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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1260451" data-attributes="member: 8704">Here I'll fix the scene for both realism and entertainment, it will only take a second:Keep everything the same up to the point where the hookerbot tries to taste the old dudes tonsils, instead of that awkward old man molesting scene have her just walk up and announce that the cylons are withdrawing from the peace agreement, then shoot him in the head and all three cylons leave. Then show the station being blown up. See that wasn't that hard and it didn't force me to watch a cylon tongue hockey game, if they had gotten that camera any closer it would of been inside their mouths.Yea I got the it's supposed to be old bit, that wasn't my problem with the set, my problem was that it was just a one level loop for jogging and any door could lead to any random area of the ship. I don't mind crude and old for the set but it really needs to look like they are on a actual ship and not in Dr Evil's underground lair and it needs to be huge, a Battlestar is a vast ship, you know with more than two levels to it. All this ship had was the hallway and the hanger deck and it wouldn't of suprised me if any of those random doors opened up to the hanger deck from the hallway, for goodness sake put in a elevator or something, or is a elevator too much advanced technology for a spaceship.  Ok I'll give you that this is the best CGI Sci Fi channel has done but it wasn't to the level of Farscape or Stargate SG1 or Babalon 5 or even Andromeda, the bar on CGI on tv shows has been raised pretty high and you shouldn't go around bragging about your effects if they are not better than the ones on Kevin Sorbo's freaking show. The realistic space bit isn't new or original it's just never caught on, why because in the end most of your fans want cool effects not just realistic effects. Yes you can have both at the same time but that herky jerky hard to watch without getting dizzy act will wear old, I want to see cool dogfight action not dizzy herky jerky or blurtacular effects. I don't care about the physics myself but it better look cool on screen whether they use guidance thrusters or not.  Not seeing the action is a sign of "we don't got the money to show the action" and that is what this show was lacking the most, funding. Everybody picks on the old show and it really hasn't aged well but you have to remember those were cutting edge effects back then, the only other thing like it at that time was Star Wars. The reason the old show got cancelled was it cost so much to make. I understand Sci Fi's budget woes but come on you have to show some freaking cylons attacking, what were they invisible? Give me a single shot of cylon ships over the planet, heck give me a radar blip showing a actual attack fleet over the planets, anything at all will do. When I watched it it actually took me a while to figure out they were actually attacking with ships, heck I'm still not sure about that, it could of been hookerbots with built in atomic bombs walking into towns for all I know. You got to have enough money in the budget for a single flyby shot or even a fleet on a radar screen. How much money would a shot of a fleet on a radar screen cost? No wonder the Colonials didn't know what was happening, the audience was kept in the dark too. I got to wonder about graphic baby murder and their target audience here, I mean who were they aiming to draw in with baby murder? They could of made the point without that in there, it just wasn't necessary to the show at all, her saying that all the humans would die was enough for me to realize she was a killer robot. Hey I'm picking at it but it actually wasn't all that bad, don't get me wrong it wasn't anything worthwhile but it did have enough to give me hope for the next episode.Just for comparison my friend with the film degree sent me a e-mail about the show, all it said was "OOF!"I'm not nearly as down on it as he was.</blockquote>

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