OT: Season 3 BSG

[Atrocities]

The whole show really took a nose dive with that whole new caprica bit. We lost something like a year of the show as the producers and writers tried to "re-invent" the series. They also needed to come up with a way to make Baltar a traitor and such. It really was a bad move even if they managed to give us a few cool episodes out of it. Overall though, it tanked the series.

[Tim_Ward]

AngleWyrm said:

Near the end of Season Two, He stood upon his pile of poo, and enacted the tale of "Writers!? We don't need no steenkeen writers!". The ego-intoxicated Jack of All Trades went on to rediscover that, yes Virginia, "Jam Sessions" may have soul, but so does a well executed orchestra.

That was the beginning of the end. Self-Importance made an appearance in the form of Political Statement. We're so big we talk about national stuff--nevermind the tale. Then Tyranny set in, with the threat of firings, and so the Cylons were demoted from the realm of immortals (with genuine sci-fi interest) to just another 'them' that are also afraid to die. Just keeping the troops in line, I'de wager.

Without real material, the bottom-up scene assembly continued as a bluff of sorts. Mysteries began that had no finish. The blonde's adventure beyond the door of death promised to reveal a secret, but no joy. The woman left the show. The Eye of Jupiter was another mystery that didn't have any impact. The imperial social structure of 'born a miner, die a miner' was never resolved.

Baltar's "Am I a Cylon?" preview exhibited poor work in the editing room, and it looked like someone was pushing to make Baltar turn out to be a Cylon after all. Screw the characters. Nevermind that he made a Cylon detecter early in the first season. The Cylon Baltar didn't sell, and so the episode was a wierd cobbled together mishmash of dream scenes and whatnot, with a weak proof of humanity by behavior. The bad edits continue to be displayed in "Special Clips from the Cutting Room Floor" tacked on at the end. Commercial enterprise hard at work.

Ellen Tigh also left the show. And now it seems Kara Thrace has left as well. Rats, fleeing the sinking ship.

You just made that up.

[Atrocities]

very good read and accurate.

[Randallw]

I didn't think he made a real Cylon detector. He just made something up and then claimed to have developed one to get the suspicion off himself. In the mini-series he just got lucky when he framed a bloke he didn't like much and that guy ended up being a Cylon.

[MasterChiToes]

Long long ago, I decided that everyone from the 12 colonies were Cylons... they are descended from the original Cylons from Kobol who destroyed the real humanity. Hopefully, the old and new Cylons will eventually team up and destroy Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

Adama is the Imperius Leader!

I miss Iblis and the ancients from the original series... now that had plotz plot potential.

[Atrocities]

Could someone please explain to me what in the hell just happened in the last episode (19)? I cannot figure out what it was I just watched. Tye (sp) thinks the Galatica is a cylon now? Baltar is a religious icon? Lee Adama is a traitor, The president has cancer again and along with that she having visions, Caprica 6 is now a mind reader, and Adama wants Lee thrown in the brig! WTH! The episode made no sense what so ever! It was like watching an alcoholically induced bad dream. Hell I had a hang over after watching it.

[AgentZero]

Sounds like all kinds of madness! My usual torrent site didn't have episode 19 up for some reason, so I'm a little late in getting it, but I'm sure I'll have something insightful to say after I've watched it.

[Atrocities]

I think I should have been stoned or drunk before watching it. I think it would have made more sense then. Hell for Adama to go from "I love you son" to "I won't have an officer who has no integrity serving under me" is a huge leap.

The only thing I can figure out is that perhaps the sounds Tye is hearing might be somehow affecting the crew putting them on edge and pitting them against each other.

[Renegade 13]

From what I understand, Tigh thinks he can hear through the walls of this ship that the cylons have infiltrated this ship, and are hiding behind bulkheads and the like. Remember the noise the cylon ground troops make, kind of a whirring noise? I think that's what he's hearing. As for the president, yep, cancer. Lee's going on his little "I'm resentful of daddy, so I'm gonna stick it to him by defending Baltar", in essence, having himself a little temper tantrum. As for Six, not quite sure how you got the whole mind reading part.

[AngleWyrm]

Tim_Ward said:
You just made that up.

Well yes, sort of. It is my impression of the video blogs, and extra interviews from Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica website taken together with what is happening in/to the series.

Atrocities said:
very good read and accurate.

Thanks, I had time to edit

Randallw said:
I didn't think he made a real Cylon detector.

Maybe; it wasn't entirely clear that he succeeded. He did spot Boomer as well, and the scene where Six tells him to request a nuke, he has an epiphany of understanding how it could work. So it seems possible that he succeeded. But then they undermined it with talking him out of testing the whole crew just cause it's easier. Also there was some talk of if he was a Cylon then his results could be a program of deception, so the detecter was basically neutered to keep the scare alive.