MISSSSTER GAETA!

any of you guys listen to the battlestar galacticast? It's not great, but from time to time they get a guest, an actor or writer of the show to talk about it which is pretty nice.

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this song is so good

Glow-in-the-dark dildos were in short supply

restaurants shaped like food

I still don't understand why either. The writing in this show sometimes was ridiculously contrived. They just had to have a nuke blow up so the cylons would find new caprica, but having Balter giver her the nuke is still so nonsensical.

Yeah, I really hate that he did this and I never understood it. Throughout the show he was always about preserving himself first and foremost.

I mean the whole trial was really good, it reflected a lot of the debates fans had about Baltar.

Except for the dumb shit he pulled which led to Cloud Nine being nuked. Baltar giving Gina that nuke is the one thing I've never understood about the series, every time it frustrates me because there's no reason given and it never comes up again. It goes against logic and Baltar's character.

I mean I guess they needed to get rid of Cloud Nine for show purposes, like with Pegasus, but it is still annoyingly retarded. But it was just against Baltar's character.

If I'm being charitable I suppose the whole "see? You're not a monster. Look how much I trust you with!" angle kinda makes sense?

The most aesthetic thing about this show was the Marines

Change my mind.

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They did Gaeta wrong. The man served admirably after the war broke out, he risked his life for the resistance on New Caprica, he lost a leg for no good reason thanks to Starbuck's fuckery, and finally, after Earth turns out to be radioactive wasteland, and the admiral (clearly losing control of the fleet and with morale tanking across the board) decides he's going to let Cylons network their systems (which created this whole mess in the first place), he decides he's not going to follow orders, he's going to stand up for the people he swore an oath to serve and not just his superior officer (whose XO was also revealed to be a Cylon, along with the guy who shot him and cost him his leg). It was pretty easy to see how someone in that situation could reach the conclusions Gaeta came to, and why they would react the way he did.

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I know the show had limits in its production and all, but I always found it strange how they could just go back to Caprica and everything still looked normal outside of a color filter. Forests still flourishing, just no humans.

Never made sense to me, if the cyclons nuked everything there wouldn't be much left. This is especially true for the cities they nuked that have all intact structures, obviously due to limitations of filming.

There would also be way more people alive on the 12 colonies, like millions of people would have survived and the cylons would have had to hunt down every single one and wipe them out, which is why them going to Earth never made sense to me either, you got 12 colonies that yes, were nuked, but are still habitable apparently and there's probably millions of people still there innawoods surviving. I mean these planets are fucking hueg, there's no way there weren't loads more survivors in the countryside with bunkers and shit, I mean there was a solar-system wide conflict just 40 years ago in their world, there would be an entire subculture of preppers just like on Earth, but preppers preparing for another cylon war with extensive bunkers and shit. Also, nuking all the colonies would be hard as fuck, you would need so many missiles. You couldn't even wipe out everything on Earth with all the nukes we have ever made on our own planet, the cylons would have had to use millions of nukes to wipe out everyone on each colony, and they would need thousands of ships to do it, which they had neither of. Cylons probably had a few hundred capital ships max, hundreds of thousands of fighters, and millions of actual cylon ground units, no where near enough to conduct a large scale ground war against the colonies even after nukes. Way too many people would have survived to resist them.

anyways, stupid ass rant aside, BSG is one of my favorite shows.

I get what you are saying, but if you're trying to conquer another country (or planet/civilization) you just take out the big/organized shit first. Strategically it wouldn't make sense for for the cylons to waste time mopping up small pockets of resistance that aren't capable of manufacturing starships and leave an entire planet like earth untouched because Earth could manufacture more formidable weapons that pose a real threat. Better to nuke everything and take out serious infrastructure then go back to all the planets and take care of loose ends.

>Forests still flourishing, just no humans.
All that is irradiated though. If you look at the area around Chernobyl, there's still forests there as well, it's just not safe for humans. The cities would be the most heavily damaged, but it doesn't mean the surrounding areas are safe.

All that said, there probably are lots of people still left on the colonies. The resistance were just the people we saw based around the urban centers. When you factor in that there were 11 other planets just like that one, there must be some functioning spacecraft and capable pilots left. Maybe they could get it running again? Cancer rates are going to be a bitch for the next couple of hundred years at least though.

they already live in space, so they have to have some kind of anti-radiation medication that is widespread and easily available / synthesized because of that.

I think an interesting angle on this re-boot of BSG would have us re-visiting the people still alive on the colonies in the far future, rebuilding the colonial gov't and everything. I mean the cyclons already fucked off out of the system long ago so whoever was left would be able to rebuild their society after centuries once the planets are no longer irradiated.

also, it's a stupid detail, but if all that shit was irradiated, then kara and co. are walking around on Caprica without any anti-radiation equipment, meaning they are breathing in radioactive isotopes present in the dirt and dust floating around in the atmo.

Stupid autistic shit like this is what I think of anytime I watch tv shows, I just always feel if I was a producer on one of these shows I would make sure everything is as accurate as possible, and always ask the questions the writers don't want to because they have their idea of how the plot is going to go but they never think through the details.

Just looked like Vancouver Gate 1 with a piss filter slapped on top of it.

