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Hosted Projects - Standalone => Diaspora => Topic started by: Angreifer on February 27, 2009, 10:37:48 pm
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Yeah...wow. It's getting tough to talk about these episodes, there's just too much going on to even begin processing the info in a rational manner. Sooo...I'll say more when I can think of it.
Yeah. Wow.
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That was frakking incredible.
One of the best episodes of the whole show.
That musical cue alone -- when the music became the music -- would have been a good ending. Then there was tons of juicy action after that.
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I second the motion of "that was frakking incredible".
That was truly impressive.
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It's in the frakkin ship?
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well I guess its pretty clear that Kara's father was the Daniel the 5 talked about. which is why she's somehow connected and knew the song from when she was a child. Still don't know how she was able to come back.... with only 3 episodes left.
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well I guess its pretty clear that Kara's father was the Daniel the 5 talked about. which is why she's somehow connected and knew the song from when she was a child. Still don't know how she was able to come back.... with only 3 episodes left.
Calm down, they haven't forgotten.
At this point I trust them implicitly -- after the superb job of answering questions they did in 'No Exit', I think they can handle this.
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What's this talk about pianos and daddys... Was I the only person to notice Kara slightly nude in a shower in the beginning?
Nude > Piano
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And yet you failed to notice Boomer who was also nude at one point? :p
Seriously though, fantastic episode.
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And yet you failed to notice Boomer who was also nude at one point? :p
There's plenty of Boomers to go around, but only one Kara.
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i loved the bit where "Daniel" was riffing on the work of another composer and comes up with something that sounds just like the opening bars of the classic galactica theme :D. That was almost as good for me as the cylon-war fight in razor with its echoes of the old the theme creeping in there too :D
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Wow, first full of ep of BSG I've actually got around to watching
Frakking incredible :yes:
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Did anyone notice the brand name of the toothpaste? :D
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oh Felgercarb!
A good episode indeed.
I do remember that in my fan fiction I wrote a while ago a ship jumped too close to another and blew it all to hell.. and you lot all argued that's not how it worked.. so HA!
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Only episode of the entire show I've been tempted to watch twice. Brilliant.
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oh Felgercarb!
A good episode indeed.
I do remember that in my fan fiction I wrote a while ago a ship jumped too close to another and blew it all to hell.. and you lot all argued that's not how it worked.. so HA!
Yea that was pretty crazy how does that work? Looks like that's going to be more work for the diaspora team, good thing they decided to wait. And I never thought boomer would be such a *****. She not only beat up athena, she locked her in a closet and screwed her guy right in front of her. Then she took her kid.
And anyone notice now that the location of the fleet has been given away, and Galactica can't jump? I can't wait till the next episode I guarantee you it will be epic.
But that episode was one of the most amazing I've ever seen. Even though I like the action a lot more, when Daniel dissappeared and when the notes all matched up i didn't know what to say.
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I really don't think that slick/kara's father == daniel. I thought that might've been it, but it doesn't sync up. Kara's a half-cylon, too? That wouldn't make Hera as special as she supposed to be. That's why they retconned Nicolas as HotDog's son.
I really love this episode. The permeation of music was incredible. The Virtual-Slick also really reinforces the idea of Beings of Light once again.
I just read Bear's blog entry on the episode, all three parts, and my god it was so enlightening. It brought so much more to the episode for me.
http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=1597
I really hope he adds the piano arrangement to the season 4 soundtrack.
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I tend to agree with you there Seraph.
BTW, I sent you a PM on SFM cause I figured you'd get it faster. :D
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oh PFF - I didn't even see it. Standby.
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I really don't think that slick/kara's father == daniel. I thought that might've been it, but it doesn't sync up. Kara's a half-cylon, too? That wouldn't make Hera as special as she supposed to be. That's why they retconned Nicolas as HotDog's son.
Hera is overrated by everyone, since everyone either never heard of daniel, or thought that he was quite killed by Jon Cavil...
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I think Daniel is Kara's dad too....it just fits too well. When the music started to become recognizable, and you see the Five suddenly perking up like dogs hearing a silent whistle, it all pointed to me at Kara having a Cylon connection. And here's a thought...maybe she's not half Cylon. Perhaps Daniel is her step father? That would keep Hera as being the only half Cylon.
