I haven’t read the thread yet because it’s not on here yet and I don’t care to be spoiled, but I’m frakking pissed that it’s moving. People work, you know. 11 pm on a work night is TOO late for me. I get up at 5 am.
No, I don’t have a DVR because cable is enough of a luxury.
FUCK FUCK FUCK. FUCK THEM.
From the web preview, next week should be pretty good…
Looks like Chief finds a temple, apparently man made.
I slipped in the shower.
Bad chicken salad.
Opal shot me.
Trying to rewire my TV set.
Green onions from Mexico.
Shouldn’t have taken the space heater into the shower.
Golly, I must have a touch of amnesia.
There are some pretty cheap VCRs. You have a DVD player?
You can always download the episodes from iTunes.
Hells yeah. Saw a glimpse of him in another recent episode, too. I’m hoping he will get a more prominent role in the story soon. I luvs me some Sebastian. Mmmm…
“You mean there’s no food to be salvaged. What about the good food we’d stored before we’d started inadvertently churning out the contaminated stuff?”
“Well the newly processed bad food went into the depleted storage system, every thing’s tainted.”
“But Sharon’s out finding all this algae for us to process.”
“What if Sharon comes back and reports there’s no clear passage to this planet.”
“There’s a way through the star cluster. I found the planet on the other side. There’s huge swaths of algae just like we thought.”
“So how do we get tens of thousands of humans through there.”
“We could make it through in two jumps with a stop right there.”
“There’s no solution with a single jump.”
“No the cluster’s too big and it’s too big to go around too.”
Oh, I could go on and on but damn, there was enough Star Trek gobbledy gook in the first five minutes of this show to choke a Klingon Targ.
It’s kind of turning into a planet of the week show, ain’t it?
Last week it was he-man boxing fetish.
This week Starbuck & Kat this close to sucking face.
Baltar, D’Anna & Six in a three way. Is this whole show just Ron Moore’s adolescent fan-boy fantasy or what?
Ah well. Goodbye Kat, we hardly knew ye, ya drug smuggling Cylon trafficing traitor to humanity-turned-hero. Sniff.
So how many ships and people did we lose this ep?
I imagine it might have had something to do with the fact that Hera isn’t quite married to Jupiter. That would be Juno, technically. I guess “Eye of Jupiter” just sounded too gosh-darn good to pass up. Or something.
I won’t dis Trek, but BG is starting to ignore physics. Space is pretty darn empty. There aren’t Voyager clouds and Mutari Nebulas.
Dammit. I always miss the good stuff.
Good point. Bad news.
Is there any point anymore in pondering the physics of any of this? I’m just wondering if it’s impertinent now in some way if I suggested that, since the planet was clearly not completely surrounded by a blinding white sheet of plasma (or whatever the fuck it was they were flying through), one might have simply jumped to planet seaweed from another direction. Hey, just a thought. Is distance somehow a problem? Will we all starve to death if we don’t save time by the, uh, most direct path, jumping through what is apparently a Zeus’ blowtorch? Wellll…was Sharon’s most excellent jump-fu just a one-off? Maybe they ate the heavy raider brain out of desperation? Mmmm…tastes like chicken.
See y’all. No, the door won’t hit me. Lemme know how it goes, maybe I’ll rent the episodes later.
I have a silly assed question: since the Raptors were really only needed for the navigational systems, why didn’t they simply parasite on the outer hulls of the civilian ships, instead of flying around playing blind-man’s-bluff when their instruments are essentially useless?
Because they need some distance from other ships in order for the navigation gear to be effective?
Or maybe it’s just because the writers were drinking heavily that day. One or the other.
Because I hate these stupid “puzzle box” episodes. “We can only do X if we do Y with the Raptors and Z with Starbucks dildo…” They sound like one of those “how many golf balls are in a 747?” questions we give on interviews.
What an awful awful awful awful episode.
This is what’s worst about BSG. They come up with some human/character situation they want to discuss, probably one with heavy parallels to something IRL. Then they make up some random-ass vaguely sci-fi justification for why this precise situation MUST happen, even if this justification makes absolutely no logistical sense at all, and is preposterously hysterically overwritten. Then they (usually) never mention it again.
Toss in a cylon who has spent her entire life in a tub mumbling nonsense but can still grab things with her non-atrophied hand, the idea that they’d even discuss considering prosecuting Kat for treason for patently non-treasonous actions two years (and an entire universe) ago despite the fact that she’s one of their two best pilots, the idea that they ignore the incredibly stupid thing she did by swapping badges which endanged entire ships, the blatantly contradictory notion that xenabot could be killing herself over and over again without anyone knowing, the hysterically awful logistical bungling that let them get that close to running out of food, yada yada yada.
Just awful. Awful awful awful.
To use a vcr to record from my tv requires unhooking the surround setup and hooking up the VCR to the cable box, which I haven’t yet figured out with our new setup.
Yes, we need to upgrade. 
And I don’t want to download from Itunes. I already pay enough for cable. I’m whiny, and I like it that way. 
The foreshadowing in this episode was as heavy-handed as I’ve ever seen. Essentially, “When this radiation detector turns black, you’re going to die.” OK – we get it, some pilot is going to ignore their radiation detector in order to commit some contrived act of heroism. now we can change the channel and watch something else for the next hour which frees us up from having to wonder about why they’re not flying around star clusters instead of through them, and how they knew about the existence of the scum planet so that they could send a scout there on an insanely dangerous mission.
Once again, they seem to be ignoring some major realities – with only 40,000 odd humans left, you’re sending your female pilots of child-bearing age out into a hellstorm of radiation? Good thing the Cylons can make human babies now.
Can someone explain to me why the Cylon babe was repeatedly killing and downloading herself?
IIRC, the original Battlestar Galactica encountered a phenomenon quite like this one about halfway through the pilot movie. Perhaps this episode was an homage on Moore’s part?
D’Anna has basically been having out-of-body experiences during the downloading that occurs between her death and resurrection. She thinks that there’s something important between death and life, and in the fanatical way of Cylon religion, she’s convinced that it’s a connection to the Cylon god.
Hence, she’s been killing herself and trying to remember what she experiences while being downloaded.
She appears to experience religous visions in the time between one body dying and the other waking up in the goo. In a way, it’s somewhat like what happened to Sheridan in Babylon 5, when he went to Zha’Doum and jumped off the cliff. She’s caught “between tick and tock”, and apparently enjoys the experience.
There are rumors from spoiler sites that
Xenabot is crazy, will believe herself to be a god, and possibly get her entire model boxed
Someone ask D’Anna the next time she resurrects if she happens to run across Ron Moore in there, tell him to come back and pay more attention to what his guest writers are doing to our show.