Yet another reason to love Warren Ellis

[yendi]

On his revamp of Marvel's well-intentioned, but remembered-more-fondly-than-it-deserves New Universe:

"Battlestar Galactica back in 1979 was a bloody awful television series. It was indefensible. The remake, however, is quite good. The PR of course, for the new Battlestar Galactica show didn't say: 'Finally, a piece of crap from the 1970s reborn for a new century!'"

Comments

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

The coolest thing about Warren Ellis, though, is the last name that he has for a first name! =)

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

MIND = BLOWN!

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I object. Strongly. I adored the old Battlestar Galatica. It's was classic '70s TV. Somebody needs to get off his high horse.

[yendi]

Even as a kid, I couldn't get into it. I loved the idea of Cylons, etc, but I never found the show watchable. In fact, that's what caused me to not watch the remake when it first aired, which is likely why I'm still not hooked on it.

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

Um... his reboot doesn't present any thing of excitement for me.

It's an entire reboot... as if none of the series ever happened and while as a whole New Universe didn't rock... DP7 and Star Brand were pretty awesome.

I'm much more excited by the fact that before Warren Ellis does a raping (like he's doing with Nextwave; As a fan of Ms. Marvel, Machine Man and The Captain evem , I despise his disdain... I hope his interviews are tongue and cheek and he respects these charcaters more then he seems to present) that there will be a series of one-shots focuing on the origingal New Universe.

Now, there is the issue that it's UNTOLD tales of the New Universe and it ignores The PITT and the whole Quasar thing, but so did the current Exiles arc and that is some fun stuff.

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

Of course, this is all just MY opinion, but I really do find Dp7, Justice and Psi-force to stand as very good before their time books...

and I'd rather see those books brought into 2005 with a continuatioon of plot, instead of rebooted as if they never existed in newuniversal.

It's like... what's the point of saying Warren Ellis is being given the New Universe when it sounds like he doesn't plan to actually use it.

It's more like... "remember when we handed Warren Ellis the X books and that lasted like 4 issues each and he basically acted like the books were all his and he created the charcaters and it was okay, but essentially it had nothing to do with anything?... Yeah... we're doing that again"

[yendi]

For me, those books are wonderful concepts (especially DP7, which nailed many of the themes that Flash would use post-Crisis with their speedster character), but they didn't turn out all that well (not helped, of course, by Shooter-esque dialogue in many cases).

As for the X-books, I liked what Ellis did with them, not least because they'd already become so unreadable that I'd dropped the entire lot.

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

That putz was only 10 when BG was on the tube. What the hell did he know from good? As a teen into sci-fi and still dazzled by Star Wars, I thought it was great, and I couldn't wait for the next episode.

Galactica 1980 did, however, suck major ass. It was concept-rape on the level of midichlorians.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

i was a kid when the whole 'new universe' shebang shebanged.
didn't care for it.
at all.
also never cared for 'battlestar galactica.'
i was a cynical and bitter child.

[team-tim.livejournal.com]

Oh, snap! Awesome Etrigan icon!

[yendi]

Thanks -- props to lordrexfear for creating it.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

I really liked the New Universe when it came out. I was disappointed when it just kind of imploded.

I completely missed this revamp.

[yendi]

The revamp isn't until next Summer -- you've got months before you can miss it. :-)

[sirinek.livejournal.com]

I swear there was a blue guy in the '79 Battlestar Galactica series, but no one believed me when I mentioned it.

[leonardpart6.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, I thought I was the only one that read, let alone remembered, New Universe. Read those religiously. Even the sucky ones.

They're redoing 'em, though? Do tell! (Pardon me, I'm waaaaaaay out of the loop.)

[yendi]

Other than what Warren says <a href='http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c7ac4d5a7c4fee03b7956c973536734b&threadid=51866" target="new">here</A>, I don't know much about what they're planning.