The Olypmic Carrier in episode 2 is the greatest thing ever
The people are being chased by Cylons, and they need to do the jump thing every 33 minutes so that they can stay safe. There's no brakes on the Cylon death train. So for like 4 days they're being chased and hopping through, no sleep or rest, until they finally realize why they were being chased. Another ship, the Olympic carrier, seems to have been compromised. It doesn't respond to calls at all, or something. Its carring about a thousand people, and the Galactica crew has gone for days without rest. The Carrier is starting to get suspicious, especially since they detected nuclear weapons on it. At this point it was kill or be killed. So they killed. Apollo pushes the buttons that end the thousand people and the Carrier, and for the rest of what I saw, he got pretty traumatized from it. Roslin brings up a guy who sent 15 marines into a mission that went wrong, and he had a desk where he kept the names of the people who died. She then takes out a paper from her pocket that says "Olympic carrier" on it. I thought she was going to print out a list with all the names on it so it wasnt a emotional as I thought it was gonna be.
Then in the net episode Boomer starts losing her memory and ending up in weird places so who knows how that turns out.
Also Gaius Baltar is my favorite character in the whole thing, I love how lucky he is, in that he guessed the right guy was the Cylon and that when he needed to inspect the Cylon tech on the ship, and explanation mysteriously showed up for him.
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Thank you for the spoiler alerts. However, this did only make me want to watch this series more. Also, 123movies.is is where it's at for streaming.
ReplyDeleteAfter hearing that description I think that I will also have to track down more Battlestar Galactica. I also agree that them saying frack was kind of immersion breaking. Every time they said it your mind would do a double take and wonder if you heard it correctly.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry that you couldn't watch more episodes of battlestar galactica, I was having the same problem with trying to watch the Wizard of Oz (the internet is ruining good TV and movies!!). I also thought BG was the best thing we have seen in class so far. I wonder what's up with Boomer....(I will neither confirm nor deny that I have read the wiki)
ReplyDeleteI can't bring myself to get into the show, even though I really liked it. From what you described, the show really is just one big entropic hell scheme.
ReplyDeleteI saw BG on hulu and I was tempted to get a new email account to get yet another free trial but I don't think I could watch it that fast. I like how intense it is but I couldn't binge watch it. I would die.
ReplyDeleteI am still up for loaning you dvds before the end of the school year. I too love this show. By the end of the first few episodes, do we get the count of people left alive? Does Roslyn get the "Madame Airlock" nickname? (I think not yet, right?) Do we get Helo on Caprica?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I like it because of the philosophical implications (though probably, yeah). I just like it because it's so complex. And weird mythological/religious symbolism. Yes. That.