|
AlternateNu posted:WTF happens to all that gas and dust particulates that they just sort of phase over? The jump drive handles that problem the same way that the transporter on Star Trek does: It handles it very well, thank you.
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2025 22:20
|
|
|
|
| # ? Dec 6, 2025 22:09 |
|
|
AlternateNu posted:So, jumping out while in atmospheric decent and causing a giant shockwave was probably the coolest sciencey thing in the show, I always wondered about the opposite. Like when the Raptors were jumping straight into Caprica's atmo during that raid, they're all worried about jumping into a mountain or whatever, but like....the atmosphere still has matter in it. WTF happens to all that gas and dust particulates that they just sort of phase over? Also, with all the jumps made by all the ships in the show, they don't show a single example of ship just jumping into a random piece of space debris that immediate causes a hull rupture or something to detonate. IIRC from the interviews that the show's science advisor gave back in the day, the jump drive basically works by opening up a wormhole for a very short time and shoving the ship through to the other end. In which case I would expect the atmosphere to mostly just get pushed out of the way, with some small portion of it probably getting sucked back through the wormhole to the other end and dissipating into space wherever the ship jumped from. The gravitational disturbances this causes are why Boomer's raptor jump damaged the Galactica's hull, why it makes some people's stomach go queazy, and why the Galactica can't jump anymore after she "breaks her back" jumping into the Sol System in the final episode. Again, based on my vague memories of what the show's science advisor said in interviews more than 15 years ago. I could be totally wrong here.
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2025 07:19
|
|
|
"Science Advisor on Battlestar Galactica" is quite a job title. "Hey, Dave, can Robots have souls? Scientifically speaking, of course."
|
|
#
?
Mar 6, 2025 15:51
|
|
|
I wasn't watching the show while it was airing, just binging it afterwards a couple times. And man, I never realized how hard they try to hint at Starbuck being the 5th of the Final Five. The other four awaken and she just happens to reappear in the same episode, then...end of season. People must've been going nuts in that year between seasons 3 and 4.
|
|
#
?
Jul 25, 2025 23:26
|
|
|
Yeah, we were.
|
|
#
?
Jul 25, 2025 23:31
|
|
|
And in the century between 4 and 4.5
|
|
#
?
Jul 25, 2025 23:58
|
|
|
The final five should've just been the five characters who were most hosed by the writing staff. Billy, Cally, Dee, Racetrack, and that kid who got his arm crushed on the Tillium ship working there day 2. Edit: lol. I just found out Nicki Clyne was all in on NXIVM and a part of Raniere's inner circle. Big loving oof. AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jul 26, 2025 |
|
#
?
Jul 26, 2025 01:20
|
|
|
I always heard that she left the show to go do more cult poo poo, and her being written out was her choice, but who even knows. A cult was involved. Pretty sure the chief would still make the group, though. The writers definitely forgot about his kid when they made him a cylon, so they had to make him a cuck too.
|
|
#
?
Jul 27, 2025 08:59
|
|
|
AlternateNu posted:The final five should've just been the five characters who were most hosed by the writing staff. Billy only got written out because he left to be one of the leads in a sitcom that didn't get picked up. The pilot got leaked, or part of it, it was pretty awful.
|
|
#
?
Jul 28, 2025 19:15
|
|
|
would this thread like a different thread tag?
|
|
#
?
Jul 28, 2025 19:42
|
|
|
josh04 posted:would this thread like a different thread tag? 'gently caress This Gay Earth' please
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2025 01:40
|
|
|
Neorxenawang posted:Billy only got written out because he left to be one of the leads in a sitcom that didn't get picked up. The pilot got leaked, or part of it, it was pretty awful. It was actually the Knight Rider reboot he left for, which only lasted a season.
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2025 21:33
|
|
|
AlternateNu posted:The final five should've just been the five characters who were most hosed by the writing staff. She wasn't part of the inner circle but Grace Park was also a member. Battlestar Galactica was a big recruitment ground for them.
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2025 21:53
|
|
|
Is that the Aunt Beru sex cult?
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2025 22:20
|
|
|
banned from Starbucks posted:Is that the Aunt Beru sex cult? What?
|
|
#
?
