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― owenf, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i liked her assistant
― sarahell, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
he hasn't had much to do so far really. Hope he gets a more substantial role. He seems like a nice chap.
― owenf, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
I liked the boomer/assistant "he's a freedom fighter" "he's a terrorist" argument.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
baltar's a pretty neat trick in this, but i am old and still have fond, dimly remembered memories of baltar in the original
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh jeez shades of the Crazy in madam prez thinking Adama is a cylon, the way her voice shook while she wore that bathrobe & fretted.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Love baltar a lot btw
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Watching this w/headphones is intense btw
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
do the headphones have 9-11 trauma issues?
― sarahell, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'd kinda like to play along, but i don't think i'll be able to keep up to speed
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
well part of my quick clip atm is that i'm unemployed and watching 2+ eps a day on hulu
lol
btw speaking of hulu, is anybody watching the ""hulu original program"" "battleground"? it's basically 'the office' set in a state senate campaign office. kinda fun, lightly wonky.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol i haven't watched any of The 4 Best Dramas Of The Last 25 Years
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
we need you get you some free time, mookie
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think some of my favorite scenes as it goes on is with all of them getting lit up on hooch. That really brings out the angst, especially in the old fellas.
If they are all sitting around drinking, get ready, it's getting ready to throw down.
― earlnash, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
opening poker scene with Starbuck and old grizzleguts is one of my faves
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh, i have free time
i just do little worthwhile with it
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Starbuck is my fave x 10. Is she the obv all-fan fave?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Carl is my fav
― Jeff, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Doesn't the "they have a plan" opening change as the show goes on?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
awwwww
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 04:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Saul Tigh pretty much steals the show even if drunk and surly is pretty much M.O. He gets some of the best scenes the whole series.
― earlnash, Friday, 6 April 2012 04:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks to Tigh 'gods dammit' lives forever in my cursing phrasebook
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 04:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was kinda disappointed that the big meeting to hash out wonky political questions turned into "nominate a vice president, then incongruously party." major lol @ bangin the reporter in the bathroom. The mad scientist being vp with prez's looming expiration date is interesting but also kinda says something's gonna come along to shift the trajectory of some things--there's no way he winds up president. I think.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 04:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
kinda surprised there was no #occupygalactica meme
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 April 2012 04:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haha yeah when zarrack is on screen I keep finding myself thinking "occupy galactica" and kind of wanting to stick up for the guy who's obv a ~masses fooling populist~
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
at occupy's trending-topic height i'm sure i saw adama's face somewhere, i mean george takei was tweeting about occupying arrakis for a while there.
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Friday, 6 April 2012 05:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
"So Say We All" via human mic
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 April 2012 05:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn what a season finale, coup and two shots to the gut, goddamn
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 06:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
starbuck going into hysterics seemed weirdly out of character tho imo
brace yourself, hoostein
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 06:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
I keep thinking the aesthetic reminds me of the game Wing Commander 3.― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, April 6, 2012 12:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, April 6, 2012 12:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
btw here i'm just thinking like
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 06:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol that i watched the first season in 2 days btw
you're gonna need a 12-step when it's over, son
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 06:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
so owenf i am all caught up
when do you think you'll be prepared to launch s2?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 17:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
it does, but not for the reasons you would hope
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
the last couple seasons are kinda dire
― sarahell, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
*shhhh*
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyway ur RONG
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
man that was FAST. I'm good to go when you are.
― owenf, Friday, 6 April 2012 23:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha i mean its all on hulu and i'm unemployed, so
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can think of no finer employment, hoos :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
except the paying kind of course :/
ha
ok so i guess i'll watch s2e1 tonight
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
2+ per day? Man, I had season 1/2 DVDs from a friend, got the flu, and smashed through 6 - 8 hours for three days. Also, I had a fever.
― mh, Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha that's what i did with the wire
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know more people who cruised through this en masse - Battlestar-athon - than did nearly any other show. Even when it takes a turn toward the not nearly as good as the first two seasons, it stays seriously compelling. You've got some good stuff coming up.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 April 2012 02:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ok guys I'm goin in
Holy hell @ opening
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 April 2012 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
did this when I had an ear infection and gobbled down codeine. it was kind of great.
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Saturday, 7 April 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
yup, and sure don't forget to watch Razor, i think it was after season 2 ends?
