Battlestar Galactica [Archive]

Redshirt

08 Mar 2009, 04:49 PM

Any fans of the show here? Only two episodes left, for those of you who live in North America. To the Brits -- are you still in the 3rd season?

I also found some youtube soundtracks of some BSG music, by Bear McCreary. Here are some of my favourites:

Reuniting the fleet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o40JlfPou20&feature=PlayList&p=CF452EA1AE2F6205&index=17)
Prelude to war (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlcUwUwjLrs&feature=PlayList&p=CF452EA1AE2F6205&index=16)
Roslin and Adama (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG-Js_rMEV4&feature=PlayList&p=CF452EA1AE2F6205&index=12)
Admiral And Commander (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZdS2KKvwVo&feature=PlayList&p=16908258F9BACB92&index=2) (a different version of "Reuniting the Fleet")

Uthgar the Brazen

08 Mar 2009, 09:40 PM

Been watching it since the original mini-series. Though I confess I'm a little confused at this point and am hoping it will all be tied together well by the end.

Mung Dynasty

08 Mar 2009, 10:25 PM

Just got talked into watching it for the first time and am not all that impressed. It's ok but nothing to write home about.

Octavia

09 Mar 2009, 12:12 AM

I think it's fantastic. Of course, we're way behind here in NZ, but I'm keeping up via the (very detailed) recaps on Television Without Pity.

Redshirt

09 Mar 2009, 03:05 AM

I think it's fantastic. Of course, we're way behind here in NZ, but I'm keeping up via the (very detailed) recaps on Television Without Pity.

You can always get the DVDs if you don't feel like waiting too long. :) I think the third season is out on DVD now.

wordy

11 Mar 2009, 10:53 AM

It is one of the few SciFi series that I stand. And I was a lover of Scifi since me 9 years old. I almost only read such books.

I have not seen all of them cause being copyrighted it is not shown to us when we go to scifi.com and some Swedes pretend to be in USA to get to see them or they join Torrent networks but I don't dare do such so I try to look at Asian homepages that stream it. Maybe that is illegal too but it seems to be less chased by the big companies who target us in Sweden just now to set example.

Sad that they only have two episodes to wrap it all up within. so many lose ends to get a closer for us who wants closure?

I am very bleedy. I want them all to get good future.

Above all, I have getting used to think that there exists Cylons. Can they sell one to me. I need one badly. Model 8 seem ok to me. :D

Eudaimonist

11 Mar 2009, 11:11 AM

Any fans of the show here?

Sure, it's very dramatic and well-produced. I've seen most of it from torrenting.

eudaimonia,

Mark

wordy

11 Mar 2009, 11:38 AM

Mark, don't get me wrong now but you could loose your job doing torrent at home, this is Sweden remember. :D

Izmir Stinger

11 Mar 2009, 03:39 PM

I lost track of it this season. It is to heavily serialized to just jump back into it. I should check if they are on Netflix on demand.

Goodchild

11 Mar 2009, 07:36 PM

Just got talked into watching it for the first time and am not all that impressed. It's ok but nothing to write home about.

It's not really a good show for just jumping into the middle of it :) I'd recommend watching the mini-series and then at least the first episode of the regular series, "33", before passing judgment.

That first regular episode is so damned good it's hard not to get hooked if you like sci-fi at all. It won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2005.

Goodchild

11 Mar 2009, 07:37 PM

Any fans of the show here? Only two episodes left, for those of you who live in North America. To the Brits -- are you still in the 3rd season?

I can't even begin to fathom how they're going to wrap it all up in the last two episodes ... there's still so many unanswered questions.

Goodchild

13 Mar 2009, 10:35 PM

Tonight's the beginning of the end!

I predict a suicide mission for Galactica, to take out Cavil so the rest of the fleet can find a home in peace.

wordy

15 Mar 2009, 12:24 AM

I would love some good spoilers cause we have to wait a whole year before we can see it.

Redshirt

18 Mar 2009, 03:15 AM

I'd recommend using the hide tags so that we don't spoil it for the Euros, Kiwis and Aussies.

I'm looking forward to the last few episodes. But I'll really miss the show. :( There really isn't much else that's good on TV these days...:thumbdown:

Goodchild

21 Mar 2009, 12:49 AM

Final episode in 10 minutes!!! I can hardly wait :)

Goodchild

21 Mar 2009, 01:23 AM

Gaius stays with the suicide mission and painted Centurions are marching in to join the fight! Frakking awesome!

Goodchild

21 Mar 2009, 01:53 AM

With just under an hour done, this is probably the greatest Galactica ep ever. They definitely pulled out all the stops :)

Goodchild

21 Mar 2009, 02:06 AM

Wow! The reveal on the Opera House dream was incredible, totally didn't see it coming.

Goodchild

21 Mar 2009, 03:09 AM

Well, it's all over and what a fantastic end it was.

Hats off to RDM for such a great show :)

Tod

21 Mar 2009, 03:30 AM

Well, it's all over and what a fantastic end it was.

Hats off to RDM for such a great show :)

POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT

Yeah, overall I like how they ended it, but two things kinda bothered me:

1. what's up with the vast sea in the middle of North America (when they showed a layout of the continents on this "new planet" they'd found)? That was North America of the Cretaceous period over 65 mya, not North America of a mere 150 kya, which was basically very similar to modern North America. That really threw me off when they showed that sea and then contemporary primitive humans; the writers certainly didn't do their research in that regard.

2. This part they may have explained somehow and I missed it, but how in the hell are Baltar and his girlfriend still alive 150 kya in the future?

