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Battlestar Galactica - "The Eye of Jupiter - **spoilers**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,252 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    The bad: Lee&Kara - Makes the show look like a bad daytime soap as opposed to the current king of sci-fi dramas.

    The middling: It's great that Athena found out about Hera but she took it a little too well imo. I would have expected more than "That was very mean of you Adama". I hope she's just biding her time until she psycho-Mommy can strike hard.

    The whole Temple of Five plotline seems like a rehash of last year's Tomb of Athena. I hope they retrieve something worthwhile from it before they blow it up.

    The good: Baltar's return to Galactica with cylons in tow.

    More Baltar and D'anna Biers nuttiness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭Barry Aldwell


    Stark wrote:
    The whole Temple of Five plotline seems like a rehash of last year's Tomb of Athena. I hope they retrieve something worthwhile from it before they blow it up.
    I was watching Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 2 earlier (got the boxset for Christmas, yay DVD quality BSG!) and listening to the podcast for it (which I had to download myself, there are only 3 podcasts included in the boxset, boo!), and Ron Moore was discussing his original plans for how he was going to play the season 1 finale on Kobol....the Chief was going to find a Temple, and Apollo was going to be in command of everyone down on the planet, defending against a Cylon assault.....sound familiar? Seems the Temple of Five thing is a rehash of an idea that predated the Tomb of Athena.
    Stark wrote:
    The good: Baltar's return to Galactica with cylons in tow.
    (MASSIVE spoilers, don't read unless you want Rapture ruined for you)
    And he stays on Galactica after Rapture, along with Hera


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭gunnerfitzy


    SofaKing wrote:
    If Star Trek Generations has taught Ronald D. Moore anything, it's that if one of Adama's 'special payloads' contains a trilithium core, then there should be no problem taking out the star :)


    If they had anything as advanced as trilithium then they wouldn't be running around with personal weapons strangely identical to those in use on present-day earth manufactured by H&K and FN amongst others :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,905 ✭✭✭User45701


    Venom wrote:
    Well the last episode of BSG of 2006 is upon us and what a way to end the year. Barring the pain in the hole Lee/Starbuck drama, this was a solid episode that opened up lots of can's of worm's for the second half of the season.

    Sharon finds out her kids alive and the prez screwed her over big time so she better hope Santa gives her a bullet proof vest for xmas.

    i dont know i dont think that Athena will kill her
    Venom wrote:
    Adama's playing hardball bigtime and there aint nothing harder than nukes!

    Baltar was fantastic as always but poor Six looked so hurt I think his 3 ways are over for 2007 :)

    Roll on Jan 21 :D

    Different than the season 2 cliff hanger i know he wont nuke the planet but i dont know what he is going to do.

    Ye poor 6 i love the way this show actually causes a emotional response in me. She relay looked pained and hurt and i dont get it i thought that baltar actually loved her, which means that he either 1. Has his own plan (like always) or 2. He loves head six not flesh and blood six
    Fenster wrote:
    I didn't like the cliffhanger, it didn't have the tension of Pegasus (although they did use Prelude to War for the music, again). One bit that did impress me was the proceedures to launch the nukes. It was more impressive than, "fire photon torpedos."

    Although Galactica had three nukes at last count, where did they get six+ from? Not Pegasus, surely.

    From pegasus , they said it in resurrection ship part 1, that Pegasus was supplying galactica

    One thing i didnt like was them reusing prelude to war i was hoping for something new :(
    SofaKing wrote:
    Oh yes, I liked this episode. Great to see Leoben and Cavil back.

    Again, some great symmetry here - The Temple of 5 and The Final 5 Cylons. Obviously not a co-incidence

    The smirk on Tighs face at the end when Adama ordered the nukes be fired was priceless :)

    Tigh looked like he didn't believe it.

    Temple of 5 is relay interesting that humans who left kobol a long time ago would construct anything that could possibly be related to a race of beings that had not even been conceived of when the temple was
    SofaKing wrote:
    Pegasus would be the most logical answer. It was in the middle of a re-fit / re-arm during the Attack on the Colonies.

    Alternatively, Adama could be just launching the rockets without nuke payloads. The payload could be something else (he asked Gaeta to load some codeword-type payload) that happens to be radioactive...

    Discuss.



    /EDIT: Ahh, its just clicked with me. I think it was on the extended cut version of "Pegasus" on the seaon 2 DVD, there's a new scene where its mentioned that more armaments are transferred to Galactica, and that may have included nukes I guess.

    Ye it was the deleted scenes.

    Interesting idea that they arnt real nukes tho!
    SofaKing wrote:
    While the Colonials and Cylons think the Eye of Jupiter is an artefact, it seems a bit more obvious that it's a celestial event i.e. a supernova, and it'll happen in such a way that a signpost will get lit-up in the temple, perhaps?

    Emm i dont think so i htink the eye is the planet itself or maybe the entire temple
    (i have the same idea for whats going on in SG1 as well btw one of them has to be right :) )
    iguana wrote:
    Did the episode seem too rushed to anyone else? It's part of the one big, big criticism that I have for BSG, they have these really dreary stand alone episodes like Skar/Blackmarket in S2 and the previous three this year which would be forgivable if they needed these episodes to stretch the story to 22 episodes. But when they do the big stories they are often rushing to fit too much in.

    I didnt think it was too rushed i mean they could had the first few planet scenes in the previous episode to leave room for a longer cylon/baltar/adama talk
    iguana wrote:
    Part of the reason that this was so good was that it meant that everything that happened in an episode had consequences. Such as when Starbuck broke her leg in Act of Contrition it remained broken for 6 episodes. It gave the show a real sense of urgency and it made you really feel as if you were along for the ride.

    Yes it has a much more real feel to it.
    I do like the way injurys do stay and there are no bsg stand-a-lone episodes
    they are all important.
    But still i just cant for the life of me understand why some people don't like "Skar" it was amazing
    Not trying to over analyse here but:

    If the cylons could jam communications then why didn't they do it in all the battles and then there would be no communications between vipers and between vipers and galactica?? The war would have been over ages ago.

    A Fair point one of the few "mistakes" in BSG still tho its a great show and one hole like that is nothing compared to the amount of holes in other sc-fi's
    How many nukes does it take to wipe out a temple? 1 should do it i'd imagine.

    One to destroy a temple yes so it is odd that he would waste so many nukes and even odder that they where not used in the battle over new caprica
    How many nukes does it take to wipe out a planet? Alot more that 8!

    There not talking about incinerating the planet adama knows the nova will do that its likley he wont launch them and that he is bluffing
    How did the cylons know a target package was been loaded into the weapons?

    It seems to be common practice because it was the same in star trek they can detect a weapons lock which is in a way the same as a target package.
    Why didn't Adama just intercept the raiders?

    No raisin to (yes raisin) there where 4 base stars if they wanted to they could throw more than enough raiders to intercept and destroy any vipers

    Well all in all it was a great episode anyway.
    A have to say i love bsg and i loved every episode this season but i am getting very concerned that a 4th season has not been confirmed yet and also i am concerned at the fall in ratings and the complaints regarding recent episodes of BSG

    And ill say it again i do not understand why people do not like the episode "Skar"


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