Battlestar Galactica 3.5 - "Collaborators" (spoilers)

[Loopydude]

I don’t mean to get too far off topic, but where are people getting all this info. about the coming season? Is it all from the podcasts? I’ve made it through one, but I don’t have much patience for such things. The BSG Wiki is nice for keeping some already-revealed facts straight, but it’s not much for true spoilers. Is there some good clearinghouse of info. out there? The SciFi channel’s site, besides the podcast, looks like one big advertisement to me, though I confess I haven’t explored it thoroughly.

[silenus]

Try here for a start.

[Loopydude]

Dayum! A little peek revealed this does indeed have the goods. Dare I look more?

Thanks!

[alphaboi867]

@silenus

Try here for a start.

Hmm sounds like RDM’s ripping off Farscape in Torn.

[Oakminster]

@carnivorousplant

Perhaps he will consider the legality of taking someone’s child from them.

OK, I’ll admit they’ve played fast and loose with the law in the past. It was Rosilyn that told Adama to kill Cain–and I doubt she could provide a cite for that being lawful. I kinda like the tension beteen military and civil authority as a subplot. More Galaticky Goodness for all

[silenus]

@alphaboi867

Hmm sounds like RDM’s ripping off Farscape in Torn.

Also Six in a red bikini! ROWRR!

[Merijeek]

@Oakminster

OK, I’ll admit they’ve played fast and loose with the law in the past. It was Rosilyn that told Adama to kill Cain–and I doubt she could provide a cite for that being lawful.

Well, Cain’s actions in deying the rightful President wouldn’t have been lawful either.

Kind of a Catch-22.

Lawfully get rid of Cain? She tells you to take a flying leap, deposes your government, and probably puts you in front of a firing squad.

Only one way to do it other than the convenient Deus-Ex-Sixina.

-Joe

[carnivorousplant]

An interview with James Callis by the famous Julia Houston of scifi.about.com.

Contains a tiny amusing spoiler.

ME: I want to thank you so much for agreeing to this interview, but before we end it, I have a question I always like to ask sci-fi actors. Eventually, you’ll be done up as an action figure, so what accessories should Baltar get?

JC: I had this all planned, actually. You know those revolting gorillas where you squeeze them and their genitals pop out?

ME: Yes, I have to admit, I do.

JC: Well, my thing about my action figure is that, if you squeeze me, Tricia would come out of my ear.

[Lightray]

JC: Well, my thing about my action figure is that, if you squeeze me, Tricia would come out of my ear.

It would be much more appropriate for his character if you squeezed him and his genitals popped out.

[carnivorousplant]

@Lightray

It would be much more appropriate for his character if you squeezed him and his genitals popped out.

Hey, I said, “contains a tiny amusing spoiler.”

[Agnostic_Pagan]

@MilTan

Rekha Sharma whose character has a decidedly non-Indian name, which confuses things. But back off. I saw her first!

Pistols at dawn! (She’s mine!) I finally figured out where I recognized her from - Stella on John Doe. It says she was also on Dark Angel, but I dont recall her from then.

She definitely likes sci-fi! She is the perfect woman!
Regarding Gaeta, he has always been one of my favorites. I always liked his unsung hero role, but it nearly cost him this time around. As someone stated earlier, it looks like he will become the resident genius of the fleet with Gaius gone.

And they should let him have a boyfriend. Maybe him and Capt. Kelly hook up!

[Albert_Rose]

Quick question: how do we know that Gaeta is Gae? I don’t really have gaydar - is it because his name is Felix?

[Lightray]

@Albert Rose

Quick question: how do we know that Gaeta is Gae? I don’t really have gaydar - is it because his name is Felix?

It’s the fabbo tattoo.

And his unhidden (former) manlove for Gaius Baltar.

[Loopydude]

@Albert Rose

Quick question: how do we know that Gaeta is Gae? I don’t really have gaydar - is it because his name is Felix?

I think with all the fanwankery* even evident in this thread, the Gayta stuff has got to be the most wishful-thinking-based of the them all. We don’t know, and if the pattern of the BSG writers is any guide, poor Gaeta probably just won’t get any, whichever way he swings. I certainly hope some of that pattern is preserved, anyway, because BSG is not frakking Snakes On A Plane, for frak’s sake. What’s it called when “fanwank” directly influences writers?

*New word to me of very late, and the root would make a great band name!

[Lightray]

@Loopydude

What’s it called when “fanwank” directly influences writers?

Fanservice.

Seriously. With “fanwanking” and “fanservice” being performed all over the Internet, I think it is pretty obvious that fandom desparately needs to turn off the TV and get laid.

[SuaSponte]

I missed Friday’s ep. When does the SciFi channel repeat it (yes, I can go online and pay for it, but that’s no fun)?

Sua

[Improv_Geek]

BSG pushes the envelope on so many things I think it would be interesting to see how the crew handles a gay officer, though I agree that I suspect we’ll just see an asexual Gaeta for the show.

– IG

[alphaboi867]

@Improv Geek

BSG pushes the envelope on so many things I think it would be interesting to see how the crew handles a gay officer, though I agree that I suspect we’ll just see an asexual Gaeta for the show.

– IG

Ideally they wouldn’t notice or care at all. Of course all of this is wishful thinking based on his name and the fact that he’s never had an on-screen relationship with a woman or referenced one.

[Improv_Geek]

@alphaboi867

Ideally they wouldn’t notice or care at all. Of course all of this is wishful thinking based on his name and the fact that he’s never had an on-screen relationship with a woman or referenced one.

Ideally indeed, but also consider the fact that they need the human race to regrow and that takes babies…

And yes I know it’s all idle navel gazing, but it is still interesting to consider. And personally I think RDM lurks on the forums.

– IG

[D_Odds]

@Oakminster

Overall, I enjoyed the episode. There are a few things that don’t quite add up…

1. Spacing Jammer (and the previous 12 Goodlife) should have set off an alarm, a flashing light, or something on the bridge. I find it hard to believe that you can open an airlock on a Battlestar without alerting the bridge.

I always get to this thread late and I’ve yet to make it all the way through, so I’m probably repeating other’s observations.

I believe only a couple were spaced via Galactica, but I’ll relisten to that part to see. Also, communication through Galactica is rather primitive. There’s no network flashing warnings. Anything they did would have to be a non-computerized link from the Viper tubes to the bridge.

2. Galactica appears to be crowded. People sleeping on cots in open spaces, remniscent of a hurricane shelter. Yet, whenever The Circle grabs somebody, they can walk them across the ship and into the launch tube without ever encountering anybody else?

This makes even more sense. They’re going to keep civilians in one area of the ship until they affect the transfers. They’re not going to be roaming around a woefully understaffed battlestar. Once someone gets separated, avoiding contact should be easy.