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

but yeah i mean in a certain annoying sense the heads being 'angels' is a frustratingly literal deus ex machina

But what was your favorite part?

favorite emotional bit of the finale was boomer's "i've made my choice"

the epic as fuck space battle was pretty rad

also reveal of the moon was pretty good

for favorite moment of the show its probably the new caprica arc and any low-drama space battle involving starbuck trash talking and shooting at shit

also "GAIUS BALTAR?!"

"It's all God's plan."

"You know he doesn't like being called that."

http://pendletonpanther.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/debbie.gif

lol

any time Adama and Starbuck would do the "What do you hear?" "Nothing but the rain." = A+ moment

my favorite part may have been when Gaius was hallucinating (?) talking with himself

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.

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 "............................................"

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+

"All Along the Watchtower" was something he'd wanted to use since his days of writing for Roswell.

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.

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.

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

they were at least fairly consistent characters

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

they were at least fairly consistent characters

― 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

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

and obvs galactica jumping into the atmosphere of new caprica with vipers hauling ass out was one of the raddest moments

yessssss

best part

Yeah, that and the battle in the nebula were like the absolutely HOLY SHIT moments

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~

tbh I rewatched that episode right after you mentioned that because the new caprica rescue was one of my favorite bits

I mean, other than the Callie rescue bits because she was already being written as a paper-thin liability at that point

Callie was one of my favorite characters!

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. :(

right the obvious out would have been to have Starbuck be the 5th cylon but nooooooo

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

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"

Leoben running away symbolizes the writers

lol

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.

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

Lee ramming Pegasus into a Cylon basestar. Fist pumping good.

Tigh is on drums

Tory on bass duh

You mean these guys oh wait

http://dirtysdiatribe.blogspot.com/2010/03/official-final-five-band.html

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.

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 earth
None will level on the line, nobody offered his word

"No reason to get excited,"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"

All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too

Outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl
*buisness man there, drink my wine,
Come and take my herb.

i liked the Jack Ruby-style assassination scene

― sarahell, Wednesday, April 18, 2012 8:36 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm lol

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.

Ha! I enjoyed that line as well.

high point of the series in some ways

I finally finished that last three episodes of "Caprica" the other night. That was a bunch of bullshit re: the Adama family, that was.

yes but STOLTZ

Sometimes STOLTZ is not enough.