BattleStar Galactica:Season 3.0--12/1/06--Arc 8

[LightPhoenix]

I liked this episode a lot, but especially Adama/Roslin, and Anders/Dualla. Anders needs to become a marine!!!

The podcast was rediculously annoying to listen to - not because of Grace and Tamoh, who were great, but because there was this weird beeping/whining sound... sounded like some sort of microphone problem.

Even so, I thought the most interesting part was how there were going to have Gaeta basically do what Adama did - let himself get the crap beat out of him (by Athena) in sort of a restituion/"lets get past this" move.

Oh, and Tigh. While I was watching, my only thought was, ten says nobody chooses Tigh because he is Saul MFing Tigh and he could take half the room on at once easily, even without an eye. Then they went and said that in the podcast.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I'm not the only one who thought this was "head-clutchingly bad". That link is to a ten-reasons-BSG-is-headed-for-a-frakdown list. Enjoy and discuss.

 

[Steve Jung]

The podcast was rediculously annoying to listen to - not because of Grace and Tamoh, who were great, but because there was this weird beeping/whining sound... sounded like some sort of microphone problem..

Are you talking about the commercial break warnings?

 

[Bonzi]

The relationship stuff is good in small doses, but I thought it was way overboard in this episode. It seems like everyone has so many issues at this point that it's becoming a soap opera. I half way expect Tigh and Roslin to jump into bed together next week because he misses his wife and she's in love with Adama and doesn't want to admit it.

 

[Alaric_Prympax]

I half way expect Tigh and Roslin to jump into bed together next week because he misses his wife and she's in love with Adama and doesn't want to admit it.

Please don't give them ideas! That's just the sort of twist I can see Moore using just to stir the pot.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Hey... you want episodes with stuff like the Galactica free-falling through the atmosphere and launching vipers through flames and jumping out at the last second before hitting the ground just to get hammered by base stars but have the Pegasus show up just in time but then it has to smash into the cylons as a last resort and there are lots and lots of explosions and raiders and toasters and...!!!

well... you have to pay for it with episodes set mostly in a boxing ring and a canadian picnic area with loads of personal issues and mushy stuff.



Personally, I really liked the episode.

 

[Storm Raven]

I'm not the only one who thought this was "head-clutchingly bad". That link is to a ten-reasons-BSG-is-headed-for-a-frakdown list. Enjoy and discuss.

Oddly, many of the reasons he gives for why BSG is "head-clutchingly bad" are reasons I like the show. Some of his reasons are downright silly. In other words, I think that the author of the article is full of something, but it isn't wisdom.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Are you talking about the commercial break warnings?

No, this was more constant, much more prominent near the beginning. I only worked in radio for three years, so I'm no expert, but to me it sounded to me like there was gain on the microphone, possibly from having a couple of them too close together. They were doing the podcast at... IIRC Grace's home, so I'm sure there wasn't any high-end professional equipment. People were probably being picked up on more than one mic. I also seem to recall it being worse when Grace spoke - probably because she has a higher pitched voice.

 

[Steve Jung]

Ah, OK. I just listened to the first few seconds and heard what you were talking about. Sound of a reverb thing.

 

[satori01]

Here are the persons "reasons":

10. Show co-creators Ron Moore and David Eick are both developing multiple other projects. Moore is working on BSG prequel show Caprica, and Eick is working on both Bionic Woman and Them.

9. Crucial subplots, such as the fate of Sharon and Helo's hybrid baby, are left dangling for more than three episodes.

8. Rather than developing characters via personal transformation, character development is charted via hair length, presence/absence of beards, and weight gain/loss.

7. The only way the writers imagine they can showcase Edward James Olmos' considerable acting talents is via long-winded speeches.

6. Cylon threesomes.

5. Too much intimacy with the mysterious Cylon enemy in their SM dungeon ship makes them seem campy rather than scary.

4. Entire episodes are clumsily devoted to single-word social issues like "torture" and "genocide."

3. Eick promises next season will bring more flashback-heavy episodes that focus on romantic entanglements and/or childhood trauma.

2. A retcon turns Adama into the cause of the Cylons' attack on the twelve colonies, thus making him both improbably important and too much of a bastard.

1. Boxing is used as a thin excuse for an episode that could have been written (better) by shippers.

I have a big issue with #4. Not to be political, but given the policies enacted by Congress and the Executive Branch, not enough is probably being done on these subjects at all. Major props to any show, that does anything with these difficult topics.

Also if memory serves correctly did not the Original BSG have boxing as a regular passtime of the crew. I seem to remember the Dirk Starbuck in head gear? Thus making this show a nod to the original.

I like the scenes from the Cylon ship, makes them seem more alien. Cylons are a young, smart but emotionally inexperienced race. Reminds me of the Cyclops Polyphemus from The Odyssey. Do you pity Polyphemus because of his limited and unpredictable nature, or do you put Polyphemus down like a rabid dog because of it.