OT: Season 3 BSG

MasterChiToes · #1 October 7th, 2006, 04:46 AM

Yeah... the original BSG was a larger than life heroic fantasy, while the new BSG not only seems mired in dysfunctionality, it goes as far as wallowing in that dysfunctionality as that is the only thing that drives the plot.

Wade · #2 October 7th, 2006, 04:54 AM

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MasterChiToes said:
Yeah... the original BSG was a larger than life heroic fantasy, while the new BSG not only seems mired in dysfunctionality, it goes as far as wallowing in that dysfunctionality as that is the only thing that drives the plot.

BRAVO!

Black_Knyght · #3 October 7th, 2006, 06:18 AM

I agree with AT - the new season starts off with a total bust !!!

Lee has no backbone, but plenty of middle. Adama has become a hippie who suudenly decides to get a backbone. Baltar's still the biggest waste of humanity ever, and the "Resistance" pretty much consists of a lot of talk and a few grief-stricken suicide bombers they take credit for.

And Kara is a joke. One minute she's tough as nails, the next she's holding hands with a Cylon who took her ovary in the first place. There's a ton of holes that just make no sense, and don't seem to be worth the writers or anybody else's efforts to fix.

I really thought they were heaeded somewhere cutting edge with this series, but now it's just Bagdad vs. the Bots.

The one and only clever piece in all of this was that the Organic Cylons limited the programming of the mechanical Cylons, to prevent them from becoming self-aware and realizing what a crap situation they had, yet again.

Randallw · #4 October 7th, 2006, 06:28 AM

looks to me like one them has.

Ragnarok-X · #5 October 7th, 2006, 06:48 AM

Anyone know of torrent link or something ?

AngleWyrm · #6 October 7th, 2006, 07:16 AM

Found some magnet links:

These two are correct:

3x01 - Occupation
3x02 - Precipice

Ragnarok-X · #7 October 7th, 2006, 11:14 AM

Have you tested those ? I downloaded S03E01 today and it turned out to be hentai .p

mrscrogg · #8 October 7th, 2006, 11:16 PM

I think you have to let the story line develop - you can't blow your load in the first 10 minutes ! You see the benelovent cylons become the enslaving monsters they are , the growth of the next step in cylon evelution in Sharron the laskity of the military even before they were attacked by the cylons , the vicious side of Tigh , all new stuff . let it work

Captain Kwok · #9 October 7th, 2006, 11:40 PM

I think they need to introduce more flying motorcycles into the current series - and perhaps kids with extraordinary strengths and abilities.

VanderVecken · #10 October 8th, 2006, 11:42 AM

What "Highly Trained military force? The Galactica was gonna be decommissioned at the start of the show. The ship had a FEW OLD vets (many rusty as hell), who's usefulness to society had made the military a pariah. Remember the Twelve Colonies, were for the most-pat a bunch of Peace-nics. Imaginge the cut-backs the Military had to endure, since the previous Cylon war had ended. The ship was not even full. It had a small core of OLD vets and a bunch of kids transfered on in the last year or two so that it could be Decommissioned with style. "Who needs warships, we're not at war", was the philosophy of the day ... Till the mushroom clouds came.

And in least that respect ... If you look closely, both the original and this version, both shared the same message. "The military is not god, but don't let it wither and die when times are good(and peaceful), because things can change fast.

P.S. - can anyone imagine what Iraq II war would have been like if U.S. had its 1960's sized Military instead if its small one it had since the end of the 1980's ??? (of course, the US economy would have collapsed like the USSR did if it had attempted to maintain its 'Cold War' sized military.)

Added note - Although not entirely pleased with the Rockball story arc, I still think it's one of the better shows currently on TV, Maybe others would prefer 'DEAL or no DEAL', or yet another LA Law clone, (And if you do, Hooray for you, since TV is for the most part just the modern day equivelent of roman Gladitorial Games - "Bread and Circuses". Thats another O.T. thread, eh ?) The only problem of this current story arc with it's Iraq war parallels is that the audience who watches this show, for the most part, is intelligent enough to have already understood that there are more than just the GOOD-Guys side in the war. 'NBG' shows what it's like to be thrust into the situation of being on the other side. And maybe ask the question, 'what makes a person believe that being a Suicide bomber is a viable and acceptable thing. Especially when INNOCENTS will die as collateral damage. Unfortunately, the people who need to see and possibly understand this, usually watch much easier TV to digest for the most part.