Hi i'm new , what a nice site!

[Star]

Hi! Great i've found this site! I should have had it 20 years ago but there was no inernet yet then....

I'm just turned 33 . I live in the Netherlands and my friend bought me the DVDcollection of BG a few months ago having heard all the stories about how i loved it when i was about 10 (i think , not sure when BG came on Dutch tv) . Battlestar Galactica was my whole world then! Every week i sat in front of the tv waiting for BG to come on screen and then the rest of the week thought and dreamt about it. Me and my friend drawed the battles between the vipers and the cylons on wallpaper (too bad we don't have them anymore) and played we were in a viper when riding our bike , setting off the turbo! :lol: ...

But most of all i was madly madly in love with STARBUCK. I had posters and pictures of him on my wall an used to dream away looking at it. I believed 'Starbuck' was for real (although ofcourse i knew his real name was Dirk but that doesn't matter in a child's mind i guess :wink: ) , living out there somewhere and i so much wanted to live in the Galactica! I had a great time.... Until the serie stopped and that hurted.

But some years later , me a little older ( a real teenage girl) , surpirise....!... He was making his appaerance in The A-team. Although i must say i loved BG as a serie more then The A team (i just love the mystic of Sci-Fi) i was stilled hooked and bought every magazine with them in it. I did love the Face- character . They even came to visit my country one time! Unfortunately i didn't have the chance to go and see them then. I still have my book i made with pictures and posters in it from The A-team and BG and it brings back memories of a very good time.

Now i feel a little teenage -girl again watching the DVD and and yes feel some butterflies for Starbuck again. Isn't that great! (No i don't do the bike-thing anymore but it's nice to think back at that memorie) Well , everyone has a hero i guess. I think i'm probably not the only girl back then kissing his poster goodnight every night..! :D

So the DVD was a great gift and it made me surf the internet and find this site! The documentary on the DVD is really great to watch and on this site i've found much more information about Dirk.

I'm sorry, long story....but i had to share it...

Keep up the good work!


Martine

[Warrior]

Welcome ;)

You caught the website at the right time, as it just recently went through a major re-design.

[Moonshine_Sally]

Hi Martine,
Fantastic to know that there's another Dirk-fan so close by(I'm in that small neighbouring country where they speak the same language!)Did you get a chance to meet him last year when he was in Holland?I met him in Ghent in october and that was fantastic.I was a teenager when he was in BG and if I'm correct that was either in 78 or 79 on our tv and honestly I cannot remember if I saw it on the Dutch or the Belgian tv.Maybe I did on both.I got a distant memory of wednesday's or thursday's.I never really was into the A-team at the time(earlie 20's other things to do :roll: )but enjoy watching it now.It's also out on DVD now(hint hint for your friend :wink: )
Liliane

[Star]

Hey Liliane!

So you met Dirk eh?? Too bad i didn't know he was 'in the neighbourhood' last year (talk about other things to do ..., i had a rough time back then with lots of personal problems and therefor no eye for nice and interesting things around me and that's why , now that i'm happy again :) , i NOW got back into BG so much!) , i guess i missed a chance!! It would be so great to meet him , i really envy you. It must be so unreal meeting your childhood- hero. And from what i've learned about him lately he must be such a nice and very interesting person. Maybe i'll get the chance someday. If you hear anything about him being around let me know!

I would not have enjoyed Ateam so much if Face wasn't in it , i even don't think i would have watched it. The thing about BG was also that i liked the way it was made and the whole Sci-Fi thing, i still love to watch it. But maybe you are right.... , i should give that friend another hint about the DVD-box of the Ateam being around then... ! :D

Nice to have a 'neighbour'on this board! :wink:

[legendarytv]

Welcome to Dirk's great site, hope you enjoy joining in on the chats.
Timothy.