[Turambar]

i loved every minute of it myself

[Rand al Thor]

Just to clarify my stance, I want everyone to know that I think BSG is the business. And I have been enjoying season 3 for the most part. It's just a few episodes that have been bad, The woman King being a prime example.

The most recent episode, Dirty Hands, was again, a filler. It was pretty good though and I know these types of episodes need to exist else it'd only revolve around raiders and basestars jumping in and galactica running and finding some new marker to earth or whatever and everyone just wishing they'd die and get it over with.

I just lament the drop in quality since season one. Which also most definately had fillers. It's just they were class too.

[General Battuta]

Um, episodes like 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' and 'Litmus' don't really compare even to Season 3 fillers. What about Season 1 was really that much better?   

[Mars]

Why as it as soon as I start to like a si fi show... everyone starts talking about its imminent demise?

I just managed to watch the whole first season... finally

[General Battuta]

It's been renewed for at least 13 episodes of a fourth season.  Babylon 5 had a superb run for four seasons.  BSG is doing better than fine. 

[Mefustae]

Um, episodes like 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' and 'Litmus' don't really compare even to Season 3 fillers. What about Season 1 was really that much better?   

So, are you saying 'TMU, TMD' and 'Litmus' were good or bad?

[karajorma]

It's been renewed for at least 13 episodes of a fourth season.  Babylon 5 had a superb run for four seasons.  BSG is doing better than fine.

Oh come now. Season 5 wasn't THAT bad. Especially towards the end when they started concentrating on the Fall of Centauri Prime instead of the Telepath War.

The most recent episode, Dirty Hands, was again, a filler.

Hmmm. Now I've had this argument before but there was plenty of arc stuff in that episode too. If you read the comments on GW a few people are complaining about the sudden jump in popularity Baltar is enjoying. You need time to allow stuff like that to happen and be even remotely believable.

So I find it funny that people are complaining that the last few episodes are filler (Someone even claimed that Taking a Break From All Your Worries was filler!) who would probably be the same people who would complain if the story just suddenly jumped ahead to Baltar's trial and all of a sudden he had some popularity in the fleet.

[Rand al Thor]

Hmmm, that is true. But I did say, you Need fillers and that dirty hands was a pretty good one.

AND, just a person quibble, although it was reinforced in latter episodes, I thought it was pretty laughable how the Chief just seemed to pop up with these marital problems so he and Apollo could compare notes at the bar in Taking a Break.

Baltar does do a pretty good Cornish/Yorkshire(?) accent.

[aldo_14]

Hmmm, that is true. But I did say, you Need fillers and that dirty hands was a pretty good one.

AND, just a person quibble, although it was reinforced in latter episodes, I thought it was pretty laughable how the Chief just seemed to pop up with these marital problems so he and Apollo could compare notes at the bar in Taking a Break.

Baltar does do a pretty good Cornish/Yorkshire(?) accent.

Well, James Callis did (apparently) study at the University of York.....

[NGTM-1R]

Nothing yet shown on BSG really meets the criteria for "filler" IMO. I'm just missing the epic scale.

[Turambar]

seriously, if you want to see real filler, try watching naruto episodes 126-220.  that's filler, on an epic scale.

for more distributed filler, see dragonball Z

[Kosh]

The latest episode was a filler, for sure, but it was very well done. It's nice to see BSG getting back to it's political roots.

[Rictor]

See, now that's how you do good filler. All my complaints have vanished now that the show is getting back to the dirty nitty-gritty.

[Ace]

To be honest though if I was doing a new Galactica I'd swap between over-the-top epic military space opera and gritty socio-political stories pretty much every other episode.

A lot more of a focus on how would they establish any type of economy? Critical labor and supplies, etc. Then once that has been established for good or ill you can then move onto larger plot issues such as Kobol, the nature of the gods, etc.

As opposed to 'personal' stories, which inevitably lead to characterization being shaky and the most loved characters being those with the least screen time.

[Sandwich]

Baltar does do a pretty good Cornish/Yorkshire(?) accent.

I found that part quite amusing, since it was basically the same voice he used when playing Haman.

[Rand al Thor]

I'll have to take your word for it Sandwich as I haven't had the pleasure. Although it does conjure slightly cringing memories of Alexander's ancient Macedon populated with Irish/Dublin accents.

That film any use?

[IceFire]

Wow...tonights episode...

I knew it was coming...but still.

[Ace]

What the frak? Considering how Galactica has been with "plot threads we'll later explore" I doubt we'll ever see Starbuck again or know what was going on other than her being completely crazy.

[Sandwich]

That film any use?

Use? What do you mean? It's ok, nothing spectacularly astounding. It doesn't follow the Biblical account very closely - perhaps as closely as some of the "only somewhat resembling the book" scenes in LotR. But it's cool nonetheless to see him as Haman, John Rhys-Davies as Mordechai, etc.

[NGTM-1R]

I doubt we'll ever see Starbuck again or know what was going on other than her being completely crazy.

According to everyone involved, this is not true...but I don't fully trust them.