Re: 4th Season Battlestar Galactica - He That Believeth in Me - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 02:17:57 -0700, "Hobart Floyt"
<AlacrityFitzhugh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"George Avalos" <georgeavalos0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "He That Believeth in Me"
>> 4-4-08 BSG
>>
>> 5 stars (Peter)
>>
>> 0-1 stars (Judas)
>
>3 stars (Thomas)
>
>They lost one star simply because I think the Cult of Gaius
>has got to be one of the stupidest ideas I've ever seen.
>It was only tolerable because when I saw the red walls,
>candles, fla****ng lights and "harem", I laughed and thought:
>"Well, Ron Moore, there's YOUR equivalent of the 'casino
>planet' that you derided as unrealistic."

With 40K people it's not all that unlikely that you'd find a couple of
dozen nutjobs.

>
>The whole episode gave me the feeling of "reset to before
>the lame Season 3" and had an undertone of desperation
>to regain lost viewers particularly when they quickly
>dispatched the now infamous "All Alone the Watchtower" bit
>by one of the "new" Cylons saying something about since
>the song served it purpose maybe they won't hear it again.

The song was a trigger, it had served its purpose, and probably won't
be heard again.

>
>I noticed they upped the "eye candy" factor with what was
>essentially a tour of the fleet during the battle.  Noticeable
>were the original series Agro-****p, Colonial Movers, _Astral
>Queen_, and several other ****ps.  The _Galactica's_ bridge
>had much more colourful lighting than in previous seasons,
>and Cult's quarters were quite garish.
>
>They also promised Cylon Centurions next week.  What happened
>to the _Razor_ old-school Cylons?  Is this another abandoned
>plotline?

"Old school" Centurions have been obsolete for 40 years.  The only
reason we saw them in Razor was because a group of them had broken
away from the rest of the Cylons to protect their flying research lab
at the end of the first war.  Once the lab was destroyed any survivors
were pretty well hosed because "old school" Raiders don't have FTL
drives and they were way the hell out in the middle of nowhere.  Even
if the Cylons stumbled upon their (dead battery) carc***** it's
unlikely that they would have been rescued - their processors were
designed pre-Cylon net.  At  best they would have been gutted and
mounted in a Cylon museum.
>
>And why doesn't someone just shoot Kara Thrace?

If she's a Cylon it's kind of pointless; she'll just resurrect.  If
she's not they'd be murdering a human being as well as removing their
only clue to Earth's location.
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because we ran out of stones.