Battlestar Galactica

[grady]

Who watches it around here? I know there are some.

After a cursory search, I only found a mention here or there, but no actually thread. This is a pretty damn enjoyable show.

Last spring when I came down with mono I watched the mini-series again and the first season while I was laid out sick and sleeping. Then this past fall I burned through season 2 in about a week and half in light of Season 3 starting up. I'm pretty sucked into the show at the moment and it's drawing to a conclusion for season 3 with the next two episodes airing this sunday and next sunday.

Now I can imagine just the subject line alone of this thread could merit the scoffs and disregards from users, but I urge everyone to give a few of the episodes a spin.

The show was completely revamped from it's late 70's predecessor. No longer are the cylons just goofy looking silver robots, but rather they're closer to the replicant's of Blade Runner, not machine, but human. (Rest assured, there are silver robot cylons stomping and clomping around, but they're far more menacing and evil looking now.)

Additionally, there is a lot of nice little allegorical allusions to present political tensions throughout the world and the addressing of very simple issues that you otherwise wouldn't see in most science fiction. Very basic issues as the need for more fuel, water, or food, for a small remaining populous of humans that have been displaced and no longer have a planet to call home. But while trying to address these needs you have this relentless army of machines hellbent on the destruction of the human race.

One final note, I went to middle school and high school with Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) here in Portland, Oregon. Its kind of odd to see someone I knew growing up on TV.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

OK let's get down to the real nitty gritty shit.

How'd ya get mono whore boy?

[grady]

OK let's get down to the real nitty gritty shit.

How'd ya get mono whore boy?
It's all right here (http://www.dirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3218&highlight=mono).

Combination of working two jobs at opposite hours of the day. Primary job was from 6:30am to 3:30pm. Secondary/part-time job was from 6pm to 12:30am, two nights or so a week, one week night and then Friday or Saturday as a projectionist at a local pub theater. Add into the mix drinking on occassion and tada, mono.

I wish I could say it was from fooling around with a handful of ladies, but alas, it wasn't

[Scott Warner]

It's one of the few television shows I watch religiously. Season two was a bit spotty in the middle but this one has been almost 100% awesome.

[Strangelet]

for the next uber nerdy sci fi trivia game you're embroiled in...


There are many parallels between the story of Battlestar Galactica and Mormon teachings. The Book of Mormon tells the story of how the Prophet Lehi took the remnant of the Tribe of Joseph to ancient America around the year 600 BC. In Battlestar Galactica, mankind founded twelve different colonies. In addition, mankind also founded a thirteenth colony on Earth that was lost from the other twelve. In the same way that The Book of Mormon has a Tribe of Israel lost on another continent beyond the knowledge of the other tribes, Battlestar Galactica has a lost colony of man separate from the main body of humanity. The lost Tribe of Israel is central to The Book of Mormon in the same way that the lost colony of Earth is central to Battlestar Galactica.
In the Battlestar Galactica episode originally aired on the 24th of September and 1st of October 1978 titled "Lost Planet of the Gods", the home world of all humanity is revealed to be the planet Kobol. This name is strikingly similar to the star Kolob which is discussed in Mormon theology. In The Pearl of Great Price, The Book of Abraham Chapter Three, Kolob is described as the star "nearest onto the Throne of God." Interestingly, the ship on which armistice talks between the colonies and the Cylons took place was the "Star Kobol" as revealed in the premier episode which aired on 17th September 1978.
Another similarity between Mormonism and Battlestar Galactica is in the political structure of the ruling bodies of each. The Mormon Church is run by a Quorum of the Twelve which is headed by a president. In Battlestar Galactica, the colonies are ruled by a Council of Twelve which is also headed by a president (Ford 84).


there you have it. one of my favorite hymns is "if you could hie to kolob"

[grady]

for the next uber nerdy sci fi trivia game you're embroiled in...



there you have it. one of my favorite hymns is "if you could hie to kolob"

Someone had already mentioned this at a site I frequent and I think it's up on wikipedia too.

For more nerdiness regarding Battlestar, I heard about this one on Howard Stern about a week ago.

http://galacticawatercooler.com/

The site is complete with a poll for the president on the shows approval rating. Other such gems include this major issue: answer the toughest question of the night: Galactica vs. Enterprise — who’d win?

http://galacticawatercooler.com/2007/01/13/gwc-podcast-25/

I can't say I've listened to an entire podcast, but I've downloaded quite a few and skimmed through them.

