Anyone here think it was bad, seeing that Dr. Heur,Dr. Theopolis and Princess Ardala were not in it?
shareAnyone here think it was bad, seeing that Dr. Heur,Dr. Theopolis and Princess Ardala were not in it?
It was bad. Even Gil Gerard mentions that it was a terrible idea to move the cast off of Earth and onto a ship (like Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica). The plotlines became much too serious, the budget was cut and the supporting cast was inferior.
What's a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?
It was bad. Even Gil Gerard mentions that it was a terrible idea to move the cast off of Earth and onto a ship (like Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica). The plotlines became much too serious, the budget was cut and the supporting cast was inferior.
Yes, the second season was much different from the first. Much different. The entire premise of the show was changed to more of an exploration of space on a spaceship in search of the lost tribes of Earth (similar to Battlestar Galactica in search of the 13th colony that supposedly headed to Earth). The cast was changed as well. While I liked the addition of Hawk, the rest of the cast was just sub-par...and even Hawk, one of the more interesting members of the cast and the token alien, became a poorly written character as the season went along.
shareI recall reading somewhere Gil wanted it to be more serious... the more serious take was pretty cool, IMHO, though season 2 is ultimately an amalgamation of Star Trek and BSG. The same can be said for "Awakening", though, since the plot is almost identical to BSG's own opener (civilization almost wiped out, making peace with the other side, other side springs trap)... "Buck" was just more optimistic than the dreariness-by-necessity format BSG had.
Despite season 1 being fairly solid for the most part (but it does get too campy and kid-friendly at times), thanks in part to production costs involved, the network wanted big changes.
And yet "Time of the Hawk" and "The Guardian" are examples of the revamped show finding a possible future. Shame the show got cut.