Three episodes to go and the anticipation is building...can't wait to see how this saga ends.
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I think the cylon's popping up and going "wtf" is because its their activation song, how could someone else know it.
I really think that Kara has nothing to do with the cylons. I think that she's part 'being-of-light'. I think that Slick (Kara's dad) is a being of light, and was from the beginning.
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I'm speechless. ****ing speechless.
That episode just reached in and tore my guts out. I've always really loved Chief Tyrol, so to watch his character go through this was heartbreaking. Especially that final scene of him returning to his projected house, and finding Boomer and his "daughter" gone. He's had so much loss already, so much turbulence, Boomer's betrayal will completely destroy him.
The question is, does Boomer truly still love him? The way she said goodbye to him in the raptor and asked him to come with her suggests that she does love him. But given that she seemed to have been operating on Cavil's orders, it's possible that the only reason she tried to get him to come along was so that Cavil would have one of the Final Five in his pocket.
Jesus, what about Helo and Athena? What the hell is going to happen to them? Athena watching Helo get it on with Boomer, the loss of their daughter, that moment when Athena staggered into the pilots briefing room. That was dark. Seriously goddamn dark.
Not forgetting about Kara's storyline. Very sweet. The slow reveal, and even slower reveal for Kara, of Slick as her father was really nicely done. Not to mention the two of them playing All Along the Watchtower, which I didn't even realise until they really started going and Tigh & Co. took notice. Really hope that piano rendition of the Final Five Theme is included on the season 4 soundtrack.
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Amazing episode! The build up to, and reveal of All Along the Watchtower absolutely made my frakkin' week. The first time you hear it in its entirety at the end of Season 3 is one of my favorite scenes from all of BSG. I didn't realize what it was either until the last moment when Slick started playing the bass line energetically, though I started to get suspicious when Tigh & Co. perked up.
Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouz2TUBojd8) the reveal btw. If you're anything like me you're going to want to watch this several times at least.
Let's just hope the last three eps can match or surpass this. :cool:
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And I thought 'Cylon Projection' was used only by Angel Six and Angel Baltar. Now it turns out Boomer and everyone can use it too...
(Awesome episode)
Jesus, what about Helo and Athena? What the hell is going to happen to them? Athena watching Helo get it on with Boomer, the loss of their daughter, that moment when Athena staggered into the pilots briefing room. That was dark. Seriously goddamn dark.
I don't think she blames Helo for getting on with boomer. He couldn't know that, obviously. Still, with Hera gone again...
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And I thought 'Cylon Projection' was used only by Angel Six and Angel Baltar. Now it turns out Boomer and everyone can use it too...
Back when Baltar was on the Baseship after New Caprica, it was revealed that all Cylons can 'project'. They can essentially create hyper-realistic daydreams of whatever they so desire. IIRC, the Six that first reveals this trait of Cylon physiology tells him of how, when she's walking through the bland halls of the Baseship, she 'projects' herself into a lush rainforest.
According to the podcast for this ep, RDM thought up the whole idea of projection as a way of allowing for a diverse range of set/locations while Baltar was on the Baseship, while keeping costs low by shooting on location rather than having to expand the Baseship set.
That said, we don't know whether Head Six and Head Baltar are indeed projections. Remember, Baltar's human, so he wouldn't be able to project at all. Not to mention that the internal characters have known things their host couldn't possibly have known, they've been almost prescient in some of the things they've said. Personally, I'm thinking they're plugged into whatever or whomever is pulling everybody's strings. The one who brought Kara back, the one behind the song, etc.
This season, at least the second half of the season, has to be hands down the best television i've seen years.
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Yeah it was a good episode, wouldnt say 'great' but it was good :)
Lot of questions.....
Well we know Boomer can really scream!!!! ;7
helo has fraked his relationship
"Just because she is identical to me in everyway is no excuse" :lol:
The ship is totally fraked! Dont think she could really survive another fight........ :shaking:
I think Daniel is Kara's dad too....it just fits too well. When the music started to become recognizable, and you see the Five suddenly perking up like dogs hearing a silent whistle, it all pointed to me at Kara having a Cylon connection. And here's a thought...maybe she's not half Cylon. Perhaps Daniel is her step father? That would keep Hera as being the only half Cylon.