I assumed the colonials just weren't as populated as Earth. Even the poor disenfranchised worlds (Tauron and Geminon iirc) had access to convenient FTL space travel so maybe like the first world/developed nations of our world they didn't have large families with lots of kids. On top of that, they were still probably feeling the crunch of recovering from the first war with the Cylons and the depopulation that would have caused, even if it had been close to half a century the colonials were pushed to brink of defeat by the Cylons before the armistice and from what all the older characters like Adama and Tigh mention about their service, it felt like the humans were slowly being ground down.

Colonials have some type of anti-radiation meds, it is why Helo survived.

But yeah, considering the Cylons nuked the fuck out of the place, it was dumb that so much of the cities were left standing. Didn't Kara return to her apartment? And a museum?

>meaning they are breathing in radioactive isotopes present in the dirt and dust floating around in the atmo.
Yeah, they were. Cancer is tricky like that: maybe you get it in 5 years, maybe 50, maybe not at all. Walking around breathing in radioactive dust is ill-advised for anyone trying not to be poisoned, but depending on the amount of radiation, it's not necessarily an immediate death sentence either.

>Stupid autistic shit like this is what I think of anytime I watch tv shows, I just always feel if I was a producer on one of these shows I would make sure everything is as accurate as possible, and always ask the questions the writers don't want to because they have their idea of how the plot is going to go but they never think through the details.
That's what Kurosawa did, and he's hailed as one of the best there ever was. But on the other hand, writing for TV is a different animal than writing for movies: you're on a tighter schedule, tighter budget, and you flat-out don't have the time to look up all these details, especially when the majority of your audience probably won't have the background knowledge needed to notice or appreciate them in the first place.

Also has a beautiful singing voice.

god! this pic just killed me. i miss bsg so much

Holy based. Adama is reddit

i liked how they reversed his haircut for mass effect

>MUH CLOUD 9 MUH NUKE MUH CONTRIVED WRITING

>the only pleasure ship in the refugee fleet was also a hotbed for anarchocommunist sedition, hedonism and degeneracy
>it got nuked the fuck out

Nothing of value was lost.

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yep, kara's apartment had all the same symbols from the maelstorm. I wonder if they planned that arc all along for Kara or just took that element and adapted it, because that was way back in season 1-2.

He's beyond death's stoke

MEEESTER GARIBALDI

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Its the point I stopped watching a scifi drama and started watching a character drama.
"Balthar literally cannot stop fucking up" became the most reliable motif in the show, and when he made the sex church, I nearly nutted in glee.

Smallville Deathstroke?

yea, baltar as the complete and utter fuckup really grows on you

>Stupid autistic shit like this is what I think of anytime I watch tv show
One thing that really bugged me, in the last episode, is when Adama asks how it's possible for human life to have evolved on a planet "1 million light years away".
>youtube.com/watch?v=xKZS3wwAofA
He says it at 1:50
The Milky Way Galaxy is ~105 000 light years in diameter. The nearest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2.5 million light years away. So the only way for that number to make sense is if either they started from, or arrived at, a point in intergalactic space, roughly halfway between the Milky Way and Andromeda.

It's a minor gripe, but it's also something that could be clarified with 2 seconds of googling.

anytime they played Pyramid was beautiful
specially that time on New Caprica when Tigh just old man walks through the middle of the game not caring

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Is this show worth watching? Ronald Moore wrote some of the best episodes of trek, but this show just seems grim and unfun. Is it worth the commitment?

Absolutely. Watch the first 3 episodes, if you aren't interested after that drop it.

tv movie and the first 2 or 3 episodes, if you don't like it by that point its not for you

I don't even care if Gaeta was wrong or right, because that goddamn voice of his renders it all obsolete.
The whole series could be a poem sung by Alessandro Juliani and it would be just as good, but most likely it would be infinitely better than it is now.
His voice is the angel in this show, instead of that stupid asspull starbuck did.

head canon is that loads more survived especially off of Caprica and especially further away from Caprica City on Caprica and that their civilizations rebuilt after the Cylons were annihilated (which was very contrived and nonsensical)
what I didn't get is why they still didn't colonize Kobol, a perfectly habitable planet in edition to Earth at the end to give the species more than one chance

The Cylons were planning on living on the colony worlds so they were rebuilding the cities. When Helo and Sharon were sneaking around Caprica you even see centurions planting trees and fixing buildings.

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Every rewatch I'm shocked when I remember Baltar and Starbuck fucked

it's represented that way though, and as a mistake
what I genuinely forgot was that Lee and Kara had ever had sex

You should also mention RDM's misunderstanding of what the mitochondria is and specifically what a mitochondrial eve refers to.

actually that was from the episode Downloaded, where the resistance blows up a bomb under a cage the cylons were using I think.

I wish it was bloodlust that would be noble, sadly he's just a shill for Israel

better how did a cylon prisoner get into Cain's quarters murder her and then escape into cylon symps

god did it

no kidding. Wish the writers had the balls to "compromise" characters and made starbuck murder her instead

god damn I forgot that

starbuck will forever be my waifu

>tfw when you accidentally destroy humanity twice pursuing tricia helfer's ass

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i would destroy humanity so hard

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In the first episode (mini series) they call Gaeda Geyeda (Long I sound instead of the Long A sound) They apparently had served with him for a few years and mispronounced his name? Seems like they didn't care too much for Gaydar.

You can't rape a toaster. They had a point.

I understand where he is coming from. I would do the same. Especially if Humanity was a bunch of losers like we see in the show. None of them were worth saving, only the Skin Jobs were worth hanging out with.

They should have went full on balls out and finished what they started with Baltar being Jesus Christ.