I am very distraught.
next on my sci-fi agenda? get caught up with BSG. is there anything i should know about this show before i get attached?
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'Potential'
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tiggy - Jul 22, 2005 7:44:25 pm PDT #2420 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Polter-Cow - Jul 22, 2005 7:50:01 pm PDT #2421 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
is there anything i should know about this show before i get attached?
It's really really good?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 22, 2005 7:52:25 pm PDT #2422 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's getting better ratings than SG-1, so it's relatively unlikely that SciFi will be cancelling it within the next decade?
Polter-Cow - Jul 22, 2005 7:54:17 pm PDT #2423 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
People seem to die a lot?
Katie M - Jul 22, 2005 10:06:20 pm PDT #2424 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
But sometimes they don't die! They just make you worried that they died.
NoiseDesign - Jul 23, 2005 1:12:15 am PDT #2425 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
People seem to die a lot?
But we know that they can't lose more than 48,000 random extras. It's nice that there's a built in limit in the opening credits.
That makes me think, should they be changing that bit each episode when people get killed? That would be a kinda cool and morbid bit in the opening credits.
Also, it's odd that SG-1 and SGA have the super short opening credits now.
Vonnie K - Jul 23, 2005 3:00:37 am PDT #2426 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
should they be changing that bit each episode when people get killed?
They are. The number was 47,874 last night instead of 47,875 last week since we've lost that red shirt guy in Kobol last week. I'm now morbidly curious about the opening credit next week to see just how many people we lost in this episode because... wow. It was a fucking massacre.
New music on BSG. I liked the piano piece Starbuck played at her place, but it felt kind of instrusive at the end when it was repeated. Interesting insight into her character though, this revelation of her as an artist. Yay backstory!
JenP - Jul 23, 2005 3:09:18 am PDT #2427 of 10001
But sometimes they don't die! They just make you worried that they died.
This very thing. It's really pretty impressive.
That makes me think, should they be changing that bit each episode when people get killed? That would be a kinda cool and morbid bit in the opening credits.
I had pretty much the same thought, and I'm checking next week to see if they change it look what happens when you miss a post before hitting Post.
tiggy, the only thing about BSG for me was that it took a little while to warm to some of the characters, but it's been completely worth it. And the story had me the whole time, particularly starting with the S1 pilot (the mini, while fine, didn't grab me the way the pilot ep did).
ETA: Did anyone get a handle on how many Cylons were on board? It didn't seem like that many, which is, of course, scarier.
sumi - Jul 23, 2005 3:46:52 am PDT #2428 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
It wasn't very many -- just what could have fit in that one ship that crashed into the Galactica.
Did the fighter pilot played by EJO's son die? (Hotdog, I think.)
And I must admit, that everytime one of the little groups of people came across a lone survivor in a room with a bunch of bodies -- I wondered if that person was really a cylon. I guess we will know eventually.
Fay - Jul 23, 2005 4:44:40 am PDT #2429 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
tiggy - make sure you see the Miniseries first. I foolishly (!) bought a box set in the airport on the basis that it was Season 1, and thus should be BSG from the beginning, right? Wrong. Picture the baffled expression on my face, and that of my flatmate, as Episode 1, Season 1 starts with a superfast 'previously on BSG'.
Hmph.
Re: SG1 - I'm gathering, from reading PegB, that Daniel canonically grew up in Egypt. Is this so?
t /excited