ZylonBane on 5/3/2005 at 00:36
Quote Posted by Pyrian
I'd replace "for the most part" with "occasionally".
Which still puts it 90% ahead of Star Trek. There are many, MANY occasions in SG-1 where some major decision was deferred back to Gen Hammond, or even all the way up to the Joint Chiefs.
And none of that, "We're under attack!" "Try talking to them!" nonsense either. Shoot now, ask questions later. :thumb:
Pyrian on 5/3/2005 at 00:43
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Which still puts it 90% ahead of Star Trek.
You can always find something worse in any given category...
The original post that started this discussion was someone saying they preferred SG-1 to the new BSG because of SG-1's realism. While I could definitely nitpick BSG (or any other sci-fi, and the vast majority of all fiction for that matter), I still find that opinion difficult to fathom - BSG's relative "grittiness" is one of my favorite aspects of it.
aguywhoplaysthief on 5/3/2005 at 00:49
It's all about the corded telephones.
ZylonBane on 5/3/2005 at 02:07
Oh well, if we're talking about BSG...
It rocks.
Although I could do without the Wal Mart off-the-rack costuming of the civilians.
ReapMyster on 5/3/2005 at 11:50
im at a loss to say which is worse... enterprise or voyager... voyager had the captain you loved to hate.. so did enterprise.. they both had attractive women for young fanboys to oogle over... but enterprise won on that score cause it had shamelessly stupid explanations for there to be skimpy oil massages and awkward positions.. i gave up on enterprise ages ago
voyager however kind of wins cause they brutally bastardised and reduced probably one of the best bad guys devised.. the borg.. they turned them into pussy footed wooses with the "arch nemesis" of janeway and the borg queen... they should have barely even LOOKED at the borg queen let alone made her say stupidly contrived speeches... you cant help but whince at one of the most supposedly powerful creatures that exists cursing "janeway!" as though they're equals
and yes reading my words i can see im a nerd... CURSES
but i like sg-1 aswell.. although the first season was crap (heck i didnt bother watching it till several seasons later then got hooked)
and ive enjoyed watching BSG.. its good watching something that doesnt have a definite beginning and end. One of the reasons I can't watch star trek now is that you know exactly where its going about a quarter of the way through the episode.
*Zaccheus* on 5/3/2005 at 12:31
I kept hoping that ... [spoiler]7o9 would turn voyager over to the borg in the final episode[/spoiler] but sadly it never happened.
Digital Nightfall on 5/3/2005 at 14:58
ReapMyster, Amen.
Though they started raping the borg and turning them into wussies in First Contact. The borg queen was the worst idea ever, as was essentially turning them into vampires (though their 'fangs' were on their hands). Ugh. Give me 'Best of Both Worlds' any day.
Absynthe on 5/3/2005 at 15:02
Loving BSG so far. I'm really starting to like the new Starbuck after a recent set of episodes in which she broke her leg (I'll just leave it at that :D ).
I found Digi's sci-fi summary pretty much matches my own views so I don't see any point in repeating it.
As for Firefly, I hope all of you have marked April 22nd on your calender for the US release of (
http://www.serenitymovie.com/) Serentiy in theatres. With any luck, it'll be so popular Fox will want to pick it up as a TV series. :cheeky:
TreeTrunk on 5/3/2005 at 17:28
I love the new BSG. I was too young to invest any personal emotions in the original BSG.
With respect to the poster who questioned Baltar's "believability", I have worked with scientists like Baltar. He's all too real. Faking data, chosing results for personal reasons, whimsical narcissism, self-agrandization while doing nothing, and even
[spoiler]
masturbating in the lab.
[/spoiler]
:eww:
Long live Baltar!
Rug Burn Junky on 5/3/2005 at 17:46
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
You have technology that doesn't magically disappear at the end of each episode.
(
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/8197685) Oh really?
Quote:
<b>Originally ruminated upon by Tuesday Morning Quarterback</b>
This Week's Stargate Complaint
In last week's Stargate, the wisecracking commandos learn the Goauld are about to invade a defenseless planet; they travel there to urge the population to flee. On the planet, our heroes find an incredible treasure – a million-year-old Ancient spaceship that springs to life when they touch it. The spaceship is tiny, sized to fit through a stargate. But the tiny ship possesses such astonishing power that the commandoes use it to destroy the enormous starcruisers approaching the helpless world. At the end of the episode, our heroes step back through the stargate and return to Earth. They don't take the spaceship! They've found technology far more powerful than anything possessed by the evil aliens they are fighting, and they simply forget about it. Next week, surely, the commandos will once again be trying to figure out how to destroy Goauld starcruisers.
