<![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Isn't the hybrid in the same type of goo? I'd say it's the hybrid emerging.

Paganmoon

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Is it just me or did they give away who the final Cylon is in the preview for next week's show? Look closely and you can see someone coming up from the goo where the Cylons "download" to (resurrection ships) when they die.

Queco Jones

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @EBone: @EBone: As for "him" finding her in the midst of confusion, after tonights episode I assumed that meant Leoben finding Starbuck in this episode.

When Leoben said to Anders "You and Kara, did you get things worked out? Because you should, you weren't meant to be enemies.." it made me think of when the hybrid said: "Enemies brought together by impossible longing. Enemies now joined as one. The way forward at once unthinkable, yet inevitable."

dangrgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> They had to spend a lot of time with Baltar's transformation. He's been nothing but a narcisist for the past three seasons (or his entire lifetime as a character). A transformation in just one episode wouldn't be believable.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @idoru345: While it's true that this season has been filled with "creepy" or "yucky" moments (including Baltar's growing fondness for sermons) I think this is all exactly as it should be.

Thank you idoru345. I realize we've all been conditioned to think "nothing's happening" if there isn't something blowing up, or if every conversation isn't clearly tied to an obvious storyline.

But personally, I'm loving this season. Spending a lot of time on psychological development early on is sure to have a major payoff in later plot developments.

In addition, I think the transformation of Baltar into someone who understands how horrifically he's behaved in the past and can now actually have the courage to stand alone in front of a very dangerous man who has every reason to hate him and ask honestly for forgiveness is totally engrossing.

But that's just me...

drmaybe

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> So here's what I'm wondering: was Kara leading her crew in circles because she was somehow waiting for Leoben to guide her to the next step and he hadn't shown up yet, or was she really lost and it was he who found her? ("in the midst of confusion, he will find her")

Or did they find each other?

The Grynne

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Whitworthian:

My thoughts exactly! Where the hell is the famous hybrid that has already been kidnapped at least once? Why would both mom and dad go on the crap boat and either leave her back on Galactica or risk her by taking her with them? I'm really hoping for an explanation soon.

And to most everyone else, I'm as bored of this season and as sick of Baltar as the rest of you. Another sign of viewer apathy is how few comments there were this week from io9ers - usually there are over 100 comments but this time there weren't even 70 when I stopped in.

And I agree with Ebone that Baltar's transformation is supposed to be real this time, my problem is that I don't think they handled it in a way that it believable to the viewers so it falls totally flat.

This show used to suck me in, but alas, no more :-(

dijou

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @flaneuse: my point was the hybrid was saying the human race would be led to its end, not the Cylons. As for "him" finding her in the midst of confusion, after tonights episode I assumed that meant Leoben finding Starbuck in this episode.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @EBone: @sensenet: The First Hybrid actually said...both.

"Kara Thrace will lead the human race to its end...[insert Kendra's reaction ] She is the herald of the apocalypse. The harbinger of death. They must not follow her."
-- that is, according to Battlestar Wiki.

I say this because it's been driving me nuts as the rest of the hybrid's prophesies are starting to be clearer ("in the midst of confusion, he will find her" -> possibly apollo finding starbuck?) this particular part remains ominous, but no clearer.

Damn him for being vague with pronouns! :)

flaneuse

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Okay, I think somebody's missing the point. When Baltar first mentions the whole "Callie would want this" spiele, Tyrol freaks out and puts Baltar in a choke hold. Later, Tyrol goes through a "should I or should I not kill myself?" all alone in his bunk. He then calms down. This is when Baltar comes in and he does not say that Callie would have wanted them to be friends, but rather that it was presumptuous of him to have even said such a thing in the first place. Then he begs for Tyrol's forgiveness. That's the whole frakking point. Forgiveness.

kityglitr

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> "Hope you enjoyed yet another "everybody is more psycho" episode of Battlestar Galactica on Friday..."

Nope, I didn't.

The show is getting painful to watch.

What I want to see more of (cylon cival war) I don't get...

What I want to see less of (good characters going stupid) I get way too much of...

I hope they are not planning to pull a ST: Voyager ending that wraps up incompletely in the last 2 minutes of the last episode.

Cantonkid

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I lol'ed hard at 'poop ship Demetrius'. Apparently I am six. That is all

gfburke

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I dunno about you guys, but it is . K I L L I N G . me to see Orion's belt [in every shot] behind the spacecraft at this point.

It's like watching a family argue about what to eat for dinner in front of a restaurant.

