Two Galactica questions...

[Neil]

1) When's the new series starting (in the US)?
2) The special webisodes - I couldn't watch those in the UK for some reason. Are they available for download (eg: torrent)? Are they worth watching?

[Eyebiter]

New season started with a 2 hour episode on Friday Oct 6th. The ten webisodes deal with the human resistance backstory on New Caprica. I'd guess they will eventually appear on the UK scifi website and the season 3 DVD.

If you want to check them out try here
http://www.galacticastation.com/episodes/webisodes/webisodes.html

[capncnut]

The new series 'aint a patch on the original. Sorry...

[Eyebiter]

There are a few good episodes from the original Battlestar Galatica series (Saga of a Star World, Gun on Ice Planet Zero, The Living Legend). Most of the rest are marginal at best.

Galactica:1980 is really bad, perfect example how budget cuts and network interference can completely screw up a tv series. The Return of Starbuck episode is the only one worth watching.

[Neil]

Any more opinions on season 3 so far?

[Rottedfreak]

Sometimes I think memories of the old galactica are better then the show itself.
Galactica and it's rattag fleet cross galaxies - at sublight speeds.
Boxy has a mechanical daggit - a animal supposed to be a dog but acts like a monkey due to the chimp they shoved in there.
Galactica discovers a planet called Terra with two super powers capable of space travel but still launch nukes from silos.
Every week they find a human civilisation and leave them behind while fleeing a enemy bent on exterminating humans.
Starbuck finds himself on a prison colony which has had no outside contact for 1000 years despite the fact they still have workable space craft and in the end he gets a hint they picked up a human from Earth even though Earth is in the late sixties.
Galactica recieves a transmission of the Apollo moon landings (1969) and thirty years later finds Earth in the year 1980.
The Cylon Imperius leader calls for Baltar to offer peace with the humans then gives him three baseships armed with cannons, fighters and centurions and he hunts them down.
Galactica finds a alien casino on a barren planet and underneath it are giant bugs who lay eggs in humans.
To run a test to find out Starbucks father they need to take brain matter.
A super gun fires upon the fleet and misses at every opportunity causing explosions.
The council is always weak and makes bad decisions.

And all they can criticise the new one for is because its got a different theme - and because Starbucks a woman.

[axlish]

Any more opinions on season 3 so far?

Much better than I would have thought, considering how much I disliked the way season 2 ended.

2nd episode of the season is the first of a 2 story arc. The second of which is looking to be a scifi equivalent of Braveheart. I'm having fun with it.

[capncnut]

Sometimes I think memories of the old galactica are better then the show itself.
Galactica and it's rattag fleet cross galaxies - at sublight speeds.
Boxy has a mechanical daggit - a animal supposed to be a dog but acts like a monkey due to the chimp they shoved in there.
Galactica discovers a planet called Terra with two super powers capable of space travel but still launch nukes from silos.
Every week they find a human civilisation and leave them behind while fleeing a enemy bent on exterminating humans.
Starbuck finds himself on a prison colony which has had no outside contact for 1000 years despite the fact they still have workable space craft and in the end he gets a hint they picked up a human from Earth even though Earth is in the late sixties.
Galactica recieves a transmission of the Apollo moon landings (1969) and thirty years later finds Earth in the year 1980.
The Cylon Imperius leader calls for Baltar to offer peace with the humans then gives him three baseships armed with cannons, fighters and centurions and he hunts them down.
Galactica finds a alien casino on a barren planet and underneath it are giant bugs who lay eggs in humans.
To run a test to find out Starbucks father they need to take brain matter.
A super gun fires upon the fleet and misses at every opportunity causing explosions.
The council is always weak and makes bad decisions.

And all they can criticise the new one for is because its got a different theme - and because Starbucks a woman.

Apologies to all those who have just bought the original box set and not seen it yet. :lol:

[Wooley]

Opinions with no spoilers-we're going to see a lot of character development with Kara, Sharon, Baltar, and Tigh.

I'm liking the new season so far.

[Rottedfreak]

I was watching Saga of a Starworld the other week and it boggles the mind why after a 1000 years of war the colonials would send their last fleet of battlestars to the Cylon capital instead of one peace envoy. They send their best admirals, war heroes, their president end entire government and are surprised when it turns out to be a trap, the Cylons send in a thousand fighters concealed in a Nebula on the route and Galactica flees the battle to discover the Cylons sent basestars to destroy the colonies.
With tactics like that one wonders how they survived.

I still like the original series but as with most sci fi from the time can't help but pick them to pieces for some story logic, rules and science.

[p2501]

This season bar none, has been the best so far. Eps 1-3 have been just sheer build-up, and i suspect ep 4 is going to be just amazing.

[Dropper]

This season bar none, has been the best so far. Eps 1-3 have been just sheer build-up, and i suspect ep 4 is going to be just amazing.


Agreed. It really is in amazing series. I can't wait for each episode. I can't say that about most television...

[Rottedfreak]

I got a feeling new Galactica is doomed. NBC is being restructured and Galactica's ratings went down 11% for Exodus part 1. Might not sound like much and there's been a promise of at least two more seasons but then this happened with Farscape and that was canceled for a 2% drop.