Three episodes to go and the anticipation is building...can't wait to see how this saga ends.
I am wondering is Kara's father, the Cylon Hybrid from the film 'Razor' Just wondering if they looked familar from the photos.....probably a few FTL jumps in the wrong direction, but hey, you never know...
Glad to see, they didnt simply forget about Herra. Maybe she is the future, interesting how it affected Roslin
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No, the First Hybrid is not Kara's father.
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No, the First Hybrid is not Kara's father.
Agreed.
I think the first hybrid thing will be left unexplored, except maybe his line about "harbinger of death" but thats about it. I think that Caprica might play with it, but even then its the wrong timeframe.
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And anyone notice now that the location of the fleet has been given away, and Galactica can't jump? I can't wait till the next episode I guarantee you it will be epic.
In the event if the fleet have to make an emergency jump to avoid a confrontation with Cavil's fleet, I would imagine Adama giving this talk on the comm:
"This is the Admiral, We have a little problem with our jump, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode"
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Jesus, what about Helo and Athena? What the hell is going to happen to them? Athena watching Helo get it on with Boomer, the loss of their daughter, that moment when Athena staggered into the pilots briefing room. That was dark. Seriously goddamn dark.
I don't think she blames Helo for getting on with boomer. He couldn't know that, obviously. Still, with Hera gone again...
He should be able to tell the difference, even if they are identical. Chief could tell that Boomer wasn't just another 8.
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Jesus, what about Helo and Athena? What the hell is going to happen to them? Athena watching Helo get it on with Boomer, the loss of their daughter, that moment when Athena staggered into the pilots briefing room. That was dark. Seriously goddamn dark.
I don't think she blames Helo for getting on with boomer. He couldn't know that, obviously. Still, with Hera gone again...
He should be able to tell the difference, even if they are identical. Chief could tell that Boomer wasn't just another 8.
Yea but he's a Cylon
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Jesus, what about Helo and Athena? What the hell is going to happen to them? Athena watching Helo get it on with Boomer, the loss of their daughter, that moment when Athena staggered into the pilots briefing room. That was dark. Seriously goddamn dark.
I don't think she blames Helo for getting on with boomer. He couldn't know that, obviously. Still, with Hera gone again...
He should be able to tell the difference, even if they are identical. Chief could tell that Boomer wasn't just another 8.
As Blue Lion pointed out, the Chief's a Cylon.
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All the 8s support looking for the Final Five. They join with two other models. Three other models don't want to. Deadlock. Until Boomer sides with Cavil.
Doesn't take a genius to figure out the other Cylon is Boomer. There were no other 8s it could have been. :p
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All the 8s support looking for the Final Five. They join with two other models. Three other models don't want to. Deadlock. Until Boomer sides with Cavil.
Doesn't take a genius to figure out the other Cylon is Boomer. There were no other 8s it could have been. :p
Was there anything that said that the Raptor came from Cavil? WE know Ellen was with Cavil, but do they? It could have been from some other place.
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There aren't THAT many places where it could have come from, really.
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Well since no one knew where the final five download to (or even if they do) it would be far to rash to simply assume that any 8 was Boomer.
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Sure, but its possible that there are other fronts of the Cylon Civil War. Isn't it a little unlikely that out of all the millions of cylons in creation, the only remaining Twos, Sixes, and Eights (minus one) are on the that one surviving Rebel Baseship? Could Cavil have gotten the drop on all of them, everywhere?
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According to the podcast for this ep, RDM thought up the whole idea of projection as a way of allowing for a diverse range of set/locations while Baltar was on the Baseship, while keeping costs low by shooting on location rather than having to expand the Baseship set.
Unfortunately they didn't use it as much as I'd hope they would. i.e. keeping the original S1 organic, inhuman baseship filled with naked Cylon models, but Baltar sees a projected version which is less disturbing to him (and the censors).
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Jesus, what about Helo and Athena? What the hell is going to happen to them? Athena watching Helo get it on with Boomer, the loss of their daughter, that moment when Athena staggered into the pilots briefing room. That was dark. Seriously goddamn dark.
