It's official - BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is the best TV sci-fi show ever!

[MrScorpio]

This is the way science fiction ought to be

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Best since Babylon 5

They will be showing the miniseries again sometime this month.

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. lotsa nekked sharon's

heh and that ending came from NOWHERE

[Redstone]

7. Regarding the Sharons...

I have to say that scene was the first time I've ever wished I had Digital Cable and HDTV.

Redstone

[7th_Sephiroth]

40. can't wait for the DVD version

heh

[Rick Myers]

3. I like it alot...

Better than anything since Farscape...

:thumbsup:

[MrScorpio]

4. I loved Farscape and Babylon 5

But it's something about Battlestar that makes me really get excited like a kid again.

[crispini]

5. Man. That rocked.

[Bok_Tukalo]

6. I concur. Best Sci-Fi television show ever.

I'll even forgive the gratuitous T & A.

[MrScorpio]

11. It's one of the most realistic approaches to sexuality for a sci-fi show

No green slave chicks and emotions are tied to the sexuality causing conflict.

[Bok_Tukalo]

13. Sex never fails to get in the way of a good story

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[MrScorpio]

14. I love the sex that they weave the sexuality within the storyline

Pregnant cylons?!? WOW! That's amazing

Try doing that without the sex!

[Bok_Tukalo]

16. "Try doing that without the sex!"

I guess they don't want the Christ metaphor to be TOO obvious.

[intrepid_wanderer]

34. to each their own, No?

:bounce:

[intrepid_wanderer]

33. like... uhmmmmm

Artificial insemination 'errrr summim... seems natural for an engineered 'race' No?

[alittlelark]

8. Oh yeah!!!! I Tivoed it and just re-watched the last 30 minutes...

OMG, It is indeed the best TV Sci-Fi ever - and now we have to wait 6 mo's for the new season....:(

[GaYellowDawg]

12. Are you British?

The second season starts in July in the US, and I know it's on a delay in the UK. 20 episodes, and it's going to be a long 3 months... can't imagine having to wait longer!!

[alittlelark]

21. I had no idea!! That is frackin' wonderful!

I Tivo only, and skip all but the show. I'll have to alter my season pass to 'Keep until I delete' over the summer, I'll be gone for at least a month of it.

And, no, I'm not British.

[UdoKier]

19. I thought they were planning 12 summer episodes?

NT

[CatholicEdHead]

20. Probably

I do not think they can process 20 in time to run all back to back starting in July.

It will then be on the same Stargate production lines. There was only 13 or so this season, so I can see it coming in two blocks.

The first season midseason cliffhanger was when Starbuck got shot down. Yet it did not happen as we were on 12 straight weeks of episodes (they showed 2 the first week back to back).

[GaYellowDawg]

9. Ab-so-frackin'-lutely!!!

There are, I think, some episodes or parts of seasons that I've seen in sci-fi that are comparable:

- Some episodes in the last season of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Some episodes in the last season of Star Trek: Deep Space 9
- Much of Babylon 5, season 4

That said, I've never seen a TV sci-fi show in its first season even come close to Battlestar Galactica. Every single Star Trek series was horrible in its first season (don't tell me you don't turn the channel on a ST:TNG episode the second you see a one-piece uniform) and while B5 was an improvement, its first season didn't measure up to later seasons. BSG is as good now as any of those shows at their peak in its first season. Therefore, I agree... BSG, best sci-fi TV series ever.

Who would have thought it, considering that until this year, you'd hear "Battlestar Galactica" and think of something at about the level of "Buck Rogers in the Too-Tight Spandex Suit"?

[Speck Tater]

10. Hmmmph! I guess you never watched Lost in Space.

Or Captain Video, or Tom Corbet Space Cadet!

[GaYellowDawg]

15. LOL!!

You just gave me a flashback - I used to work in a Sears stockroom, and one day, one of my coworkers stuck a couple of aluminum dryer hoses on his arms and said, "Danger, Will Robinson!" I just about peed my pants laughing.

I've seen a few "Lost in Space" episodes, but I'm not sure that there's ever been worse TV sci-fi than the "space vampires" episode of Buck Rogers.

[progressoid]

17. I haven't seen any of them yet

Been too busy. When are they going to start re-running them?

[MrScorpio]

18. They should.

They've started tonite

[4_Legs_Good]

22. Pffffffttt!!!

Futurama is the best TV show EVER, so it also qualifies as the best Sci-fi show ever.



david

[MrModerate]

23. I'm out of the country -- is this something that just premiered . . .

Like on Sci-Fi channel or something?

I have to ask because if we're talking the original Battlestar Galactica, it was mostly dreck, IMO.

[NewJeffCT]

26. yes, it's on the Sci-Fi channel

It's totally different than the original Galactica, though the premise is still the same - the cylons wipe out nearly all of humanity in a sneak attack, save for a rag tag fleet of ships led by the Battlestar Galactica, who journey to the mystical world of Earth... however, this new show has been compared to "24" in its intensity, and is much more mature & complex.

[MrModerate]

29. Cool. Don't know when I'll get to see it . . .

(We don't get Sci-Fi Channel in Cluj), but based on the enthusiasm I'm seeing here, I'll be looking for it.

