OT: Season 3 BSG

[Atrocities]

I recall seeing something about Kara and Adama getting involved. If they go down that road I will have no choice but to gouge out my sole remaining eye and shoot myself.

[Azselendor]

Jamie bamber had an interview about that topic recently, I can't recall the full text of it either. But I think he was talking about how the relationships in the show change.

For example, upcoming episodes will deal with how lee and starbuck hate each other, and how tigh and starbuck are friends now.

[Atrocities]

Tigh and Kara get it on!!!! "Oh you bastared! Oh OH OH OHHHHHHHHHHHH" "How was that for a thruster pack Leutenant?"
"Oh Colonel I can't believe we waited so long."

If this happens, refer to my previous post about ripping my eyes out.

[Tim_Ward]

Randallw said:
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.

Iraq is far from the only parallel, the Nazi occupation of France is a much better fit. The scene at the end of Precipe, the one with the execution, is a direct reference to some war film.

Last time I looked, the Americans in Iraq are not rounding up random people off the street and carting them off into the desert to be executed. I don't see any evidence that the iraqi security forces are reguarded as traitors or collabtors by the major of the iraqi populus, either. These are the people who turned out in massive numbers to vote for a government, remember.

You also have the sectarian conflict in iraq which is to a certain degree seperate from the conflict between the americans and the islamic militants, which the media likes to tar under the same bursh - insurgants. None of that is reflected in the New Caprica story. You just have the cylon occupiers and the colonial resistance, a much better fit for occupied France indeed, all of occupied europe and, as others have said, occupations throughout history.

Yes, there are iraqi elements; suicide bombings (though this is also applicable to palestine and, further back in history, lebanon) and the term insurgant though, again, this term was used in Vietnam and, IIRC, Algeria. Some of the cylon rhetoric also echos some of the american rhetoric.

I also think it is unfair to BSG to say they're "supporting" one side other the other; the new caprica resistence are not exactly depicted as angels, especially if you go and watch the webisodes.

PS. The galactica airdrop was wicked cool.

[Azselendor]

Has anyone else noticed RDM's fondness for World War II, I bet we could convert him to some of Shrapnel's games.

[AngleWyrm]

Um...So how exactly did the Chief and Gaeda start using the Doggy Bowl technique?

[Xrati]

It's funny how the Cylons wanted to rid the Galaxy of humans because of their 'human based' hatred of them. They have become, in their own efforts, even worse then those that they seek to detroy! The Cylons have become better at being human then the Humans!

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AngleWyrm said:
Um...So how exactly did the Chief and Gaeda start using the Doggy Bowl technique?

I was thinking the same thing. I guess it was set up by someone else who was later killed.

Is the weight thing with Apollo real or just for the show? Did Jamie Baber pack on the pounds or is it just character BS?

[AngleWyrm]

It was all done with makeup and plastic. Rather convincing job. Just saw a short on it on the scifi channel website last night.

It's too bad really, because it lends credence to the "fat people should just exercise more" thought process, supported by pure fiction.

[Atrocities]

I don't like how they used it as a gimic just to make fat people out to be lazy depressed weak willed loosers. That offends me. I am going to sue!