BSG Razor: What did you think?

c0y0te

So, What did you all think of it then?

Fenster

It's not on for another three weeks...

AnCapaillMor

Obviously you don't have cousins in america.

Suaimhneach

Amazing - best BSG yet

I thought it was brill. About half way through I stopped to squeal "It's good again!!". Great back story line, great charachter development. Explaination for why Six was so badly treated.

Cant wait for more.

Calibos

Fantastic - a worthy interim special before Season 3

He has lots of cousins in America. He just didn't hear about the leaked screener till just now. He'll be on the blower to his cousins as we speak I imagine.

Vokes

Amazing - best BSG yet

Merge the two threads?

I rated it Fantastic, not the BSG we have ever seen but definite quality.

April '08 can't come soon enough

Fenster

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Obviously you don't have cousins in america.

I live in America, and this is news to me.

Azza

No its not out in America for another 3 week its airs on the 24th of November.

But it has been leaked onto the net already possible by the last unkown cylon:rolleyes:

5uspect

Amazing - best BSG yet

Really enjoyed it. Interesting new angles for the the new season possibly.

"Don't you love when a plan comes together"

Berns

Amazing - best BSG yet

Highlight for me was

Kara Thrace will lead the human race to its end ... She is the herald of the apocalypse , the harbinger of death. They must not follow her.

Should make it interesting but had my suspicions already, just confirms it really, but it could be the exact opposite of what i'm thinkin, if are lookin at it from a cylon view

manster

Amazing - best BSG yet

Just watched it last night - one word - EXCELLENT

robby^5

Fantastic - a worthy interim special before Season 3

I thought it was pretty good...bit choppy though.

All the flashbacks were a tad disorientating, and the storyline didn't flow properly kinda like it should have been 3 episodes not 1 film...but it was still enjoyable. I disliked them adding the old cylons, i thought we've moved past the old series and this seemed like a fanservice to the fans of the original, sort of pointless filler tbh.

Also...regarding the 5th cylon

When kendra was tuning the radio you hear the exact same static like noise that the 4 cylons aboard galactica heard when they began hearing All Along the Watchtower...

Stimpyone

Really enjoyed it..

but do you think the Cylons know that their God is Dead

Sorry can't do proper spoiler thingies.

User45701

robby^5 wrote: »

I thought it was pretty good...bit choppy though.

All the flashbacks were a tad disorientating, and the storyline didn't flow properly kinda like it should have been 3 episodes not 1 film...but it was still enjoyable. I disliked them adding the old cylons, i thought we've moved past the old series and this seemed like a fanservice to the fans of the original, sort of pointless filler tbh.

Also...regarding the 5th cylon

When kendra was tuning the radio you hear the exact same static like noise that the 4 cylons aboard galactica heard when they began hearing All Along the Watchtower...

YES,

When that scene was on i heard that same noice and looked up to see that one of my mates had heard it too. Thats 3 people who i know can hear it

Sherifu

Amazing - best BSG yet

I thought it was great, interesting to see the experiments and labs, i'd like to see more about how the cylons evolved into 'skinjobs' in the next series

Scruff

Amazing - best BSG yet

oh my fracking god! i'd better get on the blower to the cousins the moment i get home!

Johnny Storm

Amazing - best BSG yet

I hadn't been in contact with my cousins for ages

Very good episode. I'm still puzzled about 1 thing though.

Cain said at the dinner with her officers that she would not really go gung-ho and risk lives and resources but in fact that was the very first thing she did. Why?

jor el

Amazing - best BSG yet

Berns wrote: »

Highlight for me was

Kara Thrace will lead the human race to its end ... She is the herald of the apocalypse , the harbinger of death. They must not follow her.

I found that bit very interesting too. Gets you thinking about whether there'll be a happy ending or if the Cylons will ultimately win out.

User45701 wrote: »

YES,

When that scene was on i heard that same noice and looked up to see that one of my mates had heard it too. Thats 3 people who i know can hear it

OMG, you're all Cylons!

I thought the same thing too with the radio static, for a second I thought we'd here All Along the Watchtower. Don't know if was that though or just noise.

I thought it was brilliant overall, some great special effects and good solid story. It was a little discontinuous that there was no mention of these very important events in the series though. That made this stand out as being very afterthought style. If you get over that (which I did very quickly) it was great.