I don't think she blames Helo for getting on with boomer. He couldn't know that, obviously. Still, with Hera gone again...
He should be able to tell the difference, even if they are identical. Chief could tell that Boomer wasn't just another 8.
Yea but he's a Cylon
So?
It's like identical twins. A glance or a picture might not do it, but a few seconds conversation followed by sex should have clued him in that this isn't the woman he's been with for years...
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Jesus, what about Helo and Athena? What the hell is going to happen to them? Athena watching Helo get it on with Boomer, the loss of their daughter, that moment when Athena staggered into the pilots briefing room. That was dark. Seriously goddamn dark.
I don't think she blames Helo for getting on with boomer. He couldn't know that, obviously. Still, with Hera gone again...
He should be able to tell the difference, even if they are identical. Chief could tell that Boomer wasn't just another 8.
Yea but he's a Cylon
So?
It's like identical twins. A glance or a picture might not do it, but a few seconds conversation followed by sex should have clued him in that this isn't the woman he's been with for years...
Yeah, it's just a physically perfect copy with completely identical memories up to a few years prior.
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Also, we've seen before that Helo isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the bunch...probably once Boomer started putting the moves on him, any strange differences would have seemed inconsequential. ;7 As for Tyrol recognizing Boomer, the way he looked at her seemed to me to signify that he recognized her in a way only Cylons can tell each other apart. Some kind of IFF.
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All the cylons can identify each other easily, you've seen it many times with Athena.
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The cyclons aren't all perfectly identical, and they clearly have differing experiences and personalities, which means they'll have slightly different mannerisms, speaking patterns, walking styles, etc. If you know someone really well for a long time, you can tell that the person walking up behind you is them based on the sound of their footsteps.
I think, if it was just a short conversation or something, I'd let it go. But he frakked her against a wall in the locker room place. x.x
It's not like he had zero reason to suspect Athena of ever being anyone but Athena. There's eights wandering around all over the place, and most of them have the same haircut and clothes.
But... whether or not the mix up is his fault, Athena could still get real ticked off. If it's a cylon thing, she likely can't imagine not being able to tell the difference.
On the other hand, Athena has bigger things to worry about than all of that, seeing as her holy-****ing-grail of a kid is in a box on a raptor god-knows-where in the universe...
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Thing is that Athena was based directly on Sharon's memories. That may go deeper...they never really said. But at some point the two were essentially the same person so ...its possible and maybe even likely that they would have reacted in an identical way. Course then you can get into a potentially strange nature versus nurture debate about Cylons :)
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We all know that it won't be hera that's in that box on a raptor.
Obviously It'll be boxey. And he'll kick cavil in the ass!
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We all know that it won't be hera that's in that box on a raptor.
Obviously It'll be boxey. And he'll kick cavil in the ass!
If that happens it will be the most awesome series finale ever.
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I think, if it was just a short conversation or something, I'd let it go. But he frakked her against a wall in the locker room place. x.x
But that's exactly why he couldn't be blamed for not realizing it wasn't really Athena. When you're horny, you tend to gloss over the smaller details. Who here can honestly say that they'd be able to notice and analyze small behavioral discrepancies in their partner when he/she is getting their kit off in front of you!
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Not to mention she switched to a factory-fresh Number Eight body less than a year ago.
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Drama wise, a great episode over all, but am I the only one who has noticed a huge, and I mean HUGE technical snafu that's pretty hard imagining being missed?
The one about how a tiny ship jumping within a capital ship's pod and/or close to the hull of a battlestar-sized ship could cause it immediately fatal damage?
Umm... If that's true (and they wouldn't say it if it wasn't so, right guys?), then if I were the Cylons I'd build a half dozen Raider-sized (and brain-equipped) super duper oh-my-golly amazingly fast "missiles" equipped with jump drives, and send them toward any ship I pleased, and then have them jump wherever they want, like (why not?) only a meter to the left of where they're at because... It'll cause the hull of the ship to crinkle up like a wad of aluminum foil.
Notice that no mention was made that this was due to Galactica's specific condition: it was stated as if it was a commonly known phenomenon. Even Hot Dog in his Viper was crapping himself over the possibility of it, and I highly doubt that he has the inside scoop of just how precarious Galactica's condition is. I'm confident that sensitive info like that would be kept under tight wraps so that the fleet won't panic.
