OT: Season 3 BSG

[Ludd]

AMF said:


It is perfect. I can't off the top of my head think of a way to make it better.

Have all the women naked? In a non sexist way, of course.

[Caduceus]

AMF said:

I'm sorry, I've only just now seen the episode, and only just once, but I don't recall seeing roslin in the graduation ceremony at all. There was a group of humanoid-cylons, and all the graduates, but neither Baltar nor Roslin were there....or did I miss something entirely? I mean, Roslin is back at the school in the scene just prior wasn't she...?

After the end of the show there was a "this season on Battlestar Galactica" montage of events from the upcoming episodes. It wasn't a teaser for next week, per se, just for the show for the next few weeks.

[Tim_Ward]

MasterChiToes said:
Actually that is a good point... IF one of more of the tin cans is siding with the oppressed humans against the organic cylons (re: the unseen ending of the premiere, foreshadowed by the 'self aware' dialog AND the tin can turning to look at the conflicted-suffering human cop outside the cylon building) THEN something interesting might be developing.

God, no. That would awful, contrived rubbish.

Anyway, the modern cylon centurions, unlike the first cylons which were made by the colonials, are not sentient. Thus, they cannot rebel. That was the point of Adamas line. This'd be like the US military drones rebelling.

The "look" the cylon gave Duck outside the police building was waving him in. He wasn't "conflicted", he was about to blow himself up in a room full of 200 people. If we're thinking of the same incident, that is.

The story is so scattered and the characters so bad the way the act is completely not how anyone would act in the situations they are in.

I think that's exactly how people would act in that situation. Coped up in ships not designed for long term habitation... constantly on the run... constant danger of death, no hope of any respite... it's bound to bring out the worst in people.

Jesus alot of the characters are supposed to be highly trained military personal but they act like 5 year old in their interaction with each other.

Who said anything about highly trained? The Galatica was an old ship, about to be decommissioned and it's pretty clear from the mini-series and from the earlier parts of season one that these are definately not "highly trained" military people, and that discipline had gone to pot etc etc.

[MasterChiToes]

Tim_Ward said:

God, no. That would awful, contrived rubbish.

Anyway, the modern cylon centurions, unlike the first cylons which were made by the colonials, are not sentient. Thus, they cannot rebel. That was the point of Adamas line. This'd be like the US military drones rebelling.

The "look" the cylon gave Duck outside the police building was waving him in. He wasn't "conflicted", he was about to blow himself up in a room full of 200 people. If we're thinking of the same incident, that is.

The sentient dialog was from the organic cylons stating that they made the tin cans unable to distinguish the organic cylons apart... to discourage sentience or something. That would leave the door open for the tin cans being able to distinguish the humans apart, which could in turn result in the problem the organic cylons were trying to avoid.

I'd have to rewatch the 'look' but the cylon's action seemed peculiar to me when it happened... looked more like one of the darth vader looks before he killed the emperor, than a 'you just got caught you guilty human' look.

[Atrocities]

I hope they can pull the show out of the pit its in and make something memerable happen. Otherwise I cannot see the show continueing past this season. Damn shame too, as most of season two was just fricking great sci-fi.

[Tim_Ward]

. Otherwise I cannot see the show continueing past this season.

Doubt that. Almost all the reaction I've seen to the new season has been overwhelmingly postively. This is the only forum I've seen where the reaction has been mostly negative.

[MasterChiToes]

Tim_Ward said:
This is the only forum I've seen where the reaction has been mostly negative.

Well from a strictly turn based strategy point of view, the humans aren't managing their game very well. Heck, just one colony with no space yards nor research facilities... no wonder the AI is kicking their butts.

[Tim_Ward]

They were never that hot in the first place. Only 12 colonies? Rubbish!

[AngleWyrm]

And morale seems to be a problem too -- unrest and rioting on the newly conquered New Caprica. Recruiting more troops didn't seem to improve colony happiness and/or obedience.

Looks like they may be headed for revolution.

[Tim_Ward]

Somehow missed this:

MasterChiToes said:
The sentient dialog was from the organic cylons stating that they made the tin cans unable to distinguish the organic cylons apart... to discourage sentience or something. That would leave the door open for the tin cans being able to distinguish the humans apart, which could in turn result in the problem the organic cylons were trying to avoid.

Um, maybe you're right about that. Ron Moore says in the podcast for the episode where the cylons board galatica that they're not sentient, that they're basically little more than better ammunition.

The transcript is on the battlestar wiki, but that's down at the moment.

I'd have to rewatch the 'look' but the cylon's action seemed peculiar to me when it happened... looked more like one of the darth vader looks before he killed the emperor, than a 'you just got caught you guilty human' look.

I'm not really sure how either a centurion or darth vader could give anyone a "look"