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Post by viper1212 on Feb 5, 2005 12:39:04 GMT -5
Phenomenal episode, from start to finish. I couldn't believe that even after reading the spoilers for this one, then watching it, I was so moved by the Apollo-Adama scene, when Apollo asks if Adama would order the fleet to stay behind to search for him if he were lost. And I was also moved by the Starbuck-Adma scene at the end. The FX were great, as usual, in ways TOS could NEVER have achieved. That said, I have a nitpick. Considering that Starbuck was out of oxygen and needed to be inside the Raider to breathe, how could she then have gone outside the craft into an oxygen-deprived atmosphere, found material to affix under its wings, do so and then fly home? Also, how could she see out of the ship? (As the first CAG said in the miniseries, of the Cylon Raiders, before he and his squadron were blown away by them, "There are no cockpits.") And, how did she figure out its navigational system that got her back to the exact position of the fleet?
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Post by viper1212 on Jan 14, 2005 13:25:55 GMT -5
I KNEW someone would beat me to it in suggesting Michael Ironside. He's the quintessential sci-fi actor and I love what he's been in - "V," "Totall Recall," "Starship Troopers." He'd be great as cain. But what about some other ideas? What if Moore brings the character back and perhaps makes Cain a far younger commander than Adama who's a little unsure about his own leadership? Maybe a James Spader-type? Or, what if Moore were to make Cain a woman? Perhaps an Angela Bassett-type?
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Post by viper1212 on Jan 4, 2005 14:49:08 GMT -5
Fellow Galacticans: From my childhood, watching the "Lost Planet of the Gods" episode, Kobol was interesting in the fact that it was shot in Giza, Egypt and incorporated footage of the Great Pyramids. I'm an American who won't get to see the new show for another 10 days (who's counting?), so I've been downloading all the screen caps. I'm pleased to see in the re-imagined series, from the screen caps anyway, that Kobol looks to be vastly different - lush, mountainous and green- from the dead, desert landscape of 26 years ago. But I wonder if anyone out there knows the answers to these questions: 1)Is this Kobol inhabited by other humnas, or will it be "dead" as on TOS? 2)In the TOS, the fleet "rediscovers" Kobol after traveling through a void - any idea how this group finds it? 3)What in the world is that disembodied arm with the arrow in the glass case? And the dress in another case? 4)And what do Starbuck and Number Six have to do with these items?
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Post by viper1212 on Dec 27, 2004 3:13:20 GMT -5
Hey, Spass. Please enlighten me - and everyone else who may be unfamiliar with it - about the the Biblical Saul/Paul thing.
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Post by viper1212 on Dec 25, 2004 15:24:22 GMT -5
OK, Guys, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, especially being that this is my first post and that I've never anticipated a new show more than I have this one, but... I think I've found a hole... In the miniseries, Number Six alludes to the fact that Gaius Baltar has "been having sex with a Cylon for almost two years." If that's true, then why don't we EVER hear Baltar addressing his partner, who he believes is human, by any NAME? I mean, wouldn't he call her SOMETHING? Especially when she's telling him she's a Cylon, wouldn't you expect him to say: That can't be true, your name is ... you were born on ... you live in ... Also...Adama refers to Col. Tigh at one point as "Saul," when on the show, his name is "Paul." As for the new show...I'm dying to know a few things, from viewing the high res stills: 1)what the hell is that disembodied arm holding the arrow and what is Starbuck wanting to do with it? 2)Is it Satrbuck that gets killed by it? 3)Does Number Six somehow kill Starbuck, then masquerade as her to fool the fleet? 4)Will Adama survive Cylon-Boomer shooting him? 5)Did somehow Cylon-Boomer and Sharon-Boomer end up trading places? Is it really Sharon-Boomer on occupied Caprica and Cylon-Boomer on the Galactica? And, the big one...Will we EVER find out who it was that Number Six was talking to on Caprica before the nuclear holocaust, when she says: "It's about time. I was wondering when you'd get here." And finally: Does anyone else find it the least bit disappointing that Colonial culture seems to be a very homogenous, futursistic Western one? Bravo for the ethnic diversity, but why do they all speak the same language and have the same religion? (on TOS, at least they had people speaking Gemense, the Borellian Nomen, etc.). And I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed that apparently, these humans drink coffee, eat chicken pie, use the same clocks to tell time, have the same military jargon and rituals and even have boxing as a sport. With all these similarities, doesn't it make the premise of this group originally being from Kobol and searching for Earth implausible? Someone help me out here!
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