Author Topic: BSG, Caprica, Blood and Chrome series topic discussion - May Contain Spoilers (Read 141817 times)

eclipse74569 · « **Reply #980 on:** December 11, 2010, 01:58:59 PM »

Quote from: Bren on December 10, 2010, 07:02:39 PM

Humans are capable, you and I, of super strength. We've all heard of the mothers who will lift a crashed car off their children.

It's been scientifically proven, our muscles are capable of far greater strengths than our brains normally coax them to. This is true for everyone, probably even those World's Strongest Man competitors who pul Diesel locomotives unaided. Our nervous system evolved dampeners to stop us from injuring ourselves by over taxing our muscles. We could probably tear a muscle from the surrounding tissue at will if we hadn't got these nerve impulse dampeners.

I can't remember the specifics of the experiment, but it involved Chimps, because the dampeners aren't as advanced in them. Apparently a side effect of the dampeners was fine motor control, such as that I'm using to type this.

Anyway, supposedly, super-duper-extreme-mega emotional trauma, such as a mother seeing their child get crushed, or a child seeing their parent drowning, can override the dampening for a short time, giving them super strength, and probable injuries.

Perhaps the Cylon Synthetic Cells were made of slightly stronger stuff, with less dampening of strength. And, to be fair, Galactica was fairly inconsistent with the whole Cylon Super Strength thing. Perhaps they weren't always able to do it. As for the glowing spine... nanites in the spinal cord? Artistic license? Later in the series, the glowing spine motif disappeared, it was only really seen in season 1.

Dude...it's called Adrenaline....

And I wish I had gotten a chance to see the series...I watched maybe the first two episodes and well...moved...

Bren · « **Reply #981 on:** December 11, 2010, 06:40:21 PM »

It goes beyond adrenaline. Adrenaline speeds your reactions, your response times, alertness and your emotional levels. You aren't appreciably stronger on an adrenaline high. If that was the case, adrenachrome users would routinely punch holes in walls.

I think I just typed an oxymoron... 'Adrenachrome' and 'Routinely'...

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #982 on:** December 11, 2010, 08:02:48 PM »

so when is the next BSG due out?

Tuskin38 · « **Reply #983 on:** December 12, 2010, 10:22:30 AM »

Quote from: JimmyB76 on December 11, 2010, 08:02:48 PM

so when is the next BSG due out?

I don't think it has been announced yet, but probably sometime next year.

Bren · « **Reply #984 on:** December 22, 2010, 06:39:48 PM »

*taps foot impatiently*

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #985 on:** January 06, 2011, 01:04:14 PM »

SyFy's New Battlestar Galactica Prequel Searches for Lead Roles

086gf · « **Reply #986 on:** January 06, 2011, 02:23:31 PM »

And some concept art as well.

The Cython will be cool if they do use it.

http://blastr.com/2010/12/-concept-art-from-battles1s.php

Bren · « **Reply #987 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:45:20 PM »

I don't know, the Cython smacks of Star Wars to me. It's the kinda thing that BSG TOS would have done if they had the budget. Also, has this concept artist ever seen a cylon? The main identifying feature of most things cylon is the slit-scanning red eye. Even the interior of the Basestars had it.

Bones · « **Reply #988 on:** January 08, 2011, 07:44:47 AM »

Oh no ... please don't make it Star Wars Prequels style

I think they should slightly modify TOS Basestars and Raiders, slap some new - unseen tech that would bridge the gap between human-Cylon model and Centurions (maybe those experiments Adama uncovered in Razor ;) )

BIG NO to snakes and futuristic Cylons (just look at Terminator... T-800 was super cool, T-1000 was even more cool, T-... T whatever tried to be too cool and it/she was one of the nails that killed T3 as a movie ) besides Cylons used old Centurions (TOS models) to guard the Colony so why couldn't they be reused ? instead of making another reinvision of Centurions, simply use the cool ones from TOS

Bren · « **Reply #989 on:** January 10, 2011, 09:34:40 AM »

yeah, but i hope they use an outside FX house for the visuals. Some of the VFX in the later seasons and movies of BSG and in Caprica was abominable. Made me pine for the days of photo-real Zoic.

Lionus · « **Reply #990 on:** February 07, 2011, 05:18:26 PM »

http://www.harvardwood.org/resource/resmgr/hwp-pdfs/battlestar_galactica_series.pdf

Interesting..

Psyco Diver · « **Reply #991 on:** May 15, 2011, 01:34:03 AM »

coming june 18 to bbc america, about dang time someone picked up the reruns of this show, I missed most of it originally, I won't this time

Bren · « **Reply #992 on:** May 19, 2011, 10:07:05 PM »

Good man.

People like me whine and moan about it a lot. It's only because we dearly loved it and saw it fall short of the potential we thought it had set up for itself.

But we dearly loved it in the first place because it was truly GREAT television.

mckinneyc · « **Reply #993 on:** May 20, 2011, 01:02:44 PM »

Caprica has started again in the UK, at an awful time of night. I really understand what our American brothers went through now.

Enjoying it of course

Psyco Diver · « **Reply #994 on:** June 15, 2011, 01:27:13 PM »

BSG restarted on BBC america last friday, I've been waiting for this, I never really got a chance to watch the show originally, I'm not missing it this time

Lionus · « **Reply #995 on:** June 16, 2011, 11:59:48 AM »

I finished watching the BSG couple days ago. Always saddens me to finish a good series. But what the heck was that reborn Starbuck?

Bones · « **Reply #996 on:** June 16, 2011, 04:44:49 PM »

A ghost maybe, kind of a that angel thing Leoben been talking about, or a proof for Baltars angels ;)

Dawg81 · « **Reply #997 on:** September 18, 2011, 12:38:33 PM »

A second spinoff prequel has been announced. The storyline to take place 10 years into the first cylon war and will revolve around the newest battlestar...Galatica and a young hotshot rookie viper pilot named Adama who will be portrayed by Luke Pasqualino. Production has already started earlier this year in Feb. in Vancouver. There currently is no set date for the premiere but will be aired on syfi

Nebula · « **Reply #998 on:** September 18, 2011, 01:23:00 PM »

thank you now to merge with the BSG thread.

Trim · « **Reply #999 on:** October 21, 2011, 06:02:04 PM »

Also read that there is going to be a feature film based on the original series, not sure how that will work.

Feature film (2012)

Creator Glen A. Larson is in talks with Universal Pictures to bring Battlestar Galactica to the big screen. The film will not be based on the Sci-Fi Channel series of the same title; it will be based on the original series which starred Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict and Lorne Greene.
Bryan Singer is to direct the feature film version of Battlestar Galactica.
John Orloff has been hired as the writer of the feature film version of Battlestar Galactica.

*EDIT* Can we get a seperate thread for this series and movie for the time being? I'd rather not have to dig through all the non series related stuff to get any updates that get posted plus the other two shows are no longer in production. Thanks.

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