Welcome to Star Trek Simulation Forum

Register now to gain access to all of our features. Once registered and logged in, you will be able to contribute to this site by submitting your own content or replying to existing content. You'll be able to customize your profile, receive reputation points as a reward for submitting content, while also communicating with other members via your own private inbox, plus much more! This message will be removed once you have signed in.

Sign in to follow this  
Followers 0
Mitar Precip

Blood and Chrome Mini Eps now showing.

Greetings,

 

Pleased to mention Blood and Chrome "Webisodes" are available on You Tube. It's quite that the small segments being aired were never meant to be split up, rather a two hour Pilot.

 

Thus the quality of these first two released "Webisodes" are far beyond those aired on with BSG in the past.

 

As you are aware direct linking is forbidden on STSF messageboards. But the You Tube Channel you want to visit to see the BSG Blood and Chrome "Webisodes" will be the MachinimaPrime Channel. To my knowledge there will be ten of them.

 

I heard Doug Drexler in a podcast discuss how Galactica would be depicted differently in many ways in her prime, Her first beauty shot is not one to miss.

 

-Precip

"Frakkin' Great in HD!"

Edited by Mitar Precip

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Very much looking forward to the remaining webisodes. I love the fact that the web series/DVD is set during the 1st Cylon War. The retro look is slick.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Watched these yesterday. Fantastic! I loved the 70's look of the Cylon fighters, and Vipers. Can't wait to see more.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Watched these yesterday. Fantastic! I loved the 70's look of the Cylon fighters, and Vipers. Can't wait to see more.

 

I agree with Zaph that the 1970's upgraded look was really sweet. The Mark 2 Vipers were all spit and polish (boo yah!), the toasters were gleaming...toasters. Should be a pretty good ride.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Webisodes 3 and 4 premiere tomorrow (Friday, November 16). Can't wait! :)

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

One of the problems with going farther back in the story, such as with The Plan and now with Blood & Chrome, is to keep the action fresh they need to give the ships we're familiar with technologies they didn't have (or didn't show) in the regular series. The farther back in time you go the more advanced the ships are.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

I am not certain what ships you are referring to.

 

I have noticed Viper Variants that are unfamiliar. The Raptor is using a "Firefly" style rotating engine system, which did not strike me as an advancement in Tech.

 

The Vipers I do agree with you on, and hopefully those who put her on these in the show(s) will develop a "family tree."

I understand some of those different Vipers are from one of those high end video games (potentially multiple player).

 

Galactica hasn't shown any new tech to me in the brief frames. Since she's being saved (from a plot perspective) of the ship that comes to the rescue. None of the escorts struck me as showing anything new.

 

The Osiris just had different form of flak battery...being in the past it had to look different. I when I first saw them deploy I thought they looked like Quad Soviet Anti-Ship Missiles used on some of their Naval vessels of the 80s.

 

If you are referring to the Cylon capital ships shown so far, the one that battles the Osiris is definitely a new design. The missile launchers were very crude looking on her. As for her shape, I see your line of thought perhaps. It definitely has a bit of Ron Moore's basestar look from 2004 added to the conventional round design we expect.

 

So aside from the Cylon Basestar in the Osiris fight and the Vipers in B'n'C...they've pretty much kept things the same. And I am not going to post a spoiler image to how..."Intact" Galactica looked in her prime.

 

-Precip

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

**SPOILERS**

 

**SPOILERS**

 

I myself enjoy the inclusion of a rear gunner station on the Raptor craft. Echoes the use of World War II tail gunners for various craft.

 

Coker Fasjovik. Plays the piano. Knows his liquor. Smart azz, cynical and battle weary SOB, on his final tour and wants out desperately. Gets saddled with a newb straight out of the Academy and is so thrilled.

 

Sure, a bit of a reach here, but wouldn't that be a kick to the head if he was Starbuck Thrace's father? Similarities going on.

