Battlestar Galactica

[Mystery Man]

As for the cylon spy, she's not the kind of blonde hotty I'd go for. Exactly how many models of the new versions of cylons are there? And what model number is Boomer?

12 versions if the note the captain read is correct.


This is a pretty damn good show. I was a naysayer at first, now I repent!

 

[Storm Raven]

I was less then impressed. The CGI and acting were fair, but the storyline seemed to be a bunch of scenes from generic war movies strung together into a so-so plot. It appeared to me like the scriptwriters just said "we'll insert generic war movie plot 'a' here, and throw in some of war movie plot 'b' here, and spinkle a bit of war movie plot 'c' over the top, and we've got a script".

If the writing gets better, then the series might be worthwhile. If not, I give it less than a season.

 

[Ei]

I was less then impressed. The CGI and acting were fair, but the storyline seemed to be a bunch of scenes from generic war movies strung together into a so-so plot. It appeared to me like the scriptwriters just said "we'll insert generic war movie plot 'a' here, and throw in some of war movie plot 'b' here, and spinkle a bit of war movie plot 'c' over the top, and we've got a script".

If the writing gets better, then the series might be worthwhile. If not, I give it less than a season.

I don't know how many eps you have seen so far, but it gets better. It deals with many things, human emotion, political intrigue, and religion, especially religion.

I have seen 11 eps and I liked 10 of them. Which is saying something. The show is extremely intelligent, very character focused, and its plots almost bordering drama. It is also not afraid to touch upon mainstream religion (Although they never explicitly said it, but it is basically Christianity), and is willing to portray it in a negative as well as positive manner. Which not many shows dared to do.

So it is quite different from your normal techno babble/eye candy sci-fi series. However, due to its uniqueness, I’m really afraid that it might actually be canceled, which would be a real shame.

 

[Aries_Omega]

Thoughts on BSG

I really like the show. I admit when I saw that Starbuck is a gal and a gambling drinker that blew me away and at first I did not like it. Edward James Olmos is great. I have always liked his acting ability. I like the interaction between his character and the president. I think it's funny how she was like the Sec. of Education before and became president because the rest of the cabinet is dead. What I my wife found confusing Baltar seeing the blonde Cylon and the whole FTL time....why does it take so long she asked me. That and does Boomer know she is a cylon and stuff like that. She was asking me a few things. Did anyone get confused with anything? I don't think I did...except....how are they making gravity on the Galactica? Did they mention that?

 

[Ranger REG]

Well, I haven't seen the series itself, but I saw the BG movie NBC had on last week (I assume that's the miniseries, and since NBC and Sci-Fi is the same company, I'm assuming this was some attemt to hype it up.).

The NBC broadcast is an abridged 3-hour version of the 4-hour SCI-FI miniseries (first aired December 2003?) that allowed for a series to be greenlighted. Our British friends got the first look at the series before the US broadcast last Friday night.

I think I'm gonna pick up the DVD with the 4 hours' worth.

Any chance we'll see all Marks of the Viper?

 

[Sarigar]

The BG mini-series had very good moments, and a few "huh?" moments. I think the creators knew what direction they wanted to go in once they had a regular series deal and left a few moments in the mini due to this.
Now that the regular series has started, I'm hooked even more. The human-type cylons, although the "are you human or (insert infiltrating being here)" paranoia schtick has been done before, is genious in this story. The original series, which I am old enough to just remember when they aired those many years ago, was very cheesy, but a lot of fun and completely 70's. If nothing else, this series has taken that camp feel, and turned it into a mind-screw, what with the human-like cylons. The battle scenes are top-notch, something I look for in a sci-fi series. I always look forward to the space battles in ST, B5, etc. These are realistic as sci-fi can get.
The religious aspect sounds like an up-coming theme, especially for Gaius. I hope his story plays out better over the long run than it has in the short run.
The navigator left on Caprica seems to have an important part to play in all of this. I wonder if they added him back in, because he seemed very minor in the mini-series. The cylons orchestrated quite a show to get a Boomer clone to join back up with him. I have to wonder if he is supposed to lead them to some kind of resistance group so they can destory the last vestiges of humans on the planet.
Nice to see that the old Apollo will make an entrance at some point, and this time on the wrong side of the fight.
As for the CGI cylons, they need work. They need to make a few full mock-ups to insert to a few scenes so we can have a good, shiny metal monstrosity look at them.
Just looking at this post I can tell I will be watching this series. Not many shows get this much reaction out of me.

 

[mojo1701]

I think it's funny how she was like the Sec. of Education before and became president because the rest of the cabinet is dead.

Is it just me, or did her inauguration seem a little bit like the story of LBJ's inauguration aboard Air Force One?

 

[Krieg]

I've liked it so far having watched all of the available episodes via bittorrent (and re-watching the first episode on TV Fri night) all of my nits would be relatively minor. The portrayal of military personnel isn't very accurate....but that is to be expected unfortunately.

All in all worth watching and my second favorite sci-fi show of the past decade behind Firefly.

 

[Goodsport]

The NBC broadcast is an abridged 3-hour version of the 4-hour SCI-FI miniseries (first aired December 2003?) that allowed for a series to be greenlighted.

Actually, the unabridged version of the miniseries without commercials is 3 hours, 3 minutes. It seemed somewhat longer when originally aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in December 2003 because of the insertion of commercials.

The version that aired on NBC last Saturday was an abridged version, though, as even with commercials it all fit within a 3-hour timeslot.


-G

 

[Ranger REG]

The version that aired on NBC last Saturday was an abridged version, though, as even with commercials it all fit within a 3-hour timeslot.

Really? Because the first few minutes of the movie, some dope decided to slip in a commercial right before the seductive Six killed the diplomatic officer ... at least that's what I think I saw.