Battlestar Galactica

[Reply #280 on:]

Wellcome Teral to this masterpierce of sci-fi.. alltought this is clearly a "Space Opera" more than Sci-fi alltought they choose to keep as realistic as possible..

For what i read in your reviews you are for some really big pleasant surprises in the series, some of then starting with the first eps..

About the Cylons being created by the man and then rebelling..

The history of the original series Cylons was similar but with aliens between.. i will explain:

the "original" cylons were a race of humanoid reptilians (like the aliens in V without human disgisse) who created an army of robots to serve them... but those robots rebelled against their reptilian masters and killed them all in very short time... then they take the name Cylon for themselves... after that they began to attack other races... but something put them at hold .. humans... the colonials defended other races against the cylons and thats why the Cylons developed such a obsesion against humans.. and they didnt stoped during "a thousand yarens" until the attack we all see in the movie..

So in this new version they simply put humans in the role of the original Cylons.. they wantesd to eliminate aliens to increase "seriousness" and for what i have read because Olmos and Mcdonnell had both stated that if some alien appeared they would left the series..

BTW... season 4 and final will begin in March finally? are we speaking of the end of March or middle-low March?

[Reply #281 on:]

EW's BSG preview hints at what's to come.  It also reveals who the final Cylon isn't.

Edit: Well, assuming RDM isn't frakking with our heads again.

[Reply #282 on:]

So that reveals.. presumibly.. who the final isnt..

lets go down

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that had a bit too much spoilers that i would want but is ok...


Fewwww... not Adama nor Roslin Cylons.. thats a relief... altought i had readed when the final 4 were revealed.. they asked Ron Moore how they decided who would be the final cylons and he said that it couldt be Adama or Roslin because that would destroy the series...
but is not the first time they lie to us... renember when they said "a main character will die" and then Kate Shackoff anuncing she had finished her work in Galactica... and then it was only a move to caught people by surprise.

But now who is missing in that table.. well of the main characters Dualla, Gaeta , Zarek (if we can call him main character) and very doubtfull but the misteryos final cylon being close to Tight may suggest... Helen? she was killed but being a Cylon she may come back.. altought we dont know if those 5 final ones can resurrect as there are NO spare bodies for them in resurrection ships

I dont like Lee being a civilian...i hope he gets back to Vipers soon

[Reply #283 on:]

Well, that solves the problem of finding a new desktop background:

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And now it's time for some baseless speculation on the identity of the 12th Cylon!  This time, I'm going to be looking at the ages of the actors portraying the 11 known Cylons.  In spoiler tags, of course, just because of Teral.

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• Caprica - 33
• Boomer - 33
• Tyrol - 36 (but his given age in the show is 30)
• Tory - Unknown, but presumably of the same age group as the previous 4
• Anders - 37
• D'Anna - 39
• Doral - 39
• Simon - 40
• Leoban - 47
• Cavil - 71
• Tigh - Unknown, but his given age in show is 71.

So if you look at  them, you can see three distinct age groups, or perhaps model years, if you will.  You've got Caprica, Boomer, Tyrol, Anders and Tory in their early to mid 30s, D'Anna, Doral, Simon and Leoban in their late 30s-early 40s, and Cavil and Tyrol in their 70s.  Split it up and you've got 2 in the first run, 4 in the second run and 5 in the third run.  2, 4, 5. 

I propose to you that the final Cylon comes to us from that initial run, making the progression 3, 4, 5.  And who do we know that's of age with Tigh and Cavill?  Dr. Cottle, of course.

[Reply #285 on:]

The bad thing for me is that the final one aparently has to be one of the cast , at elast that they said and that they had allready left clues..

It would be better that he/she was a new character...
maybe the 1st "humanoid" cylon who decided to scrap or not the old Cylons, someone that could explain why 5 cylons did that , and why 7 others did another thing..

[Reply #286 on:]

 

Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
Well, that solves the problem of finding a new desktop background:

So small, need... more... pixels!
Goes well with the Star Wars one and the one of all James Woods and Robocop. 

[Reply #287 on:]

Alright. Fine. Fine. I like it now. It's awesome.

First season is a bit of a slog, and there's still the odd dull episode, but once this show gets its hooks in you, it does not let go.

Also, everyone's a badass. Espcially Tigh. But ESPECIALLY Adama.

[Reply #288 on:]

 

So overall looks like a good show. If the episodes live up to the pilot, I expect to follow this show for a long time. Anyone who'll recommend bying the DVD's rather than wait for the episodes to air?

I think it is worth getting on DVD, Amazon.co.uk is currently selling the first three series in a boxed set for £40.

[Reply #289 on:]

Season 3 *finally* has a release date in the US

[Reply #290 on:]

Better late than ever uh...
here has been arround for a while now..

