Battlestar Galactica Revival

Episode I -- The Cylon Menace

what?

great. Caprica's cancelled? shiiiiittt

been re-watching the BSG reboot. even the weaker episodes in the first couple seasons are redeemed by the presence of Baltar. oddly in retrospect the weakest character/link in the show seems to be Apollo.

love how they totally dropped the Boxy character after like three episodes. it's amazing how well structured the early seasons are in terms of character arcs and multiple storylines, given the huge clusterfuck it turned into by the end. Like, everything seems exceptionally well paced for the first few seasons - actions have consequences that resonate across episodes, a lot of subtle characterizations with various people getting their moments in the spotlight, the larger backdrop seems complex but also logical and realistic...

season 2 finale was perfect. they didn't know where to go after that.

Except the first story arc of season 3 is as good as SF TV has ever been.

Have Glen Campbell in my facebook likes and this ad appeared which made me think it referred to my BSG like.
http://creative.ak.fbcdn.net/v41818/flyers/50/32/1313001135520333774_1_c863ebae.jpg

Was thinking last night how different the series may have been, depending on which song was chosen instead of All Along the Watchtower. Like if it had been Don't Worry Be Happy. Wow, that would have been awesome.

honestly the last season was not quite as bad as I remembered it. I think watching it all in a row made the overall plot arc seem a little more thought-out. nonetheless, they had written themselves into several corners and made numerous terrible decisions (All Along the Watchtower, the opera house, etc) that really sapped the momentum of the show. They can claim it was about "the characters" all they want, the fact is most of the characters weren't particularly well-written.

just watched the miniseries and started season one

kinda heavy-handed but liking it and looking forward to the purported stratospheric ending of the season + onward

yay hoos

I hope you enjoy it, am jealous of all BSG firsttimers

My wife and I recently finished BSG and are halfway through Caprica now. You are in for some wild times, HOOS. Stay Strong.

i have only just gotten into this too! A few eps into season 2. This is the most pleasantly surprised by a tv show in like forever. Man they deal with the big questions. Love it.

(also think I might be a cylon)

i kind of want to start a kev k style "big hoos watches battlestar galactica and no one talks about episodes he hasn't seen yet" thread

if you do I'll hang at my season two mark for you. (nobody I know would really be into this show)

i'm watching 2 eps a day so i'd prob catch up pretty fast

well ok then

*bites tongue*

Also I will wholeheartedly rep for Caprica as a good show that is worth yr time when you are done with BSG

looking forward to you guys hating this soon

big hoos & owenf watch 'battlestar galactica' and no one talks abt eps they haven't seen yet

I loved it all the way to the final episode and then I was kinda mad

You hate everything s1ocki :)

http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/04/news/economy/fracking_rules/index.htm?hpt=hp_t3

oh sorry, wrong thread

The ending will be just as disappointing.

lol, g1.

Yeah about that

http://io9.com/5932211/bryan-singer-claims-his-battlestar-galactica-movie-can-connect-both-bsg-tv-series

well seeing as how the Moore version's mythos is a bunch of incomprehensible nonsense, of COURSE you could make it work with anything

you're a bunch of..etc

actually I'm an angel... from the FUTURE

fine. but you're still kind of a jerk :)

thinking about rewatching this

i've been thinking about the series ending.

there are two starbucks, one alive and one dead. there are two earths, one alive and one dead. dead starbuck ends up on dead earth and alive starbuck ends up on alive earth.

no idea if they planned this but it's a nice symmetry.

alive starbuck does not end up on alive earth

what, because she vanishes?

ime experience this is not something live people are able to do

Just because she's a ghost doesn't mean she's not there. That's racist.

tbf, dead people don't walk around and fly spaceships either

hhmmmmm yes, it's almost as if her entire character arc makes no sense...

has anyone here ever played the board game? it's REALLY fun, prob the best thing that came out of this series

http://www.livingdice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/img_0337.jpg

thats it!

I never knew there was a board game!

Just because she's a ghost doesn't mean she's not there. That's racist.

SMH at the racism against ghosts on this board.

It's sad, she was a ghost.

my decision to rewatch this for winter 2012/13 is probably the best decision i have made in the past few months

i'd totally forgotten that the mini-series came out in *2003* - i do remember where i watched it and feeling the hype. it's still so good and so brutal! the part with the kid on the garden ship without an ftl drive, just before it gets nuked! whoa. harshness.
and the fate of the human race, floating in space! and 33 minutes btwn jumps! the humanity!
anyway. it's fun to experience this show again.

Did some recent skipping around thanks to Netflix. The series ending still falls apart big time, but sure started with a bang and then some. In retrospect not showing the fall of the Colonies much at the start was a brilliant move, everything felt more isolated from the get-go.

yeah imo everything after sbux reappearance is meh but everything up to and including her absence is a+

the stretch around the end of the second season/start of the third is seriously awesome

Yeah the whole last 1.5 seasons is middling, except for the muutiny/sedition arc in the last season, which weirdly reverted to pure S1 awesomeness.

mookie and simon utterly OTM.