So Say We All: BSG Marathon On Syfy
I don't care if this is off topic so go eat a bicuit. Syfy is running a BSG marathon over the next few days and I know there are plenty of fans on the board. I just noticed it so I missed the first hour or so. Set your DVRs, boys and girls, because Starbuck is about to kick some ass.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/09/21/battlestar-galactica-marathon-b…
September 22nd, 2017 at 9:46 PM ^
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September 23rd, 2017 at 12:33 AM ^
Don, what's in that soda man?
September 22nd, 2017 at 10:14 PM ^
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September 22nd, 2017 at 10:20 PM ^
and Starbuck is supposed to be a dude
September 22nd, 2017 at 10:27 PM ^
September 22nd, 2017 at 10:44 PM ^
Tough guy alert.
September 22nd, 2017 at 10:58 PM ^
Bruh, that's so sick bruh. Let's go crush some brewskies while we eat steaks and talk about boobs bruh.
September 22nd, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^
September 23rd, 2017 at 7:40 AM ^
Whatever it was.
September 23rd, 2017 at 8:34 AM ^
think he just said science fiction
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September 23rd, 2017 at 8:28 AM ^
At least you are open-minded about it. /s
September 22nd, 2017 at 10:32 PM ^
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September 22nd, 2017 at 11:10 PM ^
Breaking Bad, Sopranos, those are surely great shows. But none had the epicness, week to week stress, depth of characters, or creative genius of BSG. Just watching that miniseries -- it was like family coming home again.
So say we all!!!
September 22nd, 2017 at 11:48 PM ^
Really don't see how Daybreak was brilliant. At all. Completely derivative. A cliche among cliches.
But the first couple of dozen episodes, yeah. Fantastically good show.
September 23rd, 2017 at 6:33 AM ^
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September 23rd, 2017 at 2:08 PM ^
The Wire and Breaking Bad are easily far and away better shows than BSG ever was. I enjoyed BSG and binged most of it a few years ago while doing cardio. I would never dream of trying to watch The Wire or Breaking Bad while doing something else because so much is going on and you needed to pay attention to everything to understand what is going on.
Depth of characters like Stringer Bell and or Jesse and Walt rival any character on any other show period, not just BSG.
Week to week stress of Breaking Bad was also just as high if not higher than BSG because each episode built off the last and each conundrum Walt found himself in was a natural result of his decision making in previous episodes.
I know it's early, but Billions has been making a serious run these last two seasons. As far as I'm concerned, it is the best show on TV right now and is quickly climbing in my all time rankings as well. If the writers can keep up the pacing and character interactions for another 2 or more seasons it will easily make my top 5.
Right now, I'd put my top 5 as this:
1. The Wire
2. Breaking Bad
3. Lost (yes, the ending sucked, but c'mon)
4. Caprica (yes, i loved it more than BSG)
5. BSG
September 22nd, 2017 at 11:17 PM ^
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September 23rd, 2017 at 8:31 AM ^
To me, this thread explains a lot of your actual football comments!
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September 23rd, 2017 at 1:03 PM ^
Re: Battlestar Galatica:
I loved it and watched every episode that wasn't web-exclusive. I even played the BSG board game a lot and would wholeheartedly recommend it to other gamers and fans of the show because it was an incredibly perfect marriage of the show's themes to game mechanics. I can expound on it more if anyone wants to rap about it
Problem was that it had a two-year plan that it executed to perfection and after that arc it was pretty much throwing shit at the wall to see what stuck. Creator Ronald D. Moore pretty much openly admitted that this was the case. On the whole I appreciated the swing-for-the-fences approach of the finale more than most and still remember the whole series fondly but there's no denying that after such a brilliant beginning it didn't quite stick the landing to the degree that it promised.