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 April 2012 03:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^^ this
yep, I think it fits in as 2.5 iirc
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2012 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
but as to the two preceding seasons, yeah they were weaker but there was still the occasional worthwhile episode there--the New Caprica stuff was great and perhaps from a better series, season 3 finale was pretty good. tbh the only part of 4.5 I thought was any good was the brief mutiny arc
also i know it's a dead horse but the use of "all along the watchtower" is the corniest shit ever, and that's even before ron moore's fear of what his roomba might do
― one bish two bish red bish blue bish (fadanuf4erybody), Friday, 21 December 2012 21:29 (5 months ago) Permalink
(xp, although yes there should really be a poll)
― one bish two bish red bish blue bish (fadanuf4erybody), Friday, 21 December 2012 21:30 (5 months ago) Permalink
tbh the only part of 4.5 I thought was any good was the brief mutiny arc
I agree - but even this was diminishing returns/rehash of previous storyline
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 December 2012 21:32 (5 months ago) Permalink
My feeling is BSG started as a really good sci-fi show (with sometimes clumsy/sometimes effective overlays of Bush-era topicality) and got mired in increasingly nutty Mormon mysticism. (I know Mormon allegory was the starting point for the series, but the more that became the storyline, the lamer the whole thing got.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 21 December 2012 21:36 (5 months ago) Permalink
Ron Moore is mormon? OG series had way more mormon shit in it, everything in the new one just seemed to be allusions to that afaict
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 December 2012 21:39 (5 months ago) Permalink
Glen Larson, creator and producer of the first show, is a member of the Church of Latter-day Saints. He based much of the first series on Mormon cosmology. Was there a concerted effort to move away from that in this version?
Moore: Not specifically, no. I looked at the original series as mythos and the way it dealt with religion as sort of a global sense. I was aware that Glen had used Mormon influences and how he had created the cosmology, but I'm not that familiar with Mormon belief or practice.
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 December 2012 21:40 (5 months ago) Permalink
The BSG finale was better than I expected, given how bad season 3 and 4 were. The action-y moments were good, pretty tense. The very end was incredibly stupid, no two ways about that.
― Vinnie, Friday, 21 December 2012 21:43 (5 months ago) Permalink
xp
Yeah, but like he says there, it's pretty much in the DNA for it to have this mystical side(however Mormon it may be). Which was my least-favorite thing about it from the start, and it ended up sort of swallowing the series whole.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 21 December 2012 21:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
the half-assed mysticism definitely destroyed the show. I think the problem was that a bunch of good ideas were introduced at the outset without any real understanding of their implications, and then as the show went on and they realized they weren't going to get cancelled, they got buried under the weight of trying to make up explanations for things that had originally just been tossed off.
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 December 2012 21:56 (5 months ago) Permalink
cylons being monotheistic, for example.
I just recently watched BSG 1/2 in the last week and a half. It became an obsession and drove my family mad, me watching four plus episodes a day. I couldn't believe how ridiculous the Baltar/Caprica 6 scenes seemed at first and how haunting and hypnotic they became as the series drew me in. A+ for the first two seasons.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 21 December 2012 22:43 (5 months ago) Permalink
Cylons and their creepy sex fantasies and mating with humans, that had a few unexplored angles
― mh, Saturday, 22 December 2012 00:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
we should poll best tv endings ever (Newhart, Sopranos, Seinfeld, M*A*S*H* etc)
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier)
Should probably wait for Breaking Bad to finish before conducting such a poll.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 22 December 2012 02:47 (5 months ago) Permalink
blackadders always ended well
― mookieproof, Saturday, 22 December 2012 02:59 (5 months ago) Permalink
Died/died/became king by mistake/died
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 22 December 2012 03:07 (5 months ago) Permalink
exactly
― mookieproof, Saturday, 22 December 2012 03:23 (5 months ago) Permalink
mookie otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 December 2012 06:06 (5 months ago) Permalink
Lost and Sopranos ending far more controversial/hated. This one was just disappointing
i was not disappointed, i wanted to kick the ending into a burning house and then set it on fire fifty more times and then at least chase ron moore around with a torch, not sure where i'd go from there but i think it'd be a fun day
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Saturday, 22 December 2012 08:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
also tbh i didn't mind lost's ending cause they just forced themselves into so many corners and none of it surprised me and at least it had its moments (vincent), where BSG's entire last season is just FUCK IT LET'S DO ALL OF OUR IDEAS CAUSE WE'RE SHINY SHOOTING STARS
― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (zachlyon), Saturday, 22 December 2012 08:39 (5 months ago) Permalink