Who's Psyched for Earthsea and Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi Channel?

[Beetwasher]

Man, I can't wait!

I hope they do a good job w/ Earthsea, haven't seen much about it except the commercials.

And I'm way excited they went ahead w/ the BG series! The miniseries was one of the most pleasant surprises on TV in a long time. It far exceeded my expectations!

[YankeyMCC]

1. I'm not familiar with Earthsea

I haven't read much Ursula K. Le Guin, I usually shy away from straight Fantasy. Although I almost always enjoy the short stories she has published in Asimov's. But I have never read Earthsea novels, and I probably will not watch the movie, not that I think it'll be bad (I have no idea) but I just wont make the investment in TV time.

When the BG miniseries was announced I liked a lot of what the producers said about what makes quality science fiction but I thought they were changing what BG was to much and should've just created their own universe.

However, I enjoyed the miniseries and while I still agree that they've changed what BG was fundamentally I thought it was good TV and I'm looking forward to watching the new series.

[CBGLuthier]

2. Humanoid Cylons?

No thanks, I will give it a pass. Give me shiny robots with ring modulated voices please. :-)

Don't know anything about EarthSea. I don't think much of the SF channel but maybe something good will sneak through.

[Enraged_Ape]

3. The shiny metal Cylons are still around...

and bigger and badder than ever. Even the old Cylons you know and love have made "cameo" appearances.

I was a huge fan of the original series, but upon seeing it with adult eyes I have to admit it hasn't aged well.

On the other hand, I was very pleasantly surprised by the new BG. It's kept so many of the great design elements from the first show while fixing things that obviously needed a refit (e.g., the Cylon Raiders, which are completely automated now and no longer require three combat-impaired robots to fly).

[CBGLuthier]

4. OK, I might give it a chance

It will mean breaking my oath to never watch another SF original because of their cancellation of Farscape.

Maybe I can justify it since they did throw a bone and I did watch the Farscape miniseries and I do sometimes watch a bit of Tripping the Rift.

But I still think they are kind of a sucky, everything that can be bad, skiffy type of SF channel. :-)

I mean those original movies they air on the weekends. Phew.

[NewHampshireDem]

5. I'd disagree ...

most of the crappy movies they show someone else made. I think their Dune movies were superior, and I enjoyed their version of "Riverworld."

[CBGLuthier]

7. True about a lot of them, but

I read an article a while back about how they have developed a formula and methodology to grind out their own original versions of these types of movies for about a million a piece.

I just am so tired of the evil alien, prehistoric, monster whatever that eats people and then gets killed in the end action movie dressed up as SF.

I don't expect high art but a little intelligence would go a long ways.

I only watched the first Dune movie. I absolutely despised the dialogue that the so-called writer put into those movies. Bad, bad, bad writing. And the plot changes were pretty insulting and stupid too. The effects looked good and that was about it.

I didn't watch Riverworld at all because I loved the books too much to see what those hacks would do. I did clue in that they had once again, americanized and dumbed it down.

I guess, when you get right down to it, I think 99% of what SFC does sucks. Farscape was a fluke and they killed it because it made their other shows look like the drivel they are.

[Chovexani]

6. Not me, they are both gonna totally suck ass

Battlestar Galactica is gonna suck because the miniseries sucked.

And Earthsea's gonna suck because they're combining books and fucking Kristen Kreuk is in it. That's all I need to know.

Stupid Farscape/MST3k-cancelling, craptastic movie making Sci-Fi channel.

[vinessa4freedom]

8. the Battlestar mini-series

really disappointed me. They blew off the originals and went for skin and sex. Totally pissed me off. Richard Hatch had a great layout for the new series but they decided cylon sex kittens who humped everyone before the destroying Caprica was the way to go.

Sorry, I'm a big fan of the originals.

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. Looking forward to Battlestar Galactica

the miniseries was excellent. I don't care for or about Earthsea though

[RevolutionaryActs]

10. I'm interested to see Earthsea,

I really have no clue if it will good or not though.