I know, I'm a hopeless picker of nits. ; )

Redshirt

21 Mar 2009, 04:35 AM

1. what's up with the vast sea in the middle of North America (when they showed a layout of the continents on this "new planet" they'd found)? That was North America of the Cretaceous period over 65 mya, not North America of a mere 150 kya, which was basically very similar to modern North America. That really threw me off when they showed that sea and then contemporary primitive humans; the writers certainly didn't do their research in that regard.

I believe that North America had some really huge glacial lakes in the past. I'm not sure specifically when though.

2. This part they may have explained somehow and I missed it, but how in the hell are Baltar and his girlfriend still alive 150 kya in the future?

I don't think that was Baltar and 6. That was head 6 and head Baltar, who were some kind of angelic entities or something.

PostMortem

21 Mar 2009, 05:03 AM

Sorry if this has been posted already, I only skimmed most of the thread because I didn't want to see any spoilers.

A few days before the final episode was aired the UN hosted a special screening of highlights of Battlestar Galactica and discussed some of the issues raised in the show and the similarities to what the UN has to deal with in the real world.

LINKS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7956325.stm (Video)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102116629

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/arts/television/21batt.html

Goodchild

21 Mar 2009, 02:36 PM

Here's a post-screening interview with the creators, well worth the read

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2009/03/20/battlestar-galactica-watched-the-finale-still-got-questions-weve-got-answers/

Tod

21 Mar 2009, 07:10 PM

I believe that North America had some really huge glacial lakes in the past.

Yeah, but it didn't look anything remotely like that. The image they portrayed was EXACTLY like the Cretaceous Sea of North America. If you noticed, first of all it was a singular body of water, and secondly the sea in the show last night opened wide into the Gulf of Mexico, just like the Cretaceous North American sea. That wasn't glacial lakes being depicted, and if it was supposed to be, it was a poor representation.

I think the writers or the director simply got confused.

Barefoot Bree

22 Mar 2009, 02:16 AM

How many seasons did BG run? I'm thinking of getting the DVD's.

I have the sad distinction of having seen the first episode of the first miniseries, then the final one last night, and NOT A SINGLE ONE in between. Talk about confusion! My head is spinning - only understood a tiny fraction of what was going on. But I think it would be an excellent purchase on DVD.

Uthgar the Brazen

22 Mar 2009, 12:46 PM

They're supposed to be releasing the entire series (including Razor and the webisodes) on Blu-Ray in a couple of months, I've heard.

wordy

25 Mar 2009, 02:28 PM

I had chance to buy Season 1, 2 and was it S3 too or was that one not released summer 2008. But I felt stingy? Is it really worth it. I have saved a lot of the episodes on DVD and I never look at them again.

But it is the only TV series where I have saved all of those they have aired. BSG has a special place in my heart. I like Invasion too. David Cassidy thing? But he seemed to not be able to make it attractive enough to the public.

The fun thing is that Tarvu maybe is base on that one and make fun of it.

Goodchild

25 Mar 2009, 11:38 PM

Something I just realized today, the Colonial Fleet is the most gay-friendly military ever depicted anywhere. Three of the four admirals we've seen (Cain, Gaeta and Hoshi) have been gay :)

I like that about BSG, among the general awesomeness of the show. They managed to show homosexuality as no big deal without ever actually going out of the way to do so.

Daynna

04 Apr 2009, 11:32 PM

Goodchild

05 Apr 2009, 01:00 AM

I call it the "fake Battlestar Galactica." Boomer and Starbuck are men gosh darnit!

After so many rave reviews by friends, I may rent the previous seasons and catch up. I've heard too many good things to ignore it based on my loyalty to the original. :)

As much as I've loved the entire show, the first season is simply the absolute best. The first regular episode after the miniseries, "33 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_(Battlestar_Galactica))", may be one of the best pieces of TV viewing I've ever had :)

eta Link to episode synopsis on Wikipedia and to note that the episode won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

Daynna

05 Apr 2009, 01:04 AM

Well, I will check Hulu for it. If not, there is always mininova. :)

wordy

17 Apr 2009, 10:47 AM

Hulu require that I pretend to be living in USA or Canada? MiniNova I have not tested.

I know of or did know of if it is shut down now??? a Chinese one that streamed but had subtexts in an asian language have no idea which. I could check to use that one again.

But I am so mixed up about not happy ending. It sounds as if the ending is not as happy as I want it so maybe it is better I just read the wiki describing it instead of seeing all the sad eyes and then dreaming about it in nightmares?

Should one really see the ending? is it uplifting? :D

Goodchild

17 Apr 2009, 10:20 PM

It's a good ending. There's sad bits, but you knew they were coming (ie Roslyn dying). It's definitely worth seeing.

If you're looking for a torrent site to grab it from, try btjunkie.org or isohunt.com

wordy

18 Apr 2009, 09:09 AM

Redshirt

18 Apr 2009, 05:06 PM

No torrent I don't dare to use but a homepage that stream it is ok with me. I don't think they charge us with a penalty of 100,000 SEK for looking at streaming videos. But if one seed the same item from the harddisk then they come and get the computer and never give it back maybe.

Maybe I give it a chance then.

You can watch part 2 of "Daybreak" (the last BSG episode) on the Space Channel website here (http://www.spacecast.com/Shows/Battlestar-Galactica.aspx#). It might only work for those who use Canadian ISPs, but it's worth a try.

wordy

18 Apr 2009, 05:23 PM

Redshirt

18 Apr 2009, 06:24 PM

Worth a try but as you expected it says ! Canada only

A good place to live for sure but as a native Swede and retired I guess they only want productive team players like Ice-hockey pros and such.

I test the chinese one again and tell you if it works.

Oh well. I guess we're just miffed at the Swedes for terrorizing our Canadian squirrels or something... :D

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