If you think the circumstances of the medical case are the point of the show, you clearly are not getting it at all.
The "formula" as you call it, (which, by the way, is the same formula used by pretty much every "socially disfunctional yet brilliant detective" show, including Monk, Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, etc.) is merely a frame upon which the actual joy of the show hangs. It's all about the characters (especially House) and the brilliant performances which bring them to life.
No, no, no! This is slashdot! I just disagreed with you about a completely subjective opinion, so that makes me a hated rival who must be shouted down! You must be new here.;)
No, the excess of sex is simple pandering in the guise of artistic pretense. Of course the lords of artistic pretense (namely critics) eat this sort of thing up.
Clearly your definition of "excess" is very different from mine.
I would define the scenes of the illusionary 6 sauntering around in her tight red halter dresses to seduce Dr. Baltar as "just about the right amount" of sex on the show, and if anything, "not enough."
But I could see why it would bother you... if you are gay.
You know, until you mentioned it, the thought had not occurred to me that I have absolutely no clue what the "Thrusday Night Line-up" on NBC is anymore. They dominated the schedule of yuppie suburbanites like me going all the way back to the Cosby Show and Cheers, but they've comepletely lost all relevence.
Last I remember, Friends ended, and they were using the show about the gay lawyer and his ding-bat platonic girlfriend as their "anchor" sit-com. Is that still what's on? Does anybody know or care?
i'm not trying to start a flame-war... I honestly want to know the right mindset to appreciate Galactica and it's airplane-style-flyin spaceships and odd notions that water is scarce in the universe but bullets are plentiful...
It's not that water is scarce, it's that planets with water supplies are very far apart, and few enough in number that they are easy for the enemy to guard. The show is set mainly in deep space, which is a whole lot of nothing. Carting around water for 48,000 people is a pretty big project.
Think of it like this, if you were flying on a satelite at 1/4 the speed of light from Earth to Proxima (our nearest neighboring star), imagine how much water you need to bring just for your self. Now imagine taking the trip with thousands of other people, and then consider that Proxima has no planets, let alone any with water, so you would need to bring enough for the return trip (or enough to get to the next nearest water-bearing world.)
The premise of Galctica is that they can make short hyperspace jumps across vast distances, but it's still a fairly big deal getting from one star system to another, and many of those systems are expected to be occupied by superior opposing forces, which means a lot of time spent out in the middle of nowhere. It makes sense that maintaining their water supply would be a problem.
As for bullets being plentiful... restoring munitions supply is a constant theme on the show. Even the pilot miniseries featured them taking a big chance to salvage an old ammo dump. One assumes that they've got a ship or two in the fleet dedicated to manufacturing as well.
Oh, and I'm clearly a huge nerd for even thinking about it this much.
Ever see the first season of the simpsons? That was aweful to look at, but I think a lot of what a show offers is measured in potential also.
They're on season 3. The show is what it is.
I agree that the "documentary" film style (which was already done, and better, on Firefly) does get kind of distracting sometimes, especially during moments of weaker dialog, but once the main action sequences get rolling, I tend to not notice, as I get wrapped up in the scene. TMMV
On the whole, I think Galactica is a very fun show... but I don't see how you could call it the best show on TV when "House" and "Lost" are on the air.
Victims of the Tsunami disaster, Virtual Wallets in Japan, and the Indian government, bringing technology to rural areas, all have been touched by the positive use of technology.
Obviously grammar-checking is one area where technology still lags.
The debate between ID and anti-ID zealots doesn't really interest me all that much, but every time the "flying spaghetti monster" argument gets invoked, I get really hungry for pasta.
Complex organic molecule formation is one of the biggies that you need for development of life.
Too bad we're talking about very simple molecule formation here, or they would really be on to something. Adenine is just a relatively easy-to-form glob of hydrogen and nitrogen.
Ingredients for bleu cheese found in my bathroom... but that doesn't mean it is bleu cheese or that I'd want to eat it even if it were.
W1n!
So far, you've made the only insightful observation on TFA in the entire thread.
It was never in doubt that we would see other planets with acetylene, hydrogen cyanide, and liquid water, if we looked long enough. Finding an example of such a planet doesn't mean there's anybody there to add to our AIM buddy lists.
Which raises the question of just how "unfair" a regressive tax is.
Poor people pay the same as rich people for the same food. Why shouldn't they pay the same for government services, which is, after all, just another product?
10.4 on PPC Macs is perhaps the least-buggy OS it has ever been my pleasure to witness. I've got multiple systems running it, and have yet to see a crash, either on my systems or anybody else's.
If you consider it "buggy", what is your other computer that does better? An abacus!?
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Well, I thought your comment was funny, even if it appears nobody else did.
How is James Taylor close to being Joni Mitchell?
I mean, apart from them both being hippy chicks?
If you think the circumstances of the medical case are the point of the show, you clearly are not getting it at all.
The "formula" as you call it, (which, by the way, is the same formula used by pretty much every "socially disfunctional yet brilliant detective" show, including Monk, Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, etc.) is merely a frame upon which the actual joy of the show hangs. It's all about the characters (especially House) and the brilliant performances which bring them to life.
you are, of course, entitled to your opinion.
;)
No, no, no! This is slashdot! I just disagreed with you about a completely subjective opinion, so that makes me a hated rival who must be shouted down! You must be new here.
No, the excess of sex is simple pandering in the guise of artistic pretense. Of course the lords of artistic pretense (namely critics) eat this sort of thing up.
Clearly your definition of "excess" is very different from mine.
