tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post5309634030070582390..comments2023-10-11T10:40:48.712-04:00Comments on The Miserable Annals of the Earth: Should we, or should we not, watch the galactically stupid Battlestar: Galactica?Doc Nebulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-57645524447008903762007-01-04T22:29:00.000-05:002007-01-04T22:29:00.000-05:00Good thing I wasn't drinking.
I yield, good sir.Good thing I wasn't drinking.<br /><br />I yield, good sir.Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04492265703592804987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-84859898495500810512007-01-03T21:33:00.000-05:002007-01-03T21:33:00.000-05:00Oh, yeah, and playing quick catch up --
I see th...Oh, yeah, and playing quick catch up -- <br /><br />I see the fnords! Well, fnord motors, anyway...<br /><br />Scott,<br /><br />Yeah, I've already seen it get worse. I mean, they have TOASTERS. And cargo pants. <br /><br />I'm not sure I can accept 'consistently excellent and occasionally brilliant' for such an obviously limited, completely unimaginative show. Yeah, I like the characterization, but that's all this show has, and while that was true of BUFFY too, BSG doesn't have the Whedon dialogue.Doc Nebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-34619366867905342392007-01-03T21:30:00.000-05:002007-01-03T21:30:00.000-05:00Oh, please.
NATE: Prepare, fool, for the Flying ...Oh, please.<br /><br />NATE: Prepare, fool, for the Flying Head Butt Of Doom!<br /><br />D: You actually take your head off and fling it?<br /><br />NATE: It... yes! It has the benefit of surprise!<br /><br />D: It certainly would. But, alas, it is impossibluh.<br /><br />NATE: You doubt me, worm? ::seizes himself in a totally illegal full nelson:: Watch in awe! Nrrg... ng... hrnng... why -- won't -- this -- head -- come -- OFF -- ?!?<br /><br />D: So much of the time, Lord, it is just too, too easy. ::draws silenced Mauser in leisurely fashion, aims casually, blasts Nate's kneecaps into rubble::<br /><br />NATE: Aiieeeee! ::rolling on ground, grasping ruined kneecaps in anguish, blood fountaining between his fingers::<br /><br />D: Ah, yes. This, I believe, is mine. ::strolling over, picking up BSG writing assignment::Doc Nebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-19770909641652580302007-01-03T19:06:00.000-05:002007-01-03T19:06:00.000-05:00Hey, it was a legitimate offer of sacrifice...
.....Hey, it was a legitimate offer of sacrifice...<br /><br />...if I wrote the episode, watching it would be at least slightly diminished by knowing what was going to happen.<br /><br />Somewhat diminished anyway.<br /><br />A little.<br /><br />Yeah, if we end up that last two vying for that job, well, my condolences to your widow...Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04492265703592804987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-85236933148197933802007-01-03T16:36:00.000-05:002007-01-03T16:36:00.000-05:00What I wouldn't give for real, well-written sci-fi...<i>What I wouldn't give for real, well-written sci-fi on TV.<br /><br />Hell, I'd even WRITE it, just so it'd BE there for the rest of you. </i><br /><br />Kind of you to fall on that grenade for the rest of us, Natester. However, I suspect there would be 1.7 bajillion fanboys/girls panting after that assignment, and I would happily kneecap every single one of you if it would let me get there first.Doc Nebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-68512255910553099412007-01-03T16:29:00.000-05:002007-01-03T16:29:00.000-05:00The 'networked computers are totally unreliable be...The 'networked computers are totally unreliable because of Cylon infiltrators' thing only explains away a few things. There's so much more that lies unanswered.<br /><br />*SIGH*<br /><br />What I wouldn't give for real, well-written sci-fi on TV.<br /><br />BSG is still the best sci-fi on TV, now that SG-1 is orbiting its shark.<br /><br />Hell, I'd even WRITE it, just so it'd BE there for the rest of you.Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04492265703592804987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-53762014080755118722007-01-03T10:10:00.000-05:002007-01-03T10:10:00.000-05:00They have cheap, apparently limitless power, but t...<i> They have cheap, apparently limitless power, but they don't have focused energy weapons. They have artificial gravity, but they don't have anti-grav. They have some kind of effective radiation shielding that works for years on end in space, and highly efficient environment control technology, and they can create autonomous, self programming artificial intelligence, yet they don't seem to have any kind of cloning, or genetic engineering, or rejuvenation of injured tissue, or any sort of advanced medical technology at all (although they do have some kind of anti-radiation medicine they can inject themselves with, when, as always, the plot requires it). <br /><br />They can jump entire fleets of space ships across parsecs of empty space instantaneously, and yet, they still use motorized vehicles to get around on the surface of their planets. </i><br /><br />Sigh. Yeah.<br />I wish I could tell you it gets better, but, well, it doesn't. In fact, from a purely scientific POV, it gets stupider. <br />What's frustrating to me is that the creators clearly have some kind of clue - the little directional jets on the vipers are a nice (and relatively unusual) touch, showing that someone at least understands some of the principles behind spaceflight. <br />If I recall, there *was* an attempt to handwave some of the low tech away in the miniseries - something about how the Cylons had infiltrated a lot of the networked computers and blah-blah-blah - and if that had been expanded a bit I'm sure someone could have come up with a half decent explanation for a lot of the stuff that you mention in your post. <br /><br />Of course, I still think BSG is well worth watching, despite these limitations. Up until about half way through the third season (the current one), it's consistently excellent, and occasionally brilliant. It's kind of fallen off a cliff in the past few weeks though, and has recently been stretching even my relatively flexible credulity to the limit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-56844015985629418602006-12-26T15:18:00.000-05:002006-12-26T15:18:00.000-05:00Yeah, if you do get a call, mention my name, willy...Yeah, if you do get a call, mention my name, willya? Maybe they need a write for Stargate SG1 or something...Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04492265703592804987noreply@blogger.com