Serenity is in Battlestar Galactica! by Malak

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Serenity is in Battlestar Galactica!

POSTED BY: MALAK
UPDATED: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:01
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Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:40 AM

I was watching the mini-series DVD and saw a familiar sight. It's near the beginning just after they first show Caprica. The camera is looking out a window and panning down, if you pause it there is the unmistakable design that is Serenity. (Not the first ship you see, just jump forward slowly and you'll see it.) I don't know if that was just a design the 3D effects had in their computer or what, but that’s still kind of cool. Either that, or I just really have Firefly on my mind and am seeing things.

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Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:14 AM

MALAK

Oops. Guess I should check other's post before I start shooting off. Didn't realize some else already pointed it out.

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Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:48 AM

REEQUEEN

Don't worry about it - I wanted to comment on "Gattlestar Balatica" as I used to call it when, y'know, the original movie came out and I was an obnoxious fangirl (Dirk Benedict sent me, what can I say?). My son (18) forced me to watch the miniseries on SF this evening. Last night. I have insomnia, so my sense of what day it is is screwed.

Anyway.

It was really good! Amazingly so, given that I couldn't sit through half an hour of that other recent SF production, Earthsea. Also given that all the Mormon subtext of the first movie and series drove me up a wall after I was old enough to understand subtext (13). Yes, we saw the Firefly. I don't quite understand why it was in there, contextually speaking, but yay, Firefly!

I love that the Cylons are no longer chrome rejects from Forbidden Planet, but I miss the original Cassiopeia. Of course, the whole legal prostitute as priestess thing has been done again, more recently, and better.

"You mean they have the internet on computers now?" Homer

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Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:49 AM

BADGERSHAT

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Originally posted by ReeQueen:

... I couldn't sit through half an hour of that other recent SF production, Earthsea.

I actualy thought it was decent, although beared little resemblence to the books...

I watched part of the re-airing of the new Battlestar mini the othernigt, and saw the Firefly ship from the corner of my eye.

I'm noticing that the mini series has a lot of camera-style characteristics in common with Firefly--sweeping pans that go in and out of focus, not always centering exactly on the main part of the scene, etc.

--Jefé The Hat

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Thursday, January 13, 2005 8:25 AM

SNIPER

I also enjoyed Earthsea, but I think that I like Battlestar Galactica more, mainly because I like SciFi a lot more than fantasy.

Has anyone seen the new series? Have they spotted Serenity anywhere in there?

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Thursday, January 13, 2005 8:27 AM

SNIPER

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Originally posted by BadgersHat:
I'm noticing that the mini series has a lot of camera-style characteristics in common with Firefly--sweeping pans that go in and out of focus, not always centering exactly on the main part of the scene, etc.

That's because Zoic did the effects, which also did Firefly's work. They're extremely good at what they do, and they're also working on the effects for a Lost in Space Remake.

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Thursday, January 13, 2005 8:59 AM

REEQUEEN

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...they're also working on the effects for a Lost in Space Remake.

What? Another one?

What I couldn't abide about Earthsea - it wasn't only the fact that the miniseries had little to do with the books (and didn't Urusula LeGuin go on about it....

), but the fact that the acting reeked to high heaven. The only character I was interested in, that of the chubby friend, I saw way too little of.

I'm not a big fan of LeGuin, even though I've read the Earthsea books more than once. I think her writing is humourless and pedantic, and Terry Practhett does the whole thing much, much, better - both with humour and vivid, living, detail. However, I did expect some form of, well, plot and character development in the miniseries, and voila, there was none. (Not that that makes people who did like it bad people, I fully understand mine is probably the minority opinion).

It made me antsy, and I had to leave. It was almost as bad as watching the DVDs of V, The Series, we'd borrowed from our library. Ew. (And I like Marc Singer, the Beastmaster)

.

It may be time for me to try and collect the Conan, The Barbarian movies (yes, including Red Sonja), just to bring back some form of balance to my life. Ah, memories....Ahnuld back on steroids, James Earl Jones as a giant snake....."Do you wanna live forever?" I luurrrrhhhhvvved the books; I'm a big fan of the Martian series as well. Someone should really do those....

Well, that was much more of a post drift than I had anticipated....

"You mean they have the internet on computers now?" Homer

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Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:01 PM

RAT

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Originally posted by ReeQueen:
the fact that the acting reeked to high heaven.

Only the guy who played the dad.

-Ratboy

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