How much of a bitch was Kane though? I previously felt a bit sorry for her when Six killed her but not now. Good to see why there was so much hatred for Six and the skin job Cylons on the Pegasus though with her connection to Kane. I had forgotten at first that they had a Six and she had been part of the crew.

Vokes

Amazing - best BSG yet

Nahh, I don't feel sorry Six-Gina, I think she got what was coming to her for the most part.

Suaimhneach

Amazing - best BSG yet

Yeah, thats a good point. She did infultrate and do huge damage.

Its interesting the difference in leadership a man offers to that which a woman offers. She feels the need to assert her place as in charge and capable, whereas he was all about the survival etc.

User45701

thinking about the movie, going into it we knew allot of things, we knew there would be an attack, we knew Cain was going to become a cut throut bitch, we knew what would happen to her first officer, we knew a gina ect.

Knowing what was going to happen made the scenes all the more powerfull when they happened, for a movie where i was able to say "yes ive been dying for this scene" several times through the movie so even though i knew what was going to happen seing it was soemthing else, made some scenes all the more powerfull.

Nuttzz

cain was a carpet muncher :eek::eek::eek:

Enjoyed it, but just an 2 part episode merged together

robby^5

Fantastic - a worthy interim special before Season 3

Razor just felt like a retcon so that they have more plotline for season 4 other than just starbuck returning, now they have a dead cylon god

Scruff

Amazing - best BSG yet

Thought it was excellent. The revelation about Starbuck adds a nice bit of suspense to the next series. Though the wait till April might just kill that off...

Cain and Six being from the Isle of Lesbos really explained Cain's lust for carpet, i mean blind vengece at all costs against the Cylons. Unlike Adama, this time it was personal.

Oh and it was great to hear "By your command" once again


Roll on april...*sigh*

Stark

Amazing - best BSG yet

It was great. A welcome return to form after the crapfest that was Season 3. I have renewed hopes for Season 4 now.

MrVostro

Amazing - best BSG yet

Was that <SPOILER>6 and the other skinjob cylon who were behind the door that Adama was trying to open on the planet</SPOILER>

Stark

Amazing - best BSG yet

I don't think it was. Aside from them being different actors, I reckon Adama would have recognised them when he encountered them years later.

It's a pity they didn't use the opportunity to provide more exposition on the origins of the 12 cylon models. An actual shot of Six or one of the other cylons in human form would have been well cool.

By the way, just how stupid was that Six model to casually stroll onto the Pegasus when there was a spy version of herself on board?

5uspect

Amazing - best BSG yet

What about the Cylon God catch phrase,

All this has happened before and it will happen again. Does anyone else think that the 12 colonies were really all created by cylons created by humans and then went and made new cylons...

User45701

MrVostro wrote: »

Was that <SPOILER>6 and the other skinjob cylon who were behind the door that Adama was trying to open on the planet</SPOILER>

ive seen it 3 times now, i do think that behind the door it is

The chief, Gina, Leoban

MisterAnarchy

Fantastic - a worthy interim special before Season 3

Thought the movie was very average overall.
Far too cliched ,illogical and predictable especially with the military manoeuvres.
It was the same old tactics and battle scenes rehashed.
Some interesting scenes indeed but I just didnt enjoy it overall.

User45701

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Thought the movie was very average overall.
Far too cliched ,illogical and predictable especially with the military manoeuvres.
It was the same old tactics and battle scenes rehashed.
Some interesting scenes indeed but I just didnt enjoy it overall.

what do you mean? if you have seen BSG then you knew every single scene that was going to happen in that movie bar the last 15 mins and any scnes based in the present (2 years ago)

This movie was about pegasus and we know what happened to it and its stories so this movie was supposed to be telling agreat story with info you already know. Amazing

Khannie

Amazing - best BSG yet

Watched it the other day. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Gonna start watching season 3 on the psp on the way to work now as a result. I think I'm finally ready to re-watch it.

TerrorFirmer

Amazing - best BSG yet

Started off shakey and the lines were so cliche I was cringing within about 10 seconds. But it really turned into something special.

Though I do hate one thing in particular, and that is the re-using of the exact same sets over and over without even the slightest deviance - for example, the scene where they board the Cylon ship to retrieve the prisoners, the one Adama was on 41 years previous - the sets are literally, identical, with the exact same corridors shown. Would it kill them to show a little flair, maybe show a different corridor, or them actually entering the docking bay, etc? Sometimes it just steals the credibility away that they're on an actual ship, and it's not like it would take major effort.

