i don't get why Helo and Gaeta are off on Starbuck's mission - thought they were key personnel. it's as if the writers have got nothing for them to do for a while.
Yeah, I think you nailed it. I mean, why else would they put on all those other pilots (like... uh... that chick who got promoted to pilot last season).
But complete fanwankery GO: Helo has been pretty good buds with Starbuck, though they don't get that much screentime together, it's been established. And Gaeta is still probably hated in the fleet anyway since most people saw him as a collaborator, and maybe Starbuck's trying to make up for that whole "whoopsy, almost killed you in that barely legal tribunal thing!" But also he has a ton of experience in navigation from being in the CIC.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
39,000 people left - how come still so many reporters?
Halfway through the first season on DVD and wondering the same thing. There's no sign of a visual media or newspapers and 48k people, why is the Presidential Press Corps rolling 20 deep?
― milo z, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it gets explained in the first season actually. Weren't a whole bunch of reporters on Galactica for the de-commissioning? They never explain the whole medium (or how any sort of economy works in general), but I would presume that the weekly newsletter's get more important once the human race is down to 40K.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, but each of them must report to unique news sources, right?
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
sam's there cuz he luv starbuck, gaeta's there cuz good w/ navigation (bit u+k), helo's there cuz he always gets sent on these shit jobs, sharon's there cuz helo, seelix (her?) rounds it out, possible cannon fodder.
― balls, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Sam also there because of cylon-ness obv.
― wilter, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Wish Seelix still had her long hair.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 06:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Other Songs the Final Four Cylons Should Have Heard in Their Heads at the End of Season 3 Besides That Shitty Version of "All Along the Watchtower"
1. Kraftwerk "We Are the Robots"2. Super Mario Bros themesong
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
3. Sex Machine
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
4. Zapp "Computer Love"
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
2. Super Mario Bros themesong
Genuine LOL-age at desk over that one - good work SMC.
5. Giorgio Moroder with Philip Oakey "Together In Electric Dreams".
― Bill A, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 07:37 (fifteen years ago) link
6. Daft Punk's "Robot Rock"
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 07:52 (fifteen years ago) link
7. Fleetwood Mac - Walk a Thin Line
― wilter, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 08:04 (fifteen years ago) link
no, Honey Hi
― wilter, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://galacticasitrep.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-coming-out-party.html
― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i figured it was those two!
― the head werewolf's girlfriend (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I've just finished season one of this, and while I'm enjoying it as a drama I don't think all of the sci-fi elements have been very well thought through. The world lacks coherence and consistency somehow, and much of the politicking seems quite simplistic. I also wish they'd curb the spiritual nonsense a bit.
I adore Gaius Baltar, however. I suspect he's partially basing his performance on Tony Blair.
― chap, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, two episodes into S3 now and it's kicking so much arse. S2 excellent as well, the first series is the weakest by a large margin. LOVING Dean Stockwell's performance.
― chap, Sunday, 15 March 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
You might want to check the thread started this season, although lots of complaints.
― dow, Sunday, 15 March 2009 01:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Too scared of spoilers.
― chap, Sunday, 15 March 2009 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Christ but Lucy Lawless is aging well. Far hotter in this than she ever was in Xena.
― chap, Sunday, 15 March 2009 02:26 (fifteen years ago) link
lol watched razor thinking it was s04e1 d'oh; was thinking all the way through 'what a weird way to start season 4'
I do think that viewed as an episode rather than a side-story movie it was ok
― cozwn, Monday, 21 December 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
still not watched The Plan yet
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 21 December 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
The main girl's story is pretty predictable, but I liked the way it fleshed out some minor characters.
xpost re: Razor
Has the plan been aired in the States?
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Monday, 21 December 2009 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i dl'd it a while ago so presumably yes
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 21 December 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Cool, I'm going to get on that shit. Love me some John Cavill.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Monday, 21 December 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
The Plan was on DVD, not telly.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
in the UK are the 'final season' DVDs just the second half of season 4? still got to work my way through its first half anyway.
I thought season 3 was rubbish, first time through, but re-screened it this past week and it's definitely stronger than I initially thought; pretty incredible reveal of four of the final five at the end
― cozwn, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, the DVDs were split into 'Season 4' and 'The Final Season'.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
dumm
― cozwn, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought season 3 was rubbish, first time through,
The first four or five eps of S3 is Galactica's creative peak, IMO.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Monday, 21 December 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but there is a definite sag around the middle; as I say tho it's not as bad as I thought first time through
― cozwn, Monday, 21 December 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually now that you mention it, I'm struggling to remember what happens in that season post-New Caprica.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Monday, 21 December 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Me too. Still haven't watched The Plan yet, because I fear it will be as disappointing as the finale.
― รด_o (Nicole), Monday, 21 December 2009 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Lee shags a space hooker.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 21 December 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god 'the plan'. i didn't get far with it but it is the absolute nadir of the whole thing.
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
watch yr spoilers obv but what was the consensus on sn4?
― cozwn, Monday, 21 December 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
terrible.
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously one of the worst resolutions possible
ya i have the plan but it looks so bad i'm afraid it'll ruin my memories of the good seasons (cuz it shows them from "the other side" right?)
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
its a bunch of outtakes basically filling in a bunch of pointless details of the first half dozen or so episodes
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
sort of. it's a mish-mash of deleted scenes, "from the other side" stuff, and... just pure crap. they upped the fx and portentous music budget iirc. i've pretty much wiped it from my memory.
i doubt it'll ruin the earlier seasons: it may as well be a fan video, if the final seasons have any fans.
xpost
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
man they effed this show up so bad.
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yep. tragic, really.
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
One good two-parter in S4 (the mutiny one).
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
4 suxx then? ;_;
― cozwn, Monday, 21 December 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
big time
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
the worst ever
― akira goldsman (s1ocki), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked season 4 okay but i feel like they rushed through the really dope shit (the mutiny being a good example) and lingered way too long on the portentous shit and lee and starbuck's final scene was closer to marky mark having a chat with his dead mom in 'four brothers' than anything that belonged in BSG.
― pantalols (omar little), Monday, 21 December 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Avoided this forever having a very strong attachment to the original. Every short clip I saw seemed silly. When the mini-series/season one became available on Blu-Ray recently, I said what the heck and put it on my queue. Furious torrenting and 2-3+ episodes per day and a month later I am just astonished at how good it all was! I haven't felt like a kid in this way in a very long time. I kept expecting things to go downhill but I was purely riveted throughout and up to the final shot - maybe watching it all at once helped. Perhaps too much speculation leads to disappointment. I haven't devoured this much of a tv series in as short a time since I obsessed over Heimat/Die zweite Heimat.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 5 March 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link