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Battlestar Galactica
« on: February 27, 2009, 08:26:18 AM »

I am obsessed with the new version of battlestar galactica, my machine is called starbuck and if there was one fictional badass I could be it would be her, unless lara croft counts.

There is some snobbery about the new version and die hard fans swear by the original, but I think that is mostly hot air from people who have never seen the show. I'm gutted the series is ending soon for good and i cant wait to see what happens.

But my question is what do you guys think of BSG?



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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2009, 11:25:09 AM »
The idea of a flawed, even a very flawed Creator is not unheard-of, but I liked the little twist supplied by Boomer forgiving her Creator for Her sins.

So, anyway, the fleet is exhibiting all kinds of signs of stress -- infrastructure failure, civil unrest, and, not least, food shortages. But one thing Galactica has an unending supply of, it seems, is booze. One would expect booze to be in shorter supply than something essential to survival like food, especially when it's being consumed in such hepatodefiant quantities. This can only mean one thing: somewhere in that fleet is a Booze Factory Ship. An enormous self-contained space-faring booze factory. Now, the stuff booze is made from is... well, food. So why aren't the unruly hungry people raiding the booze factory? Because it's a secret Booze Factory Ship. That's why.

Also, why don't Saul and Bill and Ellen ever have crushing, debilitating hangovers and horrible morning breath? Another space mystery.


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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2009, 11:39:57 AM »
OMG My friend and I noticed that. It's incredible! So much booze, I tell you what, if I ever get stranded in space after my species has been all but totally wiped out, the Galactica is the ship for me!

I thought when Ellen came back she was not going to be such a mess, but two episodes in and she was all over the place again. Why didn't she forget like the other four? Why did she know she was a Cylon?

I thought that it was insane that the fate of Human/Cylon existence was hanging in the balance on a love spat between a drunk and a man who had effectively impregnated his daughter.
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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2009, 11:55:11 AM »
Quote from: Probie on February 27, 2009, 11:39:57 AM
Why didn't she forget like the other four? Why did she know she was a Cylon?

Are you saying she knew she was a Cylon when she drank Saul's cup of poison?

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I thought that it was insane that the fate of Human/Cylon existence was hanging in the balance on a love spat between a drunk and a man who had effectively impregnated his daughter.

You lost me. Who is the man who effectively impregnated his daughter?
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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2009, 12:19:18 PM »
Quote from: ivan on February 27, 2009, 11:55:11 AM
Are you saying she knew she was a Cylon when she drank Saul's cup of poison?

That was more a question, but in asking me what i ment you've made me realise she couldn't have been aware.

Quote from: ivan on February 27, 2009, 11:55:11 AM
You lost me. Who is the man who effectively impregnated his daughter?


Saul is the man who effectively impregnated his daughter, he is one of the final five. The final five made the others. That's why she said she couldn't help john, because she needed the other four. Saul, Ellen, Anders, Tyrol and the evil one made the rest of them. So they are their parents or their makers. Either way, he made her and then got her pregnant, which just seems wrong... and Ellen said as much. Then she was the deciding vote and she was being moody because of saul.

that's very verbose, I hope I am making sense?
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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2009, 12:28:30 PM »
Quote from: Probie on February 27, 2009, 12:19:18 PM

Saul is the man who effectively impregnated his daughter, he is one of the final five. The final five made the others. That's why she said she couldn't help john, because she needed the other four. Saul, Ellen, Anders, Tyrol and the evil one made the rest of them. So they are their parents or their makers. Either way, he made her and then got her pregnant, which just seems wrong... and Ellen said as much. Then she was the deciding vote and she was being moody because of saul.


Ok, I understand. I thought Ellen alone created all the others. So there's no Creator, as I thought, but more of a Committee.


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