I finished season 3 today. I dont want to give any spoilers here but all I can say is that I now have even more questions and I'm burning to find out the answers in season 4. I was really shocked with two of the revealed Cylons but not really surprised with the other two.
And of course the end with Lee in his Viper and his surprise "encounter" left me scratching my head even more. I also am MOST curious to see where Baltar's new road will take him.
Battlestar Galactica Season 3 (no spoilers)
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Battlestar Galactica Season 3 (no spoilers)
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Over the course of season 3 I lost all interest in BSG. It was party due to the New Caprica thing, which I just plain didn't like. The writers, I believe, were attempting a (temporary) escape from the premise of the show - "Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth." - which does not lend itself well to an ongoing series. They can't keep running and gunning forever. Eventually they have to get where they're going (or bust), at which point we've reached the end of the show. Unless they intend to do Galactica 1980. >shudder<
Anyway, the New Caprica thing didn't work for me, and the subsequent events didn't rehook me. The <SPOILEROSITY> was intriguing at first, but once the WTFness wore off I felt somewhat blah about it. Jimi FTW!
Further, unlike the gawd-awful Pylea arc that was the payoff to an otherwise awesome season of Angel, there was no Dance of Joy to put things into perspective.
TD
Anyway, the New Caprica thing didn't work for me, and the subsequent events didn't rehook me. The <SPOILEROSITY> was intriguing at first, but once the WTFness wore off I felt somewhat blah about it. Jimi FTW!
Further, unlike the gawd-awful Pylea arc that was the payoff to an otherwise awesome season of Angel, there was no Dance of Joy to put things into perspective.
TD
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To each his own of course but I really liked the New Caprica phase of the story. It showed that Ron Moore and the other writers were willing to take creative risks with the show and to break up the formula which was used in the original BSG. It was exactly what you mentioned about the basic premise not really lending itself well to multiple seasons why they decided to go the New Caprica route.
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I would like to see Adama and his people find the old cylon technology(Basestars, cylon raiders, etc..) and use it against the new cylons.
For example: BSG and crew would find an uncharted planet and on the surface was an abandoned cylon stronghold with thousands of old school cylon raiders, decommissioned basestars, and so forth. They would re-program and re-activate the computers or whatever they needed to control the cylons and such, and use them against the new cylon army. The modern cylons would not detect the old school ships and basestars as a threat and would not suspect anything. I know it's a stretch, but it would be fun to watch primitive cylon vs modern cylon equipment.
For example: BSG and crew would find an uncharted planet and on the surface was an abandoned cylon stronghold with thousands of old school cylon raiders, decommissioned basestars, and so forth. They would re-program and re-activate the computers or whatever they needed to control the cylons and such, and use them against the new cylon army. The modern cylons would not detect the old school ships and basestars as a threat and would not suspect anything. I know it's a stretch, but it would be fun to watch primitive cylon vs modern cylon equipment.
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Interesting idea. You should email it to Ron Moore! LOLSoftball wrote:I would like to see Adama and his people find the old cylon technology(Basestars, cylon raiders, etc..) and use it against the new cylons.
For example: BSG and crew would find an uncharted planet and on the surface was an abandoned cylon stronghold with thousands of old school cylon raiders, decommissioned basestars, and so forth. They would re-program and re-activate the computers or whatever they needed to control the cylons and such, and use them against the new cylon army. The modern cylons would not detect the old school ships and basestars as a threat and would not suspect anything. I know it's a stretch, but it would be fun to watch primitive cylon vs modern cylon equipment.
The other loaded question of course is IF the fleet and/or Cylons find Earth, which time period will it be? Will it be modern day Earth, Earth of the past, Earth of the future? Hmm...
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Well since season 4 is going to be the last season we should not have long to wait to find out what's going to happen.
The things that are bugging me is, we have not yet found out how the Cylons know so much about the recuring cyle of man reaching it's peak and then being almost wiped out "This has happened before and will happen again", and also how do they know so much about Starbuck and other colonists destinies and if they do then they must also presumably know if they will find Earth and if the humans manage beat the Cylons!!.
I would also like to know how the Thirteenth colony was able to get the information back to the original 12 colonies that is held in the bible that helps the original 12 colonies find Earth, plus the thirteenth colony seem to be of a more advanced society, if you take into consideration the technology used in the tomb on Kobol (seemingly the birthplace or mankind) to point the way to Earth using the Arrow that Starbuck retrieves and the Eye of Jupiter sanctuary.
Also if the now revealed 4 of the remaining 5 Cylons are Cylons of the skin type, how could they be considering that the first Cylon war was fought against the original design "ROBOT" Cylons and no human looking ones had evolved at that point.
Basically the whole thing seems to set in a univers where the control of your destiny is set in an already solid repeating time line that cannot be changed. How dull is that, knowing that humans will never evolve and will always be the same way until the universe ends, Whats the point!
The things that are bugging me is, we have not yet found out how the Cylons know so much about the recuring cyle of man reaching it's peak and then being almost wiped out "This has happened before and will happen again", and also how do they know so much about Starbuck and other colonists destinies and if they do then they must also presumably know if they will find Earth and if the humans manage beat the Cylons!!.
I would also like to know how the Thirteenth colony was able to get the information back to the original 12 colonies that is held in the bible that helps the original 12 colonies find Earth, plus the thirteenth colony seem to be of a more advanced society, if you take into consideration the technology used in the tomb on Kobol (seemingly the birthplace or mankind) to point the way to Earth using the Arrow that Starbuck retrieves and the Eye of Jupiter sanctuary.
Also if the now revealed 4 of the remaining 5 Cylons are Cylons of the skin type, how could they be considering that the first Cylon war was fought against the original design "ROBOT" Cylons and no human looking ones had evolved at that point.
Basically the whole thing seems to set in a univers where the control of your destiny is set in an already solid repeating time line that cannot be changed. How dull is that, knowing that humans will never evolve and will always be the same way until the universe ends, Whats the point!
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Funny, I'd pointed out that exact thing to Panzer a while back...how do they know about Earth?? Then there are all the clues of how to get there...why did they put them there?Nemisis wrote: I would also like to know how the Thirteenth colony was able to get the information back to the original 12 colonies that is held in the bible that helps the original 12 colonies find Earth, plus the thirteenth colony seem to be of a more advanced society, if you take into consideration the technology used in the tomb on Kobol (seemingly the birthplace or mankind) to point the way to Earth using the Arrow that Starbuck retrieves and the Eye of Jupiter sanctuary.
As for the "final 4" revealed not making a lot of sense as far as timelines go, I think it's already been mentioned they're very different from the other 7 models already seen. Then there's the repetition of the idea that "the gods and man lived together in peace on Kobol"...and how did the stuff in Razor fit in?
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