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General => Entertainment => Television => Topic started by: l4tran on March 08, 2007, 05:23:26 PM
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I just finish downloading 12.6 gigs of season 1,2 and half of season 3. I just wanted to say, its great. I was always a fan of Sci-fi. I only have one complaint with regards to BSG. Why cant they put more efforts into the special effects department. If you take a look at startrek, everything they do in terms of technology is more advance than what we have today. In BSG, it seems that the technology they are using is pretty much the same as what we have. Ok beside the space ships, and the cruisers everything else is pretty much the same.
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Its called 'style'.
ST was for showing a happy future tech (and had a big budget to develop gadgets).
BSG is '40 year old' military tech that still functions while using chewing gum and tape to keep the human race alive.
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Did they just *********************? That was quite a shocker - I thought she would just retire...
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Did they just kill off Starbuck?
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA???? :shocked:
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It was about time. I haven't liked her character since the first season. She'll be back, though...
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i only watch it because grace park is in it haha
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l4tran:
it's discussed in the director's cut of the miniseries dvd. for one, the CG is cut back because of the style of the series. it's supposed to be a rag-tag fleet, with set designs that mimic real-life submarines (there is no "commander's seat" as in star trek, it's more believable as technology that can exist). also, bsg is much more heavily invested in drama than it is in science fiction, so CG was never a big part of the focus. even the FTL is reduced to a simple light flash, rather than the stretching from the warp drives in ST. season 1 episode 1 "33", it's about running from the enemy, not about flashy technology.
anyway, i've been a bsg fan since the miniseries. i actually got a couple forum members hooked in it, as skeptical as they were XD
bsg without kara is going to be hard. no one likes her, but you have to admit she's vital to the fleet's survival. i feel bsg has been taking on elements of LOST, especially with kara's visions as of the last few episodes. it's amazing that the writers would drop off her character in such a dramatic way, but there are so many unanswered questions that i know kara will be back, probably with some epiphane of the road to earth.
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>_<
Please mark for spoilers!!!!!!! :evil:
Anyway, yeah. I adore this damn show. I recently downloaded season 1, and it had me HOOKED. I still need to start watching season 2. It's one of the best shows on TV right now.
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>_<
Please mark for spoilers!!!!!!! :evil:
Then you should shut your eyes also when the flash preview is shown during the title sequence...
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>_<
Please mark for spoilers!!!!!!! :evil:
Sorry about that.... :ONkneelbow: I missed the broadcast and had to watch it from a torrent, so I thought most people had seen it already.
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Sorry about that.... :ONkneelbow: I missed the broadcast and had to watch it from a torrent, so I thought most people had seen it already.
Ah, it's OK. I'll get over it. It's not like it's the end of the world. :P
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It was about time. I haven't liked her character since the first season. She'll be back, though...
I have to get hold of the podcast, but by what is said on mm-bbs it seems they actually wanted to make a big splash and kill her character off...
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Not sure if you guys are into spoilers, but this page has a pretty good description of the finale.
http://www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=118&post_id=1861
Kind of disappointed by the 4 who were revealed as part of the final 5 cylons. I honestly don't think I'll be watching the show anymore after season 3... I LOVED the mini/first season. Season 2 was ok... Season 3 had maybe 1 or 2 episodes that I liked. Maybe my opinion will change when I see the finale, but I just don't see it happening.
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^ Here is another spoiler page for the finale: http://www.aintitcool.com/?q=node/31923
Hm, yes I'm waiting for the special effects, and I will try season 4 anyway but hm, yes...
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The finale was aired this week here in the UK. I don't mind all this skepticism from fans. I've heard it all before at the end of Season 2 with the five year jump, but as it turns out, the New Caprica storyline was one of the most interesting yet. It's like most cult hits really, there's a certain direction some fans think it should go, and if it doesn't go in that way, then people start to get upset. Personally, I think the revelations were fascinating. The four out of five cylons were revealed and despite stating to remain loyal to the fleet, we all know the cylons have their own agenda. Starbuck actually being alive was kinda expected, but is she actually alive? Or is she only seen to Apollo, like Six is to Baltar? Having Six's own spiritual Baltar tell her about Ellen's death was interesting as we know it doesn't seem to be a figment of their imagination, but is some form of external communication, as Six didn't know about Ellen before. But 'All Along The Watchtower' was the most interesting. How does this tie in to the fleet? The four said they had heard it before, so have they been to Earth already? And if they discover Earth, what time era will it be in? Personally, I can't wait for Season 4.
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so who do you think is the final cylon?
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So it's official, the next season of Battlestar will be the last ever (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i157e88908d7e00620d293654df889417)
I'm fine with that. 4 seasons is fine, and I don't want BS to fall into mediocrity as more and more seasons continue. Now, there will be an end, a definate end, which means the producers are likely to pull out all the stops in the 22 episodes. I cannot wait.
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So it's official, the next season of Battlestar will be the last ever (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i157e88908d7e00620d293654df889417)
I'm fine with that. 4 seasons is fine, and I don't want BS to fall into mediocrity as more and more seasons continue. Now, there will be an end, a definate end, which means the producers are likely to pull out all the stops in the 22 episodes. I cannot wait.
Hopefully that will mean no meaningless filler episodes, which seemed to be a staple of season 3. Overall though it's a good show and I can't wait to see how it ends.
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^ I really don't think so. The best thing about Season 1 was that there were no 'fillers'. The story progressed with each episode, while Season 2 and 3 were bogged down by a couple of 'fillers' (Black Market = Worst BSG Episode Ever). Because the series is coming to a definite close, I think we will see no fillers at all, as many questions need to be answered, e.g. What do the other 4 Cylon models have in plan? Who's the 5th model? Why can Baltar only see a very real No.Six and vice-versa? What purpose does Hera have? And more importantly, will they find Earth? With 22 episodes, I can only assume the season will start with pace and will not let up until the last. That's why I cannot wait.
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^ I really don't think so. The best thing about Season 1 was that there were no 'fillers'. The story progressed with each episode, while Season 2 and 3 were bogged down by a couple of 'fillers' (Black Market = Worst BSG Episode Ever). Because the series is coming to a definite close, I think we will see no fillers at all, as many questions need to be answered
I agree about there being no filler in season 1, I was talking about season 3 although there were some in season 2 in my opinion which featured "scar", which is, imo, the worst episode yet, although Black Market was awful too.
