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[chelseagirl]

So Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean. Interesting. Heartening, since this whole push towards Wesley Clark has left me less than impressed. Still, wonder if the press's "Unelectable" label can be overcome.

*Battlestar Galactica* committed the unforgivable sin of being utterly dull and boring, much to the chagrin of M. and the two friends who came over to watch it with us. I was distinctly not a fan of the original, but the guys all grew up loving the ships and battles. So why did we get two hours of uninteresting character interactions, and some vague shots of spaceships? Here's hoping for better space battles in part two, as we're clearly not going to get better acting or better writing.

Was gonna do some quotage, but in the clear light of morning, lines like "This isn't Battlestar anything; this is Space Brideshead Revisited" and "The Cylons made a bleached blonde because bleached blondes are evil" just aren't all that funny. Oh well. (And that was with a professional comedy writer in our viewing crowd . . . )

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[linaerys.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry to hear that Battlestar Gallactica sucked. The Crumpet is in it, and for that reason alone I was willing to give it the benerit of the doubt.

Oh well.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Who does he play? Looking at the photo, I'm guessing Apollo/Lee Adama, but with VERY different hair?

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

I think so. The pilot? The hair was short and black for BG and long and golden for Hornblower.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Yup. He did his best with the material. Poor thing.

He's much cuter with his Hornblower-hair, though. (I taped the two that were recently aired and I'm looking forward to watching them over Christmas break!)

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

Eeee!

Those two don't have Archie (the Crumpet) in them, though. I haven't seen those yet either. I will loan you the earlier ones on DVD if you like. Would you like to have tea or lunch or something soon?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Crumpet free? Alas.

Would love to borrow and would love to lunch. After next Tuesday my schedule is disgustingly flexible, outside of holiday parties. (Yeah, I love being an academic . . . )

[silme.livejournal.com]

What -- they've remade Cattlecar Galactica? :)

(I only watched it for the actor whose named I can't remember -- the blonde one -- whom I thought looked like Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues. :)

I don't know who to support... Will Hilary run at the last minute, do you think?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, we had much ruder names for it than that. ;-) Yeah, you should be getting it in the UK in the not-too-distant, but it's not a "run don't walk" scenario.

I confess I find it very appealing that people find Dean "too liberal." Hilary does nothing for me as a presidential candidate, other than the obvious "first woman president" appeal; I'd be afraid of "more of the same" as far as the centrism. I'm still angry that Clinton appointed moderate, not liberal, judges, and then Bush came in and appointed incredibly conservative ones. The "left" has to compromise but the right doesn't.

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

Just wait, Callum shows up tonight. Imagine the squealing when first appears.

:)

Not much in the way of space battles, but things appeared to be looking up in that regard.

I want to know what that Cylon did to the baby. Or maybe I don't.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Didn't watch all of it tonight; who did Callum play? (There is a theme here; see my response to linaerys above . . . )

As teenygozer said, you don't want to know what happened to the baby. Trust us.

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

He played the Cylon that they don't know is a Cylon at first, they think he's an arms dealer. They find him on the station and Adama kills him except at the end you see there are more of him and the blonde chick.

That part was way cool. Multiple CKR's!!!

Which means if they do make this a series he could be back on as a recurring character.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

(Kikala doesn't wanna know what she did to the baby!)

I am with the reviewer who said that at 4 hours, it would have made a not-bad 3 hour show. I think the main problem was there was so much filler. I t m o v e d s o s l o w l y !

I think Hillary has missed the boat what with spending the last 9 months telling people she wasn't gonna run: anyways, she wants a Dem loser this year so that she can run against a non-encumbent Republican next year. If a Dem runs this year & wins, she's screwed, because then she can't run for another 8 years. Apparently she doesn't care that the Bush crowd can destroy our country and several others given 4 more years of play, she's a politician.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

A good point -- it draaaagggged, and we had way too much of people's feelings, for characters who weren't particularly interesting. M. will end up wearing out the tape over certain space battles and ignoring the rest -- but there should have been more of those. Nobody ever watched the original for the plots or the acting, although I recognize people who weren't me liked one or the other of the male leads . . .

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

Overall it was boring, but I think were building characters. There were some intriguing things about it it, like the Cylons believing in God and souls and believing that humanity was being punished.

The scene where they were going to jump and leave the other ships behind was very tense.

And then there's the fact that I got to see Callum for longer than five minutes and he didn't die in the movie was icing on the cake.

Starbuck annoys me. What's with the cigar? An artifical penis?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Wow, you found the hidden philosophical concept! Clearly you weren't watching with a bunch of boys who wanted more fighter scenes. ;-)

Didn't realize which one was Callum, probably because we tuned into the second half after 24, and then Martin started it again and I fell asleep. Loved the fact that he really *was* a Cylon, which was so unexpected after the way it was set up.

Starbuck smokes a cigar because the original Starbuck smoked a cigar. Of course, the original annoyed me, too. . . . My spousal unit thinks she's potentially hot -- uh. huh.

[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

Do I win a prize???

I was spoiled and knew what he was. The thing is, I was spoiled by the official stuff. DUH.

You mean the cigar is an homage to Dirk Benedict's Starbuck? He was one of my early crushes back when I liked actors for their looks and they could only loosely be called actors.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

So many of my friends say they liked Dirk Benedict. (And M. wanted to *be* him, but he was eight so I forgive him.) I really *really* didn't. But yeah, that was specifically an hommage. ;-)