[Strangelet]

you trounced me on the nerd scale. (though I'm still hedging on the bizarre religious interpretations)

[King of Snake]

Yeah, this show is great! It was recommended to me by a friend and I was suprised at how dark it could be at times (dealing with terrorism/torture/suicide bombings by what should be the "good guys": the humans).
The space action scenes also look great, and it's nice to see a more "realistic" approach to how inertia works in space (using thrusters to position and turn the ships, rather than having them flying like jet fighters).

I need to start catching up on season 3 though....

[Renze]

I've watched season 1 and 2 now, I'm waiting for season 3 to finish so I can watch that too. I agree with Scott, halfway Season 2 I found it a little hard to continue because some of those eps are dreadful, but I pulled through and near the end it's all good again.

[Tiger]

missed series 1&2, but enjoying 3. will defo have to track down the first 2 series

[grady]

Who watched it tonight? I gotta say, I'm not too keen on waiting until January 08 for the show to start back up.

sigh.

I guess there is that straight to video mini-movie to quench the thirst of the mass, but one can already imagine that it will not advance the plot forward any futher until the show starts back up.

[Renze]

I just finished watching season 3, and I must say, the season finale totally surprised me.

spoilers below (select to read):


This is one of the best season endings I've ever seen. The psychotic music the 4 other Cylon models kept hearing, and then the climax when they all came together...The whole thing was both surprising and psychotic/schizophrenic, it was fantastic.

end of spoilers.

I heard the new (and probably last) season will start in January 2008...

[King of Snake]

ok so who else totally cannot wait until season 4 kicks off? :) I finally finished S3 a couple of weeks ago and I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms.
March can't come soon enough (http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/), cause the S4 promo's look pretty damn good.

Gonna check out Razor in the meantime.

[Tom]

I watched all 3 seasons back to back last year, and loved every second of it. The first 4 episodes of season 3 were so different and awesome.

Season 4 can't come soon enough.

I'm not sure if I care enough about the Pegasus crew to bother tracking down a copy of Razor. Someone here tell me it's awesome or something.

[King of Snake]

Razor...man who cares who it's about, it's a 2 HOUR BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SPECIAL! What more do you want? ;)
I haven't seen it yet but I hear it's pretty good.

[patrick]

ya, razor is good enough to bother tracking it down and watching it... it has as much to do with galactica crew as it does with the pegasus's crew!

[negative1]

season 3 was a complete letdown from the
other 2 seasons,

i'm not sure if they are losing the plot, or what..
but they need to get back to the basics, and
stop all these flashbacks, and one character-one show
type plots.

yes razor was a decent standalone movie, but since
they only have one season to wrap things up, it will
be interesting to see how things go.

later
-1

[cacophony]

I'm not sure if I care enough about the Pegasus crew to bother tracking down a copy of Razor. Someone here tell me it's awesome or something.

yeah i kind of thought the same thing because i wasn't really all that enthralled with the pegasus crew themselves. but razor was great and filled in a lot of "fun to know" bits of information about that whole period of the series.

in other news, i can hardly wait for the next season to start. the anticipation is killing me. I HAVE THEORIES THAT MUST BE VALIDATED!!! :p

[Scott Warner]

I thought Season 3 was a lot more consistent that Season 2. Season 3 only had a couple of really great episodes but it didn't have any clunkers that I can remember, whereas Season 2 had a number of episodes that really shook my faith in the show (especially the Cure for Cancer and Star Map episodes...)

Nothing will top the end of Season 2 though.

[grady]

Season 3 got a bit clunky here and there esp. when dealing with the insurgency aspect of the people being held prisoner and also the picking up and dropping of story lines/threads that seems to occur more and more on a great deal of network programming whether it's Battlestar or The Sopranos.

The conclusion of Season 3 could not match the impact of Season 2, and the way in which Razor wraps seems like a further continuation.

Regardless of my nitpicking, I can't wait for it start back up.

[Malt Refund]

I gotta say, I'm not too keen on waiting until January 08 for the show to start back up.

That's doubtful with the writer's strike and all. I'm happy they got Razor out though. Nice little appetizer before the long wait.

[grady]

That's doubtful with the writer's strike and all. I'm happy they got Razor out though. Nice little appetizer before the long wait.
Yeah, I wrote that in March of 07, before the strike and before they announced they were pushing back the start of season four into spring of 08.