Maybe not, but no way it’s coming back anytime soon. If it can’t suffocate, it will be like the Energizer bunny; it just keeps going and going and going…
then it would die when the bodily fluids evaporated. Pretty darn cold out there, too. 
They already had one of that model in the morgue.
But that’s what I’m getting at. Stuff like Humvees (actually they are driving the Rigelian “Ranchero” which by coincidence is exactly the same as your Earth “Hummer”) and the same body armor you see in every cop show is instantly recongnizable as being distinctive to Earth, circa now. As are callsigns like “Colonial One” (IOW Air Force One) and the contemporary clothing styles (no silver jumpsuits or space meu meus like in Star Trek). Mart of it could be to save costs I’m sure. But since they could have made slight modifications to make the equipment seem different, if not necessarily futuristic, I suspect that they did it to make the audience feel more grounded in the story. The problem with most science fiction is that the technology is so wonderous and amazing to us but is mundane and routine to the characters in the movie.
How did I miss Humvees? What episode?
Exactly. Which is ideal for everyone on the BSG, as it can’t beam back to the hive and tell everyone what’s been going on. Frankly, I don’t believe him when he said that it was too far for him to get back.
Adama also needed to send someone that he believed wasn’t a cylon. Starbuck is probably near the top of his list in this regard.
I’m thinking if Adama is a cylon, it’s the younger of the two.
I forget the name, but it’s the one where Starbuck is training the pilots and they keep showing flashbacks of Zak Adama’s funeral. At one point Starbuck and Adama are walking around a military base and you can see Humvees in the background.
They seem to be going to great lengths to make the Colonials earthlike.
The non-military men wear ties.
The President uses a dry erase marker to keep tally of the population.
etc. etc.
You’re right, they could have altered things so that they don’t look earthlike but they seem to have made a conscious creative choice not to do that.
Interesting given the octagonal CDs.
I can’t decide it that’s good or bad. On the one hand, it’s not Geordie fixing something with a flashlight, but it’s not far from the Trek “why does everyone speak English” to “why does the President have a dry marker”.
Remember earlier in the show that Commander Adama didn’t want to interrogate the Cylon at all, but the President insisted? Maybe he sent Starbuck in a fit of petulance so that he could say, “Hey, I sent my best soldier. Maybe next time you’ll listen to me and take my advice?”
Are they speaking English or is their language being translated to English?
I don’t think it’s odd that they would all speak the same language. I assume there was a great deal of communication and commerce across the colonies and they very well could have decided on one universal language they would all speak.
They used to speak different languages, but Adama had Starbuck zip around to each ship and teach them Galactica English - Starbuck, is after all, the best English teacher in the fleet.
The Cylons speak English for a good reason. They worship one powerful, almighty, merciless, ruthless and evil god, before whom all must bow - Bill Gates.
Yeah, they’d better go easy on those things if they want to be able wipe ‘n’ write for longer than another couple of weeks or so. It’s not like they’re gonna be able to nip into Office Depot for replacements.
Seems like there woul be a lot of scope for ‘for want of a nail’ type episodes, where the whole fleet is nearly brought down 'cause they’ve run out of AA batteries or something.
The president makes a great cylon. She is exactly the kind of person that would be, planted in the ranks, no one know her well, suddenly she becomes president as the result of actions taken by cylons. Then she has dreams of cylons talking to her on top of everything else.
If any of the key cast is a cylon (besides who we know) I would be more inclined to believe it is her.
I did not explain well.
A common complaint about Trek was “Why do all the aliens speak English?”
I submit that “why do they Galactica folks have Earth stuff from the 1980’s” is a valid question.
Those are space ties
Those are space markers
It’s like Kang and Kodos from the Simpsons said - “ACTUALLY WE ARE SPEAKING [CAPRICAN]…WHICH BY COINCIDENCE IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOUR LANGUAGE!”
(and I’ve used this joke twice now in this thread)
Acyaully, I don’t want to watch subtitles over an hour of gibberish, do you?
I agree. Adama just wanted to destroy him. Then Roslin insists he be interrogated. Adama says he can play with peoples’ minds. So Roslin says “get someone who isn’t easily manipulated.” So Adama picks Starbuck? The hot shot pilot who can’t control her temper and gets regularly thrown in the brig? The religious Starbuck who keeps figurines in her locker and talks to them? The Starbuck with obviously unresolved mommy (and probably daddy) issues?
Leoben was having her for lunch. Then, Roslin storms in with the “what’s going on here” thing. Classic good cop/bad cop. Did anyone really think Leoben was going to fall for that?
Roslin, in her drug-induced hallucinations, now thinks she’s prescient or something, and suspects Adama even though she knows Leoben “mixes truth with lies.” Starbuck seems to think Cylons have souls. Heck, she even wanted to show him mercy because he “told the truth.” What truth was that? That there was no bomb? The bomb that was about to not go off in about a minute anyway?
Leoben owned these guys.
Interesting idea, but if she is, she’s doing a good job of covering for it. Her balls are almost as big as adama’s at this point.
Though remember, they did try to blow her up in the mini-series, and it seems wierd that they could predict that she would be the highest member of the president’s cabinet left alive after all the nukes flew.
That’s a good point. If there was a bomb, why would he have mentioned it in the first place? Particulary prior to the torture? Hell, isn’t the average soldier trained only to give “Name, Rank and Serial Number”, at least at first?
And the fact is, we know they can detect nukes fairly easily. Remember the Olympic Carrier? I’d be hard pressed to figure how a cylon managed to sneak a bomb that can’t be detected onto one of those ships(particulary considering there is likely very little traffic between ships).
Actually he is required to give that information.