Xref: lugnet.com lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto:10013 Newsgroups: lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto Path: lugnet.com!lugnet From: "Steven Weiser" X-Real-Life-Name: Steven D. Weiser Subject: Re: Woohoo!! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Nntp-Gateway: http://www.lugnet.com/news/post/ Organization: Michlug_ltc Message-ID: X-Member-Id: 1477 References: X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: lugnet.com Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:27:30 GMT X-Http-Remote-Addr: 63.115.171.18 Lines: 39 In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote: > In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steven D. Weiser wrote: > > > >> Oh yeah, don't forget about the new Battlestar Galactica. It premiers here in >> USA on the Scifi channel on Monday December 8 at 9PM. Yes, I will give it a >> chance. >> >> Steven Weiser > > BG is what got me into my teen years--that and Erin Grey ;) > > For '79 and Glen A. Larson, it was a very good show. It didn't fall into Star > Trek traps like body posessions every other ep, and inconsistent time travels, > and one week the sensors can detect the differnces between vulcans and humans, > and the next ep can't detect the difference between a person and a bacteria... > > But I digress... > > More than that, I have basic cable up here in Canada--maybe I'll look into > getting the Space channel--that is, if they carry the new BG :) > > Dave K Yummmmmmmm, Erin Grey. I loved the original BSG. I also have that complete series on DVD. A little known fact is that the original theatrical release was never played here in the states back in 1978. I went to Windsor to see it. I was 16 years old at the time. I forget the name of the theater. Here in the sates it was chopped up into 3 seperate pilot episodes for TV. The Scifi channel just ran an hour long behind the scenes preview last Wednesday. It really does look like it could be a ......... Hold on! I think I'll reserve judgement until I actually watch it. Steven Weiser