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

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hey Laurie and I are right about where you are Hoos, we are also digging it. She hates Baltar though and calls him "penis man", as in "led around by his...".

Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Friday, 6 April 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link

To be fair to Gaius, I'd roll the dice with the future of the human race to get with Caprica Six.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 April 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link

Otm

the smash-cut w/timpanis at the start of every ep, what's that about? Idgi

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link

^

ugh I know, you get the little 'they have a plan bit' then the 'last week' then the bit of actual real show (with no indicator of when it's started) and then the title, the the timpanis and episode spoilers.

there are a LOT of cheering/back slapping moments.

Not entirely sure how down I am with 'frack' yet. Don't think I ever will be.

owenf, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link

i think the first season there were a lot of characters that were aggravating and irritating that i warmed to in future seasons. boomer being one of them.

sarahell, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link

and Mary McDonnell is so PRESIDENTIAL.
She should be in first lady to Martin Sheen in something.

owenf, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link

'a'

owenf, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link

i liked her assistant

sarahell, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link

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

owenf, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link

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

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link

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

mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link

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.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link

Love baltar a lot btw

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link

Watching this w/headphones is intense btw

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link

do the headphones have 9-11 trauma issues?

sarahell, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link

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

mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link

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.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link

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

mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link

we need you get you some free time, mookie

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link

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.

earlnash, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link

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

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link

oh, i have free time

i just do little worthwhile with it

mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link

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

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link

Carl is my fav

Jeff, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link

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

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link

Carl is my fav

awwwww

mookieproof, Friday, 6 April 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link

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.

earlnash, Friday, 6 April 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link

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

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link

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.

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago) link

kinda surprised there was no #occupygalactica meme

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 April 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link

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~

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link

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.

their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Friday, 6 April 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link

"So Say We All" via human mic

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 6 April 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link

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

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago) link

starbuck going into hysterics seemed weirdly out of character tho imo

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago) link

brace yourself, hoostein

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 06:38 (twelve years ago) link

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

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, April 6, 2012 12:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw here i'm just thinking like

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5637/wingsynthesezy3.jpg
http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/372193-wing-commander-iii-heart-of-the-tiger-playstation-screenshot.png
http://static.ogl.ru/i/00/02/39/91/1171820276.gif

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago) link

lol that i watched the first season in 2 days btw

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago) link

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

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago) link

so owenf i am all caught up

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

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link

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

it does, but not for the reasons you would hope

Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link

the last couple seasons are kinda dire

sarahell, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link

*shhhh*

Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 6 April 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link

anyway ur RONG

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link

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

owenf, Friday, 6 April 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link

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

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

I can think of no finer employment, hoos :)

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link

except the paying kind of course :/

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link

ha

ok so i guess i'll watch s2e1 tonight

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link

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.

mh, Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link

also pretty much the entire BSG crew has been in a situation where one or more people are holding a gun to their heads. lee alone has had a gun pointed him at least 30 times at this point. they don't even look nervous anymore

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link

haha they use that trope more and more as the show goes on - so many cliffhangers with guns pointed

Οὖτις, Monday, 8 December 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link

the last season probably has like 50 mexican standoffs

Nhex, Monday, 8 December 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link

tbf karl you are getting to the very best part imo

mookieproof, Monday, 8 December 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link

i imagine that by the fourth season:

- "previously on battlestar galactica" - shots of intense good/bad/ugly-style showdown, guns drawn and pointed at all participants
- battlesode commences; lee, helo, and sharon are all pointing guns at each other and shouting. suddenly a door slams open. a three new gun barrels enter the room, pointed at lee, helo, and sharon, but we can't see who is holding them just yet
- future vision stream! scenes from the forthcoming episode - closeups of guns drawn and people shouting at each other. sweat
- battlesode commences for real this time
- we finally see who is entering the room. turns out the new arrivals are ANOTHER set of three people with guns drawn on each other. this time it's the XO, starbuck, and the chief. the chief points the gun at the XO, who points his gun at starbuck, who points her gun at the chief. as they shuffle into the new room, they notice the situation with lee, helo, and sharon, and react accordingly. the XO points his other weapon at lee, starbuck targets sharon, and the chief targets helo. lee, helo, and sharon respond in kind with their extra weapons.
- paranoia. more sweat. it's getting hot. shouting.
- the two triangle shaped standoffs have coalesced into a hexagon showdown. but the temperature is positively suffocating. they agree to move to a larger room - but the door is too small! (commercial)
- they unpack their hexagon showdown to a single file line. this is difficult because they need to be arranged so that each participant is surrounded by two potential enemies. the argument about who is or is not a Cylon transforms into an argument about how the formation should change. (commercial)
- they finally emerge into a larger room and resume their hexagon showdown shape. but the cylons attack and it's condition 1 so they all have to go back to their stations so that they can be ready to point their gun at someone else's head

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 December 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link

Don't forget flashbacks to troubling memories from someone's past.

jmm, Monday, 8 December 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link

the particular way that religion is used to drive the story is annoying. i'm cool with the quest for earth, but i don't like how it's actually executed. there's no logic to it.

I don't want to spoil anything, but you should ne prepared to feel this way a lot more as the series goes on... :(

Tuomas, Monday, 8 December 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link

"ne" = "be"

Tuomas, Monday, 8 December 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link

yeah, i'm definitely expecting/dreading it.

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Monday, 8 December 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link

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.

JoeStork, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link

that sounds too good to be true

Nhex, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link

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.

jmm, Monday, 8 December 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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"

♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link

i know i'm repeating myself. sorry.

has anyone seen Caprica?

♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link

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

carl agatha, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link

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.

Nhex, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link

Hated Caprica, couldnt get into it

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link

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

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link

Caprica gets ok toward then end and then is immediately cancelled

valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link

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

carl agatha, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link

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

valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link

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

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link

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

♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link

five years pass...

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