Battlestar Galactica Revival

4 suxx then? ;_;

big time

the worst ever

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.

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.

We started re-watching the series again this weekend. It's cool seeing the Galactica with all the lights in the hallway working, when everyone's still...well, alive. Look! There's non-beardo Chief! And look, oh look it's Kallie! Helo's got a thing for lollipops! And Gaeta all fresh-faced and non bitter. It's like flicking back through an old yearbook from a highschool that you actually liked and have fond memories of.

I lol'd at Six's wacky go-go-dancer-hooker-from-space outfits in the early episodes. ie the crazy plastic lace getup with giant silver panels on the skirt that she wears right as Caprica goes KaBoom. WTF.

And cosign upthread, re: The Plan. It's truly dire. Eddie Olmos' paint splattering directorship left a bad taste in my mouth and The Plan fares even worse in his hands. Plus it's totally needless, the 'revisionism' is just boring. Cavill was the only high point and I even got tired of him in the end.

I lol'd at Six's wacky go-go-dancer-hooker-from-space outfits in the early episodes

i totally "lol'd" at this amirite fellas

ok, watching the "miniseries" rite now, seems pretty good. there's a lot of stuff i'm feeling.

but every performance from anyone under 30 is real bad. is that the way it is for the whole show? kind of a problem imo.

someone please put this franchise out of its misery. it's getting worse than sonic now
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/battlestar-blood-chrome/

Awesome! Can't wait.

nothing's worse than sonic :(

No wonder they switched to a new series.

The show, which Stern said wouldn’t air before the end of 2011, said the show would employ virtual sets produced by digitally scanning the Battlestar Galactica sets before they were taken down.

greaaaaaaat

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.