What, did you think because the first season of Battlestar Galactica is over that I wouldn't have anything to write about my favorite Sci-Fi TV show? Wrong. In case you are not aware and in case you missed most or all of it the first time around you are in luck. The Sci-Fi Channel is rebroadcasting the first season in order starting tonight with "33". This is a great episode and shows not only the relentlessness of the Cylons, but the perseverance of the Galactica crew and the survivors. As the fleet plays cat and mouse with the Cylons, President Roslin and Commander face the terrifying possibility that a ship in the fleet has been infiltrated by the enemy. Intense TV viewing.
I am sort of jealous of today's thirteen year old boys because they have an awesome Battlestar Galactica to watch. I was thirteen when the original Battlestar Galactica aired. There was no Internet so everything I knew about it came from Starlog magazine, TV Guide and my first science fiction convention. So does anyone know this bit of Will trivia? What was the name of my first convention and where was it? Anyway, I was really into the show. So much so that I bought all of the toys and I got my parents to buy me an 'official' BSG Viper Pilot jacket from an ad in Starlog. I still have the toys and the jacket. I liked the show so much that even when, in the fourth episode, they stop at a planet where the inhabitants live a 'wild west' sort of life and a renegade Cylon named "Red Eye" roams the land I still watched. It was still better than the episode of Lost in Space with the carrot-man named Tabor. "Moisture, moisture, I need moisture." PLUH-EEEZE! Anyway, even as a thirteen year old I knew it wasn't great, but I liked it and tuned in each week. This new one I love, but you probably get that point by now.
Be sure to tune in and watch tonight. So say we all.
I think "33" was the best epsidoe of the season.
Posted by: Daveed on April 8, 2005 12:57 PMStarbase Baltimore?
Posted by: mm on April 8, 2005 01:05 PMIn a later, unaired episode of the original BSG series, the Cylons flirted with making the organic representations we see in the current show.
But in bizarre fasion, the cylons misinterpreted the construction of the human body, placing the buttocks on top of the shoulders. Thus creating "Red Eye"'s brother "Pressed Ham".
He liked sticking his face up against the Raider's windows and look at exploding Vipers during combat.
In a subsequent unaired show, he was the sole survivor of his Raider when it crashed on an uncharted planet. Lucifer decided that it was better if the Cylon fleet left him behind.
And so, over the next 5 weeks, I grab the episodes I need to finish the homemade DVDs of season one.
Posted by: SteveK on April 8, 2005 08:10 PMBWAHAHA The Cylon "Pressed Ham!" That's twisted.
Posted by: Will Burnham on April 8, 2005 09:20 PMhttp://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050409-4794.html
Posted by: Nicky & Stephen on April 10, 2005 09:25 AM