Battlestar Galactica, Part Two
Dec. 10th, 2003 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundOkay, watched the second part of the new Battlestar Galactica mini-series.....
Ah, a page from Star Trek. When in doubt, fire up the technobabble generators.
FTL seems to be a chancy thing with them.
The new president has either let power go to her head, or is trying very hard to make up for any insecurities.
Nice concept of a "cylon-proof" station, though I have to wonder if there's been any thought to finding out what the radiation is and turning it into a weapon.
For that matter, why didn't the Cylons, if they knew of the station, fire a few missles off though the cloud?
Nice to see that the Galactica has some big guns as well.
I'm amazed that Starbuck and Tigh weren't cashiered or RIF'ed long before now. Militaries use peacetime to get rid of the deadwood.
Colonial Fleet seems to have no rules against enlisted/officer relationships, or even relationships between people in the same chain of command. Stupid.
Interesting that the religious aspects of the humans finally came up.
Six's chipping Baltar was an interesting, (though tiring) twist. I've had some psychopathic ex-girlfriends, (one in particular) that would have done that to me if they could.
Starbuck is either a) insane, or b) has big brass ovaries.
Hmm....if we take what the Cylon on the station said, Cylon theology states that God made a mistake in creating humanity, and that God had the humans create Cylons to correct that mistake. Yet Six has indicated that she thinks it was a shame that Baltar's brain wasn't recorded. So there may be some qualities from humanity that the Cylons may feel they lack. Maybe this was the reason for creating the 12 different types of Humanoid Cylons - as a way to determine what those qualities were.
12 Colonies - 12 Humanoid Cylons. Is there a link??
In the old series, Adama was part military leader, part political leader, and part religious leader. I'm glad they seperated those roles out in this one.
Though Adama was smart to use the myth of Earth as the 13th colony as a rally point. Morale being important.
I see some of the mk. 7 vipers survived. Good.
However, unless they a) have a factory ship, or b) give into "Space 1999" syndrome, (for the Moon is Hollow, and Filled with Eagles), they have a problem with Viper and Raptor production - which is they can't produce them. A Carrier doesn't build it's aircraft, and doesn't even have the plans. And it will take time and a certain level of infrastructure to build the parts. Unless there's some depots they can raid along the way, they're screwed. If there's a fleet "boneyard" somewhere on the way out, making a quick raid to grab as many small craft as possible may be a good idea.
Okay, good way to find out who's a Cylon and who isn't - check for abnormally high libidos. I'm going to assume that the CPO never noticed Boomer's glowing spine. Or is that only showing up on active Cylons, rather than deep-cover ones??
There is some potential in this series. However, it may be better for some to think of it as "Battlestar Galactica - the Next Generation". Or maybe the Mirror Universe one, because it's way too different from the original. It has some good points, but I have to wonder if it could have been better done by making it closer to the original. Richard Hatch, Tom DeSantos and Glen Larson had some good ideas for a BG Revival, I'm wondering if Universal may have been better using some of their ideas.
And, after the nth commercial for UFO shows and Sci-Lie's "Mad Mad Mad House" reality show, I really, really, really think that the suits at Sci-Lie Just Don't Get Science Fiction. I'm wondering if some of the sex scenes in the new BG were thown in to make them happy. Surprised they didn't throw in pro wrestling if that was the case.
Ah, a page from Star Trek. When in doubt, fire up the technobabble generators.
FTL seems to be a chancy thing with them.
The new president has either let power go to her head, or is trying very hard to make up for any insecurities.
Nice concept of a "cylon-proof" station, though I have to wonder if there's been any thought to finding out what the radiation is and turning it into a weapon.
For that matter, why didn't the Cylons, if they knew of the station, fire a few missles off though the cloud?
Nice to see that the Galactica has some big guns as well.
I'm amazed that Starbuck and Tigh weren't cashiered or RIF'ed long before now. Militaries use peacetime to get rid of the deadwood.
Colonial Fleet seems to have no rules against enlisted/officer relationships, or even relationships between people in the same chain of command. Stupid.
Interesting that the religious aspects of the humans finally came up.
Six's chipping Baltar was an interesting, (though tiring) twist. I've had some psychopathic ex-girlfriends, (one in particular) that would have done that to me if they could.
Starbuck is either a) insane, or b) has big brass ovaries.
Hmm....if we take what the Cylon on the station said, Cylon theology states that God made a mistake in creating humanity, and that God had the humans create Cylons to correct that mistake. Yet Six has indicated that she thinks it was a shame that Baltar's brain wasn't recorded. So there may be some qualities from humanity that the Cylons may feel they lack. Maybe this was the reason for creating the 12 different types of Humanoid Cylons - as a way to determine what those qualities were.
12 Colonies - 12 Humanoid Cylons. Is there a link??
In the old series, Adama was part military leader, part political leader, and part religious leader. I'm glad they seperated those roles out in this one.
Though Adama was smart to use the myth of Earth as the 13th colony as a rally point. Morale being important.
I see some of the mk. 7 vipers survived. Good.
However, unless they a) have a factory ship, or b) give into "Space 1999" syndrome, (for the Moon is Hollow, and Filled with Eagles), they have a problem with Viper and Raptor production - which is they can't produce them. A Carrier doesn't build it's aircraft, and doesn't even have the plans. And it will take time and a certain level of infrastructure to build the parts. Unless there's some depots they can raid along the way, they're screwed. If there's a fleet "boneyard" somewhere on the way out, making a quick raid to grab as many small craft as possible may be a good idea.
Okay, good way to find out who's a Cylon and who isn't - check for abnormally high libidos. I'm going to assume that the CPO never noticed Boomer's glowing spine. Or is that only showing up on active Cylons, rather than deep-cover ones??
There is some potential in this series. However, it may be better for some to think of it as "Battlestar Galactica - the Next Generation". Or maybe the Mirror Universe one, because it's way too different from the original. It has some good points, but I have to wonder if it could have been better done by making it closer to the original. Richard Hatch, Tom DeSantos and Glen Larson had some good ideas for a BG Revival, I'm wondering if Universal may have been better using some of their ideas.
And, after the nth commercial for UFO shows and Sci-Lie's "Mad Mad Mad House" reality show, I really, really, really think that the suits at Sci-Lie Just Don't Get Science Fiction. I'm wondering if some of the sex scenes in the new BG were thown in to make them happy. Surprised they didn't throw in pro wrestling if that was the case.
