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Post by Mustex on Feb 8, 2005 20:49:41 GMT -5
Moore said he believes there was a cataclysm, leading to a dark age, so the Lords were more advanced than the colonists.
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Post by Mustex on Feb 19, 2005 10:15:42 GMT -5
This one opens with Baltar working in his lab. Six is by his side. In his mind, they begin fooling around and Baltar is ready for action. However Six wants to talk about God. Baltar begins to talk about God but it looks like he is an atheist. They have a fight and Six shows up as Shelly Godfrey and accuses Baltar of trason, ie he sold out the entire human race. She even has a disk with him planting a bomb at the Caprica defense ministry. Baltar is up to his neck in problems. William Adama tells him that if this true serious consequences will occur. Baltar states Shelly is a Cylon and if he can go to the lab he can prove it. Adama states that is out of the question. If Baltar is guilty everything in the lab will be destroyed and anybody he has been in contact will be interrogated. Geita is working on restoring the photograph and has to go to the bathroom. Baltar follows them and they have a chat while each is in their respective stall. Baltar says the photo is a fake. Geita states that it is real. They banter for a while and Geita leaves. Baltar exclaims, "You forgot to wash your hands." He also runs into Shelly in the bathroom because it is a coed toilet. He tells her that she is a fake, ie a Cylon. She states the contrary. She exclaims how he is in deep water. In a pivtol scene Shelly tried to put the moves on William Adama but he didn't budge. As a result William tells Tigh to keep her under survailence. Tyrol is trying to make the Raider work and is having one heck of a time doing so. Sharon arrives on the scene and begins going into a speach of how the thing needs to be treated kindly like a pet. Tigh visits Kara in the sickbay and states that they Raider is being studied with no luck and this prompts Kara to go to the bay and help Tyrol. She manages to get the thing working. Back on Caprica, Helo and Boomer are running from the mech Cylons. They manage to elude them and Helo states his feelings for Sharon even mentioning the Chief who Sharon was involved with. Sharon decides to make love with Helo and her spine glows red. Back on the fleet, Baltar contacts the President who collapses. He wnated to go to her ship, Colonial One fearing the worst. Adama restricted Baltar to the Galactica. The president is okay but because of Billy [ he called for help and the transmission was picked up ] the president will have to go before a paniced public in order to reasure them she is fine. Baltar is placed in a cell and visited by Roslin who has her doubts. She is peeved because it looks like Baltar has taken them all for a ride. Baltar knows the end is near and prays to God. he wants to be a better person for what ever time remains in his wretched life. He has repented and Six appears to calm him down. She manages to sooth him. Geita charges into the room and Baltar figures it is his end. However Geita states Baltar was right, the photo a fake. Shelly Godfrey disappears. Adama is adament and states blatently to Tigh, "Where is she? She couldn't have vanished." Adama realizes that this was a Cylon plot to discredit the doctor who is near completion of his projects. Baltar ius vindicated and the president gives a speech stating just this fact. We see baltar and Six at the end of the episode. Baltar has figured it out. By Six/Shelly accusiing him and his subsequent vindication, Baltar is now above suspicion. Baltar asks her if there was a Shelly Godfrey but she is headed for the bedroom to give him a reward. ================================================== I rate this one a B. The acting was superb. Callis rocked. "No more Mr Geius." He states when Shelly left the bathroom. Tyrol was also excellent this week as he is cursing while inside the Raider. It was funny and lightened the mood of the show. IMHO, the humanoid Cylons are based on people who might have been abducted. There probably was a real Sharon, Shelly, Lieoben, and Doral. IMHO this was also lifted from the proposed season 2 of BG by Larson with the Cylon replicants on the Pegasus. I know that Ron researched the show. HE'S BREAKING! BTW, what does IMHO stand for? I can never keep all the abbr. straight. Anyway, I give this eisode 4 out of 5. I would give it five, but it bugs me that they Cylon Raider has no brain, and yet doesn't even need life-support. Also, it was apparently supposed to be a mystery whether or not Godfrey was ever there, or if she was just an illusion. HELLO! THE DISK EXISTS, SO SHE HAD TO EXIST TO HOLD IT!
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Zak
Nov 24, 2004 20:12:01 GMT -5
Post by Mustex on Nov 24, 2004 20:12:01 GMT -5
Then your story may have a problem. Remember that Number Six and Baltar were sleeping together for two years before the destruction of the colonies. Also Boomer is a rookie aboard Galactica, but since she's an officer we can assume she attended some kind of Fleet Academy prior to coming on board. Here on Earth, the military service academies are full universities. If the Colonial Fleet Academy is the same, then it's possible the bio-Cylons have been infiltrating for five or six years already. Do we know how long ago Zak Adama died? To judge from the appearance of the characters in the "Act of Contrition" flashback scenes, it couldn't be too long ago... Actually I was forgetting my own story points. It's not that they can't have created realistic look-a-likes, it's that Six is only finished at the end of the story (I'm dreading giving away to much, please don't try to put the pieces together too hard). But if he DIED two years ago, and Six started sleeping with Baltar two years ago. It all lines up just right.
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Zak
Nov 24, 2004 16:21:10 GMT -5
Post by Mustex on Nov 24, 2004 16:21:10 GMT -5
Well, we already know that the Cylons prefer humans who are capable of feeling love. Perhaps the Cylons selected Zak Adama for their plan because he was in love with Starbuck! They grabbed him and brain-scanned him. Then they covered their tracks by tinkering with his brain to make him crash and stuffing him back into his Viper. This also allows you to do a creepy prologue to your fanfic. In the prologue, you show Starbuck and Zak together on the base, laughing and having a good time. Finally Zak tells her that he has to leave early, because is scheduled for a flight physical before he goes on duty later. Unknown to them, they are being observed by a mysterious blonde woman... Problem there. Certain story points require that this be before the Cylons can create convincing human look-a-likes.
