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Post by Cullen on May 29, 2008 12:12:18 GMT
More good squishy this week. The revelation about what's happened with Tigh's activities in the cells strengthens my Cally theory. Though you have to add Cottle's name to the list I think. Yeah it was pretty shocking when that was revealed. A full cylon baby! Yeah and Cottle's now on the list after the 6 was staring at him like that. I like how they've shaken things up this week. Adama's steps down to go off on a jolly to find the missing president, Lee is now president, and goodness knows where Roslin and Baltar have got to. Shit they might know who the 5 are now having been to(and destroyed) the resurrection hub. |
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Post by Cullen on Jun 8, 2008 17:04:48 GMT
Oooh we are out of the spoilers board, I'm guessing because: we can finally do this! Don't read this thread if you haven't seen S4 (or S3 for that matter). Perhaps you should change the thread title Phil to indicate there are lots of spoilers? I think this episode was my favourite of the series. Great interaction between Baltar and Roslin was excellent. And I laughed hard when Diana told Roslin she was the final Cylon then we found out she was joking. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 9, 2008 14:18:29 GMT
She's got a sense of humour has 3. I liked her disagreeing with 1's leadership Baltar making a new friend was funny. And the mission was actually pulled off ok ! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 14, 2008 10:43:17 GMT
410 Tigh comes clean and it don't go down well - airllocks are involved. They find earth. But there's not a lot there in a post nuclear war type way. So who did Starbuck there ? And if the 12th's not in the fleet where is it - either on the basestar (Bill Adama/Roslin/Baltar/Helo) or has gone elsewhere - (Cally/Mrs Col Tigh) |
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Post by Bogatan on Jun 15, 2008 12:31:40 GMT
AS well as numbering the episode can you mention were you watched it and where. Im watching Sky and 410 doesnt mean anything to me. Im up to date with Sky so if you watched it elsewhere I know to avoid.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 15, 2008 12:57:48 GMT
Ah Sky's just shown 409. 410 is the last one before the break that was on in the US Friday night.
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Post by legios on Jun 15, 2008 19:20:51 GMT
Ok, for folk who haven't seen Season Three yet be warned - Dradis is picking up some spoilers ahead.
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So - having had a lot of my interest in nBSG killed by the latter half of Season Two I hadn't bothered investing hard-earned currency in Season Three. But seeing as I have signed up for an online DVD rental service and was casting around for stuff to lob in my rental queue I thought I would give it a go. After all, I had got full value from my monthly fee through seeing "Area 88" and "Cowboy Bebop" so effectively "Galactica" was costing me nowt. I think I'm glad I'm seeing it this way - I'm three-fifths of the way through the season so far and I think that if I had spent money on it I would be judging it far more harshly than I currently am.
I think the main problem is that I no longer care about the metaplot. I don't care whether the colonials find Earth, or what state it is in when they get there. I felt like I had disengaged from that towards the end of Season Two and I can't really get re-enthused about it again. So I find myself somewhat unmoved by the portenteous "Search for the Road to Earth" stuff that crops up about mid-season.
In the absence of interest in the metaplot I guess I need to content myself with the smaller scale stuff, which has been a bit of a mixed bag. The New Caprica stuff at the start of the season I found I quite enjoyed. Yes, it was fairly unsubtle in its "What if we were in the shoes of Occupied Iraq" stuff, but the execution of a lot of it worked fairly well as television and it is good to see that they carried it through in terms of consequences - the government sanctioned summary executions and Tigh's breakdown. (Where all that fell down for me was in using Tyrol as a moral arbiter - they haven't done anything I've seen to redeem his character for me since what he did to Cally at the end of last season, which fundamentally cripples any scene which expects me to listen to him talk about morality. But that is a personal thing.). The actual rescue was entertaining in a dumb-action movie kind of way. It seemed to jar a little with the tone of the rest of the early episodes mind you - it was a little too neat and movie-esque, rather than the shambles that it should have been from the plan. Shame that they seem to have followed that with a run of bad soap opera sub-plotting (the "Lee/Kara/Anders/Dee" relationship train-wreck plot has been painfully shallow, and I am hoping to the gods that it is done with as of "Rapture").
And Cylons....they seem to have managed to make Cylons so incredibly dull. I appreciate that they are making a point by making them like us, but in making them so much like us they have managed to destroy any sense of mystique they might have had. Now they are just blokes standing around in space corridoors having banal conversations.
