<![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @strangrnstranglnd: No, the "Judeo-Christian" god's name is not Yahweh. The name is lost and all we have left is the four consonants YHWH (or YHVH, or several other variants). (The name "Jehovah" is the result of a misreading.)

The only one allowed to say the name was the High Priest at the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. After the Temple was destroyed for the second time, the line of priests ended and the name was lost.

I'd say this was all very silly, but those of us who've read a fair amount of fantasy know that Names have Power.

inconstant_reader

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Sorry about the unclosed tag. Must remember: preview is your friend.

inconstant_reader

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Seth L: I love Jacob (the TWoP writer)'s recaps. Sure, they're insanely detailed and make the weirdest connections and 25% the time I don't know what he's talking about, but that all adds to the fun. I wouldn't like it if every recapper wrote that way, but one series at a time -- especially series as rich as Doctor Who or BSG -- works for me.

inconstant_reader

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Annalee Newitz:

The first writer they had doing BSG was good. The one they have now also did Dr. Who, and I thought those recaps were insufferable as well.

I think I'm in the minority though.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @strangrnstranglnd:

That's a latter Jewish tradition that the Catholics, I think, perpetuated.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Maybe the final Cylon is Gabrielle. I mean, it was Xena that saw her and said, "If only I would have known."

strangrnstranglnd

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> The Judeo/Christian God's name is supposed to not be said aloud. It is Yahweh.

It has been my understanding all along that the Cylons worshipped that God - I mean, they even call him "the Almighty" and "the one true God."

strangrnstranglnd

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Seth L: No, serious. I haven't been reading the BSG recaps on TWOP, but in general I always love their stuff. So I'm surprised that they are failing on BSG.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Annalee Newitz:

Sarcasm, or serious? I usually like them a ton, and he's not a bad writer, I just can't stand his style, to me it's very pretensions and self-involved.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> My candidate for final cylon: Tom Zarek.

Seriously, how hilarious would it be for Richard Hatch to be a toaster?

laughingacademy

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Seth L: That really surprises me, because TWOP is usually The Best Evar.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I'm just glad io9 is brining the snark and discussion, since the TWOP recapper is insufferable.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I think the lady-ninja beard-cutting pipe-wielding worshiper of Baltar is the final Cylon. She's just too smug about the one true god and smiting things. She's the antithesis of head-six, which makes her the perfect choice.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Ryan H: That's an interesting idea. I'd be in favor of that.

I've already gotten myself hooked on this place, and now I get bored on the weekends!

bluewyvern

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @tetracycloide:
Very true. It's just too bad that with Galactica and Who airing after the weekend cutoff all the discussion is going to have to be delayed by a couple days.

I wonder if the last act on Friday could be posting a pair of blank topics, one for each show? Let the hoard bandy it about over the weekend?

Ryan H

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Anybody else but me ever wonder who the final 5 worship. Its been mentioned several times that that they worship the one who shall remain nameless, it could be Starbuck maybe she is a god, it would explain alot.

qwijybo

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Jamie: there are usually no posts on saturdays and sundays

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> What's with 2+ days and no io9 posts? o.O No dissection of the Torchwood finale, no talk on the Dr. Who premier, not a single spoiler.

What's up?

Jamie

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> The twelfth Cylon IS the Galactica. After all, it was playing that frakking song...

MonkeyT

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> The fifth cylon is Joseph Adama. It was forshadowed by Leobin (sic) that Adama was a cylon. We know that both Bill and Lee remember the Joseph, so either of them being a cylon is not realistic from a continuity point of view.

Why Joe Adama? Remember the other attorney from Baltar's trial - he did not like humanity, and he was a lawyer in an attempt to understand why humanity did what it did (murder/stealing/etc). If you are a first generation human cylon, of course you are trying to understand humanity and what it is.

And of course the third party corroboration of Joe Adama makes Lee of Bill being a cylon impossible from the writing continuity standpoint.

The new four cylons are Generation 2. Implanted in the human population as children. Raised as human to provide the cylons with information about humanity.

