my favorite part may have been when Gaius was hallucinating (?) talking with himself
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I still really dig this series, which is kind of shocking considering its best episode is probably its first.
It was fun watching it as it went on because of Moore's commentaries. He was always pretty upfront that they didn't really know where it was going from season to season. Also there was an episode (Black Market, maybe) where he basically apologised and spent the entire commentary explaining how it all went wrong from conception to writing.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
read in one of those interviews on a blog that moore said "six in times square was an image we'd had and liked for a long time, at least two seasons" and i was like "............................................"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
i liked the first reveal of head gaius too, and gaius/six talking to head six/head gaius and going "you can hear her/him?" to each other was a+
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
"All Along the Watchtower" was something he'd wanted to use since his days of writing for Roswell.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
also the first time the interior of a cylon ship was shown, with Sharon meeting all her copies and planting the bomb. that was a great moment.
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp
the epic as fuck space battle was pretty rad
There were so many!
My favorite part was in The Hub when Roslin pulled the pressure bandage off Baltar (and then put it back again).
Sharon meeting her copies was awesome.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
the whole athena/helo arc, both those characters in retrospect wound up being so great--so much of the show they were just sorta workhorse characters for action scenes to get hung on but their stories resolved maybe better than anyone's imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
they were at least fairly consistent characters
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
and obvs galactica jumping into the atmosphere of new caprica with vipers hauling ass out was one of the raddest moments
Starbuck got raptored, then she got raptured
― mh, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:53 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah that's part of what i mean--in retrospect they seemed almost more like real people than anyone else
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
starbuck for most of this season was reminding me a lot of buffy in season 7 of that show--a confident character suddenly shown in nearly-constant hysterics and then whipped back to hypercompetence at a moments notice when the plot needed it, and not always in ways that made sense for the inner life of the character
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
yessssss
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
best part
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, that and the battle in the nebula were like the absolutely HOLY SHIT moments
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
watching so much of this show with headphones gave me a really nice sub-bass boom on every jump, and the one on new cap was ~huge~
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbh I rewatched that episode right after you mentioned that because the new caprica rescue was one of my favorite bits
― mh, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean, other than the Callie rescue bits because she was already being written as a paper-thin liability at that point
― mh, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Callie was one of my favorite characters!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
i liked the Jack Ruby-style assassination scene
I like when shows don't feel the need to resolve all plot threads, but having weird directions like Starbuck not being a Cylon yet definitely having died being not-explained with "oooh, spooky, mysterious God?" was horrible. :(
― mh, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
right the obvious out would have been to have Starbuck be the 5th cylon but nooooooo
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think they thought it was way too obvious, and so instead of doing that they were just like "uhh... surprise it's not Starbuck!"
"If that's me lying there, then what am I?!?"
Leoben running away symbolizes the writers
― mh, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was also really hoping that the flashbacks the four known cylons were having on the nuked Earth were going to culminate in a flashback to the final five at a concert or being in a band playing the song.
"The song that switched us on... I played it. For a woman I loved"
― mh, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
also lol at rock concert flashback scenario
absolutely hate the retconned implication that Dylan "channeled" All Along the Watchtower from previous generations of humans thousands of years ago or wtf-ever. so terrible.
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
I want a painting of the final five rocking out, similar to that ridiculous one of Star Wars characters in a band
Tigh is on drums
― mh, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lee ramming Pegasus into a Cylon basestar. Fist pumping good.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tory on bass duh
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
You mean these guys oh wait
http://dirtysdiatribe.blogspot.com/2010/03/official-final-five-band.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I played it… for a woman I loved.
Oh my LOL I forgot about this part. Hahahaha that's up there with THE MAIN VEIN for best worst quotes.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
the eternal love song that is All Along the Watchtower:
"There must be some kind of way out of here,"Said the joker to the thief,"There's too much confusion,I can't get no relief.Businessman they drink my wine,Plowman dig my earthNone will level on the line, nobody offered his word
"No reason to get excited,"The thief, he kindly spoke"There are many here among usWho feel that life is but a jokeBut you and I, we've been through thatAnd this is not our fateSo let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"
All along the watchtowerPrinces kept the viewWhile all the women came and wentBarefoot servants, too
Outside in the cold distanceA wildcat did growlTwo riders were approachingAnd the wind began to howl*buisness man there, drink my wine,Come and take my herb.
― Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
― sarahell, Wednesday, April 18, 2012 8:36 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
and yeah the main vein made me lol in my bedroom at 4am
i am on episode 1.07. includes the phrase "No more Mr Nice Gaius". i laughed.
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ha! I enjoyed that line as well.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
high point of the series in some ways
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I finally finished that last three episodes of "Caprica" the other night. That was a bunch of bullshit re: the Adama family, that was.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes but STOLTZ
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sometimes STOLTZ is not enough.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd pay money for just a show with that butler robot they had and Stoltz
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
SERGE
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
so i've watched all of season two in pretty much the last week
So you're on season two? Coming up on my two least favorite episodes in the whole series, Black Market and Scar.
so so otm
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 May 2012 04:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
idk i kinda enjoyed black market as law & order: battlestar
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 12 May 2012 04:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
terrible, but it's better than law & order: UK starring Apollo
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Saturday, 12 May 2012 04:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
I thought Scar was alright though.
i've watched seven episodes today
what a life
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 May 2012 05:47 (1 year ago) Permalink