IMHO.

Cheers!

kolacek

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @njudah: I don't think Balter is being a phony anymore. After all the things that Head Six has told him about "God's Plan" for him, after all the predictions she has made that have come to pass, after the guilt of knowing he played a major role in the slaughter of millions, I think his speech with Tyrol at the end of the episode was heartfelt. It's just too hard to fight his destiny anymore and not accept it.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Wouldn't it be cheaper to keep them cold in space rather than cranking up the heat?

Um, space is not just a cold place, it's void. And because of that there is only one way to lose extra heat: radiation, which is a really inefficient process. You need a cooling system unless you want to die from overheating. All the gadgets, people, and engines are producing lots of heat. It is likely that Demetrius' ventilation is working at less than optimal capacity. So, points for a nice touch of realism.

ArcticBanana

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> To make the episode much better, they should have just cut to a scene with Adama in his quarters, building a ship or reading a book. Or in the bar, enjoying some hard liquor. The scene itself would be a reflection of the audience's feelings of this last episode: We could have been doing something else.

Lizfu

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @OW-Holmes: BSG is the SciFi channel's highest rated series to date. They'd let Ron Moore go on for ten more seasons if he wanted to. That's why they've greenlighted the "Caprica" prequel series, 'cuz they don't want the party to end.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Front_Towards_Enemy: You're not the only one. I yell "Too much filler!" So much crap mixed in with little bit of real story. I don't care if there are clues to the resolution in all the filler; I don't care enough to listen to bad dialog. They should just take some time off and redecorate. That'll make it all better I'm sure of it.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I for one agree we don't need to hear more Baltar sermons - we get it, he's a big phony with a bunch of chicks hanging on his every word (and man I would love it if they did an episode where they all got airlocked...they are so frakking annoying), move on and show not tell...

njudah

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @EBone: I read he actually wanted two more seasons but they had to settle for this being the last one.

@StrangelyBrown: The problem is they have too much to tell. Everyone has awesome issues and they only have so many hours to tell it. They did the same thing in the earlier seasons (Blackmarket is a good example) but back then there wasnt the nail biting suspense of finding out all these big answers.

OW-Holmes

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Velireon: Actually wrong...

Black body radiation is too low to wick away all the energy being generated by the ship...

You can either do some estimate calculations or just realize that if black body radiation was so effective the space station and satellites wouldn't have radiator systems for ejecting heat..

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I was glad to hear that the Cylon civil war is still ongoing. I was afraid they had wrapped up that plot.

I still want to know what the hell happened to Shelly Godfry.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I don't know about the rest of you but I actually yelled "move the dam plot along"! at the screen when they had yet another one of Baltar's sermons.

The pacing is becoming painfully slow this season. It has more to do with the editing which is the same dullness we saw in the 3rd season.

I can only pray they are doing these plodding episdoes so they can save the budget for the last 10 shows.

Front_Towards_Enemy

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> You know, it occurs to me that the problem with this season so far isn't the plotlines themselves, but rather the pacing. All of the storylines we've been seeing are (hopefully) important to the show's overall development, but taken individually, no one of them is strong enough to hold up the show on its own.

Unfortunately, rather than keeping all these different plotlines going at the same time, the show's producers have taken to showing us "one-and-a-half" stories per episode this season. As a result, several ongoing plots are completely absent from one episode to the next: Roslin, Adama, Lee, and (let's face it) Tigh were MIA this week, while Starbuck and the renegade Cylons were nowhere to be seen last week, and so on since the second episode.

This is something that could have been fixed with better intercutting. For example: by leaving Saul's situation hanging for what looks like two weeks (or more), the producers are effectively telling us "nothing to see here". Rather than ratcheting up the suspense, they're encouraging us to lose interest in him. I don't think that's deliberate.

I can only imagine that they meant to intercut the arcs better, but the strike prevented them from working on it. Hopefully things will tighten up as production resumes, because it would be a shame for a decent show like this to fall apart at the end.

StrangelyBrown

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> "Hey Cylon, you talking to me?"

Id pay good money to see that, actually...

Shiryu

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I think it makes perfect sense that everybody is going crazy at this point, and I actually don't mind that as character development goes. I really feel like the main problem with this episode was that we focused too much on three characters who were going through roughly the same mental degeneration. We needed a good counterpoint: Adama being sane, for example, or Helo and Sharon and Anders (the non-crazy Demetrius crew) making plans and dealing with Leoben.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> "language" poets, as opposed to "meat" poets

blakewest

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I liked that both Anders and Starbuck refrained from killing Leoben when he told them that there was no resurrection ship in range. I guess killing cylons can be "murder" too, sometimes.

