nickmitsialis
Rear Admiral
Guys:
Being a bit of a newby around here I have a couple of things I want to ask:
First: What is this 'Star Soldier' that I see mentioned from time to time?
Secondly: How's this for a 'reboot': Forget the WC movie for now...how about turning it into a series? I mean, like 'BSG' was changed from a 1970s cheese fest to a gritty war drama. What's not to like? You have TWO TOTALLY implacable factions locked in a 'no compromise/no holds barred' battle to the death--and then we have the Border worlds, Pirates, traitors (Mandarins, Retros), defectors, turncoats, heroes, villains & opportunistic SOBs---and often they'd be the SAME persons;
IF the writing is any good it could touch on all the 'moral parable' stuff that BSG tries to do without seeming silly ( a few tens of thousands of refugees are probably NOT going to have any political concerns other than survival but a few trillion Confed citizens probably WILL have to be more complex): balancing survival of Humanity & operational security & maintaining the viability of the Confed armed forces vs wartime morality & leaving allies & citizens to the mercy of the Kilrathi; issues of 'press freedom' & the politics of the involvement in a never-ending war, that, in spite of war weariness, MUST not be lost; how to handle the issue of 'internal dissent' & flat out treason....and of course, LOTS of stuff blowing up!
Personally I'd like nothing better than getting a chance to see the following: Some fan fiction had as one of it's many characters a Mixed species Confed Marine Unit called 'The Spine-Snappers'; the unit commander was a Kirathi Noble from N'gora Khar (sp?) who's soldiers were both Kilrathi AND Terrans--the fiction EVEN had an interesting bit with Terran Marines preparing themselves for battle by praying to Sivar;
Well, what do you all think?
NM
Being a bit of a newby around here I have a couple of things I want to ask:
First: What is this 'Star Soldier' that I see mentioned from time to time?
Secondly: How's this for a 'reboot': Forget the WC movie for now...how about turning it into a series? I mean, like 'BSG' was changed from a 1970s cheese fest to a gritty war drama. What's not to like? You have TWO TOTALLY implacable factions locked in a 'no compromise/no holds barred' battle to the death--and then we have the Border worlds, Pirates, traitors (Mandarins, Retros), defectors, turncoats, heroes, villains & opportunistic SOBs---and often they'd be the SAME persons;
IF the writing is any good it could touch on all the 'moral parable' stuff that BSG tries to do without seeming silly ( a few tens of thousands of refugees are probably NOT going to have any political concerns other than survival but a few trillion Confed citizens probably WILL have to be more complex): balancing survival of Humanity & operational security & maintaining the viability of the Confed armed forces vs wartime morality & leaving allies & citizens to the mercy of the Kilrathi; issues of 'press freedom' & the politics of the involvement in a never-ending war, that, in spite of war weariness, MUST not be lost; how to handle the issue of 'internal dissent' & flat out treason....and of course, LOTS of stuff blowing up!
Personally I'd like nothing better than getting a chance to see the following: Some fan fiction had as one of it's many characters a Mixed species Confed Marine Unit called 'The Spine-Snappers'; the unit commander was a Kirathi Noble from N'gora Khar (sp?) who's soldiers were both Kilrathi AND Terrans--the fiction EVEN had an interesting bit with Terran Marines preparing themselves for battle by praying to Sivar;
Well, what do you all think?
NM