Frank Frazetta's1978 Battlestar Galactica Ads Are a Pulpy Treat

[Fearzone]

I'm not getting all the hate for Battlestar Galactica in this article. Maybe it wasn't the Love Boat or Fantasy Island, or whatever great late 70s television might be, but it was a perfectly fine show, that spawned a remake 20 years later.

 

[octafish]

I'm not getting all the hate for Battlestar Galactica in this article. Maybe it wasn't the Love Boat or Fantasy Island, or whatever great late 70s television might be, but it was a perfectly fine show, that spawned a remake 20 years later.

Indeed. That hate should be reserved for Gallactica 1980 and the Super Scouts. Well except for the final episode "The Return of Starbuck" which is an excellent return to form. Even it is basically ripping off either the novella Enemy Mine or Hell in the Pacific.

 

[LadyRhian]

Back in the early '80s, I owned a paperback novel that had on its cover the painting on the far left (the one with Starbuck, Apollo, and Athena crouching and back-to-back, with guns ready).

Speaking of the painting on the far left: It definitely looks like Athena (played by Maren Jensen) is buck-naked except for her belt, holster, and boots. I doubt an artist nowadays could get away with depicting a character (actress) incongruously "naked" like that in a major publication, particularly in an action scene with the other characters (both males) fully-clothed. It would be seen as sexist and even silly.

However, when I first saw that paperback novel cover, I didn't think there was anything about it that was incongruous. If anything, I thought it was awesome. Then again, I was only 13 or 14 years old, at the time.

Yes, they had about 5 or 6 Galactica novels, one was named "Lords of Kobol", and there was one that was a retelling of "Assault on Ice Station Zero" (I think that was the original series episode name), the one with the clones, or as the clone leader says, "We prefer the term Theta-Class Lifeforms."

And I was in California and went to Disneyland when they were filing the series. I remember passing a Cylon spaceship and the guide telling us that it was a prop in a new Science Fiction series that they were filming. The Spaceship was about 10 or 12 feet long, I think (hard to tell scale when it's on the ground). And I loved that series. I loved everything about it, even the made-up sport they played (Triad), and the original Baltar's aide, Lucifer, and his salutation "By Your Command".

 

[Krzysztof Wisniewski]

cool posters. I was exposed to one episode of the original series, a few from 1980 and the new series from the past decade. I actually like the new series better.... not so much because its better but just cause the story kept me addicted and litterly battles came in differnt forms: one episode it would be a terrorist attack, another a political fight, another an actual attack.


that being said when I saw the 1970's show I was impressed how real the actors tried to show that they just lost their whole civilization..... but I was more persuaded by the new series (the old one the "fleet" showed up after the earth was coquered..... kinda weird how Cylons attack the colonies and there still is 50,000 people on the planets and there is still all the ships left in tact to take them away)....But then again the new series showed how the cylons had some crazy plan (which albiet was much different in season 1 than it was in season 4 but thats besides the point) and occupied capirica rather than raid it.

 

[The Wooster]

I'll still like old school Battlestar Galactica better than the new pretentious bullshit one. At least the old one knew it was being derivative, and it gave me space battles.

Space battle. They only one. They just clipped it together differently each week.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I'll still like old school Battlestar Galactica better than the new pretentious bullshit one. At least the old one knew it was being derivative, and it gave me space battles.

Space battle. They only one. They just clipped it together differently each week.

True. However, I do remember at least one time where there was an attack on some of the transports that used different scenes of footage.

Does anyone here remember the BSG game that came out on the PS2 in 2003?