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

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

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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.

Lost and Sopranos ending far more controversial/hated

Sopranos ending is perhaps the best ending of any show in TV history

tbf he said controversial

I know I just get kind of AlexinNYC "honor the fire" about the Sopranos

surely most people have come around on the Sopranos ending anyway

at least The Sopranos were anticlimatic in its very nature

yeah wtf the Sopranos ending is the best, only one that comes close is The Shield

we should poll best tv endings ever (Newhart, Sopranos, Seinfeld, M*A*S*H* etc)

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

(xp, although yes there should really be a poll)

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

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.)

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