tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post116586527274638337..comments2024-03-25T19:18:14.047-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: Rise of the little peopleAlan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1165999791208844202006-12-13T03:49:00.000-05:002006-12-13T03:49:00.000-05:00Alan - Thanks for giving me credit here.Glad you e...Alan - <BR/><BR/>Thanks for giving me credit here.<BR/><BR/>Glad you enjoy the pieces - but that goes both ways. I always look forward to stopping in here to see what you've got to say about the latest ep of DW (amongst your other commentaries). Only two more weekends left -- Boo-Who!Ross Ruedigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00796449359255091290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1165943780024374192006-12-12T12:16:00.000-05:002006-12-12T12:16:00.000-05:00I actually liked the Cylon bits. As for the story...I actually liked the Cylon bits. As for the story focusing on Kat, that wasn't so bad and it got rid of a Starbuck wanna be. I knew that Kat would kill herself as soon as her sleazy boyfriend confronted her.<BR/><BR/>Starbuck didn't have any culpability in Kat's death as I saw it. Yeah, Starbuck was harsh, but Adama needs to know the weakness of the crew, the potential for officers to be subverted by agents foreign (Cylons) and domestic (Zarek's homies).<BR/><BR/>Starbuck had to tell Adama something quite damaging about herself because it effected the performance of her duty, why should Kat be different?Taleenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13465468178554091355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1165943287394007022006-12-12T12:08:00.000-05:002006-12-12T12:08:00.000-05:00Yeah, there was rarely anything for Picard to lose...Yeah, there was rarely anything for Picard to lose his shit over. I remember Peter David, who has made a good deal of his career writing <I>Trek</I> novels and comics, admitting during TNG's run that "most episodes are a waste [Patrick] Stewart's time and talent." And when I see Stewart in other things, or even "Chain of Command Part II", I realize how right he was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1165911143696400682006-12-12T03:12:00.000-05:002006-12-12T03:12:00.000-05:00Oh, and ditto on the "paper shortage" scene. As so...Oh, and ditto on the "paper shortage" scene. As somebody who's prone to stress-triggered laughing fits myself, that was priceless. You never saw Picard losing his shit over little things like dwindling food supplies, which was just one of the thousand reasons that show was so boring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1165909560712089032006-12-12T02:46:00.000-05:002006-12-12T02:46:00.000-05:00Fun fact #1: Jackie Tyler is named after my co-blo...Fun fact #1: Jackie Tyler is named after my co-blogger at <A HREF="http://blowingsmokethemovie.com" REL="nofollow">Blowing Smoke</A>, Jackie Danicki. She used to do Queer As Folk recaps for Television Without Pity (or whatever it was called back then) and struck up a friendship with Davies, and he named Rose's mom after her.<BR/><BR/>Fun fact #2: She's never seen the show! I keep telling her she needs to check it out. Although, the way Jackie T's usually portrayed...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1165873677425589812006-12-11T16:47:00.000-05:002006-12-11T16:47:00.000-05:00As long as Olmos doesn't ever ask "why does God ne...As long as Olmos doesn't ever ask "why does God need a starship?"R.A. Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14851961356321735388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-1165870706862681732006-12-11T15:58:00.000-05:002006-12-11T15:58:00.000-05:00I watched all the second season "Doctor Whos" as t...I watched all the second season "Doctor Whos" as they aired in the UK, and this is the first one I've re-watched on Sci-Fi in its entirety. Just weird and fun.<BR/><BR/>Okay, wacky BSG theory time.<BR/><BR/>I think this is all about the Cylon God and the Cobol Gods. I think that they _are_ connected, as was suggested in the most recent episode. And let's remember the first-season refrain, "This has all happened before."<BR/><BR/>What if the Cylon God (which perhaps is who Baltar talks to) is a machine intelligence, some other intelligence that is separate from the Cylons? And what if the original reason the humans left Cobol was that, back then, they created a machine intelligence that became its own, emergent thing. Perhaps the Twelve Gods are just aspects of a machine intelligence created in the distant past by humans, who were then ejected from Cobol and sent to their various colonies....<BR/><BR/>This would mean that this is not the first time humanity has created a new form of life that rebelled against it. It's all happened before. And in addition to the humans and the cylons, there's another player out there -- a player the Cylons call God.<BR/><BR/>I know, wacky. But I wonder if all the religious talk actually is leading to something more tangible than gods tend to be.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08038629195561926390noreply@blogger.com