[UdoKier]

24. Yes. It was awesome.

Too drunk to comment further now. Talk to ya later.

[DoNotRefill]

25. DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just caught it. WoW!!!!

[Deja Q]

27. Pardon me,

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BEST. APRIL. FOOLS. DAY. JOKE. EVER!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Bok_Tukalo]

36. Wondered when you would jump in and rain on the parade

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[Tom Yossarian Joad]

37. LOL.... I hate to quote Reagan, but....

There you go again...



:toast:

[Cannikin]

28. I cant believe thats it 'til July.

I'm going to have withdrawal symtoms.

[Cannikin]

30. Let me clarify for the confused people,

We're talking about the NEW Battlestar. Not the 70s Cheese-fest

[Dogmudgeon]

31. Every episode so far has blown me away

The mini-series was one of the few alien-attack movies that really moved me to feel that billions of people actually died. Most such movies and stories treat genocide as a sterile plot device.

The less "lovable" the character, the more absorbing they are. I get seriously drawn into the religious madness angle with Baltar. The character arc twists with Starbuck are also intense. They've managed to make Katee Sackhoff into both an angel and a demon.

The Adamas each seem like they're about ten seconds away from a psychotic break.

And does Sharon Valerii even exist anymore? I lost track, oh, before the first episode.

I was in my late teens when the original was on TV. I thought it was absolute garbage, a waste of several good actors. And Richard Hatch did more in his one episode on the new series than in his whole run as Apollo in the original BSG.

Sci-fi? It could be one of the best TV programs, period. The two-part series finale topped them all.

--p!

[crispini]

39. Exactly, P, and very well put.

These characters are great, so three dimensional. Every one of them is fully drawn, human, and flawed. Amazing, rich stuff.

[Ilsa]

32. The ending made me want to cry.

I don't know if I can take it, having to wait three months for resolution. I felt so bad for Lee. Someone, please tell me, should i grieve for Adama now?

The fight between Starbuck and the cylon was excellent -- a real fight, not a stupid hair-pulling contest.

[intrepid_wanderer]

35. I love this stuff!!!!

But,,,, grieve??? It's tv silly!! :P

[Ilsa]

41. I didn't really mean

grieve as in a real death -- I meant having to deal with the possibility that a favorite character might not be back. I would hate to lose this character.

Perhaps all the emotionalism of the last few days as me selecting excessive language.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

38. I haven't enjoyed a SF episode like last night's cliff hanger since

B5.

The ending took me completely by surprise.

Totally frakking awsome writing.

[EstimatedProphet]

42. Damn it all, I missed it!

The VCR didn't turn on
It is on Monday night too, right?

[CatholicEdHead]

43. Usually at Sunday night at 10pm CT

is the replay.

[Yavin4]

44. The Show Is Simply Amazing

They took a cheesy 70s show and made it into first class Sci-Fi. The original show was made to take advantage of the Star Wars hype. In fact, Lucas wanted to sue over copyright infringement because the Cylon masks were too close to Vader's mask. Ironically, now Galactica the new TV show has surpassed the new Star Wars movies.

[Placebo]

45. Eh. Mediocre at best.

We'll see if it has the staying power of STAR TREK or some of the others. That's the true sign of greatness. :)

[Yavin4]

46. Dude, Come On

B.G. has taken Sci-Fi to a whole new level. They've introduced real human drama. The President of the Colonies was the Sec. of Ed., and she has terminal breast cancer. She is showing strength and courage throughout this whole ordeal. This show has a female lead character that has more dimensions than anything that any other sci-fi show has EVER done.

IOW, we can relate to these characters and feel for them, even though the settings are in a fantasy situation. That's not just good sci-fi writing. That's damn good writing period.

[Cannikin]

47. Thank you.

[tigereye]

49. it is very good

although I am not sure it rivals Babylon Five. I agree that the Laura Roslyn character is excellent and most of the other characters are very complex.

[BreweryYardRat]

50. Really?

I love the show, and I'm a big-time Stargate junkie. BSG kicks a ridiculous amount of ass-it's on par with Atlantis, and easily surpasses SG-1.

On the other hand, I hate Roslyn. Completely fucking despise her. Religious fanatics inspire such a huge level of anger in me that words cannot fully describe it.

If Adama dies and Roslyn lives, I'm not watching the show until her cancer catches up with her/something else kills her. Old Man Adama's the only one who has any sort of real, sane influence over her (until his move this episode, at which point influence is no longer an appropriate term), and if he's gone, every episode is just going to piss me off...big-time. Although if he dies and has Tigh execute Roslin right after, that would make for an interesting dynamic...President Baltar. Scary shit, that.

[crispini]

51. But she didn't start off a religious fanatic

which is what's made her interesting. And I still don't think of her as doing anything really "fanatical" until this last ep when she co-opted Starbuck's mission. IMO it remains to be seen whether or not she really is a fanatic or simply unduly influenced by this drug.

[MrScorpio]

52. If you really want to talk about religious fanatics...

It's the Cylons who are the religious fanatics

It's almost as if they know God personally

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

48. Babylon 5 is the best, but let me tell you,

Battlestar Galactica is DAMN close. I haven't been excited about a show this much since B5 and DS9.

[Technowitch]

53. Couldn't agree more, Mr. Scorpio

:D