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The Official Battlestar Galactica Thread : SPOILERS

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spicyapple said:
"Days of Our Lives" in outer space. :rolleyes:

"These are our fracking marriages we're talking about, not some stupid dogfight we can just jink our ways out of" - haha

The Baltar revelation was a nice touch, although it could just be a near-death experience he's having. Dude does daydream, a lot. :)
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Forget the love melodrama! The Trial of the Century, BSG style!
 
Now as much as I like the nitty gritty life on board the Galactica. I have to ask…

How on earth do they keep the booze and cigs in stock. I would think by now that the crew/civilians would have consumed the booze/cigs up by now :confused:








Oh, and time for SPOILER ALERT HERE

the link leads to images and screen shots of up and comming episodes :D
 
joepunk said:
Now as much as I like the nitty gritty life on board the Galactica. I have to ask…

How on earth do they keep the booze and cigs in stock. I would think by now that the crew/civilians would have consumed the booze/cigs up by now :confused:
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Remember from the first season? Even the Galactica Viper crew had their own still. As for cigarettes, there must be a factory ship, look for the vehicle with an extra CAP around it. ;)
 
Interesting episode I suppose. What's up with the rocky scheduling? It's really annoying.

I never like A/B plot episodes as much as the episodes where everything is event-specific. To be fair, though, they tied Baltar's need for vindication well with Lee's. However, for the most part the intercut plots took away from the suspense of each, for me.

Yet again I'm left wondering if anything new really came out of this episode. Lee and Starbuck's last glance leaves things open and tense between them, yet again, and Baltar's revelation is not really news to anyone but him. I suppose we know that the fleet was not on track for Earth after all.

The "profound state of anxiety" was interesting. It served the plot just fine, but I must admit that I expected a lot more anxiety than we got, and for it to reveal more than it did. As it was, the experimental drug was more of a magical solution than a last-ditch, potentially consequential effort. Likewise underachieving was Baltar's awakening in his fantasy cylon bath (though the ripping fingernails were an interesting touch), but only because it was predictably a hallucination, and Roslin's scare-tactics, which were very nicely performed but weren't logical enough to actually make you wonder if she would space Baltar.

From a writing point of view, this was another filler episode. However, the acting was marvelous as usual.
 
I really enjoyed that episode. Fantastic acting from all concerned, especially James Callas. Shame Sci-Fi moved the show to Sunday just in time for the SuperBowl though :rolleyes:
 
Just so people understand, they're bumping BSG a week because of the Super Bowl (the ratings took a big hit because of the now-classic AFC Championship game).

Marble said:
However, for the most part the intercut plots took away from the suspense of each, for me.
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Yeah, I found the marriage intercuts a bit annoying (I'm glad the love quadrilateral's mostly over with, for the most part). According to the podcast, that was all Edward James Olmos (he directed). I guess you just can't mess with the old man.

Marble said:
Yet again I'm left wondering if anything new really came out of this episode.
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Dude, they're putting Baltar on trial. I am so *psyched* about that! The whole point of the Baltar sequence, to me, was to watch him writhe and wiggle out of the bad situations he puts himself in. They had to justify: a) him being strong-willed enough (or self-deluded enough) to not break, and b) not tossing him out of an airlock faster than a deranged Leoben.
 
bluebomberman said:
Helo is the man.
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He's OK, but for me Doc Cottle is the man, what with all his foibles :cool: .

bluebomberman said:
Not terribly pleased about how the Sagitarrian bias thing came out of nowhere, though.
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Yeah have to agree, they (non Sagittariuns) were pretty vehement against the Sagittariuns (like the unsympathetic view given to Jehovah Witnesses and their anti blood transfusion stance, where I think it's strange about their choices for medical aid but doesn't make me want to kill them or let them die), so I don't get the hatred thing (conscientious objection included) what's so wrong with them.

I still can't work out why Baltar has Caprica 6 in his "waking dream" and vice versa, what's the story with that, will we ever know.

