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

major kudos to Jamie Bamber on that, too.

the January Jones of the last decade

new Caprica Apollo is some of the funniest shit in the show

beardo Chief! <3

nu-caprica pirate tigh is my favorite tigh

damn this is like a whole other show in season 3

the season 2 conclusion/twist is so audacious, there's only one other moment in the series (imho) that hits that same level of narrative daring

Shakey Mo playing voice of doom itt

:)

eh you know what moment I'm talkin about

Starbuck/Adama sex scene?

let's just say some teeth get brushed

j/k

Oh man, Exodus 1 and 2 are great.

Exodus 1 and 2 = awesome

I can't remember how season 3 starts, is it 8 MONTHS LATER?

I can't remember how season 3 starts, is it 8 MONTHS LATER?
--mh

It's 4 months after the Cylons showed up, so one year four months after settling on New Caprica.

Also fuuuuuu at firing squad

ok. SO. Important.

Adama's moustache is WAY better in the final ep of season 2 than the first ep of season 3.

Real talk

Trying to figure out why Chief shaved between episodes

nu-caprica pirate tigh is my favorite tigh

― I DIED, Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MORE LIKE CAPTAIN BIRDS-TIGH AMIRITE

I find it kind of hard to take Chief seriously. I think it's his face. He just looks so nice. Every time I see him I just think 'Oh Chief'

Also lol @ "go panthers" "cbucks rule"

Oh, Tyrolpaws

Simultaneous firefights awww yeah

Also I wish we could have seen Chief and Cally's relationship actually happen. It kind of devalues the fact that she forgave him/said she liked him if we don't get to see the awkward build up where they adress the fact that he beat the shit out of her ('Oh Chief') rather than just going YOU KILLED MY GF - I BEAT YOU UP - I LIKE YOU - PREGNANT. Maybe we'll get some flashbacks or something.

lol space sports.

I get that, their relationship is 90% unfulfilling whining on screen

Btw this happened a few eps back but I thought Baltar-in-Six's-Head was a nice touch.

Can anybody help me fill in the blanks on how the cylons coming to N-C was a part of Sharon/6's whole "repentant cylons" deal and why they suddenly seemed to lose all their clout as soon as they got there?

is apollo wearing a fat suit?

yes he is

so funny

"I settled for that shriek! Those dull vacant eyes! The boiled cabbage stench of her! And why? Because this is my life!"

Man watching a show where suicide bombing insurgents are the good guys fighting ostensibly well-meaning imperialist occupiers must have felt even crazier in 2005.

^
FOR REAL

Hate the "last time"s where they dub in lines that totally didnt get said in the scene.

Had a look on wikipedia a few episodes back and there are some super cool sounding deleted scenes but had to stop reading due to spoilery stuff. Looking forward to analysis when it's done.

'last time on...' dubbing is bad in every show. I can never understand why anyone thinks it's a good idea

makes it really confusing especially if you're watching a lot in a chunk. I'm constantly thinking I've missed an episode

Yeah I'm pretty sure the last "last time" actually had a deleted scene?

man Tigh can be totally fire & brimstone poetic sometimes

"Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that."

Can anybody help me fill in the blanks on how the cylons coming to N-C was a part of Sharon/6's whole "repentant cylons" deal and why they suddenly seemed to lose all their clout as soon as they got there?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, April 13, 2012 12:31 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

They were hoping to co-exist, but they went about it the wrong way. Hoping that occupation would somehow win the hearts and minds because obv there was a lot of distrust from the human side as they did wipe out their 12 planets of people. Maybe it only makes sense in the context of Iraq though, but you're right, it felt pretty amazing at the time. War of the Worlds and *maybe* Munich aside, Hollywood's attempts to address the issue were so bad that it felt like BSG was pretty much the only place in American culture really interested in exploring it.

loose lips sink raptors Chiefy

Man watching a show where suicide bombing insurgents are the good guys fighting ostensibly well-meaning imperialist occupiers must have felt even crazier in 2005.

This absolutely accounts for a great deal of the show's contemporaneous appeal, and why so many of my friends otherwise not interested in sci-fi bought into this. Though of course the series does not sustain the parallels, to its detriment.

Dang I thought they were gonna sustain the New Caprica thing for a season or so, they got outta there way faster than I figured.

And they even changed the intro titles back! What a cheat.

shooting in nu-cap was $$$$ and they just had no budget. but the Galactica jumping into the atmosphere was A+ worth it imo

Yeah I actually said "ballsy!" to my screen

man so these first two eps after exodus felt like they could largely have come out of a dark swath of season 2

this thread makes me want to watch all this again. if it wasn't for the 20 other dvds in front of the tv...