So, I hope that the Diaspora team equips the Cylon side with a number of these jump-capable missiles. I'll have the human fleet wiped out within 10 min.
What say you all?
:drevil:
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I'm confident that sensitive info like that would be kept under tight wraps so that the fleet won't panic.
I don't think thats true. People know about the cylon work crews, and also, they haven't made a jump in quite a while, either.
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Drama wise, a great episode over all, but am I the only one who has noticed a huge, and I mean HUGE technical snafu that's pretty hard imagining being missed?
The one about how a tiny ship jumping within a capital ship's pod and/or close to the hull of a battlestar-sized ship could cause it immediately fatal damage?
Umm... If that's true (and they wouldn't say it if it wasn't so, right guys?), then if I were the Cylons I'd build a half dozen Raider-sized (and brain-equipped) super duper oh-my-golly amazingly fast "missiles" equipped with jump drives, and send them toward any ship I pleased, and then have them jump wherever they want, like (why not?) only a meter to the left of where they're at because... It'll cause the hull of the ship to crinkle up like a wad of aluminum foil.
Notice that no mention was made that this was due to Galactica's specific condition: it was stated as if it was a commonly known phenomenon. Even Hot Dog in his Viper was crapping himself over the possibility of it, and I highly doubt that he has the inside scoop of just how precarious Galactica's condition is. I'm confident that sensitive info like that would be kept under tight wraps so that the fleet won't panic.
So, I hope that the Diaspora team equips the Cylon side with a number of these jump-capable missiles. I'll have the human fleet wiped out within 10 min.
What say you all?
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It's pretty obviously because the ship's hull is already buckling -- which all the pilots, including Hotdog, were certainly briefed on.
Besides, we've seen a Raider make an attempt at a suicide run in Season 1. For all we know it was trying a similar trick.
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if I were the Cylons I'd build a half dozen Raider-sized (and brain-equipped) super duper oh-my-golly amazingly fast "missiles" equipped with jump drives, and send them toward any ship I pleased, and then have them jump wherever they want, like (why not?) only a meter to the left of where they're at because... It'll cause the hull of the ship to crinkle up like a wad of aluminum foil.
Problem with that idea is that it's really hard for the Cylons to get close to a battlestar, and if you're gonna have amazingly fast missiles why not just arm them with nukes? They're smaller (I would guess), have less moving parts, and probably do more damage than whatever this "spacial disturbance" phenomenon is per unit mass. The real question is why don't they just jump nukes into each others' ships. And I would guess that the answer to that is because it would suck. People wanna see vipers and raiders dance.
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The idea of jumping inside a ship to kill it is kinda obvious, isn't it? Even with resurrection, dying wasn't exactly fun for cylons, though...
I wonder how it would have looked if the Pegasus was jumped inside a basestar instead of just smashed into it.
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Drama wise, a great episode over all, but am I the only one who has noticed a huge, and I mean HUGE technical snafu that's pretty hard imagining being missed?
The one about how a tiny ship jumping within a capital ship's pod and/or close to the hull of a battlestar-sized ship could cause it immediately fatal damage?
Umm... If that's true (and they wouldn't say it if it wasn't so, right guys?), then if I were the Cylons I'd build a half dozen Raider-sized (and brain-equipped) super duper oh-my-golly amazingly fast "missiles" equipped with jump drives, and send them toward any ship I pleased, and then have them jump wherever they want, like (why not?) only a meter to the left of where they're at because... It'll cause the hull of the ship to crinkle up like a wad of aluminum foil.
Notice that no mention was made that this was due to Galactica's specific condition: it was stated as if it was a commonly known phenomenon. Even Hot Dog in his Viper was crapping himself over the possibility of it, and I highly doubt that he has the inside scoop of just how precarious Galactica's condition is. I'm confident that sensitive info like that would be kept under tight wraps so that the fleet won't panic.
So, I hope that the Diaspora team equips the Cylon side with a number of these jump-capable missiles. I'll have the human fleet wiped out within 10 min.
What say you all?
