Post originally by Kester Pelagius at 2003-12-22 22:58:56
Converted from Phorums BB System

<<As for the new miniseries, the original script had all the "colonies" on one planet (Kobol itself, oddly enough), but that was changed later to make them all separate planets.>>

One wonders, with all these basic changes to the story/characters, what the status of the alledged Battlestar Galactica IP is. One further wonders if, perhaps, these changes weren't made to somehow challenge Larson's IP. . . certainly, if nothing else, they did not seem able to to grasp the subtle astro-mythological complexities the man used.


<<The change was done late enough that the final script is still muddled about the whole "12 planets/1 planet" thing, but according to Ron Moore, the finished version is supposed to be 12 separate planets.>>

Sadly, a whole lot more was muddled than just that. For instance, while it was nice to show interplanetary traffic (Ok, hint at it with a rescue mission) where exactly were any of these vessels? Where was Ragnar?

For that matter why is it that, since the entire military is patterened after modern Western earth naval forces, the only vessel that survived was one being mothballed to be turned into a museum? The U.S. alone has hundreds of vintage vessels in mothball. Hundreds more vintage in active naval service as part of the reserve fleet. It's just one more of those littel factoids that scream how very very little those involved seemd to truly know about actual military matters. Luckily BS is fantastical soft science fiction, so they can dodge the bullet of hard criticism by pointing out the fact this isn't based on reality, just mired in it's tropes.