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Originally posted by: UNESC0

a)boomer is a cylon clone of a human being - she's human but has certain implanted memories to perform an action; even cylon boomer had no idea what she was going to do

b)Chief, and now Helo both have feelings for cylon Sharon and killed a man to protect her - I don't think they really could throw her out an airlock.

c)boomer has given Galactica a bunch of important information about the cylons and thier strategies (remember when she infected their ships?)

Anyways, just have to watch a little more closely (or twice😉) to catch what you've missed
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A) wait, they're not human clones though. They ARE robots, aren't they? How else did she plug herself into galactica's computers?

B) Well, this is why I don't like Chief and Helo 😛. It's a ROBOT. They just exterminated several planets of your people! SHOVE IT OUT THE AIRLOCK.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Cleopatra 2525 comes to mind along with Andromeda for TV shows. For movies, the recent spate of bad straight to Sci-Fi Channel films like Dragon Storm, Sabretooth, and Caved In comes to mind.

Seaquest constantly went back and forth between good shows and flat-out stupid shows. My favorite "bad" episode was the one with the prehistoric 200 foot long crocodile. Out of nowhere, Lucas (the 16 year old computer whiz kid) became this prehistoric dinosaur expert. Instead of killing the gigantic croc, they decided to save it and put it back on ice. Unfortunately, the did this by drugging it, towing it to an ice flow, then shooting torpedoes at an iceberg causing the croc to be seemingly crushed by giant chunks of ice.
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I remember that, it was hillarious. Lucas is now dead BTW.
 
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Originally posted by: Chadder007
Originally posted by: hjo3
Cleopatra 2525, Sliders (after Arturo died). I also really dislike ST:TOS and Babylon 5, but most geeks would disagree with me on those, I think.
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But Cleopatra 2525 had uber hotties...
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That reminds me, Mutant X is terrible.
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don't forget Birds of Prey.

Oh yeah, Dark Skies, too.
 
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: OdiN
I'd have to go with Andromeda too....
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Andromeda had a lot of good eps. I haven't seen any of season 5, but season 4 was weird. Seasons 1 thru 3 were good.

For those that say its 'Hercules in space'. You are wrong, plain and simple. You're just responding to Kevin Sorbo's highly successful role as Hercules. He definitely matures, as his acting in Andromeda is superb.
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lol, i like the episode near the end of the series where he opened up a hatch in the wall of the ship and his hercules clothes were in there. 😀

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
MANTIS was pretty damn terrible.

so was that new Knight Rider
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team knight rider? 😀 or should i refer to it as TKR? lol

 
Originally posted by: Chadder007
Originally posted by: Queasy
Cleopatra 2525 comes to mind along with Andromeda for TV shows. For movies, the recent spate of bad straight to Sci-Fi Channel films like Dragon Storm, Sabretooth, and Caved In comes to mind.

Seaquest constantly went back and forth between good shows and flat-out stupid shows. My favorite "bad" episode was the one with the prehistoric 200 foot long crocodile. Out of nowhere, Lucas (the 16 year old computer whiz kid) became this prehistoric dinosaur expert. Instead of killing the gigantic croc, they decided to save it and put it back on ice. Unfortunately, the did this by drugging it, towing it to an ice flow, then shooting torpedoes at an iceberg causing the croc to be seemingly crushed by giant chunks of ice.
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I remember that, it was hillarious. Lucas is now dead BTW.
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yeah, he offed himself a few years back. 🙁
or should i say chuck norris side kicked him and followed with a roundhouse to the face.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Here's a classic bad SciFi film trying to follow on the heels of Star Wars - Battle Beyond the Stars starring John Boy from the old "The Waltons" tv show.

I think I saw the main hero spaceship from this show in about two other bad scifi movies.
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hehe, that's what I was thinking of. There were a couple bad movies that used the same spaceship he did.

Overall though, nothing comes close to Plan 9 From Outer Space.
 
Originally posted by: Neurorelay
"Naked Space" with Leslie Nielsen
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hehe, got that for my bithday a few years back. The only part that's worth seeing is when they translate the aliens song! 😀
 
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Originally posted by: UNESC0

a)boomer is a cylon clone of a human being - she's human but has certain implanted memories to perform an action; even cylon boomer had no idea what she was going to do

b)Chief, and now Helo both have feelings for cylon Sharon and killed a man to protect her - I don't think they really could throw her out an airlock.

c)boomer has given Galactica a bunch of important information about the cylons and thier strategies (remember when she infected their ships?)

Anyways, just have to watch a little more closely (or twice😉) to catch what you've missed
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A) wait, they're not human clones though. They ARE robots, aren't they? How else did she plug herself into galactica's computers?

