Battlestar Galactica

[Viking Bastard]

Your thinkin' this in too much of a logical manner. 'tis an emotional show. Yes, it's
a stupid move by the Commander, but then, that's pretty much the point. As for
the Chief, you think you wouldn't do that for someone if you really loved him?

Now, I could see myself in both of these characters' shoes, doing the exact same
things if it was for people I felt for.

Also, the Cylons seem to have somekinda human fetish, though. Probably daddy
issues of some type. They have AI. They are not logical and it's never been said
they were. Methodical, but seemingly very emotional. And religious.

 

[mojo1701]

And religious.

What, like the God-machine on The Daily Show's segment "This Week in God"?

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Your thinkin' this in too much of a logical manner. 'tis an emotional show. Yes, it's
a stupid move by the Commander, but then, that's pretty much the point. As for
the Chief, you think you wouldn't do that for someone if you really loved him?

Now, I could see myself in both of these characters' shoes, doing the exact same
things if it was for people I felt for.

Also, the Cylons seem to have somekinda human fetish, though. Probably daddy
issues of some type. They have AI. They are not logical and it's never been said
they were. Methodical, but seemingly very emotional. And religious.

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If I had the fate of humanity was in my hands I'd think I'd rate that and 50k lives over a pilot, especially if I was a military man who has fought in wars against Cylons before and had surely lost friends and loved ones before. As Spock said, the needs of the many and all that.

But there is nothing that I've seen so far that is going to make me think that the deal with the

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flight control organs so convienently located in the self-piloted cylcon fighter and sealing the fighter off from the vaccum with a jacket

was anything other than poor writing.

It's just one "bad" show out of the three I watched so far though, even with the issues in the first episode I saw I still liked it quite a bit. Episode 7 was excellent! Just watched that one.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

But there is nothing that I've seen so far that is going to make me think that the deal with the

Spoiler

flight control organs so convienently located in the self-piloted cylcon fighter and sealing the fighter off from the vaccum with a jacket

was anything other than poor writing.

Two possibilities, potentially spoillerific:

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1) They do still have centurions, and now the new humanic cylons; slapping a seat in there might be useful for transporting one places. Of course, this doesn't explain the controls...

2) "Hrm...what happens if they lose one of their better pilots, who just happened to be an integral member of the command team? And what would happen if she had a way back?" "Yes, yes...let's try and set that up. Make sure only the Mark-12s engage the one known as 'Starbuck'."

Though I have no idea where a brain would come in, though that reminds me of a David Weber one-shot.

Brad

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well I've seen all the episodes but 3&4 and my concerns about Starbuck's behavior still stand, but this is a good show. One thing that seems excessive is the sex though. Seems like a lot of screwing is going on, but maybe that would be expected in the situation they are in. The pacing can be off at times and every now and then I shake my head at some stuff but overall I really dig this. BUT...I think they should make Boxley a Wesley Crusher type character. Every week his wacky antics would put the fleet in danger until his genius solves the problem and all is right again...

 

[Laurel]

Okay I know it's on Friday at 10pm and Saturday at 1am, but are they doing replay's at any other time? Missed last weeks show, and I checked on Scifi.com but didn't find another time to try and catch up... just wanted to make sure I wasn't skipping over some replay time.....
Thanks!

 

[dravot]

Okay I know it's on Friday at 10pm and Saturday at 1am, but are they doing replay's at any other time? Missed last weeks show, and I checked on Scifi.com but didn't find another time to try and catch up... just wanted to make sure I wasn't skipping over some replay time.....
Thanks!

Go to SciFi's schedulebot! http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3

It looks like it reruns on Monday nights at 10pm Eastern

 

[Laurel]

Go to SciFi's schedulebot! http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/index.php3

It looks like it reruns on Monday nights at 10pm Eastern

Ah-Ha- Thank you. Seems I had skipped over it, but I did try looking through each day. Looking for the correct episode title would have helped as well.

Thanks again!

 

[Laurel]

Finally caught up to date

I have to say one thing that I am eally enjoying about the show is that they are achieving what they set out to do- focus on drama of characters not on the in space factor. There are events that can only happen in space, but any fight scene is limited to essential's where as the on board ship action takes longer.

So far I have a pretty easy take on if I like the characters or not in general.... but, Starbuck... just have to keep watching to make up my mind there. From what I have seen in preview clips though not sure I will like her... but also heard the clips are out of joint and misleading.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Whoah! Holy crap!

Just saw the season 1 finale. Frickin' awesome!

Just... damn cliffhanger.