On the other hand Galactica jumped the shark with this whole occupation storyline, you know they'll be back in space soon and facing the exact same situation once more.

[p2501]

I got a feeling new Galactica is doomed. NBC is being restructured and Galactica's ratings went down 11% for Exodus part 1. Might not sound like much and there's been a promise of at least two more seasons but then this happened with Farscape and that was canceled for a 2% drop.

On the other hand Galactica jumped the shark with this whole occupation storyline, you know they'll be back in space soon and facing the exact same situation once more.



that may well be, but after your post over in the games froum about the Ps3 selling just beacuse it's cool, and computer games dying off. i'm holding your views with less concern.

Galactica is still higly rated and making NBC and SCIFI a ton of money. further, considering the All of friday's viewer numbers were down, your 11% loss is less than scary.

EDIT

Exodus part II runs tonight, anyone wanna offer prdictions?

i'm thinking they loose Hera to the cylons, and the Pegasus may not make it out of the fight (i'm assuming they join it).

[axlish]

I'm hoping this whole Boomer promotion works out. For F's sake, she can be activated!

Shows get cancelled for idiotic reasons all the time. Apparently, Blade the series was cancelled because of an unexpected female audience. Monster House was cancelled on Discovery because it had too many viewers, and was taking viewers away from their other networks. NBC needs to grow a pair and toss this on thier Friday night line up.

[p2501]

agreed, i'm curious how they activated her in the first place. but i think it would be a cheap shot just to have her activate at another inopportune time. wel that and they'd just cap her and there'd be no more boomer.

i'll gve that stuff does get canceled randomly, but i'm thinking Galactica won't fall prey to the usualy rigamaroo. it's well reviewed, and watched. that alone should lock it in for another season or so.

[Wooley]

Exodus part two. Wow. Just wow. Was not expecting any of that.

[p2501]

Exodus part two. Wow. Just wow. Was not expecting any of that.

that was without a doubt the best 60 minutes of television i've ever seen.


that jump, oh my fraking lord. and the Pegasus, all i can say is "from hells heart....."

[axlish]

"Thank you, Lee." Now, where will Apollo rank on the BSG? It sucks that they had to get rid of the Pegasus. Lee's quarters were enough to keep it around. I thought it was a touch cheezy that the Pegasus managed to separate, and the pieces became cylon heat seakers

I still think they are having trouble giving Adama Jr. some character.

[p2501]

"Thank you, Lee." Now, where will Apollo rank on the BSG? It sucks that they had to get rid of the Pegasus. Lee's quarters were enough to keep it around. I thought it was a touch cheezy that the Pegasus managed to separate, and the pieces became cylon heat seakers

I still think they are having trouble giving Adama Jr. some character.

It was cains ship, it was her will. and the pegasus was built as a basestar killer. how ever convienient i can accept that the langing pod caused a splash kill.

Lee may well retain his rank, i dunno if saul is even interest in comming back at this point. he looked intent upon finding a drink and and airlock at EPs end.

[axlish]

the first one I could accept, but then it appeared that yet another piece broke off, and a total of three cylon ships were destroyed. The third is what took it from cool to cheezy. Did my eyes deceive me? Three got destroyed there at the end correct?

So what will Tigh's role be then, if Apollo retains 2nd in comand?

[p2501]

i only saw two get blown up, but i'm downloading the episode right now so i can confirm that shortly.

beyond that i dunno. it'll take time to resort everyone back into their rolls. and givent he fact they took on the full command staff from Pegasus, i dunno how it'll work. if nothing else they may just have Lee retain rank but for back to being CAG for flight group one.

edit
ok just watched it again. counting the Basestar she face rapes in the opening salvo (which i'm calling a kill) the big P takes out a total of three bases stars.
1) during the opening salvo.
2) the headbutt
3) the launchpod/ Melville Manuver.

[Eyebiter]

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/RaymondShaw/BattlestarEmasculata.gif

[Wooley]

OMFG! Eyebiter, that's the funniest thing I've seen on the net lately. Some of the guys on BSG do seem to be nutless, don't they?

[Geophyrd]

...is terrific. I've watched the old shows and I had my reservations about a female Starbuck but they won me over in the first ten minutes. The new Galactica is bold, well written, very well acted. It is a great tv show. To anyone who is dissing the show...have you actually watched it? Its terrific.

I will say there are some interesting threads from last season that have yet to be picked up in the new one. To me, Six showing up in Gaius' head completely glamorized, idealized was interesting but when he showed up in her's last season, similarly glamorized, that was intriguing. And they have yet to do a thing with it.

Also nothing about the hybrid baby, Laura's having taken stem cell injections, and Apollo's death dreams. All threads that seem to have vanished. Its very possibile that they will show up in the second half of the season but so far...nothing!

As to Blade...it got cancelled because it was really really bad. I mean, the movies were fun but they had no problem with stepping outside their rules. Each movie upped the last (Blade II had the predator-faces, Blade III had Jessica Biel and killed Natasha Lyonne...doesn't get better'n that).