OT: BSG Series

[Atrocities]

No, they wear a spin off of the space suites seen in Enterprise and Farscape.

[solops]

I terminated the pilot show when the new President moved in and started acting like a complete idiot. The shortcomings with the rest of the show were a strain, but I could manage until her moronic pronouncements were portrayed as heroic, compassionate and wise.

When they declare martial law and chuck her and her cabinet out of the airlock, let me know and I'll pick the series up from there.

[Atrocities]

ROFLMAO - She is a cylon by the way.

[Randallw]

I am pleasantly surprised whenever I come across a novel where the military is portrayed as wiser than the politicians. You'd think Authors would get into trouble with the thoughpolice portraying peaceloving politicians as idiots, but I keep finding novels where the politicians insist on making peace with aliens who have destroyed numerous border colonies

"surely there is a misunderstanding. If we sit down and discuss things surely they will call off their pledge to exterminate us"

or

"Well we have defeated the genocidal aliens once, surely they will now be willing to talk peace"

and the military have to take matters into their own hands.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Check to see if the auther was in the military. From reading some of the bio's in the book, at least a few military writers come from the military.

(Viewpoints)

[solops]

Atrocities said:
ROFLMAO - She is a cylon by the way.

Really? What a relief. I am so sick of the entertainment industry's attempts to impose its often unrealistic politics on the public that after a few minutes of her orders after evacuating to the Galactica I turned off the television and was never tempted to watch again. It was simply too much on top of the other technical and writing shortcomings of the show to have to stomach Hollywood political philosophy in addition.

Are you SURE she is a cylon? I have been subjected to exactly the same fantasy logic from politicians and judges that I know personally (alas, I am related to some of them...). At least she is a thoroughly unpleasant character all around. I would have been devastated had it been the good looking cylon. I like her logic. My favorite part of the show, up to the point I Banned it, was watching the planet get nuked while she watched.

[geoschmo]

Um, well if the Pres is a Cylon Atrocities is talking spoilers. That fact wasn't uncovered in the miniseries. They did make it look as if Boomer is a Cylon at the very end though.

[solops]

I had not considered the possibility of the President being a cylon. My repugnance toward the kind of thinking she diplayed was too overwhelming. If she is a cylon, that would explain her stupidity. However, I doubt the cylons' ability to program even a robot to give the kind of orders she did with a straight face. Only a truly human idiot could do that.

I must compose an "Airlock Chant."

[gregebowman]

I didn't have any problems with the new president, but then again, I've only seen it once. Can't wait until next week so I can get the dvd. But remember, she was like 52nd in line of succession, or something like that. She wasn't even praying for a chance to be the leader, until it was thrust on her. Plus, she was a teacher, IIRC. Also, with everything else, we find out she has a terminal disease (from the way she was acting, I think it was probably cancer). So she's not exactly a great statesperson. But if the new show is anything like the old show, it will be Adama calling the shots anyway. I think she'll just be more of a hindrance until they actually find Earth.

[Makinus]

I already watched the 7th episode of the series and, up until now, the president don´t gave any hint at being a cylon...