Battlestar Galactica - "A Day in the Life" - 2/18/07
 

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"A Day in the Life"

Wow. Nowhere near as bad as last week's offering, but still pretty lame.

Coudn't care less about Chief and Callie and how much time they;re not spending with their baby. Couldn't care less about Lee's mother issues, and the only thing holding my interest with Adama's estranged-wife issues was wondering if this was some kind of projection clue that maybe he was a cylon, but I guess it was just his human memory, huh?

Dull, dull stuff. And ripping off '2001' is NOT and has NEVER been cool.

I enjoyed it. I don't mind hearing about the 'day to day' lives of characters we've known for a while. The episode centered around Cat was a waste, since no one cares about her.

I thought the rescue was done well. And with this show, one or both of them could have died. More harrowing than the same thing on a Star Trek show.

A friend of mine frequents astronomy sites and was telling me about a thread there where they were discussing how long a person could live in space without a pressurized suit (say, tossed out an airlock).

The bottom line is that if you exhale first, you'll die from lack of oxygen in a minute or two. If you inhale first (that is, go into space with full lungs), your lungs will explode and you'll die pretty much immediately. And yes, it is extremely cold, but there is no atmosphere so heat transfer would be minimal - you would die from lack of oxygen first.

As far as the show itself, not bad. Not good, not bad, hopefully next week there's some more action.

Edit: Forgot to mention, Battlestar Galactica was picked up for a 4th season:

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-ba...,2796917.story

From that article:

love this show, but my patience is really being tested. just counting down to Maelstrom.

I really liked this episode; I thought it had some interesting ties to "Solaris," mainly with Adama going through this ritual of remembering his ex-wife and not being sure if he was remembering her the way she really was. And I think the love story they are developing between Adama and the President is very nice. This show has always been about the characters, and this episode was a great one in developing more rounded characters, especially with Adama, who is usually fairly distant.

Also, that fucking awesome airlock scene had me yelling at my TV once they finally made inside.

I didn't care for this episode. I thought it would be more about the Chief and Callie. I also didn't buy the situation they were put in. I would have liked it more if they both died even though I do like them.

The small amount of time chief and callie had and the banter between the president and adama were the high points for me. Adama's wife back story was a big low point. It might have been a setup to make Adama a cylon. I.E he is doing that cylon projection thing. That would make Lee, his brother, Adama, his wife and someone else probably starbuck the final five cylons. I don't like this idea either.

I will have to put this in the complete waste of time pile for not moving the plot and not diving into anything meaningful to flesh out the characters. Unless she turns out to be a cylon I'm pretty sure this is the last we'll see of wife. Her presence will have no lasting effect nor will it help us relate to Adama.

Errr...too much filler. We need to skip to "Maelstrom".

And btw, the spoilers for what happens in that episode are online now...

Wow, a lot of indifference to this episode. You know, back when I first saw the second season finale, I knew it was simultaneously one of the greatest episodes of any series ever, and also the worst. Greatest because it did something no series has ever done before , and worst because I knew that everything they did after that one jaw-dropping moment would seem anti-climactic.

Seems like a lot of people think this season has been a disappointment--for the record I think the series is just as good as it ever was. I think a lot of people are judging all subsequent episodes against that second season finale, which of course no episode will ever be able to live up to.

I like the slice of life shows, but even I have to admit it's beginning to feel like they're padding just a bit. Maybe going back to a 13 episode season is a good thing after all.

BTW, at the end when Adama was putting the photo back in the drawer, did anyone notice the 2 statues sitting on his dresser? Who knew the Chinese terracotta warriors came from the 12 Colonies?

I, too, am really liking the the "romance" between Laura and Adama. The whole time he was "flirting" with her, I had a big s-eating grin on my face.

I guess BG is the closest thing I have to a soap opera.

What about Deep Space Homer?
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In Rod we trust!

