Battlestar Galactica (Beware....Possible SPOILERS! read at your own risk)

[rmacqueen]

To a certain extent I enjoy the exploration part but when they find something they need to concentrate on it instead of it becoming peripheral to the "character development".  For example, when they found the eye of Jupiter, the episode could have centered around that with lots of action with the cylons attempting to get at it while the chief was attempting to decipher it.  Instead it suddenly switched gears with all the maneuverings of Lucy Lawless and the garbage surrounding that.

They should, IMHO, start coming across other civilizations that could be either alien or human.  It would be interesting to see planets that have been habitated by humans left from the original human expansion complete with their own types of spacecraft and legends about the 13th colony.  How about a lost tribe of cylons with a separate evolution from the main group?  That would create a whole new confrontation and, of course, more kabooms.

 

[onecat]

I hope they never find earth or colonies of the lost tribes.  That would be a total let down, and would wreck the whole show for me.

 

[Cardstonkid]

As long as they start having a little more action I don't care if they make Elton John as the leader of the Cylon Empire!

 

[x-grunt]

I hope they never find human or colonies of of the lost tribes.  That would be a total let down, and would wreck the whole for me, just like when they found earth in teh first series... it killed the show!

I kinda like the idea of finding Earth as a series finale, until then I'm happy with no other humans. Another species might be interesting, long as it's something really original - nothing remotely human(oid).

Frankly, the original show killed the original show...major bad, that series was. Loving the new one, best show in TV. Except for that stupid Adama/Starbuck crap. I wish they'd grow up. And the pilots leading infantry/marine forces into combat. Yeesh.

I for one like a balance of things that go boom and the human stories. Could use a few more boom booms right now, but to go towards total action would just suck. I like a good story, not just eye-candy action.

 

[Arsenal]

So...... Are they trying to get us to not watch or something? Cylons are apparently no longer part of the story line.

 

[onecat]

So...... Are they trying to get us to not watch or something? Cylons are apparently no longer part of the story line.

Of course the Cylons are part of the story, but you saw the galactica, its no shape to fight right now.  BS is a drama not just a combat show.  They have had lots of good plots so far the next week looks good as well.

 

[Arsenal]

I'm well aware the show is a drama, all I'm saying is that since the Eye of Jupiter episodes theres been this lull... I'm dying to see where the story is going to go damnit! This character building just feels like filler IMO.

 

[Shamrock]

 

[Northern Ranger]

Not sure if this link is allowed to be put up I'm sure a Mod will let me know.  It has the seasons of BS on for you to watch.  Its hit and miss sometimes for the quality and DL speed.


http://www.tv-links.co.uk/Battlestar%20Galactica_links.html

 

[zipperhead_cop]

Not sure if this link is allowed to be put up I'm sure a Mod will let me know.  It has the seasons of BS on for you to watch.  Its hit and miss sometimes for the quality and DL speed.


http://www.tv-links.co.uk/Battlestar%20Galactica_links.html

That is an awesome link.  Thanks!

 

[Danjanou]

Not sure if this link is allowed to be put up I'm sure a Mod will let me know.  It has the seasons of BS on for you to watch.  Its hit and miss sometimes for the quality and DL speed.


http://www.tv-links.co.uk/Battlestar%20Galactica_links.html

Well it's staying up until this Mod catches up on the episodes he's missed 8)

 

[gaspasser]

SO what did ya think about the last episode? Pretty mundane.    It's turning into a space soap opera and starting to lose me as a watcher.  OR are they doing that on purpose to make you watch?
Aaah, it's a Cylon conspiracy!  I knew it...

Time to get back to shosstings and space shots.

 

[sober_ruski]

Just watched episode 17... holly frak.

Are they turning Baltar into a bloody Lenin wanna-be?

 

[niner domestic]

Well complain all you want about the soap opera-esque of the last 3 episodes, I liked them.  A steady diet of "fire in the hole" and "brace for impact" eppies would probably have the same complaints of being over the top on the fire fight scenes.  I like the lull, it's adding tension, and it's adding some emotional attachment to the character which if any of them ends up being the who you least suspected of cylonness, leadership or traitor, you are just going to howl...

As for Baltar's sudden discovery of socialism, I think it's a ploy devised by him and assisted by his counsel to marr the jury's ability to be alienated from him completely as they would if he had just been the former president awaiting trial.  Now since his "enlightenment of the common worker", the admin is going to have difficulty finding 12 (or however many in a colonial jury panel) that are still peed off at him. 

 

[Northern Ranger]

I agree I dont mind the drama, but the need to bring something on with the toasters involved. 

BTW what was the show called a few years back that had the humans against the aliens and the marines (some where clones or something)  The Major is now the guy in CTU on the tv show 24.  Anyways it was short lived only two or three seasons.  hope this doesn't go that way.

 

[sober_ruski]

Firefly? Andromeda? Farscape?

 

[Rocketryan]

Thanks for the link.
Now to start at Season 1 Episode 1 and work my way up.
Always wanted to watch this show when I was a kid (Spaceships, lasers, robots, its like a kids dream) But family didn't have space channel. Now that we do, All i see is Season 3 and its like....Whoa, whats going on?

*Watched my first full episode yesterday*
Galactica was like launching a flight of fighters and a marine strike team to rescue 2 prisoners on the Pegasus. It looked very cool!

 

[sober_ruski]

You see, it went from kicking ass and ass kicking to a bloody soap opera  :crybaby:

 

[Northern Ranger]

Firefly? Andromeda? Farscape?

It wasn't one of those, it had to do with these pilot marines flying around and killing bad guys.  I think they called the clone warriors Tanks or something, the Col was a black guy but the Major was the guy running the CTU in the 24 show.

 

[CougarKing]

I agree I dont mind the drama, but the need to bring something on with the toasters involved.   

BTW what was the show called a few years back that had the humans against the aliens and the marines (some where clones or something)  The Major is now the guy in CTU on the tv show 24.  Anyways it was short lived only two or three seasons.  hope this doesn't go that way.

That show was called "Space Above and Beyond" and yes it was about a United States Marine Corps squadron flying space fighters in a future war against an alien race the humans call "the Chigs". The Marine Squadron is called the VMF-58 or the "Wildcards" and they are based aboard the Space carrier USS Saratoga commanded by a Commodore Ross (it's funny that the USN in that storyline brought back the Commodore Rank (USN O-7, which is called Rear Admiral, Lower Half, in real life, since Commodore was phased out before or following WW2). It was only one season and it was cancelled. (I have the whole complete set on DVD,  ;D)

You can buy it at your local DVD store at Future Shop or Best Buy or perhaps even at HMV, depending where you live.

Maybe the BSG storyline finds an Earth that is set to the SAAB storyline...oh well...it could be an excuse to revive that old series...