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Katee Sackhoff Watches Battlestar Galactica for the FIRST Time Runtime = 1 hour 5 minutes.


Garth L. Getgen

By Charles Gray (Cgray45) on Monday, March 02, 2026 - 01:39 am: Edit

I still think the Day the Earth Stood STill is one of the greats because...humanity isn't presented as any super special people--we're that bunch of kids down in the canyon who get drunk and tear things up, but now we're about to get driver's licenses so the local sheriff comes by to remind us that those games don't play in the big city, and if we try to import our idiocy...there will be consequences.

And then to just drive it home, he turns off the power. Oh, not to emergency phones, hospitals, planes in the air...but everything else, showing that somehow he could detect, all over the world, what power was needed for phones hospitals, and planes in the air. It still is to me, the best example, far beyond ray guns, of a "you are truly out of your league, people." moment.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Tuesday, March 03, 2026 - 03:04 pm: Edit

The Original movie, Yes. The remake was deplorable.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Tuesday, March 03, 2026 - 05:43 pm: Edit

Sadly, many remakes are.

Too many producers look at sequels as a money making opportunity, not a chance to make something new or special.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, March 15, 2026 - 01:48 am: Edit

Found something very interesting on YouTube…


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Ms6TkbKzM&t=1250s

Some kind of pieces part of a larger story about a guy crashing on Mars, no contact with Earth, trying to survive. Seems to be really great AI with some goofy glitches. The girl’s hair hangs out of her space suit at one point.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, May 07, 2026 - 04:38 am: Edit

Rumors are roaring through Star Wars fandom of a new plan by Disney. (This could be somebody's idea of a cruel joke, a trial balloon, a penciled-in plan, a false flag, or the real thing.)

Episodes 7, 8, and 9 will be shuffled off to an alternate reality. No great loss as these are hated by fans and don't even rate in the top 10 star wars movies.

We go back to the scene where the girl jedi was in the wreckage of Death Star 2 and saw a bunch of mirrors and her reflection looked different in some of them. We go through a different looking glass and end up in a new 7 with the original characters from 4-5-6 (new actors due to ages of the originals) and "Palpatine somehow survived."

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Thursday, May 07, 2026 - 12:16 pm: Edit

If Kathy Kennedy is part of it, then I waste my time or money to see it. She cannot be trusted anymore.

Now, if George Lucas signs-on as an Executive Producer.......

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Thursday, May 07, 2026 - 02:57 pm: Edit

Give up on Palpatine, already!

Part of the failure of the 7/8/9 movies is their insistence on rehashing old themes/characters (e.g., 7 is a bad rehash of 4, 8 felt a bit like 5). That, and completely lackluster new characters. Rey was written as an emotional lump on a log. Kylo was a whiny *** ****, more petulant child than super villain.

Honestly, they'd be better off putting the Zhan books onto the big screen. Adm. Thrawn would be a great villain.

The Star Wars comics where Luke turns to (and then leaves) the Dark Side would also be a great path to take.

I remain... skeptical...

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, May 07, 2026 - 03:36 pm: Edit

Kennedy retired and is no longer part of Star Wars.

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Thursday, May 07, 2026 - 04:02 pm: Edit

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Give up on Palpatine, already!

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By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Thursday, May 07, 2026 - 04:08 pm: Edit

If I were of cynical disposition (Heaven Forfend!), I might be tempted to say that Hollywood keeps rebooting or reimagining older, established intellectual properties because that it is easier for talentless hacks, especially those with "agendas", rather than developing something new.

Not that I'm saying that, you understand! It's only the sort of thing I might be tempted to say, if I were of cynical disposition.

Heaven Forfend!

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Thursday, May 07, 2026 - 05:27 pm: Edit

I can honestly admit to having pretty much dumped Star Wars with the appearance of Rey

By Eric Snyder (Esnyder) on Friday, May 08, 2026 - 09:34 am: Edit

In my opinion, Rogue One was the shining gem to come out of the Disney purchase. I am genuinely happy it was made, and it is a great compliment to episode IV. Solo was fine, inoffensive.

By Matthew Lawson (Mglawson) on Friday, May 08, 2026 - 09:45 am: Edit

I don't mind Rey or Poe from the sequels, they were just set in crappy stories. They could remake all new ones using the World Between Worlds they've introduced.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, May 11, 2026 - 03:04 pm: Edit

I am sorry, but rogue one stank. Stormtroopers were still incompetent. The rebels launched a major attack with no planning because the girl attacked the base single handed (notionally). The only thing it had going for it was that some of the villains appeared competent, unlike the fleet commander in the last couple of films.

By A David Merritt (Adm) on Monday, May 11, 2026 - 03:42 pm: Edit

I can confidently state that Rogue One was the best of the Disney movies.

Not that, that is a high bar.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, May 11, 2026 - 05:39 pm: Edit

Wasn’t Rogue One set at the same point in the time line as Episode IV? (The new Hope, movie debuted 1977,) with all the original characters, Luke, Leia, Han, The droids and obiwan?

