Doctor Clu's Dissertations

That's a reasonable explanation.

 

Now somebody needs to explain "Galactica 1980."

Now somebody needs to explain "Galactica 1980."

 

I'm guessing a certain quantity of drugs were involved.

On 6/3/2019 at 9:52 AM, jaybird3rd said:

That's a reasonable explanation.

 

Now somebody needs to explain "Galactica 1980."

 

So what do you do when the fans scream for a show to continue, but to do so you slash the budget in half?   Well Star Trek season 3 was in the same boat, and in their case most if not all the actors and actresses stayed on, and through some good stories carried things on for another season.

 

And Battlestar Galactica (1978) was not so lucky.   Same scenario, the fans screaming for a show to come back.   It was green lit, and like Star Trek had half the budget.   Set on Earth to save money.   Pushed into a family friendly time slot, so limitations on how much violence could be shown in an hour.   So the original cast was mostly Lorne Green-Adama (who reportedly was unpaid, but he was just enjoying Galactica so he stayed on) and Herb Jefferson-Boomer.   Richard Hatch-Apollo and Dirk Benedict-Starbuck have said repeatedly at cons "We saw the script and said ... nope!   This does not look as good."

 

So new actors were cast for new characters Troy and Dillan and the stories are fun enough.   The brief ten episode arc before the beloved "Return of Starbuck" series ending story, well, G'80 has a fairly complete story, at least I thought so.  Colonials find Earth, establish careful and limited contact with those on Earth, and make an mutual alliance with a farm on Earth for the Colony after their agro ships are destroyed by Cylons.   Doesn't hold a candle to first season of Battlestar Galactica, but a fun sci-fi story with Battlestar trappings regardless.