Orbi-Wan Techno

Re: The scene of Six picking up Baltar as he's gettng the crap kicked out of him. A couple of times, it had to be obvious to the crowd that he was not operating under his own steam. Even my wife went "whoa", and she is just a casual watcher.

Don't really care for the Baltar subplot, but THAT was intense.

Strafe

I've never been the kind of person to think 'this episode sucked' or 'that episode was good', at least not to the extremes we see here. I either like the show as a whole or I don't. I'm loving this season perhaps more than any other because I can feel that they are working towards something (which is where the show may have floundered in the past) and I look forward to every episode. I also love the Baltar subplot, it gives this universe much more depth.

Patman

I can't stand the Baltar-as-messiah subplot. That pap he was spewing at the end was nauseating.

Doc MacGyver

I'm with Draven and Strafe. I love the sense of momentum building, where everything is just getting so coiled that you can feel the explosion coming. Stuff that other people hate are aspects that I'm enjoying a great deal. Baltar as the prophet sits well with me, as does Lee taking on the Jeffersonian role of civil rights advocate during wartime. I'll never get tired of an Adama/Laura scene, and the Chief exploding on the Old Man and saying of Callie what we all knew to be true was very powerful.

Not sure where the whole Tigh/Caprica 6 thing is going (if anywhere) and Torry really needs to get got by the time this show ends. And even though I know there are a lot of Starbuck haters out there, I just love the whole Demetrius storyline, and even the quick silent shot of it out there with an exhausted Starbuck and concerned Anders gets me pumped. I'm a sucker for the "against-all-odds, 'Magnificent Seven- team of badasses on an important, long-shot mission" deal, and I think this old clunker of a sewage ship holds a lot of potential.

ALSO - I freaked the frak out when the Raptor crashed and it cut to commerical, as that sucker looked completely destroyed, and all I could think was, "NO! Racetrack's the hottest pilot they have left!"


-Doc

al_bundy

people are complaining just like they did at the start of any Sopranos season

no one is getting whacked the first few episodes

Patman

Callie doesn't count as a "whackee"?

adamblast

Between Dr. Who, Lost and BSG, I'm in heaven right now.

wendersfan

Right now that's all that's keeping me interested. Well, that and the hotness that is Tory Foster.

Gunde

So this is the last season and they are wasting time on crap like this?
Makes me sad

riley_dude

This season has really more miss than hit for me. I don't mind dark but it has just been plain drab. Get on with the story already. This Baltar crap is just annoying.
Loved the Tigh and Six/Wife stuff though.

Baron Of Hell

Why was this titled "Escape Velocity".

bunkaroo

Because it made you want to run from your TV!

An4h0ny

i dare the BSG writers to write just one episode without using a variation of the word 'frak'

it's so played at this point....

every time a character (or someone discussing the show) drops the BSG f-bomb i actually cringe

wewantflair

Take a frelling chill pill.

cdollaz

The fact that these episodes have been boring is even worse on a Friday night after working all week. I'm just tired and this show helps me ease into slumber a little easier.

Deftones

Terrible episode.

tasha99

JesseCuster

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this season of BSG has started to remind me some of the Patrick McGoohan series The Prisoner. It's just a feeling and I can't really cite much supporting that contention. Obscure, highly literate and intelligent, vague, brilliant more often than not and driving to some utterly astonishing conclusion.

Shazam

Showing the Ship of Lights wasn't really any of the above.

I think the main problem with the show right now is the size of Moore's ego.

SterlingBen

http://io9.com/384244/is-battlestar-...-full-of-clues

An4h0ny

nicely played

rfduncan

Just finally got completely caught up with this episode via DVDs and Hulu. I'm all in. The whole concept of turning characters we all know and enjoy and turning them on their ears by making them realize they are Cylons is beyond interesting. Just the contrast between how Tyrol and Tigh deal with the revelation was enough to make this episode decent in my book. Consider that with Tyrol's outburst that he'd so rejected Sharon because she was a Cylon and ended up with Callie... with whom really was just "making do with what was available". Turns out he could have been with Sharon if he hadn't been so "racist"... doubling his self-loathing now that he knows he's also a Cylon.

The religious stuff with Balthar is a bit tedious - but I have found the character tedious almost since the get go. He is a sniveling, self-aggrandizing asshole who has begged, borrowed and stolen more than his 15 minutes of fame with the colonists. Whatever happens before the show ends, I'm hoping something befittingly awful happens to him.

Heat

I'm not crazy about the course that this show has taken, I miss the space dogfights, exploding ships, the clear-cut lines between good and bad.

milo bloom

Yeah, they need to wrap up each and every episode at the end of the hour, and for good measure, one of the characters should mention to another what lesson they've learned.


Depends on your usage of the verb "whack".

adamblast

This show is too good for this forum.