I love how the ONE time they did, all the fears were validated.
Athena was the one who did all the work. What did Gaeta do? Plug some patch cables in?
Set up a multi layered firewall that delayed the inevitable for long enough for them to execute their plan, for one.
Gaeta is the unsung hero of that series.
BTW I love how this show continues to hold its own today. I started rewatching it a couple weeks ago, and my wife stopped behind the couch one day and now I am not allowed to watch a second of it unless she’s there to enjoy it too.
It’s a blessing and a curse. It’s great to be able to share stuff but also, what do you mean you’re too tired to watch it’s the last episode of the season come on
I usually pump the brakes with series. She likes to binge, I prefer to watch a couple at a time and let the story sink in before proceeding another day.
I would so hate watcing a great show with you. I want to know what happens next and I want to know it NOW haha
Each to their own.
I loved the ending, but that doesn’t mean you have to.
I expected some resolution or motivation for everything that had occurred, instead we got “God did it”.
Oh you’re in for a ride! Battlestar Galactica. Not the one from the seventies, the one from the aughts. This series broke my mind on what a sci-fi series could be and do. Start with the movie/miniseries, continue with the full on series.
The 2 x 1.5 h miniseries is from 2003. The series from 2004.
A friend tried to watch that with me a few years ago. Wasn’t really my thing.
Keep those frackin’ toasters outta here!
I always like to tell my BSG story.
- Watch mini series, it’s good
- Don’t get into the rest, forget about it
- Come home one day to flat mate watching it on DVD, just as the Galactica jumps into the atmosphere on New Caprica and jumps out again.
- Me: “I need to watch this from the start”
- Flat mate ejects the disc right then and there and inserts the first disc of the first season.
- We watch it every night until the end
Best TV ever made.
The overall story really flailed around as the later seasons went on (IIRC during a writers’ strike is when there was a lot of issues), but ‘33’- the first episode of the first season is so fantastic I still remember it distinctly.
The style, tone, and acting of BSG really kept the show intriguing even if the plot went in circles sometimes.
I’m a little sad that the first re-exposure was pretty much the pinnacle badass moment of the series. It’s a great show, but that might have still set the expectations a bit high.
one of my absolute favs. it’s a co-op where one player is randomly, secretly a cylon, sabotaging the groups efforts.
you can toss people in the brig. theyll protest “Im not the cylon!!!” and if youre wrong (youre often wrong), the group suffers by losing the jailed character’s special ability, while trying to fight off an attack until managing to jump.
best part? half way through, you draw new loyalty cards. sleeper cylon activated!!!
its genuinely hard not to run out of food, or water, or just get overrun by a boarding party. some of the best fun losing Ive ever had
So say we all!
