Battlestar Galactica
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Cybsled
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Given how the show ends, it actually makes sense in context when you look at humans on Earth IRL. The show had a lot of subtle hints, like in one episode Doc Cottle is looking at the hybrid baby and mentions the baby has O-type blood and mentions O-type blood is the rarest blood type. However in humans, it is the most common blood type.
Cylons being obsessed with souls and god being passed on as genetic baggage suddenly makes more sense.
Cylons being obsessed with souls and god being passed on as genetic baggage suddenly makes more sense.
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Wasn't necessarily bad, but in the bar was set pretty high with the original show. Not as if the actors weren't doing a good job, but it just wasn't in the same ballpark.
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Liked his ending. Yes he was responsible for the destruction of humanity in their Galaxy or whatever, but every time he ends up finding redemption, and feels true regret for his sins. I mean look at the last two episodes or whatever. He throws on a flak jacket, grabs a weapon and goes into do his best, despite always having them kind of a coward.
When they get down to the planet which I guess is the Earth, hands up going out with six probably going to start agriculture or something. I think his dad was just a farmer, and it was something he always tried to escape, nobody ends up coming back to it.
That final seasons kind of hit and miss, but there's still really wonderful moments, and to this day it will always be one of my favorite shows I've ever watched, and to me is worth rewatching.
I don't know to me he's probably one of the most interesting characters out of the whole show. He's insufferable at first but then he becomes very sympathetic towards the end. That's not as if we don't like Adama throughout the whole deal, but even he becomes a piece of shit, but he has to do what needs to be done, and he's still a badass.
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Goatface
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only watched it once when it aired. only thing i remember is they based her ai off her online presence. which was something like 200mb(?). even back then thought how crazy that would be.
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Yeah I vaguely remember it, I think you're right it was all about discovering AI, but it's so forgettable. I thought it wasn't necessarily a bad show but I think it was just some BS to link to one of the most legendary shows ever made.
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Mist
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The Cylons religion stuff starts very early on in the show.
Show was written by a Mormon so there you go.
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jayrebb
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It was dogshit compared to BSG like you said.
It's only for hard-core fans thirsty for more of the IP, regardless of how good it is. I would have watched a Season 2 of it-- but it was certainly on thin ice as it wasn't even a fraction of BSG. It was cool to see Caprica in daily normal life (something Disney has yet to portray with Coruscant regardless of time period setting) so I guess at least there's that aspect the fans got to see.
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Yeah I just had a hard time getting into the show. I don't like prequel type stuff because if I already known what the overall theme or story is going to gravitate to, why do I necessarily care. It's not that you can't do it well, but you're coming out from a weak standpoint, and it's going to be a much harder sell for your overall story.
What do I know though it's not like it's Damon lindelof or mystery box JJ.
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Baltar was easily the worst character in this show. The fleet was justifiably paranoid. They even had a plot point about this where Baltar got a cylon left behind at Ragnar Anchorage without proof. The fleet needed a scapegoat. Baltar should have been that scapegoat with how weird he was acting. I'm not trusting my cylon detection program to a guy that constantly looks like he's talking to imaginary people.
That he didn't catch a bullet or get shanked by the end of season one is not believable in the slightest.
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It wouldn't have been much of a show without Baltar lol, even if his storyline did get stupider and stupider as the show dragged into the last season (like everyone else.)
But him having to cover for all his lies serves as much the central plot for the first two seasons.
But him having to cover for all his lies serves as much the central plot for the first two seasons.
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Bald Brah
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As opposed to making half the cast a secret Cylon including high ranking military officers? As if they never did background checks or looked at school transcripts and hired any jackass off the street to run a battle cruiser?
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It didn't say he wasn't integral to the plot. I just wanted other characters to react rationally to his delusions. Or I wanted him to put more effort into covering them up.
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yeah this doesn't hold up very well, i rewatched S1 and i just started fast forwarding a lot and I don't think I can keep going into season 2. There is just way, way too much Rosalyn, while Boomer is hot she is an absolute SHIT actress, Baltar having sex dreams with 6 is funny a few times but jesus christ its like every 10 mins he just spaces out for 5 mins and its not that interesting, Helo is a shit actor, Starbuck gets annoying fast, they zig zag all over the place on Cylons.
I'm honestly not sure why I remember the show being better than it really is, I guess maybe later in s2 & s3 there are some great episodes but holy shit there is a lot of garbage here. and its not recency bias or anything, we just finished rewatching Lost and I LOVED it, its even better on a binge watch than I remember it being at release. Black Sails and Rome were also fantastic on rewatch. TNG and Ds9 are amazing.
BSG just... really isn't that good, sadly. Now its kind of a bummer to hear the reboot is dead, but then again it would probably be even shittier full of tranny cylons.
I'm honestly not sure why I remember the show being better than it really is, I guess maybe later in s2 & s3 there are some great episodes but holy shit there is a lot of garbage here. and its not recency bias or anything, we just finished rewatching Lost and I LOVED it, its even better on a binge watch than I remember it being at release. Black Sails and Rome were also fantastic on rewatch. TNG and Ds9 are amazing.
BSG just... really isn't that good, sadly. Now its kind of a bummer to hear the reboot is dead, but then again it would probably be even shittier full of tranny cylons.
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I started rewatching it too, after it got bumped a couple weeks ago. I expected average acting performances and always thought Starbuck was annoying from watching it the first time, so no surprise there. What I didn't remember is them leaning so heavily on religion being magic that propels the plot forward so much, which was silly. The main writer being Mormon made sense with how stupid that shit got and how poorly they wrote the Hellenistic side of it.
Season 2 started to cut down on using magic and it almost disappeared in season 3, which was nice. Unfortunately season 3 got bogged down too much. I lost interest at the start of season 4 and will probably call it there.
Also knowing who was a Cylon was a bit distracting. I think the whole "mystery" of the Cylons really propelled the last two seasons when I watched it the first time. Without that mystery, there isn't enough to keep watching.