Jul 29, 2025 22:30
|
|
|
The actress that played Aunt Beru in the star wars prequels was involved in some kinda sex cult with a goofy name. I looked it up and it's the same one the BSG people were in.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2025 03:16
|
|
|
josh04 posted:would this thread like a different thread tag? Please do. I was very boring when I made the thread.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2025 14:08
|
|
|
Can do!Mister Speaker posted:'gently caress This Gay Earth' please Will have to see about getting this tag available as an option 
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2025 14:12
|
|
|
banned from Starbucks posted:The actress that played Aunt Beru in the star wars prequels was involved in some kinda sex cult with a goofy name. I looked it up and it's the same one the BSG people were in. NXIVM.
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2025 18:25
|
|
|
josh04 posted:Will have to see about getting this tag available as an option Ah I forgot that some tags are subforum-specific. Thanks for looking into it! Content: I may have posted this ITT before but I'm feeling nostalgic. About 11 years ago when I was in college for audio, we had a term project that was three minutes of video of our choice, to be stripped of all sound, which we would then replace using a combination of stock sound effects, foley, ADR and music. Since that's a lot, the one mercy point we were allowed was using the original music - which I absolutely did, since I'm barely a musician and it's hard to beat Bear's score. Some of the dialogue recording is botched because, as luck would have it, a few days before the deadline I got mugged coming back from a late-night studio session. Bastards took my hard drive and all the work on it. The profs gave me an extension on all my project deadlines, but the studio time just wasn't available so I did most of the ADR re-recording at home. Both the elder and younger Olmos are voiced by yours truly (the latter while wearing a motorcycle helmet for authentic muffling). The foley and ADR were fun but I had the most fun playing with stock sound effect libraries, matching old WWII fighter sounds to the Vipers and more modern jets to the Raiders - and trying to figure out how to effect the sound of the Galactica falling through the atmosphere (it's a 747 flyby with the sound of a barn fire over it). https://i.imgur.com/8OdPclR.mp4
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2025 19:04
|
|
|
Mister Speaker posted:Ah I forgot that some tags are subforum-specific. Thanks for looking into it! That's awesome. But your Zarek sounds like a young Keanu, and a 19 year old screaming "Move!" coming out of Col. Tai made me bust a gut. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 30, 2025 23:16
|
|
|
Finished the rewatch of season 4, and man. It really should've just ended with the nuked Earth reveal. lol
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2025 01:29
|
|
|
It really should have, if the show had finished with the nuked Earth reveal it would have probably gone down in TV history as one of the more poignant series, but they got too hungry to resolve things. I would have been (and was) screaming for resolution on that scene but good lords, you could have sidestepped all of the 'cylons had no plan you were just writing bullshit like the LOST writers' in one fell swoop, by calling it done then and there.
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2025 02:57
|
|
|
It would have been up there with Blake's 7 in terms of grim endings for sure
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2025 03:59
|
|
|
Ultimately, the remake will be judged by the cowardice of not including Boxy and the robot dog in it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2025 14:49
|
|
|
i guess ending on nuked earth would have been more honest in a "welp we're out of ideas, show's over, thanks for watching!" way but without the context of knowing what came after that i don't think it would have left me with having more respect for the producers than i do now.
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2025 15:39
|
|
|
banned from Starbucks posted:The actress that played Aunt Beru in the star wars prequels was involved in some kinda sex cult with a goofy name. I looked it up and it's the same one the BSG people were in. So help me, I thought you were talking about the Aunt Beru from the original Star Wars. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2025 16:07
|
|
|
The show ends with the gunshot of Dee blowing her brains outCessna posted:So help me, I thought you were talking about the Aunt Beru from the original Star Wars. Now Thats a sex cult I'd join!!
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2025 18:16
|
|
|
Madurai posted:Ultimately, the remake will be judged by the cowardice of not including Boxy and the robot dog in it. Boxy is in the show for like two seconds in the Miniseries and an ep of Season 1. He even gets a speaking line saying his parents are dead like everyone else.
|
|
#
?
Jul 31, 2025 19:37
|
|
|
banned from Starbucks posted:The show ends with the gunshot of Dee blowing her brains out The immediate follow up soup ad would have been even more hilarious, the perfect taunt to the audience.
|
|
#
?
