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watched the whole thing, and y'all remember more than I do lol
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i think i watched one episode as well and had no interest it's been said that it was originally designed as its own show and then sci-fi (or syfy, can't remember if they'd yet re-branded; this was definitely well into the "network president hates sci-fi and is pushing a shitload of cheap wrestling programming" era though) bodged it into being a BSG prequel because BSG was the one sci-fi thing they had that was respectable there was also that "blood and chrome" prequel which tried doing all-greenscreen sets in hopes of making it on the cheap, but it wound up costing at least as much if not even moreso than building physical sets, so it died pretty early
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lol i've been trying to recall details of it without looking anything up (because it seems most of us don't remember much about it) it's actually pretty remarkable that the most memorable thing was how unmemorable everything is
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i think i remember liking the set design  lol
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the cylons were the only interesting production design in that franchise that didn't come from the 70s. the rest was generic corridors, cutting the corners off of things and lots of vancouver
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I think I watched a couple episodes but I can't remember anything. I guess I remember the bombing thing but probably only because of it being mentioned here.
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tried to get my wife to watch bsg with me and I couldn’t even handle it, despite being a superfan as it released. didn’t even finish the first season
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I feel like if I rewatched it it would be solid through the miniseries, through season 1, and halfway into season 2. the point where it stops being serial and starts getting episodic is the point of no return and it's never as good as that initial stretch again, with the possible exception of the new caprica arc
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lol, i actually asked mrs if she wanted to watch BSG again and she just laughed at me. fair
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i don't think i finished caprica but i do remember - suicide bomber's mother finds a brooch that belonged to her daughter, and because of this crashes her husband's press conference to announce that her daughter was a terrorist to assembled media - suicide bomber's consciousness is saved inside the prototype cylon. said consciousness begins a romance with a human teen - suicide bomber's father suspects that his daughter's consciousness is alive in the cylon, so he tortures the robot by pouring a ring of gas around it and lighting it on fire to trigger her pyrophobia - endless scenes in the metaverse in every episode
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caprica sucked lol
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caprica sounds like the name of wegman's brand of dry pasta
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drat that's a good catte. that catte is good as hell
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https://twitter.com/thomas_violence/status/1628213356195897344
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jarjar balls
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Beeftweeter posted:jarjar balls this guy binks
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i watched avatar 2 again but in 3 dimensions the 3d effect is real good.. but by the end of the movie you’re not being wowed by it any more but that’s a good movie. the attention to detail, in the acting and the way the family interacts with each other is golden. it does so many things to such a high standard. the end drags. just get out of the boat! jimmy c loves his water
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the ending of BSG was so bad like Orson Scott Card isn't the worst mormon sci-fi writer bad like Lost sure tied up those loose ends elegantly bad like my posting
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isnt bsg the show where the ending is that humans land on earth or someething like that?
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no its dumber than that. the cylon robots reach earth at the end, seed the human race (because this was thousands of years ago) and also eventually turn into cell phones
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it's even better than that: everyone is singing a terrible cover of "all along the watchtower" for some reason
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Beeftweeter posted:no its dumber than that. the cylon robots reach earth at the end, seed the human race (because this was thousands of years ago) and also eventually turn into cell phones as dumb as the ending was, I don't think it was implied the actual cylons turn into cell phones, just that humanity is doomed to repeat its mistakes of making machines in the likeness of a human mind
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the combined human and good-cylon fleets reach earth. they find it populated with cavemen. they decide the root cause of the cycle of violence the caprican and cylon civilizations are trapped in is technology, so they fly all their spaceships into the sun and live among the cavemen. eventually they interbreed and evolve into the modern human race. helo and athena's daughter is revealed to be mitochondrial eve. head-six and head-baltar are revealed to be godlike figures who observe all of this with wry amusement. it is implied that the real-world field of robotics risks continuing the cycle with another uprising in the future
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Truman Peyote posted:it's even better than that: everyone is singing a terrible cover of "all along the watchtower" for some reason the bob dylan one?
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ymgve posted:as dumb as the ending was, I don't think it was implied the actual cylons turn into cell phones, just that humanity is doomed to repeat its mistakes of making machines in the likeness of a human mind don't they literally use the red cylon eye effect in the phone itself when showing someone using like, a motorola razr lol i haven't seen it in several years though so i guess i could just be conflating things
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no one ever accused them of subtlety
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Beeftweeter posted:don't they literally use the red cylon eye effect in the phone itself when showing someone using like, a motorola razr lol verizon had to pay lucas for use of the word "droid"
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echinopsis posted:but that’s a good movie. the attention to detail, in the acting and the way the family interacts with each other is golden. it does so many things to such a high standard. the ending did drag. I thought they should have cut some stuff and made room for a little scene with the whales earlier to demonstrate that they can understand and speak to the blues. as presented you sort of think the whales are solitary and dangerous creatures and don't know that the kid is talking to it and not at it at first. that kinda came out of nowhere. it wasn't confusing, but in a movie where everything is so deliberate and considered it was one of the few things presented (in both movies) without context. and if the final battle is gonna be that long have more scenes of the whale loving poo poo up rather than boring swim chases, those were the most satisfying parts. show me more of the whale biting these fuckers heads off indigi fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Feb 24, 2023 |
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oops wrong twote https://twitter.com/papapishu/status/1629012071563120640?s=46&t=kphwQz6N_cUBXfqN1mXYbg
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my Culture book collection is nearly complete. idgaf if Elon names rockets after Culture Mind names, I still really love this series
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Looking forward to the day an AI can write some new Culture books. I generally don't support AI-generated stuff but I really think it would fit with the spirit of the series.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Looking forward to the day an AI can write some new Culture books. I generally don't support AI-generated stuff but I really think it would fit with the spirit of the series.
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