The last 7 are Generation 3. These cylons were sent in as adults, remember Boomer came from a colony that was mysteriosly destroyed. They have the ability to download there are copies. They do not have to be "grown" like humans.

The last 5 have to be previous Generations, if they had copies the other 7 would know them.

Moore already said none in the photo of the last supper are the fifth cylon- which eliminates Helo, Roslin, Will, Kara, Baltar, and Lee. So that just leaves Dee, Gaelin, the Doc, a resurrected Billy or another minor character as the fifth. Maybe Cain?

I know - what about Kara blowing up? Remember that just about every aspect of the original 70's BSG has been added to this one with a twist. Starbuck flying a raider - did we all catch the "waggle" as she and Apollo returned to Galactica. Going to Kolbol, the pyramids in the original, the temple with the eye of Jupiter in the new. In the original Appolo and Starbuck were aided by "angels" and flew new Vipers. This is the new BSG story line to the old storyline. I doubt that "angels" are going to aid the fleet, but I am sure it will be interesting.

w4766nick

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> lavardera, I agree with you. Having caught up with BSG by watching the DVD's and then hearing some about Razor- it seems to me that non-aging would be the goal they'd be working towards. The older revealed Cylons as original models makes sense that way.

Between non-aging and resurrecting...living young forever anyone? Even toasters have gotta want to do that- since they're now wanting love and children.

This show continues to fascinate me.
I enjoyed the live blog here on io9 as well!

FollowMal

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Head Six is Lucifer, Count Iblis, messing with his head. The devil wears red you know.

Makes sense to see his head six as the devil next you watch...Also there are echos of Gnosis, in that perhaps the Cylon God believes himself to be the only God, perhaps because he was exiled from the realm of the other gods, or banished from olympus... In Gnosis, God thinks he's the only god or something like that.

boombye

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> for folks without a TIVO, the new episode is up on hulu.com - free reruns.

lava

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> funny, in the comic books there was a storyline about Zak returning and he turns out to be a cylon clone or something.

and now, on a completely unrelated, but sorta related topic, I saw "It's a mad mad mad world" the other day and was struck by how much a younger Jonathan Winters in a jumpsuit looks a lot like Chief Tyrol.

njudah

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Why do people assume that making the meat cylon's age would be more advanced? Doesn't it make more sense that they would not know how to stop them from aging at the beginning, and later on figured out how to do that? In razor the first hybrid looked like an old man, no?

lava

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Re: Starbuck's miraculous reappearance with 'brand-new' viper: What about the "Beings of Light" getting involved?
Also, if Peter David's BSG novel "Sagittarius is Bleeding" is to be believed, there are apparently more than 12 models, because he hints at a kid called Boxey being a Cylon, as well, which ties nicely with the "everyone is cylon or hybrid" theory that is being passed around. I have to agree that Zak Adama being brought in as a cylon is a very intriguing thought, considering the conversation between Admiral Adama and Apollo concerning Starbuck.

PagnGeekGrl

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> OF COURSE THE PRESIDENT'S THE CYLON!!!!!!!! Lets take a look. She shares dreams with other Cylons. She dreamed about Leobin protecting her from a Galactica SWAT squad in a dreamy forest (before she popped him out the airlock). She's actively leading the humans AWAY from Earth. And finally, she's married to Kevin Kostner.

DarthLipschitz

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I'm pretty sure the president is the cylon, and that getting the transfusion from the first hybrid fulfilled some sort of cylon prophesy. Also, Whats to say starbuck didn't genuinely get whisked away by their god(s) to earth?

What a great show! I am so very sad that its ending this season (although I definately approve of not dragging a good thing out), and I look forward to the influx of science fiction on TV to fill the massive void that it leaves behind when it vanishes. Caprica, as much as I'll be watching, doesn't sound like its going to fill those shoes.

Ddoom

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Heh. Have to admit it was much better then I expected. Still no one is going to be happy with series finale and I still hate the fact that it's basically earth based morals, psychology, etc. when it shouldn't be;

tricky69

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @munkles: I was thinking the same thing.

