Battlestar Galactica Season 3

[rotary]

^ I didn't start to get into the show until after the miniseries. The first few episodes were actually a little dull, but it gets so much better if you continue watching.

 

[GL]

Just sharing this article:

12:00 AM, 15-SEPTEMBER-06

SCIFI.COM's Resistance Scores Big

The first two webisodes of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, SCIFI.COM's 10-part, five-week online prequel series, broke traffic records for SCI FI Pulse, the site's broadband channel. The first two installments generated 1.2 million streams in one week, achieving in seven days more than half the total number of streams SCI FI Pulse delivered in the previous month.

"The phenomenal success of The Resistance proves that there is a definite audience for webisodes that can have an impact on TV viewing," Craig Engler, senior vice president of SCIFI.COM and SCI FI Magazine, said in a statement. "Response on our online message boards indicates that not only are our existing fans excited about season three of Battlestar Galactica, the webisodes are creating new fans. People who have never watched the show before are very excited to become new viewers."

New two- to three-minute installments of The Resistance will debut every Tuesday and Thursday at noon ET, leading up to the Oct. 6 season premiere of Battlestar Galactica on SCI FI Channel.

The webisodes are from the creative team behind the show and chronicle the days following the events of the second-season finale. Life on New Caprica held the promise of protection from the Cylons, as well as breathable air and solid land. But Cylons discovered the planet, and humanity has been forced to live under Cylon occupation. As Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan) and Chief Tyrol (Aaron Douglas) organize an insurgency, the Cylons campaign for peaceful co-existence, while eliminating anyone resisting. As life among the Cylons becomes unbearable, two former members of Galactica's fleet—lifelong friends Jammer (Dominic Zaprogna) and Duck (Christian Tessier)—must decide whether resistance or compliance is in the best interest of humanity. The storyline of the online prequel will lead viewers seamlessly into the third-season on-air premiere.

 

[kornpone]

For those who haven't already found this, FYI:

http://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page

 

[Crashdown]

I'm still pissed about Crashdown's death.

 

[GL]

I'm still pissed about Crashdown's death.

I know how you feel Crash. I'm still sad that Billy isn't with us anymore.

 

[GL]

Two... More... Days...

 

[GL]

Jamie Bamber (APOLLO) ....

I just think he is DAMN cute!

Sorry, Just a small highjack from the main topic!

Jeez... he's freakin' hot.

As the author of this thread, I am more than fine with any Jamie Bamber hijacking. Especially if you have any shirtless pics.

 

[Crashdown]

I just think he is so DAMN cute!

Sam Witwer is even cutier!

!

 

[GL]

No, no, no!

Bamber is THE hottest Galactica man.

Next would be Paul Campbell who played poor Billy. He was soo cute.

 

[GL]

This was posted on SciFi.com earlier today...

12:00 AM, 05-OCTOBER-06

Battlestar Builds, Gets Dark

David Eick, co-executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming third season of the show is quite different from, but still of a piece with, all that preceded it in the miniseries and seasons one and two. For one thing, the humans will be a little darker—and the Cylons not so one-dimensional.

"I would say that season three is taking another big step," Eick said in a conference-call interview. "In the first half, anyway, it's moving more towards the Cylon point of view. It's saying, 'OK, you've seen how the human beings can be darker and perhaps more unforgivable in ways that you don't normally do with protagonists. Let's see how these antagonists whom we've generally assumed nothing but the worst from have their own sympathies, have ways in which they're not exactly perfect, how they are stunted and less evolved on some fundamental fronts than the humans. It's a very interesting and, I think, bold and risky way to go, because the heart of the show has always been about, in a way, how the Cylons and humans are so eerily alike. And I think what we're saying with the first half of season three is 'Not so fast. They're also quite different, and here's how.'"

At the end of last season, the survivors of the human race had built a settlement on New Caprica, only to find themselves occupied by the invading Cylons. The story of the third season picks things up from that cliffhanger. Eick said that the third season builds on what came before.

"I think the miniseries in a very obvious way was about setting things up, but I also think that, more than any other piece of this journey, [it] was about not just what it was, but what it wasn't," Eick said. "Those were the days when the title was very much associated with the 1970s show, not that it still doesn't have that, but a great deal of what we were doing was developed and depicted and illustrated and also, I think, was responded to in the context of how it wasn't like the old show. And so, in many respects, the miniseries was a statement about what it wasn't as much as it was a statement about what it was."

