BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

0 Kudo

Started By	Comment
Jitensha		#2001	[-]
Posts: 17571 (03/23/09 1:58 PM) I Must Be Psychic Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Screerider wrote: Come on with the finger-pointing and laughing! Don't disappoint me, Jit. Starbuck not being explained, apparently on purpose. Weak. Why have the mystery at all? Which begs the point of the Season 3 finale, as being misdirection, rather than revelation. Right. Starbuck's dad... God? Roslin and Adama calling the new place "Earth"... even though that label will have to be re-invented later by English speakers. Pointless. Roslin made it to the Promised Land, but I guess Adama carrying her meant she didn't "set foot" on it. Ha! (Or was it something else?) To break the cycle, they got rid of their tech, although they left a shitload of Cylon-tech and active Centurians out there. And yet, the cycle wasn't broken. Nice try? Are we to believe those enlightened Centurians are responsible for the various UFO sitings and abduction reports? Tyrol's off to build Stonehenge. At least they didn't use their tech to build pyramids first. But for Hera, they all die eventually, with no descendants. Yay! Except for Helo and Athena, our lines died out! A bit of a "waa waa" for all they were fighting for. It happens to regular folk, but these guys are epic starfarers... I think it would have been funny to find a habitable planet, they land and start anew, only to have the sovereign Centurians come and nuke them 40-years-later. Maybe Kobol back in time? Or the other fake Earth back in time. Maybe both... maybe those Centurians have been pulling the strings through time, nuking colony after colony, to get things to go as "fated". The ending did diminish my desire to see Caprica. Might have skipped it anyway. Do I really need to see a "grown-up" version of Small Wonder? I'm a classy winner ;)
shiza h minelli		#2002	[-]
Posts: 1309 (03/23/09 2:33 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	HUGE MUTHERFRACKING RED X JIT!
Screerider		#2003	[-]
Posts: 24079 (03/23/09 2:36 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Jitensha wrote: I'm a classy winner ;) But you brought it up! Make good on your threat! Humiliate me! Put on your heels and walk on my back or something. ;)
Joaqenix		#2004	[-]
Posts: 3935 (03/23/09 3:05 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	omg what an awesome finale. Yeah, I'm sure you could go through the entire series and find a few parts that don't get with the rest, but over-all, I found it to be really satisfying. And a major tear-jerker at a lot of the parts, like when Boomer had the flashback before dying, and the Roslin/Adama stuff at the end...definitely lost my shit at those parts. Roslin dying was so sad, even though you knew it was coming. Her wobbling up to Adama after everyone already picked a side was so adorbs <3 I did NOT like Tyrol getting off totally free. He fucking killed Tory and almost ruined everything by letting Boomer go, and then...he just gets to bounce? I thought that was dumb, and really wanted him to get offed. The flashbacks (some of them) worked for me. Loved the Lee/Kara stuff since they haven't really played off each other much in recent times. Like I already said, I thought the Boomer/Adama flashback was really well done. The Laura ones were boring, the Tigh/Ellen ones were a bit redundant since we have spent so much time with them in the past few episodes..."omg they love each other!" great thx I got it the first 500 times. The Six/Baltar ones were good since we haven't had much of them lately. Also loved the HeadSix/HeadBaltar ending, nice way to tie the whole "point" together. I'm fine with Kara being an angel or whatever. I don't know what other explanation would really be satisfying, so that one worked for me. Lee's ending was a bit abrupt and silly though. anyhow, BSG > all, haters.
Jitensha		#2005	[-]
Posts: 17572 (03/23/09 3:24 PM) I Must Be Psychic Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Screerider wrote: Jitensha wrote: I'm a classy winner ;) But you brought it up! Make good on your threat! Humiliate me! Put on your heels and walk on my back or something. ;) Aww, you know you'd like the backwalking ;) ;) OK. NEENER NEENER NEENER I WAS RIGHT THEY FOUND OUR EARTH IN THE FINALE HHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA ME >YOU.
ThaimeAfterThaime		#2006	[-]
Posts: 111 (03/23/09 3:48 PM) I don't get most of the jokes Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Joaqenix wrote: I did NOT like Tyrol getting off totally free. He fucking killed Tory and almost ruined everything by letting Boomer go, and then...he just gets to bounce? I thought that was dumb, and really wanted him to get offed. Well, if it makes you feel better, leaving a guy who has always lived in an advanced society alone in Scotland with nothing but the clothes on his back sounds like a majorly cruel punishment to me.
SurvivorArctic		#2007	[-]
Posts: 15923 (03/23/09 3:52 PM) Not a team player Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The first thing I thought when he described the island he was going to was Scotland. Then I thought "Galen. Gaelic. AHA!" yeah, I'm a geek.
Goosehead		#2008	[-]
Posts: 1501 (03/23/09 4:21 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	But how does a single guy found an entire race, by raping a local pre-linguistic homo sapien? Not to mention that I don't think there were any people in Scotland at that time ... but to be fair, I have no idea.
CoconutPhone		#2009	[-]
Posts: 16073 (03/23/09 4:54 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	SurvivorArctic wrote: The first thing I thought when he described the island he was going to was Scotland. Then I thought "Galen. Gaelic. AHA!" yeah, I'm a geek. My friend pointed that out too. Nice touch.
Gregoire		#2010	[-]
