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Thanks Menbailee for the very well written and entertaining review.
Your input is greatly valued.
But I do have to take exception to you calling my interpretation of the devastation of the Colonies as "unintentionally callous".
While popcorn fare or not, BSG Second Coming is still a very dark movie about the holocaust of the Colonies of Man.
It is not light subject matter.
I honestly feel it would be a disservice not show the Fall of the Colonies considering the nature of the narrative.
With the removal of all the "Skin Jobs", the Cylons have no voice. No way to express their intentions or motivations.
The only way express their voice is through their actions. Brutal and cold as they may be.
Remember, Heroes are only judged great by how impossible the obstacles they must over come or how powerful their villains are.... and the stakes have never been higher than they are in this story, as mankind stands on the precipice of extinction. And I think it is important to hammer this fact home repeatedly, because there is no option for failure in this dark universe.
When I finally decided to do this edit, the first decision I made was to include the Colonies Fall from The Plan. As it really bothered me that the Fall was not shown in the original mini-series... only mentioned in reports on the Galactica bridge and on Colonial One... but this was soften by the fact that you have the Human Cylons continually explaining things and just being very menacing. Though the truth be told, the real reason the Fall was never shown in the mini-series was probably due to Budget and Time Restraints, the curse of most television series.
But now with this edit, I felt this oversight could be rectified.
As one of the cardinal rules I work by in Fan Editing, Don't TALK about it if you can SHOW it!;-)
As for the suggestion that the FALL does not fit with the tone of the classic series, I would argue that you may not be intimately familiar with the source material. As Classic BSG could be very dark and violent. The 3 hour pilot SAGA OF THE STARWORLD (which this edit is loosely modeled after) is exceptionally dark for a 70s Sci-Fi series. You see the horrific destruction of the Colonies, people starving and sick on freighters, and even the infamous "casino planet" is really a lure by the Ovions to capture them, encase them alive in cocoons to be later used as food! Very grim stuff.
In fact, the "overstated 70s score" used in the Fall of the Colonies scene, is the exact same music used in SAGA for the Cylon attack and Colonial Holocaust.
As for the Star Wars comparison, I don't think the two are alike in anyway. You are right, in SW seeing the civilians cowering in fear before being destroyed by the Death Star would not serve the story or audience. But this is not Star Wars. It is not trying to be Star Wars. As stated, this is still a much darker, more violent, more "real" universe than Star Wars even tries to be, especially the original trilogy. This a story of desperate survival.
Just because it is Popcorn Movie, doesn't mean it can't have some weight or substance to it.
Your input is greatly valued.
But I do have to take exception to you calling my interpretation of the devastation of the Colonies as "unintentionally callous".
While popcorn fare or not, BSG Second Coming is still a very dark movie about the holocaust of the Colonies of Man.
It is not light subject matter.
I honestly feel it would be a disservice not show the Fall of the Colonies considering the nature of the narrative.
With the removal of all the "Skin Jobs", the Cylons have no voice. No way to express their intentions or motivations.
The only way express their voice is through their actions. Brutal and cold as they may be.
Remember, Heroes are only judged great by how impossible the obstacles they must over come or how powerful their villains are.... and the stakes have never been higher than they are in this story, as mankind stands on the precipice of extinction. And I think it is important to hammer this fact home repeatedly, because there is no option for failure in this dark universe.
When I finally decided to do this edit, the first decision I made was to include the Colonies Fall from The Plan. As it really bothered me that the Fall was not shown in the original mini-series... only mentioned in reports on the Galactica bridge and on Colonial One... but this was soften by the fact that you have the Human Cylons continually explaining things and just being very menacing. Though the truth be told, the real reason the Fall was never shown in the mini-series was probably due to Budget and Time Restraints, the curse of most television series.
But now with this edit, I felt this oversight could be rectified.
As one of the cardinal rules I work by in Fan Editing, Don't TALK about it if you can SHOW it!;-)
As for the suggestion that the FALL does not fit with the tone of the classic series, I would argue that you may not be intimately familiar with the source material. As Classic BSG could be very dark and violent. The 3 hour pilot SAGA OF THE STARWORLD (which this edit is loosely modeled after) is exceptionally dark for a 70s Sci-Fi series. You see the horrific destruction of the Colonies, people starving and sick on freighters, and even the infamous "casino planet" is really a lure by the Ovions to capture them, encase them alive in cocoons to be later used as food! Very grim stuff.
In fact, the "overstated 70s score" used in the Fall of the Colonies scene, is the exact same music used in SAGA for the Cylon attack and Colonial Holocaust.
As for the Star Wars comparison, I don't think the two are alike in anyway. You are right, in SW seeing the civilians cowering in fear before being destroyed by the Death Star would not serve the story or audience. But this is not Star Wars. It is not trying to be Star Wars. As stated, this is still a much darker, more violent, more "real" universe than Star Wars even tries to be, especially the original trilogy. This a story of desperate survival.
Just because it is Popcorn Movie, doesn't mean it can't have some weight or substance to it.