On a lighter note... BSG

[}{arlequin]

Originally posted by Z-man
Now the truth comes out - }{arlequin's just another cylon lover...

hey, cylons need lovin' too! (if you can overlook that whole "wipeout entire humanity" thing....)

plus, they feel so real!

[Z-man]

Ok, my thoughts from last week's episode (Resurrectio Ship, Part II):

The ending would have been so much better had they not spoiled it in the trailers!

Wonder what Baltar's secret hiding place for the Pegasus Cylon prisoner is? Is this a lead-in into Baltar leaving the humans and joining the toasters?

Will Sharon's child hold the key to curing President Roslin?

What's up with Apollo's wishing he were dead? Wonder if he will steal Anastasia Dualla from Billy?

Discuss...
-Z-man.

[legion]

I thought Apollo was in love with Starbuck?

I also thought that they said the Cylon escaped?

What happens when Roslin dies, and Baltar becomes president?

The XO on the Pegasis seemed a sympathetic character initially, but he came off as a real hard @$$ the last episode.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by Z-man
Wonder what Baltar's secret hiding place for the Pegasus Cylon prisoner is?

I think he must be hiding her on Galetica, snuck her over there before they found the body. He did say to her that he could provide a place for her to stay.

[Deschodt]

Why was #6 so opposed to Baltar helping her "clone" ? Intra cylon rivalry ?

Why is Apollo so bent on dying all of a sudden ?

How long until we "lose" pegasus now (this show is after all not called "Battlestars Pegasus and Galactica") ;-)

[1967 R50/2]

Originally posted by Z-man


Wonder what Baltar's secret hiding place for the Pegasus Cylon prisoner is?

She is gone. Remember the one episode where Six was a real person on the Galactica and then she just disappeared? I'm figuring it is the same thing.

Originally posted by Z-man


Will Sharon's child hold the key to curing President Roslin?

Of course! They aren't going to let here die...yet. The prophesy only said that she would not reach "the promised land", not when she would die. Which, while we're on the topic, is not the most original story line, being the merely lifted it from Exodus, but fits well within the context of the series which seems to lift EVERYTHING from myth or major religions.

Originally posted by Z-man


What's up with Apollo's wishing he were dead? Wonder if he will steal Anastasia Dualla from Billy?

Discuss...
-Z-man.

My bet is no. There will be some tension...but in the end, no.

[1967 R50/2]

Originally posted by legion
The XO on the Pegasis seemed a sympathetic character initially, but he came off as a real hard @$$ the last episode.

Really?...I don't think so. He was really nervous about his mission to kill Adama. Much more so than Starbuck. He was also very "factual" with his speech at her memorial service. As if he didn't have much heart into it.

As far as his "You can't rape a machine" comment, well....you can read a lot or a little into that. On the face of it just a statement of fact. Cylons are machines.

BUT you have to think that he is just de-humanizing an enemy as a way of rationalizing the abuse. De-humanizing an enemy is what you would do with a HUMAN foe, BUT how do you de-humanize something that isn't human..or even a "living" being?

Mentally, you could go round and round with this.

[1967 R50/2]

Originally posted by Deschodt

How long until we "lose" pegasus now (this show is after all not called "Battlestars Pegasus and Galactica") ;-)

My bet: The new Pegasus commander asks to leave the fleet and stay and fight the cylons as the fleet moves farther and farther from the colonies.

[legion]

Originally posted by Z-man
What's up with Apollo's wishing he were dead? Wonder if he will steal Anastasia Dualla from Billy?

Did I miss something? I don't recall any interaction between Dualla and Apollo.

[Deschodt]

She's sorta hanging outside his cabin as he tells Starbuks he wanted to die... Maybe there was more, can't remember...

[Z-man]

Originally posted by Deschodt
She's sorta hanging outside his cabin as he tells Starbuks he wanted to die... Maybe there was more, can't remember...

There is more - when they were sparring in the last episode of season 2.0 (Pegasus), there seemed to have been some chemistry between them when she 'took down' Apollo, just before Billy came a knockin' on the door.

-Z.

[legion]

Another potential plot hole that has been bothering me:

Wasn't the colonial fleet destroyed because the Cylons hacked the navigation software on all of the ships? How did the Pegasus not fall prey to this flaw when encountering the Cylons?

[1967 R50/2]

Originally posted by legion

Wasn't the colonial fleet destroyed because the Cylons hacked the navigation software on all of the ships? How did the Pegasus not fall prey to this flaw when encountering the Cylons?

I wondered that too and then I rewatched the mini-series and the first season.

The cylons viruses were designed to act on Colonial defensive (navigation?) systems. They had an easy time of it thanks to a "protocol" written into those systems by Baltar and Six.

After this was discovered in the mini-series, the crew of Galactica rewrote the programming to exclude it and the new programming was uploaded to the Vipers...I assume they mean Apollo's MK ? as it was the newest.

No reason to think that the Pegasus crew couldn't have done the same, even though they never say they did.

[red-beard]

The Pegasus had it's computers offline during the attack. They did a "Blind Jump" to get away from the fracas. This was revealed in the 1st Pegasus episode.

[legion]

Originally posted by red-beard
The Pegasus had it's computers offline during the attack. They did a "Blind Jump" to get away from the fracas. This was revealed in the 1st Pegasus episode.

Yes, but how did they not get screwed the first time they faced the Cylons then?

[EdT82SC]

Originally posted by legion
Yes, but how did they not get screwed the first time they faced the Cylons then?

Don't ask too many questions. You might reveal a plot hole.

[Icemaster]

OK OK OK OK.....

Where can I buy the last couple seasons on DVD as I seem to keep missing the damn show...

And yes, I'm a luddite when it comes to things like Tivo.

Good God I'm getting my BSG updates from a Porsche board...

[Z-man]

Ice:
Borders has both Season 1 and Season 2.0. And if you have an iPod video, you can purchase the first two episodes of the second half of the second season over on scifi.com.

That should bring ya up to date!
-Z-man.

[Z-man]

** }{arlequin - Caution - spoilers from the 1-20-06 episode below **

Comments from last Friday's thread:

1. I guess we can eliminate the possibility of Baltar being the first human/cylon hybrid. When the doc was doing all of that testing on him (when he thought there was a cylon implant in his brain back in season 1), I am sure they would have detected the same blood anamolie found in Sharon's fetus' blood (that there's no blood type).
2. So, is the leader of the cylon sympathizers movement a human or cylon? The way he was talking with the corporal Number six sounds very much like he's a toaster. And what about the woman with the gun guarding the corporal Number six - is she a cylon or cylon sympathizer as well??
3. Anyone else catch President Roslin's reaction to Baltar just after she was cured of cancer? She looked like she was ready to point to him and oust him!


Further comments:
Baltar is getting crazier and crazier. I really think they are setting the stage for his departure from the humans and eventual rise to power amongst the cylons. (If they follow that theme from the original series) I think James Callis definately plays a terrific madman driven to power. The way he turned from being a snug and happy about the way he put the pieces together between the Sharon fetus' blood and Pres Roslin's cure to his utter contempt towards her after reading her letter - brilliant!


Comments, opinions?
-Z.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by Z-man
Further comments:
Baltar is getting crazier and crazier. I really think they are setting the stage for his departure from the humans and eventual rise to power amongst the cylons. (If they follow that theme from the original series)

Yep, they had a lot of people in the hallway looking at him tugging on his own tie and blathering like a nut case.

Just a matter of time before they lock him up or he escapes with the blond.