Einstein-Intersection

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @DocGratis: I agree. I think the deal is that raiders and the like don't normally attack their own kind, and in scanning Sam after his "activation" they found that it would be difficult to attack the humans without possibly hurting their own. So they turned back. They are likely being lobotomized to forget that event and go back on the attack, because Dean Stockwell doesn't care about the final five.

Gospel X

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @deucailion: He and six formed some bond, didn't we learn that Six has a Baltar in her head???

@erejota: I think the Deans have decided that they want to act like the other 5 do not exist.. he turned off the 3s because they were fixated on them...

He is likely lobotomizing them to make them obey the current human cylons and now pay attention to the final five.

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I just wanted to say I love io9! My life is now full.

strangrnstranglnd

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> also, baltar has got to be the cylon. i dont even see any way around that. how does six keep appearing to him, and all that jazz? no way you can pass that off as she really is an angel from god or anyhting like that. it is the only thing that makes sense for the interaction those two characters have had.

deucailion

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> my theory: earth is already populated by humans and cylons (or intelligent AI already called cylons) who get along and coexist peacefully.

the heavy raider starbuck followed and her both find earth. (wormhole? maybe who knows)

earth humans/cylons are all like "well bugger, why are they fighting so much?" and dont want to risk either side finding them and upsetting the peaceful balance they have, at least not at the current time. so they send (after replacing kara's ship, maybe also the cylons. this would be due to starbuck and the heavy raider practically destroying each other, which lead the earthicans to decide they werent ready to be found by such angry people just yet.) back to whence they came, with the intent that neither will remember what happened, but will try to bring everyone back to where earth 'really' is. In fact what starbuck is doing (even though she doesnt know it) is leading everyone to a place/opportunity where the human and cylon will have to work together in someway for the mutual benefit of each other.
also i think this is what is going on with anders/the raider. I think the raider that eyezapped him is acting independently from the rest of the cylons, also going the peaceful route and directing anders to do the same.

or something like that.
we will see!

deucailion

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> My thoughts exactly munkles, my money is on that kid or Lampkin.

Croakerk84

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> If Starbuck is a cylon, so is Roslin. Am I the only one that noticed she gets the jump headache just like Starbuck?

instant_karma

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I think the kid is the final Cylon. His recovery was awfully convenient as it nicely set Baltar up to be saint and savior. Miraculous recovery, or yet another well-timed assist from the Cylons?

munkles

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Good job Moore and Eick! Here's to the same quality of tv with Children of men!

Byronotron

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I suspect they're not going to get too detailed on how it's possible that Tigh is a Cylon. My hunch is that it's not going to make much sense in retrospect and we're just going to have to accept the slightly fudgy continuity.

Solid episode, though. It looks like the Dean Stockwells are trying to dig the identity of the Final Five out of the toasters memory banks in the next episode. Or something along those lines. And the toaster rebellion begins?

erejota

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I was skimming over at [en.battlestarwiki.org] and it seems to indicate that Tigh didn't meet Adama until AFTER the war...

So maybe all this war memories were made up (or he was a centurion during the war *what a twist!*)

Actually that seems to make sense.. does anyone remember where an person on the ship knew Tigh before Adama?

Of course there is the issue with his service record.. but who know maybe that wasn't that hard to fake... maybe they killed a person named Tigh and replaced him way back when.

Samuel played for a number of years as a pyramid baller, so we assume that he was a cylon the entire time.. Boomer was apparently well established...

I think the final five were really the orginal five.. they seem to be considered important to the other cylons.. maybe the predated the other human models.