The whole theme of the show was cool, loved the old Cylons - 'By your Command' was awesome! And the part where the Cylons attack them aboard the ship....though it lost some of the tin can magic it still looked great to see them up there in full CGI. Would love to see more of the Cylon war too. Part where Adama boards the ship in the Cylon war was very reminiscent of the Strogg processing plant for humans in Quake II =- very creepy, excellently done.

Overall, a quality episode. Loved it.

User45701

HavoK wrote: »

Started off shakey and the lines were so cliche I was cringing within about 10 seconds. But it really turned into something special.

Though I do hate one thing in particular, and that is the re-using of the exact same sets over and over without even the slightest deviance - for example, the scene where they board the Cylon ship to retrieve the prisoners, the one Adama was on 41 years previous - the sets are literally, identical, with the exact same corridors shown. Would it kill them to show a little flair, maybe show a different corridor, or them actually entering the docking bay, etc? Sometimes it just steals the credibility away that they're on an actual ship, and it's not like it would take major effort.

emm it was the same place, the ship where young adama was escaped at the end of the war and that was it. Same ship same hybrid same god, still allive and the ship still looks the same because from the 7 having little knowledge of their god or the 5 we know they have not had much or any contact with it/him/god

amen

Amazing - best BSG yet

just watched this and really liked it.
can never get the spolier tags working but
<spolier>when cain is making her speech to the crew around minute 24 there is a marine in the background. I think its Chief Tryol maybe proving he is a cyclon. What does anyone else think? Of course I don;t really think Tryol, Tight, Anders are cyclons anyway
</spolier>

5uspect

Amazing - best BSG yet

amen wrote: »

just watched this and really liked it.
can never get the spolier tags working but
<spolier>when cain is making her speech to the crew around minute 24 there is a marine in the background. I think its Chief Tryol maybe proving he is a cyclon. What does anyone else think? Of course I don;t really think Tryol, Tight, Anders are cyclons anyway
</spolier>

You can't spell "spoiler"
I didn't notice that or the people behind the door either. I must watch it again...

MisterAnarchy

Fantastic - a worthy interim special before Season 3

User45701 wrote: »

what do you mean? if you have seen BSG then you knew every single scene that was going to happen in that movie bar the last 15 mins and any scnes based in the present (2 years ago)

The whole attack on the Cylon baseship at the end was preposterous.
Jump Pegasus in and let it get bombarded by Cylon fighters for what seemed like an hour .

The whole ambush /decoy routine has been used too often,but the Cylons seem to fall for it every time.:rolleyes:
As for the main character in the show ,she was basically an annoying clone of Starbuck.
All testosterone ,no brain.
That gung ho angle has also been used far too often .
I just thought the movie was predictable and poorly thought out.
I had high hopes for it but it was a big disappointment .

TerrorFirmer

Amazing - best BSG yet

User45701 wrote: »

emm it was the same place, the ship where young adama was escaped at the end of the war and that was it. Same ship same hybrid same god, still allive and the ship still looks the same because from the 7 having little knowledge of their god or the 5 we know they have not had much or any contact with it/him/god

I know it was the same place, that was my exact point. It's the same place - a full size ship - yet both times we see the one exact same tiny corridor, and the one tiny room, and the one same arm suspended in the tank, etc. It's all so claustrophobic its hard to seriously convince yourself they're onboard a giant ship, it feels more like a tiny bunker that only has one room and one corridor!

ghouldaddy07

Amazing - best BSG yet

SPOILERS BELOW DONT KNOW HOW TO USE TAGS!!!


Thought it was fantastic mainly for intraducing a third faction to the bsg universe.
The old cylons looked abit crap but im sure the TOS fans loved it.
The scenes with what I assume is the cylon god were great and would be intresting if the skinjobs find out what pegasus did.

Raises alot of questions though if the thing on the ship was the cylon god and
not just a botched hybrid who only had control over a couple of old centurions,
dose it have any relation to head six and head baltar.

The kara thrace line was also fantastic and should add some interesting aspects to kara's character in season 4.

User45701

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

The whole attack on the Cylon baseship at the end was preposterous.
Jump Pegasus in and let it get bombarded by Cylon fighters for what seemed like an hour .

The whole ambush /decoy routine has been used too often,but the Cylons seem to fall for it every time.:rolleyes:
.

