Galactica fans,
Hey to you Sci-Fi nerds or regular tuner inner of this site, Today is going blow you all away for sure.....because if you all recall back at the beginning of this year I said I was eventually gonna compare a Sci-Fi saga way back in mid January. Still don't recall it in any way do ya?, well here is a sight hint as to what it is NOT! "A LONG TIME AGO, IN GALAXY FAR, FAR, AWAY...." nor is it this "WE'RE OFF TO OUTER SPACE TO SAVE MOTHER EARTH, FROM A EVIL RACE...." and for sure it's not "SPACE THE FINAL FRONTIER, THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE...." so from these famous openings of other science fiction classics you for sure know that whatever I'm speaking of is right around these series in when it aired originally. Yet many of you may still not recognize that this classic that I'm talking about came from the same fellow who in the mid nineteen eighties came up with a series with this
, rather sleek talking car to rival those two county boys who drove this
. His name is Glenn Larson and like Roddenberry who created the (BLUE TEXT) or even the fellow known as the (GREEN TEXT) Lucas, Glenn was wanting to make a science fiction piece more in line of the (RED ORANGE TEXT) anime called Star Blazers. The upcoming series would incorporate a feeling of Star Wars as well of exploration like Star Trek. The enemy was a race known as the Cylons a machine race built in part by a human known as Baltar, who hopes to free his own world out of the twelve colonies that plan to be taken over by the Cylons. In this version of BATTLESTAR GALATICA, which I have been trying to watch since Sunday, it was only because (of being so tired) I had to write about it now, here is what my DVD cover looks
like. Also because for the longest while I only had the new BSG series (more on that tomorrow), this one starred Loren Greene who starred in Bonanza as the father figure in that series well. Here he's Adama the main human in charge of the very last Colonies greatest space vessel known as Galactica
. What is really neat about this Galactica series was in how easily one could compare the heroes to the Star Wars characters in a way, but if you were to look at a Colonial viper from the series, here is one
, look if you will at the basic design and also think back to (Lucas design) of the small rebel planes known as X-wings
,you would think did Larson just pick up the models parts that (Lucas threw away) . I truly think not but you never know? The series was famous like (Star Trek) in that it was not only in exploration it had multicultural races in key positions on the ship. One part of this Galactica that harkens back to Star Blazers that I see is when they are trying avoid a group of Cylon raiders here what those looked like
in a energy field in the Madagon system on their way to planet Carillon reminds me of when (Wildstar) is trying to find out the length of a solar channel in a part of space known as the Octo star cluster, which has been holding the Yamato/Argo for three weeks time. Another thing about this series is the fellow who played the Starbuck character went on to play the character of "FACE" in Universal's THE A-TEAM. This had a a lot of other great people in it as well like future (Star Wars: visual supervisor John Dykstra) here as a model maker and future (Star Trek director Winrch Kolbe) at least I'm pretty sure that he was something on this feature but what I can't remember for the moment. It also had a major star before her greatest film roles Jane Seymour as colonialist Serina on a major world in the Galactica universe, of course a very unknown future musician named Rick Springfield played Adama's other son Zac. Yet in all honestly I have to say comparing this older version of Galactica is truly hard for me, since I only happen to have right now this pilot to base the whole of the older series on is rather unfair I'm thinking?
To Be Continued....
No comments:
Post a Comment