BSG, Caprica, Blood and Chrome series topic discussion - May Contain Spoilers

[Psyco Diver]

I tried watching it too, just couldn't get into it. It just didn't fit what I thought the birth of the cylons would be

[mckinneyc]

I thought it fitted extremely well. It was how I always imagined it to be. Great cast, shame it is being pulled so drastically. We'll need a DVD movie now for inbetween Cap and Blood and Chrome. Hint hint Syfy!!!

[MickJo]

No great loss. Caprica was slow, religion heavy and pretty dull.

Roll on Blood & Chrome. Vipers, battlestars and war. That's what bsg is all about.

[Bones]

No great loss. Caprica was slow, religion heavy and pretty dull.

Roll on Blood & Chrome. Vipers, battlestars and war. That's what bsg is all about.

Fraking Amen to that !

can't wait for the pilot 

[Tuskin38]

Roll on Blood & Chrome. Vipers, battlestars and war. That's what bsg is all about.

I thought BSG was about the Human spirit and survival?

[Psyco Diver]

I thought BSG was about the Human spirit and survival?

And the psycological effects, which I guess could be linked to the human spirit. I expect alot of view on what combat does to a raw soldier and follow him and others through their progression from civilians or to battle hardened warriors

[ACES_HIGH]

Fraking Amen to that !

can't wait for the pilot 

So Say We All!

[mckinneyc]

There was a lot more to Galactica than Vipers and battles!!! Some of the best episodes didn't feature either!!!

I liked Caprica and it needed more of a chance to establish itself which didn't help with the gods awful mid season breaks!!!!!

[Villain]

Here's hoping the same doesn't happen to SGU... 

[Aeries]

Here's hoping the same doesn't happen to SGU... 

SGU already suffered similar with the huge gap between seasons. On topic, was anyone else totally shocked to find out the hijackers of the interplanetary transport were actually a test by the monotheists? I was all like :O omgnoway!

[Tuskin38]

The final episodes of Caprica are delayed in the states, but not here in Canada. Weird.

http://www.spacecast.com/Blogs/Post.aspx?PostID=2132

Someone really needs to grammar check that article.

"And not we're only network airing it!"

WTF?

[Tuskin38]

Well tonight is the series finale (at least in canada) Can't wait, I hope its good. And since it I was cancelled after it was finished, it will probably be a cliffhanger.

[Tuskin38]

Holy sh*t, this episode was awesome... So disappointed it was canceled.

[Bren]

I think it run it's course nicely. That was a great last episode, too - not something many shows can boast *grumbles something that rhymes with "gaysnake"*

I am somewhat confused by one or two issues surrounding William Adama... his age... but I don't want to give too much away.

[Aeries]

Holy sh*t, this episode was awesome... So disappointed it was canceled.

ME TOO! Loved the last episode, though it could have been better... Additionally, the Galactica storyline wasn't followed very well. For example, the Colonials never developed resurrection technology... the Final Five, survivors of the original colony, gave that tech to the Cylons well after the cylon revolt and far into the Colonial/Cylon war.... continuity fail.

Not bad, though, considering that with the series cancellation they had to come up with a quick, all-inclusive end. They get my thumbs up for this. I just hope Blood And Chrome isn't a disappointment.

[Tuskin38]

I am somewhat confused by one or two issues surrounding William Adama... his age... but I don't want to give too much away.

In Razor when we seen young William during the war he looked to be in his early 20s, and that was at the end of the war.

[Bren]

Yes, but I remember reading that on some personell dossier which the camera focused on during a scene on Colonial One, Adama's mother's name was Evelyn (the caprica finale clears that up) and he was 73... which is what confuses me. As of Caprica's finale, Admiral Adama is a man in his fifties. Hardly an "Old Man". He looks older than that. Anyway, it's a relatively minor point.

As for the ressurection tech, I think the bathtub was just artistic licence so we "got it". That wasn't true res tech, which is synthetic cells (their indistinguishability from normal cells was a main plotpoint on Galactica season one), it was a combo of robotics(One of Daniel's many fields) and cosmetic surgery (Amanda's specialty). You could see the robo-body beneath the flesh briefly when Zoe's avatar took control of the android.

You could think of it more as inspiration, or a starting point for the experiments that the Cylons were running during Bill's flashback in Razor.

[Aeries]

You more or less have a point, however in several scenes in Galactica, Six's spine lit up. There's also the extreme strength and agility that a humanoid woman of that build simply could NOT accomplish without robotic enhancement, such as a titanium bone structure and microscopic cell reinforcement in musculature, etc. Therefore, humanoid Cylons are not, in fact, entirely human. Zoey's form was as you said, something like a prequel of things to come.

I do apologize if anything I've said makes very little sense. It's late, and I have not had much coffee tonight. Actually... none at all... *twitch* 

[Bones]

damn I really need to get whole season of Caprica ... I only watched four episodes

[Bren]

You more or less have a point, however in several scenes in Galactica, Six's spine lit up. There's also the extreme strength and agility that a humanoid woman of that build simply could NOT accomplish without robotic enhancement, such as a titanium bone structure and microscopic cell reinforcement in musculature, etc. Therefore, humanoid Cylons are not, in fact, entirely human. Zoey's form was as you said, something like a prequel of things to come.

I do apologize if anything I've said makes very little sense. It's late, and I have not had much coffee tonight. Actually... none at all... *twitch* 

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.