 

If Fasjovik makes it to civilian life and doesn't get offed in Blood and Chrome - the dude's already gotten bitten by some ice snake cylon hybrid thing - it's a possibility as Thrace's father was only briefly mentioned (and possibly shown as a 'figment of the imagination' piano player) a few times in the regular series. Just a thought.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

The way Thrace's father was depicted in Someone to Watch Over Me he would be the type to have never joined the military, and Coker would not have married a Sergeant Major.

 

What I was referring to with the ships was the tail gunner on the Raptor - a nice improvement but why not have this in the regular series? - and the Cylon Basestar spinning its center to get the two halves to line up in The Plan.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Mr V'Roy,

 

I always thought the Raptor in the 2004 series seemed more like a dedicated DRADIS craft...with a secondary personnel carry ability. This did not make a lick of sense to me. However we all know Science Fiction shows are expensive...and they clearly only had the money the build two maybe three fighters for the actors in the premiere. It is odd..thinking todays AWACS type plane being a troop carrier as well...and then as the series progressed a weapons carrying platform.

 

The Blood'n'Chrome Raptor again, carries the 2004 Dradis..though it's never mentioned as a dedicated "AWACS" type craft. (Not enough time?). She clearly can carry personnel. And it was made very obvious in the early B'n'C epis (Coker bitching about his payload) this OLDER version of the Raptor was a weapons platform. I was thinking...okay like a modified Blackhawk Helo...which can carry both.

 

Then came what you mentioned the Tail gunner scene. Oh how the future Raptors would of loved to have more rear defense like her ancestors did. With the moving of the engines, that created the opportunity to either use it as a hatch or...a gunner position. The Tailfins, with canopy and guns kinda reminded me of a B-25 Mitchell Aft gun position.

 

I don't recall the B'n'C Raptor "jumping." Was that just Coker's Raptor or does it go for all of them. Not sure. It was an odd remake for the Raptor. Some elements suggested a backwards, that is "primitive" Raptor. Others however are more consistent with your thinking perhaps...More Firepower from the get go for the Raptor.

 

-B

As for Coker being a distant relative of Kara Thrace....well...if the series were picked up...:)

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

I saw the early series Raptors as more of a spotter craft, something with better tracking and surveilance than the Vipers that could then tell the Vipers what they were in for. Something better than DRAIDIS because we've only seen that work at close range.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

** SPOILERS **

 

Overall, I enjoyed B&C. If it is picked up by SyFy as a regular series or a regular series of TV movies, that remains to be seen. The ending is a perfect opening for a continuing story arc - the formation of specific SPECOPS/Black Ops teams to keep the Cylon forces on the run, if I understood correctly.

 

On a completely (more) geeky note, the formation of SPECOPS teams to hunt Cylons was used/mentioned in the new BSG comic series, so I find the parallels btw modern comic and retro-based TV show/pilot/web series interesting.

 

I also recognized secondary actors (such as actor Jill Teed, the commander of the Osiris) from the 2004-2009 series making appearances as new B&C characters, which is always nice.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

** SPOILERS **

 

I also recognized secondary actors (such as actor Jill Teed, the commander of the Osiris) from the 2004-2009 series making appearances as new B&C characters, which is always nice.

 

Not exactly an actor, more of a nod to the original/original BSG series. The smooth, pointy face design and red eyes on the 'pre-Number 6' Cylon model at the end of B&C was reminiscent of the robed Cylon in the 70's series.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Not exactly an actor, more of a nod to the original/original BSG series. The smooth, pointy face design and red eyes on the 'pre-Number 6' Cylon model at the end of B&C was reminiscent of the robed Cylon in the 70's series.

 

I guess every franchise needs a C-3PO

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

I guess every franchise needs a C-3PO

 

True. The original BSG was a riff off Star Wars. Pretty obvious.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Except if Baltar was a man he would have punched Lucifer right in his glowing red eyes.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Original/original Baltar was not exactly the Han Solo sort of person, yep.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!


Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.


Sign In Now
Sign in to follow this  
Followers 0