Friday Night Sci-Fi Listing (10/20/06)

10/19/06 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Friday Night Sci-Fi Listing:

8/7 - Dr Who The Girl in the Fireplace: Madame de Pompadour is being haunted by a stranger called the Doctor. But is she really in 18th-century Versailles … or on board a ship in the 51st century?
Last weeks episode was good....

9/8 - Battlestar Galactica Exodus, Part 2:The crew of the Galactica and the insurgents on New Caprica coordinate their attacks in a daring attempt to liberate the stranded humans from their Cylon oppressors. But as the Cylons begin to lose control of the situation, they start to consider a drastic and brutal final solution to the crisis.
Last weeks episode was good. I think this is where the Pegasus goes down..

[af_vet_rr]

Olmos was amazing tonight.

[af_vet_rr]

Me thinks the Cylons are becoming very very irrational.

Heck, they are acting like humans. ;-)

[marajade]

Ny husband has been saying that since early in Season 2

[af_vet_rr]

After that episode, I don't think I could ever watch Star Trek on TV again, or any other similar sci-fi show. BSG just put every sci-fi show in their place.

[marajade]

Can't wait for the next week.

[KevinDavis]

This show like B5, has just raised sci-fi standards and it keeps going higher..

[KevinDavis]

He is with the cylons...

[ThinkDifferent]

Fracking amazing.

[KevinDavis]

So say we all...

[discostu]

Well now that the west coast feed is done let me say... WOW. Took out the Pegasus just like in the original series too.

[af_vet_rr]

Well now that the west coast feed is done let me say... WOW. Took out the Pegasus just like in the original series too.

Tonight's space battles overshadowed any space battles I've seen in the past decade, whether it was Star Wars or Firefly, lthough Firefly was good, and the same special effects company that did Firefly did Battlestar Galactica.

As much as I hated Ellen's character, my wife and I both felt bad during that scene, and at the ending with Tigh and Starbuck. TV shows don't normally do that to me.

We watched it a second time (a first for us) tonight, and my wife caught Gaeta's Sword of Damocles reference, which I had totally missed (of course, my wife has a degree that concerns classical literature so she picks up on stuff like that).

[Tanniker Smith]

I glad that Nazi occupation of Iraq meme is over. Let's see where it goes. Pegasus survived a longer time on this version, but it's history now.

I liked Dr. Who last night. There was some actual time travel integral to the episode, and handled well. A nice followup to last week's reunion show.

TS

[Tanniker Smith]

Took out the Pegasus just like in the original series too.

They never actually said what happened to Pegasus in the original show, but yeah I'm one of the folks that always thought it had been destroyed.

Richard Hatch, when he had been proposing his BG series, said that he'd consider it showing up again (although how they would cross paths again after 20 or 30 years, who could say?).

[af_vet_rr]

I glad that Nazi occupation of Iraq meme is over.

It's not quite over - Moore said they were doing a contemporary version of Nazi-occupied France, and if you will remember what happened to French collaborators after the allies liberated France, and if you'll recall the previews for next week's BSG...

[Tanniker Smith]

Actually, I think I missed the previews -- I went to get something to snack on before "Doctor Who" came on.

[af_vet_rr]

Actually, I think I missed the previews -- I went to get something to snack on before "Doctor Who" came on.

Let's just say that we are going to see some heavy parallels to what the French resistance did to French collaborators after the Allies freed France. I think it will make for an interesting story arc in and of itself.

That's part of the appeal of Galactica - We've had these several episodes that heavily mirror Nazi Germany occupying France, with organized resistance cells, etc., and this is something that non-sci-fi fans can really understand. A lot of the themes are either based on well-known historical examples or done in such a way that you begin to forget that this is a sci-fi show.

[marajade]

That is what my husband said...

[Tanniker Smith]

Except too many people saw an Iraq parallel instead, which would make us the Cylons, with our One God and all.

[af_vet_rr]

Except too many people saw an Iraq parallel instead, which would make us the Cylons, with our One God and all.

People are going to see what they want to see, whether it's Mormonism, the scattering of the twelve tribes of Israel, Greek/Roman Gods, etc. If you wanted to, you could easily make the case that the Cylons represent radical Islam.

The fact is, and while they are basing the current story arc on Nazi Germany/Occupied and then Liberated France, a lot of the current themes could represent stories going back to Roman times. Don't get me wrong, I understand that many people these days don't know much about history, and so they try to place everything in the context of the last five or ten years.

I do find it amusing that the Cylons are now becoming very human-like and their society appears to be fragmenting.

[af_vet_rr]

Except too many people saw an Iraq parallel instead, which would make us the Cylons, with our One God and all.

I forgot to mention this, but my understanding is that the Cylon God was a figure on equal footing that rebelled against the other 12 Lords of Kobol. That doesn't exactly fit with Christianity or Islam either way. There is a lot more to this, especially where the hybrid baby fits in, but I think it would be spoilers for some, and will refrain.