Is anyone watching Battlestar Galactica? (Hinting of 9-11??)Mega Vanity -sorry

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[RandallFlagg]

The first 2 segments are just SCREAMING at hints towards 911. I highly suggest folks watch it.

[mosel-saar-ruwer]

PS: For the record, the 9-11ish parallels are really striking. As you watch the Cylons nuking the human colonies, you get a strong sense of Homo Sapiens facing the very real possibility of extinction.

That's why it's so important that they make the correct decision tonight in re the development of Stands With A Fist Up Her Ass.

[dts32041]

The dynamics are more intersting I agree with you, and the inventiveness in building those machines is incredible.

Now for BSG, after emp pulse, 785 heavy will return to BSG and a space opera in the mode of West Wing will ensue.

[Thoro]

I thought the same things about political correctness. Okay, they have a female Starbuck, Adama's hispanic, Boomer's asian, and Colonel Tigh is white. Things are all mixed up. :) Weren't the cylons a creation of aliens?

I believe in the original, Apollo gave a speech to Boxey, I think, telling him who the Cylons were. It went something like this: The Cylons were actually an ancient reptilian race that were dying out, and they created the robot cylons in man's image because they believed it was an improvement over their own bodies, and so that they would have a legacy to leave behind.

There was something not BG about the show last night, and it took until browsing through usenet until I figured out what it was. This show doesn't feel like it's depicting a lost colony of humans, with Egyptian/ancient references, as much as it feels like it's showing our Earth hundreds of years in the future. It doesn't feel elsewhere, which is something us scifi geeks love. For example: Apollo/Starbuck/Boomer being a callsign instead of a name, the references to the presidency, the civilian attire.

That said, I still enjoyed it. I expected it to suck eggs. It didn't suck eggs. I noticed on usenet that people were complaining about it's lack of showing the cylon attack, which is something I think is the show's strength at this point. Although I do agree that the pace of this first half was too slow.

[Liberal Classic]

It's both kind of a remake and kind of a continuation, in my opinion. Sort of the same plot but it implies that this is a new peace initiative after the war 40 years ago.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[AngryJawa]

Oh, great - you just had to post a link to Tricia Helfer photos. Productivity just went way down...

[BenLurkin]

Saw this last might and was mightily disappointed. When, oh when will the TV types realize that the MINI-SERIES is a disastrous art form? Even without the message of the original show (Freedom requires constant vigilance), this could have still stood on its own with a tighter plot and more efficient narrative. As it was, ZZzzzzzzzzz . . .

Female Starbuck is not a problem. As I posted above, the character problem is more with the change of Baltar from a traitorous politician (pretending to be after "peace") to a garden variety (albeit somewhat 'metro-sexual') weasel.

[Charles Martel]

There was something not BG about the show last night, and it took until browsing through usenet until I figured out what it was. This show doesn't feel like it's depicting a lost colony of humans, with Egyptian/ancient references, as much as it feels like it's showing our Earth hundreds of years in the future. It doesn't feel elsewhere, which is something us scifi geeks love. For example: Apollo/Starbuck/Boomer being a callsign instead of a name, the references to the presidency, the civilian attire.

Yep, I thought the same thing. It crept into my mind during the "Galactica Control to Viper on approach... Captain Adama, call the ball" scene.

[Liberal Classic]

To me the story felt like the human colonies many hundreds of years in the future since the original show. Now Caprica is no longer a colony but heavily populated plantet, a whole civilization spanning several planets.

It's as if the cylon war was many years ago, much more than just 40. There would still be almost half the population who could remember that the cylons infiltrated computers during the attack. If the humans won, it would be a while before this lesson was forgotten, I believe much more than 40 years. Instead in my impression it feels more like 200 years since the last war. No one is alive who would have direct experience with the cylons. So much time has gone by that people would be getting lazy, wanting more computer automation, with no voices to the contrary save that in books and tapes. I don't think the Baltar presented could exist within the living memory of men after the first cylon war. He would be run out of town on a rail, so to speak. I believe it would take more time before people would listen to positive advocacy of computer automation.

As for the rest, it could work in this setting. The antiquated battleship, the new systems all interconnected. No experience with the machines, etc.

[Slicksadick]

Long trailers found here if anyone wants to check it out.
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/trailers/full/

[King Prout]

awww, hell, I forgot that it started this week.

[Thoro]

www, hell, I forgot that it started this week.

I have a feeling Scifi is going to give you more than ample opportunity to see it in the future, just like the Dune series.

[BenLurkin]

Good analysis of the original B.G.

[mhking]

?awww, hell, I forgot that it started this week.

SciFi is rerunning part 1 at 7P ET tonight, just ahead of the conclusion at 9.

[Woahhs]

Am I the only one that was disturbed by the scene where robo-chick kills the baby in the stroller?

[BenLurkin]

I always kinda liked Sheba:

[BenLurkin]

You left off the most important, IMHO, guest appearance:

[BenLurkin]

No,it was unnecssary and prurient IMO (as were all of the sex scenes).

[hattend]

Can't believe I gave up American Chopper and Monster Garage for this.

I recorded all three on my DVR for later viewing. It's great that these channels are broadcasting for Eastern and Pacific Time zones...they alway repeat at later times so you hardly ever have to miss a show.

[King Prout]

YOU ROCK!
thanks, Mike!