So.. its season 3 launch still in March... some date in march?

will the second part of season 4 and final be aired this year?

[Reply #291 on:]

 

Originally posted by Nixorbo:
Yay! You noticed too!

For the first few seconds I thought it was Siddig. If Balthar later admits he's genetically enhanced, I would bat an eye.

 

By Winna:
it almost seems strange that you haven't seen it yet,

The airing of the show (and the timeslot) on Danish TV, have been too erratic and confusing to allow it. But they promised to start from the beginning in the new year, airing episodes every weekend during primetime, so I decided to check in. Naturally, they didn't deliver on their promise, the first episode after the pilot was #36 (without spoiler alerts even!) So after 4 years of avoiding learning anything about the new show (apart from production pictures) I already know about New Caprica. Nice job, Channel 5!

Well, looks like I'll take your advice and buy the DVD's.

 

By tweek:
I think it is worth getting on DVD, Amazon.co.uk is currently selling the first three series in a boxed set for £40.

That's the one I got my eyes on. With the weakening of the Pound it's even a mere 400 dKr (bought domestically it would more likely be 3 times as much).

 

By Javier Lopez:
So in this new version they simply put humans in the role of the original Cylons.. they wantesd to eliminate aliens to increase "seriousness" and for what i have read because Olmos and Mcdonnell had both stated that if some alien appeared they would left the series..

I can see that point, but for me they simply replaced one cliché with another, an inferior one even. Also, for a show that sports robots which look and acts exactly like humans, down to the cellular level, throwing a hissy over aliens seems a bit presumptuous. Meh, as it is it's not a big deal as such, and if it saves a few bucks for better CGI and models so be it.

And now I'll head over to Amazon.co.uk...

And then I'll go skiing in Trysil, Norway 

[Reply #292 on:]

I think out of all the robot cliches, I like the new Battlestar Galactica one best.  It's very Bladerunner (which I know own on Laserdisc) with the perpetual theme of wanting to be human and what being human specifically means.  They also thread in religion in a very interesting manner.

[Reply #293 on:]

Well the "Cylons looking as humans" owns more to "Blade Runner" than to cheap the production..wich is probably right..

I like very much Helfer´s acting.. at first i was too exceptic about her, specially after learning that she is a model , i thought "oh no, here goes another bimbo who doenst care a shit about her performance or anything save money and modeling" .. but in the end, after all seasons im impress with her... Virtual Six is the more model like encarnation.. but giving her so many more roles, all being the same yet all diferent make her looks like a good actor.. this all comes because she said that when production began.. and she was told she was to incarnate a robot..but a "human" robot wich acts like a human but is not a human.. she had not very clear how procede..then Olmos aproached her and told her to watch and study "Blade Runner" wich had precisely that kind of human robots wich pretend to be human and even some dont know that they are robots..
she said that Blade Runner was the base for the Cylon character..

I like her acting more than many times Mcdonnells..
i liked Mcdonnell as she was an old known face and her performance in the mini is excelent..
but sometimes.. you see her with a funny face.. almost smiling when people is being killed or the entire human race faces doom...
sometimes she acts great..but some others you have the sensation that she is not taking this seriously and that she will explode in laught when someone talks about Vipers or FTL drives..

BTW..

RDM saying the because of the strike we may never see the end of the series?   
Its not funny.. thats a bluf.. how in hell a beloved series would be cancelled just for a strike... wouldnt that mean also the cancelation of all series on hold?

and where i can follow the strike progress?,

[Reply #294 on:]

New Preview of Season 4 with a lot of material and quite a lot of spoilers:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDUQ2Vi7KQ

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More ships blown up..more civilians dead... at this rate there will be no more ships or civs left...

and i really hope they dont destroy the Space Park ... noo the Space Park nooo 

[Reply #295 on:]

Wait, the one with the artificial sky and grass?

That was destroyed in the Seasons 2 finale...

[Reply #296 on:]

Nope.. that was the Cloud 9 and was indeed blown up by a depressed Gina ...i find funny that she choses to massacre 7000 civilians as means to revenge from the crew of Pegasus, she surelly could had smugled herself and the nuke aboard Pegasus...same as she escape from her before ..and blown up Pegasus...

In the upper hand we had Pegasus saved for 1 more year , in the lower hand, the biggest civilian ship got nailed..

Im speaking of the Space Park , the big ship with a ring rotating structure.. she is now the biggest civ ship (1.200m long, Galactica is barelly 1.500), housing of surelly a lot people ..

NOOO THE SPACE PARK NOOO PLEASE ANYTHING BUT!!

fine..we then blow up Galactica

NOOOO GALACTICA NOOOO ANYTHING BUT!