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Zak
Nov 23, 2004 6:47:19 GMT -5
Post by Mustex on Nov 23, 2004 6:47:19 GMT -5
Why does his brain have to be scanned after the flight accident? If the Cylons already had a reason to be interested in Zak Adama (which must be true, if they're bothering to shoot him down ) then why not have them scan his brain before the accident? In fact, perhaps the "accident" was actually sabotage! That would be much safer for the Cylons (i.e. much harder to detect) than shooting him down. Well, I guess sabotage would work better, but they didn't have any interest in Zak specifically. They just needed a Colonial in general. Plus, they needed to get him isolated where they could scan his brain. Plus, they didn't want it to seem strange that he was dead at the end, because he couldn't be allowed to tell anyone they were there.
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Zak
Nov 22, 2004 20:37:27 GMT -5
Post by Mustex on Nov 22, 2004 20:37:27 GMT -5
Didn't he die while effectively doing his solo ? I would assume also that he would have died during takeoff or landing. If he were in space I would assume that safety systems wouldn't allow him to do anything that would kill him....but takeoff and landing. Good point. Of course during a space shuttle landing you can get pretty far off course if something goes wrong, as is evident from the Columbia mishap (of course if that happens it would probably be a "brain is toasted jelly" scenario).
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Zak
Nov 22, 2004 20:04:08 GMT -5
Post by Mustex on Nov 22, 2004 20:04:08 GMT -5
I had the impression that it was during a training, recon, or some other non-combat action; therefore there would have been several witnesses & I don't think there's much chance he's alive.... Maybe "survived" wasn't the right word. I know he's dead. Well, let me give away some story details the way I was planning them: It just looked like an accident. The Cylons snuck some agents back into the colony, who shot him down. Then, before anyone else could reach him, they got to the Viper and scanned the memories from his dead brain into a computer. This could word if you accept Baltar isn't delusion (it proves they have computer-neural hook-ups), but it kind of falls apart if all that was left of his brain was jelly.
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Zak
Nov 22, 2004 6:49:12 GMT -5
Post by Mustex on Nov 22, 2004 6:49:12 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that his death was described as a "flight accident" at some point. Yes, but was it the kind of accident he might have survived (just impact), or not (KABOOM!)?
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Zak
Nov 21, 2004 20:44:00 GMT -5
Post by Mustex on Nov 21, 2004 20:44:00 GMT -5
How much do we know about his fate? I have an idea for a fan fic, but it requires that his brain was in tact for at least a little while after the crash.
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Post by Mustex on Jan 24, 2005 7:53:06 GMT -5
I think BD was intended as a parody of both the BSG community, and Sci-fi Channel. Think about it:
1. "Who voted for Laura Roslin?"="How did Bonnie Hammer get control of the Sci-fi Channel."
2. "I read your book, and it changed my view on alot of things."+the fact that the book was banned="I read your book, which wasn't a popular discesion with others involved with the series, and it changed my view on a continuations as a possibility."
3. "You'll get your election."+the fact that it's in seven months="My story lasts for up to seven years. After that, you'll get your continuation."
4. "You've committed me to holding elections within the year."="I've made a closed-door deal with Hatch to make a continuation after TNS wraps up. Unfortunately, unlike Apollo I can't tell this to the president, or announce it in any way she'll find out, because Hammer'll have my head on a platter."
5. "We need you to help resupply on water."="We need BSG to help resupply Sci-fi Friday after Hammer canceled everything."
6. "We've jammed his transmissions."="We've edited his interviews."
7. "Zarek wants to go out in a blaze of glory."="Hatch justed wanted attention at first."
I think the idea of a "closed-door" agreement is lended legitimacy by the fact that they took shots at Hammer. You don't build PR by insulting your boss.
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Post by Mustex on Mar 20, 2005 14:32:39 GMT -5
Maybe their finally seeing what everyone else sees. That is good sci-fi TV! Well...almost everyone.
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Post by Mustex on Mar 20, 2005 8:47:34 GMT -5
O.k., I'm sure you all remember Entertainment Weekly's rude comment about both BSG fandoms. Anyway, I forgot to mention when AOC came out they changed their tone and gave it a B. Here's the final kicker, though. For next week (I have it in front of me, and will copy word-for-word):
It should be noted that higher than B+'s are usually reserved for Emmy/Oscar winners, and with the first comment it was also pointed out that NBC is a rival to the people who own EW, so they don't want TNS to look too good.
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Post by Mustex on Mar 15, 2005 21:40:05 GMT -5
Lang is a clever marketing ploy to make enemies of RDM's BSG look like complete idiots. Any time someone comes up with a criticism, all that needs to be done is mutter "sounds like something Lang would say" and chuckle away. Some suspect that's the case, although if so it goes a bit farther than that. Lang steals other people's arguments, turns them up to their illogical extreme, and then accuses the other people of being "Stealth Marketers" (formerly "Universal Executives," until he stole his new phrase from Spider987) using "reverse psychology."
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Con
Mar 9, 2005 21:16:53 GMT -5
Post by Mustex on Mar 9, 2005 21:16:53 GMT -5
Because our show has made it on it's own as far as I'm concerned. I'm not against a joint con, just as I'm not against CF looking out for both sides, but CF isn't an excuse to take down RA. We need our own sites, our own merchandise, and our own cons.
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Con
Mar 8, 2005 21:46:25 GMT -5
Post by Mustex on Mar 8, 2005 21:46:25 GMT -5
Hey, what would you want a TNS con to be called? It would have to be something BSG related, but indepented of TOS, but not offensive to TOS fans. I've only thought of two:
RagnarCon Con Moore
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