umm..battlestar?
POSTED BY: terrifried
UPDATED: Saturday, March 25, 2006 20:26
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I think we're close to getting kicked off this site here...
It wasn't me who said it, it was my evil twin. You can tell by the goatee.
"It's a cow."
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This thread is old; I'm goin' to the Cleo 2525 thread now....
Chrisisall Torres
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mikamom:
Battlestar '80... ya it sucked. Travelling back through time to fight Nazi's is gay as hell. Travel across multiple galaxies trying to reunite with your long-lost human cousins, then suddenly need to (1) time-travel to fight nazis, and (2) NEVER reunite with Earth-lings.
The show got whored till the last minute.
and then:
the whole slieu of people who think the "political" message of the show makes it great... ya "Rolling Stone magazine" agrees with you. And they aren't even remotely political. Or music-related for that matter, but hey... I'm just ignorant.
Where is Mick Jagger when you need him?
Last ep I saw was the one about black markets where "Apollo" suddenly stopped being all suicidal and put a bullet in some bad-guy's head. I missed the next ep (after faithfully watching since the beginning), and somehow didn't care.
I missed the next ep, and still didn't care.
Then it occured to me... the show was (1) boring, (2) predictable, (3) NOT original contrary to what some people say ~ these storylines have been done a dozen+ times on Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, the movies, and the books), Babylon 5 (the political stuff especially), Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis, etc. etc.
Nothing new. Just a repeat of the same. YET, somehow this show is supposed to be better because the lynch mob says so. But... as "WhiskeyJane" says, there is always "someone" who is too opiniated (not to mention I'm a product of "angst" and "poor potty training"). The "opinionated" fool is always the one at the end of the lynch mob's rope.
Note to self: survival = agreement with majority opinion.
I choose survival. "I love the new BSG! Let all the world know it! I also love spinach, liver, and every film and book ever written or made for the last dozen years."
XG
and PS ~
Chrisisall:
Your lil duplicitous take on vipers ain't foolin me. Seriously dude plz just shout you love the new BSG and stop with the "I'm an old-school" fan approach. The lynch mob will love u.
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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and PS to mikamom:
when Berman and Braga were given the kill order for Trek, they revived the whole "travel back through time and kill Nazis" theme. Only this time, the nazis had butt-ugly aliens in their ranks.
It never gets old. It only gets dumber with each new hatchet job on a "kill-order" series.
XG
oops:
EDIT: I'm talkin about "Enterprise". The poisonous end to the Trek.
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Quote:Serious? You want me serious?
Originally posted by XeroGravity:
Your lil duplicitous take on vipers ain't foolin me. Seriously dude plz just shout you love the new BSG and stop with the "I'm an old-school" fan approach. The lynch mob will love u.
*Thinks hard*
I don't think I can do that...
Here's my attempt:
I have a Viper and Galactica model kits from the original series. I made a Colonial Warrior uniform for a convention (comlete with gun and holster), also from the original. I owned a super-8 version of the pilot before video-tapes were available.
All I want from the new series is a die-cast Viper (When available).
In short; I loved the original, I just REALLY like the new one.
FRAK! That was too gorram serious! Just keep talkin' felgercarb, Xero, a Cylon will wax you any time now (They look like us now, remember?).
By my command Chrisisall
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Well then...
I'm sorry. There.. you got an apology from me for the way I've treated you. I assumed you were mocking me about the original Vipers from the get-go.
And no, I never built a Viper model but I was a model builder as a kid (and saw them ~ both in the box, and built, finished up, airbrushed, etc.).
I was mostly a boat, ship, and airplane kinda-model builder when I was younger. And now I build boats in my spare-time as an adult. 3 to date, #4 is on the drawing board. Go figure.
You've passed the smell test (I believe you truly were an original BSG fan). Although I don't share your love of the new one. Cept for the new Starbuck. Katie Sackhoff is hotter than a 1000 suns. Hubba hubba. Grace Whats-her-name is easy on the eyes too.
I just hate the storylines. Bored me to tears.
XG
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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and PS to u chrisisall...
If I continued watching it, I'd prolly start rooting for the cylons at this point. That's how disinterested I am in this show.
mind-crushing boredom does strange things with the mind.
XG
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The new BSG is the basically the the most creative sci fi on television, ever. On television. I know how it's a re-make, but they really only kept the basics, like humans vs. cylons, humans try to find earth, and the peoples names.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this comment, but BSG is fantastic.
And to say othersie would make you obviously wrong, because your opinion is wrong, and everything about you is wrong.
Can you feel the sarcasm in that last paragraph?
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Quote:Hey, mocking is my middle name.
Originally posted by XeroGravity:
I assumed you were mocking me about the original Vipers from the get-go.
But yeah, the first time I saw the Vipers, all thoughts of the X-Wing left my head. X-Wings take off like lame Harriers. Vipers take off like they mean buisness.
(Oh, I must make mention of Serena, another seriously excellent aspect to the original series, and how I almost stopped watching when they killed her off
)But then they gave us Sheba
Chrisisall
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TMURRIE:
Most creative Sci-fi on TV. Ever. Ok.
Larson's concept of human beings living on alien planets is original. That much is true. They are connected to "Earth". That much is still true. Ok... add some "Earth" politics, "Earth-like" drama, dysfunctional earth-people dressed in earth-suits and ties... ya. All of a sudden, it's Earth - circa century 21. Ok. I believe it.
That's NOT everyday modern "soap opera". That's how the "other" humans who evolved differently from us for the last 10K years dress, think, act, etc.
THEY are just like US! Who'd have thunk it?
Moore-whore.
Who'd believe it?
You clowns.
I'm sure our distant cousins who've cracked all the laws of physics ages ago (so-much-so that they can travel FASTER than the speed of light, warp time and space, etc.) are just dying to strap on gucci and armani suits and debate abortion, cylon-civil rights, democracy versus whatever, etc. etc.
Ya. You're being stalked across the infinity of space by genocidal robots (robots have feelings too), and it's time to soul-search on the same type of politics we see on the nightly news.
Gee-fuckin-whiz. This is the best sci-fi I've ever seen.
Period.
XG
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