Battlestar Galactica (original series)
Nov. 30th, 2009 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coyotegothAlthough I've been a fan of Battlestar Galactica since the show started in 1978, and owned both the Marvel comics adaptation and the novelization, I'd somehow never, despite umpteen attempts, seen the pilot all the way through. I'd always, no matter how I'd schedule things, come in at exactly the same point at which I first started watching in 1978: Starbuck and Boomer getting drafted by Apollo to help check for solium leaks, with the threat of lending them out to Beta Company. (Can't think why I didn't watch from the beginning, back in 1978 when it originally aired; dim memories of coming home late from a friend's house, and yelling "What time is it?") Finally, my apartment mate, out of the blue, mentioned yesterday afternoon that he had the pilot on videotape: would I like to...? I was half convinced that the tape would glitch, and take me back to the solium leak scene, but no: after thirty years' wait, I was finally seeing it, straight from the beginning.
-Geez, the opening narration is by the guy who did both the voice of Imperious Leader and Count Iblis? I have a bad feeling about this...
-Huh, I'd always thought that the opening theme was by John Williams, but no: Stu Phillips, doing a damn good imitation of Williams' style.
-Wow, could those opening credits that zoom straight at the camera and go out of focus be a little more 70s in their execution? I thought not.
-Zak! I'd forgotten about Zak *sigh*.
- Wow, Dirk Benedict really does have All the Charm Ever; on his own TV-scale terms, he's the equivalent of Cary Grant (only more loveable rogue, with less polish.)
-Lew Ayres! Casting Ayres as the President of the Council of the Twelve who refuses to call an alert was pointed casting on someone's part.
-Hey, is that one of the old ships from Silent Running in the fleet? (Also, a nice gag: a label on one ship reading "COLONIAL MOVERS: WE MOVE ANYWHERE")
...and then we're back to the solium leak scene, and thence to the casino with the two-faced women and the insect thingies; the Galactica Circle of Life is now complete.
(Hey, Baltar- how'd you talk your way out of that one?)
-Geez, the opening narration is by the guy who did both the voice of Imperious Leader and Count Iblis? I have a bad feeling about this...
-Huh, I'd always thought that the opening theme was by John Williams, but no: Stu Phillips, doing a damn good imitation of Williams' style.
-Wow, could those opening credits that zoom straight at the camera and go out of focus be a little more 70s in their execution? I thought not.
-Zak! I'd forgotten about Zak *sigh*.
- Wow, Dirk Benedict really does have All the Charm Ever; on his own TV-scale terms, he's the equivalent of Cary Grant (only more loveable rogue, with less polish.)
-Lew Ayres! Casting Ayres as the President of the Council of the Twelve who refuses to call an alert was pointed casting on someone's part.
-Hey, is that one of the old ships from Silent Running in the fleet? (Also, a nice gag: a label on one ship reading "COLONIAL MOVERS: WE MOVE ANYWHERE")
...and then we're back to the solium leak scene, and thence to the casino with the two-faced women and the insect thingies; the Galactica Circle of Life is now complete.
(Hey, Baltar- how'd you talk your way out of that one?)
