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Okay, I need someone to find some screencaps to prove me right or wrong here....
I was watching the first part of the BSG mini series today to prepare myself for the premiere on Friday. In the first 10 minutes there's an establishing shot of Caprica City, and the next scene is looking up through a glass ceiling at several buildings and ships flying overhead from within the city. There's a big obviously military ship flying left-to-right that the camera seems to follow. One of those passenger liners is further in the background. And finally, in the lower left corner, flying right-to-left, is another ship that I swear is the Serenity from Firefly. It's only on screen for a couple of seconds, but could someone else confirm this? It wouldn't really mean anything if it's true, but would be a cool Easter Egg.
B.J.
{Edit: Added spoiler warning since thread's moving that direction - Siegfried}
I watched this for the first time yesterday. It was OK. I'm not sure why "no networks" is a better idea than "sensible network security," but that's the way things go, I guess; and I probably already grumbled about it the first time around. Also, they use a lot of paper.
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"I'm not sure why "no networks" is a better idea than "sensible network security," but that's the way things go, I guess..."
Yeah, what was that little tirade about, anyway? I saw it for the first time when it aired on NBC Sunday, but I missed the first 15 minutes or so. Was there something in there that explains why the captain thinks that the computers will destroy everyone if they're allowed to transfer data to each other?
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The Cylons have mad computer hacking skills, is the deal. Which, OK, I can see why you wouldn't want your ship rigged for wifi in such circumstances, but if the Cylons can get into the cables connecting one computer to another, then they can get inside the computers themselves just as easy, and keeping them unconnected does you no good.
Anyway, I watched part two, and it was pretty good, network security issues aside.
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Be forewarned, though, that's eight pages long. Oh, and it has tons and tons of spoilers.
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Was there something in there that explains why the captain thinks that the computers will destroy everyone if they're allowed to transfer data to each other?
I was initially going to say that wasn't an explanation given, but I'm waffling on that answer now. I suppose that if there were an explanation, it was just a very generalized "things can easily spread" answer. I don't recall the exact reasons for his paranoia being explained.
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It may not have been explained word for word, but it was kinda obvious from the events of the miniseries why he had such a problem with it.
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over here in the uk we are up to about ep13,( or somthing like that) and this series just gets better and better.
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quote:A deeper truth is, I was never interested in coming up with an explanation for Why? Never. I mean, I suppose I could've come up with a sufficiently important-sounding bit of technobabble that would've made sense (you see, the Cylon double-talk sensors tracking the Olympic Carrier's nonsense drive signature needed 15 minutes to relay the made-up data wave through the pretend continuum, then the Cylon navigational hyper silly system needed another 10 minutes to recalculate the flux capacitor, etc.) but what would that have really added to the drama? How does explaining that 33 minute interval help our understanding of Laura's terrible moment of decision, or bring us to any greater knowledge of Dualla's search for her missing family and friends, or yield insight into Baltar's morally shattered psyche?
Learned much from his time on Star Trek, this man has.
I actually just got a hold of the Generations DVD the other week and listening to Moore's commentary showed just how much he'd learnt since. The man was scathing in his criticism of his own writing, which in my experience is very rare in the movie/TV business. He's defiantly the right man to helm BSG.
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I'll give the new series a chance (as someone's theory on Baltar has me intrigued) but the miniseries was pretty lame.
Nothing in it made me think these people come from an advanced culture (or even had a culture of their own at all!) and the characters were wholly unlikable (aside from *possibly* Tigh, who, it seems was made white for no real reason at all).
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"He's defiantly the right man to helm BSG."
Indeed.
('Cause, you know. Zing!)
Moore and Braga have a joint commentary for First Contact, which I was looking forward to. I didn't realize Moore had one for Generations too.
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Jason, I suggest you watch that special (Lowdown on BSG or something). They never meant it to be an advanced culture. They specifically say it's a drama about us. It just happens to be set in space.
Oh, and the production graphics after the ending credits of "Water" were hilarious. Moore gets knocked silly with a baseball bat!
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It's even harder to watch if they are NOT supposed to be advanced. Fuck man, if I want the EXACT same military-drama crap, I'll watch JAG. At least there I can ogle Catherine Bell!
How can you NOT be "advanced" when you've had FTL travel for years and years....?
I think I'll go buy the Firefly DVD set instead (as I've not seen a single episode of that!)
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(Whatever its sins, this new Battlestar Galactica does not seem to be lacking in the area of. . . I can't think of a non-creepily sexist way to say it. Anyway, there are some totally hawt chix.)
I can't imagine your reaction to Firefly's set of cultural oddities.
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