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

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

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

the last season probably has like 50 mexican standoffs

tbf karl you are getting to the very best part imo

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

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

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... :(

"ne" = "be"

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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