rachel on 29/3/2008 at 04:37

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I'm so pissed, all this time waiting and I'm flying out of the US on sunday, four days before the season premiere... :nono:

Fortunately there is Internet...


I can't wait, the trailer has me drooling with anticipation. :D

Digital Nightfall on 30/3/2008 at 17:41

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My bet is that they'll find either an empty earth with the derelict remains of an ancient civilization, or an empty earth with the devastated remains of our civilization.


... or an empty earth with the remains of Joss Wedon's Firefly. ;)

The_Raven on 30/3/2008 at 22:45

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I hear that, I almost couldn't believe my ears when I was listening to the last half of Razor when it was on TV in November; the dialog was atrocious. I almost fell out of my seat laughing at the cliched, metaphoric, retarded speech about razors. I watched Battlestar Galactica up to the season 3 finale, I stopped because I really didn't give a shit what happened to angsty Apollo and his daddy issues. When I was reading the spoilers on this forums afterwards, I thought for awhile that you guys must have been joking about who ended up being cylons. To make matters worse, they figured it out by hearing a Bob Dylan song in space. :erm: Battlestar Galactica seems to be an ego vehicle for the producers, since they keep on referring to the fact that "they're the best show on TV" and that the original was shit. I saw the remake long before I saw the original series, and despite the dated 70s themes and television formatting , I actually thought the original was better than the new one.

If I had to pick one thing I hate the most about the new Battlestar, it's the overt melodrama that's constantly shoehorned into the show's plot and characters. To date we've had the Iraqi insurgency episodes, the prisoner torture episode, the Sadam Hussein trail episodes, the doctor death episode, the coal miner episode, etc... The show has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, and characters development seems to be more oriented towards physical transformation instead of any kind of emotional growth. The ideas themselves might have merit, but the execution leaves so much to be desired. It only makes matter worse when the producers go around yelling stuff like "It's fucking subversive" all the time. I used to be able to stomach this stuff, but now that I'm getting older, the ham-fisted nature of a lot of things just ends up grinding my gears.

New Horizon on 31/3/2008 at 03:28

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We're assuming they're cylons...but who knows if they really are? I don't think the writers really have anything to be sorry for. They really pushed the show pretty hard from the end of the second season and the beginning of the third. There was some pretty dark, intense stuff. Later part of the third was a bit weak in places...but I think the setup of the finale will give us a great final season. Hopefully the network won't dictate that they write a bunch of crappy stand alone episodes like it did in the third season. I don't think the writers are entirely to blame for the low points of Season 3. When the network starts pushing buttons, it no doubt leaves the creative team feeling rather unmotivated.

I remember that the network stuck its nose into the show during the first season and told the creative team to lighten the show up...so they did that episode where Ellen is introduced. I remember watching that episode and thinking...'oh crap, have they gone down the crapper already?'...but I guess they decided to go over the top, just so the network wouldn't ask them to take that route again.

Vivian on 31/3/2008 at 10:03

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SPOILER TAGS you fucking jerks! Christ!