Add me to the list of those who thought Adama could have found a more qualified interrogater than Starbuck. If the Cyclon is so good at being sneaky and tricky, why send a valuable, injured pilot to do the questioning - especially if she’s as unstable as Starbuck?
I’m also feeling like I’m a little ahead of where an average viewer is supposed to be. Aren’t the Cylons a legitimate new lifeform? Why is it so difficult to accept them as thoughtful “people?”
Other than that, I love this show. I look forward to it all week.
Perhaps they did pump out most of the air. Notice that when the button gets pushed, sirens and flashing lights go on in the airlock. Maybe most of the air is getting pumped out during this time, and the air we see getting “whooshed” out along with the Cylon is only a small remainder.
No, they aren’t robots full of gears and wires and chips. They are indistinguishable from people on the inside too.
What are you? Some kind of liberal? They are still a lifeform that they are at war with.
I’m just wondering why no one asked the Cylons why they attacked them in the first place.
Who cares about the airlock? If they didn’t have air in the airlock, they couldn’t BLOW the body out into space. Plus explosive decompression always looks cool.
Maybe they had Starbuck do the interrogation for the same reason I do interviews at work. Because I just happen to be available at the time. She wasn’t very good at it.
Is any explanation given by the producers why the soldiers dress in Earth-style body armor as opposed to say, surplus Starship Troopers armor or painted football pads or other props that make them look like they don’t come from Earth? Is it just cost or did the producers try to make the settings as familiar as possible?
I find it interesting that on Star Trek we don’t bat an eye when Riker has to pilot the shuttle to lead the starship safely through the minefield or whatever, but that on Battlestar Galactica we are bothered by the same use-a-lead-character-for-big-actions phenomenon. Says a lot about how realistically we perceive the world they’ve created, doesn’t it, that these little implausibilities bother us whereas on other SF shows where less attention is paid to realism they don’t?
The official scifi.com website has a set of short documentary videos on various aspects of the show, and the latest one they just added discusses the show’s low-tech design philosophy. I haven’t seen it yet but the others I’ve watched were pretty good. Might be worth going to check it out, see if the producers say something like, “We wanted the familiarity, and the fact that it’s cheaper is a bonus.”
I don’t see a problem with it. They’re marines, they wear body armor. It’s a hell of a lot more convincing looking then the Marines on Enterprise, or any starfleet security.
Actually, the Humvees bothered me more then the body armor(but not much).
1.) the cylons nuked their entire civilization and the remainder of humanity even now is being hunted by the Cylon fleet.
2.) They aren’t actually humans.
Both of those would contribute a lot to the fact that cylons have no civil liberties. Hell, the first would be more then enough(My leanings are libertarian and I had no problem with Roslin shooting him out the airlock). You’d be amazed how much becomes permissable in interrogations in such a situation.
Well, she is still limping around on the bum leg of hers. Wasn’t it last week they were saying it was still too weak for her to fly? But I like Cervaise’s point that we expect more realism from this show.
Don’t tell me you’re missing those silly Egyptian head gear thingies they wore in the original series! They seem to use projectile weapons (at least they do in the vipers–I haven’t seen any guns outside of the ceremonial ones in the funeral salutes), so it would make sense that marines would have body armor.
… and watch the body sit there in the airlock. Explosive decompression wraps up execution and body disposal into one neat(?) package. If all you want to do is suffocate the guy, why not just tie him to a chair and put a plastic bag over his head? Or use that bucket of water they had?
Of course if I were them, I’d have wanted to keep the body for dissection, but that doesn’t seem to be the direction this series wants to go.
