Author Topic: BSG madness (Read 1111 times)

68Wooley · « **Reply #30 on:** September 06, 2007, 06:53:36 PM »

Are we talking about the Viper launch relatively near the start of the season? That was kinda cool.

The big problem lately is that the Cylons have gone soft. Early on when they were you're simple run-of-the-mill genocidal mechanoids, everything was sweet. Now that they've discovered religion and gone all introspective on us, the show's gone to pot. We need them to get back with the program of nuking humanity to so many bits of glow-in-the-dark dust then we might see some action.

-tronski- · « **Reply #31 on:** September 06, 2007, 07:34:29 PM »

I was seriously in the Starbuck should be still a man and the 70's show should not be messed with side too...until I actually saw the mini-series!

BSG is an awesome show, and I got my season 3 DVD's from the AmazonUK yesterday but I thought they did seriously come close to have the fonz on those water skis with the final 5 cylons reveal....of all the choices, they made bad ones (at least they didn't go Adam, Roslin, or Apollo)...but I have high hopes with the Pegasus storyline mini next month, and apparently the Cylon Centurions from the original show make an appearance!

Tronsky

AKIron · « **Reply #32 on:** September 06, 2007, 10:28:29 PM »

I have enjoyed the series but it's gotten a bit tired. Hoping they get a second wind.

MORAY37 · « **Reply #33 on:** September 07, 2007, 12:04:13 AM »

First two seasons were the bomb. Last season, besides episode 4 (the infamous gravity jump) blew. It seemed like they fired all the writers (who prolly wanted more money) they could and hired ten coeds (who would work for Ramen noodles) to mix things up, coeds that never passed a literature class. Seemed like they completely lost any sense of where they were or where they were going... now the Cylons are all soft and smooshy...

I personally liked Starbuck being a chick, at least while she was flying sht hot. Now she's a basket case...and somehow still has more balls than Lee Adama... the on-again off-again CAG... I really hope they somehow grab my attention back... and get back to gritty.

Swager · « **Reply #34 on:** September 07, 2007, 01:50:56 AM »

Well I am a poor man.

Changing the characters the way they did had given me a negative right away. I mean, listen to the name....StarBUCK! A buck is a male deer. Now if they changed the name to Stardoe, it might have been better.

I watched the show and could not get into it like I did the old one. I still enjoy watching the original series when it comes on.

lazs2 · « **Reply #35 on:** September 07, 2007, 08:42:57 AM »

I think a lot of you just like to think that men and women are the same.

I do agree with moray on this except for the last part... I don't care if a main pilot got changed into a woman.. I do care that she is a hot little piece that I would have to be careful to not backhand into a comma that they are showing beating the crap out of men I would have a hard time defending myself against.

None of the characters is likeable.. they all are schitzos... the admiral goes from WWII german national socialist to 70's hippy to wise old general all over the place.

They force a lot of PC situations to appear relevant... it is painful to watch the stretch. A person suicide bombs into a room full of secret police gestapos and they make it seem to be exactly the same as some true believer blowing up a bunch of innocent kids in a market place for instance..

the boxing match was just plain out there. Highly trained pilots being used as meatgrinder troops... cylons evil one day... brad pit and his woman the next... weepy and missunderstood.

lazs

Wotan · « **Reply #36 on:** September 07, 2007, 11:37:45 AM »

Laz is correct - the show started off ok - there was some stupid stuff in season one - got even worse is season 2, and season 3, is completely ridiculous. Sure you can grab and episode or 2 and find some great stuff but as a series its not as good as the '70s in total. Of course anyone going back to watch the '70s series now will find some goofy stuff but at the time is was pretty original for television. If may have been Star Wars like. However, Star Wars was basically 'muppets in space' 75% of the time but the main characters had consistent and identifiable personalities.

The current BSG series doesn't have much original stuff. There's not much Sc-Fi out there thats truly original. However, the back stories in BSG are completely a bore. Do the writers change for every episode? The characters change personalities at the drop of a dime. They become to stupid its unwatchable most of the time. Maybe the writers just try to do to much with the characters but it really is 'schitzo'. Then there's to much PC, Left-Wing, Canadian inspired tripe wrapped into most of the episodes that it just becomes silly. As Laz said:

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the admiral goes from WWII german national socialist to 70's hippy to wise old general all over the place.

People like what they like. However, I wouldn't give BSG a second thought it they canceled it tomorrow.