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Battlestar Galactica

I don't really want to comment too much on this one until I see the grand finale next week, though I did enjoy the flashback scenes. Fleshing out the characters' back story in this way right now is something I didn't see coming, and it really helps define who these people were before they became who they are after the holocaust. An interesting bit of storytelling there.

The last few weeks have finally made me realize this thing is actually coming to an end. When I first read the screenplay for the miniseries back in December 2002 I was absolutely sure I was going to hate this new version of Battlestar Galactica. Maybe I was reading it with the old show in mind and trying to connect those characters to their new versions, or maybe it really did look that bad on paper, but the casting, the camera work, direction, writing and especially the music came together and made this show work in ways I didn't expect. Roddenberry used to talk about capturing lightning in a bottle with the original Star Trek, and I think Ronald D. Moore has done exactly the same thing here.

Oddly, I'm finding that I really don't care whether or not the ending meets up with my expectations because it's been an amazing ride. The only thing I know for sure is that I'll miss it when it's gone and I don't think we'll ever see anything quite like this again.
 
SOMETHIN' COOL 'BOUT CAPRICA (not spoilery at all don't worry)

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The episode was ok, but it was all set up, as you might expect.

I'm kind of disappointed by the very ordinary looking cars on caprica, the old BSG seemed so much more hi tech, new BSG is essentially our society with space ships.

Baltars dad reminded me of Father Jack
 
I think the finale will probably work better if the view all three hours at once, since this was clearly just the first hour of a larger story. The flashbacks were well shot and everything and I understand the point of showing how far the characters have come, but I can't help but feel a bit disappointed that a large part of the finale is going to be taken up by them (I assume there will be more since some characters didn't get any yet.)

I like the Baltar ones. It really sounded like he said "a fucking hole in my head." The cop who told Roslin her family were dead seemed like a realy bad actress. Maybe that was intentional. That was kind of typical Roslin stuff. Lee and a pigeon...riiiight.

I liked the last half hour of present day stuff with Lee telling off Baltar (but he still didn't go on the mission.) The stuff with Anders is quite creepy and I thought his flashback fitted best with what was happening in the present. I don't think he's ever going get out of that tub.

I liked the way Adama's speech (the first one anyway) spread about through the crew. And the red line bit was quite emotional. Good old Cottle. But how come his nurse went? She didn't seem to like the idea of cylon babies a while ago. Mabye seeing Tigh's baby die changed her mind or something.

Was good to see Simon and Doral again AND OF COURSE Racetrack (who looked really pretty) and Skulls. Skulls said "the more things change the more they stay the same" so look for someone to say "the sky's the limit" next week.
 
Adama will probably walk in on a triad game. "I should have done this a long time ago", he'll say and Starbuck will reply "you were always welcome". Then Galactica will crash into the Cylon Colony, knocking it into the black hole as everyone else escapes on raptors (except Adama who escapes on his Viper). When they get back to the fleet they find that the civilians have landed on a planet and melted down their ships so they can build a giant Gaius Baltar statue.

Just like in All Good Things.
 
Do you think the black hole is actually our sun collapsed and EArth (the real Earth) was sucked inside and the souls of all the humans who live there are trapped and transmitting out in the form of head people?
 
Who knows anymore? I hear RDM said in his podcast that Daniel isn't Starbuck's dad at all.
 
Well I wonder if spending too much time near a black hole will end up sending them into the future, or the past.
 
Or nothing at all is revealed next week and it just ends with a ten minute sequence of Adama lacing up his boots.
 
ONE MORE DAY AND THEN WE WON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO GUSH ABOUT UNTIL TRUE BLOOD RETURNS ON MAY
 
And not even then for some of us. ;)
 
I know...poor, poor people.
 
I just need to avoid spoilers until next tuesday, I probably wont be able to though, usually some twat will put one in a threat totally unrelated to BSG.

I'll be reading a 24 thread and someone will say, "well at least he didnt die with stileto shoe stuck in his eye like Baltar", or they'll stick it on the bbc news entertainment section, "last nights finale of BSG in america reached record ratings as americans watched Amiral Adama die under a heard of elephants"
 
I think you should just shut yourself in until then.
 
Daniel was an elephant!
 
EJO talked about race in a similar way as referenced in that article when I saw him do a panel last year. I wonder if he ranted about Bush too.

I read yesterday that RDM claims Daniel ISN'T Starbuck's dad. Sure, whatever!
 
Well then WTF is she, then??
 
Maybe her dad was captain Scarlet
 
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