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PSA: Battlestar Galactica is back streaming (Hulu this time)
Posted on 1/28/16 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 1/28/16 at 2:10 pm
The re-imagined series, I mean. I am doing a rewatch (much to the chagrin of my wife).
You really notice so many things on the second time around that you didn't realize the first time , like the irony of character interactions, a lot of the allusion to what happens at the end.
Highly recommend if you've never seen. Best Science Fiction series ever, in my book.
You really notice so many things on the second time around that you didn't realize the first time , like the irony of character interactions, a lot of the allusion to what happens at the end.
Highly recommend if you've never seen. Best Science Fiction series ever, in my book.
This post was edited on 1/28/16 at 2:11 pm
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Posted on 1/28/16 at 2:25 pm to Rev1897
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Battlestar Galactica
One of the all time best written TV shows................ with the worst Goddamn ending.
But, the scene when the Galactica drops out of hyperspace in atmosphere, wrapped in flames and spitting out vipers, frickING EPIC.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 2:29 pm to TygerTyger
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PSA: Battlestar Galactica is back streaming (Hulu this time)
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Battlestar Galactica
One of the all time best written TV shows................ with the worst Goddamn ending.
Oh that ending was predictable, it was exactly what I figured it would be. I
Posted on 1/28/16 at 2:33 pm to TygerTyger
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One of the all time best written TV shows................ with the worst Goddamn ending.
I don't get the hate for the ending. It is probably my favorite ending of any show I've watched to completion. My friends who have watched it agree with me. What do you not like about it?
Posted on 1/28/16 at 2:45 pm to LeonPhelps
I made it through season 1 before it went off Netflix - now I can finish.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 2:45 pm to LeonPhelps
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I don't get the hate for the ending. It is probably my favorite ending of any show I've watched to completion. My friends who have watched it agree with me. What do you not like about it?
It's a LONG read, but this article says it all way better than I can, and I agree with it wholeheartedly.
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I savage BSG’s ending because it began so well. Moore’s talent in making things up as he went along, hoping to find cool ways to resolve them, is actually a great one. He’s better at it than just about anybody else out there writing SF TV.
But this does not excuse the ending. It suffers, not just under my standards but under Ron Moore’s. He promised a show that was was true to real science, character driven and not overwhelmed by SF clichés like time travel, technobabble, aliens and godlike powers. He promised a show connected to our world. Instead he delivered a show whose ending pivoted on bad (and even dangerous) science, with all events due to something that’s either a god or godlike alien, all precisely following prophecies made ages ago, reducing the characters to puppets. And in the end, it had no connection to our world.
This would be no more than “yet another SF TV show that made mistakes” if the show hadn’t started so well, and gotten many, including myself to declare it was on track to be the best SF show on the air, possibly of all time. Aside from disappointing fans, the show abandoned its chance to be more than a TV show. It could have been, like a few special great works of SF from the past, something that affected the world’s perceptions and dialog about key technological issues like A.I., robotics and the technology of war. When discussing the question of conflict between man and machine, all we can say now about BSG
Posted on 1/28/16 at 3:00 pm to TygerTyger
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But, the scene when the Galactica drops out of hyperspace in atmosphere, wrapped in flames and spitting out vipers, frickING EPIC.
No kidding, the jump after falling into the atmosphere towards New Caprica was great.
That, the "33" episode and the scene where Lee testifies for Gaius are some of my favorite things to come from TV.
Edit to remove GIF showing the jump. Best to experience that first-hand.
This post was edited on 1/28/16 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 1/28/16 at 3:34 pm to Rev1897
Posted on 1/28/16 at 3:48 pm to Dr RC
Here's a simpler list of some of the things the ending just screwed up:
LINK
Sheesh!
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6. What happened to Galen Tyrol?
Galen Tyrol got one of the worst lots in all of Battlestar Galactica. First it turns out that the woman he loves is a Cylon. Then she gets killed just when he starts to resolve his feelings toward her. Then a twin with her memories shows up, but is in love with another man. Then he narrowly escapes a death sentence. Then he has recurring dreams where he’s committing suicide. Then he has a tumultuous marriage with the woman who killed his former love. Then he finds out that he’s a Cylon. Then he thinks his wife committed suicide. Then he finds out she was sleeping with another man and that he’s not the father of the child he’d been raising. Then his former love comes back, only to dupe him into helping her abscond with a child. Finally, he discovers that his wife was actual killed by one of his fellow “Final Five” Cylons. It’s a pretty rough go, to say the least.
When we last see Chief Tyrol, he’s just discovered that it was Tory, a fellow Cylon, who killed his wife. He responds to this information by strangling her to death. This interrupted a transmission of the resurrection instructions to the evil Cylons, ending a short-lived armistice, and throwing the whole ship into chaos. It’s a big moment for one of the most notable characters on the show.
Sheesh!
Posted on 1/28/16 at 4:16 pm to Dr RC
GOAT Starbuck
Posted on 1/28/16 at 4:22 pm to TygerTyger
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He promised a show connected to our world. Instead he delivered a show whose ending pivoted on bad (and even dangerous) science, with all events due to something that’s either a god or godlike alien, all precisely following prophecies made ages ago, reducing the characters to puppets. And in the end, it had no connection to our world.
I don't care about any of that. That sounds like someone who took the show way to seriously. It's just science fiction fun. The ending was great. I wouldn't change a thing about it.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 4:32 pm to LeonPhelps
You're entitled to that opinion.
I disagree.
You asked me why I didn't like it.
I gave you some reasons.
The end.
I disagree.
You asked me why I didn't like it.
I gave you some reasons.
The end.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 5:46 pm to Rev1897
GOAT
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:52 pm to drizztiger
Fantastic writing, excellent acting, and Sci Fi. What else do you need.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 8:53 pm to Rev1897
Beats
Bears
Battlestargalactica
Bears
Battlestargalactica
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:50 pm to Rev1897
Oh you mean not the good Battlestar Gallactica, the shitty new one?
Posted on 1/29/16 at 6:34 am to meeple
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GOAT Starbuck
Wasn't there somebody on here that could never reconcile themselves to a female Starbuck?
Posted on 1/29/16 at 7:19 am to Purple Spoon
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Beats Bears Battlestargalactica
What are you doing?!?
Michael!?
Michael!!
Posted on 1/29/16 at 7:52 am to Methuselah
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Wasn't there somebody on here that could never reconcile themselves to a female Starbuck?
Pretty sure you're thinking of me.
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