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Maybe they are the first five instead of the final five. Meaning maybe the cylons made them too human and the placed them in human society until they can figure out how to break their human elements. That way they would be perfect for spying and were able to live out their lives/age with out the knowledge of being cylon creations. Six and Sharon would follow their creation since they seem the most sympathetic to humanity. Then the british chick cylon who seems to show to much sympathy to the older cylon models, and then the others after they reached a middle ground. That seems to make sense to me. Then again I'm speculating on a SciFi show, they could pull a Dallas for all I know and have this be a Roslin acid trip.

thechansen

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @EBone: True about replacing Tigh during detention. That would have been a good time to do it. But that would mean that they didn't actually have the 12 cylon models at the show's beginning, though they kept going on and on about how they had 12.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Comment on Liveblogging Wasn't the first hybrid revealed (and blown up) in "Razor"?

SethImber

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Comment on Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere The final Cylon is Baltar's Head 6. Not Caprica 6, but the six that only he can see. She has said several times that she is an angel sent by God to help him fulfill his destiny. Read the Hybrid's prophecy from "Razor" Sorry to barge in but I can't figure out how to become a member.

LuciaShook

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Annalee Newitz: They could have replaced Tigh while he was in detention on New Caprica with a skinjob. Real Tigh could still be held captive somewhere.

After what we saw in in Razor, I find it hard to believe that the Cylons perfected the skinjob model 40 years prior, to the point they know how to age them as the years pass. All the other models appear to be static - there are no older or younger Dorals or Cavils.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Einstein-Intersection: One of the things that's weird about Tigh being a Cylon is that he's old. But many people on the ship knew him when he was young. So either:
1. The Cylons made a model that looked like the old Tigh, killed Original Tigh, and replaced him with a Cylon model that has his memories.
2. He was a Cylon all along, and Cylons can age, even though we've never seen that happen and all the Sixes are totally young while all the Brother Cavils are kinda old.
3. CONTINUITY ERROR CONTINUITY ERROR

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @EBone: Nitpicker!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> How is it that Tigh could have been a cylon all along? Wasn't he around during the first cylon war, years before they started making skin jobs?

Anyway, here's my theory. The colonists are all descended from the original Cylons who conquered/were exiled from earth and spread out through the rest of the universe. So when they say it's all happened before, that's what it means. The colonists creating a new Cylon race was a natural step in their evolution. It's sort of like what happened with Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.

I also believe the Cylons are now, and perhaps always have been, in control. They view the surviving colonists as an experiment. They want to guide them towards learning the truth of their origins. They just want to see how the colonists will react, for their own existential satisfaction. They're probably not really sure what the point of their own existence is either.

Einstein-Intersection

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> okay, that was a squeetastic season opener.

I REJECT YOUR MONOTHEISTIC WINE HERESY AND PRAISE THE TRUE GODS OF BOOZY DRINKS INVOLVING EITHER CHOCOLATE OR COFFEE LIQUOR.

regis

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I thought both Lee and Anders said it has been 2 months? Not 7....

Log1c

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> If there is an Adama that is a cylon, I vote for Zak. I know it doesn't make a ton of sense, but I like frakking with Starbuck's mind.

cariann

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> This makes her whole thing with Lee kind of incestuous and ookie.

Her thing with Lee has been incestuous and ookie for some time.

jeet

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> just finished watching season three on dvd (no cable). i won't be seeing season four until there's a dvd release. but honestly, after the end of season three, i'm shaking my head. the show always looks amazing but they just seem to be scrabbling around constanty looking for a startling idea. it all just seems like a half baked, meandering mess. and what in the name of frak is with the quasi-eastern shit metal cover of hendrix covering dylan? my willing suspension of disbelief snapped. if there was a stupider idea in science fiction, i'm not sure what it is. i have some serious issues with ron moore and his professional hypocrisy but i really want to love this show. i just keep running into the wall, this isn't nearly as good as it ought to be. as a nerd and a completist, i'll no doubt buy the dvds when they are eventually released but there will be no sense of eagerness to do so. who knows, maybe they'll finish off the series with stairway to heaven.

lazlopink

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Lampkin's my choice, too. Too knowledgable and cynical a fuck to be never seen again on BG, and there'd be no other need of him unless the stakes were raised -- having to defend the Final Four from a lynch mob, I reckon....