If so, then the Storm Troopers should be exactly as worthless as they were in both New Hope and Rogue One.

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Monday, May 11, 2026 - 09:00 pm: Edit

Removing the recent Star wars productions from the main timeline at this point is pointless. The damage to the brand is done. They managed to alienate fans of the originals and now all they are going to do is upset the fans who enjoy the new stuff.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 - 10:33 am: Edit

What made Rogue 1 good, IMO, was that 1) the good guys (mostly) had their ***** handed to them and 2) The heroes were self-sacrificial in a good way.

I agree with SPP that the military aspects were... well... written by Hollywood types that have no freaking idea about how a real military works, but from a storytelling perspective it was otherwise well-written.

Vader, at the end, was iconic. Dude was seriously scary as he mowed through a hallway of defenders hardly without stopping, and the cinematography of that scene and the actor in the suit really conveyed menace and power.

Good stories require the villains to show their power and to win, most of the time in fact, until the hero gets help. In Rogue 1, the villains very nearly win everything, with the plans to the DS just barely getting out to setup Episode IV, and even then at the cost of pretty much nearly all the lives of the good guy characters.

Really good storytelling. Seriously. I can forgive some incompetence of the storm troopers and of the writing involving military matters.

The rest of the new movies are, frankly, boring rehashes that try way too hard to make "memorable" characters for marketing. The only new movies (other than Rogue 1) that came close to not sucking was "Solo."

As for the reboot... It's Disney. They're going to milk Star Wars for all its worth. Frankly, with all the flops that Disney has been putting out in recent years I'm hoping upper management is going to pull their collective heads out of their.... sandboxes.... and put out good stories for a change.

I'm also holding out hope they'll hire competent military advisors for the story writing phase... AND LISTEN TO THEM... but I will admit that it's a dim hope.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 - 04:25 pm: Edit

I beg to differ on the Stormtroopers always being incompetent. The troopers who boarded Princess Leia's Counselor ship were an example of what we should have expected. We saw a shadow of them in the Landing on the Ice planet. An impression that a squad of Storm Troopers could easily deal with a platoon of rebels in a standup fight. We even had the impression that the empire was winning in the Tie Fighter versus X-wing and Y-wing fight over the Death Star. But every other appearance of the empire's forces, drek. Well, except for their appearance on Tatooine. I have never forgotten the line "Load your weapons!" when they went to stop the Millennium Falcon from taking off. They were well trained professional soldiers who were patrolling the civilian populace with unloaded weapons to prevent accidental discharges.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Friday, June 12, 2026 - 07:12 pm: Edit

I wasn't sure whether to put this in the "sci-fi" or "games" category: but I was curious as to whether or not anyone here had heard of a in-development game called Exodus, or of any of the tie-in material being cooked up for this setting?

The game itself is due for release in 2027, and has been compared to the Mass Effect game series, both in terms of its space-opera setting and its apparent game mechanics. Notably, one of the non-player characters in the game is to be voiced by Matthew McConaughey.

In terms of tie-in material, there's a set of two novels: The Archimedes Engine, which was released over a year ago; and The Helium Sea, due out later this month.

Beyond this, there's a tabletop RPG sourcebook line.

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I mention it since the premise seems to be quite an interesting one.

The focus of the lore is on the Omega Centauri cluster, which was the target of waves of ark ships sent out from the Sol system.

In this setting, however, there are no means of faster-than-light travel or communication. Interstellar travel involves ships being sent at high relativistic speeds, with the associated time dilation effects being factored in.

So, in the time gap between the first ark ship arrivals in the Centauri Cluster sending signals back to Sol, and this signal triggering the next waves of ark ships to arrive thereafter, the descendants of the first generation had long since evolved into a series of "post-human" species known collectively as the Celestials.

What's more, one of these Celestial factions had placed a series of objects known as the Gates of Heaven across the known Cluster. These devices greatly simplify intra-Cluster travel, but still do not break the speed of light, and still place those passing through them under time dilation effects.

So, both in lore and in game terms, there's a real sense of difference between what happens to those who stay aboard a given ship travelling from one part of the Cluster to another, and those (to include their friends or family members) who get left behind...

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So, does this setting seem like an interesting one to take a closer look at?

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Saturday, June 13, 2026 - 08:16 am: Edit

The time dilation part reminds me of Forever War. Sounds like the novels have an interesting premise.

--Mike

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Saturday, June 13, 2026 - 02:50 pm: Edit

Interesting meme showed up....

If a flying saucer landed and offered to take you into space for several weeks, though when you got back the earth time would have progressed 15 years...

What would your response be....

By Kevin Howard (Jarawara) on Saturday, June 13, 2026 - 03:03 pm: Edit

Can I go up for a couple of years?

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Saturday, June 13, 2026 - 07:25 pm: Edit

My response, only if I find earth too screwed up when I get back, you let me stay on the ship....