Wow, I don't know if anyone else has been following the Battlestar series, but it blows up into thoroughbred awesomeness by the end of the season. We just finished watching the finale last night... dizam! 8)

:lol: You watch TV.

Actually I downloaded the last few episodes off Bittorrent and watched them on the computer. I got impatient. :lol:

Dang. I taped Friday's since I went out of town, and haven't watched it yet. How many more episodes are there this season?

I think there should be two more, eps. 12 & 13. Since they have already been broadcast in Britain ahead of the US schedule, I just downloaded them off the internet. 8)

I have to wait until 7 to see the finale. :( I better remember to set the vcr!

*die thread, die!* :lol:

j/k

Take off, hoser.

bump.

sitting here bored in Denver so I picked up the box set of season one + the miniseries.

I gotta say, wow. I definitely need to set the moxi up to record this (and finish watching the rest of season one).

It's pretty fucking tight. The production quality seemed to drop a little after the opening miniseries, but that's predictable.. not bad at all though. I still watch every Friday.

I don't know guys, the couple episodes I saw were OK at best. One was the one where the military took the Presidents ship by force, and a fighter flew up a sewer pipe or some such to destroy a Cylon base.

Then there were two of the characters hiding fom the Cylons in a hay loft in a barn, and a big fight for what appeared to be Cupid's arrow where the really fast cyborg allows itself to fall off a ledge and happens to land on a spike of some form.

I'm sorry, pretty cheesy IMHO. But to give you something to give me crap about... I much prefer Stargate SG-1. Only seen one episode of the Atlantis version, so to early to tell on that.

Oh good lord, the Stargate series are awful. Mediocre at best acting, completely wierd plots & freaky ass aliens.. for something that was originally supposed to be grounded in reality (according to the movie)? I can't believe it's still on the air it's so bad. :P

Also you have to watch from the very beginning pilot to really know what is going on. The quality goes up and down a bit from episode to episode like most TV shows.

See, I knew you's addreciate that opening. Hey, at least one thing is for sure. SciFi knows who their audience is.

I wish they would dust off Star Trek and make it their own. Except where they went off the deep end with the Kzinti or whatever, I kind of liked the Enterprise series. I'd like to see some more about the early days of the Federation.

The Kzinti? That's from Larry Niven's books..

The Ringworld series is tight... that's a plot they could have easily made into a good TV series, just plop the main characters down on the ring and have them adventure from town to town in an attempt to get their ship back up and running.

No, you are thinking of the Kzin, Inteligent large Cat/Tiger like creatures from Niven's Known Space and Man Kzin Wars series.

The Kzinti are 4 inteligent species that evolved on the same planet in the void and tried to destroy man kind because the makers of the void from another dimension or some such told them to.

someone should put a *warning* on this thread :lol:

you guys and your scifi :alien:

Come on, the title is Galactica. What else could it be? an Astronomy thread? :lol:

The Kzin in Known Space are "the Kzinti": http://www.larryniven.org/kzin/society.htm

They've been integrated into the Star Trek universe ('cause of some cartoon in the '70s), as well as being ripped off in the Wing Commander universe as the Kilrathi.

Oh, and this thread has now reached a nerd-alert rating of 9/10.

Sorry, on Enterprise it was the "Xindi"

To much Niven on the mind...

Hah!

Your nerd-powers are weak, old man. You should not have come back...

:lol:

No wonder I've enjoyed it so much. What's it take for 10/10?

Nerd Penalty: Incorrect quote from an unrelated movie/series.
 

Well played, but I call a nerd penalty anyway. Incorrectly quoting a movie/series not related to the thread is punishable by having to watch 2 episodes of Oprah.

It should have been "You should not have come back. Your nerd-powers are weak, old man."