The commentator rand
posts on 3/24/2006 1:12:12 AM
bang, don't worry about it. i am getting tired of it, but i have to admit some of the stuff he, or she writes is pretty funny. if this person would take that kind of imagination and work on a real story it would probably be pretty good. fantastic fantasy, why don't you try writing something? maybe a sci-fi parody. also, bang, i think you're going to enjoy the fate i have in store for the battlestar atlantia. she's going to go out with a real...well, you know. take care.
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The commentator Bang Bang
posts on 3/24/2006 12:36:24 AM
Rand, I just wanted to say that I apologize, because it's all my fault that this idiot known as "Fantastic Fantasy" is running rampant throughout this web site. If you remember, it all started with a bit of harmless fun and kidding around, after one of your posts was removed because of foul language. You and I started to write some funny things about it, then I wrote you were executed aboard the Galactica, and then returned alive, and so on. It was all in fun. But this moron blows on here and starts tearing you apart, calling you psychopathic, needing medication, etc. That's waaay over the line. Not only is it not funny, it's just plain mean and hateful, and very disrespectful to a good and moralistic man like yourself. Again, Rand, I am sorry that this whole thing snowballed because of me. In the meantime, you keep toiling away on your Galactica novel and don't let that creep bother you. Everyone except Fantastic Fantasy, have a good day.
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The commentator rand
posts on 3/23/2006 10:28:16 PM
greetings everyone, it is i, rand. i just want to thank all my friends who have not replied to this fantastic fantasy guy's cruel comments. i can take a joke as well as the next, extremely nervous, hypersensitive mental patient with an inferiority complex on large doses of medication, but this is getting ridiculous. i'm beginning to think this ff guy might actually know me. maybe he, or she, is someone i went to school with, or perhaps it's even one of my own family members. as for my current wherabouts, i can only say that i am in an undisclosed location, where i am living a simple but comfortable enough life. when i feel like it i will work on my galactica story and try to figure out someway to get it online somewhere where anyone who wants a good laugh can read it. well if you'll excuse me, ms. august and i are going for a swim in the blue grotto. take care.
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The commentator rand
posts on 3/15/2006 2:29:54 PM
bang, i must confess it is all true. and i am still having some trouble coming to terms with my new..."lifestyle" as a humanoid cylon. but what the heck? i'll just turn on my creator aka ron moore and move in with him. after a few days with me he will be more than willing to discontinue reimagined and do anything i wish just to get me to leave him alone. by the way, better to go hunting with dick chenney, than going for a drive down by the lake with ted kennedy. take care.
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The commentator Bang Bang
posts on 3/15/2006 3:23:19 AM
In a surprising move, the Pentagon yesterday revealed that the commentator known as Rand had been arrested for allegedly being a humanoid Cylon. Rand, a popular contributor to the All-Sci-Fi website, made headlines last week after being executed aboard the Battlestar Galactica by angry GINO fans, only to mysteriously return alive the next day. Federal agents, U.S. Special Forces, the Third Armored Division, the Imperial Guard, Starship Troopers, and two of Dr. Evil's inept guards surrounded Rand's house in Alabama yesterday morning, but no blood was spilled--Rand was still asleep after having been on the Internet all night. At first, Rand was taken to FBI headquarters for questioning, but he refused to talk. However, he was then transferred to Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and after having his "picture" taken, he came clean. He admitted that he first suspected something was not right when he died and got better. Then, he began to see Number Six in his head, which led to some embarrassing moments out in public. Finally, he confessed that he stole some plutonium from Libyan nationalists who wanted him to build them a time machine in a DeLorean, but instead he built a bomb and buried it in West Virginia. The two inept guards were then sent to defuse the weapon but it exploded, creating a huge mushroom cloud and causing about five million dollars in improvements. Rand then escaped and fled to France, but the country surrendered to him the next day. He was immediately elected Emperor. His first order of business will be to return to the United States as a Head of State, at which time he will go hunting with Dick Cheney.
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Brokeback Jedi
posts on 3/13/2006 1:42:18 PM
That's a very interesting opinion you have BANG BANG...unfortunately I didn't get that from Episode III. I thought Lucas cheapened Anakin's seduction by making it a choice of necessity, rather than because of his lust for power. It almost seemed like he did it because he had to, not because he wanted to. With that in mind, the novelization of Revenge of the Sith is much better in my opinion.
