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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1260297" data-attributes="member: 7394">Well here we go.No argument. The cylons had no reason to go onto the station. The new terminator style cylons are way cool and I hope we see more of them if this goes to series.I have a feeling that this will come into play in part 2. That was pure exposition. #6 was a human infiltrator and was designed with the necessary attributes to get the job done.I actually think they did a good job of portraying military personnel. They aren't expected to show a lot of emotion. The military is all about suppressing emotional responses and getting the job done. I think they pulled this off pretty well and I felt that the characters that mattered showed just enough humanity to keep me interested.Again, I don't share this view. I thought the set designs were excellent. They reminded me of the original, but a little less relaxed, more like a military vessel should be. No arguments here.The military uniforms were kind of blah. I would have prefered the ones from the original show, but oh well. I can live with it. #6 was supposed to look like this.I actually liked it. It was a new way of showing a space battle. Actually not entirely new. It wasn't too much different than Wing Commander. Still I thought it was a refreshing change from the typical laser beams. Seeing shrapnel flying through someone's leg and watching decompression is a detail that most scifi shows leave out entirely.The computers = bad storyline is straight from the original. That's one of the conceits you have to make it you're going to enjoy the show. As for the cylon waking up elsewhere after death, we don't know how it all works or how their tech works. It could have been an analogy that the last saved version of the cylon's consciousness wakes up elsewhere. She did make a hasty exit from Baltar before they started nuking, so its possible that she uploaded her personality at that time. As a writer in the gaming industry and someone who is working on starting a fiction writing career as well, one of the things I swore not to do was bring children into it - at least not in the context that they did in the show. I agree that this was completely uncalled for. Completely! I understand what they were trying to accomplish with it, but that still doesn't make it any more acceptable. So far this is the one point that I fault the writers for. Obviously after the bombing starts all kinds of babies die, but the murder of a helpless infant is not something I want to see, read about, whatever. Period.Yeah, I hear you on this one. Although like I said earlier, I think it comes off OK without them. Did you see what that handgun did to the guy who jumped on the wing of the ship as it was taking off? It didn't just punch a hole in him, it ripped him in half.Finally, the one thing that was particularly poigniant was the same scene I just mentioned where the officer agreed to stay behind in order for Baltar to escape. He sacrificed himself for the traitor that sold out humanity. I didn't think much of hi character until that point, but that was good.Anyway, I'm willing to give part 2 a shot and the series as well. I think it has a lot of potential and overall, I liked the look and feel of the show.</blockquote>

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