SnowWhitesLegacyofLies

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> One thing worth noting about the last episode, is that there are now representatives of 7 Cylon models, each of which are either unique and un-ressurectable or on their way to being so, in the human fleet. Wonder where that's leading...

kstop

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Is it just my imagination, or is every, single, fracking character on this show going insane?

CaptainCynic

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Velireon: The entire rest of the Demetrius crew hasn't forgotten. The diminutive pilot with dark hair who thinks Starbuck is a Cylon (I call him 'Shorty') snapped at Helo when Helo originally nixed the idea of a mutiny. "Figures you'd defend a Cylon," referring to Athena. That got him a pistol whipping by Helo, who's nearly two feet taller than Shorty.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Ryan H: Actually, wrong. Freshmen physics majors are taught about black-body radiation. All object above absolute zero radiate their heat away in one form of EM radiation or another. It's called entropy, and is why (unless it collapses back in on itself due to excess gravitational mass) the universe will probably die in a cold, cold winter where entropy has stolen all possible energy from all possible systems.
So. No. A ship must heat, and most especially insulate, itself - or freeze.

@darundal: Yes I ave noticed it too. Athena is acting weird. Or rather, she's acting like she isn't a Cylon at all, and while that's weird, it's even weirder that the rest of the crew seems to have forgotten it as well. WTF?

@idoru345: Creepy is fine. Great really, because you're right about the pressure cooker that is all of the remains of humanity, bottled up on what, 25 ships? BUT. This episode was BORING, BORING, BORING. I absolutely worship this show, but I'm telling you, it was TOO much soap opera tonight -- you know, that most thing about soap operas, right? That you can watch for a whole hour and not a single plot line experiences actual advancement? THAT is a waste of my time. They'd better get with it, and shortly.

Velireon

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @sensenet: The Hybrid in Razor specifically said Kara is the harbinger of death, and that she would lead HUMANITY to its end.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I thought this was a great episode. I really enjoyed watching Starbuck and Tyrol both try and reconcile what was happening to them. Also, re: the Razor hybrid's prediction: we all thought the "they" in "She is the harbinger of the apocalypse. They should not follow her." referred to humanity. I now think the hybrid was addressing his children, the Cylons. Thus if the cylons ally with the humans via Starbuck, it will be the downfall of those cylons.

sensenet

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Daveinva: The show was not cancelled. Ron Moore announced in the third season that the fourth season would be the last. He didn't want the series to go on "Wagon Training" indefintely. The break that occurred was due to the writer's strike and production halting mid-way through the final season.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I think that a good measure for a battlerstar episode is how long it takes people on battlestar wiki to write the entry for the episode.

This one was mediocre, and there was only a bit of work done on it by sunday.

The better episodes have articles done on saturday morning.

capntim

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I couldn't figure out why this episode ended with a "To be continued..."

It's an ongoing, long arc focused series. Every frakkin' epidsode is "to be continued..."

But whatever.

Enjoyed, would, frankly be a stretch for this episode. The should have stopped after season 2.

@tuacker: There were no explicit clues that Leoben knew this, although there were the usual veiled hints.

darcymcgee

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Now I know why when I saw the Chief at Comic con, his head was shaved. Man! they film these things far in advance. He was leaner in perosn as well. Is the weight change Tyrol or Aaron Douglas?

Spideyrex

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Battlestar is quite the yawn-fest indeed these days.

I think what they need are more mini-cliffhangers like they do on LOST - And intersecting plots that leave you in suspense

Like "Oh nos! Ty is gonna rape the captured six model!" and then "Oh nos! Adama is shooting nukes at a basestar - will Galactica survive?"

And then you cut back and forth between that and Starbuck screwing some guy with her alien tentacles

Blammo! Show saved.

dingleberry

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Does Leoben know Anders is one of the final 5? I didn't see/hear the Anders-talking-to-Leoben scene as I was standing in the next room where I couldnt hear anything, but the look on Anders face looked like he thinks Leoben knows.

tuacker

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> And now that I posted I see this was already mentioned. As far as heat radiators go, maybe this garbage barge doesn't have very good ones?

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Actually a key problem with space travel would be disposing of waste heat. Without a medium (atmosphere) heat would bleed away from the ship VERY slowly, causing it to build up inside the vessel.

