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  1. What are you watching and enjoying?

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    And I understand all the supernatural occurrences in the series, but Starbuck just popping away... I guess now that I've thought about it more... it's okay but I still don't like it.

    I was sort of like that right after I first saw it, too, but more because I didn't like the fact that Starbuck just "left" so suddenly. Eventually I came to terms with the idea that it wasn't supposed to sit right; that you were supposed to feel a little empty at her loss.

    There's the thing right there, everyone else gets their fulfilling ending and everything's right in the world. Then *poof* Starbuck just leaves us feeling empty.

  3. What are you watching and enjoying?

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    If with how important you guys say the flashbacks are, they certainly could've done a better job dropping them in the episode, as it is they felt more random than the Razor flashbacks. And I understand all the supernatural occurrences in the series, but Starbuck just popping away... I guess now that I've thought about it more... it's okay but I still don't like it. Sam did have the best flashbacks and I think they were the most well placed.

    How sad am I, my only moment where I was close to tears was when the fleet was heading towards the sun and the old Galactica music started playing.

    I also literally air-punched when I saw "earth".

  5. What are you watching and enjoying?

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    Finished Daybreak. I didn't expect as happy an ending as we got. Everything ended peacefully and I enjoyed that. Cool fights, (Not enough viper action IMO and Racetrack died in a relatively random fashion. :shakehead:) when Kara made that jump I was just beside myself with suspense, and Galactica's superstructure fracturing, oh man that was cool. Tyrol got justice and peace which I found great. Baltar and Caprica's ending was also fantastic, just very well done.

    The jump to present day I thought was a little much, sort of like the ending to Doctor Who's Blink. All the different shots of robots... did we really need that? Starbuck's eventual fate was... too supernatural for me to buy.

    One last thing that really just ticked me off and didn't do the story a lick of good were the flashbacks to fifteen or so years ago. Whenever they showed up everything just slammed to a halt. I'm not sure if they're unique to the "uncut/unrated" version, if they are I'd just assume watch the broadcast version if I ever watch this again.

    (I just read over at the battlestar wiki that one of RDM's ideas for a season 1 cliffhanger was that "god" would reveal himself to Baltar, and that he would be played by Dirk Benedict. That would've been one of the greatest deleted scenes of all time.)

    P.S. "Baltar" and "Six" are Beings of Light. And so is "god".

  6. The Doctor Who thread

    in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy

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    Exclusive: Edgar Wright 'keen to work on Doctor Who'

    Wednesday, December 15 2010, 15:59 GMT

    By Morgan Jeffery, TV Reporter and Tom Mansell, Multimedia Producer

    Edgar Wright has admitted that he would be keen to work on an episode of Doctor Who.

    The Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World director told DS that he had been a fan of the BBC sci-fi drama when he was a child.

    "I was a huge Doctor Who nerd as a kid, to the point where I dressed up as Peter Davison's Doctor," he admitted. "The last time I saw Steven [Moffat], he said 'Any time you want to do a Doctor Who, just shout'."

    Wright added that he had previously been approached to direct an episode of the show in 2005.

    "I got offered to direct one of them when Russell T Davies was doing it, during the Christopher Eccleston series, and I wasn't really available to do it," he explained.

    Sauce

  8. The "I need to vent" thread

    in Banter

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    Is too much to ask? IS IT TOO FRAKKING MUCH TO ASK to be left alone for at least 30 minutes so I can watch the finale for Battlestar Galactica. I DON'T CARE about this dumb little thing you've heard on facebook. I DON'T CARE THAT THERE ARE TWO PIECES OF BACON left from supper. I just want to be able to absorb myself into the drama for a bit, just to be able to pay attention to what's going on. Don't act like my show is stupid, you watch this Grey's Anatomy bullcrap or even this other steaming pile of you-know-what called Mercy Don't act like you're feeling rejected. You get SO MUCH attention ALL THE TIME, I don't know WHY IN THE WORLD you have to keep coming in over and over and over for no apparent purpose than to piss me off!

    And I be polite, you want to take the TV from me, fine. I'll just walk off and post a big rant on a forum where nobody probably really cares about being able to watch freaking Battlestar Galactica. I'm getting mad over a TV show! What is wrong with me!

  16. What are you watching and enjoying?

    in General Discussion

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    Have I ever said I didn't like Star Wars? :unsure: I just like everything else more.

    Hmm, the action in a James Bond movie... would it be more accurate to say that it's fantastical?

    Oh, by the way, I'm about 40 minutes into BSG: Daybreak. Mostly just filler and build-up, but once my dad releases the TV again I'll be able to finish.

  21. Randomness

    in Banter

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    And they screwed up the correction:

    - It's NCC-1701. Not NNC-1701.

    - Kirk was given the NCC-1701-A, not B, after he blew up the NCC-1701.

    - The NCC-1701-B was never captained by Kirk, but rather Captain Harriman.

    - Kirk was in the nexus by the time the NCC-1701-C came around. The C was the ship from "Yesterday's Enterprise," the TNG episode.

    - The NCC-1701-E is a Sovereign Class ship, not Galaxy Class.

    - And obviously, the E was not two models after Kirk retired.

    And yes, I am a geek.

  25. X-Men: First Class

    in Comic Book Adaptations

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    Lots of rumors and spy images have been floating around this prequel to the X-Men movie franchise, set to hit theaters June 3, 2011, but we've finally got the first official word from Fox as to what this film is all about.

    Some things about Matthew Vaughn's flick were easy to put together, just based on the casting: With James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender playing Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr, respectively, it was clear that we'd be seeing Professor X and Magneto before they were bitter enemies. And if you followed comics at all, you'd know that Jeff Parker's First Class book was, as the title implies, about Xavier's first batch of students.

    But now Fox dispels some of the conjecture about the film itself:

    X-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.

    Some online scuttlebutt has it that the Armageddon spoken of is an actual character and not the end of the world. But, as Slashfilm points out, Armageddon was partially created by Jean Grey, who's not in the movie. And it kinda makes sense for the Hellfire Club—led by Kevin Bacon's Sebastian Shaw—to try and crack the world apart.

    So, yeah, mutants vs. something that prompts the end of days? Done and done.

    From Blastr