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New Battlestar Galactica Spin-off Series Announced
An anonymous reader writes "The Sci-Fi Channel's hit series Battlestar Galactica may soon be joined by a 50-year-prior prequel series, called Caprica. To be co-exec produced by Ron Moore and David Eick, the new series will follow the tale of the creation of the Cylons."
I hope the "Nothing for you to see here" message isn't a premonition for the quality of the show...
Yeah, sorry about that, forgot a spoiler warning.
Pyslons, you're insenitive clod! Where's a grammar nazi when you need one... :P
So, I called the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit and spoke to Det. Ian Lamond, who was familiar with the Times article. He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly. Of course, even if the figure was given jokingly, shouldn't the Times reporter have clarified something that seems rather odd? Shouldn't her editors have questioned her sources?
Nevertheless, Det. Lamond does confirm that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest." They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs." I asked Det. Lamond if this wasn't simply a general interest in science fiction and fantasy, such as Star Wars or Harry Potter or similar. Paraphrasing his answer, he said, while there was sometimes other science fiction and fantasy paraphenalia, Star Trek was the most consistent and when he referred to a majority of the arrestees being Star Trek fans, it was Star Trek-specific.
Cylon Sympathizer Integotation?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I was more concerned of his anagram of
BOY CURE THONG
and/or
BOY COG HER NUT
Pyslons, you're insenitive clod! Where's a grammar nazi when you need one... :P
;)
Cylons*
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Right here!
'If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.'
What about Dumb and Dumber...er....nevermind.
Son? Why aren't you in your room with a woman?
Hey Richard! It's great to see you posting but you really should get an account.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Heartiest laugh I've had while reading Slashdot in YEARS!
We want some answers and all that we get
Some kind of shit about a terrorist threat
- Ministry
Oh, please, noob mod. I was answering a question. Sheesh! What is the deal with the moderation this week? Why do they give mod points to the retarded?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
And what is meant by the word heavens, specifically the plural form of the word?
This comment is guaranteed*
*not guaranteed
Who is it?
Badger Truck!
Badger Truck???
Yeah, It's the Badger Truck sir, I have a special delivery...
Ahhhhhhggggggggg-OH-GOD!GET-EM-OFF-OF-ME!ahhhhhhhh hhhhggggggIMBLEEDING!!!!aaaahhhhhhhhhhh
When are they going to get to the firework factory?!
An Itchy and Scratchy reference? Ten million points* to you sir.
*Please note that these points are totally useless and non-redeemable for anything.
There's a mythical thirteenth spinoff.
Actually men and women have the same ability to multitask. There is no significant difference. All recent studies confirm this.
There is also no significant difference in average IQ - women certainly aren't higher on average. The one big difference with IQ is that women are more tightly centred around the average whereas men are more varied, meaning that there are more men at the bottom of the scale and more men at the top. (Oh, and women tend to be best at verbal while men are best at spatial and mathematical - though these have huge overlap with recent studies suggesting much lower sex biases than previously thought).
While we're busting myths, I should also point out that men have higher pain thresholds than women, so you shouldn't believe everything your local feminist tells you.
I can guess where you got your bullshit ideas from: for the last few decades there has been an increasing amount of "women can do anything" stories culminating in "women are better than men at everything, including what men were thought to be good at!" but it is not true. In fact, we are starting to find that most of the so-called "sex differences" are the result of culture rather than actual in-built biases, and with a minimum of training the differences become insignificant.
Stop believing the daytime Oprah show and look into the actual research. I suggest PubMed if you don't have access to University Ovid subscriptions.
That comment was an a-salt on good taste. I should pepper you with snappy comebacks for that.
I'm so mad I'm gonna shout 'ad-hominem' any moment now..even though I don't know what it means.
/. often benefit from an opposite perspective, even those of trolls.
Opinion stated as fact, and yet the spelling and grammar are fine - it suggests trolling to me rather than a sincere controversial opinion. I like the casting choice, the great acting, the very good sets, the atmospheric lighting..my g/f likes it and we both agree that BSG goes where plenty of sci-fi shows won't go, and it goes there with style: abortion, genetic engineering, torture, rape - all themes BSG has handled extraordinarily well and yet at no point did I ever feel it was a slave to those same issues.
If you really think the only thing that makes sci-fi good is battles in space, and there is no room for character development & continuity - features of the soap opera genre - then your opinion is worthless to me really. And yet I bit, twas an effective troll and discussions on
hey, it could have been worse. It could have been a Dodge Ram. :-P
There is no prequel to the bible, but archeologists recently discovered the missing first page. It starts: "All characters portrayed this book are fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental..."
So, by this logic, since you've been modded up to 5 you have become weaker than I can possibly imagine?