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    Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await

    Battlestar Best TV Show, Say Critics

    Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader

    The Recession Hits BSG Fans Hard

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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    09/15/09

    In reply to Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
    Good to see Ex Machina is back this week.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/15/09

    In reply to Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
    This may sound like a weird question, but how can a future be alternate?
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: We can't, because if we travel into the future from this point in time, it will be the future of THIS reality, in which Biff is corrupt, powerful, and married to your mother, and in which THIS has happened to ME!! [holds up newspaper reading "EMMETT BROWN COMMITTED"] No, our only chance to repair the present is in the past, at the point where the time line skewed into this tangent. In order to put the universe back as we remember it and get back to our reality, we have to find out the exact date and specific circumstances of how, when, and where young Biff got his hands on that sports almanac.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/15/09

    @redqueenmeg: Alternate or not. As long as I get to have a go on a GOD DAMN HOVERBOARD!!!!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/15/09

    @redqueenmeg: Have I mentioned that you are going to be like the coolest Mom ever?!
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Well, they don't work on water, you know.
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    09/15/09

    @Grey_Area: Aww, thanks! :) Here's a secret, though, I already have a 4-year-old. But he thinks I am cool too. And he watches LOTR. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    09/15/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: If you're referring to the description of Frank Miller's Martha Washington, it works out like this:

    1.In the 1990s Frank Miller wanted to write a political satire. He set it in the future so it wouldn't be about any specific person but about general concepts in politics and socioeconomics.

    2.In the 1990s the 21st Century was still in the future.

    3.Much of the story takes place in what is now our present day --the early 21st Century.

    4.Frank Miller is a good writer but not a prescient one. His fictional details of 21st Century life are entertaining but of course have no connection with the actual 21st Century we find ourselves in. They diverge quite a bit.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    08/02/09

    In reply to Battlestar Best TV Show, Say Critics
    To all my friends who said sci-fi was stupid and dorky: Suck IT!
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    Image of shortstopk shortstopk
    08/02/09

    In reply to Battlestar Best TV Show, Say Critics
    Not even close. Seasons 1 and 2, maybe.

    Lost had maybe it's best season ever last year. Mad Men was excellent. I'd pick Sarah Connor over it too. Haven't seen Breaking Bad yet, though I'd like too. Just got too far behind to start watching and haven't rented the DVDs so far.
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    Image of spikespeigel spikespeigel
    08/02/09

    In reply to Battlestar Best TV Show, Say Critics
    Best show? No chance. Not with Breaking Bad's excellent second season. Guess the meth got in the way.
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    Alasdair5000 promoted this comment spikespeigel was starred spikespeigel was unstarred
    Image of brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(
    08/02/09

    In reply to Battlestar Best TV Show, Say Critics
    The Big Bang Theory references not only sci-fi all the time but also real science so yes I consider it a Sci-fi comedy much like Better Off Ted. Granted, Ted is the superior show but I don't get endless BSG, Star Trek, and LOTR jokes from Ted. If Ted is Sci-fi for io9's standards then The Big Bang Theory more than definitely qualifies as there is far more science and sci-fi references in it. Plus out of their six main characters five are advanced degreed scientists while on Ted only two out of the six main characters are scientists. Instead of pretending it's not Sci-fi when Ted is covered why not just say you hate the show but concede it is a sci-fi sitcom.
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    Image of Tina Sena Tina Sena
    08/02/09

    In reply to Battlestar Best TV Show, Say Critics
    It was some of the best shit on television. Still a shame Mary McDonnell was robbed of the chance to show American audiences the difference between a 'great' actress, and mediocre actresses who seem to always end up on the emmys short list. Bullshit.
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    Image of bitgod bitgod
    08/02/09

    In reply to Battlestar Best TV Show, Say Critics
    Piffle. It was a great show that went downhill the last 2 years and ended up, in my view, to be only a good show overall. I have Season 1 in high def, if I could get just season 2 now, I'd be happy. I won't buy the whole package.
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    Image of waxlion waxlion
    08/02/09

    In reply to Battlestar Best TV Show, Say Critics
    Battlestar was definitely the best sci-fi show of the year. But the best all around? It's not even a question, it's Breaking Bad. That and picking The Big Bang Theory over 30 Rock makes me think they just picked the two programs that would get internet nerds buzzing.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/02/09

    @waxlion: My first thought on reading that Big Bang Theory had won in the comedy category was "have these people seen 30 Rock?"
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    Image of RonMaverick291 RonMaverick291
    08/02/09

    In reply to Battlestar Best TV Show, Say Critics
    Too bad the ending was half assed.
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    Image of Scimarad Scimarad
    08/02/09

    @RonMaverick291:

    Really?!? Thanks! I've never heard anyone say that yet, EVER!
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    06/15/09

    In reply to Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader
    It would be interesting to see a BSG DVD movie that takes you back to that period.


    It was dumb of Ron Moore and David Eick to push off the idea of more movies. But then maybe they figured everyone would be so disgusted by the fourth season that no one would want to see anymore.

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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    06/15/09

    In reply to Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader
    Maybe Vader was one of the first hybrids?
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    Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. was starred Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. was unstarred
    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    06/15/09

    @c0dek:


    LOL.


    So that's the connection between Star Wars and BSG.

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/15/09

    In reply to Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader
    Guys. Isn't it pretty common knowledge that Darth's whole look was samurai inspired?
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    Image of MosesMonster MosesMonster
    06/15/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Star Wars is a mix of a western and Japanese storyline. I just can't remember which films inspired it.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    06/15/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.:

    No cause George Lucas invented everything himself and original. Star Wars was not inspired by various good and bad WW2 movies, 1940s movie serials, Kurosawa films or the Japanese movie, The Hidden Castle. No siree, not one damned bit. /end snarky fanboy reply


    Sadly, the one character that was a true Lucas original was Jar-Jar Binks.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/15/09

    @MosesMonster: Just for fun I'm going to say..... Seven Samurai, Goonies, Rocky 5 and.... Step it Up.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    06/16/09

    @ManchuCandidate: i didn't realize nick bottom the inept alien was an original character...
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    Image of Ronestar Ronestar
    01/19/09

    In reply to The Recession Hits BSG Fans Hard
    It's too bad - in a way - that the ship models are all virtual.


    I'm sure some Nerdy McRichy-Pants would have paid some coin for a Galactica, Pegasus, Basestar, or Colonial One filming model.

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    Image of Truthseeker_Young Truthseeker_Young
    01/19/09

    @Ronestar:


    I wonder, tho, if in the not-to-distant-future we'll see those same Nerdy McRichy-Pants' (love it!) happily shelling out for, say, 'Official' or 'Original' .obj files (or whatever format) of the virtual ship models used in the show.


    No more useful than a non-virtual film model, and, as our lives increasingly come to include virtual spaces, no less nerd-cred-worthy an object to display on your virtual mantlepiece...

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/19/09

    @Truthseeker_Young: But like all things digital, much easier to copy. Everyone will be able to have their own copy, which you can't do with real stuff. So I don't think McRichy-Pants would pony up as much.
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