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BSG 2x09 - "Flight of the Phoenix"
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] First, may I please humbly request that we restrain the scope of our discussion to events up to and including only the present episode. I may be alone in this, but I don't watch the "Next week on BSG or commercials" and even more freakishly close my eyes during the "bum-badda-da-dum" part of the opening because I'm avoiding spoilers. If you feel you must discuss things that have not happened on the show yet, perhaps a new thread, or at least note any spoilers so I can skip your post. Yes, I am weird this way. So there were things in this episode that I liked. I'm very glad to see some of the emotional impact of their situation effecting the crew's morale. And where the structural integrity of the Chief's solution may be in question, I felt it seemed an honest and even moving way to do that. He's an engineer, and it's an engineer's solution. I felt I could relate. But that's probably because I'm not a structural design engineer working on fighter jets (!!) Yes, so that was good. But as some may have anticipated, I also had some problems with the rest of the episode. Yes, I am going to complain about networks again, so if you are offended by such niggling, skip ahead... So it has been overtly stated that the Galactica has no networks. Everything is manual controls and lots of folks with octagonal paper. And as much as a pain in the ass as that is, it did save their collective butts from the fate of much of the rest of the fleet. So, er... Now they have a virus that has infected their computer and is dangerously close to getting into their mainframe and really wreaking havoc. So does the Galactica have networks or not? Because even if we ignore the implausibility of how the Cylon virus actually made its way into the hardwired network we saw Mr. Gaeta so dilligently improvise (and so abruptly terminate before the Cylons bypassed the final firewall), then how is the virus propogating itself such that it is endangering a broad range of ships systems, let alone "the mainframe"? I mean did I miss the part where they said it only had control of, say, that one computer that controls whether or not control panels blow up, bridge power, and the oxygen content of the firing range? Because although a serious pain in the ass, that would seem like a comparatively isolated problem. Which isn't even getting into the reasons why the rest of the fleet has not been similarly affected by contact with Cylons. It's my gripe, but it's what I know. I'm also with Sol System on Boomer's magic fiber-optic interconnect. Obviously there are a lot of conceits technologically for a show like this, but technical inconsistencies like this really start straining my suspension of disbelief. It's distracting. If you are going to come out and say than human model Cylons are indistinguishable from humans given a full medical exam, I want to know how a doctor doesn't see an optical port in Boomer's arm that apparently lets her talk to even antiquated computers like Galactica's. If you're going to say that there are no networks on the ship, then don't have a virus spreading and multiplying itself across their network. Or come up with some means of explaining this apparent violations. Even a single line of dialog might be enough to fix it for me. I realize it sounds like quibbling, and I probably shouldn't complain. Honestly, this show does so many things right. And I'm not at all saying that I think the show is rubbish on account of these things. Quite the opposite. It is because I like it so much that I feel that the writers/creators do need to take these details into account if we are going to continue to be enthusiastic about their make-believe universe. We are your demographic. We are nerds. It's what we do. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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