REbooting Battlestar Galatica. Again.

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**reds8n**

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All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. Because literally, that’s what they’re doing, they’re rebooting Battlestar Galactica again.

Deadline reports that NBC Universal has tapped Mr. Robot’s Sam Esmail to headline a reboot of the beloved sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica for its newly unveiled streaming service. Which is called Peacock.

Yes, really.

Anyway, so far not much is known about the reboot, other than Esmail’s involvement and that it’s now happening. NBC Universal has a long history with the series—about the last remnants of humanity on the run from a sinister, overwhelmingly powerful race of robots called the Cylons—of course, having produced Glen A. Larson’s original in 1978, which ran for just one season, and then produced Ronald D. Moore’s beloved reboot, which aired on Syfy from 2004 to 2009.

But I guess, in this age of streaming wars, every company around looking to make their own platform is returning to past successes in the hopes of making it new again for streaming. In the sci-fi realm Disney has Star Wars, CBS of course has Star Trek, Apple now has Jason Momoa. And now, NBC has Battlestar again.
Peacock is set to launch in the U.S. in April 2020. We’ll bring you more on the Battlestar Galactica as we learn it.

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.. what a time to be alive eh ?

**Voss**

Maybe it will be good this time, and not an extended rape fetish, punctuated with creepy relationships that would be embarrassingly melodramatic for teens.

**Tyranid Horde**

Consider me interested, I enjoyed the reboot quite a bit.

**jhe90**

Umm...ok. ok hold my judgement. The remake was solid, and unlike voyager showed how desperate, how battle worn and simple things like the hull pockmarkered with nuke hits and atmosphere burns to the faded paint on the ships decks.

**Formosa**

Voss wrote:
Maybe it will be good this time, and not an extended rape fetish, punctuated with creepy relationships that would be embarrassingly melodramatic for teens.

um.... what??? where are you getting all that from... bar the melodrama..... thats true

**Overread**

Can't they just make something new. The last Battlestar didn't really feel like Battlestar to me save for the names and the ship design (which I notice they were only faithful for on the human ships).

Formosa there were quite a lot of sex-threads running through the last Battlestar. Heck Baltar spends most of the season with a skimpy hot woman stuck in his head sorta kinda. Meanwhile there's quite a few sex-scenes very early on (ok quite a few might be one). I think it was a mature sexual tone that was very at odds with the original series.

Honestly I prefer fresh takes on themes rather than reboots. Because these days most of the reboots are a fresh take just slaved to a former name and set of concepts that can often feel hamfisted into the series; or it can feel like it should evolve one way, but has to aim toward a specific goal predefined by the original material.

**Vaktathi**

If they just wanna redo the last couple seasons of SciFi's BSG, I'll be satisfied. That ending was...atrocious, and the slinking off into metaphysical questions instead of focusing on robots and spaceships really killed my enjoyment. The random shock stuff like killing main characters and brining them back with no real plan didn't help.

**Easy E**

This story buried the lede!

Another subscription streaming service!

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

It is the cabalization of streaming..... has humanity learned nothing!

**Vaktathi**

Easy E wrote:
This story buried the lede!

Another subscription streaming service!

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

It is the cabalization of streaming..... has humanity learned nothing!

Bittorrent has always served as the solution to this particular problem. I suspect the big studios will eventually relearn this lesson.

**BobtheInquisitor**

I liked a couple seasons of the reboot, but it became so bad later on that I can't go back and rematch it. I hope this new one is a bit less grimderp, with characters that aren't all pathetic jerks.

**Overread**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I liked a couple seasons of the reboot, but it became so bad later on that I can't go back and rematch it. I hope this new one is a bit less grimderp, with characters that aren't all pathetic jerks.

I never made it all that far; but yeah there seems to be a fantasy/sci-fi fetish at present with making everyone REALLY grimedark. Nice up front then grimdark behind or in the background - it makes one wish for few more Miles O Brians in fantasy/scifi. Regular normal people who are not evil/nuts/bitter about the whole world.

**jhe90**

Overread wrote:
BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I liked a couple seasons of the reboot, but it became so bad later on that I can't go back and rematch it. I hope this new one is a bit less grimderp, with characters that aren't all pathetic jerks.