Is is a sin to have fallen asleep after the first showing, when Baltar was shaving? Cause I knew nothing would happen to anyone, tonight, and there'd be recaps... after the adrenal drain of all this (frakking why didn't NBC Uni do this push in earlier seasons, so SciFi woulda got ratings and cash to make the show longer? Frakkin' Bonnie Hammer, oh, yeah, right...) hype, I needed to step off for the night. Am I a bad person?

pink_clerical_collar

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> continuity error. starbucks viper had no markings other than the red stripe in crossroads pt 2, and then it has the traditional signage for this episode.

capntim

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Holy shit I want a live blog for EVERY episode this season plskthx.

Gina Trapani

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Also, I think it would be awesome if the final cylon was Adama's other son. He's gone unmentioned for so long, and suddenly they bring him up again. I'd like to think this is foreshadowing.

Gospel X

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> So, raiders are being lobotomized after one scanned Sam and the bunch retreated? Hmmm... I'm already digging this season.

Gospel X

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> My moneys on Lampkin being the final cylon. i dont know why.

daived

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> PS - It isn't PST anywhere - we're on daylight time in the west coast.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Wesman: Does that make Gaeta Judas?

tinpantithesis

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @tinpantithesis: You're right, I was waiting for Baltar's Chorus Line of ladies to break out into song with "Jesus Christ Superstar" before he shaved the beard.

Wesman

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Wesman: I wish I could return to the innocence of silent movies when the kids really thought the hero went over the cliff instead of bailing just in time... Cliffhangers are bad enough but one which carries no suspense whatsoever is sad.

Not only does the cliffhanger carry no credible level of mystery, it doesn't appear there's much of a short term story arc happening that would warrant a "To be continued..." It's basically saying: there are more episodes.

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @darundal: Baltar does something that most wouldn't think him to be capable of.

You mean shave?

(But if he washes his hair, I'll be worried. Personal transformation can only go so far before it tips over into madness. MADNESS!)

mechagrue

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> And hey, wine and ice cream is classier than the coconut rum (with orange juice) and ice cream I started on during Phantom Menace and kept up during BSG.

tinpantithesis

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Wesman: Agreed. Cliffhangers suck. We waited for months for you, show! Don't give us this now!

(But on that note, how hilarious was Baltar before all the almost-death?)

tinpantithesis

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Midwest_Product: I like the way you think!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I hate "To Be Continued..." episodes. Unless I already have all of them saved on TiVo, that is.

Wesman

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> If it's his last scene, I wouldn't mind seeing Baltar's face wet with blood again.

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> You know they kept the beard just for his entrance into the "Commune" as they draped the purple/burgundy blanket around his shoulders. I thought a donkey was going to pop out of an airlock to complete the image.

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> "I try not to think about your creamy neck, President Roslin." Get rid of that hetero programming, Six, and make your move!

Hetero programming my ass, a Six totally already hooked up with Helena Cain. She's clearly down with the cougars. Maybe they're saving that for the series finale.

Midwest_Product

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Annalee Newitz: At first, I thought: GROSS! But now I'm thinking: I NEED TO TRY THAT!!

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Tim Faulkner: Red wine and peanut butter ice cream.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Do wine and ice cream mix?

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> 4. wormhole? (wormhole that also reverse-ages inorganic material???)

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> monotheistic + polyamory = the best sex!! (well, at least none of the hippies mind being in the same bed with a dying kid and a naked, post-coital couple... that's got to be one step away from orgy.)

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> ...and is babbling about gas giants with rings.

Jupiter? Saturn? And her "triple star" has to be alpha Centauri, right?

Midwest_Product

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Nice explosion.

"600 souls on that ship," says the president.

And ultimately caused by the raider that spun out of control after Apollo and Starbuck shot it down. Shades of the Olympic Carrier?

Midwest_Product

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I totally got my friend who's never had an interest in watching BSG interested in the show tonight!! More precisely, Baltar and his wacky adventures, along with what happened in tonight's episode, convinced her that she ought to watch it.

