The New BattleStar Galactica

I just watched the season finale. DAMNIT! They can't leave me hanging like this!

Anyone know when season 2 starts?

 

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actually BSG is not that good, rather boring to say the least, its one of those things best watched while doing something else.... and im sure coffee only likes them because of the tall blond bimbo.

 

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wait, its only 13 episodes per season?!

Farscape was 22! Most shows are at least near 20, it cant be only 13. Maybe there is an interim period... a few months off.

Later T

 

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Tristan,

Most shows start off with just 13 trial episodes (Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and in their second seasons get a full 20. And remember, it takes 80 episodes to make it to nation sydication.

 

What do you mean it takes 80 to make it to nation sydication?

Btw, just finished watching 12... in the credits it had a preview for the next one that said series finale. Is there a guaranteed 2nd season, or is this really just a pure trial? And if it doesnt do well, they just wont make anymore?

 

Tristan:

It takes 80 for them to rerun it in syndication. I don't know why, it's just a crazy rule.

 

I was a huge fan of the original Battlestar Galactica. I was a teenager when it first ran. I never missed an episode. I loved the Characters and the actors and the story. Many people do not know this but it was actually filled with Mormon doctrine. Glenn Larson the shows creator is LDS and he incorporated a lot of his beliefs in the show. Things like the Counsel of the 12 were likened to the LDS apostles. Apollo and Serena were "sealed" for time and all eternity. The lords of Kobal came from the LDS doctrine on the star kolob. The 12 tribes of planets represented the lost 12 tribes of Israel. The shows concept was the lost 12 tribes returning to Earth.

When I first saw the New Battlestar Galactica I hated it because of the drastic differences. Now that I have seen a few episodes since it came on the Sci-Fi channel it has grown on me a bit. The female Starbuck really does do the part justice, and I like the rest of the crew as well. I don't think the ships or the cylons are as cool as the original but they are pretty good. I don't really like the music however. I wish they had of used a modern version of the same opening music.

 

I just finished watching it, there has to be a 2nd season...
I think they finished it well too, very unexpected

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thanks for pointing that out, shows us all that we all need to be writers, so we can spread our brand of propaganda across the airwaves. I'm thinking of writing about a band of Israelite refugees that trek across Asia in 721 BC, then cross over to the Western Hemisphere via the Aleutians.

So when Columbus sails across the ocean blue, the first 'Indian' that mets him, says "oy vey, there goes the neighborhood!"

I'm thinking of calling it, “The Book of Levi bar-Yosef”


changed my mind, I'll call it, "The Book of Levi Little-Feather"

 

I've been catching them on si fi.. where has everyone been seeing them?

 

i missed last nights ep i'd like to dl somewhere.

 

I was a fan of the old BSG, and enjoy the new. I have a few questions about the new BSG. I must confess that I'm still somewhat annoyed over Starbuck being a chick. Also, what the hell's going on on the cylon occupied worlds? There doesn't seem to be much destruction, yet there are no people. I'd like to see some battles between human resistance fighters and the more robotic classic cylons. I mean, it's nice that most of the new cylons are hot chicks, but the metalic versions are cool. Another thing, how is it that a cylon detector is so hard to build? Are these new cylons biological down to DNA? How was the transition made from silicone based organisms to what seem to be brain washed humans? Can the cylons reproduce sexually? Can they interbreed with humans? Are they truly berzerker robots anymore or just one more race of aliens. Do the humanform cylons have any machine components at all?

 

Hey, I am a fan of the show and I would like to take a stab at what you have asked in your previous post. From what I have gleaned from the first 5 or 6 episodes I have seen (I live in America) I have a general answer to most of the questions

Just close your eyes and let go of the original series, I really believe that the new series is not a remake, but a redo rather. Treat it as such and just admire the boobies

They are occupied. If there are humans still alive they might be in a similar situation as Helo, getting some weird Cylon loving and experiments done on him. Why are they keeping him alive? Sorry, I answered a question with a question...
As for the destruction, I think they used tactical nukes on the planet, maybe people are going to die of starvation. A friend of mine said that the planet Caprica has changed color from green to greenish brown, as part of a change in the weather due to nuclear winter? I am not sure.

Yeah, taht would be cool. HAve we yet to see a gun battle between cylons and humans? I like the clones and all, but those CGI cylon warriors rock so much...please let Apollo take one or two out, that would rock

I think the only way you could tell an infiltrator from a human is if you have a radiation machine like the effect on that planet from the mini-series, the kind that adversly affected the cylon clone's health. That sounds difficult enough to build

I think that the Boomers and other clone agents have to be almost complete clones (minus the fact that their spines glow during sex) and that isn't too far fetched. The robots are finding ways to completely infiltrate our life and the clones seem to work well. It weirds me out that they have sleeper agents like Boomer that don't even know they are cylons.

Man I hope not, that would be weird. I imagined them growing human clones like the cylon raiders. A machine mentality to creating life. It is actually quite an interesting concept: Man creates robot in his image, then robot creates man in man's image. Robot then precedes to wipe universe clean of mankind b/c god told them to...

They are robots, don't let the flesh fool you. They have the mentality, and I hope that their collective consciousnes or ruling structure is explored in later episodes.

Glowing spines? Some kind of tracer beacons maybe? I would gues very little of them is actually metal, that would be extremely easy to pick up on. MAybe they have a silicon base to them, which is why they react differently to radiation. Maybe they are not carbon or water-based lifeforms, who knows. I doubt the shows writers have gone that far in their thinking yet. The mystery about the cylons is keeping me glued to the set.

Why I love this show: THE STAKES ARE HIGH. they keep a count of the human population that went from billions (maybe trillions?) to 50,000 in a few days. Every mistake that the BG crew makes costs the fate of humanity a terrible blow. That is why episodes like Starbuck's training of the new recruits compelling to watch. If they don't cut the mustard then humanity is done for. Same thing with the water episode, if there is no water, humanity dies. If the relationships between the characters are shattered, if the crew falls apart, then humanity dies. If their system of government fails, humnaity dies. Pretty much everything is taken to an extreme, and it makes for a much more exciting show

That is my BSG rant from a new huge fan of the show

-ZERO MASS

 

Anyone want to bet that this idea is explored in season 2?

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(Sorry if that gives away the fact it is not explored in season 1)

 

I think thats the only reason the kept Helo alive was so that they could make a hybrid. And as far as the human-looking cylons are concerned: I bet any money that they are clones from original human DNA. They are in fact humans, just with cyclon programing.

I actually like the fact that Starbuck is a chick. It makes the story more dynamic and more fun. It would be too 1 dimensional if this wasnt so.

In addition, why is it so hard to make a cyclon detector? Its not, thats the point. Baltar could have made one long ago, but unless you've been completely blind, you'd realize that the chick in his head and his natural instincts are pullling him in two different directions... Its like a sock puppet. This is a part of the story that makes it really interesting.

Later
T

 

Indeed, that is going to be interesting. He plays the part well too, IMO.

 

Spoilers people. Please post spoilers.

 

you mean "don't"? don't you?

 

Post "spoilers" in the title of the thread. Of course there are going to be spoilers in here

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My mistake. I meant post spoiler warnings.