Aug 7, 2025 17:59
|
|
|
Been rewatching this with a friend who has never seen it before and it's a show that really gets off on its best foot. Like even disregarding the top ten episode that is 33, the acting, character dynamics, and stuff is really strong right from the jump. Just finished Water. The only weaknesses are that, like, McCreary's score is still not as fantastic as it becomes, and just about everyone has awful hair in the miniseries.
|
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2025 01:08
|
|
|
The Ringer Prestige TV podcast did a "Hooked" episode about the episode of Battlestar to watch to get a newbie hooked on the show, and they made a truly wild decision to recommend the season 1 finale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy0d6TlSaI Also, i love that Last Supper promo shot.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2025 02:33
|
|
|
Milkfred E. Moore posted:The only weaknesses are that, like, McCreary's score is still not as fantastic as it becomes, and just about everyone has awful hair in the miniseries. Something about EJO's haircut in the miniseries makes me feel like he was electrocuted. I feel like McCreary didn't really find his stride until The Hand of God when we got the track "Wander My Friends". Before that a lot of his music is pretty incidental, or it's stuff Richard Gibbs wrote for the miniseries and parts of Season 1.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2025 04:46
|
|
Arc Hammer posted:Something about EJO's haircut in the miniseries makes me feel like he was electrocuted. I feel like they were going for really realistic military haircuts or something, and I get the idea, but it just looks bad compared to the (ever so slightly) different styles they're going with. EJO and Katee Sackhoff look not great, but even Lee (who is probably the least changed) is just a bit too short in the cut department. It's similar to how they abandon the lines like "all batteries, execute" or whatever in exchange for lines that are still military-toned and got nice jargon, but have a little bit of drama to them. My pal was saying that the show has a nice balance of 'realism' and 'rule of cool' drama. Compare it to something like The Expanse that tried to lean too far into realism, for example. I was thinking similar, too, last night with the music. Wander My Friends, A Good Lighter, and then you've got all the operatic stuff in the last few episodes.
|
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2025 11:57
|
|
|
Water, Bastille Day, and Act of Contrition are pretty decent episodes, even if they have a few minor issues here and there. Starbuck being the best sharpshooter and the best pilot is a little 'We need a main character in here.' It's interesting that we never really see much of Galactica's marines (in the sense of having a marine character.) Zarek is an interesting character. Lee's development feels a little quick and sort of foreshadows the general feeling of the show never quite knowing what to do with him. The scene where Kara tells Adama about her culpability in Zak's death is really powerful. The scene where Head Six screams at Baltar while he's chatting with Adama about the detector is likewise great. It also gives us the first disjointed time sequencing episode with Act of Contrition, which BSG will hammer into the ground during Season 2. I also really like this 'crisis of the week' but with some long-term elements.
|
|
|
#
?
Oct 10, 2025 09:35
|
|
|
Milkfred E. Moore posted:Starbuck being the best sharpshooter and the best pilot is a little 'We need a main character in here.' Typical TV series problem, but yeah I always find it funny that the pilots are also the away team and the first to deal with... anything really. GSgt Mathias was a badass, I would have liked for her to have more screen time.
|
|
#
?
Oct 10, 2025 19:00
|
|
|
Mister Speaker posted:Typical TV series problem, but yeah I always find it funny that the pilots are also the away team and the first to deal with... anything really. Fighter pilots also transport pilots also gunners also infantry in the trenches also special ops behind enemy lines and probably more I've forgotten.
|
|
#
?
Oct 10, 2025 19:08
|
|
|
It's the star trek senior staff issue. It's the main cast so they need to make sure they're involved.
|
|
#
?
Oct 10, 2025 19:29
|
|
|
Cerv posted:Space Above and Beyond was amazing for this. Honestly, I thought they did a good job of showing that pilots weren't multirole badasses like that. The only three that do are Starbuck, Apollo, and Helo. (Boomer and Athena don't count.) And I guess Anders, maybe? Every other time a pilot is put in charge of something not in the cockpit, they frack it up. In real life, you're always going to have officers that can multirole. A lot of the skillsets overlap between mission sets, particularly if you're a team lead.
|
|
#
?
Oct 11, 2025 00:34
|
|
|
|
| # ? Dec 6, 2025 22:09 |
|
|
The Galactica also didn't have the luxury of a full crew complement.
|
|
#
?
Oct 11, 2025 01:31
|
|