Any one else watch Battlestar Galactica?

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#3
Is it a new show or reruns of the old one? My sci-fi interest ended about the time I saw Empire Strikes Back in the theater. Graduated to porn. :lol:
 
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#4
I watch the new version of SciFi. Am hooked. The new one is the grown up version with alot more going on.
 
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I am hooked on the new series also. It is one of the few shows on TV that I actually look forward to watching week in and week out.

Did you watch last night’s episode?

The space battle was great! It actually had some military strategy in it.

It was like a battleship being in close enough to hit an aircraft carrier.

I am not good with board rules but I am going to post some pics of the space battle.



 
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Did watch it. The effects are awesome. Like the story line with the underlying conflict between the two commanders. Just wondering how much longer the Doc can get away with totally being nuts. The battle scene was also great. Apollo hanging out in space just watching the whole thing floating around. Had time to ponder life. Like also how they can also get pretty steamy in some scenes.
 
#7
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It was like Ensign Gay at the Battle of Midway.-Referring to Apollo.

Great show, yeah the President should find out soon about Baltar.

To be honest with you, I think Baltar is one of my favorite characters.
 
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Balter is the villian with a heart. Hard to figure him out. Think he letting his little head do the thinking for his big head. They do draw upon historical battles in their show. Past, present and future battles have the same objective. So alot will have the same tactics depending on the objective.
 
#9
#9
It will be interesting to see if the Pegasus makes another suicide run ala the original series.

One would think the Cylons would redouble their efforts after a stunning victory by the colonials.
 
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#10
It will be interesting to see what's in store for the fleet. I remember watching the first fun series but not the details. So, the Pegasus will make a suicide run. Wow, that will be an interesting couple shows.
 
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#11
In the original series, Commander Cain played by Lloyd Bridges, planned an assault against 3 basestars which was in effect a suicide run.

I liked Cain better in the original series but both are different characters altogether. I like them both for different reasons.

The Pegasus destroyed two of the basestars and it was never mentioned whether or not the Pegasus survived the attack.
cain.jpg
 
#13
#13
I love this series. I love the original but this one is its own show. I like that it is not a carbon copy of the original. Most people watching this have no clue that there are similarities in the first show.
 
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#14
I cannot wait till tomorrow night. From the teaser at the end of last weeks show it looks like it will be another really good one.
 
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#15
They always are....and with two Battlestars, you can only guess that all hell is breaking loose soon.
 
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I liked the original- but as camp. Pretty quickly the low budget and hysterically poor F/X overcame any hope of doing more than getting occaisionally interested about a concept stuck in the middle of the story-line.

The new series is done as hard sci-fi as much as space opera, and, even better, the F/X and action neither dominate or take away from the psychological and socio-political themes running through the show. Instead, they compliment it- and, even better, there are elements that very VERY few sci-fi movies involving space "dogfights" take into account.

Way back when, the first Star Trek movie had Spock finally make a seriously needed point when he said, "Their strategy shows signs of two-dimensional thinking." Nobody seems to have taken Spock (or physics) that seriously until the new Galactica series. The last episode's action scenes were a real shot in the arm for an old hard sci fi fan. Not that I don't like space opera too if it doesn't take itself too seriously, but, by damn, did it really take this long for people to figure out that inertia effects flight characteristics, therefore strategy, and that therefore attack runs can be made sideways and/or off-axis?

I was kind've disappointed the queen of the end-doesn't-justify-the-means got killed off so soon after Adama was redeemed out of that role. It was a natural social and psychological result, and once both leaders backed off of a coup, I thought they could've squeezed more blood from the thematic turnip. Still, the newly ex-admiral had perverted a significant number of her command-level crew in the name of nationalistic & Us vs Them themes that ought to be pretty familiar to Americans right now, so maybe they can do it without her actually around....


Okay OE.... That geeky enough for you?



 
#17
#17
Okay OE.... That geeky enough for you?
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I have finally found someone to talk too!

