nBSG Season 3 (massive spoilers, duh)

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:58 am

In all honesty? Baltar is a great character, but a sane fleet gov would have quietly shoved him out of an airlock by now. Course refer to another thread over my opinion of fleet gov.

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:06 pm

Ok folks... when do we want to start talking about the season ender? How many spoilers do we want in this, if any.

Because DAMN if that wasn't a great show!

Destructionator XV · Post by **Destructionator XV** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:27 pm

Part I of the ender made me come back for part 2. It was pretty good until about half way through, where IMO, it dropped the ball.

I liked Lee's speech, quite a lot. High point of the episode. In close second was Tigh not being a weiner.

But, the 'omg we're cylons!' thing really came out of nowhere, and I don't really like the idea. And Starbuck coming back, aargh.

Random power outages? WTF did that come from? And it showed two ships about to ram... ugh, Newton's first, anyone? If it was at least relevant to the story, I might have ignored it, but it was just silly.

And the last two minutes were pure garbage. I hated them.

So good first half, WTF second half, horrible ending. Lee and Saul were awesome though and Adama did ok, putting this in the range of 3/5 for this week.

All in all, this season was very weak. The first couple episodes were awesome, but the rest of them - I can't even remember the events. I'm going to have a hard time justifying the DVD purchase this season, which is sad, since I got seasons 1 and 2 and when I start something, I like to finish it, but it was pretty meh. The Adama maneuver in Exodus might be enough to make me pick up the first half of the season though (if they split it in half again, which is AAAARGH, but it is apparently how they roll).

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:58 pm

I didn't expect Adama to be the 'split' vote.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:34 pm

I've been saying it all along. The humans are originally from Earth, way back before Kobol and who knows what bizarro cyclic history. Now we've got ourselves a Bob Dylan song to prove it.

Someone was shooting up while writing this episode.

Season 1 cliffhanger: Everyone is personally frakked.
Season 2 cliffhanger: Everyone as a whole is frakked.
Season 3 cliffhanger: Whiskey tango foxtrot, over.

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:48 pm

Mayabird wrote:I've been saying it all along. The humans are originally from Earth, way back before Kobol and who knows what bizarro cyclic history. Now we've got ourselves a Bob Dylan song to prove it.

Amusingly, Nitram and I were discussing this as well.

Someone was shooting up while writing this episode.

It was the same fine Columbian Marching Powder that brought us Katamari Damachi

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:03 am

Destructionator XV wrote:Part I of the ender made me come back for part 2. It was pretty good until about half way through, where IMO, it dropped the ball.

I liked Lee's speech, quite a lot. High point of the episode. In close second was Tigh not being a weiner.

There was a lot in Lee's speech which hit close to home for me.

But, the 'omg we're cylons!' thing really came out of nowhere, and I don't really like the idea. And Starbuck coming back, aargh.

Actually I like that.

And the last two minutes were pure garbage. I hated them.

Honestly, I liked it. It was a very stark reminder of what the ultimate goal of this show is: to find earth. Seeing it at the end has cemented me into watching season four.

And for Starbuck's return, I don't have a problem with it because her 'death' may not have actually been a death at all. I liked her character when she was cool, but she hasn't been cool this season. But her... epiphany or whatever, might mean that soap opera shit we were subjected to this season won't be repeated. At least now, her character has a purpose.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:24 am

Oh, and I want that version of "All Along the Watchtower" right now.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:43 pm

It's so hard to do calcs for this show since they're so vague about everything, but here's a quick one:

The distance from the Eye of Jupiter planet to the nebula they reached was a little over 10,000 light years. They crossed that distance in an unspecified amount of time that is over 40 days+2 weeks. Let's call it a year since it doesn't seem like more than one passed.

The fleet is able to cross 10,000 light years per year. They are in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is only 100,000 light years in diameter. They could cross it in ten years. If they can survive, Earth is not far away.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:26 pm

Mayabird wrote:It's so hard to do calcs for this show since they're so vague about everything, but here's a quick one:

The distance from the Eye of Jupiter planet to the nebula they reached was a little over 10,000 light years. They crossed that distance in an unspecified amount of time that is over 40 days+2 weeks. Let's call it a year since it doesn't seem like more than one passed.

The fleet is able to cross 10,000 light years per year. They are in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is only 100,000 light years in diameter. They could cross it in ten years. If they can survive, Earth is not far away.

They also appear to be in our Galactic Arm by now. They're in the home stretch.

Gandalf · Post by **Gandalf** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:02 am

I'm personally hoping that Starbuck's time away has cleared her mind a bit, and she can go back to being dull as opposed to irritating.

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