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| | | (...) Its a model of the Battlestar Galactica, from the show of the same name - aired in 78-79, and then got canceled, due mostly to a seriously competative timeslot, combined with a really high cost-per-episode (estimates go from $750,000 to $1 (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Microfig Battlestar Galactica —Ryan Dennett
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| | | | | Guess that explains why I've never really heard of it before. I wasn't even born yet :) Ryan "Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego Master Yoda ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Microfig Battlestar Galactica —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) You don't think the cancellation had anything to do with the fact that the show was highly derivative, completely innane, and generally lame? (I can say these things, I used to *love* Battlestar Galactica) Steve (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Microfig Battlestar Galactica —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) Nope. At the time, the writing and acting was as good as anything else to come out the late 70's, but it does come across to a modern audience as fairly cheezy. On the other hand, by today's standards, everything written in the 70's is (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Microfig Battlestar Galactica —Tim McSweeney
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| | | | | (...) Actually Battlestar Galactica is being re-run in New Zealand at the moment as a "cult classic" The advertisement for it ran "For every great movie there is a cheesy TV rip-off" or something like that Tim (follow-up set to random group :) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Microfig Battlestar Galactica —Terry Keller
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| | | | (...) I liked it too - in the beginning. But as the series progressed, it gradually turned into "Dukes of Hazzard" in outer space. Or maybe Starsky and Hutch. At any rate, the plotlines became ludicrous. Written by hollywood hacks with no feel or (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Microfig Battlestar Galactica —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Yes, the first hour was very good. (...) Yes, I watched it avidly, but I was wincing most of the time. Well, I watched the first incarnation. I missed most of the second. Steve (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad)
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