:drevil:
What got me wondering was when they evacated the Peggy and jumped away straight out of hanger, how come we didnt see any damge happen on the ship or any of the raptors behind them blow up? :drevil:
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What got me wondering was when they evacated the Peggy and jumped away straight out of hanger, how come we didnt see any damge happen on the ship or any of the raptors behind them blow up? :drevil:
Because the writers didn't think of that before? There was that cylon strike force in "Flight of the Phoenix, the Raptor Force in "Lay down your Burdens I", and they didn't seem to be bothered by close proximity. ISTR Peggys Raptors veering away from the Hull as they were making their jumps, so maybe the "danger zone" is actually fairly small. When Boomer jumped away, she was really close to Galactica, maybe that's a factor...
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Jesus, what about Helo and Athena? What the hell is going to happen to them? Athena watching Helo get it on with Boomer, the loss of their daughter, that moment when Athena staggered into the pilots briefing room. That was dark. Seriously goddamn dark.
I don't think she blames Helo for getting on with boomer. He couldn't know that, obviously. Still, with Hera gone again...
He should be able to tell the difference, even if they are identical. Chief could tell that Boomer wasn't just another 8.
Yea but he's a Cylon
So?
It's like identical twins. A glance or a picture might not do it, but a few seconds conversation followed by sex should have clued him in that this isn't the woman he's been with for years...
Yeah, it's just a physically perfect copy with completely identical memories up to a few years prior.
I just quoted this to see how small these fonts can go. But anyways apart from that fact that Kamikaze attacks with nuke-armed raiders would simply ruin the show, Now Cavil knows where Galactica is and can attack full force while she can't jump and is under repairs. And about the hangar jumps, I they were considerably farther away from where Boomers raptor was from the hull. They got their distance from the landing pod and jumped. If they didn't know about the damage why didn't they just jump from inside the ship without being exposed at all? Boomer just barely escaped throuph a closing bay door and jumped right next to galactica.
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It's a TV show, take it for what it is.
:)
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And about the hangar jumps, I they were considerably farther away from where Boomers raptor was from the hull. They got their distance from the landing pod and jumped. If they didn't know about the damage why didn't they just jump from inside the ship without being exposed at all? Boomer just barely escaped throuph a closing bay door and jumped right next to galactica.
That's actually a very good question.
Personally, I think Boomer knew that jumping inside the hanger bay would gut the ship. She could have done this, but she didn't. That suggests that, while she's gone over to Cavil's faction, she may still feel something of her old life. Galactica is still, in part, her home. More importantly, she still loves Tyrol. Despite what she did to him, how she used him, she still loves him. In fact, i'm willing to bet that if Tyrol had gone with her, she would've found it a lot easier to justify jumping away while still in the hanger (not that Tyrol would let her).
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What got me wondering was when they evacated the Peggy and jumped away straight out of hanger, how come we didnt see any damge happen on the ship or any of the raptors behind them blow up? :drevil:
Maybe they did damage the Pegasus, jumping that close, but since they had evacuated the ship after locking it on a collision course with a basestar, consigniing the ship to scrap, they would not have been very concerned, would they?
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What got me wondering was when they evacated the Peggy and jumped away straight out of hanger, how come we didnt see any damge happen on the ship or any of the raptors behind them blow up? :drevil:
Maybe they did damage the Pegasus, jumping that close, but since they had evacuated the ship after locking it on a collision course with a basestar, consigniing the ship to scrap, they would not have been very concerned, would they?
Well i know that!! Just didnt see any special effects of the hull ripped apart by all the jumps :D
Frak it anyway, all good.
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Well i know that!! Just didnt see any special effects of the hull ripped apart by all the jumps :D
Frak it anyway, all good.
Well, they could argue that the shot of the 4 Raptors evacuating Pegasus was a distant, wide angle shot, and that the "zoom" on Boomer's Raptor and the Galactica was closer, showing the damage better, and I do recall that the 4 Raptors took a curved path away from the Peg's "head", while Boomer's was spinning out of control twoards the head, but in reality, we all know it a plot device recently dreamt up by the writers. :lol:
Anyway, I'm enjoying these episodes, even if they don't have the big action scenes - the drama is very tense, and a lot of the questions are being answered. It's a shame it will be all over soon. :(
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Bear in mind that the Galactica is so weak now that simply jumping a few times will kill it. That means it is weaker than any of the civilian ships in the fleet.
