Battlestar Galactica On SciFi Channel

[Starhawk]

Either that or it's the splat factor....let's face it you can get a lot more blood out of your average bullet wound then you ever get with bLaster wounds....hmmm any other oppinions? I know I've gone off topic but since all the "Warrior" weapons on the new BSG are slug throwers I guess I can squeek by.

I've seen a viper making a strafing run with lasers but I've also seen lots of missiles being shot around...I wonder which will be the dominant factor in the new BSG.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Starhawk:
Either that or it's the splat factor....let's face it you can get a lot more blood out of your average bullet wound then you ever get with bLaster wounds....hmmm any other oppinions?

Now see, that may have been a selling point at one time. People got shot, and just fell down. So you could claim it wasn't real violence.

I remember, I musta been maybe 4,5 or 6 years old. Some TV show had some lady get shot in some standard cop drama of the early '70's. She fell. And I asked the grownups questions:

"She got shot?"
"Yes"
"Why isn't there any blood?"
"She's wearing a red sweater"
"Oh. Is she OK"
"Sure, they'll just take the bullet out, simple operation, she'll be back on her feet in no time"

I actually believed that was the case in a shooting for a couple more years.

But hey, don't blame my parents, the tv show did't have her yell or bleed -- they wanted people to believe she was going to be fine. What a world.

And I don't know what I'm complaining about, the world then or the world now.

[ October 08, 2003, 16:03: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Starhawk]

Heh I always get a kick out of movies and shows where there is no blood at all when someone is shot....Especially when they are supposed to be shot with a fully automatic weapon.

A lot of people get away now adays with the no blood by either having the people wear thick red colored clothing or black cloths, although if they do that I at least like to see an impact,you know fabric flies a bit that sort of thing.

[zen.]

I can at least understand the need for kinetic weapons. I was watching a recent Enterprise episode (Rajiin) where some enemy troops boarded the ship. The crew were trying to repel boarders but apparently the guys were wearing some type of armor that was impervious or at least absorbed all the laser fire. I thought that if they had some good ole fashioned slugthrowers, those boarders would be seriously ventilated. And of course in traditional Trek fashion, no one had helmets on; but I won't go there.

zen

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Starhawk:
A lot of people get away now adays with the no blood by either having the people wear thick red colored clothing or black cloths, although if they do that I at least like to see an impact,you know fabric flies a bit that sort of thing.

Oh yeah. I was just clicking around when I paused on the famous TV show (that I'd never seen before) "LA Law", and *BLAM*, the shoulder of Susan Dey's grey trendy suit opened up in a little red burst. And I said to myself "Those @$$holes just shot Laurie Partridge!"

[gregebowman]

Even though they made Starbuck a female, I'm going to watch the show. I doubt if it will be as good as the original, but at least it will have a modern plotline instead of the plotlines they were using in the 70's. And yes, I was around the for the original prime-time viewings of the orignal series. I was 14 or 15 when BG came out. But I still plan on buying the DVD set when it comes out in a couple of weeks. It's not quite like having Star Wars on a weekly basis, but for the late 1970's, it was just about all we had except for Buck Rogers (I didn't become a Dr Who fan until much later, as I couldn't catch all of the episodes in order in my area). I hope Olmos can partially fill Lorne Greene's shoes, but that would be a hard slot to fill. Hopefully he'll do a decent job of it.

[Starhawk]

I just hope they use good old earth expresions instead of stuff like Centon (how long is that anyway it seems to always be changing). Hade's Hole as an expression? We don't go around saying oh Hell's Hole why would they say their people's equivalent.

YAREN I'm not evne going into how funny that sounds for completely immature reasons.

As for that enterprise ep "Rajjin" I think it wasn't necessarily that their armor was all that effective but I remember that everyone seems to be using stun all the time....I'd have set it to kill. And the big thing about that ep was I don't know if the five good guys that got hit died or what? I mean did the aliens use stun too?

And for a matter of fact if they were wearing laser proof body armor they would have worn kevlar armor if the enterprise crew used slugthrowers .

[Erax]

I think Olmos will be just as good as Lorne Greene was, but different. This won't be the character you remember from the 70s, but probably a tougher, harsher Version.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Erax:
I think Olmos will be just as good as Lorne Greene was, but different. This won't be the character you remember from the 70s, but probably a tougher, harsher Version.

I can live with that. Like I think I mentioned earlier, no one can replace Lorne Greene as Adama. That image of Pa Cartwright leading the BG will always be seared into the minds of anyone whoever saw the show. So he'll have his work cut out for him to revise the character. I can't wait for it to come out. Does anyone know the date yet? I don't get to watch the Sci-Fi channel like I want to.

[mac5732]

Its either November or December, I thought more towards December, they have been showing excerpts of the new show on the Sci Fi channel, seen some cylon warships but not what the cylons themselves look like... should be interesting to see if its as good as the original was

just some ideas Mac