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The commentator Bang Bang
posts on 3/13/2006 1:26:32 AM
Brokeback Jedi, the last time a sci-fi movie--or any movie, for that matter--affected me so much was when my girlfriend and I went to watch "Revenge of the Sith." Long after the movie, my girlfriend and I kept talking about how fascinating it was to watch Anakin Skywalker fall to the Dark Side, while his wife tearfully pleaded to him to move away, get a fresh start, and so on. This episode of Galactica affected me just as deeply. Maybe it's because I lost my mother to Alzheimer's back in October, after having taken care of her for so long, and I can understand what it's like to have your world ripped apart in a second. One minute, things are going good; the next minute, Cylon raiders are flying at rooftop level, and Cylon centurions are marching down the street. Pardon me for the phrase, but I could relate to the "shock and awe" on the faces of the colonists during the Cylon invasion. This show had me thinking over the entire weekend, and anytime a show can do that to you--especially to me--I can only tip my hat and say, "Thank you for taking my imagination far away to new worlds and possible dreams." For it is in the world of dreams that magic is truly made. Have a good day, everyone.
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The commentator rand
posts on 3/13/2006 1:16:39 AM
bang, i'm going to give it a chance, i promise. i'll just take my meds early to keep me nice and calm. THEN I'LL RIP IT TO SHREDS...HA HA HA. just kidding. take care.
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Brokeback Jedi
posts on 3/13/2006 12:38:12 AM
Ok, well your comments were directed at me per se, although not a hater of the original series, I'm not a huge fan these days, but I know EXACTLY what you're talking about when you explain how the show affected you. I've been thinking about it all weekend myself, and I saw it twice on Friday, first at 10pm and then the repeat at 1:30am. A show, or even a key moment in a show doesn't often move me the way BSG did on Friday. I can only even think of a few times that has ever happened and they are doosies in my opinion: Spock's death, the destruction of the original Enterprise, Vader's sacrifice for his son, Gandalf's appearance on the east ridge, perhaps a few others...
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The commentator Bang Bang
posts on 3/12/2006 11:58:13 PM
Rand, Porthos, and SueGeek, I really hope you guys watch the season finale of the new Galactica Monday night and post your opinions here, just so I know that I haven't gone completely crazy and lost my mind! Part of me feels like Baltar, having betrayed the fans of the original by liking this episode so much...but I must admit, there was something different about the finale, something so different that I kept thinking about it even after the show was over, even thinking about it now. When a show can do something like that to you, then you know it must be different and special. A word of warning, Rand: the parts dealing with the presidential election are too typical GINO, and that's not what I'm talking about as far as this episode is concerned. So please try to discard these scenes, because what really grabbed me came later in the episode. I just want to see if you and the other fans of the original felt the same way I did when I watched it Friday night. But a word of caution: I didn't work friday, and I went out and had a couple of Captain Morgan & Cokes. I want to watch the show again Monday, just to make sure that my mind wasn't as clouded as New Caprica. (I'm just kidding; I know when a show moves me.) But Rand, give the season finale a shot, see what you think, and please tell me I haven't gone nuts! I don't want to let down the fans of the original Galactica, but when I tell you I liked the scenes on New Caprica you can be sure that I am being sincere. I also want to watch the show again because of Colonel Tigh; near the end, he says something to Starbuck about people changing, or something along those lines. I'm not sure if he's conquered his drinking problem, but there's certainly truth in those words. We'll see if he's still saying that five years from now!! Have a good day, everyone.
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The commentator rand
posts on 3/12/2006 10:07:23 PM
sue, i don't know if it is mine or if i've heard it somewhere over the course of my long, long and uneventful life, but go ahead either way. use it in good health. take care.
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The commentator SueGeek
posts on 3/12/2006 8:03:28 PM
Rand, I like that quote: "tommorrow is just another day for everything to go wrong!" Can I use it? Is it yours originally?
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The commentator rand
posts on 3/11/2006 10:46:47 PM
bang, i'm sorry to hear you had a bad day. it might be cliche, but try to remember that tomorrow is another day...for everything to go wrong again. but, on the bright side, you'll always have my friendship and support. hey, get your head out of the oven! it's not even a gas oven at that, it's a microwave! take care. NEWS FLASH: NATIONALLY RESPECTED SCI-FI COMMENTATOR AND POSSIBLE PORN STAR BIG BANG HAS BEEN IRRIDATED. DOCTOR'S EXPECT STRANGE MUTATIONS TO DEVELOP.
