Is Battlestar Galacitica losing continuity already?
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UPDATED: Saturday, September 3, 2005 00:32
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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Okay, when I saw the episode, the first thing I said when I saw the ship that Apollo said was a "new" bogie was "APC". My wife looked at me funny & I said "It's a troop transport". ...
We see the ship crash into the port hangar bay. So why didn't someone check it out? Damage Control team, Marines, janitor, somebody???
Why was the ship not on high alert? Why did no one seem to know a Cylon ship hit the hangar bay?
Why are Cylons on Caprica destroyed by standard small arms fire, but the ones on Galactica require explosive rounds to the head to take out?
Too many questions.....
This is another aspect of what I'm talking about. These guys were professional enough to keep the fleet moving when the Cylons were showing up every 33 minutes, why are the making these kinds of mistakes?
Doesn't set well with me.
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Originally posted by Veteran:
This is another aspect of what I'm talking about. These guys were professional enough to keep the fleet moving when the Cylons were showing up every 33 minutes, why are the making these kinds of mistakes?
Doesn't set well with me.
Agreed.
It is like all of the sudden these huge holes open up in the continuity just to allow the writers some new material.
Hope they don't keep making these kind of errors throughout the season.
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I just don't see the inconsistencies. There are more than enough logical answers to everything that was brought up here.
Most of them have already been addressed.
On the network systsms. We are talking about systems that weren't typically networked. THey didn't run LAN wire down the halls to connect the computers up. They used already installed wireless networking to network the systems together. When you have wireless networking, anyone with a wireless lan card can try and hack your system.
Sure systems are networked but with line wires and limited bandwidth. They also aren't directly connected which they would need to be to gain any benefit from the jurry-rigged coordinated processing power of the 3 most powerful systems.
People should simply realize that by the term "networking", they are talking about their standard networking. Hardlines were mentioned in the mini series.
Why is Battlestar Galactica deserted? Ofcourse it is deserted. It is a skeleton crew with only the people who were there for the museum and Adama's retirement ceremony. That includes the pilots that were on board as well as those that needed to operate the ship. Most are greens because they don't need battle veterans running a ship that is about to be decommisioned.
Why are the crew that can keep jumping every 30 minutes because of the Cylons attacking repeatedly acting differently? Commander Adama is down. He is the glue of the entire remaining military. I mean how do you expect greens to act? Most of the commanders are off ship and their Commander is dying. Their morale has hit an all time low. All of a sudden the guy that was able to get them out of the stickiest messes is no longer there to issue commands.
The Cylon taken down on Caprica wasn't an easy takedown. He ambushed it by setting up an explosive and then pumped about 12 rounds into its face. Alos take a note that cylons patrolling a planet they already own could be older models. But even if they aren't, we are talking about an explosive charge and an entire clip of ammo immediately after. Armor is the only thing keeping regular bullets from destroying its computerized brain. If the explosive charge didn't outright destroy the cyclon, it certaily would weaken its armor and overall skeletal structure. Allowing for repeated shots into the weakest part of its armor to be penetrated by normal rounds.
If I had a choice between using an explosive charge and an explosive round I would choose the charge.
When talking about the cylon ship crashing into Galactica. People really need to understand that the entire ship is basically in chaos. They are acting without Adama's leadership and they are fighting an immediate fight to get back to the unprotected fleet while greens are fighting an attack on their jurry rigged networking. Alot of things are going on at once. The human factor of the show really shows through. Sure youcan sit back and judge their actions from a couch but what would happen when you are placed in such a position? Where a most like doomed cylon ship crashes into Galactica. It may not even pass through his mind that it is a boarding party. Humans aren't perfect and this series shows that.
On the lack of power gravity question. There are obviously backup power systems. The most important systems would be on it, including gravity.
On the draft. That would have serious political implications. They would be enroaching on civilian government affairs. Now recruitment would be possible, but who would train these new troops? There are very few actual commanders aboard. he commanders need to be commanding their own troops, especially at a time like this.
Civilians on Galactica. You just can't let civilians live on a battle ship that is always the last to jump and constantly putting itself at risk.
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Had any of the crew ever seen centurions by that point? Helo was still on Caprica and no one from Kobol had yet returned. This is probably the first time anyone on the ship had engaged Cylons in a firefight outside of their vipers, as decades have passed since the original war.
Even volunteers take time to train. I also think time is fairly compressed on this show: a week passes for us, a few days pass for them.
I'm still fairly impressed with the continuity - a friend of mine with sharp eyes saw that Gaeta's display in the premiere was solid red just before he pulled the plug, indicating that the cylon virus had reached the mainframe. He missed it only because he had to duck under the console to break the connection!
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