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Just watched BSG until my eyes crossed.
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Donovan
beer, I want beer
If you have one of the new game units like PS3 or Wii or xbox 360, invest the 8 bucks a month for netflix. Instant downloads, a huge selection, unlimited downloads, I can't say enough good about it. Only drawback at this point seems to be that really new stuff is dvd only, but I'm betting that will rapidly change as they are making a buttload of money. I have watched tons of series and the whole BSG is available as DL. Not to mention Dr Who, Torchwood, Sarah Connor, and a ton of other shows I meant to get to and missed out on. The boy and I watched a bunch of "Ghost Fratboy adventures" and laughed our asses off last week.
Donovan
beer, I want beer
I noticed that. I was thinking Why would they need to indicate this world is slightly different than ours by shaving corners off their paper? I may be wrong, but I'd guess the big fucking spaceships kinda give that away...
Meanwhile, I'm midway through season 3...Oy. Good news is that the ps3 Netflix has a screencapture ff button that allows me to skip anything that looks like a close-up of Apollo, Starbuck, Dee, or that space-football guy. I just bleep right over it. It's like the love quadrangle never happened. But the entire season has had me scratching my head. That stupid boxing episode? "punch punch punch hit bleed God I love you" WTF was THAT? That might the single messiest and most psychologically fucked up tv episode I ever watched. Bludgeoning your lover into exhaustion =passion. Um, no. Just, No. And then Adama gets up there and has to take a beating so he can prove to the crew he doesn't like them and will therefore be better able to keep them alive. That is really fucking comforting, old dude. Meanwhile, that makes like three times Adama has taken an asswhipping in order to pay for a mistake in the last few episodes. The dude he shot down, the chief, Lee boxed him, and I think even Popeye Tigh thumped him once. Guys that were colluding with the Cylons get shot outta airlocks, and this guy let his entire fleet be disbanded and split apart, causing the deaths of thousands, so his punishment is a fat lip?
Oh well. No series stays good forever. I should have known something bad was coming in that first episode when they said "Hey we found this awesome planet to live on. It's just beyond that shark nebula, but we can jump over that easily."
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
But the New Caprica episodes were good...
You consider Adama worse than the people who colluded with the cylons? Why?
AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO LIKED BSG BEYOND SEASON THREE IT SEEMS THAT WAY SOMETIMES.
What about that scene where Baltar was being tortured but he projected sex with Six over it? That was good.
You consider Adama worse than the people who colluded with the cylons? Why?
AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO LIKED BSG BEYOND SEASON THREE IT SEEMS THAT WAY SOMETIMES.
What about that scene where Baltar was being tortured but he projected sex with Six over it? That was good.
Donovan
beer, I want beer
They were pretty decent, but somewhat forced, as if the series needed to be shaken up so they shoved a few people around and ignored previously established character patterns for the sake of the new storylines they wanted to follow. That always tends to have a jarring effect in fiction and makes the entire thing seem artificial.
I don't specifically, but let's take Gaida for example. He worked on the inside in a hopeless situation, did the best he could, and on admittedly circumstantial evidence nearly got sucked out into space. Meanwhile, Adama, the man responsible for the entire fleet, allowed a deliberate disbanding of his entire army, in the course of a single year, left no room for the eventual and almost obvious return of the robots who just blew up his entire race a few months earlier, and basically said, "Oh well, guess we gotta listen to Baltar now." At best that's pisspoor planning, at worst shocking negligence that directly led to the deaths of thousands of people when they were caught with their pants down. No perimeter defenses, no backup plans, no escape scenario "just in case". This from the guy who had them on a 33 minute clock while steadily planning for game-changing strategies.
he didn't get demoted, he didn't get admonished, he didn't even have anybody pissed at him, and the only ones who spoke up, Tigh and Starbuck, got in trouble and kicked out until they straightened up their malcontent ways. Even when he did get in the ring to take his lumps, mealy mouthed Adama twisted it so his ignoring even the most basic military strategy on New Caprica was somehow THEIR fault for making him like them too much and becoming soft. Wholly out of character on a dozen fronts; that's my problem with the third season.
I'm still watching, and I am enjoying the parts of the cylon society where Baltar and the others interact. I even like the Boomer/Sharon dynamic. But the season definitely lacks cohesive storytelling and is very weak in a lot of ways. I liked Zarak palying a more prominent role, but they seem to have abandoned that now after first setting it up.
I liked the concept, and even the self-doubt bit where he thinks he's a cylon. Unfortunately I'm getting the sinking suspicion that this mystery five cylons are gonna turn out to have a couple coincidental representatives on Galactica, which will suck because it will be forced.
Oh yeah, I like Tigh a lot better now, especially his spiral into depression. very believable. I like the scene with Gaida where Gaida is saying he got them information and he says "Yeah? How bout my fucking eye? Where's THAT?"
It occurs to me that Tigh would be a good mystery Cylon if only because it would fit best. Nobody on Caprica should really be shoehorned in, but Tigh was in captivity for "months", "tortured", and led the resistance with full knowledge of the Cylons but mysteriously wasn't killed. Seems like he'd be one to use, or even his wife. Maybe Zarak.
Hopefully the big reveal won't be corny as hell...
Sarek
Vuhlkansu Wihs
A marketing gimmick. They split the season into two parts and then charge you twice the price of a full season when you have to buy two box sets to get the full season.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Yeah I guess Adama did fuck up during New Caprica by letting the fleet go to shit (and letting Lee get fat)...I think I just always assumed it was Baltar's fault but I suppose part of it was Adama giving up after Baltar won the election.
The "have you seen my eye" line was classic. I'm totally with you in having sympathy for Gaeta. That scene where Starbuck (I think) was beating him up for being a cylon lover was horrible. Gaeta has some great stuff in season four that you might like (or possibly hate, but it's interesting anyway!) All his scenes with Baltar are very well done too.
Can't comment on the mystery cylon thing too much yet...it's explained throughout season four so it'll end up making more sense than it appears at first.
The "have you seen my eye" line was classic. I'm totally with you in having sympathy for Gaeta. That scene where Starbuck (I think) was beating him up for being a cylon lover was horrible. Gaeta has some great stuff in season four that you might like (or possibly hate, but it's interesting anyway!) All his scenes with Baltar are very well done too.
Can't comment on the mystery cylon thing too much yet...it's explained throughout season four so it'll end up making more sense than it appears at first.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
SPOILERS!
The Tomtrek
Love Wookiee
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF RACETRACK?
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
No, she looked good in it, at the time. But she seems to look like a head on a stick now.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
It was on earlier as well, because I turned over to it a few times during Outcasts.