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― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

by like do you mean don't like?

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

nah, don't worry about it. I just like that the company shares a similar name and city with the production it supplies.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

battlelululemonactica

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.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i get it... athletic!

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, s, that reminds me of the aut0matic vaudvi11e podcasts and i am sad you guys aren't doing them anymore

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

aw thanks. but we're doing a "real" show now... hopefully... so someday you will hear my sweet voice on the radio once more

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah, right! awesome

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link

scarily large version of that cover:

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

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked tonight's ep, bloody and soap opera-y as it was

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Saturday, 2 December 2006 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be disappointed if they manage to undo all the plot developments that happened on New Caprica and take all the characters back to their pre-settlement status.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 2 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i cried

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

and then later on tonight i recounted the whole episode to a friend. she is now convinced and is going to start the battlestar dvd journey.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 3 December 2006 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link

excellent. let us know which ep pushes her over the edge into fandom

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Sunday, 3 December 2006 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought it was kinda eh.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

It was more for the people who go all soap opera over Starbuck and Apollo, which I just don't get.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link

well, i was more affected by the whole concept of boxing out one's feelings to clear the air, and though the flashbacks were kind of cheesey, in enjoyed seeing the party and the hopefulness, or at least this idea that hope (and love) would prevail and everything would be alright, problems solved. pretty dark really.
i probably am slightly soap opera-y over starbuck and apollo though, yeah.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I completely agree with Nicole. I like the characters and the actors, sure. But come ON! WAR! Insanely knotty ethical questions! No "safe" characters! That's who brought me to the dance, and I wants to bugai!

― austin!@#$ (austin), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

but what about love?
don't you want someone to care about you?
what about love?
don't let it slip awaayayaayaay

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Damnit, why aren't there more slow-jam power ballads about insanely knotty ethical questions?

― austin!@#$ (austin), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i just want less treading water and waiting around for whatever's gonna happen this season to happen

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOPNh2z5DE

LULZ

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

oh dear god

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link

ok i love this show but people are nuts with this tvshow-musicvideo stuff
barf

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i am going to write a slow-jam power ballad about insanely knotty ethical questions. and then set it to a video from clips of battlestar. and then put it on youtube. and then off myself.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I closed the tab as soon as I saw that it was that fucking Coldplay song.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 05:13 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the last couple of episodes are making back budget money from the CGI stuff in the escape from Caprica II.

― earlnash (earlnash), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i can deal with that

i mean, remember when the battlestar *leaped into nu-caprica atmosphere right above the ground*!!! i remember. worth it.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 05:51 (seventeen years ago) link

tonight's ep: "The Passage" The Colonial fleet makes a "harrowing" journey. "Kat" plays a vital role in the success or failure of the "Passage" through space.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Saturday, 9 December 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Adama is all kinds of awesome.

― Leon Czolgosz (Leon), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I cried.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i am getting excited about the final five mystery
the humans have to be figuring out some of this too, somehow, soon, and then there will be more cylon-human battles

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Ron Moore says the next ep is the mid-season cliffhanger and last until january:

Ep 11: "The Eye of Jupiter" - The crew of Galactica makes a stop at the barren Algae planet.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Sunday, 10 December 2006 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i have steeled myself for cliffhanger

haha 'barren algae planet'
fun

i loved the part in this ep where gaius pointed out the bit of regeneration-pod goo in xena-cylon's hair ew hahaha

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 10 December 2006 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7834/ejo2zf4.jpg

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 08:35 (seventeen years ago) link

more interweb giffage:

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

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link

more fun

clickee for fun

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.randomtuesday.com/pictures/bsg/301/fat_lee.gif

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 December 2006 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked the boxing one a great deal; I never liked Kat in any case.

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 December 2006 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link

well. hm. ok.
i really can't deal with fanfic in any way
i can barely deal with my own 'omg i love this show' stuff. still love this show.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 14 December 2006 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 18 December 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Dean stockwell is fun in any show he wanders into.

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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― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 18 December 2006 07:10 (seventeen years ago) link

NOT all fans, rather.

and imdb only lists the next ep as "Rapture," and airing on the 3rd sunday in January. No further info.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 18 December 2006 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Take off and nuke em from orbit.
Only way to be sure.

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 December 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link

that blair witch thing is idiotic, why did you kill my brain cells by reposting it

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

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

why did you kill my brain cells by reposting it

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

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel like there's been a lot of set up this season. It's good set up, and I love back story and exposition, but I'm thinking the big pay off is coming after the break.

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.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Monday, 18 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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Who are the Saggitarons and where did they come from? This whole episode felt like I had missed something before.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 12 February 2007 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Saggitwhatevers are Tom Zarek's people, one of the colonies. They get mentioned way back a coupla seasons ago.

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

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 12 February 2007 06:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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)
-- kingfish in absentia (jdsalmo...), Today. (later)

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

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The prejudice against the Sagittarians seems like a logical extension of the recent crackdown on other alien races; the mooninites for example.

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, there you go. I never watched B5.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

this episode was crap -- the first thirty minutes were spent being confused as to where these saggitarons came from and what they were doing on the galactica, why helo had been assigned to deal with them, where this disease came from, who this doctor guy was, etc. wtf BSG? the last 30 was spent laughing at the inflated dramatics. "Are you trying to sully the good name of MIKE ROGERS?!" Who?

― mikebee (bizzle), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

It was awfully afterschool specialish, true.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

if there's any justice, "Are you trying to sully the good name of MIKE ROGERS?!" will be the next meme du jour.

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

this show has jumped the shark.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

and i really hate to say it. but it clearly is completely lost in space at this point. where's the momentum? the urgency? or even the fun?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, this season... sigh :/ but hey, i now have hopes for a crazyass 4th season!
"SCI FI Channel has reupped its series Battlestar Galactica for a fourth season and a minimum of 13 additional hours. Production will start up again this summer for a scheduled January 2008 launch. The series is produced by NBC Universal Television Studio."

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the show has developed some serious pacing problems. They could have had an entire seasons worth of stuff on nu-caprica, but they decided to wrap that up in about 3 episodes. I also think some of the mediocrity of the last couple episodes has to do with them slamming on the brakes because theyve been doing way too much way too fast.

― turd burglary (turd burglary), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

> They could have had an entire seasons worth of stuff on nu-caprica

That's what I've been saying!

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

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

what have they been doing besides running in place?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess running in place isnt criminal, but it could be more interesting is what Im trying to say.

― turd burglary (turd burglary), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i think we all agree on that point.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Not bad for only a grand.

― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2007 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Two grand now.

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.

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn. Season two was so good, as well. I haven't beeen downloading these since the tiem moved; don't think I'll bother now.

― stet (stet), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

The first few episodes of the season were fantastic -- it's been kind of uneven since then, but it's not like it's not, like, Grey's Anatomy bad.

― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm patient and willing to see where they go. Remember that the end of the 2nd season had some "running in place"/character stuff. (the Black Market one, or the John Heard/chief engineer one)

― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, this was shite. next week looks equally bad. more filler!

― mikebee (bizzle), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

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