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Yeah Season 3 had it's fillers too, like Helo investigating the corrupt doctor, although I did prefer it to Season 2's fillers. One aspect I didn't like with the fillers was it started off with a scene and then drags you back through with '48 hrs earlier' and then builds up to that point. As I remember, it happened with a couple of episodes, and I was beginning to wonder if every episode was going to take this structure. Glad to see the producers didn't go with it. Even with filler episodes though, BSG still produces some of the best television I've ever seen.
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What I hated about the filler eps was they kept taking present day problems and putting them in outer space with no creative writing at all. They just gave us the abortion issue on a spaceship. A class struggle on a spaceship. A labor strike on a spaceship. There was no science fiction angle to it. Although the Saddam Hussein trial on a spaceship turned out alright.
And the writers don't take into account what's already happened in the past when they write these fillers. Like why would there be a whole population of people who mines "coal" by hand when they got technology to travel space? Weren't the cylons created to do crap like that? And would class differences be such a big issue after everyone spent a year of hell on New Caprica? Barely surviving under cylon rule should've leveled the playing field. If they really wanted to do a class struggle story, it would've made more sense to have the poor people who escaped with Adama take control of the positions of power within the fleet, and then have a big class dispute when the former rich people returned from New Caprica expecting to assume their old positions. As is, these eps would've worked better in seasons one or two. And what happened to the Hera the miracle baby angle? She's got blood that can cure terminal cancer in a couple a days, but she can't handle a simple infection. :?
Ugh, hopefully in the last season, they'll stay with the cylon-human war stories and cut the fillers. The original series got lame too (or lamer) when they moved away from the cylons and started fighting nazis in space and other stupid shit.
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Via mm-bbs: nice write-up of a BSG event (and some season 4 info)
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32918
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Argh the wait is killing me! Luckily there was an on-set visit for reporters and at the end, there was a panel of members of the cast and crew, to answer questions, both story related and BS questions in general. The panellists include:
- Aaron Douglas ("'Chief' Galen Tyrol")
- Michael Hogan ("Saul Tigh")
- Jamie Bamber ("Lee 'Apollo' Adama") I keep forgetting he's from England!! :lol:
- Grace Park ("Sharon 'Athena' Agathon")
- Tahmoh Penikett ("Karl 'Helo' Agathon").
- Harvey Frand (BSG's Line Producer)
- Mark Stern, (SCI FI Channel's Executive Vice President of Programming)
- Bonnie Hammer (SCI FI Channel's President)
(http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/image/article/801/801123/battlestar-galactica-20070702040403412.jpg)
Pretty interesting discussion, you get to hear what the cast think of the show, it's influence on media, talking about fans, both celebrity and non-celebrity (Tahmoh's run in with the 300 pound fan was funny, but Aaron's encounter with a big name celebrity of the show was the best :lol:), their favourite moments etc. Just makes me want Season 4 all the more!
Click for panel videos (http://uk.media.tv.ign.com/media/821/821011/vids_1.html)
Credit for picture and videos goes to IGN
Oh and there's no spoilers, sorta. In the 3rd video, Aaron briefly mentions the relationship of the final 5 in relation to the other Cylon models, but it's something we already know, and can't really draw any conclusions from.
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Season 4 will be BSG's last. Moore has decided that he would rather end the series properly rather than have it cut short in the middle of the storyline, in case plans for a 5th season fall short.
And as far as "filler" episodes go... I think they're quite good. There are of course inconsistencies but you have to keep in mind that Moore never envisioned the new BSG to be a science fiction series (the way Star Trek et co. are)--rather it's supposed to be more of a drama. Coal miners come from the fact that different colonies had different heritages (Caprica for aristocrats, Pygon for labor, etc). Moreover, after the initial cylon rebellion, 50 years had passed, so it's logical that humans have had to support that industry after the cylons left. Class differences on New Caprica are logical from the feudal-like leadership of Baltar, and exacerbated by the terrible conditions on the planet (not to mention the turmoil that everyone had gone through in the previous months fleeing from the cylons). Remember that they spend a year on New Caprica before the cylons arrived, so it was first a working class struggle against an egotistical leader, and then a life-or-death struggle underneath a puppet leader.
As for the topical episodes based on current-day issues; No one in the real world expects there to be easy solutions to our problems, but someone has to start from some place. And BSG simply takes their own view on how those issues might play out in the context of life-or-death. And in that regard I think the episodes are (mostly) very well done, because they allow you to see how the issues play out from episode-to-episode, as well as how the issues relate to the bigger questions: what does it mean to be human (and not cylon)? are we a species worth saving? and if pitted against our fate, what is most important to save? and so on.
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We need more smiling Grace Park (Sharon) scenes! :w00t:
(http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/4564/battlestarpanelp1200702in4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6585/battlestarpanelp1200702iv1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(framegrabs from the videos Tuffty linked to)
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^ Hell yes!! Shame Tricia Helfer wasn't there too :drool: and it's Grace Park rather than Linda
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and it's Grace Park rather than Linda
Oops freudian slip from another SF series ;D
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:w00t: BSG returns in November.
Just saw a commercial for it on SciFi.
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^ Hell yes!! Shame Tricia Helfer wasn't there too :drool: and it's Grace Park rather than Linda
Hmmm...Grace Park vs Linda Park...:dunno:
Can't I take both? ;D
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New trailer for Season 4 (http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Video-Clip-Teaser-For-Battlestar-Galactica-Season-4-6707.html)
[spoiler]Starbuck's last line sent shivers down my spine[/spoiler]
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BSG: Razor next month, can't wait.
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... screener is up in the newgroups ...
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Razor 'By Your Command':
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9220/battlestargalacticarazohl7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Its feels like an extende episode (its 1.5 hours)
It does have some nice visuals from a shipyard in the flashbacks:
(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4051/battlestargalacticarazode1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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I read the name of this thread as "Babble Star". I think it's time for me to go to bed.
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BSG: Razor starts next Saturday 24th.
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Razor wasn't bad. I went into it expecting a lot, probably too much. It's going to be interesting to see how the final season plays out after some of the things that are revealed near the end of the movie. I just really hope BSG can reclaim some of the glory that it had in the mini and first season.
