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This made me laugh. I read your paragraph on limited resource–including food–and then read the dog line. My first thought was that you hoped they brought the dog along as food! Hey, I guess they are going to be getting hungry!
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Oh no! Muffit!!
[QUOTE=Loopydude]
Then you’ve got Galactica’s current XO married to a Cylon, who is now an officer of the Colonial forces. I’m sure plenty of New Caprican (twice now) refugees, who probably hate and distrust the Cylons even more than before, if at all possible, with never ever accept Sharon Agathon as one of them. Quite the opposite, I would expect her to be a perpetual target for assasination.
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Yup. In fact, when I first saw the scene with Cally getting set free from the prisoners, I imagined her getting away, getting a sniper rifle, and finding a spot where she could ambush Boomers. <crack> “Bye, Sharon.” <crack> “Bye, Sharon.” <crack> “Bye, Sharon.”
True. With Cally around, Boomer may have to get herself a portable resurrection tank and a few spare bodies.
No, no, no. The way it works is, Cally and Boomer are at each others throats for a couple of episodes. Then, something snaps and they attack each other, rolling around in a shallow pool of oil while pulling hair and tearing each others clothes. Then something happens to make them realize that they have to co-operate to survive. Wearing not much, they work together, make it through alive, and then head for the showers in a display of solidarity, snapping towels at each other and washing each others hair.
Or is that just the way I think it should happen? 
I was reading the TWOP forums last night, and one of the posters there had a very good point about this episode and the Cylons attitude towards the Humans…
if after witnessing the Galactica’s inter-atmospheric jump (“The Adama Maneuver”) it should become clear to the Meatbags that they’re NEVER going to be able to completely subjugate the Human race…
if one lone Human is willing to take his big frakkin’ battlestar and let it drop like a rock towards the surface of the planet**, launching Vipers, and jumping out at the last second, they’re never going to be able to completely wipe out the will to resist…
(**“what’s this thing coming towards me very fast, so big and flat and wide it needs a big, wide sounding word like ow, round, GROUND!, that’s it GROUND!..I wonder if it’ll be freinds with me…”)
MacTech, you’re talking about Humungin’s “psychotic act of badassery” “Most heavily armoured fat kid cannonballing with a grenade between his teeth” post, right? That was truly fucking inspired. I cackled like crazy after reading that.
[QUOTE=Lightray]
Oh no! Muffit!!
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‘A dog that good, you don’t eat all at once.’
I loved this episode, but the thing that literally made me jump in my chair was seeing Olmos shave his lip against the grain. Christ, that made the hair on my neck stand up. Maybe if my face were made out of boot leather like his, it wouldn’t bother me, but man… Maybe next week he can take his contacts out with a fishhook to show how tough he is.
[QUOTE=MacTech]
if one lone Human is willing to take his big frakkin’ battlestar and let it drop like a rock towards the surface of the planet
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Or perhaps more pragmatically, “if one solitary leader is somehow able to impress upon the hundreds of people underneath him that jumping the battlestar above a planet and letting it drop like a rock is a good idea, and they don’t respond by pissing themselves and flying into mutiny…” 
I think all of the pissing themselves was being done by the “hundreds of people underneath him.” Literally!
[QUOTE=silenus]
No, no, no. The way it works is, Cally and Boomer are at each others throats for a couple of episodes. Then, something snaps and they attack each other, rolling around in a shallow pool of oil while pulling hair and tearing each others clothes. Then something happens to make them realize that they have to co-operate to survive. Wearing not much, they work together, make it through alive, and then head for the showers in a display of solidarity, snapping towels at each other and washing each others hair.
Or is that just the way I think it should happen?
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If that plot development is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. 
[QUOTE=silenus]
Or is that just the way I think it should happen?
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I swear I’ve read that exact same scenario, only with Apollo v. Blanders subbed in. The Internet sure is a funny place…
Incidentally, I mentioned something about this in the thread for BSG’s season premiere, but now that we’re a few episodes in I’m looking again:
The thread for the last episode of “Lost” topped out at 148 posts, just about three pages.
This one just topped six pages and 250 posts.
The “Lost” thread had 63 participants, for an average of 2.3 posts per person.
This one has 48, an average of 5.2 apiece.
Not really sure what that says. Maybe: smaller audience, but more to talk about. Or… we don’t really have lives. 
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Or… we don’t really have lives. 
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Well, this was a major episode, pretty much blowing off all the tension built up over the previous episodes this season. Could be that Lost just hasn’t had a really big episode yet…
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Or… we don’t really have lives.
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Well, I’m married, which means I don’t need one anymore. Anyway, she watches BSG with me, which is pretty cool.
We need a “technical discussion” version of spoilers, so those of us who couldn’t care less about how fast the Galactica was going when it jumped to FTL can just gloss over those posts. Maybe a “Math nerd” tag.
[QUOTE=featherlou]
Maybe a “Math nerd” tag.
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x=1/2at^2 isn’t enough of a nerd tag, already?
Loopydude: I hate you. Mrs. Plant’s only false is an intense dislike of a BSG that doesn’t have Liquid Prell and blow dryers. 
…oh damn, did she giggle when Starbuck twisted the knife?
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Mrs. Plant’s only false
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only failing. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Loopydude: I hate you. Mrs. Plant’s only false is an intense dislike of a BSG that doesn’t have Liquid Prell and blow dryers.
…oh damn, did she giggle when Starbuck twisted the knife?
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Loopybabe hates sci-fi. Hates it. I take her acceptance of BSG as a sign it’s simply got to be something special. Has Mrs. Plant really watched it? If she saw a few episodes back-to-back could she truly be unmoved? My wife once watched an episode with me last year, but because she wasn’t following the show, she was totally lost, and fell asleep after about twenty minutes, refusing to give it another chance. “No! It’s stupid and confusing!” So I rented the miniseries and the whole first season, and one rainy weekend later I got her favorite movie snacks together as an inducement and said “We’re doing this”. It was a conceptual barrier to get over. She so couldn’t believe that she was getting drawn in that I think her mind refused to acknowledge at first that it had responded positively to the viewing experience. But finally it hit her. “I can’t believe I like this nerdy space crap!”
All relationships take work.
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
… Mrs. Plant’s only false is an intense dislike of a BSG that doesn’t have Liquid Prell and blow dryers.
…oh damn, did she giggle when Starbuck twisted the knife?
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What, did she miss the episodes with Jamie Bamber in a towel???
The only women I know who’ve resisted Apollo-in-a-towel-yowza! are the ones more interested in Starbuck-in-a-dress-vavavoom! (and a small minority attracted to The Glare)