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    Calm before the storm this week.

    As pedestrian as that episode was, next week's looks like its in complete contrast.
    Check out the trailer for 'The Oath'.

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      Adama and Roslin in bed together. Don't want to see that ever again.

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        Originally posted by Zero9X View Post
        Adama and Roslin in bed together. Don't want to see that ever again.
        agreed, its like Battlestar gone gonzo porn, especially with her bald head.

        odd episode this week, kind of rattled by but nothing much really happened.

        for me I think I started enjoying this a lot less when it ceased to be a war prog with the constant threat of cylon attack (the ep for example where there have to FTL jump every couple of mins to escape the cylons who are tracking them was amazing).

        i find the politics in centre stage a bit naff and still can't understand why a fleet of 30,000 people feels the need to have 20 journalists standing around all the time

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          I thought that it was maybe just the people craving action who weren't enjoying this anymore, personally I love all the character based plots just as much - in fact I don't know how anyone who has watched the show for this long could fail to be enthralled by the recent episodes.. didn't you grow any attachment to the characters at all???

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            Well one thing defined the latest episode for me -

            Dramatic music.

            On Adama.

            Brushing his bloody teeth.

            That's what is left of this show. You know what the problem is? They have no story. None. There is no story left in this show and there hasn't been for a while. The premise of the show - humans trying to find Earth while battling and escaping from Cylons - has loads of story. Pretty much endless story potential. But now? Nothing.

            That goes with exactly what you're saying, Merf. The draw and the thing that made the early shows so tense and so exciting was that they were under constant threat. Through that, they managed to realise some fantastic characters and put them through their paces.

            When that threat just fell off, characters started doing things they shouldn't, the writers had to write in visions to explain why people were doing things totally out of character and they had to throw in the Lost-alike questions to keep people interested. A cheat to hide the lack of story.

            And, yes, there has never been a sci-fi council scene that was interesting. Ever. Didn't work in the Star Wars prequels. Didn't work in the Matrix sequels, even with Jim from Neighbours. Doesn't work here. Council scenes are boring.

            Still, music's bloody good, eh? Looking forward to another soundtrack CD.

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              So the impending revolution doesn't excite you at all? That was a major, major event at the end of the last episode...

              I should stick to what I said above and stay out of this thread until the show is over. Think I will!

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                It could be good but that's stuff I haven't seen yet. That's Lost - promise something interesting, don't worry about what you're actually doing in the present. But, yeah, it could pay off.

                And, like old Apollo (Hatch), how we got to the setup feels wrong to me. And while old Apollo stages a revolution as a reaction, I just sit watching thinking that the main characters are doing things they shouldn't and so it feels contrived.

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                  I love character driven programs with a slow burn plot, The Wire, Deadwood, Sopranoes are my all time faves.

                  Personally can't put this anywhere near that class.

                  I agree with Dogg Thang, the characters made perfect sense whilst under threat at a time of war, it all sat so well, the fledging political set-up, inter tribe tensions, genocide, all these things were great. As soon as the threat dissipated and it became just about the quest though the quality has tailed off massively for me.

                  I did care about the characters, Kara Thrice for example has gone from being one of my faves to plain annoying.

                  I said earlier I wanted this to end well, which I really do, but a large part of me just wants it to end now, before they damage its legacy in my mind.

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                    That was a great episode, best in a while.

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                      from last nights (3/2/09) episode....


                      so who were the revolutionaries actually fighting in the corridors of galactica? civilians who sympathized with the cylons? that bit wasnt explained too well, as im guessing most galactica staff would be n the side of Gaitor anyway?

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                        Good episode last night. Shame that sound was borked in a few places.


                        I think the fighting between the various groups on Galactica would have been those on Gaita's side versus the rest of crew and the ships civilian population not to mention Baltar's followers.
                        It's interesting how a lot of the less prominent characters are being brought to the fore now. They'll probably get bumped off but it does add a certain shock value.


                        Really looking forward to next weeks episode now.

                        I reckon Admiral Adama will be very badly injured and may not see the series out.

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                          Another cracking episode, loving this series

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                            Excellent couple of episodes. Those episodes are why i liked BSG in the first place, hopefully they can keep it up like that for the remainder.

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                              bloody sky plus, lost loads of sound on this the previous week and watching it last night my box crashed after 20mins and after a reboot it refused to play the file back.

                              everything else I've watched fine but it seems to hate this, had to record a repeat in non HD.

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                                Last night's episode had action and excitement, which is great, but the show is now beginning to bug the crap out of me. They're clearly good at realising setups like they have in the last two episodes - great drama, action, character revelations through how they react to the pressure.

                                But the problem is that they pricked about for so long with their Lost-alikes and had so many main characters act out of character, the entire premise of the last two episodes was based on forced character inconsistencies and that just bugged me.


                                The whole situation is a contrivance created by a hole in Adama's character. He who survived by refusing to ever network the ship, who lived by his distrust for the Cylons, who took a bullet when one was activated on his ship and who had to clean up the aftermath of New Caprica, where the humans had resorted to suicide bombing and killing collarborators - things had got that bad. He rightly hated Baltar for his role in helping the Cylons destroy their entire planet and try to finish the job by pursuing Galactica.

                                And this uprising was based on his pretty much instant acceptance of a Cylon alliance. That he has a Cylon as his number two in that scenario makes no sense. And to go against everything he fought for seems like a writing mistake. And if it's not a writing mistake, it makes his character little more than a dick, something compounded by the execution of Gaeta for actually standing up for the humans.

                                And, if Adama's a dick, Roslins a pain in the hole, Lee is a complete pussy, Starbuck now little more than a Lost plot device and other characters now having no role whatsoever (Tyrol spent the whole episode in a tube just to give the actor something to do), who is there to care about? This show has no characters left to follow.

                                They just sort of wander around aimlessly with nothing to do. Athena is now just seen in one or two 'mother' shots and that's it. Helo is background scenery. There's nobody.

                                And the Cylons themselves are now totally impotent and without purpose.



                                Anyone remember the episode where Starbuck interrogated the Leoben Cylon? Man, those were good days.

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