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finboy · Feb 26, 2007 , 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

must have been part of a plan.

It was part of the plan to get him down on the planet and in the clutches of the breeder experiment with Athena.

finboy · Feb 26, 2007 , 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by reader50

The Chief & Cally seem to have forgotten their science classes and training. A patch doesn't have to be labelled "Colonial Fleet Emergency Patch" to be used. It's just a crack in a weld seam. Most anything will do to cover it enough to equalize pressure. Slice off half the existing patch from clean metal that didn't need if, and apply where it was needed. Smear some grease on reasonably tight fabric.

If you don't have some nonporous material & something gooey to make the seal, then use a trickle of water. Some of it will freeze at the opening due to the temp drop as the pressure drops. Ice will make a perfectly good temp seal. If they don't have water on them, use urine. Though the show might not be able to show it.

The whole plot device was completely unacceptable. They're in a spaceship, and every airlock would be equipped with patches and more patches, and suits and more suits, and an emergency escape locker, etc. Why the writers went there I don't know.

jokell82 · Feb 26, 2007 , 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by finboy

The shark has been jumped.

I liked this plotline too, but I'm not sure they can keep the show going without Cylons. I liked the little speech that Adama gave Chief in the Brig -- someone needs to just give that speech to the whole frakkin fleet and get it over with. Anyone hesitates, the human race could die. It's not like we're organizing a bunch of garbage workers in Cleveland.

The shark has been jumped? You're declaring it already?

I thought this week's episode was fantastic. I thought the way the characters are reacting to a long break without cylon contact was very believable.

RAILhead · Feb 26, 2007 , 12:14 PM

I was happy with this episode. It was somewhat "filler" -- but it was good insofar as the Baltar story and foreshadowing of an upcoming raid.

Eug · Feb 26, 2007 , 12:28 PM

So, nobody else thought that speech given by Admiral Adama in the brig was totally out of character?

reader50 · Feb 26, 2007 , 12:58 PM

His deckhands were refusing most orders while sitting around. Go back to Epiphanies, where Adama had a couple conversations with Royan Jahee - the "make peace with the Cylons" guy. I didn't think it was out of character, just a response to internal threats we don't see often.

finboy · Feb 26, 2007 , 07:38 PM

Yep, the shark has been jumped. In a stealth Viper, no less. By Starbuck, who's a GIRL for crying out loud! Ah.

I liked the Adama speech, though. I thought it was very true to character - he's a no sh*t guy, no matter how much he loves his crew. He screws up, everybody dies. He did what he had to.

JoshuaZ · Feb 28, 2007 , 07:32 PM

Shark be damned. The shark can only be determined once something has ended. All this shark talk is annoying me to no end.....

Yeah, the airlock stuff was bad physics. But lord knows every scifi show does it all the time.

aristotles · Feb 28, 2007 , 11:11 PM

No shark was jumped. If you want to believe that, go watch something else.

Don't let the door hit your where the good lord split you on your way out.

reader50 · Mar 1, 2007 , 01:19 AM

The missing podcasts have finally been posted. They do a good job of explaining why the previous two eps (Woman King, Day in the Life) were not as good as we normally expect from BSG. I really like how Moore is honest about show mistakes in the podcasts. Especially when story problems need to be laid at his own feet.

Speaking of podcasts, I think I've figured out what "technical difficulties" means when SciFi can't post the podcasts on time. Technical Difficulties = Moore was busy, and hadn't recorded them in time.

mrtew · Mar 1, 2007 , 05:18 AM

Originally Posted by reader50

The missing podcasts have finally been posted. They do a good job of explaining why the previous two eps (Woman King, Day in the Life) were not as good as we normally expect from BSG. I really like how Moore is honest about show mistakes in the podcasts. Especially when story problems need to be laid at his own feet.

I can't listen to all that crap... what did he say?

jokell82 · Mar 4, 2007 , 09:58 PM

Uhhh....holy ****! Did they really just do that????

exca1ibur · Mar 4, 2007 , 10:02 PM

I hope so. Good riddance and now, hopefully, we can move on to the Cyclon story that should have never stalled in the first place.

gumby5647 · Mar 4, 2007 , 10:02 PM

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

jokell82 · Mar 4, 2007 , 10:02 PM

Good riddance to starbuck?!?!?! Seriously???

chabig · Mar 4, 2007 , 10:04 PM

Wasn't there some kind or rumor about this happening? It seems like I remember something...

mrtew · Mar 4, 2007 , 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by exca1ibur

I hope so. Good riddance and now, hopefully, we can move on to the Cyclon story that should have never stalled in the first place.

I agree, it'd be a really good show without Starbuck and Apollo, and Adama and that old lady, and all those other freaks etc. All I want to see is Baltar and that half naked blonde making out and ships flying around shooting eachother.

whatever

greenamp · Mar 4, 2007 , 10:11 PM

Well, Starbuck is a cylon then no? All that backstory about her facing her destiny... her destiny wasn't just to die?

xi_hyperon · Mar 4, 2007 , 10:15 PM

Holy. Crap.

RAILhead · Mar 4, 2007 , 10:33 PM

Well I'll be dang.

Visnaut · Mar 4, 2007 , 11:13 PM

D'Anna kept describing something beautiful between life and death, and there she saw the final 5.

Now, Head-Leoben tells her that he is preparing her to pass through another door, to somewhere between life and death.

Throw in all that destiny talk, and her painting and seeing the eye of Jupiter, and it's obvious:

Starbuck is one of the Final 5.