STARGATE and BSG - Page 2

Atrocities · #11 July 20th, 2005, 10:51 PM

Ok, the word Fracking is about as enjoyable to hear spoken as it is to hear Rosean Bar sing the National Anthum. I prefer the wrold Frelling, it sounds so much more adaptable than Fracking.

Raging Deadstar · #12 July 21st, 2005, 05:40 AM

Quote:

Timstone said:
I've seen some episodes of the of Battlestar Galactica and I didn't like it at all, save for the miniskirts and the Cylons.
Thumbs up for the miniskirts!

For some reason Timstone I saw you had posted here and Expected something along those lines.

Not that I disagree with your humble viewpoint what-so-ever.

NullAshton · #13 July 21st, 2005, 10:34 AM

BSG is too confusing to watch just one episode. You have to watch several episodes before you actually get what's going on, and start enjoying it. On Stargate SG-1, you love it instantly, or you don't.

kalthalior · #14 July 21st, 2005, 03:52 PM

Love SG-1, not really sold on Atlantis but continue to watch, although it is cool that Earth now has 2 spaceships. I like Claudia Black's character alot (well, OK, I just like Claudia Black). I'll have to wait on Ben's character to see if he winds up being a clone of O'Neill or not. While I have several issues (far too many & take too long to discuss) with BSG, I am coming around. It's really well-crafted, but they fracked with the story too much from the original to put it mildly. Towards Iron Giant's point, I think they are trying to make Apollo the "hero".

Timstone · #15 July 21st, 2005, 04:27 PM

RD:
Hahaha... Thanks man!

zircher · #16 July 21st, 2005, 09:58 PM

Don't forget to tune in an hour earlier Friday because Sci-Fi will be showing Firefly. Man, talk about 4 hours of good television.
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TAZ

Atrocities · #17 July 21st, 2005, 10:14 PM

Good series. I bought it on DVD and still will watch it.

Thanks Todd.

Caduceus · #18 July 21st, 2005, 10:27 PM

SG-1 and Atlantis are enjoyable throw-away shows (don't get me wrong, I've been watching SG-1 since the end of season 2), in the vein of Star Trek TNG and Voyager where things get "reset" at the end of the episode, with last season being one of the notable exceptions.

Battlestar Galactica is more of a drama with a building plotline. Frankly I have to tape it to get through the stressful scenes so I can walk away for a minute...

"No more Mister nice Gaius!!" That slayed me.

Atrocities · #19 July 22nd, 2005, 03:25 AM

SG 1 was just good Sci-Fi TV. Now a days it seems more like soap opera sci fi tv who's greater days are behind them.

They should have made a complete cast break with a two hour season opener cast send off. They should have brought Jonas back and had regular old cast special appearances. Oh ya, they should also keep T'lec (Sp) as he would be good for the show.

Starhawk · #20 July 25th, 2005, 10:24 PM

AT they are going for a total cast break in the end however they are being smart about it with a slower introduction to the newer cast bit by bit.

Browder is not much like O'niel at all if you actually look at the two characters Mitchell is still very haunted by his injury during the Antarctic fight and is still very unsure of himself, O'niel was always sure of himself even after the whole his son killed himself deal.

Browder is also a little bit MORE flyboyish then O'Niel in the sense that he seems much more skiddish about being in a ground firefight for example when T'ealc tried to shoot through that door and Mitchell goes "Whoah, woah woah!.....bullets BOUNCE" and jumped around. O'Niel wouldn't have done that.

Now as to Atlantis I like it but they are still busy trying to grow the characters so we'll have to see if they can ever manage to settle the characters in to their respective personalities.

As far as BSG goes yeah it's a long term drama not an episodic show, as far as the "language' issue goes well they are military and most of them are "sailors" to boot which btw are renowned for having a foul mouth. And it is as far as I can tell pretty accurate to real world military as most of the navy and marine folks I've met cuss a LOT.

As far as Frack vs Frell, well Frack is a throwback to the old show but this time they actually make it sound like a cuss word where back in the original series it sounded more like someone saying "Dang".

And the real F word is hardly pretty so I guess they figure FRACK should be just as ugly sounding so I like it