BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #1 to Stores in July

Sooooo where's the sneak peak at the cover?

The sneak peek is at comics continuum. I think I saw the covers there, although the chick in the red dress that Cinescape showed earlier this week was much better. What a dress, although the girl looks like she should eat something!

Do you think Cinescape keeps posting BSG material so spiderr987 will come out of his hole for his usual copy & paste entries and start a raging debate?

There not really a debate, more of an endurance test to see just how long Spiderr987 can cut'n'paste before his hands get tired. I notice his reaction time has slowed lately... let's see some improvement there bub!

Agreed. If I have to read once more about how the show is "on life support", I'm going to scream.

The hysterical thing is he will keep posting it, the show will have say, a solid 5-7 year run, end, and he will post
"SEE I TOLD YOU SO! HAHAHAHAHAH!"

~slaps forehead~

Spider doesn't really start a "raging debate" so much as he just has a bit of a seizure and then vomits nonsense all over the floor.

Suggesting he starts a debate gives him way too much credit.

Glen Larson speaks out against SFC's molesting his BSG source material!

‘Battlestar Galactica’ returns
But fans of original are wary of remake


Updated: 1:15 p.m. ET Dec. 9, 2003

A few years ago, fans thought they’d get the continuation saga they’d clamored for when Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, the director-writer team behind “X-Men,” hooked up with original “Galactica” creator Glen Larson to develop a project at 20th Century Fox.

When that deal fell through, Universal TV chief David Kissinger brought in executive producer David Eick and Moore to rework the franchise for Sci Fi.

“We want the fans to embrace what we are doing,” says Sci Fi President Bonnie Hammer, “but if you produced now what was produced then, it would feel like old TV. We wanted to make it more relatable, even in terms of the stereotypes of characters.”
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“I understand they’re trying to do a modern version,” says Larson. “But change for the sake of change — it’s taking the title and exploiting it.”
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3660380

Apparently, SFC has an infamous record of molesting the source material of authors, against their wishes. BOYCOTT SCI FI CHANNEL!
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A Whitewashed Earthsea

How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books.
By Ursula K. Le Guin

Posted Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004, at 6:14 AM PT

On Tuesday night, the Sci Fi Channel aired its final installment of Legend of Earthsea, the miniseries based—loosely, as it turns out—on my Earthsea books. The books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, which were published more than 30 years ago, are about two young people finding out what their power, their freedom, and their responsibilities are. I don't know what the film is about. It's full of scenes from the story, arranged differently, in an entirely different plot, so that they make no sense. My protagonist is Ged, a boy with red-brown skin. In the film, he's a petulant white kid. Readers who've been wondering why I "let them change the story" may find some answers here.
When I sold the rights to Earthsea a few years ago, my contract gave me the standard status of "consultant"—which means whatever the producers want it to mean, almost always little or nothing. My agency could not improve this clause. But the purchasers talked as though they genuinely meant to respect the books and to ask for my input when planning the film. They said they had already secured Philippa Boyens (who co-wrote the scripts for The Lord of the Rings) as principal script writer. The script was, to me, all-important, so Boyens' presence was the key factor in my decision to sell this group the option to the film rights.

Months went by. By the time the producers got backing from the Sci Fi Channel for a miniseries—and another producer, Robert Halmi Sr., had come aboard—they had lost Boyens. That was a blow. But I had just seen Halmi's miniseries DreamKeeper, which had a stunning Native American cast, and I hoped that Halmi might include some of those great

in Earthsea.

http://www.slate.com/id/2111107

http://mboard.scifi.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1700088&an=0&page=4#1700088


http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~springob/bsgratings.html

Season one’s premiere "33" averaged US Nielsen Ratings of: 2.6

Season one’s Finale "Kobal's Last Gleaming: Part 2" averaged US Nielsen
Ratings of: 2.5

Season two’s premiere "Scattered" averaged US Nielsen Ratings:
2.6

Season two’s Finale "Pegasus" averaged US Nielsen Ratings:
2.0

Season 2.5's premiere "Resurrection Ship pt.1" averaged US Nielsen Ratings:
2.1

Season 2.5's finale "Lay Down Your Burdens: Part II" averaged US Nielsen
Ratings: 1.9
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Galactica miniseries average rating between parts 1 & 2: 3.5

Season 1

33/Water..................= 2.6 January 14, 2005
Bastille Day..............= 2.3 January 21, 2005
Act of Contrition.........= 2.5 January 28, 2005
You Can't Go Home Again...= 2.5 February 4, 2005
Litmus....................= 2.5 February 11, 2005
Six Degrees of Separation = 2.2 February 18, 2005
Flesh and Bone............= 2.5 February 25, 2005
Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down..= 2.1 March 4, 2005
The Hand of God...........= 2.2 March 11, 2005
Colonial Day..............= 2.3 March 18, 2005
Kobol's Last Gleaming pt.1= 2.2 March 25, 2005
Kobol's Last Gleaming pt.2= 2.5 April 1, 2005
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Average Ratings of........= 2.16

(If "33" and "Water" are concidered 2.6 each then the average is

2.19)

Season 2.0

Scattered.................= 2.6 July 15, 2005
Valley of Darkness........= 2.0 July 22, 2005 That’s a 23% plunge in one episode!
Fragged...................= 2.0 July 29, 2005
Resistance................= 1.9 August 5, 2005
The Farm..................= 2.0 August 12, 2005
Home pt.1.................= 2.1 August 19, 2005
Home pt.2.................= 2.1 August 26, 2005
The Final Cut.............= 2.0 September 9, 2005