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Old Dood · Feb 28, 2006, 12:29 PM // 12:29

Wow...now that was one of the best episodes so far. Anyone watch it? To see the Cylon's point of view was pretty cool.

And yes it answered some questions but, it opened up a ton more...

I have been also recording the earlier season 2 episodes on my DVR that are on the Universal-HD station. We just got that Hi-Def station because of the Olympics. BattleStar Galactica is filmed in Hi-Def so to see it in a Hi-Def look is just plain beautiful. Too bad my DVR only is a 120Gb hard drive. I can hold only so much in that bandwidth. I wish there was a way to send the recordings to my computer. There is a FireWire port but, it does not work. Many have tried to do this without success. *sigh*

~ Star Maiden ~ · Mar 03, 2006, 07:15 PM // 19:15

Cool, a BSG thread!! I'm thrilled because I'm a HUGE fan of the new series and I'm glad there are others here who enjoy it so much. I never miss a new episode. The stories, characters, relationships, imagery and philosophy are all so compelling and well-done that nothing comes close on TV, IMHO.

Gaius Baltar is my fave. He and Six are a blast to watch on-screen together.

And wow did their dynamic take on a whole new twist with last week's episode, "Downloaded." (won't say anything for fear of spoiling people who haven't seen it but those who have know what I mean

)

Old Dood · Mar 03, 2006, 09:34 PM // 21:34

You are always welcome to chat here about BSG Star Maiden. As you will notice not allot of the members have learned to appreciate BattleStar Galactica yet...

It is the best damn show on television...period!

~ Star Maiden ~ · Mar 03, 2006, 09:57 PM // 21:57

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Originally Posted by Old Dood

You are always welcome to chat here about BSG Star Maiden. As you will notice not allot of the members have learned to appreciate BattleStar Galactica yet...

It is the best damn show on television...period!

I second that, OD!

More people need to learn about the show. It hasn't gotten all the rave reviews for nothing. It sometimes upsets me that other shows on network TV get all this coverage and hype, despite how bad they are. As far as I'm concerned, BSG should be getting Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for outstanding drama, not just Saturn awards. It's not just a brilliant SF show; it's a brilliant show... period.

Thanks for the kind welcome to the thread, btw. I look forward to discussing it more with you and others. Only wish the season wasn't ending so soon, waaah!

New episode tonight! First of the 2-part season finale, and it looks awesome.

Old Dood · Mar 03, 2006, 10:32 PM // 22:32

Yes tonight will be great. I heard that one of the last two episodes is 90 minutes. Is that tonight or next week? I have to make sure my DVR is set correctly...hehe

Old Dood · Mar 03, 2006, 10:49 PM // 22:49

I copied this from another website:

For your skeptical friends...
I have some co-workers who are convinced that BSG is just Buck Rogers: The Next Generation. Obviously, they haven't seen a single minute of the actual show. So I decided to put together a little collection of critical acclaim to demonstrate that this show ain't your father's Battlestar Galactica. The list has worked so I decided to post an abreviated version here in case you know some skeptics too.

Time Magazine
#1 new show of 2005
Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a joke. The rest of you have actually watched the show. Adapted from a cheesy '70s Star Wars clone of the same name, Galactica (returning in January) is a ripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal robots called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal. The basic-cable budget sometimes shows in the production, but the writing and performances are first-class, especially Edward James Olmos as the noble but authoritarian commander in charge of saving the last remnants of humanity. Laugh if you want, but this story of enemies within is dead serious, and seriously good.
[COLOR=#00ffff]http://www.time.com/time/arts/artic...1141640,00.html[/COLOR]

Newsday.com
#1 show of 2005
Wow. Who expected the year's best drama and most telling current-events allegory to come in a space-set actioner? This sly and sleek reimagining from "Star Trek" veteran Ronald D. Moore tackles nothing less than the meaning of civilization and the makeup of morality. As post-nuke humans battle for survival against a race of seemingly ruthless androids, Moore's writers neatly twist our expectations of who and what is "good" and "right" in a war of covert terrorism. You can look at this saga any way you want - as political drama, religious debate, psychological suspenser, sci-fi adventure, deep metaphor or just plain fun - and it's scintillating from every angle
[COLOR=#00ffff]http://www.newsday.com/entertainmen...,0,795582.story[/COLOR]

