BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE SECOND COMING
 a TRUE FANEDIT by bionicbob In this alternate version, the story is solely from the perspective of the Colonials. The Cylons are simply evil killer robots, a dark force of nature that sweeps in and exacts its revenge on their creators. No Mission from God or Mommy/Daddy issues for these Cylons! Just kill, kill, kill!!!! member ratings: |
(11 votes, average: 8.64 out of 10, rated)
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TAGLINE:“THE EVIL ROBOTS ONLY EDITION”
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INTENTION:
While I love nuBSG, I am more of a Classic Battlestar Galactica Fan. The original 1978 series is my Star Wars! So I wondered if it would be possible to inject some classic BSG flavor into the 2003 remake without it becoming cheesy or feel like a retro narrative like my previous Trek edits. I wanted to create a respectful homage to my beloved childhood series while retaining the darker and character driven elements that make nuBSG so successful.
To achieve this effect, I have removed all the Human Cylons and added music from the original series soundtrack.
In this alternate version, the story is solely from the perspective of the Colonials. The Cylons are simply evil killer robots, a dark force of nature that sweeps in and exacts its revenge on their creators. No Mission from God or Mommy/Daddy issues for these Cylons! Just kill, kill, kill!!!!
So Say We All!
CUTLIST:
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 2003 mini-series, BSG RAZOR, BSG THE PLAN, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 1978.
–New Opening Titles and Prologue
–reorder several scenes
–cut Roslin Cancer subplot
–cut Col. Tigh’s alcoholism and conflict with Starbuck
–cut Boomer and Tyrol’s secret love affair
–cut Starbuck’s guilt and confession about Zac
–cut Baltar’s role in the Fall of the Colonies
–cut all Human Cylons
RELEASE:
NTSC SL DVD – 16:9
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Part 5 is missing
Review by amatar — January 15, 2012 @ 4:04 am
…sorry…file 15 is missing too…sorry for not putting these as a single post <:)
Review by amatar — January 15, 2012 @ 5:01 am
K…got all parts (thank you very much!) and now that I’m finished watching it, I shall submit a short review…
First off, I want to say that the original 2004 pilot bothered me for no other reason than the Baltar sex-scene garbage. This almost destroyed the whole thing for me right off the hop, as it was SO far removed from the 1978 series.
This has been fixed without a hitch in this fanedit.
Audio:
I noticed no issues. It was crisp on my 2.0 computer speakers, so I have no complaints
I loved the 1978 score added into this edit and it never seemed overpowering or intrusive. I LOVED the old Viper launch sounds added in there! Nary a complaint!
Score: 10/10
Video:
Crisp as any DVD I have watched on this computer. The only issue I noticed was in the added deleted scenes, and the post-production isn’t put into these by the studios, so this is no fault of the editor’s whatsoever. This deleted scene added a lot of emotion to the story for me, so I am glad it was added into this edit.
If I didn’t know this was a fanedit, I would never have even thought to look for editing flaws…but I found none anyways. Just great editing!
Score: 10/10
The Edit:
I found this edit to be a modern version of the original series, which I loved, but it’s just WAY too cheezy to watch (and I even tried on Netflix…I barely got through it lol). I am incredibly happy the whole Baltar sex scene is gone, and I am glad the Cylons are just a bunch of *ssh*les just bent on the destruction of the Human race for no real reason other than to wipe them out…much like the original.
The only things I felt were really out of place was why Baltar even HAD any sort of screen time at all, and why the presidential aide and the Galactica officer (whose name escapes me at the moment lol) were so close…but it’s a small price to pay for what BionicBob has given us.
Score: 9/10
Overall, it was just a great edit, and it was everything I had hoped for. This is how the series should have started out…too bad edits of the entire series are impossible to do, as the HumanCylons don’t exist in this edit and they’re such a huge part of the series.
Oh, well lol!!! I FREAKING LOVED THIS EDIT!!!!!!!!
