Re: 4th Season Battlestar Galactica - The Ties That Bind - 5 star

On Apr 22, 5:26=A0pm, Thanatos <atro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> =A0John Graeme <jdgra...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 21, 6:29 pm, Thanatos <atro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > In article
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> > > =A0rdclark <rdcla...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > Are they cylon-powerful? (Apparently, when they want to be.)
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> > > Why wouldn't they have notice their superhuman strength before now?
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> > It doesn't seem to be really superhuman--just very high human.
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> There's no way a normal woman Tory's size could backhand someone like
> that and send them flying backward five to ten feet. That was a display
> of inordinate and abnormal strength.

Yes. And even more to the point, the producers were very intentional
about showing it that way. There was nothing ambiguous about that shot
-- a one-handed blow, all arm, that sent Callie flying. That's TV for
"superhuman strength."