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Post by Sara on Sept 20, 2005 20:49:55 GMT -5
Ok, anyone else thinkin' that the Cylons are good at playing the long game and that they don't care about sacrificing their own fighter ship people and that therefore the fight went just like they wanted? Also - effectively icky scene with the humans just wooping and fireing on the cylon raiders that were floating - all the exploding bloody cylon bits. They are trying to have us be more sympathetic to the cylons and I am suspicious. I talked to Greg about the Cylon raiders, and he put it in a way that made sense to me. When he confirmed that the raiders are partially organic, I asked him if they were self-aware. Greg said that, as he understands it, the raiders are no more self aware than, say, bees--they know what their job is and how they're supposed to accomplish it, but that's about it. So if we liken what the Galactica pilots did to killing a bunch of sleeping wasps--which, trust me, is most definitely when you want to try and kill wasps--then it doesn't seem quite so bad. At least to me, anyway.
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Post by Lola m on Sept 20, 2005 21:33:02 GMT -5
This is what I'm sayin'. I mean, not to quibble, but the plot didn't actually move very damn far this season. And now they're gonna call it done until next season? Not happy, me. I think their phrasing might be a little deceptive, 'cause it's my understanding that new episodes resume in January. And that those episodes are technically a part of the current season. Greg's heard the same thing as well. So who the hell knows. Yeah, I'm thinkin' it's the usual SciFi channel "half season". They cut them in half so their new seasons are running in times when the traditional networks are not running new shows (summer and January-March).
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Post by Lola m on Sept 20, 2005 21:38:13 GMT -5
Speaking of The Beatles , 'Blackbird' lyrics were flitting around in my brain. Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free.
Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly Into the light of the dark black night.
Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly Into the light of the dark black night.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to ariseDo you think the writers had that song in mind when they named the chief's new ship? ETA: And what significance to name the first blackbird ship, Laura? Speaking of Laura. And I'll soon shut up, I promise. I couldn't help draw the parallel between her cancer and the virus that was taking over the Galactica. One of the treatments to kill cancer cells is to wipe out the bone marrow and sort of reboot with stem cells. Don't know if this will be tried on Laura, but something has to be done and soon. Huh. That song is about the civil rights struggle here in the U.S...just musing "out loud"...if they did have it in mind, why? Also...I'm a little disappointed in the "terminal breast cancer" plot, just because...well, HOW far into the future are these people, and they can't diagnose and treat cancer any better than we can now? But are they in our future, or in the future by much? Or is their timeline running, like . . . sort of parallel to ours? I can't really remember from the old show entirely.
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Sept 25, 2005 14:50:23 GMT -5
Also...I'm a little disappointed in the "terminal breast cancer" plot, just because...well, HOW far into the future are these people, and they can't diagnose and treat cancer any better than we can now? Their tech is only marginally ahead of ours except in the area of space flight, which they brought with them from Kobol. Most of it got knocked right back in the wars. also the original miniseries showed that the President didn't go in for tests and refused conventional treatment. I think because her mother died slowly that way. The herbs she has been taking, the ones that give her visions, are not the doctor recommended course of treatment, they're more of a faith healing thing.
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