BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON 3!!! spoilers inside maybe

[zenkidori]

STARTS TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!

I havn't been this excited for another season of any show, like ever. All the webisodes are out and point to a great season, I'm really looking forward to see what's going on with all the various story arcs and all that.

Too bad I have to download it like a foreigner since I work during it's airtime.

[Firecat]

I've finally decided to watch this show. I placed the miniseries on my netflix queue to get me started....

[Blind_Io]

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Ok, the production value of BSG is excellent, but I think we have certainly entered the "Empire Strikes Back" phase. This series is very VERY dark and rather fucked up - and not in a good way either. Many of the characters, although acted very well, I despise; I know that's the point of those characters, but still. The best thing Baltar could have done was to get himself blown up or shot, would someone please kill that traitorous, spineless, shadow of a man?

No one that should have died has. Currently topping my hit list are the Colonel's wife and Baltar. I think the guy who was the bridge officer on Gallactica and now the aid to Baltar will get killed for being a collaborator even though he's the mole.

I'm glad BSG is back, but damn, this was a real downer.

[bartboy9891]

BSG only has a sweet intro. the show itself is boring as hell and is nothing at all like the original.

[zenkidori]

It's nothing like the original because the original sucked donkey balls.

So far I feel it's off to a GREAT start. A seriously solid storyline has been laid down, and they aren't shying away from difficult issues. One of the things I love about BSG is that it's a much more "mature" series than most scifi shows that just contain pretty visuals and rather bland writing(stargate, star trek, etc). Rather than focusing on the technology of space travel or the future it's merely used as a backdrop to tell a very human story and to delve into issues of modern times.

To be honest I was more than a little skeptical about the whole "new caprica occupation" thing but now that I've seen what they're doing with it, I think it's a great turn in the storyline. They couldn't just run thru space forever. I like the dark undertones, I don't think enough scifi gets down to the dark human elements. A foreign occupation isn't going to be pretty, and probably even less so if it's an entirely different race other than human doing the oppressing.

great stuff.

[Blind_Io]

Aye, I just hope they don't get too political and preachy about it. I watch SciFi to be entertained, not for a lecture on politics.

[bartboy9891]

Originally Posted by zenkidori

It's nothing like the original because the original sucked donkey balls.

So far I feel it's off to a GREAT start. A seriously solid storyline has been laid down, and they aren't shying away from difficult issues. One of the things I love about BSG is that it's a much more "mature" series than most scifi shows that just contain pretty visuals and rather bland writing(stargate, star trek, etc). Rather than focusing on the technology of space travel or the future it's merely used as a backdrop to tell a very human story and to delve into issues of modern times.

To be honest I was more than a little skeptical about the whole "new caprica occupation" thing but now that I've seen what they're doing with it, I think it's a great turn in the storyline. They couldn't just run thru space forever. I like the dark undertones, I don't think enough scifi gets down to the dark human elements. A foreign occupation isn't going to be pretty, and probably even less so if it's an entirely different race other than human doing the oppressing.

great stuff.

actually, i liked the old BSG a bit. the new one is too much like a goddamn soap opera. I can watch good serious sci-fi (like the first three different series of Star Trek), but even i can't stay awake while watching the new BSG.

[Blind_Io]

On the up side, it sounds like a good firefight is on the horizon. That should be good.

Call me simple, but I love a good spaceship fight, and BSG does the best job of getting the physics right. Star Trek always bugged me because they never really break the 2D plane, and when they do the ships, while being on a different plane are still lined up as though there is "up" and "down." Also they are out there banking and swooping through space like aircraft, where there is no matter to bank against. BSG does the best job showing how spacecraft would actually maneuver. I loved it the first time I watched a dog fight and the ships would spin around and fly backwards while shooting at a pursuing fighter. BSG still does a bit of the "bank and swoop" but they are closer to reality than Star Trek ever was. I especially like it when they show the dogfights and the sound is distorted, like it's being transmitted through the airframe or coming over the radio instead of traveling through a nonexistent atmosphere - another way BSG is superior to Star Trek.

[jetsetter]

The only thing I didn't like about the episode was the fat suit.

[zenkidori]

Yeah BSG is really good on the technical details even tho they don't go into depth on the technology, which I like. Shows like Stargate and Star Trek always tried to find ways to explain the future technology and if you are a tech minded person it comes out sounding aweful and totally unrealistic. Plus, Stargate especially uses a lot of deus ex machina and I hate that shit.

