Battlestar Galactica

[Volaran]

Well, he knew the device had to be removed, and someone had to take the fall. I don't remember the exact words, but someone who was an outsider had been on the Galactica for weeks with limitless access to key areas was the perfect candidate, and the public relations fellow fit the bill. For someone to _actually_ plant it there, all of those things would also be a reasonably path of logic. If Baltar had been thinking along that path instead of how to save his own hide, he probably would have come to the same conclusion. Parallel lines of reasoning.

 

[Ranger REG]

Pure luck plus educated reasoning if you ask me. To this day, I wonder if that guy actually did planted that device, or was it Boomer?

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well the Cylons are monotheistic while the humans worship the Greek gods. I don't know the reasons.

However I bittorrented an episode last night that hasn't been shown in the US yet and it had one amazingly stupid idea...acutally a few of them.

Spoiler

Startbuck is interrogating another cylon they have found on one of the ships to try and find out where a nuke has been planted on one of the fleet ships. She is torturing him and whatnot since he is just a machine of course, even if he's a very human looking synthetic lifeform. Anyway there is a lot of religious BS spouted by the Cylon and all kinds of philosophy mumbojumbo. At the end when they space the Cylon, Starbuck feels sorry for him and prays for his soul! She seems distrught when they are going to space him as well. WTF? There were a few more moments where I was shaking my head too. He's strong enough to break the cuffs and choke Starbuck but after some other security guys grab him they just slap more cuffs on him and go back at it like he's acutally restrained by the same things that he just snapped off.

I hope the rest of the episodes are better written than this. I haven't seen any of the others yet, they are downloading as we speak.

 

[Viking Bastard]

You should watch them in order, Flexor. It matters a lot.

Starbuck's dilemma would've made somewhat more sense.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

You should watch them in order, Flexor. It matters a lot.

Starbuck's dilemma would've made somewhat more sense.

Based on her attitude just minutes earlier in the episode I found it very strange. I didn't see a hint of compassion earlier in the show then she's all emotional. I'll see though when I get the rest of them downloaded.

 

[Ei]

Well the Cylons are monotheistic while the humans worship the Greek gods. I don't know the reasons.

However I bittorrented an episode last night that hasn't been shown in the US yet and it had one amazingly stupid idea...acutally a few of them.

Spoiler

Startbuck is interrogating another cylon they have found on one of the ships to try and find out where a nuke has been planted on one of the fleet ships. She is torturing him and whatnot since he is just a machine of course, even if he's a very human looking synthetic lifeform. Anyway there is a lot of religious BS spouted by the Cylon and all kinds of philosophy mumbojumbo. At the end when they space the Cylon, Starbuck feels sorry for him and prays for his soul! She seems distrught when they are going to space him as well. WTF? There were a few more moments where I was shaking my head too. He's strong enough to break the cuffs and choke Starbuck but after some other security guys grab him they just slap more cuffs on him and go back at it like he's acutally restrained by the same things that he just snapped off.

I hope the rest of the episodes are better written than this. I haven't seen any of the others yet, they are downloading as we speak.

You should really watch the series in-order, as Viking Bastard has said.

kinda spoiler, not really plot related

Spoiler

It is very clear that the Cylons goal is not to kill the last humans. Not yet at least. They are playing all sort of mind games with the humans. They seem espeically interested in two emotions: Love and faith (of higher power).

 

[LightPhoenix]

I saw the penultimate episode last night... holy crap, it was awesome! Especially

Spoiler

Galactica-Boomer, and Starbuck. Though the scene in the beginning between the two Adamas was cool too.

 

[Ei]

I saw the penultimate episode last night... holy crap, it was awesome! Especially

Spoiler

Galactica-Boomer, and Starbuck. Though the scene in the beginning between the two Adamas was cool too.

I assume you are talking about ep 12?

In which case I agree.

Spoiler

I liked the Gaius's part as well. Maybe short, but if what he said is not another lie he cooked up, then it is a big evolution of his character.

Also, it seems this is the frist time No.6 did not look down on Gaius.

 

[Wormwood]

<spoiler>Also, notice that with each episode, they tone down Six's makeup just a little bit.</spoiler>

Spoiler

Her transition from temptress to spiritual advisor is subtle and (at least for television sci-fi) clever.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Ok I haven't been able to find all the shows, but I watched "You Can't Go Home Again" & "Water" last night.

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On YCGHA...
the one where Starbuck is shot down and the Adama decides to put the entier future of the human race in danger by looking for one downed pilot way past the point where it would be even remotely feasable. He pulled the fleets entire defense away to scour for this one pilot, wasting half of thier fuel reserves in the process. If he's this emotional I have to wonder if hes fit to command the fleet. What really killed me was this. Cylons are machines, yet in a space fighter they decide to put a living brain in there instead of a machine system that would be far less fragile and less effected by possible exposure to space and a vaccum, something I would imagine would be a concern in space fights where a glancing hit may open the cockpit up to space and kill the living brain, unless it's snythetic nature allows it to survive. This seems kind of weak but it possible the cylons are no longer logical and wish to be as biological as possible in some attempt to be like thier god or something. But what was really stupid is that Starbuck finds controls in the ship! Controls that would have no purpose at all since the brain is wired into the ship directly! Then after she finds another miracle, an oxygen tube, she goes back out and uses something to paint her name on the ship so after she navigates through space visually she is able to let her fellow humans know who she is. Oh and she plugs up a hole in the side of the ship with her jacket....come on! I had a hard time suspending disbelief during this one.

Water was cool though. I hope that the Chief gets killed due to his lovestruck stupidity. You know what's at stake but you are going to lie to everyone to protect your lover who appears to be involved in some way with missing detonators that nearly caused the whole water supply to be destroyed and may be involved with other sabotage? If she's innocent let the others know and let her be cleared, instead hes going to cover stuff up and put everone in danger. Its a terrible decision on his part, but I can understand why he makes it.