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The commentator Bang Bang
posts on 3/10/2006 2:20:03 AM
I like it Rand!! For some reason, I keep picturing some of the Cylon centurions advancing across the planet through some swamps--kind of like in the episode "The Young Lords", when Starbuck crash-landed on Attila and the Cylons were chasing him through the marsh. It sounds like you have much of the story developed already. You had mentioned that there would be an emergency meeting of the Council of the Twelve to discuss the war, with some members wanting to surrender and others vowing to fight on. Maybe at this meeting Boomer would be called upon by Adama to bring out the damaged Cylon centurion to show to the Council, so that all can see just what they're up against. By the way, I presume the Imperious Leader would be in your story. Keeping a pet lizard on his shoulder would be a nice touch. Have a good day, everyone.
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The commentator rand
posts on 3/10/2006 1:55:51 AM
bang, you're better at this than i am. i am going to steal about a half dozen or so of your suggestions. but as for zac, i thought he could already be aboard the pegasus. the way i imagined it, he is a smaller man, in stature, and was turned down to serve as a fighter pilot for not being able to meet the physical requirements. still wanting in the service, against adama's wishes since all of his other children are already colonial warriors, he goes to his father's old friend/rival, kane, who is greatly impressed by the younger man's patriotism and hatred for the cylons and pulls some strings to get zac into the academy as a trainee bridge officer. seeing so much of his father in zac, along with an intense love of military strategy kane arranges it where zac is given his first assignment aboard the pegasus. driven by a burning need to prove himself as his own man and not just supreme commander adama's son, zac quickly moves up the ranks until at the youthful age of fifty he is already a colonel. by the time the opening battle occurs, zac will have recently replaced lt. cmdr. archane who has been promoted to commander and given command of the newly commissioned bellerphon. there will be some friction between apollo who is also a lt. cmdr and his younger brother as apollo feels zac did not truly earn his rank since he has never seen combat off the safety of the bridge. i might even have the two brothers fight, giving zac a chance to show just how much of both adama and kane he has in him. by the way, i'm also going to have apollo injured during the opening battle, requiring major reconstructive surgery to save his left leg, leaving him partially crippled. finally, as the second wave of basestars arrive and adama is forced to order a withdrawl, we will hear voices on the bridge speakers. it will be the survivors on the planet begging the colonials to return as the cylons begin to land in troop carriers. also, before the retreat, when tigh brings the anubis down into the planets atmosphere to rescue the colonial pilots pinned down by the new cylons, boomer will retrieve one of the damaged cylon robots to carry back to the galactica for study. take care.
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The commentator Bang Bang
posts on 3/10/2006 12:17:10 AM
Rand, your story really has me interested. It's true to the original Galactica while going in a different direction. Remember how I mentioned about the beginning of the story? Well, I came up with a few ideas, and I don't know if you could use any of them--or if you would want to--but you certainly have got me thinking! And, these ideas incorporate all the concepts you came up with. Here goes: as the story begins, we learn that the Colonials' neighboring star system and ally, the Delphian Empire (or whatever you would want to call them) has been attacked by the Cylons, and the Colonials have responded by sending the powerful Fifth Fleet to help out. Besides troops carriers and destroyers, five battlestars are included in this fleet: the Galactica, Pegasus, Atlantia, Pacifica, and Solaria. (I thought this would be a nice touch, because it would be the last time Adama and Cain actually serve together, as Adama will later lead the search for Earth, while Cain protects the Colonies.) Upon reaching Gamoray, the fleet discovers that military intelligence was wrong--there are not six Cylon base ships waiting for them, but twelve. Thousands of Cylon raiders sweep down on the fleet, while the base ships fire at the battlestars from long range. It is in this battle that Adama's youngest son Zac first makes a name for himself. Within minutes, Adama can only watch helplessly as the Atlantia is destroyed. Meanwhile, Cain realizes that most of the Cylon fighters are attacking the fleet, and there are very few guarding the base ships. He orders the Pegasus into a suicidal head-on attack against several nearby base ships. (Perhaps Apollo and Starbuck could escort the Pegasus in their vipers?) Amazingly, the Pegasus destroys three base ships, but the victory is short-lived, for the Galactica is reporting heavy damage to her landing bays. Meanwhile, Colonial troops begin landing on Gamoray, and are stunned by the devastated cities and dead bodies. As the battle over the planet intensifies, Starbuck watches helplessly as the Solaria begins to split in two under Cylon fire, and is destroyed. His viper is suffering from battle damage, and Apollo's fighter is nearly out of fuel, and with the Galactica's landing bays on fire and the Pegasus still too far away, they choose to land on Gamoray, where hopefully the Delphians or the Colonial landing force can help them. As they enter the atmosphere, they radio that they are friendly, please do not fire--but there is no response. They land where the Colonial soldiers disembarked, only to find that most of them are dead. Soon, they see the reason why: the Cylons are advancing on them. And not the reptilian Cylons, but the new mechanical centurions. Apollo and Starbuck have heard of these creations, and have even seen some of them, but these are the newer, more streamlined, better coordinated versions. They are perfect killing machines, and they are very hard to kill, as the laser fire merely bounces off their armor. Fortunately, Apollo and Starbuck are rescued by a shuttle, but the Pegasus and Galactica--the only two surviving battlestars--must limp back to the Colonies, leaving Gamoray to the victorious Cylons. With the Galactica's landing bays under repair, Adama requests the vipers to land on the Pegasus. Cain agrees. When Zac lands on the battlestar, he is immediately captivated by the beauty of this magnificent ship, and by the martial spirit of the warriors on board. Although the last thing he would ever want to do is hurt his father's feelings, he wants to request a transfer to this ship. And there you have it Rand. Sorry this post was so long, but I hope you like some of these ideas. Have a good day, everyone.