Do you also like military history?

If so you are my new best internet friend! :bow:

P.S. Did you get giddy in Star Trek Nemesis when the Enterprise in the final battle started flipping axis when the shields started weakening?
 
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MV....realize that even with Kane gone there are still her crew who are indoctrinated, brainwashed, or 'insert any other adjective here' on board. The same ones who knocked Chief and Helo around are still there and others probably think like them. Even though the squishy inebriated XO (see a recurring themes with XO's?) is moving up, I still think Kane-think will prevail on Pegasus. Even Starbuck was beginning to wonder if Kane was right.
 
#19
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Guess who the new XO is going to be on Pegasus?

None other than Apollo!

Have fun with that one!
 
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(OrangeEmpire @ Jan 20 said:
I have finally found someone to talk too!

Do you also like military history?

If so you are my new best internet friend! :bow:

P.S. Did you get giddy in Star Trek Nemesis when the Enterprise in the final battle started flipping axis when the shields started weakening?
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The military history thing is sort've a trick question. I was seriously into the Revolutionary War and WWII when I was a kid, as well as military aircraft through WWII (probably my biggest interest). I built some way-over-the-geek-line dioramas and my cieling was a cluster of different plane models arranged in historical and typical dogfights and battles, complete with realistic damage (I actually had 50 caliber machine gun & 20 and 30 mm cannon damage down to scale).

Over time, though, it started to make me feel kind've creepy. On one hand, the boy scout side of me loves public servants including service people. On the other, the homo sapiens sapiens side of me thinks the fact that we need them is proof that Cro Magnons aren't extinct, they just learned how to imitate us.

Basically, at this point I'm still a history channel junky, but I tend to concentrate more on obscure and weird details now- i.e. did you know that the Mig the Soviets flew for the Chinese in Korea were actually planes developed by the Nazis in '43 with newer jets and a necessarily reinforced vertical stabilizer and that they were still superior to anything we flew? Thank the gods Hitler got pissed off in '40 and shifted all the weapons-development funding into the V-weapons.


I only vaguely remember- I think- the Nemisis scene. I do know it always kind've irritated me off that the ships came at each other not only in the same orientation but the same plane. I also used to really wish they'd one day beam into a lightly damaged but unmanned ship mysteriously floating in space with goo all over the aft walls and someone would say, "Oh... damn! Lucky hit on the inertial stabilizers......"




MV....realize that even with Kane gone there are still her crew who are indoctrinated, brainwashed, or 'insert any other adjective here' on board. The same ones who knocked Chief and Helo around are still there and others probably think like them. Even though the squishy inebriated XO (see a recurring themes with XO's?) is moving up, I still think Kane-think will prevail on Pegasus. Even Starbuck was beginning to wonder if Kane was right
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CSpin- that's what I meant by Kane had perverted most of her command crew with her nationalistic-esque, end-justifies-the-means attitude, so even if they got rid of her a little earlier than I would've liked, the issues will survive.

I just wanted them to keep up the "Good Guys contemplate mutiny" side of things awhile before they switch over to the "Bad Guys (Kane's perverts) contemplate mutiny" theme thats pretty much got to be coming. I like irony, and the long the show kept justifying Adama/ the Prez's plans for mutiny, the better the irony will be when the show starts condemning Kane's-perverts' plans for mutiny.

 
#22
#22
And now we have Hanoi Jane working the peace movement with a nuke. Lovely. And we have the President being saved by the blood. Religious connotation?
 
#23
#23
I had airplanes dog fighting on my ceiling also. It was an air group protecting my b-29 and b-27 models from german and japanese fighters.

Quick military history question.

Who is the only man to sink a warship while in command of the nuclear submarine?

Bonus points, can you name his submarine?
 
#24
#24
Falklands War

HMS Conqueror sunk the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano

May 2, 1982

Chris Wreford-Brown
 
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