Ditto. Thought it was a good episode, esp. with how it visually shows how we can romanticize our memories of people which I thought was well done (and without using flashbacks, but voices in the head).

The funny thing is that opinions about BSG also splits among my friends that's similar to the boards:
- a few of them (including myself) have been enjoying the "filler" episodes because it brings depth to the characters
- a few others have been disappointed with the show is because of the lack of action (when discussing it, the first thing they literally say is "There hasn't been enough action")

Not making a judgement call, but it's funny how the show's audience kinda splits between the two opinions. Perhaps it's a split where some viewers look to see how events affect the characters, while others are more interested in just the events, with the characters as a bi-product. Not a criticism, but perhaps just a way of how we individually view entertainment.

However, I still have to say that BSG "filler" eps are way better than any filler eps from previous sci-fi shows. They reference past episodes, plus advance the plotline even if it's just a little bit (the episode had it's way of setting up for Baltar's trial). They don't generally exist in a total vaccum (even the previous Helo episode dealt with the problems of refugees).

Don't get me wrong, BSG has had a few clunker eps, but I still think the show has been doing a good job overall still.

Up until these last two episodes, I thought this was the best season yet. As much as I loved last year's season finale, what I'm REALLY unfavorably comparing the show now to (was that gramatically correct? probably not.) is how the season started.

There's just too much literal stuff here for my tastes. Roslin and Adama I'm fine with; I loved the flashback scene of them on New Caprica getting friendly. But I DON'T need anti-racism PSA episodes (Saggitarons are people too, dontcha know!) and I don't need Lee expositing unnecessary backstory about how his mother didn't love (or, apparently, the admiral) enough (in case you forgot, alcoholism is bad) over a backdrop of a "we need to love our son more" drama. And, if you ARE gonna turn the show into a series of After School Specials so we can all Learn and Grow and Become Better People, at LEAST try and give the dialogue at least a little subtext.

The sugar:medicine ratio is getting dangerously unstable, sez me.

Other than the Adama/Roslin scenes I didn't really care for it.

I cagree that they pile it on too much in some scenes like the scene with the Lee talking about his mother.

Definitely a step up from last week, but still lacking. And I'm not a "more action" guy. I'm just a "more GOOD SHOW" guy.

I have nothing to back this up, but I don't think this would happen. The oxygen will take the path of least resistance, which is back out your esophagus. I imagine that you would experience something very much like getting the air knocked out of you violently. Who knows, it might actually collapse your lungs.

Considering that the human body can withstand several positive atomspheres, why would it have a problem ("explode") when suffering a mere 1 negative atomsphere?

I'm glad they are doing a couple Cylon-free episodes, we'll all be happy when they show up again.

That said, I've seen this plot a zillion times before. If one of the two had died, it would've made the whole thing more interesting. :shrug:

I agree. Not sure why TPTB felt it necessary to keep Tyrol's wife around. She's pretty much dead weight on the show and I can't imagine her having much relevance in future eps. Imagine how dramatic the ep. would have been had she been jettisoned past the shuttle with Athena looking through the window, totally helpless...and Tyrol's reaction to the news and his new life as a single father. Would have served as a great contrast to the relative calm (39 days without a contact) BG had been enjoying.

Part of the success of Fox's 24 (and Lost at one point) is due to the show's willingness to surprise with deaths of major characters. We never know who's going to bite it. Wish BG would take the same chances.

On Trek they would have taken the easy way out and beamed them into the shuttle or into a containment field or something Braga-ish.

I thought the episode was ok. I did like the Adama/Roslin stuff though.

That's because 24 doesn't give a shit about its characters.

I'm not sure you can count Lost either ... characters don't really die, they just flash back.

:hscratch:

Boone, Boone's sister, Rodriguez's character and Eko died. Significant characters, all. For those of us that don't read spoilers, all were pretty surprising, too.

Alias? 24? I'm sure there are others I'm missing.

Lost deaths don't really surprise anymore because the last 3 major characters that died were killed off after they got DUIs.