Posts: 32082 (03/23/09 5:09 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Unless it's either Touched By An Angel or Highway To Heaven, then I do not want to see any angels on any TV shows. (Unless, of course, it's ACTUALLY Angel, as in Buffy.) It's cheap writing. Because angels -- or by extension, God -- can do anything, and then you can write any ole thing for that character to do and you're safe because they're angels and they probably can do that. So who was Kara talking to at the bar during the piano episode? She, as an angel, was having a hallucination? If she was meant to fulfill one specific purpose, then why didn't she just disappear after putting in the codes? Why return to Galactica in the first place with the coordinates of a planet they weren't going to call home in the first place? What kind of angel pulls that sort of stunt?
Piranhahaha		#2011	[-]
Posts: 12068 (03/23/09 5:31 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I view BSG's use of angel to describe the Head critters as being loosely used, certainly not in the conventional sense. They're more agents of destiny/fate/the universe/"this has happened before and it will happen again" schtick than do-gooders. If you'd like to see some badass angels, try Supernatural these days. They're having a blast with some Old Testament angels wreaking havoc. Anyhow, in BSG nomenclature, Daniel the piano player was Starbuck's angel, just as Head Six was to corporeal Baltar and Head Baltar to corporeal Caprica Six. I wouldn't be surprised to see Daniel figuring prominently in Caprica the series.
PAPAYOKE		#2012	[-]
Posts: 20836 (03/23/09 10:56 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I'm really amused that the best they could come up with for Kara was that she was some sort of angel (I guess an angel that everyone could see and more or less touch and interact with, unlike the head Six and Baltar) and when it's time to bring her character to its conclusion, she simply disappears. That's some seriously funny shit right there. For real.
Pseudo Propaganda		#2013	[-]
Posts: 616 (03/23/09 11:03 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It was just all around bad writing. I had zero emotional feeling for any of these people. The entire thing was a big sloppy mess. It was almost as if all the writers involved just through their hands up in the air and said "I don't know what the fuck to do with it. YOU think something up". There is simply no such thing as good science fiction. Even if things start out promising in the long run people fail at this sort of story telling.
alli gatorz		#2014	[-]
Posts: 6 (03/23/09 11:58 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I would have prefered it if the Centurians destroyed everyone, since they are the superior race. They don't drink, smoke, whore, curse, rape, cheat or even complain. And they're "very kind", obedient and religious. They're the Ned Flanders of the galaxy.
Screerider		#2015	[-]
Posts: 24089 (03/24/09 10:01 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Pseudo Propaganda wrote: There is simply no such thing as good science fiction. Even if things start out promising in the long run people fail at this sort of story telling. :cries
Charming Nemesis		#2016	[-]
Posts: 3645 (03/24/09 10:44 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	AICN has 7 clips of Caprica. Looks like a bad prime time soap opera. Knots Landing. I'll pass.
JRobbed		#2017	[-]
Posts: 10306 (03/24/09 3:19 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Screerider wrote: But for Hera, they all die eventually, with no descendants. Yay! Except for Helo and Athena, our lines died out! A bit of a "waa waa" for all they were fighting for. It happens to regular folk, but these guys are epic starfarers... I was reading a discussion on this at another board. Hera is "Mitochondrial Eve" - that is to say, she's the matrilineal most recent common ancestor for all current living humans. In English, she's the closest common female ancestor of all humans. That doesn't mean she's the only one who survives, but rather that her line is the only one that all humans can be traced back to. It's possible that every single other human survivor had a child, but that their lines eventually either a) died out or b) didn't spread over the entire globe. Basically, we're all related to Hera, but maybe half of us are related to Lee Adama. So while Lee's line didn't die out, because not every human is a descendant of his, he can't be considered Mitochondrial Adam. All that said, it does raise one important question: does my continued desire to frak Helo count as incestuous?
Screerider		#2018	[-]
Posts: 24093 (03/24/09 3:29 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Okay... so Lee could have either spawned with Hera, or spawned with another Galactican or furry native whose spawn spawned with Hera or her spawn. Got it.
JRobbed		#2019	[-]
Posts: 10308 (03/24/09 3:33 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Truth be told, I didn't get it quite right - it's a tad more complicated than how I put it. If you want, you can read the wiki article on her here.
DownUpside		#2020	[-]
Posts: 150 (03/25/09 3:46 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	JRobbed wrote: \I was reading a discussion on this at another board. Hera is "Mitochondrial Eve" - that is to say, she's the matrilineal most recent common ancestor for all current living humans. In English, she's the closest common female ancestor of all humans. That doesn't mean she's the only one who survives, but rather that her line is the only one that all humans can be traced back to. It's possible that every single other human survivor had a child, but that their lines eventually either a) died out or b) didn't spread over the entire globe. Basically, we're all related to Hera, but maybe half of us are related to Lee Adama. So while Lee's line didn't die out, because not every human is a descendant of his, he can't be considered Mitochondrial Adam. All that said, it does raise one important question: does my continued desire to frak Helo count as incestuous? This fits in to my belief that Caprica and Baltar had children too. I know that they meant for us to infer at the end that Hera was Mitochondrial Eve, but the family described could have been Caprica, Baltar and their female offspring. That got me to wondering why they wouldn't be just as likely to reproduce.

<< Previous Topic Next Topic >>

Yuku free message boards

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

Quick Reply