I would define the scenes of the illusionary 6 sauntering around in her tight red halter dresses to seduce Dr. Baltar as "just about the right amount" of sex on the show, and if anything, "not enough."
But I could see why it would bother you... if you are gay.
If you have a good show that nobody has heard of, you're not going to be around for very long.
Paging Tom Veil...
If you are a British-comedy snob and refuse to watch the American version
Seen them both. The American one is unwatchable crap. The English one is... merely okay.
"Made in Canada" (shown occasionally in the US under the title "The Industry"), also done without a laugh track, was a vastly funnier office comedy.
You know, until you mentioned it, the thought had not occurred to me that I have absolutely no clue what the "Thrusday Night Line-up" on NBC is anymore. They dominated the schedule of yuppie suburbanites like me going all the way back to the Cosby Show and Cheers, but they've comepletely lost all relevence.
Last I remember, Friends ended, and they were using the show about the gay lawyer and his ding-bat platonic girlfriend as their "anchor" sit-com. Is that still what's on? Does anybody know or care?
i'm not trying to start a flame-war... I honestly want to know the right mindset to appreciate Galactica and it's airplane-style-flyin spaceships and odd notions that water is scarce in the universe but bullets are plentiful...
It's not that water is scarce, it's that planets with water supplies are very far apart, and few enough in number that they are easy for the enemy to guard. The show is set mainly in deep space, which is a whole lot of nothing. Carting around water for 48,000 people is a pretty big project.
Think of it like this, if you were flying on a satelite at 1/4 the speed of light from Earth to Proxima (our nearest neighboring star), imagine how much water you need to bring just for your self. Now imagine taking the trip with thousands of other people, and then consider that Proxima has no planets, let alone any with water, so you would need to bring enough for the return trip (or enough to get to the next nearest water-bearing world.)
The premise of Galctica is that they can make short hyperspace jumps across vast distances, but it's still a fairly big deal getting from one star system to another, and many of those systems are expected to be occupied by superior opposing forces, which means a lot of time spent out in the middle of nowhere. It makes sense that maintaining their water supply would be a problem.
As for bullets being plentiful... restoring munitions supply is a constant theme on the show. Even the pilot miniseries featured them taking a big chance to salvage an old ammo dump. One assumes that they've got a ship or two in the fleet dedicated to manufacturing as well.
Oh, and I'm clearly a huge nerd for even thinking about it this much.
Tell me a show that's better than Battlestar Galactica, because i sure can't think of one.
House.
Not that Battlestar is bad, but House is to TV medical dramas what Sherlock Holmes was to 1890s pulp mystery stories.
Ever see the first season of the simpsons? That was aweful to look at, but I think a lot of what a show offers is measured in potential also.
They're on season 3. The show is what it is.
I agree that the "documentary" film style (which was already done, and better, on Firefly) does get kind of distracting sometimes, especially during moments of weaker dialog, but once the main action sequences get rolling, I tend to not notice, as I get wrapped up in the scene. TMMV
On the whole, I think Galactica is a very fun show... but I don't see how you could call it the best show on TV when "House" and "Lost" are on the air.
Still... Grace Park is indeed a hottie.
Your post in re-cap:
10.4 is not stable! To prove it, here is a list of completely different applications which crashed while I was running 10.4!
Exactly. Allofmp3.com is stolen music. If you are willing to listen to stolen music, why not just get it for free from a file-sharing site?
it should interest you, because it is bad science. regardless of your beliefs.
My belief is that discussing bad science isn't very interesting. I also believe that pasta tastes good. It's a simple creed, but it works for me.
Victims of the Tsunami disaster, Virtual Wallets in Japan, and the Indian government, bringing technology to rural areas, all have been touched by the positive use of technology.
Obviously grammar-checking is one area where technology still lags.
The debate between ID and anti-ID zealots doesn't really interest me all that much, but every time the "flying spaghetti monster" argument gets invoked, I get really hungry for pasta.
Is that just me?
I sang it in the shower this morning, does that make it my song now?
Can't believe the parent was modded as Flamebait. It was funny as all hell.
You must piss yourself from laughter every time somebody posts an "In Soviet Russia" joke.
Complex organic molecule formation is one of the biggies that you need for development of life.
Too bad we're talking about very simple molecule formation here, or they would really be on to something. Adenine is just a relatively easy-to-form glob of hydrogen and nitrogen.
Wiki has a map of the molecule in question, if you are curious.
Ingredients for bleu cheese found in my bathroom... but that doesn't mean it is bleu cheese or that I'd want to eat it even if it were.
W1n!
So far, you've made the only insightful observation on TFA in the entire thread.
It was never in doubt that we would see other planets with acetylene, hydrogen cyanide, and liquid water, if we looked long enough. Finding an example of such a planet doesn't mean there's anybody there to add to our AIM buddy lists.
Ah yes, another victim unable to detect sarcasm in a post.
Don't worry. You'll catch on to it sooner or later.
Which raises the question of just how "unfair" a regressive tax is.
Poor people pay the same as rich people for the same food. Why shouldn't they pay the same for government services, which is, after all, just another product?
What if I never want to put more than 4GB of RAM in it (and therefore only need 32 bits)
[gates]
After all, 4 GB should be enough for anybody.
[/gates]
As buggy as 10.4 is on a ppc
*boggle*
10.4 on PPC Macs is perhaps the least-buggy OS it has ever been my pleasure to witness. I've got multiple systems running it, and have yet to see a crash, either on my systems or anybody else's.
If you consider it "buggy", what is your other computer that does better? An abacus!?
I'm not the one who called Wash's death a "fuck you" to the fans. Be upset if you want, but have a little perspective, k?