battlestar galactica

[Gurm]

I have a dream. A dream that one day I will be able to communicate entirely in images of anthropomorphised animals.

You and Kevin Eastman both. And look where it got him!





Edit: Kevin Eastman, a swell guy but a bit of a shrimpy troll-type, started off drawing bloody images of anthropomorphized turtles dismembering other anthropomorphized animals... and ended up married to B-Movie bombshell and Penthouse mega-pet Julie Strain. He is also the editor-in-chief of Heavy Metal magazine, and lives a somewhat idyllic life in the mountains of Western Massachusetts...

[Dr Mordrid]

With Julie Strain sharing his cot I'm sure his life is "idyllic", and then some

[schmosef]

you know... she's not my type (yes, i've seen sex court).

[schmosef]

I was going to update my dream to be able to communicate entirely in images of anthropomorphised animals and obscure video game/pop culture references.

And then I saw this:



It's like there's chocolate in my peanut butter!

Make your time...

[Dr Mordrid]

BTW: you guys see Number 6's (Tricia Helfer) spread in Playboy yet?

Feb. 2007

Don't bother with Google Images, they're blocking them.

Try a web search instead

6

[schmosef]

Sorry Doc, this thread requires pussy shots. And there's not a single kitten in that spread.

Seriously, I don't think the photographer did such a great job. She looked much sexier in many of her season 1 scenes of BG, where she was clothed (sort of).

[Gurm]

Ok I hate to resurrect this but we finally finished up Season 3 and...

Huh?

Ok, lemme start with a statement ... oh yeah SPOILERS!

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No seriously, SPOILERS!

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Ok, y'know those 4 can't POSSIBLY all be Cylons.

I mean, let's recap here. Saul Tigh is what, 60? 65? And he's known Bill Adama for what, 30+ years? Now the Cylon Armistice was ... 40 years ago, yes? And it would take a while for them to infiltrate someone up the ranks like that. So they would have to have had human-form Cylon models at the time of the armistice... which just doesn't play at all.

And Tyrell? He has a family. Parents that are somewhat well know. Preacher father, Oracle mother. Brothers and Sisters. People who knew him as a kid. And he's in his 30's. So THAT doesn't track either!

Sam I could buy. I mean, Cylon as pro Pyramid player? Sure thing. And who the hell knows about whatshername?

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Ok, but Xena-Bot saw the 5. And one of them she went "YOU!?! I'M SORRY!" so IF we assume she's the one that maimed Tigh, that might make sense. But... the timeline still doesn't mesh.

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And Julie thinks Starbuck is the 5th. But we've seen Starbuck's childhood. And again, she's in her 30's. The timeline just doesn't work. I think she ejected at the last moment, and something ELSE weird happened there.

I think it was already a bit of a stretch to say that the cylons had human-form models infiltrating the academy 10 years prior to the show's beginning.

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PLUS, why in the galaxy would the Cylons choose to have 2 of their 5 models manning a shitty ship that they TRIED to blow up? A bottom-of-the-barrel museum ship that stood no chance of surviving the attack? Of course I hear the ardent fans saying "oh, they KNEW somehow that Galactica would survive!" ... B....S!

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And yes, there is the matter of the babies. Tyrell's kid would be a human-cylon halfbreed just like Carl and Sharon's.

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And WHERE did Starbuck get a replacement Viper? Old-style, no less? Pfffft.

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I've heard put forth the theory that those 4 aren't Cylons at all, that they're just picking up radio transmissions from earth, all spaced out because the waves are so f-ing big by the time they make it to the nebula.

Ahhhhhh... no more shows until 2008! NOOOOOO!

[DukeP]

Hehehe..

I remember feeling just the same way.


But: You say - no more shows until 08? Doesnt the new season start in the fall?

~~DukeP~~

[Gurm]

Hehehe..

I remember feeling just the same way.


But: You say - no more shows until 08? Doesnt the new season start in the fall?

~~DukeP~~

Not in USA on SciFi. Starts up again in January.

[WxDude]

The decision to pickup galactica for a 4th season was not made until right around
the time the finale aired. It was made too late for them to have episodes ready by the
fall. Usually the decision is made earlier in the year. So they won't have enough
episodes ready until Jan 2008.

- Mike

[Gurm]

"Enough episodes"?

They need ONE episode ready for the second week in September, then ONE more the following week, then ONE the first week in October... see how this works? LOL.

[GT98]

From what I understand, they will have a 2 hr filler story in the late Fall to hold us over till 2008

[Jammrock]

Hate to burst your bubble, but Ronald D. Moore, the executive producer of the seriesl, has confirmed on the SciFi forums that those four are indeed Cylons:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=2270103&view=findpost&p=3041223

Read the twenty questions and answers and he talks about it several time. Even says he has dropped a hint as to who the final of the five are...Roslyn anyone?

Just finished BSG. God I love that show.

Jammrock

[Gurm]

Hate to burst your bubble, but Ronald D. Moore, the executive producer of the seriesl, has confirmed on the SciFi forums that those four are indeed Cylons:

http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=2270103&view=findpost&p=3041223

Read the twenty questions and answers and he talks about it several time. Even says he has dropped a hint as to who the final of the five are...Roslyn anyone?

Just finished BSG. God I love that show.

Jammrock

And again, I say that if they ARE Cylons, then the show has jumped the shark and voided its own internal consistency. The humans KNEW what the Cylons were up to 40 years ago. They created them, after all! They just didn't have human-form long enough ago for Tigh to be a Cylon...

[Jessterw]

I'm sure they'll find a way to explain it. I'd be willing to bet that they aren't even Cylons as we've come to know them; possibly with origins that are tied to Earth in some way.

I can't remember if there's anything "written in stone" that would negate this, but one idea could be that the human-form Cylons weren't exactly created by the tin-can variety, thus having origins that would allow for creation of earlier 'models' like the four (well, five). I know that contradicts one of the foundations of the story, but this isn't our childhood BSG after-all.

As far as jumping the shark... BSG has doing so almost since the beginning; however, it does so in the same manner that Lost does. It requires trusting that the unknown, the unbelievable will be revealed in ways that make perfect sense. Even if those revelations come seasons later.