OT: Season 3 BSG

[Azselendor]

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]

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

[Randallw]

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]

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]

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.

[gregebowman]

This is the first chance I've had to get on teh computer since Friday, so let me put my 2 cents in. As with most of the episodes, I'm wondering if I'm too tired to make sense of what's going on, even if it is coming on an hour earlier. I know scriptwriters are taking cues from modern events, but I can't believe that with teh last contigent of known humans alive, that Tighe (and Adama and Roslin) would condone suicide bombing. And what's the point? Everyone knows that the human cylons can clone themselves and their memories, and I'm sure it doesn't costs too much to put out another toaster or two. What the humans should be doing is to blow up the factories and the cloning facilities. That way, teh cylons would feel the pinch as their numbers go down.

As far as Kira, i can't believe it took all this time from when she was in the cylon hospital in Caprica to let us know that one of her ovaries was taken out and used to reproduce a child (at least, if you can believe the cylon). I always wondered what they did to her, but I never heard anything mentioned in the show. You'd think she would have at least visited that cranky ole doctor to see what she went through.

As far as Sharon on the Galactica, I don't see a problem with Adama giving her her freedom and a mission. She has proven to be reliable, and as far as we can tell, was never programmed to do anything other than love Helo and have his baby.

What gets me is Baltar and #6. I was wondering why he was having hallucations about her, and then her having hallucinations about him. It finally occurred to me a few days ago that he might be a cylon; maybe an unknown 13th prototype as all of the other cylons treat him as a human. I'll have to see how this story develops.

Hopefully, the cylon occupation won't last too long, and the humans will go back into space and eventually find earth. maybe they'll even incorporate some of Richard Hatch's ideas for the grand finale. I heard it was pretty good.

[Joachim]

The season opener has certainly created a vast array of interesting story arcs. I look forward to seeing how they resolve so many of the apparent paradoxes. I suspect that we will get a lot of flash back episodes to explain all the things we have missed (Tie's eye, pudgy Lee,)

I thought it was fairly clear what they had taken from Kira when they showed her tummy scar.

And, i always thought Baltar was a cylon... (think how much sense it makes - how did he survive the nuking on Caprica?)

[geoschmo]

gregebowman said:
I know scriptwriters are taking cues from modern events, but I can't believe that with teh last contigent of known humans alive, that Tighe (and Adama and Roslin) would condone suicide bombing.

Roslin didn't condone it. She flipped out on Tighe over it. It's not been made clear that Adama even knows it was occuring, but I can't imagine he won't be pissed off. I'm rather looking forward to that discussion between Adama and Tighe actually. Tighe is the only one in authority condoning it, and he's pretty well screwed up from weeks of imprisonment and torture.

That's kind of the point I think, how otherwise "normal" people can be pushed to the breaking point and into doing things they wouldn't otherwise consider. Not to mention Tighe has always been a little close to the edge anyway. Look how fast he turned into a dictator when Adama was shot.