big hoos & owenf watch 'battlestar galactica' and no one talks abt eps they haven't seen yet

he hasn't had much to do so far really. Hope he gets a more substantial role. He seems like a nice chap.

I liked the boomer/assistant
"he's a freedom fighter" "he's a terrorist" argument.

baltar's a pretty neat trick in this, but i am old and still have fond, dimly remembered memories of baltar in the original

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.

Love baltar a lot btw

Watching this w/headphones is intense btw

do the headphones have 9-11 trauma issues?

i'd kinda like to play along, but i don't think i'll be able to keep up to speed

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.

lol i haven't watched any of The 4 Best Dramas Of The Last 25 Years

we need you get you some free time, mookie

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.

opening poker scene with Starbuck and old grizzleguts is one of my faves

oh, i have free time

i just do little worthwhile with it

Starbuck is my fave x 10. Is she the obv all-fan fave?

Carl is my fav

Doesn't the "they have a plan" opening change as the show goes on?

Carl is my fav

awwwww

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.

thanks to Tigh 'gods dammit' lives forever in my cursing phrasebook

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.

kinda surprised there was no #occupygalactica meme

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~

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.

"So Say We All" via human mic

damn what a season finale, coup and two shots to the gut, goddamn

starbuck going into hysterics seemed weirdly out of character tho imo

brace yourself, hoostein

I keep thinking the aesthetic reminds me of the game Wing Commander 3.

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btw here i'm just thinking like

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lol that i watched the first season in 2 days btw

you're gonna need a 12-step when it's over, son

so owenf i am all caught up

when do you think you'll be prepared to launch s2?

Doesn't the "they have a plan" opening change as the show goes on?

it does, but not for the reasons you would hope

the last couple seasons are kinda dire

*shhhh*

anyway ur RONG

man that was FAST. I'm good to go when you are.

haha i mean its all on hulu and i'm unemployed, so

I can think of no finer employment, hoos :)

except the paying kind of course :/

ha

ok so i guess i'll watch s2e1 tonight

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.

ha that's what i did with the wire

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.

Ok guys I'm goin in

Holy hell @ opening

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.

did this when I had an ear infection and gobbled down codeine. it was kind of great.

yup, and sure don't forget to watch Razor, i think it was after season 2 ends?

^^^^ this

yep, I think it fits in as 2.5 iirc

Oh shit guys

Lol @ totally unbelievable young Adama/tigh

yeah, i'm definitely expecting/dreading it.

There's a transcript somewhere of a roundtable with a lot of the cast and writers that they did while the show was still going. As I recall, Jaime Bamber very forcefully argued that the show had made a terrible mistake humanizing the Cylons, and basically everyone agreed that "33" was the high point of the show and they were never going to do anything that worked quite as well.

that sounds too good to be true

I doubt "it was all downhill from the first episode" was a genuinely popular opinion to espouse on-set

33 definitely was the most effective episode. It's too bad, they probably could have done a few episodes about that first crucial flight from the Cylons.

just finished rapture (season 3, battlesode 12).

so everyone is super religious now. fuck. one one hand it occasionally leads to interesting results. i don't mind the cylon religious stuff so much, with lucy lawless trying to see the faces of the five, and gaius on his messianic journey (i enjoy thinking about his entire storyline as taking place entirely in his narcissistic genius mind, insanely eating itself). but chief having a religious experience while searching for the eye of jupiter? barf sandwich. and even seemingly non-religious characters like lee buying into it (the whole intense firefight with the cylons is necessary because they're trying to stall while chief searches for a religious icon). it's just really, really bad, and as the show goes on it dedicates more and more time to it.

i don't ask for much. i only want three things. i want to watch adama and his crew battle/run away from cylons. i want to watch the cylons do things on their (super bright, oversaturated) ship. i want to watch the humans and cylons struggle with themselves over what it means to be having babies together. that's it. i rue the day that roslin saw the light. i hate watching chief gradually turn into the vice-president of his local Promisekeepers group. i hate learning that starbuck is a cosmic gamechanger foretold by scripture. i hate listening to lee bark out "we have to hold this position til chief finds the eye of jupiter!!!" to the people around him without him following up with "...wait am i high? wtf are we doing here"

i know i'm repeating myself. sorry.

has anyone seen Caprica?

Yes. It was okay, and then it got canceled.

I liked Caprica. Always mean to finish it up on Netflix, missed the last 6 or so episodes. bear in mind it's nothing like BSG, more of a soap opera using the young BSG universe as a backdrop. No space stuff, lots of junk about terrorism, robots and Strange Days.

Hated Caprica, couldnt get into it

Hated all the dumb ethnic/tribal stuff ("Taurans drive like THIS")

Caprica gets ok toward then end and then is immediately cancelled

Yeah, that was my feeling, too. It was just starting to get its bearings and then it was gone.

don't worry, some of the actors have redistributed to other Vancouver-shot science fiction shows

yeah the last few episodes of Caprica got really interesting and then *blip* gone :(

Just got to Season 4. well THAT completely sucked me in again.

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