Battlestar Galactica: waste of time

[Rubycon]

And a radar range (microwave oven for the n00bs) would drop a cylon faster than a laser pistol. pew! pew!

So...if I follow the wandering path...this thread is about the ORIGINAL Battlestar Galactica show from the 70's-80's?

That one should have been renamed Battlestar Mormonia...or Mormons in Space.
The acting was poor, the sets were cheaply built, and the scripts usually had more holes in them than a fishing net...

 

[shadow9d9]

There's a difference between having people talking about religion and Jesus showing up and clubbing you over the head with the spear of destiny.

Nonono... there was much more than "talk." Go back and watch "Six Degrees of Separation" and "Hand of God" for a start. It was always there and god was always running the show. It continued in the beginning arc of season 2 when Tigh was running the show, again at the season 3 mid season finale, and all throughout 4.

Btw, I am more anti religion in real life than anyone you are ever likely to meet... but if a sci fi show has a god or gods(ds9) and it does it well, I love it. I just recently rewatched season 1 through the 3rd or 4th episode of season 2 and it is VERY much a part of the foundation of the show.

 

[hans030390]

Head Six never "clearly" stated anything! She only became clearly an angel in what, the last episode? She very well could have been an implant or schizophrenia up until then...her motives certainly didn't seem clear. The cylons had no plan, just like the writers!

Starbucks destiny? Right, wasn't that said when the cylons had captured her as part of an eventually abandoned breeding plot line?

No...there is an episode earlier on in season 2 where Baltar gets his brain scanned. He finds out he doesn't have a chip in there. He also then realizes that Head Six seems to be telling him a lot about things that will happen in the future, and she had been surprisingly accurate with that in the past. He then deduces he's also not crazy, so he asks her what she is. She specifically states she is an angel of god.

I just said that Leoben talks to Starbuck about her destiny earlier on in season 1. It's the episode where she is sent to interrogate him on another ship. And it's not just lightly brought up...he talks about it quite a bit.

Like I said, you probably need to rewatch it. You'll be surprised at how religious the show is from the start, I think.

What the series lacked was a clear-cut antagonist. Dean Stockwell was great, as usual, but the character of John Cavil was insufficiently threatening and couldn't be taken seriously. Since the show focused so much on the religious aspect, the absence of a Satan figure left a gaping hole in the overall storyline. The Cylons had no plan because there was no Count Iblis pulling their strings.

Oh, and not only was breaking the fourth wall with a Dylan tune an idiotic idea, but that particular rendition of "All Along the Watchtower" was terrible.

I do agree that the show lacked a clear-cut antagonist once more of the Cylons started siding with the humans. Cavil being the "main" antagonist was kinda lame, but I don't always feel like there needs to be a main, strong antagonist type idea or character in stories like these.

BSG's rendition of "All Along the Watchtower" is great, even if it wasn't part of the show! Not sure what you're talking about. 😛

 

[Kirby]

Bears
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Battlestar Galactica

 

[DanTMWTMP]

BSG reminded me of the Hyperion series.. like how Starbuck is Moneta, Cylons are the eventual AI, and the visions of number6+gaeus was the shrike (or .. the cylons eventually become the Shrike, and number6/gaeus are agents of the AI God). Nothing was ever really answered in the Hyperion series because it dealt with this super, all-powerful-AI from the future that is viewed as "God." After I viewed it as such for BSG, it made BSG's final season a lot more enjoyable.

EDIT:
http://jameswharris.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/comparing-hyperion-canto-to-battlestar-galactica/
cool article, that makes sense of what went on in BSG.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=27637876 thread I made last year.. Hyperion series of books was what immediately popped into my head after I finished watching the BSG

 

[TheSlamma]

60 hours of TV in 1 week..... dot dot dot

 

[Gunbuster]

I wish they would have really jumped the shark and made the battlestar transform like the SDF-1