Netflix just shipped my copy so I should be getting it tomorrow or Wednesday. I’ve managed to avoid most of the internet spoilers and haven’t downloaded the leaked copy. As much as I loath how BSG ended (“God did it” :rolleyes:) I’m still drawn to the franchise. I’m really curious as to how much of the backstory this fill in (for example I’ve heard we find out who Six talked to on Caprica). So who else has seen it or plans on seeing it?
Amazon shipped our copy yesterday.
I am looking forward to it. Trish Helfer has said that there is a lot more sex in this one. 
Seen it. Doesn’t add much to the plot at all. It’s really all about what Cavil was doing behind the scenes. If you haven’t seen the original first two years of the show and remembered what went on, this movie will not make a lot of sense to you. I think they dug up a lot of old outtakes, added some new material with Cavil, included some nudity, and called it The Plan. It was a big disappointment for me.
Aaand I just ordered mine.
She was talking about penis.
From the spoilers I have seen, it does not include
scenes of Ron Moore covered in honey and staked to an ant hill
which I find disappointing. Why yes, I am still bitter about the series finale. Thanks for asking.
That said, I’ll probably try to pick this up eventually. Sounds entertaining, if nothing else.
Cavil, Tigh, or Adama?
Starbuck
You’re a braver man than I. 
An unamed extra at a lockerroom sink. I think of Jamie Bamber and curse the fact that BSG was on SciFi not HBO or Showtime. Oh what might have been. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars. It does not make up for Daybreak, but it did fill in some gaps. I’m a little disappointed that D’Anna/Three only made a brief, nonspeaking, cameo that was culled from archival footage. Could they not afford Lucy Lawless, or was she busy? I knew Giana would reappear (what with being played by Mrs Olmos), but she had a much bigger role that I expected.
BTW; was anyone else pissed that the little kid following Cavil didn’t turn out to be Boxey? I was convinced he was right up until he said his name was John. They missed a great way to reference the fan theories about what happened to him 
(Why it turns out he was molested & killed by a priest).
Will it be shown on SyFy, or do I have to get the DVD?
Saw something about it being planned to air on Syfy next year, but that version will be 88 minutes versus the 126 minute version on the dvd.
Singular, or plural?
I don’t really care, it just seemed like a strange sentence structure.
I don’t know why people are pissed off at the series finale. When we found out that the BSG crew were our hundred-thousand-year-past ancestors, we found out that they were all about four feet tall or so, tiny little people. Imagine mini-Adama, mini-Tigh, and so on. Imagine raptors the size of a Smart Car. Imagine the admiral singing, “We represent the Lollipop League.” It’s beautiful.
So I bought it at Target yesterday and watched it last night. I was honestly surprised - I really thought the Galactica’s survival and the ragtag fleet were actually part of the Plan, especially given that there were 2 of the 5 on board, and a sleeper 8. Didn’t expect that to just be an oversight and mopping up operation.
I liked the C-Bucs on Caprica story, especially their first mission where they screwed up so badly. They were obviously still kids playing Colonials & Toasters, not a real insurgent force.
The last scene with Cavil and the kid was great. Did not expect that.
There’s something creepy about Edward James Olmos directing a love scene involving his wife and another guy. I know it happens in porn all the time, but that’s porn.
When I saw that scene, I at first thought, “Well, that was strangely gratuitious,” then I realized they used one of those shaky cam zoom shots the show is known for and I burst out laughing. Plenty of tits though, so it’s all good. And while I greatly enjoyed hookerbot 6’s scenes, I was a little disappointed they were PG-13 at best.
Overall, I thought it was pretty good, though I wish Ellen had been in it more. Dean Stockwell excelled as Cavil of course. Definitely not for anyone familiar with the show though.
I checked Imdb and she’s also exactly half his age (he was born in '47, she in '78). He’s more than old enough to be her father. 
And people make fun of Aston and Demi.
I was starting to wonder if I was the only one who actually bought it yesterday.
I thought it was an interesting take on the first two seasons. I never expected it to be more than that, really, so I didn’t have much to be disappointed about. Someone on LJ’s BSG group bemoaned the “unnecessary boobs,” but I voiced my opinion that there is no such thing, which I maintain.
Plus, I love Dean Stockwell in almost anything, so getting a chance to see him be all Cavilly again was a treat.
I rented this last night. I loved BSG, but this was just…well. I was supposed to be surprised that the toasters’ whole plan was to kill all humans? I’d thought that was pretty well established already. I guess I was hoping for something different, like they purposely set it all up to lead humanity to taking a different path, so that this didn’t all happen again. Or that Cavil as a “child,” set it up to “teach” the parents something (which, I guess he did, now that I think about it). Maybe that would’ve been interesting. But more of the same hyper-fixation on destroying all humanity? Yeah, we got enough of that in the show, thanks.
I also think it contradicted itself. Didn’t D’Anna keep killing herself over and over because she didn’t know who the final 5 were? Yet The Plan shows them right there in their own resurrection tubs, freely available to all. Maybe I’m supposed to think that only Cavil could get into the area with those tubs, but that just doesn’t really hold water to me.
In any case, it was just OK. I probably could’ve lived without seeing it.
It’s been pretty well established in several episodes that Cavil, and only Cavil, knew exactly who the final 5 were. I think this new movie did a fairly good job of showing that Cavil is also a hell of a lot smarter, and more cunning, than the other skinjobs. I liked hookerbot 6’s summing up: “Five blew up doing minor damage to a minor corridor, Two failed to kill Kara Thrace and got himself thrown out an airlock, Four didn’t blow up his own ship and threw himself out an airlock, my sister Six didn’t manage to discredit Baltar and you threw her out an airlock, and Eight shot but didn’t kill Adama.” And all the skinjobs seemed to immediately place themselves under Cavil’s control as soon as they saw him (with the temporary exception of the Four), and none of them seemed willing to point out that he was staying safe and sound while sending all of them on suicide missions. So I have no problem believing that there’s a “RESTRICTED - ONES ONLY” section on the Colony.
I have to admit, I found the explanation for Shelley Godfrey’s mysterious disappearance lacking.
In the series proper it was implied that he had quite a bit of imput in the design of the others. It makes sense that he would program them to automatically defer to him without even realizing it. Obviously this programing started to break down after the Fall of the Colonies. We saw it starting in The Plan with different models having doubts and the Ones being outvoted and concluded in civil war. So the Cavils’ plan for the Five to simply die in the attack on the Colonies and resurrect and see the error of their ways (ie that humanity is bad). :dubious: Well Tory, Anders, and Tyrol all seemed to be having great lives; only the Tighs seemed all that miserable (& most of that was caused by eachother).
Then again there’s an even higher & more powerful entity that Cavil with it’s own inscrutable plan at work. :rolleyes: