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

i try not to demand an overwhelming amount of internal consistency from my sci-fi. but it bothered me that it never occurred to anyone 'hey, remember when we injected little human/cylon girl blood into the dying president and it miraculously cured her cancer? maybe we should try that again'

(yeah the first instance was a total cop-out, but still)

Those podcasts were interesting for the background info, but RDM's "Nerd Playboy" schtick with the official scotch of the podcast and cigars was really tiresome.

RDM has helped create my favorite sci-fi TV ever (TNG, DS9, BSG), but I agree that he goes to stupid places when left completely to his own devices (his cameo in the NYC epilogue of BSG, for example).

Also there are a lot of similarities between DS9 and BSG that make me feel like he's not exactly a bottomless well of cool science fiction story ideas.

I say all of this as a Star Trek/Battlestar Galactica superfan who ultimately thinks Ron Moore is a weenie.

;_;

his cameo was maybe three hundred on the list of terrible things about the NYC scene in order of terribleness

1-299 is absolutely everything about it

full disclosure VG i probably look more like RDM than anyone else itt so i'm hating myself too

lol

get a haircut spacehippy

i would but now i have to watch caprica

He reminds me of the guy from King of Kong.

-show would've been a million times better if it were 12 eps a season. the one-off eps were mostly 100% useless wastes of time
-i'm generally ok with the second half of s4, but it still feels like it doesn't have to be there.
-putting them on anOTHER earth, also called earth, is the worst copout of all time. basically they only had two choices for a decent ending -- have them settle on primitive earth and become the earth of today, or the twilight zone route of having them find earth to see that we've blown it up -- and they went with BOTH. urhg
-there were many scenes that resulted in me saying "an angel did it"
-the only type of person in this world who would think that "all along the watchtower" is some mythical holy song that bob dylan used his magical holy brain to conjure up from the hands of god himself is the type of person who would choose to look like this

Yes to all of this.

I really liked Caprica, but then it didn't get a lot of episodes before it got cancelled so it didn't really have a chance to go off the rails the way BSG did.

ok first half hour of caprica is fucking nuts

also can we discuss blood and chrome and how utterly pointless it sounds, do we really need a whole series of young adama at this point

oh this is only the beginning xp

like what you're watching now are the least insane things you are going to see on Caprica

Caprica was better than it should have been, but apparently still not interesting enough to not get cancelled. They made some really obvious weird choices when they realized it was going to get cancelled. Montage at the end is kind of a "here's where things may have gone if we had time to develop them."

Caprica has ERIC STOLTZ so it's great

I dug Caprica but this thread is mostly me saying over and over that I'm a big dumb stan about pretty much everything so hmph :D

The BSG things that betray Ron Moore's aesthetics rather than his scriptwriting are the.... more questionable

I couldn't get with Caprica, Stoltz and all. the DO YOU SEE? ethnic parallels were like some sub-Negron Complex shit

eric stults pitching today for the padres. could this be important??

only if alfonso soriano is a cylon

right thread?!
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and no way would a cylon have as little plate discipline as soriano does.

that's what they want you to think

ha ha!

http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1016271/jeff-samardzija.jpg

and they have a plan

lmao

four or five eps into caprica, BORING

i kind of feel bad for owenf for like steam-train-carrying-on, sorry bro

just reached the break in season 4. had forgotten the planet of the apes ending.

hey don't work hoos, I'm going to have a mammoth catch up soon. Work based stuff has totally taken over and I couldn't devote anywhere near enough time or attention without feeling guilty.

oh, i finished this last night. also watched the 8 minute overview, which shed some light on things.

gave up on caprica btw, so boring

can't believe people saying mean stuff about Scar on here. best episode! made me cry a little :(

WORST

no way it ruled how can you not be moved by starbuck's toast to the fallen OH YES SHE REMEMBERED THEIR NAMES THEY ARE TATTOOED ON HER HEART!!!!

I thought scar was super fun

not as bad as the black market one, but . . .

i'm making a list now...

it was so scary!

I really just disliked Kat.

But that ended well for me.

so uh is it generally considered that this show has the worst finale of any "respected" TV drama from the last decade? marathonned this over the past week and a half and enjoyed much of it, but holy shit that was bad

So you've never heard of Lost?

I still like the ending.

mh--very good point. (I've only watched the first season of Lost to be honest)

Lost and Sopranos ending far more controversial/hated. This one was just disappointing, but at least there were two weaker theologically-fixated seasons setting you up for disappointment.

end of BSG was realizing that Ron Moore & co were only incrementally better than his ex-coworker Brannon Braga & co and they're all nerds

end of LOST was like someone shitting in your mouth

I apologize for this vivid image but I felt that it was really bad.