gwydion said:
It's quite amazing that a show like S:AAB that only ran for one season and hasn't been around for a LONG time now still comes up regularly.
I think the reason it comes up regularly on this site is because it's so similar to Wing Commander. Of these shows S:AAB gets my vote as most similar to WC. A show focused on fighter combat on a space carrier.
gwydion said:
Identification with the characters is good, and Hawkes is reasonably similar to Maniac just as West is pretty close to Blair. I suppose you could say Vansen is like Angel too... and just to top it off their commanders both have white hair (Tolwyn and McQueen)
Gwydion's analogy of characters seems pretty good. In addition to that, we've got the asian guy=Vagabond.. S:AAB's character is into sports/Vagabond is into gambling; they are also known for being superstitious. black girl=Cobra.. S:AAB's character seems to emulate Cobra's hairstyle. The similarities are close enough that one could reasonably guess that they were trying to capitalize off of Wing Commander's popularity by emulating the game.
It seems to me that the old BSG is most similar to the first WC game and the Secret Missions; where all the pilots were generally cordial to each other (with the exception of Maniac). The new BSG reminds me more of 3 and 4 (and from what I've read about WC
) since these games have a darker vibe to them. Of couse the problem with that analogy is that I prefer WC3 and 4 over WC1 and prefer the old BSG to the new one. I do like the graphics on the new one though, but the events, character behaviors, and subject matter are just a bit too dark and twisted for my taste.
I tried to get into Babylon 5, but the shows I watched rarely seemed to have fighter combat, and the show tended to bore me.. unfortunately.. maybe I just happened to see the most boring shows when I happened to tune to it?
Firefly was awesome, but not too much similarity to Wing Commander except perhaps the tension between the crisp, clean, controlling, sometimes corrupt Confed and the sloppier, ragtag, freedom loving Border Worlds.