All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again...

tvnutz

Amazing - best BSG yet

I thought it was great. Filled in a lot of the storylines we had heard about but never seen,with a lot of new stuff as well.

I really liked how they addressed the evolution of the Cylons into hybrids. It was really well done a creepy!

The revelation about Starbuck was very interesting. Can't wait to see how that plays out. Also when it flashed back to Adama on the hybrid ship,I was pretty sure it was Leoben and Six locked in the room. It sounded like Leoben but I couldn't make out if it was him. Then there was the blonde woman,you don't see her face but you assume it is her. So we assume that the 12 models were based on humans that Adama encountered 40 years ago. Which was pretty cool. He didn't see enough of them to recognise them but it explains how he guessed Leoben was a Cylon in the very first episode (the mini-series)

Pepe LeFrits

Fantastic - a worthy interim special before Season 3

Em, the captives in the lab were not Leoben or 6. The guy didn't look or sound anything like Leoben and the other most prominent captive was a child. Check the credits.

tvnutz

Amazing - best BSG yet

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Em, the captives in the lab were not Leoben or 6. The guy didn't look or sound anything like Leoben and the other most prominent captive was a child. Check the credits.

The credits say "child in cage","woman in cage". I wasn't talking about the people in cages. I was talking about the people behind the door that Adama was trying to open. On second viewing the guy doesn't look like Leoben,but the woman does not look like a child and looks like 6. The guy also said their ship's name was the D'anna! So could have been D'Anna. You don' get a proper look at her.

Pepe LeFrits

Fantastic - a worthy interim special before Season 3

lol, you're nitpicking over the description they get in the credits... do you think there was a seperate cut 'cage scene'? Also, one of them is described as 'Male Captive', and the actor isn't Callum Keith Rennie.

Also, he said the Diana, not D'Anna.

tvnutz

Amazing - best BSG yet

Adama has a vision or something when he has his hand in the tub thingy,he sees people in cages. I assumed that is who they were talking about in the cages.The blonde does not look like a child even though you only see her briefly,it just looks like she is laying on the ground. And Diana/ D'Anna sounds almost exactly the same.

ixoy

Watched it yesterday - very good stuff. Bleak but it filled in some interesting moments and the

Starbuck revelation

should feed nicely into S4. The

Cylon God was quite spooky, with his prophesies as was the genesis of the hybrids. I agree that the D'ana and Diana thing are not a coincidence. Reminds me of the Wheel of Time series when people come back with slightly altered versions of their name - "all this has happened before" fiting in with that.

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After a lacklustre S3 (bar the start), this really did the job of psyching me up for the final season.

The only moments that took me out of it a little (unintentional or not) was Starbuck's A-Team moment (especially given the A-Team/BSG link) and calling one of the marines Hudson, making me think of 'Aliens'.

So then given what we saw the Pegasus crew were capable of, I now wish 'Voyager' had gone down that route. Imagine it:

Janeway: There's coffee in that quadrant and in that ship, I want it.
Chakotay: But we can't just take it from them.
Janeway: Give me your phaser Chakotay...
.. you can guess where it'd go. She'd have got home a lot quicker, especially if Chakotay had got his Maquis friend Ro in charge.

Scruff

Amazing - best BSG yet

why is everyone using spoilers? Its a thread about what you think after seeing it not what you will think before you see it

Gaijin

Enjoyable but the starbuck thing is going to annoy me. Speaking of which, at 46 minutes and 9 seconds is that

starbuck behind the door.Really looks like it to me. Also i can't hear mr hendrix in the static, can anyone give me the times for it?

HEATZ

Amazing - best BSG yet

5uspect wrote: »

All this has happened before and it will happen again.

ive heard that before in the "HOMEWORLD" game listen to the voice of the bentusi and im sure its the same actor!

robby^5

Fantastic - a worthy interim special before Season 3

Since this is a "what did you think" thread, using spoiler tags seems sorta pointless...

Johnny Storm

Amazing - best BSG yet

ixoy wrote: »

.... Imagine it:

Janeway: There's coffee in that quadrant and in that ship, I want it.
Chakotay: But we can't just take it from them.
Janeway: Give me your phaser Chakotay...
.. you can guess where it'd go. She'd have got home a lot quicker, especially if Chakotay had got his Maquis friend Ro in charge.

Great idea! but JIMHO it would have been a lot better if Chakotay had vaped Janeway in ep 1