Then Space Park

NOOOO

how about that beer 6 pack ship?

Mmm... middle acceptable..
 

Couldnt they blow up some nasty one? like the Prometheus? I really hope the misile hits we see her taking its the only one and she scapes with that damage only..

Like i said.. at this pace no civ ships will reach anywhere...more than 1 lost in the 33 crisis (Olympic carrier and some other ships as stated by Billy) 3 or more lost in Cloud 9 blow-up , unknown number lost in New Caprica (Ron said some were shot down) and 2 more lost in the passage.. lets have in count that there were originaly some 80 ships.. now we should have 70 or so

[Reply #297 on:]

Just finished "Exodus, Part 2", need some sleep but I'll try to post my thoughts tomorrow. For now I'll just say this: I love this show! If it can keep churning out quality stories like "Occupation", "Resistance", the "Home" two-parter and "Kobol's Last Gleaming" BSG might just topple DS9.

You heard me!

Speaking of DS9 vs BSG: is there some union law demanding Canadian actress' in sci-fi shows to be unbearably cute? By actress, I mean Nicki Clyne (and Nicole DeBoer) and by cute, I mean   

[Reply #298 on:]

You just saw Exodus part 2?

You have just watch the most amazing maneouver ever by a starship...

The universally called "Adama Maneouver" ... all Trek maneouvers are just put in shame compared to this..
Its a odd episode because has many of the very best moments in Galactica..
the bad was the lost of Pegasus , but even in her end she went out in biiig style taking out 3 Cylon Basestars with her..

Wonder why those two Basestars in the end didnt jump out.. maybe they need some time to jump (FTL tech is far more advanced in the Cylon fleet than in Colonial vessels)

[Reply #299 on:]

Embiggened.

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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
Embiggened.

Yeeeaaa... thats a big broken image link 
 

[Reply #301 on:]

It works now. 

[Reply #302 on:]

Yes it does... and that ruins my post 

[Reply #303 on:]

I got Razor (and Series Three) on shiny DVD and it was great, cool seeing old school centurions and raiders 

[Reply #304 on:]

Ok, now the strike is over..

are we going to see the final second half of seaosn 4 in 2008?

"With the possibility of the writers' strike ending soon, E! Online has suggested, based on comments by writer Jane Espenson, that production will resume on Season 4 of the series quite quickly, but the remaining episodes may not air until the autumn of 2008 or the start of 2009."

[Reply #305 on:]

*Draws bullseye on slate lab bench*
*Aims forehead*
*Hits bullseye repeatedly*

[Reply #306 on:]

^

Worst than that.. aparently they changed the season 4 release date... AGAIN .

"He That Believeth In Me" , the season 4 premiere will for now air 4th april... "previous date was 22 march"

I hate them.. allways delaying.... why!

[Reply #307 on:]

Aww hell naw

epguides.com confirms. 

[Reply #308 on:]

Well.. Sci-Fi messes up again with everything..


Acording to Aaron Douglas site, the filming of the second half of season 4 will resume in a couple of weeks.. and the eps will be called Season 5!

So they finally screwed up procuring themselves two seasons for the price of one to sell two sets of DVDs with 10eps each wich will cost still like a full season..

The thing is even worst.. everything points to "season 5" being premiered in 2009.. i Wonder if like FOX they will try to split "season 5" with another season 6..
RDM was strongly against spliting the season with much time between because he said the .. we fans can take and will take the wait.. but the main public, who gives rates and so ..will not.. they allready surelly by now thing Galactica is dead after more than a year hiatus .. RDM sais (and i agree with him) that the last season is made of building interest wich would boost enormly the ratings.. but stoping sudenly in the middle with another 9 month stop will make many people say "to hell with this ..im tired" .. they will not be looking forward the "season 5" , they would allready forgotten

Why every show i hook up ends up being missthreated and splited in millions of seasons?
Even FUX when splited futurama .. the season 4 was season 4.. didnt created 2 DVD sets

[Reply #309 on:]

Good news! Looks like Season 4 will not be the last we will see of our favorite intergalactic refugees.

It's been confirmed that the prequel spinoff Caprica has finally been greenlit and is beginning casting now.

[Reply #310 on:]

That is good news. I wonder if they will cast the same young Adama from Razor.

[Reply #311 on:]

I doubt it, as I remember hearing that the series will take place when William Adama is only a child, ten years old at most.

[Reply #312 on:]

Top 10 reasons to watch the new season of BSG (from last nights Letterman).

Standard Letterman fare (ie. more miss than hit). The only funny one was #5, #1 and #9 were mildly amusing, the rest was meh.

Which reminds me, I better get around to watching the rest of the episodes sometime.