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The commentator rand
posts on 3/9/2006 11:25:06 PM
bang, i believe there is a website that has all of the unproduced original galactica scripts. the only title i remember was one called "the space pirates." and as for story ideas, that might be awhile. i can't just force them out like a real writer. they just have to bump around inside my head until they're ready. it took me about three weeks just to come up with the ideas i posted. by the way, i really liked the sensitive way you portrayed my untimely death. but you forgot to mention that i left behind two sons, a handsome iguana named vincent agustus caesar, and a pug named gaius julius caesar, oh and thousands of tearful women. take care.
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The commentator Bang Bang
posts on 3/9/2006 2:17:22 AM
Rand, I think it would be an excellent idea if a bunch of us could gather on-line and discuss different ideas. I'm not real computer-savvy at this point--I just bought my computer back in September--but if you figure out how to do it, let me know. I recall reading a plot synoposis for an unproduced episode of the original Battlestar Galactica, and in it the Colonial fleet comes upon a black hole, which they try to get as close to as they can without getting pulled in so that the intense interference will protect them from Cylon scanners. But a Cylon base ship does find them, and an epic battle ensues, but in the end Adama outsmarts the Cylons and the base ship ends up getting caught in the gravitional field of the black hole and is pulled in and destroyed. There are so many ideas out there. If you come up with anything else Rand, let me know. Have a good day, everyone.
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The commentator rand
posts on 3/9/2006 1:37:13 AM
bang, there ought to be some way that everyone who wants to could meet online somewhere and piece a story together. who knows, we might send it to glen larson, if i can ever get his business office address. wouldn't you love to hear what the man himself might have to say about it? i think he'd be flattered that we tried to remian true to the spirit of the show. take care.
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The commentator Bang Bang
posts on 3/9/2006 12:39:43 AM
You've got a good story going there, Rand. I had been working on a low-budget sci-fi movie, so maybe I know more about movie-making than writing (actually, I probably don't know squat about either!), but you probably can't go wrong by having an exciting, action-packed beginning. Fast-paced starts to stories have helped movies like Star Wars and the Indiana Jones series to keep people glued to the screen, wondering what's going to happen next. Two of my favorite scenes from the original Battlestar Galactica series are the destruction of the Battlestar Atlantia (to this day, I still watch that segment of the movie over and over), and Commander Cain taking the Pegasus into a head-on clash with three Cylon base ships. Perhaps one or both elements could be incorporated into the beginning of the story, to establish the war that has been raging between the Cylons and the Colonials. Perhaps a fleet of five battlestars is fighting off a superior Cylon force, and the Atlantia is destroyed. Cain, realizing that all is lost unless he acts immediately, takes the Pegasus in head-first against several base ships and miraculously destroys two of them, evening the odds and propelling Cain's status to that of a Living Legend. Or, perhaps the Galactica is present at this great battle, and not the Pegasus. Or maybe this epic confrontation could take place later, while the Cylons are invading one of the home planets, and the Atlantia falls to the Cylon attack force. It sounds like you've got a great story going Rand, and you certainly don't need my help, but if you could incorporate the destruction of the Atlantia as a tip-of-the-hat to me, I'd appreciate it! Have a good day, everyone.
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