OT: Season 3 BSG

[Atrocities]

Azselendor said:
If galactica doesn't win an award this year, A lot of people are gonna be pissed.

Agreed. Damn fine episode and well deserving of awards for SFX.

[Atrocities]

Azselendor said:
Pegasus showed up and destroyed one basestar with her forward batteries, I would think that gets some immediate attention.

Then she, crippled and dying, takes out another with a suicide run.

then, after the Beast died, still managed to destroy yet another basestar by flinging a flight pod at it.

Damn, that's one mean ship.

She will be missed. And they didn't give her the nick name Beast for nothing. Also one of the human cylons said that the cylons were stretched pretty thin resource wise. So it stands to reason that loosing 2 and half basestars hurt them. But hey, with any luck they just got themselves a new human leader in Blatar. SO it all evens out in the wash.

[Black_Knyght]

Hell, with Baltar as their new leader they're worse off than if they'd never rebelled in the first place. Just imagine how much they'll suffer having to constantly listen to his pathetic whining and self-pity...

[Randallw]

I saw the first 3 episodes of this season last night. I get the idea that situation is past but I have to agree it looked like a critique of Iraq. The humans fight the Cylon occupation with suicide bombing, the Cylons have a police force treated as traitors by the others and who wear masks to protect their identity, and the Cylon conquerers who claim to be allies of the "legitimate" government force said government to sign the execution order with a gun to their head. Hard to miss which side they are supporting.

[VanderVecken]

Hmmm, Don't think they are supporting any side, but did find a way to show that there are always two (or more) sides to any conflict. Some may want to complain about the "Analogies to Iraq" being forced down on us, but I think it does our country proud that we even have the capacity to do this. It probably would be illegal to make something like this in over 30% of the countries of the world. Plus, for the most part, it was entertaining as well.

Hmmm (part 2)... Col. Tigh and Starbuck have always been adversarial, but now both have come off the planet with some really heavy emotional baggage; could a bond of misery (or at least a drunken commiseration) continue to form ??

Oh yeah! Atmospheric maneuver was superb, gutsy, legend making thing of beauty.

[Azselendor]

The funny part is that RDM didn't need to mine iraq for those episodes, He had all the puppet governments and occupations from the last 8,000 years to mine. So I dismiss the Iraq anaology, Suicide bombings (or homicide bombings if you watch fox) isn't exclusive to iraq.

But it was definately nice to see that someone on TV has the guts to show that there another side exists.

[gregebowman]

I still think that Baltar is a special cylon who isn't going to be duplicated. maybe even unknown to #6, he's being groomed to be the ulimate Cylon leader, which we haven't even heard about yet. Or maybe he'll be the hybrid's mentor. I really would like them to speed up Baltar's character so we know what he'll ultimately will become.

As far as Friday's episode, I thought it was awesome. The Galactica going into the atmosphere was a great and original trick. too bad about the Pegasus, but the title of the show is Battlestar Galactica, not Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus. Who knows, there might be a third surviving battlestar out there that they'll eventually run into. I like the theory about Tighe being a marine. Makes sense. And ultimately, I approve of the way he took care of his wife. Decently and humanely. After all, he did love her, no matter what her flaws were. Can't wait to see what happens next.

[Randallw]

Found this video of the Galactica's atmosphere attack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhMA4ICS_PU

[AgentZero]

That was just freaking awesome.

[AngleWyrm]

Say, isn't Kara due for a haircut?
And I'll bet the Colonel is gonna look good with a pirate-ish eye patch.