlestar Galactica 1980 anyone?
(Bleach for my minds-eye please!)Darn you I had deleted that one from my memory now I'm going to have forget all over again.
My wife is quite tolerant, we recently wrapped up 40th Anniversary celebrations of the original BSG. In the case of the original BSG itself, we watched all 24 episodes exactly 40 years after they were originally shown. In the case of Galactica: 1980, we were off by an hour on a couple episodes thanks to work. Galactica: 1980 was pretty much just as bad as I remembered. Our daughter refused to take part in all the episodes, but our two sons willingly watched the original show, and suffered through the 1980 episodes. I think the boys would have quite willingly given up on the 1980 series, promises of the final episode kept them going.
I’ve always found it interesting that Buck Rogers also suffered a horrid partial second season that made no sense. Though I wasn’t anywhere near as big of a fan of the Buck Rogers TV series as I am the original BSD. That’s in part due to being a huge fan of the original Buck Rogers comic strips.
Zane
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