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BSG: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" � The Big Surprise ($$$ beyond all belief!)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] 49,550 at the header. The population for New Caprica CIty: 39,192. I'm half pissed, and half totally excited by this episode. To say the least, it's ballsy to do the "One Year Later" thing. Which makes me happy if only because it wasn't "One Year Prior". But really I liked the transition with the zoom in/out Baltar's head on the desk. Holy Crap! Despite Lee's [URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/8/885.html#000008]awesome prognostication powers[/URL], I can't believe Pegasus is still around post-nuke. I'm very excited about this. I'm also excited that they blew up Cloud-9, and almost like a real show A) adjacent ships got hit/destroyed by debris, and B) it took 1 year for the cylons to see light which had traveled one light year. This would never happen on Star Trek (*cough* Praxis *cough*). I'm less excited about rumors about EJA leaving the show. I don't want that to happen, and actually I don't really want to hear rumors/spoilers without some warning. There's another thread for those into that sort of thing. (looking at you, Shrump). So there I had a problem with a bunch of dialogue that was really corny and lacked some of the subtlety I'd sort of come to expect from this show: [QUOTE][b]Starbuck:[/b] [i]"I'm not going back to one of those farms. If our descriminately helpful, and now armed Cylon prisoner is right, then you and I need to make an agreement."[/i] [b]Anders:[/b][i]"Ok, what kind of an agreement?"[/i] [b]S:[/b][i]"I'm not going back to one of those farms."[/i] [b]A:[/b][i]"Yeah, you mentioned that twice already."[/i] [b]S:[/b][i]"This is a gun, and we should take turns shooting one another instead of being captured."[/i] [b]A:[/b][i]"So, waitaminute, are you saying we do a suicide pact?"[/i] [b]S:[/b][i]"Sort of."[/i] [b]A:[/b][i]"Where one of us takes a gun, a pistol not unlike this very one, and shoots the other, rather than getting captured?"[/i] [b]S:[/b][i]"That's the kind of thing I'm talking about, yes."[/i] [b]A:[/b][i]"Man, you really are serious about not wanting to go back to one of those farms, Starbuck. I mean that you'd go to the extreme of killing yourself."[/i] [b]A:[/b][i]"Well technically, I wouldn't be killing myself, you'd be killing me."[/i] [b]A:[/b][i]"I just meant, you know, that you're serious."[/i] [b]S:[/b][i]"Yes. Yes I am. Totally serious. Because I'd rather die than go back to one of those farms. The farms: they were bad."[/i] [b]A:[/b][i]"We can dig it. Say, do you have any idea how this episode ran over an hour?"[/i] [b]S:[/b][i]"Not a clue. Also, fuck helmets, who needs 'em... Did I mention the thing about the farms?"[/i][/QUOTE]Were I Lee Adama, and opened the door to see the girl I might be sort of hung up on (except not) getting trashed with her new mister, I think that I would probably close said door, and come back some other time. Not out of any sort of discretion, necessarily, but there are certain sorts of pain you learn to dodge. Anyway I guess they needed to do that for the tension when she called, but that didn't really wind up anywhere, did it? 'Member how [URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/8/911.html#000003]last time[/URL] [URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/8/911.html#000013]some of us[/URL] were hoping they were heading somewhere with the Chief and Cally? Disappointed! I mean they were headed somewhere, but in the continuing tradition of relationships that make no sense on this show, Cally now has a bun in the oven. I do heart Simon's marriage of convenience/non-romantic relationship explanation, but given their track record with the capricious (caprican? tnx P), borderline spastic relationships on this show, I'm just guessing this was not a conscious decision on the part of the writers/show-runners. Is it just me, or did they have AMAZING voter turnout for the election? I had just assumed that there were more non-voting children, or layabouts in the fleet. I was glad that Roslin and Adama made the right moral decision, even if it did ultimately doom humanity. I get that it would take longer than a year to build anything significant on New Caprica, but it didn't look like there was anything more complicated than a tent city and some lean-tos on the planet. I literally gasped when they showed the landed Colonial One because I thought it was so frakkin' cool, but upon further reflection, I would hope there might be a least a little development, some foundations laid, a couple community structures up. Even with shite leadership and scant materials I can't see a population of 39K putting up with tents for what looked to be a wet and cold year. I think about day 20 where no one was building anything is when I'd start piling up rocks and mud and maybe even cook some bricks. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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