I never made it all that far; but yeah there seems to be a fantasy/sci-fi fetish at present with making everyone REALLY grimedark. Nice up front then grimdark behind or in the background - it makes one wish for few more Miles O Brians in fantasy/scifi. Regular normal people who are not evil/nuts/bitter about the whole world.

May go too far one way bit it's better than the super happy Janeway's and so who barely are effected by the situation there in, and seem more intent on science than making it home.

The early pre seven of nine serris can get a tad annoying.

**Turnip Jedi**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I liked a couple seasons of the reboot, but it became so bad later on that I can't go back and rematch it. I hope this new one is a bit less grimderp, with characters that aren't all pathetic jerks.

yep, it declined rather fast past s2 or 3, yet refused to die, should have ended at the nuked out Earth rather than its fall into ideas fished out the 'boxwellox ideas I didnt get to inflict on DS9' folder

**jhe90**

Turnip Jedi wrote:
BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I liked a couple seasons of the reboot, but it became so bad later on that I can't go back and rematch it. I hope this new one is a bit less grimderp, with characters that aren't all pathetic jerks.

yep, it declined rather fast past s2 or 3, yet refused to die, should have ended at the nuked out Earth rather than its fall into ideas fished out the 'boxwellox ideas I didnt get to inflict on DS9' folder

Some of the parts round Baltar, the criminal terrorist, and the whole government Vs military etc where pretty good.

The speech of pissed off Lara roslin threatening to use her own eye teeth to get the guy was memorable.

**Mr Morden**

Really loved the orignal series and remake at different times in my life.

Caprica was however a great disapointment.

Intersted to see what they do this time.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

The first reboot suffered due to the writer’s strike, hence the somewhat confuddled intro and conclusion to the whole ‘angels’ thing.

Still one of my favourites though.

**Sterling191**

Per Esmail on twitter this series will be set within the Moore BSG-verse.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Interesting.

**BobtheInquisitor**

Sterling191 wrote:
Per Esmail on twitter this series will be set within the Moore BSG-verse.

In that case, pass.

**gorgon**

Sterling191 wrote:
Per Esmail on twitter this series will be set within the Moore BSG-verse.

Fantastic.

**Frazzled**

Only if its the original Cylon War. Else its been done before and concluded.

**jhe90**

Frazzled wrote:
Only if its the original Cylon War. Else its been done before and concluded.

There was a serris. I think blood and chrome.

**Ahtman**

They can reboot it all they want I'm not giving up my Mk I Viper.

**Sterling191**

jhe90 wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Only if its the original Cylon War. Else its been done before and concluded.

There was a serris. I think blood and chrome.

It was a series of shorts. There's plenty of room in the first war for more.

**LordofHats**

It would be nice to watch I guess.

But feth all these networks and their streaming services. Not interested.

**Yodhrin**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Sterling191 wrote:
Per Esmail on twitter this series will be set within the Moore BSG-verse.

In that case, pass.

Same. Literally the only potential value this could have had was to do a modernised version of the concept that didn't devolve into vacuous pseudophilosophy and Judeo-Christian pandering. MooreBSG was decent when it was doing mil-sci-fi and political intrigues, it's a shame it couldn't just stick to that rather than sniffing its own farts so hard it vanished up its own backside. If this will be in that same version of the IP, no ta.

**AduroT**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The first reboot suffered due to the writer’s strike, hence the somewhat confuddled intro and conclusion to the whole ‘angels’ thing.

Still one of my favourites though.

That whole Hey, here’s the identities of the final five! Want to know more? New episodes in fifteen months! was a crime against humanity.

**Riquende**

Christ, this boring nonsense again... and yet nobody wants to greenlight the Buck Rogers reboot!

Maybe because there isn't an actress alive that could do justice to Princess Ardala?

**SeanDrake**

Riquende wrote:
Christ, this boring nonsense again... and yet nobody wants to greenlight the Buck Rogers reboot!

Maybe because there isn't an actress alive that could do justice to Princess Ardala?

Also it was gak, you may as well just do Flash Gordon rather than the knock off.

**Overread**

Stop giving them ideas!! Leave the 80-90s alone!!

I'd rather see Blaze Bob than Flash Gordon. Even if its a total rip-off at least it would be free to develop its own identity and themes rather than slave itself half way between and then awkwardly try to force things in like getting Brian Blessed shouting "Gordon's Alive" etc..

and Buck Rogers was cool!