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Was anybody else really disappointed that virtually every plot development in this episode was spoiled in last week's preview trailer? In thirty seconds, the trailer showed Leoben arriving, his raider blowing up (and killing someone), and nearly the whole mutiny. Aside from Tyrol's new dome and his handshake with Baltar, that was it. And I'm not blaming Sci-Fi's promotions unit -- it's just that this was yet another episode where nothing happened.

I can only hope these are the "strike" episodes, and that things will get better soon, because if you ask me, BSG seems to be heading towards DS9-season-7 levels of plot stagnation. If they take an entire episode to play intramural pyramid sometime in the next few weeks, I'm done.

StrangelyBrown

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> You can still radiate heat in space. Those things on the ISS that look like crumpled solar panels are heat radiators.

The_Real_Quiet_Desperation

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> This show is bring me to a slow boil.
And not in a good way.

You may call the characters "creepy". I say "meandering and pointless".

And just what the hell is Adama doing during all this?

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Not crazy about the episode, but I'm hoping it leads to a huge a payoff (and hopefully we see earth a little earlier than the finale). I love the idea of the Demetrius, but agree that the execution was off. Still betting there's some sort of ship of lights reference coming up...

PVIII

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Seth L: Recall that when this was all filmed, the show had just been announced that it was canceled, no more episodes after this season. My guess is that it's pretty hard to stay motivated for a show that you know has no future.

Really worries me about the LAST ten episodes, which they're filming now. . . senioritis kills.

Daveinva

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I know life would be "cooler", or whatever neo-slang-word-of-the-moment you want to substitute, if every movie and show was nothing but gunfire and blowups, but some of us enjoy the development of complex characters.

steve1interstock

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> "the guy out doing recon with her" = Hot Dog.

hey, he's got an action figure, he must be important.

scotto

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Spoony Bard: Starbuck going nutso after being given this kind of knowledge is very much in keeping with the hero's journey.

dangrgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Paganmoon: You probably are the only one who feels this way. Previews are part of the hype machine that makes us look forward to next week. They also lead to possible discussion about our speculations for the next week, so they're completely fair game.

Gospel X

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I could have done with a little less Baltar, definitely. We're gearing up for the denouement of this story, so many character loose ends have to be tied up now. A lot of viewers just don't seem to be "getting" these recent episodes, possibly b/c the pacing is slower than what we're used to. Character work doesn't often include much action, but it sets up the final action of the story. A couple things I noticed that no one has mentioned yet:

* I don't know what was up with Baltar's PJs, but his robe was a royal purple, which might be significant.

* Baltar has now won over 2 of the Final Four. Will Tigh and Anders follow suit or will the F4 be split apart along religious lines?

* In the next episode, I can see the hybrid outing Anders to Starbuck.

* Details from the prediction of the hybrid from Razor are starting to pan out.

dangrgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Rasselas: Seconded. I really hate what they're doing to Starbuck. They really need to fix her character, and but quick.

Spoony Bard

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> On another note, did anyone else notice that the Orion constellation made several more cameos this time around, when starbuck first saw the raider it is smack in the middle of it. That's kind of hard to chock up to the editor didn't notice.

phiend

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Of the three Starbucks we have seen -- sexy gender-role-defying Starbuck, yelling Starbuck wracked with guilt and anger, crazy religious Starbuck -- I am starting to miss the first one.

Rasselas

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Ryan H: I like to boil water with my Vacuumatic frozen water vapor extractor.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> You rolled a +1 with the Language Poetry reference. I thought the same thing when I first heard the hybrid -- surely she's a fan of Lyn Hejinian and Clark Coolidge.

"There is no there there, Number 6. End of line."

snotcopter

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> If you love Starbuck and her crazy routine, this episode was for you. If that whole thing annoys you, as it does me, this episode was tough to get through.

If you've been to grad school, you know at least a handful of people just like Starbuck who let their eccentricity masquerade as intelligence.

Dr. Futurity

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @darundal: I agree completely. You'd think she'd have been even vaguely interested in knowing what was going on with the Cylons, or even which side Sharon was on.

And another week goes by with no mention of baby Hera.

Whitworthian

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> That episode was terrible. Nothing happened. They could have done everything in the 5 minute intro sequence then moved on to the next episode where it seems events of actual consequence happen.

wallapuctus

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> While it's true that this season has been filled with "creepy" or "yucky" moments (including Baltar's growing fondness for sermons) I think this is all exactly as it should be.

