The second season and first four or five parts of the third are the high points. The fourth is mostly pure nonsense aside from one or two storylines. Things fell apart when they dug too heavily into the mystical aspects of the plot.
― chap, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
Definitely. The twists at the start of the second series, iirc, are particularly powerful.
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
Great cliffhanger at the end of season 2 also.
― chap, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
We only saw it the once, and aside from what they did with Starbuck (one of the best characters in nu-golden age TV) I recall liking most stuff about it, or at least didn't find the mythology stuff terribly ... terrible. As I remember it, though, I want to say the most impressive feat was tossing in something like episode 2 of the first season. You've barely been introduced to these people in the pilot and then they throw this super intense, super-cool more or less bottle episode at you and you're hooked for several seasons. Show is finally streamable again on Peacock, maybe I'll convince a kid or two to watch ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
"I'm not a cylon" = "I'M NOT A CAWP!!!"
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 13:24 (three years ago) link
Checking wikipedia I see it is the beginning of S03, partic Occupation, that was my favourite.
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
Yeah mine too. They end that storyline too soon, they could've easily extended it to fill the whole season.
― chap, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
did the show age well?
I remember loving it the first time I watched it. Desperation on every page.
The only other thing I remember is thinking Boomer's portrayal was absolutely atrocious, but maybe I was too emotionally calcified at the time to connect to the softness of the character.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
It really doesn’t go to shit until the middle of the fourth/last season, does it?
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
red flags everywhere by the season 3 closer, said the joker to the thief
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
I think I posted about this years ago, but this is the transcript of a roundtable that Moore and several actors did while the show was still going - https://en.battlestarwikiclone.org/wiki/Podcast:The_Battlestar_Roundtable
About halfway through Jamie Bamber has some very thoughtful criticisms of the direction of the show and the evolution of the Cylons.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
I think mid-season 3, it starts getting pretty bad and just gets worse. I loved the miniseries and first 2 seasons but have zero desire to revisit, knowing where it ends up
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
had to break down and make a Peacock account to re-screen
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
thread bubbling spurred me to grab s1
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
the bbc2 schedule (2 episodes every friday) seems achingly slow given all this talk. 50 odd episodes to get through, that's 1/2 a year at this rate.
(i have them all on dvd, but dvd player is currently flashing up 'BLOCKED')
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
Is it not on Netflix? It definitely used to be (or maybe Amazon Prime)
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
only on peacock in america atm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
Peacock hasn't shown me a single ad yet at least.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
The one positive thing about the last couple seasons is thinking how much worse it could have been if they'd picked a more loathsome song ... like substitute a popular song that you cannot stand in place of Watchtower (for me it was "In the Air Tonight" by Phil collins) ... as hokey as that plot was, it would have been so much more painful with Phil Collins.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
"Seasons in the Sun"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
"We Are The Robots"
(I don't really do streaming - everything comes in over 3g via the phone)
― koogs, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
The choice of ultimate boomer rock makes it worse.
"Sussussudio" would have ruled.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
apparently there's only one uss in that song title
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
all the secret cylons harmonize on the "whoa-oas" and that's how they realize
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
I can't remember how brutal the airlocking of Felix was, but I let it pass at the time
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Every '80s song I can think of is an improvement. Saul and Chief dancing to "Faith." The opening drum machine pattern to "Blue Monday" reverberating around the ship.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
Tubthumping
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
Now I want a Cop Rock-ed Galactica where they do a couple of these each episode.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
I was upset about what happened to Felix ... and Cassie ... I liked her and Chief as labor organizers on New Caprica!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, September 9, 2020 12:09 PM (twenty-two minutes ago)
for me, it would have been torture
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
if the song is "Last Caress", the outburst in the courtroom would get a lot weirder
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
'in the air tonight' would have been more awesome/fitting/hilarious
imagine waiting like six episodes for the drums to come in, and *then* the cylons go over the top
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
and then Anders picks up the phone and calls Starbuck and asks if she ever truly loved him
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
and then Christian Bale shows up in an expensive suit and kills everyone
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
or did he?
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
oh wait, that was Batmanstar Galactica!!!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
The first episodes of the miniseries are still so good
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Thursday, 10 September 2020 06:21 (three years ago) link
If I'm honest, I probably like the miniseries more than the series. A similar argument can be made for the LOST pilot being the best the show gets. Both of them have so much promise
― Vinnie, Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
Can't watch BG without wondering what they do with all the corners of pages.
― koogs, Saturday, 19 September 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
Started this with my daughter, who sat down to watch under duress - an "old" sci-fi reboot of an even older sci-fi she'd never heard of is a hard sell - but she was hooked immediately. It's at least as good as I remembered. I wonder if it was pitched as "Das Boot" meets "The Day After?"
I was surprised to be reminded that the religious/theological stuff is there in the very first episode.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 September 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
Oh, she found it amusing (rightly), that in the miniseries someone actually says "OK, Boomer."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 September 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
Man, felt like Cain was around for much longer than three episodes.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
Good character! Disappointing that she's killed off.
Which reminds me - one of the dumbest decisions the producers made, IMO, was to put Tigh in an eyepatch. He's the best actor on the show - don't cover his eyes! Idiocy.
Also: :( https://www.gofundme.com/f/michael-hogan-fund
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
The Chief Tyrol/refining ship episode is infuriating. Roslin and Adama doing one of the unexplained shifts from benevolence to acting like monsters, a window into the fleet that gets three quarters of an episode, wrapped up with Roslin giving a patronizing speech.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
Can't watch BG without wondering what they do with all the corners of pages.― koogs, Saturday, September 19, 2020 2:02 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― koogs, Saturday, September 19, 2020 2:02 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was once told in pre internet times, that the corners from all Rizla papers were shipped to Sydney Opera house to provide the snow for their annual Christmas shows...
I expect something like that happens within the fleet.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
yes, the famous snow-filled annual Christmas show at Sydney Opera House
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
started rewatching this and it's decent but ffs we get it, baltar is a sociopath -- please, enough with watching him try to converse/make funny faces with people *and* no. 6 simultaneously again and again forever
feel for tricia helfer condemned to spend four years nibbling on dude's ear, and also for dude having to do the same shocked expressions again and again
the general lack of music/space sound -- just drums and some minor (relative to, say, star trek) sound effects -- is intersting and effective
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
He finally gets a decent little run in the fourth season, which overall is even worse than I remembered.
Poor Gaeta.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 04:02 (three years ago) link
They just could not keep Adama/Roslin/Apollo's characterization steady from episode to episode no matter which era of the show - Adama does his "no more friends" speech to the crew and threatens to shoot people and then the next episode is all "ur like a daughter to me" to someone who isn't Starbuck and then back to shooty then a mean drunk.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
and in a single episode people are asking baltar to bless their children and others are picking up watchtower on the radio
― koogs, Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link