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Seeing as it's not posted yet, due to the writers strike, Season 4 production has cancelled indefinately. So we may have a scenario that Sci-Fi channel wanted all along (supposedly), where half the episodes of the season are shown next year, and the remaining half in 2009. And that's in America. God knows how long it would take for Sky to show it (Season 3 didn't air until 6 months after America or something like that). Motherfuckers. I'm contemplating buying a Season boxset to tide me over.
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I just hope that we're gonna see a proper ending for the series. Nothing is more annoying than a unfinished story.
Ron Moore and others behind the new BSG should do the same as JMS did for Babylon5, shooting the last episode beforehand, so we're going to see the ending even the show will be cancelled.
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^ Nothing is cancelled, they have a 4th (is last) season to close things off.
The current problem is: the writer strike in the U.S.
And the last season of Babylon5 was actually somewhat bad because of that episode they already shot, because they had to replace a lot of actors its a bit hap-snap in the last season (currently re-watching it on DVD) because they already finished a lot at the end of season 4.
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And the last season of Babylon5 was actually somewhat bad because of that episode they already shot, because they had to replace a lot of actors its a bit hap-snap in the last season (currently re-watching it on DVD) because they already finished a lot at the end of season 4.
The last season sure was bad, but that wasn't the pre-shot final episode's fault. All the main plotlines were ended in season 4, and they really didn't have enough stuff to continue on season 5. But think if they had cancelled the series in the middle of the fifth season? How crappy solution would that have been.
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The last season sure was bad, but that wasn't the pre-shot final episode's fault. All the main plotlines were ended in season 4, and they really didn't have enough stuff to continue on season 5. But think if they had cancelled the series in the middle of the fifth season? How crappy solution would that have been.
The original ark was 5 seasons so that was not the problem, the problem was the very late approval of season 5 so JMS wanted to finish as much of the story arks as possible in season 4. Then when 'the powers that be' did approve season 5 there was a lot of reschuffling going on, including some 'fighting' and scheduling problems about who could return and why(not).
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I'm a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica. It's my 3rd favorite TV drama of alltime. I just wanted to say that :)
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From the nfo for Razor DVD:
The unrated and extended DVD runs 103 minutes, about
16 minutes longer than the Sci-Fi Channel broadcast.
Have to check that out, Amazon should ship me the DVD next week (including Season 1 in HD-DVD yay!)
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I finally had it with people saying how good this series is so I found the mini-series the other day and gave it a try. I was blown away. Here's to Sexy Cylon Succubi and the men who love them.
Now I have to get through three seasons and the Razor movie of show so I can catch up with the rest of you.
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Razor's showing on Sky One tomorrow here in the UK :D :D :D
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^ Lets hope they upload a HDTV version to the newsgroup!
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Liked the original. Like Grace Park
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Thoroughly enjoyed Razor. Always nice to see new material, revelations and the grey areas that Galactica deals with. And I've always been fascinated with Admiral Kane's character and the acting with her and she doesn't disappoint here. It's one thing hearing about the acts she made, it's another actually seeing them. Some interesting info for Season 4 as well like:
*SPOILER*
Starbuck is 'the harbinger of doom for the human race'? :o
Only bad thing is that the wait for S4 is a little bit harder to take :(
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As expected, a 1080p h264 version is currently being posted to the hdtv newsgroup :)
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i hope the writers strike ends soon so we can our full season of bsg already. it would suck for sci-fi to split the season into two years. as much as i dont wanna see bsg end, i do want to know what happens and having to wait for months and months midseason would suck. bsg is tv done right.
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season 4 got a premiere date. its starting on apr 4. hopefully the whole season airs.
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:thumbsup
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IGN has posted a lot of Season 4 promo pics (http://uk.media.tv.ign.com/media/821/821011/imgs_1.html)
D’Anna Biers features in these a few times I see. Perhaps she makes some kind of return?
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^ cool..man, the premiere's getting closer and closer. i hope this whole season is awesome. it better be since its the last one.
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Ten reasons the see the new season of BSG:
[youtube=425,350]YatjlSJNRHM[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YatjlSJNRHM&fmt=8
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^ Oh No.6 should be No.1!! :lol:
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BOOMER! = :wriggly:
No.6 = :drool:
Starbuck = :inlove:
Tigh = :on lol:
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BG prequel series 'Caprica' confirmed for production (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a91870/battlestar-galactica-prequel-confirmed.html)
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season 4 starts this friday guys!!! :w00t:
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4x01 spoiler! (or not?)
(http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4196/snapshot20080405184141ya6.th.jpg) (http://img256.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot20080405184141ya6.jpg)
Long battle scene at the start:
(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6766/snapshot20080405184319zh1.th.jpg) (http://img259.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot20080405184319zh1.jpg)
(and Baltar gets all the hot chicks... again! :banghead:)
Verdict: long wait, good start of the season.
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Argh I guess I'll have to stay away from this thread for at least 2 weeks now :D
On Tues here in the UK, a week before the S4 premiere, Sky One are being ever so kind and airing a recap of what's happened so far in BSG for any newcomers and diehards alike, as well as a documentary on the success of the series, with opinions from fans and supposed 'celebrity commentators'. Not expecting any A-listers to be on. Finally they will re-run Razor.
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Argh I guess I'll have to stay away from this thread for at least 2 weeks now :D
If I had to wait for it to show up on an TV-channel here... no way am I ging to wait that long (including that the sub-titles would ruin it)
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the beginning of the premiere was SWEET! i was so happy to have the show back. everything was so crazy and i was loving it, but then the episode slowly started to lose its appeal. it focused way too much on baltar and his cult group. didn't the writers know that after last season's finale, the questions on the forefront of our minds were "tighe, tyrol, anders, and tori are cylons?! how?! what's going to happen to them?! starbuck is back?! what happened to her and where's earth?!" and "what's going to happen to baltar?" was more of a minor question, but too much of the episode was focused on answering that. i guess the writers are saving the answers to the other questions for the rest of the season. i understand that they obviously can't answer those questions too quickly, but maybe they could've focused more attention and fleshed out those stories more instead of making a BALTERstar galactica episode. i can't wait to see the rest of the season though. its gonna be good!
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Not enough Grace!!! :thumbdown: Still a good ep tho. :D
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Just finished watching the the first ep for this new season, and it wasn't too bad.
Too much focus on Baltar and his new lil cult, IMO.
