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From: YourName@YourISP.com
On 2025-11-05 14:50:17 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
> Daniel wrote:
>> anim8rfsk writes:
>>> Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>> On 11/3/2025 10:59 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>> Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/3/2025 3:58 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>> Daniel wrote:
>>>>>>>> Your Name writes:
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-11-02 15:18:53 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
>>>>>>>>>> Your Name wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-11-02 06:35:48 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
>>>>>>>>>>>> The True Melissa wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> In article <878qgp8nqi.fsf@rpi3>, me@sc1f1dan.com says...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The mirror universe thread should've stayed where it started -
in TOS.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It was SO lame how they folded it into a routine place to go
like
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> getting milk at the corner store.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Trek always does this: It hints at SF, then turns
>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything mundane. Even the Borg turned out to be Just
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Like Us in the end.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Melissa
>>>>>>>>>>>> I absolutely hate origins that turn alien characters into just
normal
>>>>>>>>>>>> humans who got transformed from the silver surfer to the Daleks
to the
>>>>>>>>>>>> intolerant Galactose himself.
>>>>>>>>>>> There's always the opposite approach, where humans are brought to
Earth
>>>>>>>>>>> and other planets by aliens (Stargate would be one example). :-)
>>>>>>>>>> Stargate history has never made much sense. Apparently the first
>>>>>>>>>> iteration of humans came to earth from Pegasus and then were
completely
>>>>>>>>>> wiped out and then re-emerged on earth independently, which seems
>>>>>>>>>> unlikely, and then the goauld came here in unas form and started
>>>>>>>>>> culling slaves and spreading them across the galaxy?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Part of the reason is that there are actually two separate versions
of
>>>>>>>>> Stargate franchise - the movie version and the TV version. Even now
>>>>>>>>> there are two lots of plans for more in both versions, as well as a
>>>>>>>>> third reboot plan. Hopefully they all get binned. :-\
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There are similar issues with other franchises, such as Battlestar
>>>>>>>>> Galactica, Knight Rider, etc. thanks to the lazy idiots doing
"reboots".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It seems we are simpatico about the lack of creativity in modern
>>>>>>>> media.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Today's mantra is, reboot something that worked in past, change the
>>>>>>>> genders and races of the heroes because no one will notice, then
>>>>>>>> complain about the lack of audience when it fails. Forgetting the
>>>>>>>> notion that the audience being targeted don't wish to be the subject
of
>>>>>>>> pandering. Don't forget to kill off the heroes of the past and inject
a
>>>>>>>> purple haired woman to replace him.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> While I did enjoy the Galactica reboot, I was only slightly irked that
>>>>>>>> they changed Starbuck's sex. I would have loved the reboot if they
made
>>>>>>>> it less predictable. The secret was revealed on the pilot, iirc.
>>>>>>>> Haven't seen the show in two decades, so I could be wrong.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don’t think the secret about star dough was revealed until the
finale
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I remember there being hints during the final season but yes, we didn't
>>>>>> "know" until the finale.
>>>>>
>>>>> I still don’t know how the hell they couldn’t find the USB ports in
>>>>> their wrists during an autopsy
>>>>
>>>> Or the LED lights in their spines. ;)
>>>
>>> In a blaze of stupidity, which goes to show what a wretched program it
>>> was, they actually addressed that when the producers told the audience
>>> that the spines don’t actually glow and the other characters wouldn’t
>>> see it, but they just did it so the audience would know which Cylons
>>> were having orgasms.
>>>
>>> Of course, since everybody was a cylon, why did it possibly matter?
>>>
>>> Except for star dough. I guess she wasn’t as cylon was she. But nobody
>>> wanted her to have an orgasm anyway.
>>
>> Can you explain 'star dough?' Second time I have seen that reference in
>> this thread..
>
> The original series had Starbuck.
>
> The reboot series had Starbuck but made him a girl. Hence Stardoe.
>
> Spellcheck changes Stardoe into Star Dough. No matter how many times I
> change it back.
You're unlucky that it doesn't change it to 'sour dough' ... perhaps a
more fitting nickname for that actress / character. :-p
>> Oh, is there a good Battlestar Galactica newsgroup?
>
> Wouldn’t that require good Battlestar Galactica?
That would be the original version made the way tyhe person with the
creative talent to come up with the idea wanted it made ... as a "Star
Wars for TV" series. As opposed to the garbage reboot made by a
talentless moron who egotistically thought he knew how it 'should have
been made'. :-\
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