BSG season 3 *with spoilers*

[krtek a houby]

I LOVE this programme. However, I only have up to season 3, ep 8 (bastard Sky) so must not read the spoilers here. However, my gf is grateful for the Baltar pic

The best sci-fi show ever.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

No more battlestar Galactica untill 2008!

Well, maybe a movie, but i want season 4 dammit!

 

[alef]

Mind blowing. Besides the incredible plot developements I really loved the style and mood of the season finale. Leftfield theory:

What if all humans became cylons on Earth? Maybe we were forced to become purely machines following war/disease/climate change. Then for the colonies we Cylons started to create organic creatures and reignited a non-Cylon human race? Not sure if this works, just came to mind and thought I'd share...

Regardless, lots to ponder until next year!

 

[Augie March]

No more battlestar Galactica untill 2008!

Sigh...

*puts in diary 'Twiddle thumbs' for the rest of 2007*

 

[DotCommunist]

No more battlestar Galactica untill 2008!

Well, maybe a movie, but i want season 4 dammit!

Curses!! when can we expect more Heroes?

 

[ruffneck23]

23 april

 

[DotCommunist]

Dear god listen to the original Starbuck whine........what a cock

"Re-imagining", they call it. "un-imagining" is more accurate. To
take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that
a television show based on hope, spiritual faith, and family is
unimagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and
family dysfunction. To better reflect the times of ambiguous morality
in which we live, one would assume. A show in which the aliens
(Cylons) are justified in their desire to destroy our civilisation.
One would assume. Indeed, let us not say who are he guys and who are
the bad. That is being "judgemental". And that kind of (simplistic)
thinking went out with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and
Katharine Hepburn and John Wayne and, well the original Battlestar
Galactica.

more here http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home/articles-readarticle.php?nid=5

definetly not a fan

 

[Stigmata]

You come across these little groups of hardcore old BSG fans now and then, in dank corners of the internet. They are convinced that not only is the current show inferior to the original in every way, but that it's also been a colossal failure. They tend to stick their fingers in their ears and hum loudly whenever it's pointed out to them that the 70s Galactica was cancelled after one season and its successor has won, you know, awards and stuff.

 

[DotCommunist]

As it's the guy who played the original starbuck, it sounds like sour grapes to me.

 

[Sunray]

Seasons start to end now because its summer.

Gaaaah!! 2008

Stunning series. It looks good and its forever gripping.

 

[Stigmata]

Has anyone heard about this DVD movie business? Rumour mill says it'll be similar to the pilot miniseries in length and style- it's supposed to be a mini story arc that ties into series 4 and features (get this) flashbacks to Cain and Pegasus prior to their contact with Galactica. Some people are suggesting we may see the attack on the colonies from their perspective.

 

[Sunray]

You come across these little groups of hardcore old BSG fans now and then, in dank corners of the internet. They are convinced that not only is the current show inferior to the original in every way, but that it's also been a colossal failure. They tend to stick their fingers in their ears and hum loudly whenever it's pointed out to them that the 70s Galactica was cancelled after one season and its successor has won, you know, awards and stuff.

I've been using IMDB to give me a guide on what films to download. Nothing really gets more than 7. Most films are 6-6.9 for OK, 5-5.9 for average (suprise) and < 5 for shit. I've looked at a lot of movie reviews on there. I only download films that get 7 or more. Never seen an 8 for a recent film.

Battlestar Galatica gets 9.2 on IMDB which is unbelievable. Serious all time classics like Gandhi only manage to get 8.2.

 

[kyser_soze]

Well, I've just finished punishing Wrysmile with a 4 eps a night run thru of S3...Wow! The whole season worth it alone for E4 when the Galactica makes that FTL jump in atmosphere...kinda stuff that I read about all the time in sci-fi novels, but until now never seen...and done with remarkable accuracy (altho I suspect the updraft caused when BSG jumps back into space might have been a bit stronger than shown!)...total geeklove this...

So...the revealed 4...who's the 5th? I reckon it's a character we haven't met yet...or that dodgy Irish lawyer (who frakkin rocked)...

Touching on what people have said...

On 'this has happened before'...aside from the allusion to the original series, maybe the original 13 tribes invented Cylons, had the same war etc etc? Altho I reckon Dog on P1 might be right...

On the bxing of the No 3...the priest-model mentioned that they had been having 'problems' with that model before, and indeed alludes to the loss of previous model nos, as does one of the 6s who talks about the relationship with the final 5 'complex'...

Cannot wait to see how this all pans out...fucking amazing TV show...

 

[Maurice Picarda]

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again...

Here is my theory: All humans are descended from cylons

Everything that has happened is happening according to a predetermined 'script' that repeats its self every couple of thousand years. The cylon God is the writer of this script.
I don't think it has been mentioned how many Gods the humans have but I'm guessing that it would be twelve. Each one of these Gods would have been based on a cylon model who goes on to seed each of the 12 colonies. The colonies develop and evolve and go on to invent the next generation of cylons which in turn go on to rebel/retreat/return and wipe out the colonies allowing a few thousand to escape.

The reason that the humans and the cylons arrived at the Temple of Jupiter at the critical time is because there are obviously hidden cylon models still making key decisions for humans (probably Roslin because the prophecies speak of her and the Xena type would certainly feel the need to apologise to her after nearly executing her on New Caprica).

The fleet that is escaping for Earth will become the new 13th colony and each type of cylon will go on to seed colonies 1 to 12. (This is why they have the obsession with human/cylon half-breeds.) Humans will evolve, invent new cylons, etc...

The reason that the final 5 cannot be revealed at the present is because they still have their unwitting tasks to perform. i.e. manipulating both the humans and cylons into doing what they need to do in order for everything to go according to the 'script'.

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again...

Yes, that's exactly what I thought in season two, back in early January. But it's three weeks later now and the truth at the end of the box set was significantly less good. Baltar and Caprica Six wandering around Manhattan angelically ffs.

Anyway, at least I can google in safety now without worrying about spoilers. I want a decent explanation of why colonists smoke Marlboros, but there are no other brands from 150,000 years in the future.

E2A: And this is what Ron Moore, who I now learn looks disturbingly like Baltar, says on the above:

In the early [development of the show], we would talk about the fact that we would see a lot of contemporary things in the show from language to wardrobe to all kinds of production design details. That only made sense to us in terms of a lot of things that we see in the show and we feel are taken from our contemporary world are actually theirs to begin with. [They] somehow spread down through eons and came to us through the collective unconsciousness. Or, more directly, [as when] Lee said we would give them the better part of ourselves.

Hmm.