[Reply #313 on:]

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YatjlSJNRHM

Youtube version of Teral's posted vid (wich doesnt works aparently)

the Tight one was hilarious..

anyway... there was something weird... they were too fucking serious (most of them anyway).. almost beyond beliability

[Reply #314 on:]

What the frak is going on?  Seasons 1-3 in less than 10 minutes

Youtube link for our furriners

[Reply #315 on:]

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[Reply #316 on:]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!


Beware of battlestarwiki.org

i came across a BIIG spoiler about the episode "the ties that bind" .

i suck

[Reply #317 on:]

             

Originally posted by Nixorbo:
What the frak is going on?  Seasons 1-3 in less than 10 minutes

Youtube link for our furriners

Thanks a bunch, Nixo, The first link doesn't work any longer, but the second one "kicks ass1"  The BSG is running a marathon on SciFi channel all day yesterday that went to six p.m. and the marathon started up, again, at eight a.m. my time.  The BSG marathon is going till 6p.m. today.

edit- Thursday is also running the BSG marathon once again until 6p.m. my time.
And Friday is also going onto conclude with the season finale of season three  on the BSG marathon to the 6 p.m. time slot...

Then, of course, y'all know that Season four of BSG starts Friday night.  You can always double check:  http://www.tvguide.com/listings/default.aspx
For your local time slot for your viewing pleasure.

They are going to replay the season three finale at 9 p.m. my time; then launch the season four premiere at 10 p.m. my time  FOR A SIXTY-ONE MINUTE EPISODE.(i DON;'T QUITE KNOW IF THE EXTRA MINUTE IS 8:59p or 9:01P.  I sure don't want to miss any extra seconds; so, I'll be peeling my eyes wise of the telly way before the start of the brand new episode starts!           

edit-  There's a good BSG article, here:   http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/battlestar-galactica/191395     Good to know         

edit-  If You despise spoilers please don't visit the article... Ausiello throws out a couple of Future future pearls.  I find spoilers intriguing and fun.  Nothing spoils that which I love when it comes to acting/entertainment mediums! http://www.tvguide.com/ask-ausiello/battlestar-galactica/080402-25

   

Originally posted by Javier Lopez:Beware of battlestarwiki.org
i suck

One thing that you do not do is suck, Javier Lopez!  This is a COOL site.  I've got it up and will be delving through it as soon as I get done with this post.  You are AWESOME!  Thanks for the spoilers and offering the world of BSG for all we BSG fans who are brave enough to look into more info than we could ever use on good ole' BattleStar Galactica!

Oh, yeah... that music that the Cylon Four keep hearing...right at the end of season three...yeah, baby!  It's Jimmy Hendrix's   All Along the Watch Tower,  Good song:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEe0xwSEEB0

[Reply #318 on:]

They killed Kat!! They killed one of my favorite BSG characters! Damn you, Moore. Damn you, you magnificent bastard.

Well, the Big Writeup™ took longer than I expected (hey, there's a lot of characters to cover) so I decided to go ahead and see if I can jam in all the final episodes before season 4. After the brilliant "Collaborators", the average "Torn", the solid "A Measure of Salvation", the underwhelming "Hero" and the 50/50 "Unfinished Business" (loved the scenes with Roslin and Adama, pretty much resented the melodramatic Starbuck/Apollo/Dee/Anders menage-a-quatre) I get this? The murder of a character I've enjoyed watching grow naturally over the series, from a frightened nugget to someone who can out-Kara Kara? If only it had been for a better episode. The plot is barely there, hopefully there's a pay-off later, because there wasn't here.

2 scenes (and a few touches here and there) saves the episode:

1) Kat's deathbed; both her conversation with Starbuck and Adama rings true, particular Adama's refusal to listen to what Kat have to say about her past, because he already know everything about her he need to know. Screw Seymour, this is a character death that affects me. Even to the point of getting misty-eyed... ::sniffle::

2) Tigh returning to CIC; you gotta love his reaction to the applause. A very nice bit of continuity that Gaeta didn't join in the cheers. I would be pretty miffed too if I had gone through the same ordeal in "Collaborators". Surely, The Circle apologized to him at some point, right? Tyrol absolutely, Seelix as well, but I wonder if Tigh and Starbuck ever got around to it? Barolay and Connor probably don't care.

Also, please make the scenes on the basestar go somewhere, or have the Cylons vent Balthar. I don't care which, just no more myth mumble-jumble, please.

Anyone else getting an Adam West vibe from Balthar when i deduced the Hybrids riddles in less than 60 seconds? "Holy hyphenated hybrid, Batman!"

Now, I'll try and return to the last few episodes.

RIP Louanne "Kat" Katraine.   

[Reply #319 on:]

Kat was a bitch