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

"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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