BSG uses a lot of military terms and style, since one of the creators was in Navy ROTC during college. I like how they aren't always talking about the tech and shit, unlike other shows. If you walk around an aircraft carrier people just do thier jobs, they don't give long speeches about power sources and bullshit like that, and that's how BSG is. The galactica is pretty much a space aircraft carrier(with a little AEGIS mixed in), and the tech is a backdrop, not a main character(unless you take into account the cylons). I think thier military experience really helps in this regard.

I think BSG is probably the most realistic scifi I've seen. ST and SG and shit always seems too comical, overdone, underwritten, whatever. It's all a bit hokey, but BSG you can kinda see happening in a long time(or another galaxy).

About the space battles, if you watch you can see the maneuvering thrusters fire whenever the crafts turn, so they aren't doing the bank and swoop kinda thing based on aerodynamics, they use the thrusters just like the space shuttle.

I guess you could say BSG is a sci-drama. It has a much deeper and more relistic storyline than most scifi. ST and SG are cartoons compared to BSG. It's for this reason I really like it. Star Trek always bored me with thier DEM and simple plots and lack of reality and usually poor acting. BSG tends to suck me in better, it's kind of like watching a Band of Brothers type of series, only about another galaxy, instead of some saturday morning cartoon about aliens and warp drives.

very much looking forward to the rest of the season!

[Blind_Io]

Ever heard The USS Make Shit Up by Voltaire?

I was stranded on a planet, Just me and Spock
Ee met a nasty nazi alien who locked our asses up
We found a hunk of crystal and a metal piece of bed
We made a laser phaser gun and shot him in the head

Bust a move, Tog

I was standing on the bridge when Sulu came to me
His eyes were full of tears he said "Captain, can't you see
the ship is gonna blow do something I beseech"
I grabbed a tribble and some chewing gum and stopped the warp core breach

And I say,
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up

And though he's just a child, and some think him a twit
Wesley is the master when it comes to making up some shit
He's the guy you want with you when you go out in space
Now if only he could beam those pimples off his face

And if you're at a party on the starship Enterprise
And the karaoke player just plain old up and dies
Set up a neutrino field inside a can of peas
Hold on to Geordi's visor and sing into Data's knee

And I say
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up

Sisko's on a mission to go no bloody place
He loiters on a space station above Bajoran space
The wormhole's opened up and now they come from near and far
We'll keep the booze but please send back the fucking Jem-hadar

What is with the Klingons, remember in the day
They looked like Puerto Ricans and they dressed in gold lame
Now they look like heavy metal rockers from the dead
With leather pants and frizzy hair and lobsters on their heads

And I say
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up

Well, I was stuck on Voyager, pounding on the door
When suddently it dawned on me I've seen this show before
Perhaps I'm in a warp bubble and slightly out of phase
'Cause it was way back in the sixties when they called it "Lost in Space"

We were looking for a way to make the ratings soar
So we orchestrated an encounter with the Borg
Normally you'd think that that would get us into shit
But this one has a smashing ass and a lovely set of tits

And I say
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we're totally screwed but nevermind
We'll pull something out of our behinds, we just make some shit up

[bartboy9891]

Half of what ST does is far from realistic at all, but its meant to be more fiction than science. The original BSG was a Star Wars knock-off, and the new one is trying to get rid of that label by making it seem darker and much more focused.
It fails to keep my interest. To me the first three series of ST>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BSG.
i agree that BSG is a whole lot more realistic and all, but it has no where near the amount of appeal and charm that ST carries.

but thats just my opinion, im not saying either of you is wrong or that im right

[zenkidori]

I don't think the new one is trying to get rid of anything. I think they just took the basic concept of the old(which was horrible) and made something entirely new and relevant to our time.

[D-Fence]

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/vide...ures&vid=35344

OMFG I haven´t laughed so hard for a couple of days

[Blind_Io]

Originally Posted by D-Fence

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=features&vid=35344

OMFG I haven´t laughed so hard for a couple of days

Best thing I have seen all week. Thank you!

[zenkidori]

hahaha

[D-Fence]

yes, finally a person is dead i wanted to die ever since introduced !!! (season 3 ep 4 (go to sleep )

[Kebab gud]

epsiode 4 was AWSOME!
the scene where Galactica Jumps into the atmo and falls while the vipers are launched only to jump away seconds before hitting the ground was AWSOME!

THAT! is why i watch Sci-Fi

[zenkidori]

best rescue ever.