Talk:Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)

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Contents 1 Way More Information Required 2 Plot summary 3 Link to Mormonism 4 Huge cult following? 5 1978 timing of pilot

[edit] Way More Information Required

This article is sorely lacking. For a show as popular as this one was, there should at least be *some* mention of what it is about, what the overall plot is, who the characters are, etc. Sadly, I am not the person to write this information, since I have never seen the show. I hear it had robots called "Cylons" in it. Surely a fan knows more.

You can find just about everything you wanted to know - or not - here: http://www.kobol.com/archives/BG-FAQ.html

I would like to see some definitive proof that the pilot episode netted 65 million viewers.

I agree: surely a basic plotline can be written by someone familiar with the show. DJ Clayworth 20:10, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I deleted the reference to the actor who portrays adama in the new series because it was not relivant to the subject of this article.

[edit] Plot summary

The plot synopsis in this article disagrees significantly with the version in The Destruction of the Twelve Colonies (which is from the same show, not the 2003 re-imagining). For now, I'm deleting the overlapping text and putting in a reference to the "Destruction" article, and restoring the briefer, less-contradictory/ambiguous summary from an earlier revision. The "Destruction" article is fairly comprehensive, so linking to it should be sufficient. If the synopsis here needs to expanded, though, I think it needs to agree with the other available material on the subject. -- Fru1tbat 15:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link to Mormonism

What exactly is the link between Battlestar Galactica and Mormonism? The article doesn't explain it at all. Patiwat 20:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

• Try my blog post here: http://www.millennialstar.org/index.php/2006/02/12/ligbattlestar_galactical_ig_and_mormonis

That should explain it.Rabidwolfe 15:55, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Explain what - the link goes to a page that says there's nothing to display jmdeur 22:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

That's because the URL has changed due to change in servers since then. Here it is now:

http://www.millennialstar.org/2006/02/12/battlestar-galactica-and-mormonism/ Rabidwolfe (talk) 02:05, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Huge cult following?

Please some references? ---- Fernando Estel · ^{(Talk: here- commons- es)} 13:23, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1978 timing of pilot

I'm glad reference was made to the fact that the 1978 pilot was interrupted by the announcement of the Egypt-Israel peace accord. I always found the parallel between real life and the pilot to be disturbing and ominous, even though I don't subscribe to any supernatural powers. Frankly, the fact that the peace accords were announced just when the Cylon-Human accord was about to be broken in the pilot is just too weird to go without comment. What's surprising was that nobody ever made reference to it. I bet if Wolf Blitzer had been around then, he'd have used it as a basis for a show.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by HamTech87 (talk • contribs) 05:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)