Now, I'm curious as to who will be revealed as the fifth and final cyclon model.
Looking forward to seeing how this will all be revealed in the eps to come.
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Ep 4x02: slow in some places, but the start made up for a lot:
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Brilliant episodes! Thankfully we're now at the same pace as you guys in the US.
I didn't mind the Baltar-centric focus in the 1st episode, if it leads to something good then I don't mind. The most surprising thing for me was Baltar seeing Baltar! And a nice twist to have the Centurions have free will.
Next weeks looks great though. Seems like it deals with the 4 of the final five, with a certain someone finding out their identities.
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Don't want to sound like a hater (coz i aint), but i think Baltar's character is overplayed. Not just lately, but generally throughout the series. Then of course, i assume that he will continue to have a major role in all the shits that's going down so I guess it's all legit in terms of keeping the story going.
Can't wait for the next ep!
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this week's episode is being streamed live online at scifi.com every hour until 4PM ET i think. i just saw it. man...the ending was...whoa!
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4x03: Hm, now where have I seen this before...
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Lots of Boomers this ep:
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and -1 on the survivor count...
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I like the fast pace of the 4th season. No useless filler-episodes.
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Wow man the latest episode was....wow.... :O :O :O
And...EW, Boomer kissed that old man :thumbdown: :thumbdown: , Boomer :wub: :wub: :wub:
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Cally noooo! She was like the nerd porn of BG. Another great episode and next week's really looks frakking good too.
So many Boomers! Imagine waking up to find a Boomer giving you lip service. :wub:
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Hhhmm...this weeks episode was alittle boring...nothing really happened at all...nothing exciting anyways. This series is starting to become just like every other Sci-Fi series before it. Really really good at the start, but very very very boring by the 3rd or 4th seasons. :thumbdown: :thumbdown:
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4x04: watch the space scene at the start, skip the rest...
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Hhhmm...this weeks episode was alittle boring...nothing really happened at all...nothing exciting anyways. This series is starting to become just like every other Sci-Fi series before it. Really really good at the start, but very very very boring by the 3rd or 4th seasons. :thumbdown: :thumbdown:
And this is based off one episode? :roll: What TV series, be it or sci-fi or any other genre, has a perfect run from start to finish anyway? Just have faith, in the short term there maybe no immediate conclusions but who knows, this may set up things in the long-term. I enjoyed it. The only qualm I had with it was how did those crashed Raptor pilots escaped without a scratch? lol
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i gotta agree though. this past episode was WACK!
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The latest episode was pretty cool, and....SO....MANY....BOOMERS!! :inlove: :inlove: :inlove: :inlove: :inlove:
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^ 4x06, Boomers left right and thru the center :)
(http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/3854/snapshot20080511081723ax2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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And a few Six's to complete the mix :)
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Eww, time has not been kind to Major Kira from DS9.
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^ wow, I actually didn't recognise her.
She did have to play the role of dying person, but in the second framegrab she still looks 'old'.
Hm, according to imdb, she is born in 1957: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000684/
Always thought she was late 20'ish during DS9, seems she was already around 40 then.
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Best episode yet. Some flawless acting from pretty much everyone involved and the story progressing nicely. Wonderfully and weirdly intriguing, edge of the seat stuff, with a smidge of introspection about life, death and the human condition. Great stuff.
Also there were many Boomers and a Six on Six kiss. This is a trend I would like to see continue and develop :P
EDIT
There's big news on the "Battlestar Galactica" front.
There will be another set of Webisodes that will link the first 10 episodes of Season 4 and the second half of the fourth and finale season.
Even bigger news: More "Battlestar Galactica" TV movies may get made. (http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/05/more-battlestar.html)
More BSG is always good.
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Where's all my BSG peeps at?! Another cracking episode that highlights, more than anything, the end is coming. What does everyone think the meaning of the Opera house is? Athena was pretty badass shooting the rebel 6 in cold blood like that. And poor Gaeta. That's what I like about BSG, they're not afraid to make characters look like they're on their final days.
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^ 'In waiting' :)
4x07 was not bad actually, big part for Six this time. And must say: she looks good in black :)
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I'm starting to get bored over the whole Laura Roslin / Gaius Baltar thing. D: I dont know why really, for some reason i've just started to get annoyed and bothered by their characters. :( I think it's all good tho.
Last ep was pretty damn dramatic, feels like it's tightening up. Getting really exciting and all.
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The downfall of the Cylons... they did not upgrade in time to Vista :)
http://gizmodo.com/393426/cylons-baseships-run-windows-xp
(BTW ep08 is in the newsgroups, haven't had time to view it yet)
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Frakking great episode last night. A startling revelation followed by a not so startling ascendency and the return of a much admired character. Rather slow in comparison to last weeks but more questions are raised and I still can't wait to find out what happens.
One question I wish would get some kind of answer too is regarding Starbuck. How the frak did she survive from the explosion and manage to get back?
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Looks like SciFi channel is continuing the episodes, 4x09 just appeared in the newsgroups!
Maybe they continue till 4x10? then break?
epguides still gives 4x08 as the last ep, imdb says schedule goes thru to 4x10...
Edit: Lots of 8's and 6's this time :)
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I've understood the episode 4x10 is the mid-season finale and the series continues next year.
Now the dowload hub destroyed, I hope they'll get something out of the cylon civil war.
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next year? :w00t: no way..i though it would be done by now.. :w00t:
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Yep next weeks is the final episode and then the mid-season break :(
You know it's a great episode when you believe that a 'safe' character like Baltar could be effectively killed off. The resurrection hub explosion was awesome and it was an interesting storyline for Roslin. Some good lines too:
"You're not married to the entire production line."
So who's placing bets on who's the final member? Zarek? Who want's to go far out there and suggest Gaeta? Or even Dee?
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Some good lines too:
"You're not married to the entire production line."
Imo the best quote of the first half of the third season :)
Leoben said Adama would be a cylon alreadyin the first season, so I believe him... Of the two Adamas I place my bet on the younger one.
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But if they have 'been to Earth before', then my bet is on the older Adama.
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4x10: Did they or didn't they??
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The only thing missing from that ending :
(http://www.imgur.com/files/080615/BSGapes.jpg)
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The only thing missing from that ending :
My thoughts exactly :)
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Just finished watching ep 10, the mid-season finale, and all I can say is next year can't get here quick enough.
