Classic Battlestar Galactica - The Living Legend extended edition workprint v1

Classic BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

"The Living Legend" complete edition work print

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version 1.0



total running time: 108 minutes





This is the most complete version of the best episode (or

second best, depending on your view of the pilot movie)

of the original BSG series. The late Lloyd Bridges (SKY

KING, NORTH AND SOUTH, AIRPLANE, et al) stars in a tour-

de-force as the legendary Commander Cain, who is both

the ragtag Colonial fleet's savior and bane in dealing

with a pesky Cylon base in the Gammoray star system. If

you've never seen the full episode, that is to say the

story as it was originally intended to be shown, then

you're in for a real treat.



Sources are as follows:



- Classic BSG series DVD boxset

(for the episode as broadcast and deleted scenes)

- THE LIVING LEGEND telemovie

(fan sourced, for one or two odd audio clips)

- MISSION GALACTICA: THE CYLON ATTACK R4 PAL DVD release

(for footage and scenes not present in the series DVDs)

- MISSION GALACTICA: THE CYLON ATTACK R1 LD release

(for the original MGCA NTSC audio track)



Regarding the last two, these were combined and resynched

to produce a NTSC-proper MGCA digital source print.



Before you begin watching, be warned. This print still

has various audio and video issues. We didn't try to

rebalance the colors and contrasts among our sources,

so you'll occasionally see tint shifts and such. Can't

be helped, as it's more of a pain than it's worth. With

regards to the audio, the best we could do was try to

re-balance the audio among our sources. We didn't try

to reconstruct the audio for the restored deleted scenes,

such as the two IL-series Cylons talking about what's

really happening at Gammoray, because it's beyond our

skill. There's also a couple of lines that got clipped.

One was a production gaffe that's present in every print

(Cassie's clipped line about Bojay's injuries); the other

had to be cut for proper BGM matching (Apollo's "There

they are" when he and Starbuck are approaching the two

base stars in their Vipers). Perhaps a better faneditor

out there can do what we couldn't; we just tried to make

do with what we had and what we were capable of doing.



Regarding the video, every known unique scene is present

in this print. Yes, every UNIQUE one. We did omit some

duplicated stock footage and some alternate camera angles,

but this was largely a matter of which video source we

chose for a given scene or series of scenes. Those of

you who are unfamiliar with the MGCA version of the

story are in for a surprise, as there's lots of extra

footage now present for your enjoyment. Most of it is

stock footage, but there are at least two scenes - the

extended version of Cain's arrival aboard the Galactica

and Apollo's Gammoray mission briefing aboard the jump

shuttle - that are NOT present in the DVD box set.



We took the liberty of reordering some of the scenes in

order to make the story flow better. Thus, our print

opens as with MGCA, starting with the Colonial fleet

almost out of fuel and then switching to the Pegasus

chasing after the Galactica's patrol. Likewise, the

sequencing of some of the restored scenes was changed

from that used in all "official" prints (episode as

broadcast, the telemovie, and MGCA), again because of

story flow issues. Oh, and Apollo now grips his blaster

with his LEFT hand like he's supposed to when confronting

Sheba and Bojay over the fuel. There is also one new

scene near the end, as indicated by the classic BSG

second-season writer's bible ... but we'll let you savor

that one when it happens.



The whole point of this project was to create a print of

"The Living Legend" as complete as possible. All we ask

in return is that you forward a copy on to your favorite

BSG faneditors (hello, David Kerin!). Perhaps their

talents can take up this project from here.



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