Galactica 1980: The most horrid science fiction show ever?

northrundicandus · Post by **northrundicandus** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:50 am

I recently upgraded my cable service to include an HD DVR, and have since discovered the joy of recording all these shows I've always wanted to watch but never bothered to due their odd time slots and the fact that I haven't owned an operational VCR in many, many moons.

One of the shows I scheduled to copy was Galactica 1980, as I only saw a few of these when I was a kid, and they are not available in any kind of video release that I am aware of.

OH MY GOD. THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE SHITTIEST SHOW EVER!

The three part pilot was campy and barely tolerable, so I had little hope for the rest of the ten episode run. And then I beheld the horror of the episode called The Super Scouts. I must have lost three dice of Sanity Points watching this gibberish. I was so traumatized by this travesty I had to see what I could find on the 'Net about this filmed nightmare:

http://www.blast.net/hart/BG80.htm

http://www.blast.net/hart/SuperScoutsFanReview.htm

Their review is far better than anything I could ever pen.

If only the phone rang after the show and the other end said in a raspy voice, "Seven Days!", then I would know there was hope for my shattered psyche. What ever you do, acquiesce not to this nostalgia. Your very soul is at risk!

Mythmere · Post by **Mythmere** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:14 am

There's a real danger in going back and actually re-encountering something you thought was cool as a kid. I, for one, had no taste at all.

I'll never watch an episode of the old Galactica - I don't want to spoil the way I remember it, and I know it must have actually really sucked. Man, it was great through kid's eyes, though.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:48 am

Original Galactica: one of the best science fiction shows ever made.

Galactica 1980: a travesty for which people should have beene executed.

It was truly horrible. North isn't exaggerating at all.

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:49 am

Mythmere wrote:There's a real danger in going back and actually re-encountering something you thought was cool as a kid. I, for one, had no taste at all.

I'll never watch an episode of the old Galactica - I don't want to spoil the way I remember it, and I know it must have actually really sucked. Man, it was great through kid's eyes, though.

I think you'd still enjoy OGalactica (

), Myth, it was a Shakespearean masterpeice compared to G-tard '80 (

) Whereas OG was campy, albeit at times indeliberately, the stories were usually compelling and involving. G-tard was always a waste of pixels.

Edit: grammer, grammer, grammer

Mythmere · Post by **Mythmere** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:12 am

That's good to know - I thought we were talking about the original.

John Stark · Post by **John Stark** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:38 am

The original Battlestar Galactica was good, and did something that Star Trek didn't do; keeping an "adventurous," spontaneous feel to the episodes while maintaining the "epic" story line introduced in the first episode/TV movie.

In other words, the original Battlestar Galactica was able to drift off into episodes where the characters got into all kinds of side adventures and plots that were neat in feel and not always tied to the "epic struggle" going on, while maintaining the overall theme that the cylons had destroyed their world and were chasing them across the galaxy. Star Trek never felt like it had that kind of epic theme to me, or very rarely did (the federation versus the klingons or romulans maybe, but that was more of a political/military status quo than an "epic struggle" IMO).

In Battlestar Galactica the "epic struggle" drove the characters into adventures, whereas in Star Trek it always felt alot more random to me, like Kirk and crew were simply galavanting about the galaxy for the heck of it, heh. Perhaps its the difference between episodes contained with an "epic struggle" versus episodes that are more short-story in feel, that aren't necessarily connnected by some overall theme. I do like both shows though.

There were certainly some thing that made me wince in regards to some of the things in the original Battlestar Galactica, but overall I liked it (and still do). I agree that Galactica 1980 was very bad though.

francisca · Post by **francisca** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:58 pm

SemajTheSilent wrote:Original Galactica: one of the best science fiction shows ever made.

Galactica 1980: a travesty for which people should have beene executed.

It was truly horrible. North isn't exaggerating at all.

QFT.

Galactica 80 is a steaming pile of dogshit.

JamesEightBitStar · Post by **JamesEightBitStar** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:55 am

Hmmm.

I first got into Galactica via the movie version of the pilot episodes, sometime in the late 1990s. Later I recorded a marathon off Sci-Fi and continued to love every minute of it.

The only Galactica 1980 I've ever seen is the movie "Conquest of the Earth" (pilot episode plus "Night the Cylons Landed" compiled into a movie). I thought it was a fun romp, but fairly un-Galactica-ish and I can see where longtime, hardcore fans of OG would bail out on it.

JDJarvis · Post by **JDJarvis** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:04 am

Videoman was worse. But only slightly so.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:09 am

Has anyone here not read Dirk Benedict's rant about NuGalactica...entitled "Lost in Castration" ?

http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home ... .php?nid=5

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:34 am

SemajTheSilent wrote:Has anyone here not read Dirk Benedict's rant about NuGalactica...entitled "Lost in Castration" ?

http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home ... .php?nid=5

Read it some time ago. It's a bit weird, especially his rant against Katee Sackhoff. Dude. Get over it. His big gripe seems to be that the men on the show are weak and the women strong. Oh yeah, the President and Starbuck really have their stuff together. NOT!

For the record. I enjoy both shows. Except for sharing the same name and same general premise, these may as well be two different shows, and it's like trying to compare oranges and grapefruits.

thedungeondelver · Post by **thedungeondelver** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:47 am

TheRedPriest wrote:
SemajTheSilent wrote:Has anyone here not read Dirk Benedict's rant about NuGalactica...entitled "Lost in Castration" ?

http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home ... .php?nid=5
Read it some time ago. It's a bit weird, especially his rant against Katee Sackhoff. Dude. Get over it. His big gripe seems to be that the men on the show are weak and the women strong. Oh yeah, the President and Starbuck really have their stuff together. NOT!

For the record. I enjoy both shows. Except for sharing the same name and same general premise, these may as well be two different shows, and it's like trying to compare oranges and grapefruits.

It's like liking AD&D and "Basic" D&D .

Voorhas · Post by **Voorhas** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:45 pm

I was very into the original series as a kid...but drew the line at Galactica 1980. I remember an episode that featured spacekids forming a softball team...and leaping around the diamond, thanks to Earth's weaker gravitational pull.

I couldn't even buy into it as a ten-year-old.

Matthew · Post by **Matthew** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:44 am

Galactica 1980 was indeed very, very poor.