That is, these people are under tremendous stress, they've suffered the destruction of their civilization; they're clinging for dear life to its decaying remnants. A few have discovered they're not what they thought they were. Various forms of madness or near-madness are understandable responses.

Even the Cylons who, on the face of it, appeared to be triumphant, are suffering a crisis of meaning.

Now, as audience members, we're getting fidgety: we want to see and hear less of weepy, preachy Baltar, we want Starbuck to be tough and decisive, we want battle plans and clear movement.

However, considering the conditions the characters are enduring these are unreasonable expectations.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that BSG's final arc is remarkably brave for a television series. The audience's discomfort is being courted, we're invited to go along with these people on a dangerous journey.

Not just physically dangerous -- space battles and so forth -- but profoundly dangerous to their sanity.

Of course, we find it "creepy"; it is creepy. What else could it be?

idoru345

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Completely useless random comment here about the heat. In space, heat is way more of a problem than cold. Space isn't cold or hot. It's a vacuum so there is nothing to be cold or hot.

Surrounded by vacuum means that there is nothing to carry away heat. If you generate it, you have to live with it. Like living in a thermos bottle.

So, yeah, I could see the inside of a crappy old broken down tug boat getting a little warm.

Ryan H

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @darundal:

Everyone is feeling a little odd to me. And not from a plot-perspective either, I get the feeling a lot of the actors don't know what to do with their characters anymore.

Seems like BSG's usual mid-season slump has come really early this year.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @darundal: Think the writer's are having a hard time placing her on a side in this season, should she keep her "I'm pretty much a human now, death to all Cylons" stance, or go with the "I miss my old family a bit too, would be nice to hook up with the other sharon's... the six's are cool too... the Leoben's we can work on..."

Paganmoon

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @Jeff-Minor: Well, the rest are just acting stressed, but I am talking about the Athena character throughout this whole season.

darundal

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I thought this was a terrible episode. They somehow made a mutiny boring, Leoben boring, a cylon raider exploding... boring.

It was boring.

twophrasebark

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I think they're all acting odd. Which I think can be summed up as cabin fever. I'm thinking mass suicide is a possibility.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Does anyone else find the Athena character to be a little odd at this point?

darundal

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Guys! I read the recaps to see what I might have missed in the episode, not to get spoilers for the next one! No no talk about who gets shot where, and who ends up where please!
(or am I the only one refusing to watch previews of the episodes, and feels this way?)


Paganmoon

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @extracrispy: Haha, right on, I was half expecting him to go "I *am*... in a world... of shit" at any part in the episode :)

Paganmoon

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> @WordMan: Think he cried "butterfingers" when he was hit? Man, i loved when Baltar said that at the trial.
I also thought it was Helo at first, but after watching it a few times I think it is Gaeta. Oh, and if they kill Helo I'm going to quit this show!


augie1

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I didn't make a Taxi Driver connection. Tyrol reminded me more of Vincent D'Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket.

extracrispy

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> Great to see Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben) again, one of my fav supporting actors, and a great character.

Just a few things, wasn't quite the crew that busted in on Leo and Kara, was Anders and 2 guards behind him (you know... Kara's husband), which made it all the worse (for Leoben).

Plus, Tyrol didn't punch Baltar, he tried to choke him :)

I didn't find it too surprising that Anders listened and even considered Leoben's proposal about joining or visiting the cylon basestar, and it seemed he was the only one on Kara's side (be it cause he's foolishly in love, or agreeing to Leoben's proposal).
Anyway, not too surpising since, he'd probobly like to know more about himself as a closet cylon by checking out the family.


Paganmoon

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I'm looking forward to next week.

*spoilerish?* It looks like Gaeta gets kneecapped by anders. Nice. Gaetas been a tool ever seen he perjured last season.

we also see Kara on a cylon base ship in the previews already so the episode cliffhanger wasn't hung for long.

WordMan

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> I can't believe IO9 keeps spoiling BSG. I mean, what if you didn't know the Chief shaved his head?
All joking aside, isn't it only natural they all go a little coocoo? They are trapped in such a confined space and under constant traumatic stress.
And Anders kicking the crap out of Leobed made this episode tolerable. Clearly a "filler" leading to bigger events to come.



augie1

]]> <![CDATA[Hugh Hefner vs. Robert DeNiro on Battlestar Galactica]]> "you'll be so blanged out"

blanged?

[www.urbandictionary.com]

even in the context of the sentence the exact meaning is a bit obscure.

I'm Waitin' for Dolemite

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