Re: Re: Scifi
By: Nightfox to Gruj on Mon Jan 12 2026 13:46:15

My wife & I started watching the original BG recently. We're just a few episodes in, but we both feel like it's a bit hard to follow..

Really? What confused you?

I wonder if people generally felt that way when it came out, because there's only one season.

The main reasons were due to:
1) The show was constantly being pre-empted for one special or another, so
gaining an audience was difficult.
2) Cost (probably the main reason). Each episode cost about a million
bucks. It was the most expensive TV series to date (1978).

Granted, it wasn't perfect, but considering it was the '70s, producing a weekly space adventure show, without the use of CGI, is pretty impressive.
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Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: Mortar M. to Nightfox on Tue Jan 13 2026 12:12 am

My wife & I started watching the original BG recently. We're just a few
episodes in, but we both feel like it's a bit hard to follow..

Really? What confused you?

As I said, it just seems a bit hard to follow. One thing is that it seems to suddenly switch from one scene to another without a setup for context, so it has been a bit difficult to follow what all is going on. Also maybe the pacing is another thing..

Nightfox
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Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: Nightfox to Mortar M. on Tue Jan 13 2026 09:16:01

As I said, it just seems a bit hard to follow. One thing is that it seems to suddenly switch from one scene to another without a setup for context, so it has been a bit difficult to follow what all is going on. Also maybe the pacing is another thing..

I'm a long-time fan of the series and while it has some production issues, I've never had a problem flowwing the episodes. Couple Qs: Are you sure your watching the 1978 Battlestar Galactica and not Galactica: 1980, 'cause that show definitely had issues in those areas. If "Yes", are they unedited episodes (from DVD/streaming); episodes from TV tended to get chopped up to allow for more commercials.
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Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: Mortar M. to Nightfox on Tue Jan 13 2026 01:37 pm

I'm a long-time fan of the series and while it has some production issues, I've never had a problem flowwing the episodes. Couple Qs: Are you sure your watching the 1978 Battlestar Galactica and not Galactica: 1980,

Yes, I'm sure I'm watching the 1978 version. There's the one season with 24 episodes, right?

Nightfox
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Mortar M. wrote to Nightfox <=-

If "Yes", are they unedited episodes (from DVD/streaming); episodes
from TV tended to get chopped up to allow for more commercials.

I started watching Star Trek: The original series in reruns in the 70s
and 80s. Didn't realize how much was cut to make room for more
commercials until I saw the unedited episodes online!

There were a couple of examples where watching the original editions
made a lot more sense.

For example, in "What are little girls made of?", before Kirk is
duplicated, he mutters to himself the Vulcan slur that the
duplicate Kirk says to Spock, which tips Spock off that he's a
duplicate.

Hopefully that's not spoiler material to anyone - it's been 60 years!




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Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: Nightfox to Mortar M. on Tue Jan 13 2026 14:59:51

Yes, I'm sure I'm watching the 1978 version. There's the one season with 24 episodes, right?

That's the one.
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Re: Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar M. on Wed Jan 14 2026 06:56:54

For example, in "What are little girls made of?", before Kirk is duplicated, he mutters to himself the Vulcan slur that the duplicate Kirk says to Spock, which tips Spock off that he's aduplicate.

Good episode. Until then, I'd only seen Ted Cassidy playing Lurch on The Adams Family.

Hopefully that's not spoiler material to anyone - it's been 60 years!

Awww Maaaan! :(


(JK)
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