Battlestar Galactica:SEASON 2 PREMIERE

[Olgar Shiverstone]

They need to do a bit of work on the props, though.

'Cause the Colonials so obviously use Heckler & Koch G36 rifles, Aimpoint sights, and Surefire flashlights.

 

[The_Universe]

They need to do a bit of work on the props, though.

'Cause the Colonials so obviously use Heckler & Koch G36 rifles, Aimpoint sights, and Surefire flashlights.

But it's in SPACE. So it's DIFFERENT.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Aw, c'mon. Helo is just like the stereotypical geek who cannot get a date. Now he's got himself a personal sexbot and he doesn't want to give it up. Of course she did just run off and steal Starbuck's ride...ok, sucks to be him.

A damn shame isn't?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

They need to do a bit of work on the props, though.

'Cause the Colonials so obviously use Heckler & Koch G36 rifles, Aimpoint sights, and Surefire flashlights.

Except that they don´t. The rifles you see in Scattered are not H&K G36s. As far as I heard, they are some type of Berretta that is not as widely known (check the SciFi Boards for more details about that.)
But it proves to me that it doesn´t matter what rifle they use - they will always feel familiar enough to the audience, even if it did never see the specific model. And it makes sense, in way - how different can a rifle actually look? I think after the Steyr Aug, you can´t build any "prop" rifle that won´t look like something we might already have (except if it looks so stupid that everybody knows that nobody would build a weapon like that).

PS:
A threat about that topic:
http://mboard.scifi.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1044475&an=0&page=1#1044475

Apparently, it´s a cx4storm: http://www.cx4storm.com/

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Cool, thanks for the link. I would have gone with the Steyr for something sci-fi looking, but that weapon does the job!

 

[Ashanderai]

I actually find myself disliking many of the characters more and more, except for the chief. I actually pity him when he gets back to the Galactica and discovers what his cylon GF has done. He also seems to be more heroic to me than any of the others do.

 

[The_Universe]

I dig everybody but Starbuck more with each episode. I guess - I don't really *like* Baltar but he's increasingly interesting. So, there's something to be said for that. Starbuck still grates, though - though she does get some of the better lines.

 

[TheYeti1775]

This episode had some good writing and conflict in it. But I have to wonder why send a healthy uninjured man back for a med kit for a dying man thus putting three people in danger and costing the life of one of the men. That was just plain stupid in the situation they were in.

Easily answered.
The Military will do this very thing.
Currently they don't have an idea if they will be rescued or not.
Every minute they keep him alive on the battlefield is a chance he makes it to Galactica alive where real docs can work. Or at least the Med-Tech, great scene reminded me of Black Hawk Down doing the field surgery.
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I like the series, I don't like the soul searching cylon though. I like my cylons with extermination of the human race on their mind.
The whole pregnant cylon thing is wierd.

What I will be estatic about is if we get a third season on top of it. As the original only lasted 2 seasons.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Just finally saw it...two words.

Damn, damn.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Cool, thanks for the link. I would have gone with the Steyr for something sci-fi looking, but that weapon does the job!

Well, the Steyr Aug should be widely known by now, it appeared in several movies and games. Anybody that doesn´t recognize the Steyr Aug by now will probably also fail to identify a G36 or a Cx4storm and so won´t care...

This episode had some good writing and conflict in it. But I have to wonder why send a healthy uninjured man back for a med kit for a dying man thus putting three people in danger and costing the life of one of the men. That was just plain stupid in the situation they were in.

That´s just how it works in combat - sometimes you have to take risks. Remember the attack on the fuel station - there was no gurantee for success, and there knew it would cost them regardless of outcome.

The risk was losing a man while helping to rescue another one. You have to carefully judge the possible outcomes and probabilites for them. Losing a man on search for a second medkit is bad, but losing a man just because you didn´t get a second medkit is bad, too. And so you have to decide - how likely is a failure of the mission (end this failure causing the death of someone on the mission), how likely is the death of the injured man? What importance might the second medkit have in case someone else is injured?