Returning to the well of local TV magazine covers of the seventies, here's a nice (and I'm pretty sure rare) vintage BATTLESTAR GALACTICA cover. This looks like a real promo piece and not just something done up for this cover by a staff artist at the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER but I could be wrong. I have to say that while I watched BG regularly at the time (and even saw the advance theatrical release at the Village Theater in Erlanger, Kentucky!) I was never much of a fan. Oh, the Cylons were cool, of course and the John Dykstra SPFX were exiting in that still barely Post-STAR WARS world but the writing just seemed...well..juvenile! I much preferred GALACTICA 1980, the later low-budget spin-off featuring Lorne Greene's Adama in a very fake beard. It was just...well... less pretentious. All that said, I hear the more recent version's pretty adult and quite well done. Tried to get it from the Public Library once but no luck so...maybe someday.
Steve,
ReplyDeleteI've watched nearly all the current Galactica thanks to my library -- does your library allow you to place holds on stuff, like through their website? That's the only way I ever get anything from the library.
If I'm not mistaken, I think you can watch the entire series of the current BSG via http://video.aol.com -- if it's not there, it's somewhere, and it's all legal! It's definitely worth watching, no matter how fond you are of the original series!
Jon