Watching the finale of BSG and I'm seeing more than a few elements of what I think a live action Robotech should look like - including the Daedalus
Manoeuvre.
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BSG and Robotech - Spoilers
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Posts: 271 (March 20, 2009 06:15 PM) 2nd Lieutenant |
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Posts: 1 (May 13, 2009 06:08 PM) |
If this is so, I will be very excited to watch this. I thought it was well done and the special effects were out standing.
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1st Lieutenant
Posts: 280 (May 14, 2009 04:12 PM) 2nd Lieutenant |
We can hope.
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Admiral
Posts: 1432 (May 15, 2009 04:27 PM) |
Details for those of us who don't watch BSG!
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Posts: 2 (May 17, 2009 10:18 PM) |
Jefffar - Yes we can. I love it when the Galactica smashes into the colony and the battle that commenced is how i see the battle over earth with Dolza fleet
and the UEDF. Very intense and in your face.
CavScout - It is well worth watching the last episode for the battle sense. I think it is on Hulu. |
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1st Lieutenant
Posts: 281 (May 20, 2009 07:33 AM) 2nd Lieutenant |
CavScout - the Galactica performs a rough equivalent to the Deadalus Manoeuvre to get infantry teams aboard a hostile ship.
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Major
Posts: 772 (May 20, 2009 01:58 PM) Commander |
Jefffar wrote: Eh, it was more of a "let's ram the ship and then get stuck" maneuver. Followed by "hey, everyone coincidentally ends up in just the right spot for the 'big reveal' of the Opera House." Tied together with, "uh, guys? Where are all the Cylons in this supposed colony?" The final battle was seriously bad, IMO. But, then by that point, the Macrossyness of BSG had gone overboard, so I might be biased. Lame battle was more than made up for in the final 30+ minutes though, even with the depressing conclusions that must be drawn about the Colonials. I'd rather see them emulate the earlier BSG stuff. The rescue on New Caprica was gorgeous. ~Pap.
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2nd Lieutenant
Posts: 160 (July 12, 2009 05:38 PM) 3rd Lieutenant |
I've always wondered if nBSG ripped any stuff from Robotech. For instance, the BSG's cannons look somewhat like Destroids. They seem to be able to move
quite independently, and their guns look like arms. I'm wondering if that ramming scene in the attack on the Colony Ship was ripped from the Daedalus
maneuver. If they ever show that in a live-action Robotech movie, people will say that the Daedalus maneuver was ripped from nBSG.
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Major
Posts: 776 (July 14, 2009 02:34 PM) Commander |
It's quite clear that there are similarities between Macross and BSG. I don't know enough about the original BSG series to say whether one informed
the other or if it was just some happy coincidence. With the new show, there are some definite parallels between the two.
By the end of Season 4, I was wondering why HGUSA wasn't screaming about idea theft: everything they could cover in a Macross movie had, by that point, already been covered by BSG. All BSG was lacking were transforming robots and, for all intents and purposes, it would've been Macross. ~Pap.
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Posts: 2184 (July 14, 2009 04:26 PM) |
Heck, one could make the arguement that new BSG did what Macek intended for the resolution of Robotech - the classic, and almost universally reviled,
"Adam & Eve/Ancestors of Humanity" meme. In editorials, that meme was considered by the editors of both Analog & Asimov's SF magazines to
be the worst possible SF story meme, as nearly everyone who did one, thought they were being original, while doing the most overdone one in the.history of SF.
Maybe 1 in 10,000 of these is even of READABLE quality, let alone publishable.
Frankly, BSG's ending didn't make the grade - and in fact, had serious continuity issues from things like fleet ships named for WWI battles; if they had included even a time travel element, it might have workable, but they chose not even to do that.... Stan Bundy sbundy@kih.net ICQ: Basara (2878324) Xfire: basara549
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