I'm still wondering if there'll be an answer regarding Starbuck's death and return, and whats been said about her being the one who will cause the destruction of humanity.
Its the waiting til next year that's gonna be annoying.
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[size=8]HOLY FRAK!![/size]
Although I did expect something was up when Starbuck found the emergency colonial signal. Oh Christ, the BSG crew just can't get a break can they? Rather annonyingly, we never found out the other member of the final five. Next year... :OMG:
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Yea, just who is that final Cylon of the final five?
Fans gonna be chomping at the bits waiting for next year... me included. ;)
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^ If I remember, in the last episode D'anna said the fifth member wasn't a member of the fleet. So if nobody in the current fleet is the 5th, could it be someone who died during the series? We can rule out anyone who D'anna wouldn't have known, Zak Adama for example.
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Hmm, I must've missed when she said that, about the fifth one not being in the fleet.
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^ & ^^ must revisit that comment but it was more like 'currently not in the fleet' and that was while there where still a few hostages, no idea if it was meant that subtile but it could be.
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I've read a couple of fan theories on who the fifth is, and there's one in particular that seems more plausible to me. And that person is...
Ellen Tigh
Now hold on, let me explain:
1. Most obvious reasoning is that she appears as a vision to Saul Tigh like Caprica Six does with Baltar.
2. D'anna Biers said in Season 4 that the final member was not on the fleet. Naturally, Ellen was dead at this point.
3. During her vision, D'anna apologised to the 5th member. Perhaps this was an apology based on Ellen acting as a spy for the Cylons which lead to her demise on New Caprica
4. Cast your mind back to the episode 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' in Season 1 where Ellen made her first appearance. And initially it was quite odd right? She'd been separated from Col. Tigh and assumed killed in the initial attack? I seem to remember there was some suspicion, but was just accepted because Col. Tigh was pleased to see her. And come to think of it Baltar tested her blood and told them all that she was human, however when 6 asked him for the truth he said he wouldnt say and he was gonna keep it a secret and thats the last we heard of it.
5. I've heard that nobody listed in the 'Last Supper' pic (http://scenescreen.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/battlestar-galactica_lastsupper.jpg) is the last member. So you begin to think of who else it may be and you think Tom Zarek, Dee, Gaeta but remember, D'anna said the final member wasn't in the fleet. So really the only other person could be Zak Adama, but due to his early demise D'anna would have no encounter with him.
Of course the big contradiction in my reasoning is that Ellen is dead. But I'm going out on a limb to suggest that the final five download into another body again when they die, but we have no idea if that is true.
Knowing BSG though, they'll find something to completely twist my conceptions around and leave me stunned, guess that's why I love it so.
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That's a quite good reasoning why Ellen Tigh would be a final cylon.
However, The revelation of the final cylon is a big thing, the biggest thing I guess, now that they already found the Earth, and that's why the final cylon should be one of the "big" characters.
Ellen Tigh just didn't have enough screen time, and when she had, she was annoying. Therefore, for me the final cylon being Ellen Tigh would be a great disappointment.
So I think the final cylon would be one of the Adamas, Starbuck, Roslin or Baltar. I placed my bet on the younger Adama before, but now I'm kinda hoping it's the older one. Just because it'd be a great for the new Caprica series.
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Final season to have longer episodes?
The Sci Fi Channel has revealed that each of the final 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica may be extended should the show's bosses deem it necessary.
Speaking to Sci Fi Wire at the San Diego Comic-Con, executive producer David Eick stated: "We're constantly getting into the editing room with ten, 15, sometimes 20 minutes of material that you can't get into an episode.
"[And] the story has become so critical in order to realise the arc of the series that we can't just cut stuff out and save it for later or push it 'til next year... it's all got to be there."
Ahead of next year's broadcast of the last ever episodes, Eick said the crew was "able to convince the network to let us air... long episodes" and "take single episodes and make them double episodes... [and] double episodes and make them quadruple episodes".
Here's hoping.
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New movie details - Edward James Olmos to direct - "It will blow you away"
Months before its final 10 episodes begin airing in January, we now know for certain that "Battlestar Galactica" will live on -- in the form of a two-hour special on the Sci Fi Channel to air in 2009 after the series concludes.
The unnamed feature will be directed by the show's co-star, Edward James Olmos, and written by "Battlestar" writer and former "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" brain Jane Espenson.
The stand-alone will document the Cylons' attempts -- those of two agents in particular -- to grapple with human survivors, both those aboard ships and those left alive on planets, shortly after the Cylons' destruction of human home worlds.
So it's a flashback, but not all the way back.
Three confirmed cast members are Michael Trucco (Sam Anders), Aaron Douglas (Galen Tyrol), and Dean Stockwell (Cavil, Cylon model No. 1) -- all Cylons. Shooting will begin promptly in Vancouver, Canada, and Sci Fi promises women regulars are being cast as well, with more names coming soon.
"Razor," the "BSG" event-movie that aired last November, was a successful test. "Not only did it do well on the air, it did phenomenally well in the international and DVD market," said Mark Stern, executive vice president of original programming for Sci Fi.
Produced by the newly-formed Universal Cable Productions (of which Stern is also a co-head), there is also "a disproportionately larger amount of money from foreign and DVD money," more than would be devoted to an average pilot, he said. (Both "Razor" and the two-hour event/pilot of "Caprica" have been produced in this fashion.) "I think it is the Holy Grail for us, in which we get high-quality programming for a lower license fee," Stern said. He declined to reveal the budget, saying that it was "expensive" and "very healthy," and that they were at first "skeptical" that the studio could get it.
"I was impressed with how high they were able to make it," he said.
So the transformation of Sci Fi and its related and parent entities into essentially a film studio was the hold-up to the deal. "What you don't want to do is do them in some half-assed way where they're not as good as they needed to be," he said.
The channel came to executive producer Ronald D. Moore once the finances were set. The story idea Moore brought back from the writers is the one indeed being made, although there was some back-and- forth, with the network's concern being that a new viewer could jump right in. "What was more of a burden to Ron in this particular case was the availability of who's out there," said Stern.
So did the cast, now more well-known thanks to "BSG," play hardball for their rates in the event-movie? "The cast are lovely," said Stern. "That's not to say we're not getting phone calls from their agents saying, 'They're huge now.' And we're respectful of that. We're not expecting anyone to do it because they owe us. There are actors that have come to some prominence; they're helping us out because they want to do it."
