I haven't been by. What happened? Those people are crazy.

There's one poster who keeps spamming their opinion all over each and every thread, but that's not the issue, just annoying.

The issue is another poster (we'll call them Twit) who is being stubbornly insulting and calling it honesty (spawned by a much shared opinion that "Storm Front" doesn't gel with the rest of the series and should have been saved as a bonus feature rather than trying to shoe-horn it into the show). Broad statements of "you're not a true fan, you're a poser" began sweeping many of the threads, Twit gets called on it and stands by their opinion while continuing to be insulting.

It is brought to light that another board member decided to quit the skiffy altogether because of Twit and went to the Butcher Block, started a thread to confirm that Twit wasn't in the right, got lots of love and hugs, it was sweet.

Twit was informed that they had successfully chased away a member and apologised for that while simultaneously standing by their opinion and was silent for a couple of hours, having dropped the subject (ooh, hey, let's sweep it under the carpet!)

Someone else escaped from Skiffy, because of Twit, to the Butcher Block and then bitched to the harrassed poster (who had originally fled because of Twit) that they didn't want to have to read anything to do with the matter (they're probably lurking here about to bitch that I'm bringing it up!) and basically harrassed the already harrassed poster (I'm a bleeding heart, sue me).

Twit deleted some of their posts and then began a rant about how they had to cave to mob mentality and their remarks escalated to racist levels whilst giggling madly.

Mods have been notified, but skiffy is notorious for not being on top of things. Where's the stompy feet?!

I had a feeling that episode was going to be the beginning of something nasty. There were so many people feeling so righteous about either loving it or hating it, someone was bound to start flaming. I walked away from an idiot on skiffy last night and haven't been back because I could smell the blood in the water.

The one person who's been spamming his/her opinion all over the place? That wouldn't be "hauntedbyBob" would it?

"hauntedbyBob"

@@ reminds me of the Buffy "keepers"

The one person who's been spamming his/her opinion all over the place? That wouldn't be "hauntedbyBob" would it?

Yeah, I've learned to skip her posts like I've learned to skip Jim Butcher's repeated intros to the cat/dog/apartment/car/Murphy/yadda yadda. I was doing double takes for a while there.

Has anybody posted this here today?

hi-sterical, Beverly! (even though I couldn't understand half of what they said because they weren't speaking American ;) )

Okay, so I've been way behind on Galactica since for ages. Kept trying to catch up. And failing. At some point in the past week, when I was "only" 4 episodes behind, I accidentally saw something and learned that Starbuck died. I assumed she got killed. Then at some point in the last couple of days, I semi-accidentally read something (because I figured I already knew the only thing I could be really spoiled for, oopsie) and learned she killed herself. Whoa. Tonight I watched caught up to that happening. (And for some reason I'd assumed she'd shot herself, so I still managed to be surprised/horrified. Yay?)

I haven't seen the two after that yet, but I read the recaplets at TWoP so... whatever.

I am sorta in the camp that it'll turn out she's a Cylon. Because from the first "Starbuck dies" thing I saw, I thought, "Oh, so she's a Cylon, then. Heh." The tidbits from the podcasts do intrigue me, though. I would be fine with her being a Cylon; it would make sense to me. But I had a love/hate relationship with Starbuck so her death by itself doesn't do anything besides surprise me. That said, the episode was very moving, and she was fantastic in it, especially since I still felt kinda pole-axed by the ending despite the spoilage.

If she's a Cylon, that's kind of awesome. Maybe 50% awesome. If she's well and truly dead, that's TOTALLY awesome. If she's human and alive through some magic Starbuck power, that's negative 90% awesomeness, and I may just give up on the show since I've been off and on with it all season. But from the first that I heard about it, part of my reaction was, y'know, if she's not a Cylon, that makes sense. Because... what would Starbuck do if told she had a special destiny? She'd find a way to prove that nobody can tell her what to do. I kind of love the idea that she'd prove that she'd kill herself to prove that Destiny isn't pulling her strings, and if that turns out to be the deal, I feel more kindly toward her, retroactively. It's possible that I have control issues myself, but, what can I say? I totally get that.

And now I'm gonna go read spoilers, because I can.

So, is there a ahemmed version of the original 2-hour pilot of "Storm Front", or has it been under house arrest by the studio?

Robert Hewitt says they're going to show the whole 2-hour version at some unspecified point in the future, so it's probably on lockdown.

I think they should have skipped showing the cut-down version at all, and just shown the 2-hour original at the end of the first season, as a special. But whatever. I've gotta back away from the boards - those people are nuts. I'm only popping onto the Butcher Board now to read the threads where Robert Hewitt answers questions.