OT: Season 3 BSG

Caduceus · #1 October 10th, 2006, 11:50 PM

Season opener viewers for BSG season 3 down from season 2:
Yahoo News

Atrocities · #2 October 11th, 2006, 12:08 AM

I finally figured out what movie they used to get the human cylon concept from. Granted they had it from the BSG 1980, but they didn't have it nailed down until they ripped off Screamers.

If you haven't seen Screamers, rent it. Its not a bad movie. I liked it for many reason, one being that it seemed like only one small chapter in a much larger story.

Azselendor · #3 October 10th, 2006, 05:45 PM

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Atrocities said:
I finally figured out what movie they used to get the human cylon concept from. Granted they had it from the BSG 1980, but they didn't have it nailed down until they ripped off Screamers.

If you haven't seen Screamers, rent it. Its not a bad movie. I liked it for many reason, one being that it seemed like only one small chapter in a much larger story.

But Screamers Ripped off Pod People

Atrocities · #4 October 10th, 2006, 11:02 PM

That was a very cool video. However I do think that the battlestars would have faired far better agaisnt SD than they did.

Randallw · #5 October 11th, 2006, 12:30 AM

Glad to see my find is popular.

I do have one problem with it. A viper is flying down a trench (most probably the one that runs along the side of a SD) the pilot does the whole inertia thing and turns around while continuing forward so he can shoot at the TIE behind him. Hello mr colonial pilot, you are now moving down a trench backwards. A trench I must point out that has turrets and stuff sticking out. That whole turning trick works in space but your career will be short if you try it inside soemthing.

Caduceus · #6 October 11th, 2006, 11:15 AM

I think they were just high-lighting the fact that the vipers can flip around and do that (which most space one-man fighters should be able to do, I suppose).

Azselendor · #7 October 11th, 2006, 01:45 PM

I'm with Atrocities, I think the new Battlestars from RDM's series would have fared significantly better against star wars ISD's and Vipers would have been superior to the TIE's as well (TIE's have to move like airplanes in space, vipers move like they are in space while in space)

Original Series Battlestars, I think were depicted fairly accurate, I don't recall any of the original series battlestars being in direct ship-to-ship combat and faring well.