Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance (SPOILERS)

[filkertom]

I'm still not to the end of Season One yet, but I know that you're all waiting for the beginning of Season Three. Well, SciFi.com has ten web episodes, every Tuesday and Thursday -- starting today -- to bridge the gap between Seasons Two and Three.

I'm not even gonna try to keep this thread spoiler-free. Freak out, gang. :)

Comments

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

...and for all non US fans:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0BIxMgbcneA

:o)
Because the webisode streams can only be accessed from the US.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Didn't know that -- thanks!

[nelladarren.livejournal.com]

This is how I spent the day - looking for a way how to watch those 3 minutes... LOL

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

I finally started working my way through the show myself. So far, I've watched the miniseries and the first two episodes. It's only with the second first-season episode, "Water", that I've started to see the show as anything special. Grace Park's performance in that episode was outstanding. I'm hoping it continues to get more interesting from here.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Word of advice.. "KEEP GOING" I watched the mini then the first few episode and gave up, ick.

Then the buzz kept building and building so I went back to it. So glad I did. By the time you get to the end of season one, you'll be HOOKED

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

OK...call me a moron, but I didn't recognize the couple and the third guy--I mean, there was Tyrol, Cally, their kid, and Tigh, then the other three, whom I didn't recognize. Should I have?

In other thoughts...Tigh using the phrase "die in its crib" while Cally and the little Tyrol are in the room? Brr. And that pilot, the one who was being felt out for recruitment--a little too loud and a little too quick to decry the Cylons in public, don't you think?

The couple...

[lizard-sf.livejournal.com]

Was that Starbuck and her hubby? Small screen+aging eyes...didn't sound like her, but I might be misremembering...

Re: The couple...

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

No way. For one thing, the girl was named--"Nora," I think they said, and the husband (a Viper pilot) was...either "Duck" or "Doc."

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

The Peabody Madness (http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/blog/) video is hilarious, especially the comments from the Southpark guys.

They killed Kenny!

But Kenny is a Cylon, so he'll get downloaded...

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Three reasons why I don't care for Battlestar Galactica:

1) disasterbatory fear mongering. Mankind is doomed, being hunted to extinction by an unreasonable fanatical menace and only the military mindset can offer even the slightest chance of salvation. *yawn* Seen it far too many times before, call me when somebody comes up with something original, and a lot less grim.

2) much as I like "Harvey Birdman" and "Space Ghost," this is nothing more but a rehash of an old tv show with better effects, better sets and (as I hear, but didn't see it much in the mini-series) better writing. God help us someone should try to come up with a _new_ show to use all of these effects, sets and writing on. No, that would be unAmerican, we must recycle old shows forever and ever and ever and ever and ever......

3) I must have missed it, but where in our federal laws does it stipulate that _ALL_ sentient computers/robots/toasters in TV shows and movies have to kill mankind? Again, another cliche that's set in stone, and the american entertainment industry is incapable of viewing a different form of intelligence as someting "interesting" and resort to the tired old cliche of "I think, therefore I must KILL MANKIND!!!!"

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

1) When a war starts, you want a military mindset. That's how you win, or, in this case, survive. The miniseries made it plain that after the first Cylon War, a station was set up for diplomatic contact. The Cylons never bothered to show up.

2) It's hardly a rehashing. It's a very different show, brilliantly reimagined and changed from what was a light-hearted space opera (anybody remember the damn robot dog?) to a very dark, tense series.

3. If you actually watched the show you would know there is a lot more to the Cylon plan than meets the eye. It isn;t just genocide. And since the entire plot revolves around a war between humanity and the toasters, and the flight of the last (or so we think) Battlestar, it's sort of necessary to have them out to kill us.

Drama is about conflict.

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

1) I wasn't saying that if attacked, you should bring out the mimes, I was complaining about the tired old cliche that if it's sci-fi, it's _got_ to be mankind on the brink of destruction with a heavy militaristic mindset as the only salvation. It's supposed to be speculative, right? So how about speculating about something other than this cliche we've seen hundreds of times before?

2) If it's a very different show, then why not make it a _very_different_show_? The entertainment industry is too addicted to sequels and repackaging, I want to see some "speculation" in my speculative fiction.

3) How many predictable episodes full of cliches do I have to watch before there's even a hint that the cylons aren't unreasonable fanatical killing machines who, once they acheive sentience, decide all mankind must die and never once deviate from the binary path of absolute destruction? Ten episodes? Twenty? Three whole seasons? They presented this from the very start as a two-dimensional story following exhausted plot hooks and predictable characterizations. If there's more to it, then they should have put it in the mini-series. I have limited time to watch shows so I like to see originality and creativity over the same old - same old.

[zellion.livejournal.com]

*squee*

Thanks for that link, I'd not heard about that!