So saying you can use a jumping cylon ship offensively is like claiming that cause sneezing will knock down a house of cards you can use it as a tank killer. :p
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A Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, ordinance racks laden with a runny nosed kids with pepper shakers poised above their noses. A more menacing sight a Warsaw Pact tank commander can never fathom from his darkest nightmares.
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Well i know that!! Just didnt see any special effects of the hull ripped apart by all the jumps :D
Frak it anyway, all good.
Well, they could argue that the shot of the 4 Raptors evacuating Pegasus was a distant, wide angle shot, and that the "zoom" on Boomer's Raptor and the Galactica was closer, showing the damage better, and I do recall that the 4 Raptors took a curved path away from the Peg's "head", while Boomer's was spinning out of control twoards the head, but in reality, we all know it a plot device recently dreamt up by the writers. :lol:
Anyway, I'm enjoying these episodes, even if they don't have the big action scenes - the drama is very tense, and a lot of the questions are being answered. It's a shame it will be all over soon. :(
I would like to see something go KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM though :drevil:
Though I have a feeling, it will be our good auld Galactica :(
Id say she may go out, taking out Cavils Basestar or something :yes:
Not many more to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What got me wondering was when they evacated the Peggy and jumped away straight out of hanger, how come we didnt see any damge happen on the ship or any of the raptors behind them blow up? :drevil:
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Probably illustrating the difference between a relatively new Battlestar that hasn't seen 40 years of operation. The Galactica has gone through quite a few fights in the 4 seasons we've been watching plus the atmospheric jump...plus 40 years of wear and tear. Its like the recent problems with the USAF F-15 fleet...parts are starting to crack under load. When they were new 30 years ago a 9g turn was not a problem. Now, without proper refurb work, a 9g turn can cause a structure failure.
Same difference as far as I'm concerned.
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What got me wondering was when they evacated the Peggy and jumped away straight out of hanger, how come we didnt see any damge happen on the ship or any of the raptors behind them blow up? :drevil:
Probably illustrating the difference between a relatively new Battlestar that hasn't seen 40 years of operation. The Galactica has gone through quite a few fights in the 4 seasons we've been watching plus the atmospheric jump...plus 40 years of wear and tear. Its like the recent problems with the USAF F-15 fleet...parts are starting to crack under load. When they were new 30 years ago a 9g turn was not a problem. Now, without proper refurb work, a 9g turn can cause a structure failure.
Same difference as far as I'm concerned.
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That's a really good point... plus remember when Tyrol told Adama that the people who built Galactica basically rushed it and cut corners? The wrong size bolts and incompatible/incomplete pieces can pass undetected at first but come back to bite you in the ass, so there's that too.
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What got me wondering was when they evacated the Peggy and jumped away straight out of hanger, how come we didnt see any damge happen on the ship or any of the raptors behind them blow up? :drevil:
Probably illustrating the difference between a relatively new Battlestar that hasn't seen 40 years of operation. The Galactica has gone through quite a few fights in the 4 seasons we've been watching plus the atmospheric jump...plus 40 years of wear and tear. Its like the recent problems with the USAF F-15 fleet...parts are starting to crack under load. When they were new 30 years ago a 9g turn was not a problem. Now, without proper refurb work, a 9g turn can cause a structure failure.
Same difference as far as I'm concerned.
That's a really good point... plus remember when Tyrol told Adama that the people who built Galactica basically rushed it and cut corners? The wrong size bolts and incompatible/incomplete pieces can pass undetected at first but come back to bite you in the ass, so there's that too.
[/quote]All that and the fact that the raptors evacuating Pegasus were under contol and further away from the ship when they jumped, while Boomer's was spinning uncontrolled and in much greater proximity, plus the fact that the sdies of Peg's head were covered in the thick armour plates, while the affected section of Galactica is realitvely thin wall skin over the water tanks.
but, the main thing is that it's arecently devised plot device.
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I think the main thing to consider is that boomers raptor was in the radius that the blue ftl effect occupies, that's the danger area. Outside that area there'd likely be no effect.
So you could jump 1 metre away from the edge of that effect and be fine, but be 1 metre closer, and be blown to frakking hell.