Pun Title intended
So, if a six year European and outlining areas ‘emergency’ can spawn seven decades worth of filmic interest, do you think stories based on incidents during 40 years of Galactica’ lifespan could sustain a few movie/direct to DVD via the medium of PayTV?
(obviously anykind of Bab5 style of crowbarring characters badly into recon stories is a no no)
I would love to see more Tv movies…
One thing I would love to see some years from now or maybe not even that far in the future is someone try to take on a sequel story.
While many if not the Hivemind itself will disagree I felt the ending of BSG was open for more.
I would completely agree. In fact I’d love to see how they adapt to their new home. I’d love to see the struggles of Baltar & Caprica Six. How Lee comes to terms with essentially being left behind. Adama coming to terms with everything. Tigh & Ellen…really who wouldn’t want to see that story continue? Helo, Athena & Hera, they were such a sweet unexpected story of love conquers all, I wanna know what happens. I want to know what happens after all the fear, stress & mystical crap stops & they have to relearn everything. What are these people like when they’re not running from one disaster to the next?
I would love to see stand alone movies about how some of the characters came to be in the fugitive fleet.
Tom Zarek - even beyond the comic
Billy’s story
Seelix - would be awesome…
you get the idea…
When I think “closed ending” I think H2G2. That’s a closed ending. There’s plenty of room for future direct-to-DVD releases a la Stargate. And if they’re of the same quality as the Stargate releases, I’ll watch/buy.
H2G2?
BSG felt pretty closed to me, in so far that, being 150,000 years in our past, all the characters eventually died (and, since Hera is mitochondrial Eve, who died as a relatively young woman, they probably didn’t last long in their new home). :rolleyes:
(Seriously, while I’m sure there are stories to be told there, I can’t imagine they’d be anywhere as interesting as the regular series. Maybe for a comics anthology, but I can’t see it as a TV or film project.)
I, for one, would love to see some First Cylon War stories. The Razor flashbacks just kind of wet my appetite and it would be cool to see stories of various battles in that long conflict, and not necessarily featuring Husker Adama either. There’s plenty of room there for an expanded cast of characters.
I’d also love to see the pre-history of BSG explored more. Maybe some stories set on Kobol or Earth (the real Earth, before this one). Something akin to what I’ve seen of the Final Five comic book on a video format would be pretty nice, I think.
That’s geek-speak for the Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HHGG, or H2G2).
Oh. Gotcha. I’ll have to rescind my geek privileges (I’ve only ever made it through the first book in that series).
Not everyone’s cup of tea (an appreciation of understated, non-Red Dwarfish British humour a must), but IMNSHO the first three are well worth a read, and the last two are all right if you’re a fan. The BBC TV series is dated and a little campy but quite good, the BBC radio series is fantastic, and the recent movie is a betrayal of Douglas Adams’s memory…
Funny thing: I LIKED the movie (Zooey Deschanel is one of my crushes. It helps that she traipses through a third of it in her underwear). It’s what led me to read the first book, which I found disappointing, even if sometimes amusing. I thought the movie tried and generally succeeded in bringing cohesion to an otherwise relatively lose collection of humorous musings on, well, life, the universe and everything. Mind you, it’s not a GREAT film, but it’s not bad either. The whole dolphin song and dance number at the beginning is worth it, if you ask me, and Douglas Adams wrote the script, no?
Thank you for saying it…
Strangely, Zooey Deschanel Actually looks like the description of Trillian in the first book. The girl they used on the BBC series was blonde.
Armando, you may actually like Douglas Adams other series more, “Dirk Gently’s Holistic detective agency”, and “long dark tea time of the soul.”
Also “Douglas Adams Starship Titanic” by Terry Jones is really good.
See, I liked the new movie, too. (And Zooey is a crush of mine, too, Armando, especially now that I’ll always think of her as Trillian. Wow.) It’s always been nigh impossible to shove the H2G2 story into a movie, but I think they did a pretty decent job of doing it. I kinda liked the ending.
Then again, I’m such a big H2G2 fan that I like pretty much any attempt to show me the universe on-screen. Hell, I’ll even watch the BBC show… 
Not gonna lie I enjoy her sister, Emily, more than Zooey.
No. I am a Zooey over Emily guy… Everytime.
Yeah? I’ll check those out. Thanks, THX. I just read Richard Dawkin’s The God Delusion and, strangely (actually, not so much since apparently they were good friends), he references Douglas Adams several times in that book.
It’s not that I didn’t LIKE H2G2 (is that correct usage?). It’s funny, but I just didn’t FEEL it as a novel. As a series of skits or vignettes of some kind, I could see it (the humor is very Rowan Atkinson-era/post-Monty Python BBC), but as a novel I just didn’t get it.
But…I’ll give the other series a try.
Blasphemy! I mean, she is cute and all, but Zooey…well, those eyes just make me melt.
IYKWIM
(Dude, isn’t that illegal? :o)
Yah, I’d love to see more about the First Cylon War and Kobol and the settling of “Earth” There are so many stories that can be told.
In theory, though, we could easily see some of the first war in Caprica. Right? I forget exactly how long it was supposed to the lasted, but it starts a few years after the events of the pilot if I’m not mistaken. So really, it’s just a matter of how condensed or expanded that interim duration is in TV time.
I think we found out in the “Larry” webisodes that it was twelve years long (since Adama apparently just managed to get in on the last battle.)