Re: This time, I\'m rootin\' for the Cylons <g>
I don't think a new
Galactica series is "doubtful" at all, since the overnight ratings for the first half were reportedly pretty good. (Around a 2.3 if memory serves.)
Galactica is owned by Universal, which owns Sci-Fi. If the ratings can be sustained they are more than good enough to support a series and keep ad revenues up for Sci-Fi, and from Universal's perspective they also get all the current revenue from any international sales plus future syndication and home video money. (All the things they
wouldn't get with something like a
Rangers series, owned by a competing network.) So I suspect there is going to be a
lot of interest in having a new
B5 continue.
And
of course a pilot does not resolve every plot thread. Complaining that it is "incomplete" is like complaining that the
Voyager pilot didn't end with the ship making it back to Federation space. (On second thought that
would have been a better outcome, in that it would have spared us seven years of the show, but that's another thread.
)
Recoil:
Of course Talia being the mole wasn't thought of from "day one" since Talia wasn't part of the story from day one. But that there
was a mole was part of the plot from day one, as were numerous other elements of the series. They just weren't
visible because we didn't know what was coming later. Who knows how much foreshadowing was in the
Galactica pilot?
The mini-series (really a 4 hour movie)
did tell a complete and coherent story: How an obsolete ship left over from a war won long ago became the "last, best hope" of the Human race after the "defeated" enemy unexpectedly struck back. The fact that this opens up
another story doesn't mean the first one is not valid. There's nothing wrong with a story concentrating on part of a larger event or tapestry. Even
Babylon 5 told only a tiny part of the long story of The Shadow Wars and the rise of the Younger Races.
And am I the only one who thinks that revelation of the Cylon mole was a little
too obvious for them to have meant it? If this thing goes to series I would not be surprised to find out that she
isn't the mole and that something else entirely is going on there. I think Moore is a better writer than what that shot suggests and I think he has learned a
lot from JMS and
B5.
I will admit that the presence of Boxy makes me a litte nervous. Maybe he can die tragically in an early episode.
Short of that I at least hope that nobody gives him a cute robotic dog and that the new producers avoid the trap of making all the "alien" words slight variants of English ones. (Much as I hated that little cyber-pooch I think I hated the word "daggit" even more.)
Regards,
Joe
