OT: Season 3 BSG

[Caduceus]

Dunno, Six was pretty direct about the other five models "that they don't talk about".

And I for one think they've played the guest star = Cylon new model card a few times too often.

[Tim_Ward]

First the cylons wanted to exterminate man kind for crimes against God. Or because God willed it. Then they wanted to find humans so they could breed. Then they wanted to save humanity from themselves. Now they want to exterminate man kind again and make Earth their new homeworld. Sounds like they really have no clue what in the hell they want.

That's the point, yes. The cylons are a young civilisation, only 40-50 years old.

[Azselendor]

Dirk Benedict was actually appraoched originally by Bryan Singer to play a 50 year old starbuck, with no changes to the character (thus creating someone who is kinda tragicly too old for the way he lives). He was later approached by RDM to play a cameo in season 3 (I suspect in Hero), but passed.

As for the other 5 models, I suspect that since the cylons are a young civilization, those 5 are still teenagers and are locked up in brother cavil's basement.

[Atrocities]

Don't you ever wonder how old actors can aford to live, especially in LA? I mean Dirk Benedict hasn't worked since the mid 80's and he turns down a job? Where does there money come from? Royalties? Those can't add up to much.

Well according to his site and a few web sites he has stayed busy writing, directing, doing conventions, blogs, and the occational acting gig.

Battlestar Galactica (2003) (VG) (voice) .... Lt. Starbuck, Lukas

Interesting huh?

[Azselendor]

You forget he's the Face.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templeton_"Faceman"_Peck

As for the hybrids, I have to say I don't like it either. All I could think of when I saw her in a pool of goo was the matrix pod people. It wasn't a good idea, I always liked the concept of the cylon ships being "meaty" inside.

Also, did anyone else find it weird earth takes down yet another civilization with biological weapons? ala war of the worlds.

[Randallw]

A friend gives me copies of the show (I don't get cable) so I won't see it till tomorrow, but can you elaborate on the "Earth takes down a civilisation with bio weapons". I know the cylons have a disease. They didn't find earth and get it did they

[AgentZero]

I'm interested to see how Kara & Tigh's 'new' friendship plays out, now that Starbuck seems to be pulling herself back together, while Tigh seems determined to remain in his downward spiral. 42 minutes just isn't long enough!

[Atrocities]

Soon it will be 38 minuts. Networks want to know why people aren't watching their shows? Well its because they have to suffor through 18 minutes of commericals. Ten years ago the average commerical time for a show was 8 minutes. That meant that you could sit back and enjoy a 50 to 52 minute program in realative peace without all of the BS interuptions.

But tell a network that they have too much time dedicated to comericals per show, and they will sight the cost of the shows to produce, and rightfully so.

So unless they can get the costs down, 38 minute 1 hour shows are going to be here sooner rather than later. When that happpens it will be far more praticle to just buy the series on DVD and watch it all at once over the course of a long night.

[AgentZero]

Or, rather than waiting for the DVD to come out, people will just get sick of TV and more and more people will wind up downloading the shows worth watching. Which sucks in a way, since then the shows worth watching don't get watched as far as the network is concerned (ie: no one's watching their advertising). And sure, ideally the thing for them to do is find out why viewership is down, and reduce advertising to attract viewers. "NBC now has 15% LESS ads than ABC!" would be a pretty big draw for a lot of people.
Of course, we're not living in an ideal world, so we'll likely see 1/4 of our screen given over to advertising *during* the show, along with the usual 18 minutes of 'full-screen' advertising. Makes me glad I hardly watch TV anymore.

[Azselendor]

definately starbuck and tigh's new dynamic are great. They are easily stealing the show. NBC should've opted for first syndication, but because of their piss poor editing of the miniseries, it failed on the network and nbc won't be airing it.

Randallw, my comment is that the probe is supposedly from earth (I personally suspect the other 5 cylons in reality) and that earth had a tedenacy to wipe out alien civilizations with plagues and viruses. War of the worlds, martian chronicles, independence day, and so forth. I've always viewed it, in the realm of scifi, to be cliche'd plot.