ATTN JMS: It could have been great
Brian Shuler
SciFi a week or two ago. It occured to me that this could have been an
incredible story line with the right person. Who better than the Great
Maker?
Any chance we can burn the Galatica 1980 tapes and have a repeat shot at
the original concept with JMS at the helm?
Jms at B5
>the original concept with JMS at the helm?
I'd sooner stick an ice pick in my ear.
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Dwight Williams
Point taken. Better to leave it to Glen Larson and Richard Hatch to
argue over who gets to do the remake(assuming the magazine rumours are
accurate...wish I could recall which magazine, though...)
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(Jms at B5) wrote:
>>Any chance we can burn the Galactica 1980 tapes and have a repeat shot at
>>the original concept with JMS at the helm?
>
> I'd sooner stick an ice pick in my ear.
<chuckle> Understood. I really enjoyed "Battlestar Galactica" back then
(and detested G:80), but it needed a dire amount of work done on it even
at the best of times... I definitely recommend leaving the revival
attempts to the people who deserve all the pain, Glen Larson and/or
Richard Hatch. :-) This has been Hatch's meaning of life for years
(though, judging from his books, he's a fairly awful writer), so he's
welcome to it; I have little interest in his view of what BG should be,
because his view is that he should be commanding officer, though the old
series didn't indicate that Apollo was up to it... give me a break.
I think that JMS already went through immense stress just getting B5 off
the ground. To give him a BG revival as well would be cruel and unusual
punishment. <evil grin>
The Nuclear Marine
itching to stop. Oh wait, you meant all the way in? Ouch.
Jms at B5 wrote:
>
> >Any chance we can burn the Galactica 1980 tapes and have a repeat shot at
> >the original concept with JMS at the helm?
>
> I'd sooner stick an ice pick in my ear.
>
> jms
>
Not that you'd produce an update of Galatica, but what did you think of
the series as a whole (sans G1980 of course).
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djl...@magic.mv.com
>Point taken. Better to leave it to Glen Larson and Richard Hatch to
>argue over who gets to do the remake(assuming the magazine rumours are
>accurate...wish I could recall which magazine, though...)
Well, having seen Larson's press releases (and prehensile website
concerning the project) and then having seen Hatch's presentations at
DragonCon (1999) in Atlanta, I have to say that I hope Hatch "wins".
What I saw in that series oh-so-long-ago was something with promise
that had some flaws in it that, for some reason, I could more easily
overlook (like writers not knowing the difference between a solar
system and a galaxy) because there was plot developement. Later on,
it seemed to me that it was an embryonic form of the 'arc story' that
jms got out so VERY well in B-5.
Larson seems like he's trying to mine old B-5 nostalgia for a buck -
with the guy who did Wing Commander to give eye candy and blow things
up.
Hatch has heart. I saw the trailer he made with his own money and the
crowd in Atlanta gave him a standing ovation. It's a story about
people and conflict - not computer graphics.
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