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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: WilldCrd on October 06, 2006, 07:17:24 AM
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WOOOT!! 2 hr show, plenty of shots of # 6 and that hot lil Boooooooomer chick!!
ummm that is all....:noid
Just is another sharing moood:cool:
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BSG?
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GOOD GOD MAN!!!!
BSG stands for....
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
where you been holmes?
of course....lm just guessing :rolleyes:
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Is it showing in the UK first so we can grab the torrents in the US?
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OK....#6 or 7 of 9???
Sounds almost like a Chicago song.
Thanks for sharing Willdcrd
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I'm like so there dude!
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I just bought season 2.5 and only on the 5th epi.
Best tv show on air!!
:aok
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
I just bought season 2.5 and only on the 5th epi.
Best tv show on air!!
:aok
Only on the 5th episode? Dude wtf??? I think I finished 2.5 with in 12 hours of buying it.:D Cant wait for tonight. Best show on TV:aok
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So say we all
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Originally posted by Slash27
Only on the 5th episode? Dude wtf??? I think I finished 2.5 with in 12 hours of buying it.:D Cant wait for tonight. Best show on TV:aok
Hehe, I got interrupted by a certain photoshoot. I HAVE my priorities.
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Originally posted by Wolfala
Is it showing in the UK first so we can grab the torrents in the US?
Doubt it. The first two seasons were shown in the UK a couple of months after the US and I've no reason to doubt this will be the same. Not even sure they've finished showing the second season over there.
Just one more reason why living in the colonies rocks. :D
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Anyone watch the "Webisodes"?
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Doing so now....aint seen an episode since they discovered the Pegasus....way behind! Their commander is like, Ensign Ro from St TNG!?
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Originally posted by LePaul
Doing so now....aint seen an episode since they discovered the Pegasus....way behind! Their commander is like, Ensign Ro from St TNG!?
Don't worry, you won't see her long :)
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Frack ...
Death to Baltar !!!!
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Good stuff. It started to lose focus a bit in season 2, but it's back on track now. Can't wait for next week. :)
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Wow!
Oppressive occuping forces, corrupt puppet govt, unwarrented detention of civilians, an insurgent populace and....suicide bombers on the side of the good guys!
:noid
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Battleshag Galactica; hrumph - I liked the original. I can't stand that character they have playing starbuck (I use another name for her around the house)....but Caprica-6, Sharon & a couple of the other characters are easy on the eyes for sure. (poor com. Tigh; his wife is just easy period)
If only there were more battles using the special effects abilities of the new mellinium, instead of starting it out like a soap opera & having the lead characters all acting like weanies. Edward James Olmos is the only character with any backbone & even he goes limp wristed on me know & then. But still better than most of the mindless entertainment on tv.
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Originally posted by Brenjen
Battleshag Galactica; hrumph - I liked the original.
I'm guessing you didn't really watch more than an ep or 2?
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Haven't missed an ep. yet...including last nights season premier, "what's happened until now" & "Behind the scenes"
I'm not saying it's a bad show per se, just needs more warfare & less kissy face; the original had the same problem to a lesser degree up until they found earth, then it got really dumb.
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Fair enough. I made a bad assumption.
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Did you know the name of Caprica-6 was Gina, it was a jab at the hardcore BSG fans that called the new show Galactica in name only or g.i.n.o. (a little trivia for ya)
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Actually Pegasis-6 was named "Gina". They haven't ever told us Caprica-6's human alias. The Cyclons all just call her "Caprica". :)
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Just don't call her late for cylon dinner.
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(http://hallert.net/images/bsp_cylon_int.png)
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--- SPOILER WARNING ---
WOW! BSG got really political really fast. I know US tv producers love to mix politics and fiction, but this is extreme. The human resistance is called the "insurgency" and they use IED's against a dropship and a suicide bomber against a human (cylon collaborators) police graduation ceremony. Does this sound familiar? And just to underline it, Laura Roslyn's new assistant is of Arab ethnicity.
I don't like this new Baghdadstar Galactica.
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Originally posted by Viking
--- SPOILER WARNING ---
WOW! BSG got really political really fast. I know US tv producers love to mix politics and fiction, but this is extreme. The human resistance is called the "insurgency" and they use IED's against a dropship and a suicide bomber against a human (cylon collaborators) police graduation ceremony. Does this sound familiar? And just to underline it, Laura Roslyn's new assistant is of Arab ethnicity.
I don't like this new Baghdadstar Galactica.
The comparison to the political context of today is inevitable, but go back in history and there are some very real references to the Vici French and German occupation in WW2.
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Originally posted by Viking
[B And just to underline it, Laura Roslyn's new assistant is of Arab ethnicity.
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There were Arabs on Caprica? How about Geminon?
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Originally posted by Wolfala
The comparison to the political context of today is inevitable, but go back in history and there are some very real references to the Vici French and German occupation in WW2.
Yes I'm sure the writers had Vichy France in mind when they wrote the episode. Not.
Grace Park (Boomer cylon) even stated in an interview that they were trying to integrate more of current events into the show. For the love of the Gods WHY?
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Originally posted by Viking
Yes I'm sure the writers had Vichy France in mind when they wrote the episode. Not.
Grace Park (Boomer cylon) even stated in an interview that they were trying to integrate more of current events into the show. For the love of the Gods WHY?
Yes, they've gone exceptionally heavy handed in the political commentary. Gosh, i feel so much more sympathy for Muslim suicide bombers now. I can really relate. They really are just like us. I don't feel so bad now when I get the urge to spend about 10 minutes sawing some reporter's head off with a dull knife while he screams and gurgles.
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BSG is good because it's not some formula space opera. If this is the first time you've noticed a link to modern events and BSG you must not have been paying attention.
Good social science fiction, as opposed to "sci fi", is supposed to make you think. Look at the issues addressed by Star Trek original series: Racism, hippie culture, drugs, Vietnam, the Holocaust, human ethics and morality ... a lot of stuff playing out on the urban streets and rice patties of the day. In many cases it works to let you explore another viewpoint you might lock out otherwise because of a literalist mindset, emotional attachment or personal predjuice.
We already seen explorations on BSG of security vs. individual rights, the role/power of the military in a democracy, simple vs. hard choices, the caclulus of sacrifice to achieve goals. I've always thought the debate was framed in a thoughtful way, with some unique personal choices and perspectives. I didn't see anything new last episode.
Partisan activities are hardly new, and while it may have been inspired by perhaps the biggest issue facing the US and its allies today, I saw much more linkage to a German or Japanese occupation model.
It explored the use of terror as a counter weapon, and torture as a tool. Both valid today, both deeply historical parts of human civilization. It covered the morality of both, and I don't believe it was favorable in tone to extreme suicide or civilian targeted actions. Were you or I placed in a position of being under occupation (not related to anything currently in the news, a hypothetical), what would we do? Cower? Collaborate? Resist? Where do you draw the line at killing in resistance? Attacks on combatants OK, but not civilians? Collaborators? Attacks on civilians OK if it serves the final good?
Suicide bombing? If my wife and child were killed by an opressor, would I go that route for revenge? Would it be moral for a group to take advantage of my emotional state, even if it was a potential route to eventual success?
And torture. Like it or not there have been some major debates on the issue, and not ones that have clear partisan lines. One debate is that if we use torture can we morally complain when others use torture on our captives? I remember in the previous season it was the colonial fleet doing the torture. Now its the cylons, and neither seem to have gotten much out of the practice.
If anything, that horndog Democrat president Baltar Jefferson Clinton got his for putting politics above the common good :)
Charon