Did anyone watch it last night, the pilot?
I only watched to see how badly NBC would butcher it and was so displeased with the way that it was edited by NBC from the original Sci-Fi channels showing.
I wasn't to thrilled when I first heard about it and that Starbuck was going to be female. But I was actually very impressed with the remake. I just hope Sci-Fi doesn't can the series like they did with Farscape in the middle of a season.
The following are details deleted from the original airing, and since I have it recorded on my Tivo, I checked it out:
Adama "What do you hear Starbuck?"
Starbuck "Nothin but the rain"
Adama "Grab your gun and bring in the cat"
/sigh
I'm pretty sure there is more considering the original is 3 hours long and they had 45 minutes of commercials. So 45 minutes of scenes cut.
BTW, from what i've heard, the DVD you can buy from Sci-Fi has about 20 minutes of additional footage. Hmmmm...
I only watched to see how badly NBC would butcher it and was so displeased with the way that it was edited by NBC from the original Sci-Fi channels showing.
I wasn't to thrilled when I first heard about it and that Starbuck was going to be female. But I was actually very impressed with the remake. I just hope Sci-Fi doesn't can the series like they did with Farscape in the middle of a season.
The following are details deleted from the original airing, and since I have it recorded on my Tivo, I checked it out:
- the kissing sequence with Six & the officer aboard the space station at the beginning
- all references to the tinhead Cylons (from the picture of one of TOS machines the officer views to a full-scale Cylon replica & a Cylon basestar in the Space Museum)
- the walk through of the Galactica as Adama is going over his speech (anywhere from 4-5 minutes chopped right there)
- Roslin finding out she has cancer
- Roslin talking to Billy & then crying in the bathroom as their ship heads towards the Galactica
- the baby killing sequence *this was such an influencial scene to show how merciless the cylons were!*
- Billy getting lost aboard the Galactica
- a watered down version of Six's glowing spine (but they did show her back)
- Kara calling Lee a superior frackhead instead of superior [censored]
- Adama's speech
- The fried Cylon in Ragnar Anchorage implying that God no longer favors men and favors Cylons
- They cut out Tigh's "It's been twenty-something years" bit.
- They jumped straight from the "three days at best speed" to "Col. Tigh, please plot the jump."
- Left out Adama's "taking command of the fleet" part.
Adama "What do you hear Starbuck?"
Starbuck "Nothin but the rain"
Adama "Grab your gun and bring in the cat"
/sigh
I'm pretty sure there is more considering the original is 3 hours long and they had 45 minutes of commercials. So 45 minutes of scenes cut.
BTW, from what i've heard, the DVD you can buy from Sci-Fi has about 20 minutes of additional footage. Hmmmm...