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New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series?
rwxJava asks: "Ok, so it finally aired! IMHO it was pretty good. The special effects were great (no major laws of physics were broken except maybe FTL travel), the characters, while drastically different from the original, were believable! After about an hour or so, I stopped trying to compare the mini-series with the original. My only complaint has to be the amount of commercials that Scf-Fi put in. I was able to put up a Christmas Tree during one commercial break. Guess the network needs to cash in on such a hyped up event! By the end, I was left wanting more! Anyone else think it is worthy of conversion to a series?" Now that you've have had a time to watch the entire 4-hour epic (does 4 hours really make a "mini-series"?), do you think your earlier comments were on target?
Well since we can now freeze light I can walk faster than it.
Ohhhh, look at all the pretty shiny things.
I was able to put up a Christmas Tree during one commercial break.
They were waiting for you to finish, stupid!
I saw a few scenes in the first half that didn't involve people having sex. I thought those were extraneous, and could have been removed...
Karma: Marginal (mostly due to the border around the website)
Or if, as with me, you know fuck all about the original series and are approaching this show with a blank slate
Next week on Battlestar Galactica: Commander Adama finally gets a full night's sleep! Adama like you've never seen him before -- he's wide awake and ready for action!
The mini-series is worthy of a show, with plenty of potential plot lines and hooks to follow and explore.
I only hope that the "Boxey thread" will end quickly, with that character's death at the hands of the Cylons in the first 5 minutes of the first show of the series.
Why do sci fi show creators feel compelled to include the cute kid character in their space operas? Won't they ever learn that we HATE these characters?
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We actually built a simulation of an Etch-a-Sketch using an ARDS storage tube display. That's what passed for advanced graphics at Brown in 1967.
When that happens, I just imagine the action is taking place in another universe in which the characters are several light years tall.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
Uh, that was the villain in Terminator the whole time. What did you think Skynet was?
Remember Cylons were made of chrome, the lasers would have just been reflected! Mass driver cannons are just the thing for those mirrored punks!
They needed "40 seconds" to evacuate some compartments. What the frack is that supposed to mean? How many microns is that?
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Oh yeah and you forgot:
4) The soundtrack. Are we really to believe that there would be an orchestra playing music in outer space? Like it is some sort of (*snort snort*) magical orchestra?
Because we broke our promise of "trustworthy computing" for the last time, goddammit!
You know what?
Or perhaps Cylons confuse sexual release with true emotion and feeling.
Great. Now my ex-girlfriend probably thinks I'm a Cylon...
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Or maybe Cylons are just cheaper if you buy them by the dozen.
People are used to the idea of computers being evil. After all, most of them use Windows.
Maybe the Cylons heard from reliable sources that the colonists were trying to obtain "yellow cake" from Nigeria.
Because they are boogeymen and that's what boogeymen do. I mean geez, get with it, every two year old knows that.
KFG
So... Anyone notice Dr. Gauis' last name was Balter.... as in Count Balter... or am I stating th obvious. The one thing to point out is that Balter has the perfrct girlfriend.... She's hot, sexy, now she's ultra-low maintenence... Sex anytime and ANYWHERE... don't have to buy her things...the list goes on... BUT... she's got to have a remote control... With an on/off button and a MUTE for when the ball game's on.... Whaddayathink?
And I'm confused. The humans are supposed to be descendants of the Lords of COBOL correct? Does that mean they are dinosaurs?
Nonono... that's Fox... ohh wait... yeah.. SciFi also
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D'oh!
Telcos have alot of dark fibre in the States. Most people assume that's optical fibre...but it's actually moral fibre.
Killed him with a flashlight...and left a little origami chicken on his corpse.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
"Adama is now a badass. He killed a Cylon with a fickin' FLASHLIGHT!"
I sure hope the Cylon was covered by Mutual of Omaha...
"commanded not to make a machine in the image of Man's mind"
Huh? Did Dune's Butlerian Jihad already happen, and I missed it? Shoot...
This "Battlestar Galactica" is much better than "Enterprise" ...
And so was the 1970's "Battlestar Galactica!!"
Ok, you convinced me. I'll watch it Sunday. But if it ruins Battlestar for me for the rest of my life I hold you responsible. :)
You mean "Model 6" hallucination? Regardless of the name you give to that, I want one implanted in my brain right now.