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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: NHSparky on January 16, 2009, 08:47:59 PM
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Admit it--you want to watch.
(http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/06/01/battlestar-galactica-ends.jpg)
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The commercials make it look like the planet is in ruins.
Always thought Earth would be there to help them but meh prolly some liberal moral story about Global warming or nuke war
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Been watching the old episodes all day........ it's on right now, waiting for the season premier......
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Told ya that the sixth cylon would be Starbuck !!!! :neener:
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You boys are geeks.
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On noes, it's teh ghey......
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You boys are geeks.
The house down the street has a red Dr. Who phone booth in the front yard.
THAT is a geek.
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Dr. Who's phone booth (TARDIS) is blue, I thought.....
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Dr. Who's phone booth is blue, I thought.....
Ummm I think that makes you an even bigger geek.
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That's Ãœbergeek to you, missy....... :fuelfire:
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I could have sworn the Dr. Who thing was a red phone booth.
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Told ya that the sixth cylon would be Starbuck !!!! :neener:
Didn't wait until the end of the episode, didja? :tongue:
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He said that Ellen was the fifth...... No way....... The real Starbuck was dead (Kara Thrace). Who the hell was that filling the role of Starbuck ?!?!?!?!?
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And Dee, offing herself? WHOA!!!!
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And Dee, offing herself? WHOA!!!!
That totally made me ask, "WTFO" ?!?!?!?
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Admit it--you want to watch.
(http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/06/01/battlestar-galactica-ends.jpg)
We watched and SR was very upset that Charter doesn't have the SciFi channel in high definition. Oh, well, that's one of the minor worries in life. We really enjoyed it.
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The house down the street has a red Dr. Who phone booth in the front yard.
THAT is a geek.
SR would love it. He's indoctrinating me into geekiness, if that's a word. :-)
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That totally made me ask, "WTFO" ?!?!?!?
I guess I wasn't watching carefully enough, but does anyone have an explanation other than she was despondent because earth was a ruin? I haven't watched it long enough to figure out who the cylons and who the humans are.
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I guess I wasn't watching carefully enough, but does anyone have an explanation other than she was despondent because earth was a ruin? I haven't watched it long enough to figure out who the cylons and who the humans are.
Sci-Fi channel has its own website for the show. There are others if you care to Google them.
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That episode TOTALLY knocked me off my pins.
In a good way.
WTH?
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And they obviously didn't find Earth like in the old series.
This planet was nothing but Cylons. :popcorn:
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And they obviously didn't find Earth like in the old series.
This planet was nothing but Cylons. :popcorn:
So the plot thickens! It's starting to look like it'll be a great season/half-season :cheersmate:
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I'm still not convinced about this whole Cylon/human cooperation. Something just stinks and one of them is going to betray the other. But it'll be interesting to see if they do find another earth-type planet.
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Anyone heard of Big Hollywood ? The original Starbuck has a post there.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dbenedict/2009/01/19/lt-starbuck-lost-in-castration/#more-23605
Once upon a time, in what used to be a far away land called Hollywood (but is now a state of mind and everywhere), a young actor was handed a script and asked to bring to life a character called Starbuck. I am that actor. The script was called “Battlestar Galactica.â€
Fortunately, I was young, my imagination fertile and adrenal glands strong, because bringing Starbuck to life was over the dead imaginations of a lot of Network Executives. Every character trait I struggled to give him was met with vigorous resistance. A charming womanizer? The “Suits†(Network Executives) hated it. A cigar (fumerello) smoker? The Suits hated it. A reluctant hero who found humor in the bleakest of situations? The Suits hated it. All this negative feedback convinced me I was on the right track.
Starbuck was meant to be a lovable rogue. It was best for the show, best for the character and the best that I could do. The Suits didn’t think so. “One more cigar and he’s fired,†they told Glen Larson, the creator of the show. “We want Starbuck to appeal to the female audience for crying out loud.†You see, the Suits knew women were turned off by men who smoked cigars, especially young men. How they “knew†this was never revealed. And they didn’t stop there. “If Dirk doesn’t quit playing every scene with a girl like he wants to get her in bed, he’s fired.†This was, well, it was blatant heterosexuality, treating women like “sex objects.†I thought it was flirting. Never mind, they wouldn’t have it. I wouldn’t have it any other way, or rather Starbuck wouldn’t. So we persevered, Starbuck and I. The show, as the saying goes, went on and the rest is history for, lo and behold, women from all over the world sent me boxes of cigars, phone numbers, dinner requests, and marriage proposals.
The Suits were not impressed. They would have their way, which is what Suits do best, and after one season of puffing and flirting and gambling, Starbuck, that loveable scoundrel, was indeed fired. Which is to say, “Battlestar Galactica†was cancelled. Starbuck, however, would not stay cancelled, but simply morphed into another flirting, cigar smoking, blatant heterosexual called Faceman. Another show, another set of Suits, and of course, if The “A-Team†movie rumors prove correct, another remake.
There was a time, I know I was there, when men were men, women were women and sometimes a cigar was just a good smoke. But 40 years of feminism have taken their toll. The war against masculinity has been won. Everything has turned into its opposite, so that what was once flirting and smoking is now sexual harassment and criminal. And everyone is more lonely and miserable as a result.
Go read the rest. :cheersmate:
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Yeah, saw it posted originally on FR. Sounds like ol Dirk's got a case of sour grapes.
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I agree with Dirk but BSG is still a fun show most of the time.
One time I was watching this version of Parsifal where, for no reason at all, Parsifal becomes a woman halfway through but still has a male singing voice. That was an un-imagined Parsifal, I imagine.