Battlestar Galactica - Season 4

[Spoony]

Did anyone go for the gusto and watch the extended DVD boxing episode? Because the regular one wasn't exhausting enough.

[WavyGravy]

Oh god that boxing episode..   Somehow I knew Starbuck would start kickboxing.  She seems like a 90's douche.

[Spoony]

Oh god that boxing episode..   Somehow I knew Starbuck would start kickboxing.  She seems like a 90's douche.

Well, she wore that Soul Asylum t-shirt through the entire first season. I thought it was obvious.

[Bryan]

Did anyone see the new episode? I thought it was pretty good overall. Some genuinely unsettling moments, and a growing sense of doom. I don't see a happy ending coming up for this one.

[Sarah]

What?!

[orator]

 That episode (and the show in general) is like a giant bowl filled with sadness, with a thick topping of depressing.

 I swear, every one of the million convoluted plotlines this show has constantly takes turns for the worse. It makes the show perpetually tense and exhausting. I'm not sure if that's good writing or really contrived/manipulative writing.

[Bryan]

I think it has, at times, good, bad & manipulative writing. Don't make me choose just one. In any case, I kinda revel in the non-stop bad vibes.

[Sarah]

I think it makes the show boring.  Mind you, I've watched every episode.

I really liked the suicide, by the way.  Nicely done.  Those Adamas sure are thick, though, not being able to figure out why she did it.

[Bryan]

Yeah, I think I'd get bored too, if the episodes were released at a normal pace. I can take 10 episodes of non-stop melodramatic doom per year, though.

edit: that being said, I am pleased that they're finally wrapping this show up.

[Pride of Staten Island]

I think it has, at times, good, bad & manipulative writing. Don't make me choose just one.

I think that's a pretty good summation about my feelings toward BSG. Sometimes I'll be be totally absorbed in the show. Other times I'll be rolling my eyes in embarrassment or just plain bored.

I had the final three episodes from the first half of this season DVR'd and unwatched because at some point I think I said to myself "I just devote an hour a week to this nonsense anymore." I finally watched them last week in preparation for the premiere. Now that I'm all caught up I'm still not entirely sure why I'm watching. I just know that a) they're not going to answer all the questions they've raised or b) they're going to be answered by some super lame deus ex machina.

That being said I'm tremendously looking forward to tonight's episode of "Lost," so perhaps I'm in no position to judge. Does anyone else gets the sinking feeling that Ben telling Jack they have to take "Jeremy Bentham" with them will make this entire season some kind of weird riff on "Weekend at Bernie's?"

[akaJudge]

Oh god that boxing episode..   Somehow I knew Starbuck would start kickboxing.  She seems like a 90's douche.

If you insist on insulting my special lady friend, we're fightin'.

[WavyGravy]

Oh god that boxing episode..   Somehow I knew Starbuck would start kickboxing.  She seems like a 90's douche.

If you insist on insulting my special lady friend, we're fightin'.

You wanna frak her? 

If I remember correctly, she and that basketball player she married from Caprica get matching tribal tattoo's.
90's douche!

[Bryan]

This clip has a major spoiler, but if you've already seen the first episode of this run, is pretty funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW2_2ihIuzI

[orator]

oh man, i couldn't stop laughing for a minute

so awful

[mcphee from the forum]

wow. hilarious/horrible on multiple levels