XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   atropos@mac.com wrote:   
   > mvp@web1.calweb.com (Mike Van Pelt) wrote:   
   >> atropos@mac.com wrote:   
      
   >> >BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (1978) - Premiere episode. I haven't watched this   
   >> >in more than 30 years. It's amazing how much of it makes no sense at   
   >> >all, yet didn't seem to register at the time.   
   >>   
   >> Oh, yeah.  The only reason I kept watching was that it was the   
   >> only vaguely skiffish thing on TV at the time.  Some episodes   
   >> were better than others (I really wanted to know where they were   
   >> going with Count Iblis) but I finally bailed in disgust when they   
   >> revealed that the whole rag-tag fleet had been going sub-light   
   >> the whole show; only the Galactica itself could "go lightspeed."   
   >>   
   >> >The Cylons somehow managed to utterly destroy 12 entire planets in about   
   >> >a half hour with just a handful of fighters that did nothing but make   
   >> >strafing runs on the surface, literally shooting at individual people.   
   >>   
   >> Yeah, one of the many brain-dead things about this series.   
   >   
   >I remember one episode where they had to send the main characters down   
   >to a frozen planet to take out some huge gun that could vaporize the   
   >Galactica in one shot.   
   >   
   >Even as a kid, I remember being like, "Well, why don't they just avoid   
   >that planet and go somewhere *else*?" It's not like the gun was mobile.   
   >It was literally built into the side of a mountain.   
   >   
   >Even if there was some reason they had to pass right by that planet,   
   >they could go over it, or under it, or wait for it to rotate around so   
   >that the gun was on the other side of the planet pointing in the other   
   >direction.   
   >   
   >When an 8-year-old is picking apart your sci-fi, you know that you've   
   >pretty much abandoned the 'sci' part of it altogether.   
   >   
   >Still, the show does have one superlative going for it: Even to this   
   >day, it has the best main title theme song of just about any TV show I   
   >can think of, and the scores to its individual episodes were pretty   
   >good, too.   
      
   If memory serves, that was a ripoff, err, homage to FORCE TEN FROM NAVARONE.   
      
      
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