B) Well, this is why I don't like Chief and Helo 😛. It's a ROBOT. They just exterminated several planets of your people! SHOVE IT OUT THE AIRLOCK.
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they are robots that are made to be indistinguishable from humans apparently😛
 
Originally posted by: scottish144
Andromeda, Farscape, and BSG are completely unrealistic. Especially BSG. If they were actual military, I would expect them to act like it. For instance, There's one episode where that asian chick flies into a battle star to set a nuke. Everythings normal until they actaully get around to setting the nuke. First of all, she WALKS around the ship, and takes about 3 min to set the nuke. Then a bunch of her clones show up and she freaks, and barely makes it out alive. If she was military, the nuke would need about ten seconds of work to arm it, and then they would get the hell out of there. Similar to the people in War of the Worlds movie. Big hole in the ground + growing cracks, yet they don't really run until the thing starts shooting people. I for one would have been running my ass off as soon as the earth started to open up.
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Ok you are dumb. What kind of sci-fi fan are you? dude no shitso, it's suppose to be fake you moron and unrealistic. First off of course she would be freaked if she saw clones of her self, wouldn't you??? It's like she really didnt know she was a cylon. dude stop watching tv. :evil:

 
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Originally posted by: Skriptures17
just thinkin that it has to be either andromeda(or however it's spelled) or M.A.N.T.I.S.
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I thought Andromeda was fairly entertaining. Not great Sci-Fi, though.

I thought Enterprise was horrible and I generally liked the other Star Trek series. Enterprise made Voyager look great.
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I'm going to admit I did like Enterprise. Not the greatest but not bad at all. DS9 was the best I thought.

 
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Originally posted by: Spydermag68
Originally posted by: Skriptures17
hmm what about EARTH FINAL CONFLICT good or not?????
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Was that the one Gene Rodenbery wrote the pilot just before he died?
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Yeah. First season was good, I thought. But after that, it got dumb.

I like the action on Galactica, but some of the story lines really annoy me. WTF, how can a robot be pregnant? Why do these dumbasses even allow it to stay on the ship? Shove it out the airlock and be done with it!
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There robots, but organic type of robots. Think of it as a android, but with human like flesh and insides. I guess. Still I think it's one of the best sci-fi shows in a long time.:evil:
 
Originally posted by: UNESC0
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Originally posted by: Spydermag68
Originally posted by: Skriptures17
hmm what about EARTH FINAL CONFLICT good or not?????
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Was that the one Gene Rodenbery wrote the pilot just before he died?
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Yeah. First season was good, I thought. But after that, it got dumb.

I like the action on Galactica, but some of the story lines really annoy me. WTF, how can a robot be pregnant? Why do these dumbasses even allow it to stay on the ship? Shove it out the airlock and be done with it!
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What about the Dr. or Vice pres? What do you think about him? He psyco for sure. Do you think there's chip inside his head or what?


a)boomer is a cylon clone of a human being - she's human but has certain implanted memories to perform an action; even cylon boomer had no idea what she was going to do

b)Chief, and now Helo both have feelings for cylon Sharon and killed a man to protect her - I don't think they really could throw her out an airlock.

c)boomer has given Galactica a bunch of important information about the cylons and thier strategies (remember when she infected their ships?)

Anyways, just have to watch a little more closely (or twice😉) to catch what you've missed
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Originally posted by: venk
Originally posted by: scottish144
Andromeda, Farscape, and BSG are completely unrealistic. Especially BSG. If they were actual military, I would expect them to act like it. For instance, There's one episode where that asian chick flies into a battle star to set a nuke. Everythings normal until they actaully get around to setting the nuke. First of all, she WALKS around the ship, and takes about 3 min to set the nuke. Then a bunch of her clones show up and she freaks, and barely makes it out alive. If she was military, the nuke would need about ten seconds of work to arm it, and then they would get the hell out of there. Similar to the people in War of the Worlds movie. Big hole in the ground + growing cracks, yet they don't really run until the thing starts shooting people. I for one would have been running my ass off as soon as the earth started to open up.
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I agree. I mean practically every movie that is out now is all unrealistic. Like you said, they do it for the sake of drama and action. Now of course some maybe not as bad, but still fake as hell. It's either you like and just enjoy or not.



In the case of BSG, entertaining stories and good acting let me overlook some of the un-realistic scenes done for the sake of pure drama.
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Originally posted by: tk149
Worst...
...most of the horror SF shows on the Sci-Fi channel. These straight-to-video crapfests have done a great disservice to good SF.

Jurassic Park 2 - It's like they read the first half of the book, then decided the 2nd half wasn't crappy enough so they totally ignored it and made up an even worse story.

Battlefield Earth - the movie barely made a pretense out of following the book.

The Phantom Menace - 'nuff said

The skinfest known as Cleopatra 2525 (or whatever, I barely made it through 1 episode)
Yo dog I definetly agree with you on that one. I mean come on some of the horrible ass shows that Sci-Fi channel puts on. How about the new one called "Caved In". I mean talk about one of the best special effects around. I mean top quality. Makes BSG look cheap.:roll:


Good...
I liked Lexx, BSG (old and new), Andromeda, and Dr. Who. 😱
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