Eick added: "The first season was about investigating the foibles and dark side and really the Achilles' heel of humanity more than how are we going to outrun the Cylons. In that first season we really got into the depths of how the so-called good guys really aren't so good and really don't have all the answers and are not mouthpieces for morality by any stretch. And I think just that alone was its own statement, because in this genre, certainly, and in drama in general, certainly in TV, there's a tendency to expect that your protagonists are the good guys, that they do have the answers, and that in the end they're going to do the right thing. I think the first season was making a statement that that's not always the case."

The second season, Eick said, was all about strange bedfellows and switching roles. "The people who were at each other's throats in season one were suddenly getting each other's back and vice versa," he said. "It was about Gaius Baltar [James Callis] moving into a completely new realm. [He's] not a man who's after power at all. He's really just out for himself and finds himself, ironically, in a scenario where the only way he really can ensure, in his mind, self-preservation is to move to this place that he never dreamed he'd be in. And, conversely, [season two ] demonstrated the ways in which Sharon [Grace Park], of all the characters, becomes the most sympathetic and the one to whom we relate to the most." Battlestar Galactica will launch into its third season with a two-hour premiere on Oct. 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. —Ian Spelling

Tomorrow People! Tomorrow!!

 

[khushibagh]

How come no one has mentioned Tamoh Penikett (Helo) as a hottie? Still Bamber is in a league by himself.

 

[GL]

Actually, Kara Thrace is one of my favorite characters in the show. Her character is well written (which goes the same for all the others on the program) and Katie Sackhoff always turns in a great performance. I remember that first season episode where she was marooned on the planet with the damaged Cylon Raider. Good stuff. Although she doesn't do anything for me, I do think she's a beautiful woman. And I love that she's a better pilot than Lee.

 

[GL]

Anyone else tune in tonight?

ACK!!! Talk about an ending!!!

And what the hell happened to Apollo? Jeez... lay off the Doritos babe! Thank goodness it was a fat suit.

 

[cAndId]

omg now you ruined for me! apollo is fat???

lol jk - I am downloading it seeing as how I wont be home saturday night... hockey game at a friends house GO FLAMES!!

As for Kara Thrace... I also LOVE how they developed that character - the actress is perfect for the role.

Favourite episode: the 2 Pegasus episodes with admiral cain
Second favourite: The one with lucy lawless as a reporter... you all know why

 

[Sausy]

I love that the characters are never one-dimensional,that everyone,even the supposed good guys,have conflicts and make mistakes and don't always do the heroic thing.Nonetheless,I am not in sympathy with the Cylons,except for the morally conflicted Sharon and Six clones,especially the Sharon clone who has been on the Galactica and loves Helo..it appears she truly is concerned about doing the right thing,and isn't consumed with smug superiority.

The new season looks like it will really drive the development of characters and social commentary.The latest situation,what is morally permissible conduct in a desperate situation,to what and whom your allegiance should be when there aren't many good moral choices,is typically thought provoking and outstanding.Can't wait to seehow this all unfolds.

 

[nwdavis]

OK loved the premier. So I was trying to remember how many Cylon models we've seen. They said in the begining that there were 12 total. So has anyone kept track. Also can someone refresh my memory as to why the Cylons want the half human baby? I mean why do they need to produce children in the first place. It seems the have the replication thing down pretty well. So is the little girl actually her daughter or another model number of a Cylon?

 

[GL]

What gets me is how this program can give us characters that even though they are supposed to be villianous, they straddle this fine line between morality and out right evil. Sharon and Six (the one from Caprica) are great examples. And I have to admit, I was conflicted with Tigh and the resistance using suicide bombers...

 

[Andreus]

8 ceylon models so far

 

[nwdavis]

8 ceylon models so far

1. Blonde one that loves Baltar
2. Sharon
3. The guy from quantum leap
4. The other lady one with the accent
5. The guy that's trying to f**k Starbuck
6. The guy that was the doctor in the breeding center
7. The one that was on Galactica and was thrown out an airlock
8. ???
9. ???
10. ???
11. ???
12. ???
Or is the little girl a Cylon?

 

[GL]

1. Blonde one that loves Baltar
2. Sharon
3. The guy from quantum leap
4. The other lady one with the accent
5. The guy that's trying to f**k Starbuck
6. The guy that was the doctor in the breeding center
7. The one that was on Galactica and was thrown out an airlock
8. ???
9. ???
10. ???
11. ???
12. ???
Or is the little girl a Cylon?

Numbers 5 and 7 are the same. He was also the one at Ragnar Anchorage in the mini series. The one Adama killed and brought on board.

As for the little girl, I'm paranoid enough to think she's a Cylon.