It hasn't all been bad - I enjoyed "Passage" - finally something meaningful for Kat as a character (even an exit, if it is a good one, is better than just having a character nominally hovering around). (I'll even let them away with the very rubber science in that episode - seeing as it is a nod to the original show). That felt like tonally like the early part of this season, and the first season and a half - a lot about the costs of the situation, the price you pay for the choices that you make and very it is worthwhile....
What keeps me watching you might ask? The cast, in all honesty. Edward Olmos and Mary McDonnell are wonderful - each of them capable of owning scenes and making it look effortless. Any episode which gives either of them something meaty to do is more than watchable. James Callis is doing more than could be expected with a lot of the dialogue he is getting, and Tahmoh Penikett seems to be making the most of the new role they have found for him - they seem to have parachuted him into the "pillar of moral rectitude" position that Jamie Bamber had in the first season and it seems to suit him.
In all honesty, I'm very glad I didn't buy this season. It would have been on Ebay fairly swiftly in an attack of buyers remorse I think. I will probably watch the rest of the season - it is already in my rental queue and it isn't costing me anything, and I do think that in terms of production design and direction and in terms of the performances of a lot of the cast there is a lot of good stuff here. (Although the Cylon space corridoors really are terrible, and have made the baseships seem far less interesting and impressive than they once were). But I still think that the show has lost something somewhere around the time of "Ressurection Ship" and that it has never quite recovered.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 27, 2008 22:18:44 GMT
S4.5 Trailer
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 1, 2008 21:47:37 GMT
Ahhh, a far better and more informing trailer than the 'preview' that was included on the season 4 boxset!
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Post by Cullen on Dec 3, 2008 14:02:33 GMT
Cool! When does the new series start?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 3, 2008 22:07:10 GMT
Jan !
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Post by Cullen on Dec 4, 2008 11:13:49 GMT
I better get watching my S4 boxset then!
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 4, 2008 17:34:37 GMT
Ensure you have someone to hold in that case - the opening for it will make you scream like a girl. So, I'm told, not that I might've or anything.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 7, 2008 12:49:32 GMT
Cool! When does the new series start? 16-Jan-09 Sometimes a Great Notion 23-Jan-09 A Disquiet Follows My Soul 30-Jan-09 The Oath |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 24, 2008 22:31:26 GMT
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Post by Cullen on Dec 29, 2008 11:49:01 GMT
Nice one Phil. Keep 'em coming.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 29, 2008 12:45:39 GMT
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Post by Cullen on Dec 30, 2008 13:58:40 GMT
These are great! But where is episode 9? I've found 10 on youtube but not 9.
The production values in these webisodes beat the pants of the Resistance ones. Feels like a proper episode.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 30, 2008 16:41:20 GMT
Yeah I was waiting for 9 to show up before posting 10
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 8, 2009 10:23:08 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 9, 2009 15:38:13 GMT
Whereabouts do these web episodes fit in? Before season 4.5?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 9, 2009 16:20:08 GMT
Possibly slightly inside. Watch the first webisode and ask yourself where are they ?
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Post by Cullen on Jan 11, 2009 16:43:19 GMT
Great stuff. Can't wait for next week now.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 17, 2009 12:07:21 GMT
First of tyhe nhew series aired in the US last night, Sky on Tuesday. Or today on the Broadband channel...
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 17, 2009 17:31:03 GMT
Can we do a spoiler thread or is it easier for me just to not look in this one until the DVDs come out? I like my Galactica in big doses see...
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2009 17:57:21 GMT
I would say that if folk use the Spoiler tags that should keep everyone happy.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 17, 2009 20:38:58 GMT
questions, death, and very surprisingly ..... ANSWERS ! |
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Post by Cullen on Jan 18, 2009 22:55:20 GMT
Yeah fucking hell. Did not see that coming.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 18, 2009 23:00:36 GMT
what ? The bit at the end, the bit with the gun, what the body was or who lived on earth. Have you noticed the five are all T names ? Saul Tigh, Ellen T, Galen Tyrol, Samual T Anders and Tory Foster
Is Starbuck Iblis then ?
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Post by Cullen on Jan 19, 2009 13:44:00 GMT
I really like how they given us the 5th cylon so early but also left us with the question of what the fuck is Starbuck if she's not one of the 5? I don't get your Iblis reference though? Care to explain? Well spotted on the T theme though.
Also do you remember back in series 1 when Ellen turns up and everyone thinks she's a cylon? Baltar gives her the fake test, and I think his head 6 says something like "So is she a cylon?" and he responds "I'll never tell". I wonder if he's known all along? |
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