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Did anyone else watch BSG: Razor in the theaters? (Major $$$!!!)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OnToMars: [QB] Agree with Sol here, mostly. Pretty good, not crazy good. Yeah, we didn't see much that wasn't already talked about, but how often have we itched to see something only alluded to on screen? So we got to see spaceships shoot at each other and blow up, I'm always thankful for that. A friend and I were going to see it in the theaters, but forgot about it until it was too late. Ah well, would've been nice to see Scorpion Fleet Yards twenty feet across. As for the whole mystery, I'm sure I've said it before but god knows how long ago, that it's plainly obvious that RDM doesn't know how it'll all turn out, so speculating to it now seems rather pointless. Though I hope he's got a clearer picture now than he did right after the miniseries. And good god could that Shah girl not act. Didn't anybody else find it painful to sit through her performances? I am somewhat disappointed in the structure of the thing. I was hoping it'd be a straight up telling of Pegasus' journey starting at Scorpion and ending with meeting the Galactica, but alas. And yes, the old school Cylons were awesome in every capacity. This whole aspect was a very cool thing for the fans - to follow through on an in joke and make it damn cool. I loved watching the old school Cylons go at it in the webisodes, and that love scaled up appropriately on a 52" HDTV. Though I'm torn, part of me thinks the raider interior "By your command" bit was too much, and part of me makes the counterpoint of, "Weeeeeeee! Awesome!" I think the thematic point of it, buried inside all that plot, was that Adama and Cain were two ends of a spectrum. Cain was willing to sacrifice anybody and anything for the greater good too quickly. Whereas Adama has trouble making those sacrifices sometimes. Cain is hard and tight while Adama is soft and loose, both are extremes, and reality is probably somewhere in the middle. Which goes back to the discussion of what kind of commander is Adama. I think [b]Reverend[/b] has it spot on, and I remember making this argument a long time back. Adama [i]isn't[/i] a good commander, and subsequent flashbacks have revealed this. He saw one mission in the war, got back in thanks to nepotism, fucked up his real command, and got handed Galactica to quietly wait out retirement. And looking at the crew, at least at the start of the miniseries draws it out even further; the troublesome pilot that decks superior officers, the fraternizing pilot and enlisted crew chief, and the drunk mess of an XO. The only apparent blemish on this view is Lee's callsign as Apollo, which he presumably got because he was the son of a "god," presumably meaning William Adama. But one flight instructor's ironic sarcasm can explain that. Also, that [i]Rising Star[/i] model was in the [i]Pegasus[/i] fleet and therefore not the [i]Rising Star[/i], only the same ship type. But we'll be seeing the [i]Rising Star[/i] in season 4, should it ever air. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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