TV Guide
Best of 2005
The 2003 miniseries took me by surprise, reshaping a classic (if cheesy) sci-fi concept into a dark, scary, provocative adult adventure of genocide and survival. Still, nothing prepared me for the power of Sci Fi Channel's new Battlestar Galactica as a gripping weekly series, one of the best and most challenging dramas of any genre on TV today. Terse, tough, smart and unpredictable, the show pits a band of embattled humans against the cunning hybrid Cylons, who in their own spiritual explorations often seem more human than our militaristic, contentious heroes. The violent twists and turns are as grim and suspenseful as anything you'd find on 24. With shows like this, Sci Fi has shed that "for geeks only" label once and for all.
[COLOR=#00ffff]http://online.tvguide.com/special/b...r-in-review.asp[/COLOR]

American Film Institute
Top 10 show of 2005
Battlestar Galactica soars light years beyond the expectations of science fiction on television. Au courant and hard-hitting, it's one of the best series today about United States entanglements in the war on terror, addressing the moral quandary--when at war, when does a society become that which it opposes? It is this kind of deep thinking in space that makes the show both a cautionary tale and a rip-roaring, out-of-this-world adventure.
[COLOR=#00ffff]https://www.afi.com/tvevents/afiawards05/tvshows05.aspx[/COLOR]

Chicago Tribune
Top 10 show of 2005
There’s no antiseptic, morally upright future on display here. Just a lot of confused, conflicted people, in a battle to the death with "others" who look exactly like humans — and who say they are representatives of the one true God. The real joke on those who think "Galactica" is just another sci-fi show is that this gripping drama is, in fact, television’s most topical, incisive commentary on current events in our very troubled world.
[COLOR=#00ffff]http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune...op_10_tv_s.html[/COLOR]

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
#1 show of 2005
Go ahead, deride it as kiddie science fiction, but do so at the risk of displaying ignorance and ingrained bias. Filled with political and religious allegory, great character drama and exciting storytelling, this thoroughly human story is as good as TV drama gets.
[COLOR=#00ffff]http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05363/629182.stm[/COLOR]

USA Today
Runner up to Top 10 list
[COLOR=#00ffff]http://www.usatoday.com/life/televi...ear-in-tv_x.htm[/COLOR]

National Review
Science fiction has long been stereotyped as a hardware-obsessed, techno-jargon laden refuge for computer nerds and outcasts. Especially on television, which lacks the geek chic afforded by big-screen Hollywood budgets, the genre's reputation for hokey dialog and cardboard-and-wire effects have saturated it with a distinct odor of disrespectability. It is somewhat ironic, then, to see the Sci-Fi Channel, a network which often seems devoted to the pulpy and lowbrow, serve up Battlestar Galactica, a show about spaceships and killer robots that is also arguably the most potent, dramatically vibrant series on television. An unflinching examination of how the military, government, family, and religion interact in the fragile ecosystem of society, it as morally and intellectually serious as it is thrilling.
[COLOR=#00ffff]http://www.nationalreview.com/comme...00601200838.asp[/COLOR]

This is from www.avsforum.com Under HDTV Programing! It is always on the first page of the forum.

lord_shar · Mar 04, 2006, 05:56 AM // 05:56

I'm still wondering when more Emmy's and Golden Globe nominations will start coming in. BSG is so much more entertaining than CSI, Survivor, the Apprentice, and other reality fluff being pushed by all the major networks. There's a reason why it's usually aired past 10PM.

The topics it covers mirror our modern world, without masking it in techno-jargon. That's ok, so long as it doesn't get canceled due to lack of support...

~ Star Maiden ~ · Mar 04, 2006, 05:50 PM // 17:50

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Originally Posted by Old Dood

Yes tonight will be great. I heard that one of the last two episodes is 90 minutes. Is that tonight or next week? I have to make sure my DVR is set correctly...hehe

OD, next week's season finale (part 2) will be 90-minutes

Old Dood · Mar 04, 2006, 07:40 PM // 19:40

Yes...Thank you. Figured that out last night. Next week I will set my DVR to 100 minutes...just so I do not miss anything after the airing of the episode.

You know it is going to drive us batty to have to wait until the next season...don't you? HeHe

Xenrath · Mar 04, 2006, 08:05 PM // 20:05

Since this is the only BSG thread in the immediate vicinity, one thing that's been bugging me: just what ARE the "human" cylons? Are they supposed to be cyborgs? Why aren't there any metal detectors then to pick that up? Wouldn't they have had x-rays or some such medical examinations in the future/that part of space?

What I don't understand is what is the difference, if they don't have wires/servos or anything like that under the skin?