It's 1AM where I'm at. It's hard to throw out vague comments without being too spoilery when I've seen it hours before you guys.

BSG is much more fun to watch with a crazy fangirl who's never seen it before. My friend's comments and reactions were priceless.

Lizfu

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> This is the best liveblog ever.

Midwest_Product

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I think Gaeta is the last skinjob.

AmericanHector

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I guess our host isn't going to be showing up again until WC airing starts. I suppose I can hold out twenty more minutes after waiting a year just to see that one episode...

Midwest_Product

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> No spoilers from this SF kid who got up extra early to finish a report for work so he could watch at 9am sans interruptions from The Office....not having cable sucks, but comcast cable in SF sucks bigtime. I'm trying to find a bar that'll allow for weekly frak parties, but alas none have taken the bait yet.

njudah

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Kiamat: I only heard about that later and was freaking out for the rest of the day. Instead of breaking down and looking at spoilers? I actually watched the first half of Phantom Menace on Spike. WHYYYYYYYYY.

tinpantithesis

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @Pterodactyl:

It's still only 8:56 PST. About an hour to go.

Einstein-Intersection

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Where were you guys at 12ET when they streamed the premier live on Scifi.com?!

Kiamat

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I'm watching....no liveblogging appearing. Oh well. Are we past the WC premiere yet? Who's gonna kick this off?

Pterodactyl

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> I'm all for keeping this thread spoiler-free for the West Coast. That said, an open, spoileriffic thread for people who watched already would be sweet. I'm with midwest_product -- this needs talking about!

tinpantithesis

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> ahhhhhh sooooo good. West Coast, i would like to tell you all about it, but i will refrain. Even though i am of the opinion that anyone reading this when BSG is on is ridiculous.

unless, you are crazy and you check your laptop during commercials like i do. sigh

deucailion

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Sorry, that should read "10 PM PST", not EST

Midwest_Product

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> So, is this thread intended to be spoiler-free until 10 PM EST, then? And if so, could a new, spoilers-allowed thread be created? Because I was forced to watch the premiere alone, and damned if I don't want to talk about it.

Midwest_Product

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Oh noes, I dare not look, Annalee! Ill patiently await it's DVD release in my country...

Shiryu

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Already saw it. Not going to spoil anything big for most you of you who haven't, but I will say one or two things. First, that most of the footage used for the teasers is from this episode. Second, that there is a MAJOR mindfuck within the first 15 minutes. Third, it is a return to season 2 quality. Fourth, Baltar does something that most wouldn't think him to be capable of. And lastly, Snape killed Dumbledore.

darundal

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Yay, liveblogging in my time zone! (I wish I had some ice cream)

PeggyK

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Eh, the liveblog may be top it even without CG (after a few drinks at least).

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Ah, finally got my fix!

MrWashy

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> well that was great!

Now to download the season finale of Torchwood

HeyThereKiller

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @moff: You're in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wow, over here I get 3 hours of my life back.

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> What is this show? Is it like a new version of Battle of the Network Stars?

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> You didn't watch the live stream at 9 am PST? For shame!

It's an amazingly good start but I will say no more than that. Needless to say, crazy good.

KraZe

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> anyone else think the header photo looks liek a zombie christopher walken getting ready to take off in an X-wing?

GreyHammer

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> he also stole his ice cream.

GreyHammer

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> snape kills dumbledore

abrahamjoseph

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @MercuryPDX: I thought that's why Annalee posted early. Us commenters have to earn our keep.

Tim Faulkner

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Hopefully no one from the east coast will spoilertize?

MercuryPDX

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> Ooooh boy! BSG finally back. I'll be watching it tomorrow morning, yay for P2P.

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
Theres too much confusion
I cant get no relief.

Mircea Suciu

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> @HeyThereKiller: Argh! I think the Powers That Be would have told us, but you never know.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> anonymous? what do you have to hide?

Mathmos

]]> <![CDATA[Liveblogging the Battlestar Premiere]]> sure hope NBC doesn't black you guys out!

HeyThereKiller

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