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From: davest@daemon.UUCP (Dave Stewart)
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Subject: Re: a gauntlet accepted: fixes to 1999, Galactica
Message-ID: <894@daemon.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 19:50:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 19:50:43 1985
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Battlestar Galactica: Star Wars meets Prime Time.

In article <419@carina.noao.UUCP> parks@noao.UUCP (Jay Parks) writes:
>SECTION 3:  CattleCar Badactica  (Uh sorry)

>a: Have them get closer to earth.

	The eternal optimism of the network executive: We sure hope this
show catches on and gets renewed for lots of years so it doesn't make sense
to undermine the concept which motivates the characters (ie, they can't
find Earth, be wiped out, defeat the Cylons, etc).  This attitude prevales
until the show is canceled.  

>b: The nature of the villains should have been changed.

	It makes the good guys seem really good to make the bad guys seem
rather cardboard, inhuman monsters.  How simple to make them machines!
No need for messy things like character development - just gun 'em down.
An 80's (70's?) Ponderosa.  Also, the "two ragtag fleets" don't provide
enough certain peril for the colonists (underdog vs vast odds concept that
helped Star Wars).  What bothered me was that the undefended ships in the
colonial fleet never got blasted!

>c: Make the cylons aliens, for gosh sakes.

	Might have worked, but see above.  Good suggestions, but BG suffered
from being bridled with too many network formulas.
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