thread bubbling spurred me to grab s1
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
the bbc2 schedule (2 episodes every friday) seems achingly slow given all this talk. 50 odd episodes to get through, that's 1/2 a year at this rate.
(i have them all on dvd, but dvd player is currently flashing up 'BLOCKED')
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
Is it not on Netflix? It definitely used to be (or maybe Amazon Prime)
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
only on peacock in america atm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Peacock hasn't shown me a single ad yet at least.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
The one positive thing about the last couple seasons is thinking how much worse it could have been if they'd picked a more loathsome song ... like substitute a popular song that you cannot stand in place of Watchtower (for me it was "In the Air Tonight" by Phil collins) ... as hokey as that plot was, it would have been so much more painful with Phil Collins.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
"Seasons in the Sun"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
"We Are The Robots"
(I don't really do streaming - everything comes in over 3g via the phone)
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
The choice of ultimate boomer rock makes it worse.
"Sussussudio" would have ruled.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
apparently there's only one uss in that song title
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
all the secret cylons harmonize on the "whoa-oas" and that's how they realize
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
I can't remember how brutal the airlocking of Felix was, but I let it pass at the time
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Every '80s song I can think of is an improvement. Saul and Chief dancing to "Faith." The opening drum machine pattern to "Blue Monday" reverberating around the ship.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
Tubthumping
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
Now I want a Cop Rock-ed Galactica where they do a couple of these each episode.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
I was upset about what happened to Felix ... and Cassie ... I liked her and Chief as labor organizers on New Caprica!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, September 9, 2020 12:09 PM (twenty-two minutes ago)
for me, it would have been torture
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
if the song is "Last Caress", the outburst in the courtroom would get a lot weirder
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
'in the air tonight' would have been more awesome/fitting/hilarious
imagine waiting like six episodes for the drums to come in, and *then* the cylons go over the top
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
and then Anders picks up the phone and calls Starbuck and asks if she ever truly loved him
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
and then Christian Bale shows up in an expensive suit and kills everyone
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
or did he?
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
oh wait, that was Batmanstar Galactica!!!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
The first episodes of the miniseries are still so good
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 10 September 2020 06:21 (three years ago) link
If I'm honest, I probably like the miniseries more than the series. A similar argument can be made for the LOST pilot being the best the show gets. Both of them have so much promise
― Vinnie, Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
Can't watch BG without wondering what they do with all the corners of pages.
― koogs, Saturday, 19 September 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
Started this with my daughter, who sat down to watch under duress - an "old" sci-fi reboot of an even older sci-fi she'd never heard of is a hard sell - but she was hooked immediately. It's at least as good as I remembered. I wonder if it was pitched as "Das Boot" meets "The Day After?"
I was surprised to be reminded that the religious/theological stuff is there in the very first episode.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 September 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
Oh, she found it amusing (rightly), that in the miniseries someone actually says "OK, Boomer."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 September 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
Man, felt like Cain was around for much longer than three episodes.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
Good character! Disappointing that she's killed off.
Which reminds me - one of the dumbest decisions the producers made, IMO, was to put Tigh in an eyepatch. He's the best actor on the show - don't cover his eyes! Idiocy.
Also: :( https://www.gofundme.com/f/michael-hogan-fund
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
The Chief Tyrol/refining ship episode is infuriating. Roslin and Adama doing one of the unexplained shifts from benevolence to acting like monsters, a window into the fleet that gets three quarters of an episode, wrapped up with Roslin giving a patronizing speech.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
Can't watch BG without wondering what they do with all the corners of pages.― koogs, Saturday, September 19, 2020 2:02 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― koogs, Saturday, September 19, 2020 2:02 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was once told in pre internet times, that the corners from all Rizla papers were shipped to Sydney Opera house to provide the snow for their annual Christmas shows...
I expect something like that happens within the fleet.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
yes, the famous snow-filled annual Christmas show at Sydney Opera House
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
started rewatching this and it's decent but ffs we get it, baltar is a sociopath -- please, enough with watching him try to converse/make funny faces with people *and* no. 6 simultaneously again and again forever
feel for tricia helfer condemned to spend four years nibbling on dude's ear, and also for dude having to do the same shocked expressions again and again
the general lack of music/space sound -- just drums and some minor (relative to, say, star trek) sound effects -- is intersting and effective
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
He finally gets a decent little run in the fourth season, which overall is even worse than I remembered.
Poor Gaeta.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 04:02 (three years ago) link
They just could not keep Adama/Roslin/Apollo's characterization steady from episode to episode no matter which era of the show - Adama does his "no more friends" speech to the crew and threatens to shoot people and then the next episode is all "ur like a daughter to me" to someone who isn't Starbuck and then back to shooty then a mean drunk.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
and in a single episode people are asking baltar to bless their children and others are picking up watchtower on the radio
― koogs, Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
Just watched this over about three weeks.
There's a lot of punching in the face, even boxing ep aside.
Is the smoking a running gag on the 70s? Do they smoke in the old ones?
Gonna miss Baltar and Caprica 6.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 27 May 2021 11:09 (three years ago) link
Old men fist fighting and crying with booze is definitely a big part of BSG appeal.
― earlnash, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:49 (three years ago) link
There'a an equal amount of young women being punched in the face (and doing punching tbf) by men. Just a lot o' punchin' all round.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:56 (three years ago) link
I suppose some of the women are 2000 years old and/or not stricty women but the optics are the same.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link
Anyway, grim as much of it was I am slightly bereft at being dumped back on Earth 2.
What's next - Caprica?
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 27 May 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
There must be some kind of way out of here
― burnt hombre (stevie), Thursday, 27 May 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
I'd say if you are looking for another old scifi streaming show, I would check out Farscape. It is lower budget but it is more fun and less over the top grim as BSG.
If I was an entertainment mogul looking to make my scifi streaming show, I would adapt Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars series. Kinda surprised it has not happened yet, that book how it is setup I think could work well as a Tv show.
― earlnash, Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
that one's tough because it covers such a long period of time that favorite characters would always be dying/disappearing. the expanse has lots of secondary characters coming and going but there's always at least a stable core
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
At least you don't have to pay actors more and more each contract renewal...
― DJI, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
I think it would take a few seasons to do just the first book 'Red Mars'. I think it would work as more of a large ensemble like BSG or Game of Thrones.
― earlnash, Friday, 28 May 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link
I think I heard an Internet rumour that Red Mars was in the works.
I'd like someone to have a bash at the Culture novels.
― chap, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
I prefer The Expanse to BSG in a lot of ways, not least because it's proper hard Sci-Fi rather than a slightly half-arsed SF/mystic fantasy hybrid, but I don't think it reaches the heights of nailbiting drama BSG did at its peaks.
― chap, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
I think Amazon started working on a Culture TV show and gave up.
― DJI, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link