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Rishathra
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They are from the alternate universe on the other side of the black hole, where "our" Earth is.
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"...you'll still be here trying to act cool while actually being a bored and frustrated office worker with a vibrating anger-valve puffing out internet hostility." - Falconeer
"That looks like English but I have no idea what you just said." - Trippy
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Fordel
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And then they pulled off the "Galactica and Pegasus save humanity" and jumping-into-atmosphere battlestar insanity, and everyone was happy, apparently.
I actually hated that. The fact the only plan they could come up with was Suicide rescue, followed up by plan B, alternate suicide rescue. I hated it even more that they did the 'right' thing and didn't go through with the election rigging which brought them into that situation in the first place. Waste of a perfectly good BattleStar.  |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Reg
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They are from the alternate universe on the other side of the black hole, where "our" Earth is.
Where Spock has a beard? |
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Rishathra
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They are from the alternate universe on the other side of the black hole, where "our" Earth is.
Where Spock has a beard? Alternate, not parallel.  |
"...you'll still be here trying to act cool while actually being a bored and frustrated office worker with a vibrating anger-valve puffing out internet hostility." - Falconeer
"That looks like English but I have no idea what you just said." - Trippy
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Yegolev
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They are from the alternate universe on the other side of the black hole, where "our" Earth is.
Where Spock has a beard? Alternate, not parallel. The sixes have goatees. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Tale
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And then they pulled off the "Galactica and Pegasus save humanity" and jumping-into-atmosphere battlestar insanity, and everyone was happy, apparently.
I actually hated that. Yeah that's why I said "apparently". I didn't really like it either, but saw lots of posts from people who thought it was great. |
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Fordel
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That roughly marked the point where I stopped giving a crap about the show. That whole season with the Baltar trial arc or whatever? Skipped!
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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tazelbain
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The Eye of Jumpter was in the middle of that season. That Arc was pretty good. Realistically the Cylons would have spaced Baltar and saved us the whole trial.
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"Me am play gods"
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Rishathra
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And then they pulled off the "Galactica and Pegasus save humanity" and jumping-into-atmosphere battlestar insanity, and everyone was happy, apparently.
I actually hated that. Yeah that's why I said "apparently". I didn't really like it either, but saw lots of posts from people who thought it was great. In my defense, I thought it was great visually. From a tactical standpoint, yeah, Plan A suicide mission with a backup Plan B, which is also a suicide mission.  |
"...you'll still be here trying to act cool while actually being a bored and frustrated office worker with a vibrating anger-valve puffing out internet hostility." - Falconeer
"That looks like English but I have no idea what you just said." - Trippy
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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They are from the alternate universe on the other side of the black hole, where "our" Earth is.
Where Spock has a beard? Alternate, not parallel. The sixes have goatees. i initially read that as "the sixes have goatses"  |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Mrbloodworth
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They engage in a climactic final battle from which the Galactica emerges with just enough life left in it to take them to the true Earth, but it turns out that the humans of the BG setting are actually incredibly tiny, and the ship is eaten by a Golden Retriever.
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Venkman
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Yeah that's why I said "apparently". I didn't really like it either, but saw lots of posts from people who thought it was great.
In my defense, I thought it was great visually. From a tactical standpoint, yeah, Plan A suicide mission with a backup Plan B, which is also a suicide mission. I loved the episode. And I loved the finality of Adama's plan. He thought they'd die and didn't care. They had another Battlestar and the fleet could therefore continue running. And notice he a) decided to donate the Galactica to the cause instead of the bigger/better/strong Pegasus; and, b) lead it himself knowing he'd probably go down with the ship. Plan B wasn't Plan B. It was ignoring the plan and losing the better Battlestar in the process. And did it all without the over-the-top speech I didn't really like from the most recent episode. This show was better when shit happened without all the time-filling projection of what was going to happen. Season 1 Adama would have said: We're going, because we're human, and we are going to rescue a member of this family. Come and be a hero or stay behind and live with your cowardice. In the end, if it were me, I'd have just lured the base ships away somehow else and rescued the planet with armed Raptors. Vipers don't have jump drives but Raptors with laser (/dr_evil) coulda done the job AND not lost a Battlestar. |
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Mrbloodworth
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All will be revealed.......tonight.
