quote:The problem with that idea is that those "railguns" are moving real sloooow. Barely faster than the Vipers, really (and those vipers are not exactly hauling ass either).
Well when you have hundreds of the things fired at a swarm of enemy fighters, the effect is one of saturation biombing/wall-o-flak. These things are defensive in nature, so accuracy isn't a prime concern. If they're so slow that an enemy squadron need only break off to avoid the incoming round, then that's a good thing. Since it would mean an attack has been stalled and it gives the Vipers more of an oppertunity to take them out ship-to-ship.
quote:They could have used a simular effect to the OS and made a plausable explanation that the ordinance was charged from the railgun (or some dam thing- just not stuff that looks like WWII tracers).
That would be counter productive to the tone of the show. If I recall, WWII is the "feel" they're intentionally aiming for.
quote:With FTL tech, they should be able to just accelerate ordinance to near-luminal speeds and destroy entire basestars (if that's what they're called these days) with cannonball-sized pellets.
As Cartman pointed out, that might be impractical with their current level of technology.
quote:I'd really love to see some of the concepts from sci-fi books used in a sci-fo series instead of the tired old stuff we always see nowadays.
Again that's more of a fundemental issue with the show's whole direction and tone. They seam to be very deliberate in avoiding making BSG look "science fictiony". Indeed there's hardly a shortage of that knind of material and for me it's BSG's "grounded" approach that I fell makes it all the more appealing. Speaking of which it's on in about 2 hours and I've got colouring to do. Ta-ta!
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I saw the first two episodes "33" & "Water" back to back Friday night. I liked them so much I went out and bought the miniseries DVD.
I am confused about one thing - in the miniseries, Starbuck tells Adama, "We've got plenty of pilots pacing holes in the ready room, we don't have any fighters." Then he tells her to go to the lower pylon and break out the older fighters.
Where did they GET the older fighters? Didn't Adama say that he hadn't seen a Mark-II in twenty years? Or were they all just rusting in the bowels of the Galactica for two decades?
Minor point, I know. Sorry.
Also: that ship looked a lot like Firefly, I agree.
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It's been a long while since I watched the miniseries, but I think you're talking about the Mark-II Vipers that were to be a part of the museum in the starboard (?) landing pod. I think you can see some of them on display when Apollo does the flyover at the museum dedication.
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Yep, people do get mixed up Serenity (the actual ship) and Firefly (its class). It probably has to do with the series being titled after the latter instead of the former...
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Groan. Yes, I should've said "a". My bad. I am perfectly aware that the ship is named Serenity, it was a slip of the typing fingers - I meant to type Serenity, but my drain don't be a functionin' on a Monday...
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