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    Image of kityglitr kityglitr
    03/01/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    Exactly. The 8 series, Boomer especially, were Cavil's pet project. Manipulation and deceit are hard wired into her, yet time and time again, you see her straining to break free and just be happy. Hell, look at what an 8 did to Gaeta. He probably wouldn't have gone all stab happy and instigated the mutiny if that 8 hadn't have murdered a bunch of crew members right in front of him. Plus! Why did the 8 kill the crew members? Because she "loved" him and wanted to save him. The ends justify the means for 8's.
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    Image of My Own Private Duncan Idaho My Own Private Duncan Idaho
    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    i can't remember ... did they ever cover why base ship hybrids are called "hybrids?" i mean, obviously, they're sort of half a cylon, half a ship, i guess, but if both the skin jobs and the ships are both mechanical and organic, then what's hybrid about the hybrids? also, who are they? they're human appearing, but they're not skin jobs because all of them are accounted for except daniel, so are they human and if so, how does that jive? or did cylons create skin jobish hybrids for their specific roles, but they don't count as regular numbered cylons? sorry if i'm dumbo.
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    Image of Miksho Miksho
    02/27/09

    @Paralyzed-Baker-With-Beans-For-Eyes: I think the hybrids were the product of those human-cylon fusing experiments that Elder Adama discovered during the first cylon war. They were the closest the ORIGINAL CENTURIONS (remember, the skinjobs were made by the Final Five) came to replicating organic, humanlike life.


    I could be just as dumbo, though!

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    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    The Tyrol-Boomer projection scenes were simply beautiful.


    Oh Chief, what the fuck have you done?

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    Image of Harrison_Bergeron Harrison_Bergeron
    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    I'm calling that Galactica gets fixed with way more Cylon tech and Anders becomes her hybrid.
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    Image of Miksho Miksho
    02/27/09

    @Harrison_Bergeron: I like the way you think, son. Also, that would make Starbuck and Anders some sort of sexy Hybrid-Hybrid couple.
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    Image of AndrosZ AndrosZ
    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    That was AWESOME...why wasn't a jump ever used as a weapon before?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    02/27/09

    @AndrosZ: Same reason they only used it once in B5?
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    Image of AndrosZ AndrosZ
    02/27/09

    @Emperor_GitEmSteveDave:
    Yeah, never seen ANY Babylon 5...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    03/01/09

    @AndrosZ: Well, in Babylon 5, they had "Jumpgates" for exiting and entering hyperspace. Larger ships had their own jump engines to create a jump point. If a ship created a jump point inside a jumpgate which was active, it would create a massive explosion which would destroy the gate. The big problem was no ship was fast enough to do this maneuver and survive.
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    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    Why do i have a feeling that's "Jesus Juice" in that bottle.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    Um, Athena, make some noise over there, the damn door's open.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    02/27/09

    @Lassus: Someone was making noise.
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    Image of MosesMonster MosesMonster
    02/27/09

    @Emperor_GitEmSteveDave:


    The right kind of noise.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    02/27/09

    @MosesMonster: I know. I thought I had a YouPorn window open on my computer.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    I have a horrible feeling this episode is not going to end with any answers in regards to Starbuck, just hallucinations about her death father.
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    Image of disco2000 disco2000
    02/27/09

    @Lassus: You know, they've been pretty good about following through with their teasers of revelations in the second half of the season. I think there's a good chance we will find out something. They're running out of episodes.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    Well, she can take a punch, just not a sink to the face. That was her downfall.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    This piano noodling sounds similar to the guy who wheels his upright into the Union Square station late at night.
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    Image of happymisanthrope happymisanthrope
    02/27/09

    @Lassus: do you think we can get that guy to play the song from this episode?
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    Image of disco2000 disco2000
    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    I'm loving the format/editing of this episode so far. It's a break of pace from the usual, and reminds me of the boxing episode. A great backdrop for character developments.
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    02/27/09

    In reply to Hell Yes - It's the Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog
    What do you want to bet Starbuck ends up fracking this piano dude?
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    Image of My Own Private Duncan Idaho My Own Private Duncan Idaho
    02/27/09

    @disco2000: that might be a little gross ...
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    Image of disco2000 disco2000
    02/27/09

    @Paralyzed-Baker-With-Beans-For-Eyes: well 10 minutes into the episode, you don't know what's coming later, obviously...
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    Image of fraying fraying
    01/24/09

    In reply to It's Your Friday Night Battlestar Liveblog
    This is going to be BY FAR the nerdiest think I've ever posted here, but it matters, especially in the context of BSG which has gotten so much of space physics right. Here goes:


    When the 2 vipers and 1 raptor were docking with the trinium ship, and it jumped away, wouldn't the remaining ships have been sucked *toward* the void, not pushed away from it?


    Okay, I'll be over in the corner, writing incomprehensible equations on my blackboard and muttering to myself....

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    01/24/09

    @fraying: I had the same thought too. But OK here is my extremely uneducated physics guess at what they might have been aiming at: Perhaps when a large mass disappears, objects move a bit away from it because there's a sudden loss of gravity due to the loss of mass?
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    Image of fraying fraying
    01/23/09

    In reply to It's Your Friday Night Battlestar Liveblog
    I want to know: What's the deal with all of Adama's toothbrushing. Is it to hide his eeeeevil haaaalitooosis?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    01/24/09

    @fraying: The tooth grooming totally weirded me out. Why make the craggy-handsome Adama seem icky right before we're about to see him get laid?
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    Image of silver-bolt silver-bolt
    01/23/09

    In reply to It's Your Friday Night Battlestar Liveblog
    For once, WE spoil a show for Annalee, not the other way round. ^___^
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    01/23/09

    @silver-bolt: Go ahead and gloat! I'll get you and your little alien too!
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/24/09

    @Annalee Newitz: You don't have ANY friends with satellite? NONE? I thought all you high-tech future-building young'uns did. I've had one for a decade.
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