Battlestar Galactica Meets Planet of the Apes
By stephanie - Monday, June 30th, 2008
I had one of those lazy Sundays where I just got caught up on Battlestar Galactica…from season three right into season four. There’s something to be said for watching the whole lot at once – you aren’t constantly waiting for those incessant cliffhangers.
And how about that ending, eh? Well, I sure didn’t expect the kind of happy earth reception we had for the original series, where the kids got to play a baseball game with their super jumping skills thanks to the gravity differential. No, this earth was a bit darker.
I was wondering, actually, when they would place our earth in the BSG timeline. Would it be in our early history or in our future? Obviously, the writers chose our future. I think the only thing that could have possibly improved on BSG’s mid-season finale would have been if we got to see a shot of the Statue of Liberty buried in the sand, with a bunch of clothed apes coming out to meet the crowd.
Then Dr. Zaius (the ape) could greet Dr. Gaius (Baltar) and we’d find out that the apes were actually cylon-ape hybrids all along. Or something like that.
July 1st, 2008 at 1:16 am
Onto the re imagining of Galactica 1980???