Will the beginning of this series be re-aired.
I’ve caught part of #2 and a little bit of #3. I don’t have a TV guide and, surprisingly enough, do not live for the boob tube, but this show and The Apprentice are about the only two things of interest lately.
Yeah, I’d doom humanity to nuclear destruction at the hands of cold merciless robots for a date with #6 anyday.
I also liked how both of the episodes had a sort of theme going on between the name of the episode, the plot and the visuals. “Water” started with the guy left on the planet being chased in the rain, then went to Boomer waking up in her cabin dripping wet, etc. “33” kept showing all the different clocks ticking down to 33 minutes.
My only complaint was the same as mssmith, that whatevers going on with Boomer in “water” doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Sci-Fi almost alway reairs thier in house stuff several times after they first show it, so I’m sure they’ll play it several more times this week.
the humanoid Cylons say that when their bodies are destroyed their minds are just transferred to a new body. What if they believe that, but it isn’t true?[/spoiler][spoiler]I’ll bet “God” is the master intelligence that controls all the Cylons. Imperious Leader anyone?
I’m going to take a crack at this. [spoiler]I think Galactica Boomer may be a product of defective programming. Did you get that bit in the cockpit where she sees “positive contact” or whatever on her screen on the search for water, and tells her copilot that it’s negative, then, on a feeling, re-checks, then has to struggle to “see” what’s on the screen in front of her?
Also, the Galactica recycles its water, but many of the civilian ships, which weren’t designed for long journeys, don’t, and apparently rely on the Galactica to do it for them. So, that wasn’t just the Galactica’s water that got boiled off into space.[/spoiler]
It’s spelled “yahrons.”
Saw it on Lorne Greene’s log in an episode of the original series, when he was dictating it to the machine.
I have the miniseries on DVD, and the commentary says pretty much exactly that. 
I think that’s sort of the point. Not so much the “getting my frack on” thing, but that Six is trying to keep Baltar distracted and off-balance, so he’s dependent on her for decision-making.
What units were they measuring water in?
gahlons.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
WTF. Why is it that profanities and units of measure never translate to English (or Rigilian which by coincidence is exactly the same)?
I don’t know what the point is with Six and Baltar. He seems like a pretty mediocre supergenius (as in I haven’t seen any brilliant insight from him) and Six doesn’t seem to want to do anything with him but make out and torment.
All in all it’s a decent show though. Few sci-fi shows really give any kind of realistic portrayal of what future warfare might be like. They always get so overwhelmed by the spectacle of futuristic machinery battling that you don’t usually care about the folks piloting it. Let’s hope the show doesn’t go on any crazy tangents like super-kids or God-beings.
I think that may be the point. Baltar isn’t a supergenius. He gained a big reputation as a programming expert based on work that was actually being fed to him by Number Six–who, of course, was using him to implement the Cylons’ plans. Now everyone on Galactica is expecting genius-type solutions from him and he is afraid of being exposed as a fraud. So he’ll keep turning to Number Six for help and she’ll have him in the palm of her hand.
I’d like to be in the palm of her hand.
I’ll be in my bunk.
I liked that too. I’m looking forward to Baltar further impressing me.
Also with a big, fracking hole in the side of the tanks, any water that is recycled will boil off into space.
Well, I think it’s a pretty safe assumption that they would have repaired the big, fracking hole before they attempted to recycle any more water
Put me down as a convert; I was struck by the many stylistic similarities to Firefly
What I liked most about “33” was in one of their opening scenes, when Starbuck was wondering, “Why 33? Why not 32, or 34?”
Just 'cause. Maybe the Cylon jump drives need 33 minutes to recharge; maybe they need 33 minutes to calculate the Galactica’s position from her jump vector, and then plot their own pursuit vector; maybe they calculate that 33 minutes is just enough time for the humans to begin to relax before getting all wired up again for battle, thus preying upon them psychologically to maximum effect.
Or maybe none of the above. Just 'cause.
I’m going to borrow the mini-series (on DVD) from a friend and check it out.
Science geek nitpick: Water’s not that uncommon, cosmically speaking. Obviously Earth has loads of it, but there’s also water ice on Mars, water in the rings of Saturn, water on many outer moons (including maybe buried oceans on Europa that could be more extensive than our own), and of course lots and lots of comets. Naturally, I’m assuming they have some kind of purification sytems; I mean, geez, they have star travel, so they ought to be able to purify methane-covered hunks of ice.
That said, damn, but this is a hell of a gritty, hardcore show. The original series was pretty wussy compared to this.
Because the Cylons are fond of Rolling Rock beer?
Yeah, that was my take on it to, they seem to be heading towards a conflict between the programing of the human boomer that wants to hepl the Galactica and the Boomer-bot program that wants to screw the humans over. My problem with this are that 1) Its not very original and 2) You would think that the Ceylons, as a race of machines, could program a flawless sleeper agent. Ah well, we’ll see.
It has been a year since I watched the pilot, but I’m pretty sure my impression was that the #6 Baltar sees after the destruction of the colonies is in a delusion. (If I was responsible for the destruction of the human race, I’d be cracking up to) After all, if it was the real #6 communicating with him, I’d presume that she could either use him to find out where the Galactica was (since she seems to be aware of what he sees and hears), or use the same technology to communicate with the Boomer-Bot and find out where they are that way.
Also notice that #6 never actually tells Baltar anything he doesn’t already know. Further evidence that she’s not a seperate entity.
" … One nerd to rule them all …"
Google only produces 9 hits for yahrons but thousands for yahrens. I’m assuming it was a bug in their tanslation software. 
Anyway, new series is using our time measurements. Seems the only term to survive is frak.
She told Balter she’d implanted a chip in his brain, containing her consciousness, and can communicate with him any time. Also, previews of upcoming episodes show her actually appearing corporeally, where the other humans can see her.
Why 33 minutes? Why the war? The Cylons are taking their revenge against the inferior race that had enslaved and then defeated them, cold, protracted, and sweet. They want to toy with the humans before killing them. I do hope we hear more about their religion.
As for the BoomerBot and her erratic behavior, #6 has been erratic, too. The Cylons have intelligence equivalent to humans’, and apparently some emotionality as well. If BoomerBot is a sleeper agent, a large distance from the (presumed) collective mind, its control over her may be incomplete. And, speaking of her, how did their come to be 2 Boomers with two scout ships? We know the (or is it a) BoomerBot flew one back to Galactica with refugees, but there’s one on the surface of Caprica where the human (AFAWK) Boomer took it.