And, on the other side, have the news-hungry fans been driving the network crazy? "The short answer is absolutely not," said Stern, who has been a regular target of angry fans. (He was blamed for the death of "Farscape," even though he arrived at the network after it had been killed.) "The longer answer is all of our fans are kind of rowdy and invested," he said. "There's no question that there's an appetite for wanting more -- by the way, which started with us! We're all feeling, 'Does it have to be over already?' "
So, it does not entirely, though Stern said that more specials would not be produced at the same time as the first, even though some cast and crew would be assembled.
"I promise you that, not having shot a frame of footage, it will blow you away," Stern said.
Oh yes? Let's let the real experts decide.
"I'm a big fan of Edward James Olmos as a director," said Erica Blitz, co-editor of the blog Galactica Sitrep. "All his episodes have been highly unique and really wild, especially that one from Season 3, 'Taking a Break from All Your Worries'? That was wild!"
"I want to see more Jane Espenson," said Annalee Newitz, editor of sci fi blog io9, when consulted, pre-announcement, about her "BSG" future wish list. "I really like her, I like the episodes she's done. She does a really great job with dialogue and character development. She did the episode 'The Hub,' which was like super-amazing."
OK then, so it is on!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/08/battlestar-gala.html
Sounds good! Nice to hear BSG will have some kind of life after the series ends, and the fact that it's so well recieved by the television execs enough to supply a heft budget for it is also quite encouraging.
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Season 4.5 Season Sneak Peek Promo
[youtube=425,350]aXqx0YpMY14[/youtube]
Only lasts 10 secs, but it's basically saying a sneak peek will be shown on the American Sci-Fi channel on Thanksgiving Day.
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Yea, that sneak peek will shown during the James Bond marathon on Thanksgiving Day.
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Season 4.5 Trailer
http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=850122
Can't wait.
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who else saw the new episode?! i thought it was good. they revealed a whole lot. what'd everyone else think?
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I think I would like to know what they did *not* reveal in this ep...
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??? what do you mean?
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^ I think all big questions I remember that where open for the last half of of the season where answered
- Is/Was Starbuck Dead?
- Who is the 5th/12th model
- Where/Who is the 13th tribe
- What happened to Earth
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Spoilers...
Cylons are the 13th Tribe, yay!
Ellen is the 5th... What an anti-climax! I'm soooo disappointed!
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yea...i know. i was kinda disappointed with the final cylon reveal. it's bsg though. i know the writers will give us some good reasons why she's the final cylon and what it all means. i can't wait til the final episode when everything is wrapped up and everything. man...what am i going to watch after bsg and lost both end??
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^ You can watch the new Caprica series :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQlhlHwXjj0
Btw, did anyone else see the latest webisodes?
Spoilers.....
Gaeta gay for Hoshi was more of a surprise than Helen Tigh.
Looks like whatever he's planning will be a big part of the rest of the season.
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yea...i know. i was kinda disappointed with the final cylon reveal. it's bsg though. i know the writers will give us some good reasons why she's the final cylon and what it all means.
I lost my faith in RDM (and other BSG writers) after the New Caprica and Lee Adama in fatsuit -plotline :)
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Don't know about you guys, but I thought that episode was completely brilliant.
Let's remember, we only have what, 10 episodes left? 12? It's not a full season we're dealing with, and there's a lot of questions still unanswered. What's up with Starbuck for example? Or how does Baltar see Six? Sharon's baby? It's been a while since the revelation of a nuked-Earth, I was dying to know how the 5th was.
And personally speaking, Ellen as the 5th makes complete sense. It's been known before the last episode that the 5th was someone not in the fleet, so obvious choices like Adama, Roslin etc are immediately out the window. Perhaps some are disappointed that it's alcoholic nymph Ellen, but that could have been a whole other side to her, a facade, and if she ever comes back, we could have a complete character overhaul.
And Dee :( I thought it was wonderfully handled. After everything she lost (her entirely family, her planet, her marriage) she has placed everything she was in Earth and her religion. She then lost those - no hope, religion shattered. She had nothing. She came unravelled in the Raptor on the way back - a complete psychotic break. She then took control of her life long enough to give herself one last happy day, to put Lee on the right track - choosing the terms upon which someone with nothing left to go out on. I thought it was brilliantly done, and scarily similar to how these things can happen in real life.
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^Yeah when that happened to Dee, it was a REAL surprise that she did that so suddenly.
I was in the middle of taking a drink from my glass and when she shot herself I just remained in that position for a good 30 seconds. Glass raised to my mouth, in the middle of a drink, eyes staring straight ahead, not blinking, not moving, just in shock! :shocked :shocked :shocked :wth :wth "What the hell just happened :? :shocked :O
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^ BSG happened!
4x12: Setups for what is going to happen in the rest of the season.
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WOW...who saw the most recent episode, "The Oath". That was a CRAZY episode. Please do not read the rest of my post if you haven't seen it. I don't wanna be the one who ruins a great episodes for you.
This episode was so intense. As much as I hated what Gaeta was doing, he did a good job at taking over the ship. It was crazy seeing all the guns pointed at Adama and Tigh, but the great moment was seeing Adama/Tigh rough up those guys and take their guns. Those old guys don't play! Starbuck saving Lee was also really good. It was cool seeing Lee in a military-ish role again. With all the political stuff he's been doing, I almost forgot he was formal military. I'm really looking forward to the next episode. I hope all of the episodes are this great up until the end. Only 7 episodes left and I read that the finale could be 3 hours! BSG!!!
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Spoilers, not really:
Gaeta is a fucking bitch. Gotta love the last ep. tho. Fracking Starbuck going all Lara Croft on their asses with the dual pistols. Can't wait for what's next.
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Oh man I love this show. Another great episode. Gaeta, what a bitch. Wonder what's gonna happen to those locked in the brig?
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FRAK!, Gaeta Made me SO angry during the last episode, I just wanted to reach through the screen and punch him in the face :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
lol, but it was awesome how Commander Adama and Sol Tye kicked ass for being so old. They both disarmed much younger guards with ease. *Somhow I feel that guard that Commander Adama let go is gonna help next episode*
I love Battlestar Galactica, it's so intense at times, this season is getting really exciting...Friday just can't come fast enough :'( :'( :'(
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Its Saul Tigh, actually. ;)
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Gaeta and Zarek have left the building....
Next weeks ep brings her back.
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yea...so what did gaeta mean when he said, "it's stopped" at the end? the pain in his leg? what's the significance of that?
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I think Gaeta ment that the pain in his leg stopped,or his "Phantom Leg" syndrom stopped, which means that after a paitent has a limb removed, he/she can till feel that it is there. But it isn't there.
In Gaetas case, he ment that the pain was gone, he didn't feel pain in his leg anymore. It was gone, he couldn't feel the pain anymore.
Also, Gaeta is dead...good I wanted that bastard to die since the last 2 episodes. I feel he was a hypocrite. He trusted and allowed a Cylon to get to him. One of the 8's, if he didn't give that list to her, SO many peopl would of live. But becase he trusted that 8, and gave her a list of people. She took it an said "Kll everyone on this list"
Also, I wanted to say FRAK you Gaeta, the Adams sacrificed an ENTIRE battlestar (Battlestar Pegasus) to save your sorry ass!!. I mean 1 battlestar *which could make new vipers, was much more advanced, much more heavily armed* and the adamas sacrificed it to allow everyone from "New Caprica" to escape. Gaeta, if you can't appreciate that, you deserved to die...bastard!!
Gaeta died, GOOOD!!, you deseved it you little prick :P
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thanks for that explanation. wow...its funny to see how much gaeta hatred has built up in only two episodes. as roslin said, "felix gaeta. who would have though?" haha.
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Was it a big stress fracture in the hull that Tyrol found at the end? I guess they've got no choice but to accept cyclon technology to fix the damage. And I'm guessing the final five have their own secret resurrection ship out there. Anders will probably die from his gunshot wound and wake up there to find Mrs. Tigh in a pissed off mood.
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hmm....a final five resurrection ship. seeing multiple naked tyrols and tighs isn't gonna be as exciting as seeing a bunch of 8's. hahahaha.
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Oh frak me that was a great episode. The Quorum is dead, Gaeta, Zarek, possibly Anders :o :o I was sort of hoping things didn't go back to being all rosy if Adama took BSG back, but I'm glad to see it's not. Big characters died, there's a shock to the system and the Chief may have discovered a potentially dangerous fracture in the Battlestar. You just know Cavil and his lot are going to show up soon.
As for Gaeta's leg, I took it to mean that the stump never actually itched at all, but his hatred of the alliance with the rebel Cylons was bothering him to the extent that he was taking the frustration out on the remains of his leg. When he realised that he'd tried his best to stop the alliance and had failed, he accepted his coming death, so the "itching" stopped. However there was never really a physical itch at all, it was all in his head.
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Tonight, she's back.
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HOLY Crap...this week was a total Mind F*ck!!.
So much was revealed about how the Cylons came to be...I still felt that Starbuck was a totally greedy with hogging the other final 5 from information that they may of needed to figure out who they were and how they came to be. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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And... +1!
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i know right....so..any guesses on who #7, daniel is? i guess we can assume it's a guy. do you think it could be possible that it's someone we know or was daniel "killed" too early?
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Wow just so much information to digest! :o Couple of points I gathered from the latest episode:
- As predicted, Ellen got a near overhaul to her character. Who else thinks her escape with Boomer is all part of Cavil's plan? He wants the resurrection hub restored after all and the only way to do that is get the 5 together. So he gets Ellen panicking about cutting her open and gets Sharon to pretend she's helping her, I bet the Raptor is bugged and will lead his forces straight to BG.
- Speaking of, Cavil's speech was one of my personal stand out moments of the whole series. Very Blade Runner-esque and in the hands of a lesser actor it would have come across as rather cheesy, but it was delivered immacuately. I got goosebumps watching the level of self-loathing Cavil has at himself and his 'inferior body'. Kudos to Dean Stockwell for a great performance, in fact kudos to all the actors, the series has been amazing to watch for performances alone.
- Cavil is modelled after Ellen's father? But on New Caprica they... :shocked Even worse, Cavil knew the true nature of Ellen all along while they... :shocked :shocked
- Perhaps the biggest revelation is #7 - Daniel. Any thoughts? A completely new character or someone in the fleet? For me, it's either Baltar or Starbuck. Baltar because there's just something about him. How else to explain his visions of Six? Anders, during his recollections even said something along the lines of, 'We had warning signs,..Tori a man appeared before you, for me it was a woman..Amazing how, nobody else could see them..' But it's most likely Starbuck. Ellen mentioned that Daniel was an artist, which Starbuck painted the supernova beside the Temple of the Five. Cavil corrupted #7's genetic code, so much so that maybe, in a twisted form of fan service, corrupted Daniel's entire gender? ;) And of course there's the whole, Starbuck's corpse resting on Earth thing. Resurrection?
It'll be a sad day when BSG finishes :(
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Nice analysis Tuffty! This season has succeeded beyond my expectations thus far and I doubt it will get anything but better.
And yes. Why does great things have to come to an end? :(
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All good things must come to an end, Wef.
I'm still hoping that Starbuck will get explained before it all ends.
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Last episode was GREAT!, I'm curious as to how the crew of BSG is going to react to Boomer coming back *if she stays*. Mainly Chief Tyrol and Commander Adama :w00t: :w00t: . Will Tyrol and Boomer get back together?, I'm hoping for a long, tearful, happy reunion...*probably not*
Will Adama forgve and forget, throw her into the prison cell, or kill her outright because she shot him?? :wth :wth, just 1 more day and all will be found out. :w00t:
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hmm, without doubt my least favourite episode of the series so far. Not to say that it was bad, it wasn't, but I realise Adama is concerned over Galactica already, I don't need 3 seperate scenes of him staring at the same piece of metal to figure it out. With 4 more episodes to go I really want the outstanding or the big questions to be wrapping up. Starbuck's origins, Daniel and for characters as pivotal to the series as Baltar/Head Six, Six/Head Baltar, Helo, Athena, Hera: they've been given short shrift when it comes to airtime. I gotta have faith in the writers, they've not let me down so far, and who knows, this could be the calm before the storm.