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tazelbain
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That seems unlikely.
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Oban
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That seems unlikely.
Please PM me the winning lottery numbers for tonight. |
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tazelbain
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Nevermore
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Even if the ending is horrible, I'll be happy as long as they explain the head people. Conversely, even if the finale is made of lego winbricks and covered in awsomesauce, I'll still be disappointed if there isn't a satisfactory explanation of what the head people are. Same with the return of Starbuck.
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Over and out.
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Oban
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Same with the return of Starbuck.
-spoiler She becomes the symbol for a global empire of coffee shops on modern-day Earth. |
Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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Mrbloodworth
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Same with the return of Starbuck.
-spoiler She becomes the symbol for a global empire of coffee shops on modern-day Earth. O-M-G!!! |
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Tale
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Fordel
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Red Stripes  |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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It's Cylon for beer! |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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rattran
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A musical would have been more fulfilling. At least they sorta tied up some things. Meh.
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Tannhauser
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Ok that was pretty damn good. But some holes went un-answered.
I need to mull this over, but I'm mostly happy.
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Jayce
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Yeah, I agree. I'm satisfied.
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JWIV
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Overall it was okay - parts of it were really solid, some of it was over the top with the preachy hammer, and some of it was just a bit of meh. I think if I was still more invested in the show, I may have been more willing to let it slide - but ever since we hit the season of stupid ass love triangles, my patience for the show has been a bit thin.
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Rishathra
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I'm still processing everything, but I think I liked it. Fairly solid conclusion. The head people were explained about as well as I expected them to be. The final scene was far more effective than I thought it would be, especially since they used Hendrix for it.
There were some rough patches, particularly when it came to over-flowery speechifying at times. Starbuck's ending was a tad too ambiguous for me, as well, but I think I understand the motivation for it. The scene with Racetrack and the nukes was too deus ex machina. Still, in the end, I think they did a good job.
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"...you'll still be here trying to act cool while actually being a bored and frustrated office worker with a vibrating anger-valve puffing out internet hostility." - Falconeer
"That looks like English but I have no idea what you just said." - Trippy
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Numtini
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Red Stripes Invasion stripes, which I thought was a nice homage. I was pleased, who'd have thunk I'd weep at the end of Gaius Baltar. It was nicely tied. Very nicely. Kara was a chip, who'd have thunk it. |
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Tannhauser
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She had a wing tatoo on her arm. Nice.
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Abagadro
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I thought it was frakking brilliant.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Fordel
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Not only did I get to see Centurions fight Centurions. I got to see Old School Centurions fight Centurions. |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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HaemishM
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What the fuck is wrong with you people? Did you see the same episode I did?
Primitive purity is the final solution for the humans? LAZY. It screams "I had no fucking idea how to end this, I'll just have them give everything up and be the lost Mormon tribes."
It was all God's plan? LAZY.
Dead woman's nuke missle? LAZY.
All the Head people AND Starbuck were angels? REALLY? SERIOUSLY?
And why was Hera so important again? Nothing was explained about how her DNA was anymore important than any other surviving human.
At least Roslin's ending was poetic. Why couldn't we have all this pew pew all season? The flashbacks really weren't all that helpful, and got in the way of the explanations they really should have given but didn't.
All in all, well-acted, beautifully-filmed, self-indulgent, lazy, pretentious SHIT.
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Fordel
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Clearly you missed the part where the robots were fighting. AKA: The Best part  |
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HaemishM
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No, I saw that part. I kept asking "Why are the old skool Cylons even here?" No explanation. And they looked REALLY out of place and awkward, almost out of proportion to the scenery they were composited on. Really bad CGI especially compared to new model cylons.
As for the pew pew, it would have been great if we'd seen it earlier in the season (or at all). But again, I kept asking "Why wasn't this kind of cool shit all throughout the season?"
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Jayce
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You say lazy, I say inspired. He managed to bring religion in without beating anyone over the head with it. The whole thing was never going to have some neat scientific explanation. There was always the supernatural or divinity at work, from Kobol on out.
Hera was a macguffin that brought everyone into place for Starbuck to punch in the magic code that brought them where they were destined to go. In addition to apparently being the mother of all mankind, an Eve if you will (oldest common ancestor).
Also, primitive purity beats the hell out of flying motorcycles any day.
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