Battlestar Galactica:Season Finale {SPOILERS UNLIMITED} 1.4.05

[Abraxas]

Why even watch it then? You just rattled off why you really don't like 3 of the 4 main characters, the President being the 4th.

Because not all crappy sci fi series stay crappy sci fi series.
There is a slight chance that it will improve in its second season and may go on to be entertaining. 13 hours of crappy TV is no worse than 6 movies that looked good in preview and turned out horrible in the theatre, so that extra hour before going to bed on friday nights after entertaining episodes of SG-1 and SGA isn't a terrible price to pay to get to watch an interesting Adama, Tigh, Zarek, and Helo.

 

[dravot]

Brad

* - Did anybody else notice how they referred to their sensors as GRADIS?

I think that the term is 'DRADUS', but that could be my own lying ears. They do refer to radio as 'wireless', so it looks like they've renamed some technologies.

 

[Staffan]

Now that it appears that they can't avoid the fact that Boomer is a Cylon (since Starbuck has seen her), I wonder what they'll think of Baltar's tests. Didn't he clear her?

IIRC, the only two people who knew about Boomer's test is Boomer and Baltar. She came to him on her own.

 

[Krieg]

Why would I get new friends over a crappy TV show?

Because you and they will be better off without one another as neither seems able to recognize what constitutes a "crappy TV show".

 

[Capellan]

Because you and they will be better off without one another as neither seems able to recognize what constitutes a "crappy TV show".

Better to have friends like that than ones who go around making thinly veiled (i.e. smiley'd) insults on messageboards, no?

Taste is subjective. Abraxus doesn't like it, and has said why. I'm steadily moving toward his camp as the show interests me less and less. You like it. These are all equally valid and valuable opinions (which is to say that they're all 100% valid, and all 100% valueless - because they're opinions) ... but let's try to keep our opinions about the show, not each other.

 

[Abraxas]

Because you and they will be better off without one another as neither seems able to recognize what constitutes a "crappy TV show".

How clever. Obviously neither can you so if I were to take your advice you wouldn't be included in my new friends

 

[Truth Seeker]

Better to have friends like that than ones who go around making thinly veiled (i.e. smiley'd) insults on messageboards, no?

Taste is subjective. Abraxus doesn't like it, and has said why. I'm steadily moving toward his camp as the show interests me less and less. You like it. These are all equally valid and valuable opinions (which is to say that they're all 100% valid, and all 100% valueless - because they're opinions) ... but let's try to keep our opinions about the show, not each other.

Yes, let's do keep it that way.

I believe I stated in the beginning of this thread...for both camps, the show will get you thinking...it will get you talking.

Not everyone will like it, which will inculded me from the beginning *from the mini-series*, but after finally watching it and the first season.

Well, a opened mind...does see the wonders.

Like for anything, a first season run, is a alpha state, the kinks to be worked out during the first run, and hopefully...improvements will follow, not major...will be seen in the second season and so on.

The problem is not with the show...possible, the problem is with us...the public, look at the amount of info, we get on the internet, everything is near-flash news of what is going on around us. It near high almost impossible, not to know what is going on.

It is getting to the point with us, of getting jaded.

So, where does that leave tv producers, and writers? Well, if the viewing public already knows of a well-known show for years or for a few. And one day, decides to give a different spin on it...matching to it today climate in today's world attitude.

Guess what, there is a lot of people out there, that will recognize the signs of everyday life, in the show elements, and identify with it.

Not to insult the original show(s)...but it was rushed to capitalizes on the Star Wars madness back then.

The only thing that some may not like, is the grim factor of what is being shown....a surviving race trying to stay alive, against a rentless enemy. As I look back on all the previous shows..., the past mindset, that wrote it, did not take it far enough, because of the climate of perception back then...was different. And dated for its time.

That is why I called the new BG 2.0...it is dated for it's time.

It is all about interpertation...nothing more, nothing less.

As for this new interpertation...I do so, like it very much.

 

[Kesh]

And on a non-flamebait topic...

Who else noticed the name of the building where the arrow was kept? "The Delphi Museum."

Apt name, that.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Get new friends.

Why would I get new friends over a crappy TV show?

As much as I love the new Battlestar Galatica, I wonder the same. Apparently, you have exactly the kind of friends everybody needs and wants (and usually have) - sharing the same interests, likes and dislikes.

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I believe the official spelling for their Radar is "DRADIS".

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When I first saw the episode, I was really shocked. I didn´t want to believe what happened. Especially not with knowing that there was yet no gurantee for a continuation at the time. I WANT to know what happens next.

Now, knowing there is a continuation, I am glad, and I am eager awaiting what will happen next. And I am fairly there will be no lame way out (it was all a dream, the shot was not that bad, Apollo and Starbucks failings in Adama/the Fleet will be forgiven). I guess things will get a lot worse before they´re getting better...

(I mean, what good could come from Tigh becoming the commander of the fleet? Of Baltar seeing his destiny as envisioned by the Cylons?)

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By the way, a question, especially to the ones not so fond of BSG: How do you like the acting of the various characters and how the scenes are played out? (Not the story behind it...)

 

[Abraxas]

By the way, a question, especially to the ones not so fond of BSG: How do you like the acting of the various characters and how the scenes are played out? (Not the story behind it...)

I think the actors portraying Adama, Baltar, Apollo, Boomer, Helo, and some of the other characters are doing a fine job (even if I don't particularly care for what they've been given to work with). I'm not a big fan of the actress playing the president, But I haven't decied if its her portrayal of the character or the way the character is written that makes the character so blah.

Starbuck, on the other hand is suffering from being badly portrayed both by the actress and the character concept. IMO, it is the Starbuck character, and her central role, that is dragging the series down.