"Athena" seems to have come through all this pretty unscathed, she still wears the uniform and has freedom to roam wherever she wishes, how come they all accepted so easily that she's the same Athena and not a Cylon insurgent.

Overall this episode was OK but just a time filler but no groundbreaker. I still love BSG though :) .

Also I saw some highlights of the next episode and it just looked like a rehash of a previous episode when Starbuck and Appollo et al were starved of oxygen in a firing range (Cylon computer virus?).
 
HydroMan said:
I still can't work out why Baltar has Caprica 6 in his "waking dream" and vice versa, what's the story with that, will we ever know.
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Frack, I've been waiting for the shoe to drop and Caprica to start having Baltarvision. :) I'm so excited about this. I'm not sure where they'll take it either, but I'm *so* excited about this!
 
I'm a big BSG fan, but i though that episode was boring. Except for the aforementioned Caprica/Baltar vision.
It seemed like a "filler" episode.
 
Heady goodness

HydroMan said:
I still can't work out why Baltar has Caprica 6 in his "waking dream" and vice versa, what's the story with that, will we ever know.
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Something screwed up during the download process when Six saved Baltar from the nuke blast. The lines got crossed?
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Where do they get these actors? Or is it the director? Even though this latest episode was definitely filler, the performances were class. And as far as filler goes, it was a bit "harder" than some of the love-quadrangle or 'secret history' stunts we've been subject to recently. I agree with you all about the racism coming out of the blue, but would like to add that their whole "race's" beliefs were also invented on the spot and seemingly for the purpose of this episode. Comes across as a little sloppy.

I felt a little cheated that Cottle lied to Helo 'because he was tired' and then comes to the rescue later. It felt like the writers were hunting for a twist.

I miss Moore. :(
 
obeygiant said:
I'm a big BSG fan, but i though that episode was boring. Except for the aforementioned Caprica/Baltar vision.
It seemed like a "filler" episode.
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"Filler," I think, is too strong a word for this episode.

There's a surprising amount of nuance in the dialogue and body language between Helo and Athena that's just incredible. I've never seen a science fiction show deal with marriage that way.

To me, it would be more "filler" if Helo's predicament was more black-and-white.

Marble said:
I felt a little cheated that Cottle lied to Helo 'because he was tired' and then comes to the rescue later. It felt like the writers were hunting for a twist.

I miss Moore. :(
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Actually, Moore talked about how much he loved having Doc Cottle lie just to get Helo out of his hair on the podcast. I loved it, too. After watching a kazillion episodes of shows like Law & Order and CSI over the years, it was great to see this essentially good guy take the shortcut.

DISCOMUNICATION said:
Correction Tigh is the man. Takes a punch from the biggest guy on Galactica, cracks a smile and says, "You better get that hand looked at."
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No, that makes Tigh one krusty tough son-of-a-gun. That does not make him the man. Maybe we differ on semantics here, but calling Tigh "the man" implies to me that he's cool and guys want to be like him. And I can say for sure that there's no way in hell that I'd ever want to be Tigh, or even kick back drinks with Tigh. :D

Then again, I'm biased. I thought he was the man from the very beginning. (Anybody remember him playing cards with a lollipop in his mouth way back in the miniseries?)
 
I thought this week's episode was good, but nothing special. Mind you with 20 episodes per season, they can't all be blockbusters! ;)

So was Bill Adama remembering his past or was he visualizing it as the Cylons seem to like doing? :eek: ;) :D

Looking forward to the next couple of epsiodes, especially Maelstrom - should set things up nicely for the season-ending cliffhangers and such. :cool:

Nice to see Season 4 is approved, however I hope it doesn't drag on for too many seasons afterwards. A show as great as BSG should exit on a high and before it's lost its potency and freshness (which it has to a small extent already IMO). And that's natural and to be expected, but I just hope Ron Moore has enough sense to know when the time has come...
 
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