~ Star Maiden ~ · Mar 04, 2006, 08:51 PM // 20:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenrath

Since this is the only BSG thread in the immediate vicinity, one thing that's been bugging me: just what ARE the "human" cylons? Are they supposed to be cyborgs? Why aren't there any metal detectors then to pick that up? Wouldn't they have had x-rays or some such medical examinations in the future/that part of space?

What I don't understand is what is the difference, if they don't have wires/servos or anything like that under the skin?

Those are good questions. Have you seen every episode, though? There are answers to a few of your questions...

(Spoilers below for those who haven't seen the eps. yet)

Baltar did develop a method to determine who was a humaniform Cylon versus a real human, though we don't quite know just how much information he kept from the other Colonials. The humaniform Cylons aren't what I'd call "simple" cyborgs; they're definitely way more advanced. Yet they are so similar to humans that they have blood, tissue, etc, and even fully-working reproductive systems. At the same time (as demonstrated by Sharon in the episode where she transmitted a "shutdown" code to the Cylon Raiders attacking Galactica), they can interface with machines.

It's not as simple as using metal detectors. The humaniforms are made of organic material and aren't just flesh on top of metal endoskeletons like the Terminator. They're much more than that.

lord_shar · Mar 05, 2006, 05:13 AM // 05:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenrath

Since this is the only BSG thread in the immediate vicinity, one thing that's been bugging me: just what ARE the "human" cylons? Are they supposed to be cyborgs? Why aren't there any metal detectors then to pick that up? Wouldn't they have had x-rays or some such medical examinations in the future/that part of space?

What I don't understand is what is the difference, if they don't have wires/servos or anything like that under the skin?

***Spoilers***

The cylon humanoids are flesh and blood, but the material that makes them up is bio-synthetic. As a result, there's no easy way to differentiate them from normal humans until they are cremated and the remains analyzed. Baltar did create a blood-screening method to detect the humanoid cylons, but he did not disclose all of his work to the colonial military. There are only 12 cylon humanoid models... we have only seen a few of them.

The cyclons may mimick humans all the way to the cellular level, but they cannot procreate with other cylon humanoids. This is part of the reason they returned to the colonies and commited mass-genocide... they "have a plan" which involves cross-breeding with the surviving humans to produce a human/cylon hybrid. EDIT: oops, I said too much...

Things are really getting interesting to say the least!

Old Dood · Mar 05, 2006, 07:10 PM // 19:10

Yes they are getting interesting.

Next week is gonna hurt! Enjoyable, but, will hurt til next season....

~ Star Maiden ~ · Mar 06, 2006, 06:39 PM // 18:39

Beat ya by a few hours, lord shar. :P

OD, I know what you mean. It's going to be torture waiting all those months for Season 3. It always is between seasons.

~ Star Maiden ~ · Mar 10, 2006, 05:18 PM // 17:18

*Bump*ing this up for OD and my fellow BSG fans. The 90-minute Season 2 finale is only a few hours away now! I'm so excited!

And also feeling sad because we'll have to wait until OCTOBER for new episodes!

Well, I'll be buying the full Season 2 DVD set and watching and rewatching episodes to tide me over.

lord_shar · Mar 11, 2006, 02:22 AM // 02:22

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Originally Posted by ~ Star Maiden ~

*Bump*ing this up for OD and my fellow BSG fans. The 90-minute Season 2 finale is only a few hours away now! I'm so excited!

And also feeling sad because we'll have to wait until OCTOBER for new episodes!

Well, I'll be buying the full Season 2 DVD set and watching and rewatching episodes to tide me over.

/***bugs bunny voice on***

October???? OOoooh, I'm dyin'!!!!

/voice-off

Should give me enough time to brainwash my wife into becoming a BSG fan...

I'm also crossing my fingers on Surface seeing a 2nd season...

Old Dood · Mar 11, 2006, 03:04 AM // 03:04

The Final Episode of the season is on....

So it Begins....

EDIT: Oh...Crap! Now until October?

All I can say is W O W!! On that episode. I never thought that would unfold...

Donut Zeke · Mar 11, 2006, 05:20 AM // 05:20

Well, I have been a big fan but that last episode was a let down. They really need to get the show back to normal, or else I'm not going to watch anymore.

Winterclaw · Mar 11, 2006, 06:23 AM // 06:23

I stopped watching it when the show became obvious that it was going to go the humans vs humans route when the race was already nearly wiped out.

Wonderful cinematography for a show that went the wrong way.

beleg curudin · Mar 11, 2006, 06:40 AM // 06:40

The good thing about the show is you can almost never guess whats going to come next, and they leave the season finallys with you going "how the heck are they going to turn this one around?"