Battlestar Galactica
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- Jaline0
Awesome.
So many things I couldn't predict (and things I forgot about over the break).
- simple_space0
awesome. i was never a star trek person or into sci fi in general. BSG totally has character development, character arcs, plot arcs and just plain old good story telling, with a sci fi facade. some of it gets a little cheesy, but over all a fantastic show.
- Same. I never liked Sci Fi-ish shows until I watched "Firefly" and "BSG". They are called naturalistic science fiction shows.Jaline
- Here's an article about that concept
http://www.filmjerk.…Jaline - that was a cool read. thanks.simple_space
- I am such a nerd, I wrote an essay about it before.Jaline
- Jaline0
The next episode looks soooo good.
- Nairn0
I don't recall the dirty little secret between Baltar and Tigh - someon care to remind me in there? - - - - >
- You mean between Felix and Baltar? I don't remember either.Jaline
- If you search for "secret", you can find some results:
http://en.wikipedia.…Jaline - Oh gosh, yes - sorry, Felix, not Tigh. haha, I didn't realise Felix was supposed to be gay. Guess that explains the singingNairn
- ...because, obviously, gay people sing a lot.Nairn
- What? Guess I missed that part, lolJaline
- tank020
So Gaeta is running the ship now for the moment.
When did he become the gimp, bitter prick?
At least he is having butseks with Hoshi...- I think the viewers are supposed to hate him. I've disliked him for a long time.Jaline
- Many of the characters from seasons 1-2 are not really main characters anymore. Gaius, Athena, Helo, etc.Jaline
- A shame, but I guess they have to keep going with the main story as it's the last season.Jaline
- Jup, but i like it. Baltar is also a bit of a side character now...tank02
- Rewatching season 2, I'm starting to like the man...tank02
- Boomer is my favourite during those seasons.Jaline
- Baltar is a great character. Very human. But he does bother me sometimes, and he's supposed to.Jaline
- Boomer & helo, yes. And the irish lawyer, he is awesome
tank02 - love that guyJaline
- Jaline0
lol @ Adama's "shove it up your ass"
- digdre0
i don't like that show.
- Go back and watch your episodes of strawberry shortcake.ArmandoEstrada
- Nairn0
wowgosh 14
- kalkal0
I just started watching it a few days ago after the excessive amounts of interest I've come across on the net.
Initially, I couldn't shake off the badness of the old version from my mind so it isn't until all the recent hype that I even felt any incentive to see it.
Its a lot better than I expected, really good in fact but some of the stuff they do doesn't make much sense. Well, not at least what any rational person would do. Like when the second in command guy takes control of the ship. THIS IS THE OLD MANS SHIP UNDER HIS RULE. 5 minutes later, MARTIAL LAW EVERYONE!!!
WTF?
- digdre0
did darth vader appear yet?
- tank020
This is the best science fiction ever written. Its a reflection on todays society, politics and religion. This woven into a multilayered plot. If you dont like the series, than dont click open the thread.
Where is vader? Not even remotely funny.- Hopefully this wasnt aimed at me, considering I said its REALLY GOOD!kalkal
- Jaline0
Gawd, I would marry this show if I could.
Hey, Nairn, I think Ellen is the fifth?
- tank020
Basicly, i think they are all cylons, offspring from the
people who got nuked on earth, its them who started the colonies.
- cannonball0
me and the girlfriend have taken to using Frak around the house.
"Can you please for Gods sakes do the frakin dishes."
"Where the frak were you last night. Out getting drunk with your fracking friends?"
"Frack this shit, I can't fracking stand watchign your top model crap."
- cannonball0
Fräck (spelled with the umlaut ä) is also the product name of a shaving mirror produced by IKEA, a multinational home products retailer.[2] Since most IKEA product names are in Swedish, fräck is the Swedish word for audacious, shameless or bold (while frack, without ä, would translate to tailcoat). In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series, a mirror of this type is installed in the cabin of William Adama.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
lol
- digdre0
can't be better as dexter
- It is. But "Dexter" is close...Jaline
- Ah yes, its is better.
But you have to like science fiction ofcourse.tank02 - I don't know. I didn't like scifi that much before "Firefly" and this show.Jaline
- But yeah, it makes sense.Jaline
- I have always had a fascination with outer space (wanted to be an astronaut before), so that probably explains it.Jaline
- ahadigdre
- Nairn0
Ellen was set up as the fifth in the first episode of this new series, for sure - but she's not been confirmed as such, has she?
I find more interesting the subtle dialogue and intent of the flashback before Gaeta meets his fate. Unless I've missed something really obvious along the way - what is all that about? When Gaius says he knows who Gaeta is - what does he mean by that? Gaeta talks of being a polymath, and admits to not never having been able to find himself - and then, at the end, there's that curious detail "it's stopped" - like at that moment, he'd found his purpose - to die? I dunno.
Whatever - these last few episodes have really brought out the best (by which I mean the worst, the darkest) in the series - I had fretted about all what would happen with the series after the devastation of Earth, but admit I'm enjoying it.
- Jaline0
I did have the same thoughts as you did as Gaeta. Many people have guessed that Gaeta is the fifth. Baltar acts strangely around him, and I think it's because there is some aspect of Gaeta that reminds Baltar of himself.
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"In the episode "Taking a Break from All Your Worries", Gaeta offers to interrogate Baltar for Adama after Baltar's return to Galactica. Baltar discovers a camera in his cell and starts to provoke Gaeta, revealing that he knows a secret about Gaeta. After Baltar whispers the "secret" inaudibly in Gaeta's ear, Gaeta stabs Baltar in the neck with a pen and attempts to strangle him before being restrained by Adama. (It is later revealed in the 2009 "The Face of the Enemy" webisodes that Baltar was aware of Gaeta's secret relationship with a duplicitous copy of Sharon Valerii on New Caprica, which lead to the death of numerous civilians. Baltar's whisper was revealed to be, "I know what your Eight did!")"
"From the webisodes "The Face of the Enemy" forward (set between episodes 13 and 14 of Season 4), Gaeta has a wildly different opinion of the fleet's alliance with the rebel cylons. In "The Oath", Gaeta, Tom Zarek, and numerous compatriots rebel against the authority of Admiral Adama, Saul Tigh and Laura Roslin. Gaeta uses his position in CIC and his knowledge of the ship to single-handedly orchestrate a mutiny aboard Galactica. In the ensuing chaos, Gaeta has Admiral Adama and Colonel Tigh arrested and takes command of the ship.
In the following episode, Blood on the Scales, Gaeta unsuccessfully orders the execution of Admiral Adama, and is ultimately arrested and, along with Tom Zarek, executed by firing squad in an airlock. His last words are, "It stopped," a reference to the constant pain in his amputated leg. His actions at the end of his mutiny indicate that he knew he was losing. After failing to escape, he stands down rather than fight it out with the Cylons and Roslin and surrenders without a fight to Adama. He tells Baltar that he's alright with the fact that he lost but hopes that someday everyone will understand who he was which is something Baltar understood."
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Many sites have already confirmed that Ellen is the 5th cylon.
"Kate Vernon, who plays Ellen Tigh in the series, tells Access Hollywood that she's known about her character's fate for two years, and hints at an upcoming reunion between Ellen and Saul -- among other major bombs to be dropped in each of the nine remaining episodes."
Here is the executive producer confirming it:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/fe…
- Jaline0
100!