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i agree. i didn't really like the episode either. if it was a regular midseason episode, i wouldn't mind it or think it's bad, but we have like 4 episodes left in the series so i'm expecting them to go out with a bang all the way through. the gaeta mutiny episodes built up the intensity and stories a lot and these past couple episodes have been a little lacking. i'm not saying that they need to be more action packed, but we do need more explanation about the other important characters.
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Better episode than last week. See the fan reaction is largely negative deriding it for the lack of action. But then, this ain't your daddy's BSG. What's wrong with some character driven episodes if done well? (and they're done really well here, Grace Park was great). I guess we've now seen Daniel, Starbuck's origins are becoming slightly clearer, and guess we could take a guess at Cavil's plan. Get Boomer on the ship, use her relationship with the Chief to kidnap Hera and take her back. I would presume Cavil will now demand the final 5 to be handed over to him in exchange for Hera. Problem is with the BSG ship in the way it is, they can't go to Cavil, Cavil has to go to them...
Grace Park, what a hottie :drool:
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yup i really liked this episode. it started out kinda slow but it really picked up. i felt really bad for athena and helo. only 3 more episodes!!!!
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Man, I completely forgot about BSG last night. :doh:
So, I'll just dl the HD ep today. :D
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Its bye bye BSG shortly (litterally) :depressed:
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i know...it's kinda sad, but cool. i want to know how it ends already, but i don't want a good thing to end. this past episode was pretty weak though.
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3 hrs left :(
Good episode this week. Anyone else think that... they'll send off the Battlestar by loading it with nukes straight into Cavil's convoy?
And as it's approaching the end, any guesses on what the final line of the series will be? The obvious one would be "So say we all", but I think it would be funny if it was "Frak!" :D
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Nice ep tonight, and then the 2 hour series finale next week, with all the answers revealed.
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^ Ah I knew I read somewhere '2 hours'.
This weeks ep is on the mediaplayer, ready for watching on the train in about an hour.
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That was a very good finale, IMHO.
I also loved how the original BSG theme was worked into the finale.
Even though this series is now done, thats not really it for BSG.
There's Caprica, and a new one coming this fall called BSG: The Plan, telling the story from the Cylons pov.
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Well if someone who haven't seen the last episodes is reading this thread for some reason, I had to say that there is some major spoilers in my post.
Sadly, the finale wasn't worth for the series.
First, why did they have the worst two episodes just before the finale? Thay should've built tension, not boredom!
The finale itself was kinda dull. They had this opera house vision thing and it was only getting Hera back to Galactica?! That's all?! I got an idea that the vision was about a race for finding Hera... Three paths, destinies, something EPIC! Well, I can't imagine any different result, whoever from the three would've found her.
Okay, so that wasn't epic at all. How about the other mystery? How did Starbuck manage to come from the dead? Well... The answer they came up with was "Starbuck came back from the dead." Come on!
So, in the end, the final answer, the secret to be revealed, the truth was just "God did it." :(
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^ ok...so the plot endings weren't amazing, but the characters at the end were GREAT. that's the best part of bsg anyway...it's all about the people in the story and i think it delivered. if you look at the last three episodes and watch them for the characters, i think you'd be more satisfied. i was initially upset with last three episodes but as i thought about them, i realized that they were a good close for the people in the world of bsg. yea, maybe a crazy twist and reveal would've been nice, but honestly would it have been that much better to find out starbuck was a clone or another cylon no one knew about? i think i'd like seeing the flashbacks into the characters lives (shout out to Lost!!!) more than if we were to see starbuck find out she was a cylon.
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Perfect finale. Absolutely fantastic. I loved the ending, they named our planet Earth,helped civilisation grow and now we could be on the precipice of making the same mistakes again...or maybe not...
You know I do feel short-changed when shows or movies don't resolve certain plot threads neatly with a pretty bow on top, but regarding Kara's origins, I don't feel that way. Was she a higher power by an almighty third-party in the same vein as Head Six/Head Baltar? Certainly seems to be no Cylon. And yet, in the long term, such ambiguities will work in favour of Battlestar Galactica and enhance its legacy, in a similar vein to the Replicant related debates with Blade Runner.
The peace settlement between the fleet and Cavil's forces was stunning and it was good to see Tory getting justice. Though when the Cylons started pulling guns on each other, I thought a lot of people were gonna die right there and then.
The flashbacks actually worked out well in the end. They were an indication to show than most characters were pretty frakked up even before the attack on Caprica. Adama lost his job, Lee was a mess, Roslin lost her family, Kara was going to lose Zack pretty soon so her world would topple down. If anything, the characters grew stronger as a result. Adama was commander of the fleet, Lee became President, Kara discovered her purpose in life, and Roslin helped them get to Earth (though the cancer was a negative side effect).
No TV series can be perfect, but BSG had such huge scope, vision and production all round, I really find it hard to fault. There's thankfully more BSG goodness to come, maybe with more answers, but right now I already miss the show. Here's hoping it inspires shows with the same depth.
On another note, did anyone see The Last Frakkin Special? Good documentary, the major actors share some funny stories and talk about what Galactica means to them. My highlights:
- How hot was Grace Park? Yowza. The smile she gives when describing what's to come? :drool: :drool: :drool:
- Hotdog's actor, in real life, is Edward James Olmo's son?! :o Never knew that, what a cool dad he would be thinking of it! :lol:
- Rekha Sharma (Tory) talking about her father seeing her sex scene :lol:
- Lucy Lawless just being her usual hilarious self
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lol just looking through the entertainment section of this forum and keep finding post about shows i like, its been a while since i watched any BSG, really loved the show. i also liked the style of it.
number six was an awesome character, i think i might find out my box sets and rewatch them when i have time.
after reading some of the other comments i think that the best season was the first, the others had good episodes but i really like the first season, alot happened in the short amount of episodes and it was all important
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I really like Gaius Balthar throughout the show but he was really amazing in the last two seasons (or was it only the last season) with his religious harem.
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I disliked the heavily religious episodes and mostly fast forwarded through them :P IMO some episodes needed to be better balanced with the political and social issues but overall BSG developed quite nicely. best sci fi series ever.
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I love the classic show and so I really wanted to like this new version... but it never happened.
The only reason I managed to sit through all seasons was Grace Park and the hope maybe the next episode is the one turning it around for me. There were some good episodes but overall this show was disappointing for me.
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New web series, Blood and Chrome, has just started
"Episode 1" - Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT79x4qM4FE#ws)