Oh, Tyrolpaws
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
Simultaneous firefights awww yeah
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
lol space sports.
I get that, their relationship is 90% unfulfilling whining on screen
― mh, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
is apollo wearing a fat suit?
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
yes he is
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
so funny
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
"I settled for that shriek! Those dull vacant eyes! The boiled cabbage stench of her! And why? Because this is my life!"
― calstars, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
^ FOR REAL
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
Hate the "last time"s where they dub in lines that totally didnt get said in the scene.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
'last time on...' dubbing is bad in every show. I can never understand why anyone thinks it's a good idea
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
makes it really confusing especially if you're watching a lot in a chunk. I'm constantly thinking I've missed an episode
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I'm pretty sure the last "last time" actually had a deleted scene?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
man Tigh can be totally fire & brimstone poetic sometimes
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
"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."
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 13 April 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
loose lips sink raptors Chiefy
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
And they even changed the intro titles back! What a cheat.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
shooting in nu-cap was $$$$ and they just had no budget. but the Galactica jumping into the atmosphere was A+ worth it imo
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 13 April 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I actually said "ballsy!" to my screen
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
man so these first two eps after exodus felt like they could largely have come out of a dark swath of season 2
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
this thread makes me want to watch all this again. if it wasn't for the 20 other dvds in front of the tv...
― koogs, Friday, 13 April 2012 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't hate the boxing episode! filled in some gaps for me, though i could have done without adama's weird bloodied speech.
kind of hated kat
thank god starbuck has short hair again
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 07:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, April 13, 2012 1:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, April 13, 2012 1:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
man i remember being disturbed as fuck by war of the worlds
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
thought that starbuck's new ink was some sort of cylon tagging system. Took a while to realise it was her boyfriend's sports bro tagging system.
― owenf, Friday, 13 April 2012 07:54 (twelve years ago) link
I hated kat too.
― Jeff, Friday, 13 April 2012 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
TV critics Alan Sepinwall and Maureen Ryan have nice recaps/analysis of BSG eps if you are interested. Not spoilery and I really like their insight.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 13 April 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
link?
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/search/label/Battlestar%20Galactica
― Jeff, Friday, 13 April 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
man i am totally not interested in this lucy lawless character at all
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 14 April 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
also lol @ gaius beardtar
Lucy Lawless character gets mired in the kid mythology stuff and it's annoying. In honor of this thread I watched the Exodus eps again last night. I almost forgot how creepy/sleazy the cylons were -- Leoben and the attempted weird manipulation of Starbuck, the Cavil using Ellen, the mythology thing.
― mh, Saturday, 14 April 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
i still can't get over the degree to which the new caprica arc felt like a whole different (maybe better?) show
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 15 April 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
btw kinda rmde @ the drug that put baltar treading water in the ocean just in case there weren't enough neon signs saying THIS IS ABOUT WATERBOARDING
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 15 April 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
man i was really hoping the general strike would be a two parter
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 April 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
but i was also hoping they'd occupy the factory so
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 April 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
^this!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
oh right so we're looking for earth and shit, we forgot for 10 episodes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 April 2012 05:45 (twelve years ago) link
better in part bc no matter how much praise this show receives the spaceship sets are still dorky
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago) link
just noticed that the number of survivors in the titles is changing
i figured it must have been, but til now the fluctuations had been too small for me to notice
admiral bluffing is kinda getting old; we've never been given any reason to believe he would be totes ruthless, but we have plenty of opportunity to see him act like he's gonna be ruthless and then pull back. it just makes for lower stakes the next time he threatens to execute so-and-so bcz you've got no reason to think he'd actually do it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 April 2012 05:48 (twelve years ago) link
love the fact that a hoos and owenf are living out a Portlandia sketch.
i need to watch this all in a row.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
haha yeah i saw that sketch last week
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 April 2012 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
really liked these last two eps of the season--i would not have pegged those 4 in a million years, and cool of them to leave one of the final five out.
still don't really get 'all along the watchtower' as the cue
totally bought the whole trial, p plausible and satisfying. baltar's "real" voice was a good moment, irish (lol) lawyer walking away without the cane was a nice touch.
wtbuck
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
I have been totally slack in watching this the last couple of days. going to catch up tonight and tomorrow evening. Exciting. Wish baltar was was s2 baltar though.
― owenf, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link