Battlestar Sandboxica

My weirdest TV thing this season is following "House vs. Pissed-Off Cop David Morse," but not actually watching the show, just getting the play-by-play from my wife after the episode airs.

And I like the idea of One-Eyed Tigh as boxing coach/corner man.

xp: 9th ep airs this weekend.

Season 3, Episode 9: Unfinished Business
Original Air Date: 1 December 2006

A look at the events that took place during the year-long gap from the storyline in the Season Two finale. The story reveals the reasons for the rift between Kara ("Starbuck") and Lee ("Apollo").

The link in the thread-starting post has a few promo shots from the ep.

http://www.usaweekend.com/06_issues/061126/images/061126cover.jpg

The people of Caprica should never wear green.

Also - what are ass antlers?

i like how they forgot to digitally remove the lulu lemon logo from that one pic, where her back is to camera. i aspire to such back and shoulders.

what i do like is the title of this thread. it is fun to say 'battlestar ______ica" - i called it 'battlestar spazlactica' in conversation yesterday, for some reason (before i'd even seen this thread!)

xp

i am really just half bitter b/c the clothes are super expensive and most of them are really comfortable, but also it's a kind of uniform in vancouver and i just have something against wearing yoga-wear out and about even if apparently there is some kind of magic in the yoga pants that make your ass look awesome. there is a lot of covert staring at asses in that town. i am not really a fan of the kind of covertness vancouver seems to cultivate.

anyway. it's a good place for battlestar to be filmed and my bro occasionally calls me when he's seen the actors around, which is neat.

http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=starbuckjc7.jpg

LULZ

http://img0633.paintedover.com/uploads/thumbs/0633/starbucunt_1.gif

clickee for fun

oh, but we're all fans, it seems

The Blair Witch of TV: All Hype and PR, Nest to No Content, 18 May 2006

Author: Liberty Pratt from United States

Reading some of the comments, I was struck that the observation comparing the new and downgraded Battlestar Galactica to The Blair Witch Project was very apt.

Like NBG, Blair Witch was all about the publicity campaign. Blair Witch was unwatchable cinema, so is NBG. The only difference is that Blair Witch managed to sucker a lot more people than NBG has.

That's the problem with TV shows. They have to be good to get return viewers, and NBG fails completely by that standard.

The reason? The bad look of the show. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is really that simple. When you make a show unwatchable by shaking the camera to and fro without rhyme or reason and you add to that shooting on video with a bad (and I'll guess cheap) cinematographer, you get what you deserve: a disturbingly badly made show.

It really doesn't matter how many millions SciFi puts into the promotion, or how many awards their money buys them, NBG will remain an artistic and commercial failure until they decide to upgrade the show.

Oh, and don't get me started on the pretty-faced, dead-eyes model-types that NBG tries to pass off as actors...
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and imdb only lists the next ep as "Rapture," and airing on the 3rd sunday in January. No further info.

anyway... this ep was pretty good but so far as a whole this season has pretty much been a dud. let's hope it picks up in v3.5

'cuz i was compelled to spread a review entitled "Nest to No Content" as far and wide as possible.

I am hypersensitive to wiggly camera work and I've never noticed it on BSG. Maybe I'm getting used to it, or maybe it's not as distracting. Or maybe my blinding crush on Chief and long-haired Gaeda makes me not care.

for cryin' out loud!

"Paper shortage"

I forgot there were still embittered Dirk Benedict groupies out there.

I'm lately just unhappy with the show's tendency to want to cover up poor plotting with tons of flashbacks and "3 days ago..." story structure. It's gimmicky and doesn't really do justice to the depth of character that the show has proven itself capable of.
As a for instance, we end the boxing show with Dee glaring from the corner of the ring and 'buck and Apollo clinched and mumbling bloody nothings in each other's ear. So next episode, we'll address all that, right? No? We're gonna kill Kat? For no particular reason?
I'm not digging the sloppiness at the moment.
Still good tv, tho.

can't relate to you naysayers, i think this season has been the strongest yet!

Apparently, one of the upcoming eps will feature Chief Tyrol & his New Caprica union, which marks the first time that we've had any mention or focus of organized labor in sci-fi in, what, forever?

(the off-screen BSG teacher strike doesn't count)

Also, check your torrents, people. There's a pretty good gag reel floating around out there, mainly from season 3 footage.

Babylon 5 got there first unfortunately...Whole episode about a dockers strike iirc.

That's what I've been saying!

-- turd burglary (still.bevens@(g)mail.com), Today. (later)

what have they been doing besides running in place?

I'm about ready to give up on this show at this point. I think they had twelve episodes of story and twenty six slots to fill. The Verheiden stuff is especially bad; last night's episode was a worst example of the "character development" via torture. Beating up and/or spotlighting characters does not equal development; I don't know anything more about Chief and Cally's relationship than I did before and it didn't develop in any way... plus, it's not as if I really believed y'all were gonna kill them, so why should I give a damn about this story?

Meanwhile, a'la 'Lost', their have been so many major changes that go undiscussed for no reason. Say, don't you all have a Cylon in captivity? Remember last season, when that was good for six episodes and a near fleet riot? Why is it unremarakable now? For that matter, where did the fleet go? The only action these days is on Galactica.

Again: about ready to give up.

Yeah, I wish they'd do more with this storyline rather than Cally/Chief angst.