Final score: the only thing I can take anything away for is what I mentioned, and I can’t take a full star away from the final score for that, so:
9.5/10, rounded…10/10 (enthusiastically)
Great job and thank you!!!!
Review by amatar — January 16, 2012 @ 12:35 am
I rated this a 10/10 as I was simply blown away. The source material is fantastic, but with this edit it shines even brighter IMHO. I frakkin’ loved it and feel I need to check out the original show as well.
Review by emphatic — January 18, 2012 @ 1:11 am
To be honest, I was unsure about this type of edit. However, with the editor being Bionic Bob, the idea had merit. Sure, it cuts out a lot of dramatization, but there is a lot to be said for the credo ‘less is more’.
This is a fantastic merger of old and new. Bob has taken a lot of scenes from the entirety of the series and ‘movies’ to make this a unique approach. All of it is very well done.
Video: 10/10 No hard cuts that I could discern.
Audio: 9/10 with that final point being due to music mix. There are points where the old music is a bit too loud in comparison to the background noise and chatter, and drowned it out some. Other than that, the mix of the old music with the new drum beats really did work out well. The addition of the old launch tube sound effects surprised me, and hit that little boy in my head, who bounced around like a little maniac.
Overall, I’d give this a 10/10, or an ‘A’ without the plus for that music bit I mentioned.
Outstanding! I even got some pins and needles going with some of the music queues. Two Thumbs Up!
Review by ionvox — January 29, 2012 @ 11:30 pm
First of all, let me start off by saying that I loved the new Battlestar Galactica. I’m not all that familiar with the original classic series except through what I’ve heard from others. When I heard saw this fan edit show up on the main page, I had to check it out. I loved the idea of editing the “human” cylons out of the new BSG. So, I downloaded it.
It’s been quite a long time since I watched my BSG DVDs, so I don’t remember everything, but that’s how I prefer to watch fan edits.
Story Editing:
I didn’t really miss anything that was deleted, I’ll say that much. This works very well without the human cylons involved as just a straight-up, killer robots, sci-fi action flick. My only gripe was Baltar’s sudden entrance into the story on Caprica when he shows up at the Raptor with the other survivors. It just seemed like we were supposed to know who he was, yet he had not been introduced into the story before. I understand he had to be left at that point to explain what happened to Helo, but I wish Baltar could have been introduced earlier somehow.
Other than this, great concept. I really liked the intro with the voice over. Nice set-up.
Score: 8 out of 10.
Video Editing:
Didn’t really notice any issues here. The majority of the video transitions were nicely done. A previous reviewer had mentioned that there was a deleted scene added. If there was, I didn’t notice any serious quality difference.
Score: 9 out of 10
Audio Editing:
I’m going to have to break ranks with the previous reviewers in this area, as this is where the majority of my problems were. Being a musician, I’m very anal about audio, and while most of the audio transitions are pretty good, there were a couple of rough audio cuts toward the beginning. In the scene where Adama has crash landed on the planet and the cylon ship is lifting off, it seemed like there were some noticeable cuts there. Also, there was a really rough transition from the “Heart to Heart” scene with Lee and Will to the ceremony. Plus, I noticed a couple of audio clicks during the cylon attack montage.
I liked the idea of mixing in some of the classic BSG music with the new. Unfortunately, while I thought it worked in a few places, overall I’d say it didn’t work. The added music with Starbuck and Apollo in the brig takes you out of the scene a bit. I would have either lowered it or left it out. I also thought that the added music over the scene where they have to leave the sub-light ships behind lessened the emotional impact. In addition, there were a few spots where the classic music didn’t really sync up with the percussion from the original scoring, and some spots where the music overpowered the sound fx too much.
Score: 5 out of 10
Overall, I’d say this was a great idea. I would have liked it much better without the classic BSG music, though.
Final Score: 7 out of 10
Review by DriggyDriggs — February 8, 2012 @ 3:01 am