Fangirls have been around, and important, as long as there's been fandom. I think people forget that the reason why the original Star Trek lasted a full three seasons was because of women-driven letter writing campaigns, and it was mostly women who organized and attended the conventions that kept the fandom alive in the 70's.
I read Textual Poachers recently, which deals with the marginalization of (mostly female) fandom -- it's a really good read, especially for anyone who was a geek girl in the 80s or earlier (since it came out in, I think, the early 90's). Some things have changed, some things stay the same...
and oh yeah, Kevin Smith, you are still awesome
I wish ReBoot could have made this list somewhere, but otherwise this was a fun read with some great representation
@Homero Barragan: I always figured they wouldn't go back to Kobol because of the "price in blood" curse, the fact that they would have to fight Cylons for it, and that it's several years away at this point and they might not be able to make it back that far anymore. Not if Galactica's only got a few jumps left in her.
BSG: So, we get super-big space battles, most questions answered (but not everyone's going to like the answers), people die, that scene with Six in Times Square is largely irrelevant to the rest of the story, and maybe Boomer gets redeemed?
AWESOME.
@SinisterRouge: And long after the Vitalogy backlash, Pearl Jam still consistently sells out every single show they put on, and continuously draw in new, younger fans, because their overall catalog and performance history is just that good.
Sure lots of people like to complain and nitpick and moan about BSG not being perfect now, because it's so easy to focus on the missteps instead of the triumphs, and I'm not saying that it's perfect or that everyone should love it as much as I do, but I think it's just the latest, best space opera in a genre that's been slowly but steadily become more nuanced and artistic with each offering. BSG IS among the best shows on television, and it's going to stay just as relevant and amazing ten, twenty, fifty years for now, I bet.
@ender3000: Well, I do believe that there have been bad episodes of BSG, (ahem, Black Market) but this is definitely not one of them. Other than the weird editing, which felt like they were cutting out a few important plot points, this episode was kind of funny and kind of sad and it was fun to see the Cylons act so dysfunctional.
Sure, it wasn't as good as the last three episodes, but just because something isn't Best.Episode.Ever. doesn't mean it's bad, either.
This episode was great! I loved the whole Oedipus Rex thing -- not so much the "kill the father, sleep with the mother" part, but the "trying to circumvent fate actually fulfills that fate" part. I loved how Sam sounded just like the hybrid with his "verbal salad" -- and am really intrigued by how Galactica itself is going to become a hybrid.
Also find it ironic that Zarek's revolution ends up consolidating power around Lee, probably the only character who actually gives a frak about genuine democracy.
@newdeepdan: I got serious chills during that speech, and the "who do you want to be" speech too. Roslin FTW!!
@Geekmansworld: Well, you wouldn't have to rant to me -- I think a lot of fans are coming down WAY too harshly on Roslin and Adama lately, and honestly it's driving me a little batty.
However, I am also glad that the show kept reminding us that Gaeta's really a good person at heart who, as usual, tries to do the right thing for the right reasons and it blows up in his face in the worst possible way.
Basically this whole conflict was between two perfectly valid points of view that are incompatible and are represented by people who are both deeply flawed and deeply good. And how viewers position themselves on this whole conflict probably says a lot more about those viewers than it does about the characters.
We've been out of the Cold War for a long time, but Dr. Strangelove is still a great movie.
Not to say that BSG is on that level, but it has great writing, a billion interesting characters, and a lot of the plots are about regular human stuff that just doesn't change. Relationship drama and self-destructive behavior, both individually and collectively, being among them.
@ChrisBaker: I'll admit I'm afraid of how bleak BSG is going to get. After getting a few mildly reassuring general spoilers for the very end, I'm not sure I want the details anymore.
Which is not to say that if anything gets posted I won't read it anyway, I could never really stop myself...
@hardcache: True, but this is like, BIG TIME spoiler, more than the usual "Adama gets drunk and waves a gun at somebody" kinda thing.
I agree that it could be a flashback or another one of Tigh's projections. Either of those could require a stunt double. Ups the odds that it's her, but I'm not believing it until I see it.
@ChrisBaker: I think I'm missing something too. I mean, I a certain someone on the call sheet, but just because that person is there doesn't mean that she or he is a Cylon...
It's hard to tell how good this is going to be considering it was only FOUR MINUTES but...I'm intrigued!
...For starters, they're still having a truce? Tigh's still the XO, 8s are sharing a raptor with Colonials, and I noticed that the rebel basestar made the emergency jump with the rest of the fleet (meaning it now gets access to the emergency coordinates). I can't imagine that they're all happy-happy now, especially since earth wasn't what they expected it to be.
@daveNYC: We'll just have to agree to disagree then, especially since I do agree with you on the 45-minutes-of-moping-in-a-tent thing. :-)
@daveNYC: What would you have expected from the good guys then? It would have been ridiculous if mysteriously Harry and the others got all these AWESOME powers last minute, especially after Dumbledore got offed. Instead, Harry used what he had and he did it smartly. Which is fine. Happens all the time in stories.
I have a lot of problems with the final book, which spent too much time arbitrarily killing off supplementary characters and not enough time actually resolving anything, but the way the good guys won was NOT one of those problems
@Elizabeth Weinbloom: That epilogue was the worst denoument ever. You don't go and write seven books of awesome, capping with a pretty good final battle, and end it with a two-page rush job that doesn't actually say very much about what happened to anybody. Why even bother if that's the case?
@Dryftwood: I am!
I'm also much more interested in what the hybrid meant about the Truth of the Opera House and Starbuck as the harbinger of death.
The Final Cylon is a fun little puzzle to solve, but I'm not sure how important it's going to be to the series endgame.
@bodmodkub: At least one other "clue" in there isn't new information -- one of the quotes is from Razor.
These previews are getting me really amped up for new episodes, but with all the other crazy stuff going on, I think the final cylon is least on my Stuff I Want To Know list.
Does anyone know for the source of "Ron Moore says the Final Cylon is not in the Last Supper Picture" comes from? Just curious.
