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Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Mon Mar 31, 2014 3:16 pm

Almost everything in the 1978 series looked fantastic. For me, the only thing that really stands out as cheap-looking is the bubble wrap used as a sort of room divider on the Rising Star in Saga of a Star World. But was there anything else that looked tacky or cheap?


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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Cylon-Knight » Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:37 pm

Fun topic.

The first thing that comes to my mind are the Colonial Space Suits. They look pretty okay, sure, but the goof of exposed skin just pushes it to "eye roll" status vs sci-fi classic, to me anyways.
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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Mon Mar 31, 2014 6:56 pm

Oh yeah, Fire in Space. And in the same sequence the very, very obvious wires holding them up.
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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:53 pm

And, of course! I forgot the innovative medical use of bubble wrap, also in Fire in Space. :bsglol:
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Most superfluous line of dialogue

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Sat Apr 05, 2014 4:34 pm

This doesn't really fit the topic, but probably isn't worthy of its own separate topic.


Most superfluous line of dialogue

Unidentified warrior in Carillon elevator: "Something seems to be happening."

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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by GoldCylon » Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:30 am

They also used bubble wrap around Adama's arm from Fire in Space, or a background actor.

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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:43 pm

GoldCylon wrote:They also used bubble wrap around Adama's arm from Fire in Space, or a background actor.
Yeah, that was what I meant a few posts back. :smile:
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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by GoldCylon » Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:49 pm

They did use it on the Rising Star also. Bubble wrap was the cool looking Sci Fi type of cheap fix so they used it.

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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Scott » Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:24 am

The interior set of the shuttle from Greetings From Earth is pretty crappy. Looks like a jumbled thrown together mess of rope lights, and control consoles, with no thought making it look like real functioning equipment.

On the other hand, I thought the cramped look and style of the set for the interior of the Eastern Alliance craft looked good.

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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:51 pm

Scott wrote:The interior set of the shuttle from Greetings From Earth is pretty crappy. Looks like a jumbled thrown together mess of rope lights, and control consoles, with no thought making it look like real functioning equipment.
Yeah. And I guess you could add the cheesy metallic costumes of the Lunar Seven people... although you could argue that those were a consciously retro-tacky "futuristic" sci-fi design to make it more plausible to the viewer that these people were indeed being presented as denizens of a future Earth.

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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:44 am

Oh, how about the exposed Velcro on Starbuck and Boomer's uniforms in that locker room scene? That almost looks like something we weren't supposed to see, but it's so flagrant it couldn't have been a mistake. :bsglol:
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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:08 pm

My sister used to work at a TV station and noticed that the control panel they use in Star Wars to fire the Death Star's prime weapon is TV equipment. The lever they pull is a fader control. Shatters the illusion for her every time.
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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by borjis » Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:38 pm

Hope It's The Grog wrote:My sister used to work at a TV station and noticed that the control panel they use in Star Wars to fire the Death Star's prime weapon is TV equipment. The lever they pull is a fader control. Shatters the illusion for her every time.

yep, grass valley switcher.

We used to have one.

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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:11 pm

Hadn't really noticed it for a long time because it was done much better than on the Rising Star, but they also used bubble wrap for partitions on the Ship of Lights. Hard to see, perhaps, but harder to unsee.

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Re: Cheapest-looking thing on the show?

Post by Hope It Is The Grog » Fri Feb 02, 2018 10:41 am

This may not quite fit the category, but remember those big ground transports used by the Nationalist soldiers in "Experiment in Terra"? Of course you do. But you never saw them. Even when Starbuck blew them up, all we saw were the pyrotechnics.

Brilliant use of bright lights and sound effects to simulate impressive vehicles without ever having to build anything.

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