Personally, I am so sick of everybody jumping into bed together.
I realise that love is part of the Human experience, but jeez…
If I want to watch porn, I’ll pop in a dvd.
If I want to watch romance, I got oodles of soap operas to pick from.
When I watch sci-fi, it’s because I want to see bugged-eyed aliens being introduced to hard vacuum in an abrupt manner.
Why is it we can’t have a show were men and women are shown working together in a professional or platonic manner? Do Hollywood writers think that that is just not possible?
C’mon, mlees. They’ve been through the ultimate traumatic experience and are responsible for the continuing existance of the human race. Of course they’re going to be pairing off like bunnies!
No aliens…but I’ll settle for a bunch more catastrophic dissassembly of Toasters instead.
Space aliens would not fit at all with BSG (though one wonders who/what the hell the Lords of Kobol were/are). I think there Roslin & Adama had a few lines speculating about aliens in the original miniseries draft (that had all 12 Colonies as nations on the planet Kobol), but it was left out.
The character-driven stuff was great when it was tied into the overall plot – take, for example, the tension between Adama, Apollo and Starbuck over Zack’s death. That bit of soap opera was tied into how each of those characters reacted to the unfolding events of the cylon war. The characters also developed through those events – their relationships didn’t remain static. The love rhombus? Not tied into overall events, and at the end of last week’s episode we were right back to square one. Boring.
Until the writers get back to making the human relationships directly interact with the events of the storyline (events which seem to be pretty sparse recently), the show is going to remain dull.
I wonder what brought that on. Should you remember, I’d like a cite.
The Colonists are, stictly speaking aliens, and the Cylons sure are, even to the Colonists. :Maybe he’s thinking latex foreheads.
I heard it second-hand (here on the Dope, I think, in a previous season’s thread), and I thought the operative term was “bug-eyed aliens”. The gist of it was that he was in on the show as long as it was about people, not about the monster-of-the-week.
But bear in mind, this is second-hand and from memory.
I’d heard the same thing – over at TWoP, methinks, so I’ll probably have no luck finding an actual cite.
Hey! There hasn’t been much good pornyness lately! How long has it been since we’ve had a naked Boomer? Or even a naked Apollo? We’ve seen shirtless Helo, but Starbuck and Six have been downright demure.
So, maybe if they’re not aliens with prostheses glued to their foreheads, it’d be okay… like if they looked just like humans, but had big humps. Or extra breasts. Or – oooh! – four eyes and two mouths and a kickin’ disco fashion sense to their cabaret act! I’m sure EJO would be down with that.
I dunno about that. I think we’re gonna get us a Gaylon before the end of the series. And it would kinda make sense…if the Cylons want to infiltrate the humans, might as well experience all aspects of being human.
Arguably, Caprica and Xenabot may already qualify. We know they were doing threeways with Baltar. Maybe they got a little girl-girl loving in there as well…
Compared to the state of life on the civilian ships, I imagine that life as a basic crewman/kitchen orderly to the Admiral Commanding is a good gig. And the screw-ups generally don’t get assigned to the senior command staff.
I was wondering where the Chief Engineer was at the time. I don’t expect a career pilot and bridge officer like Adama or an XO like Tigh to know diddly about the engineering bits…Of course, the big plot hole was that a guy in a spacesuit with some plates and welding gear couldn’t hop a Raptor and seal the hole from the exterior? They don’t have a mechanical override?! They are too tech-phobic to use cellphones or networks, but they’ll miss having mechanical overrides?
Could someone please, please, please hire some engineers to advise this show? :rolleyes:
Yeah… it seems to me that there should be procedures in place like:
(1) If you go into an airlock, you bring with you a little “life-support-on-wheels” wheelbarrow type thing, park it in the corner, and have it sit there to keep you safe, just in case
(2) Before you send people into a potentially damaged airlock, you cycle the interior door several times to be safe
(3) If you have patches for leaks (which I was impressed that at least they did), you make them out of stuff that doesn’t easily get holes in it. Like, I dunno, many many materials
Basically, an accident like the one we almost witnessed should be
(1) instantaneous
(2) during wartime/an ongoing active emergency
(3) the result of gross incompetence
or
(4) the result of a TON of failsafes all failing at the same time
