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3rd Season Battlestar Galactica - Torn - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !
3 Nov 2006 18:31:37 -0800
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georgeavalos0...
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"Torn"
11-3-06 BSG
IsaacKuo...
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3.5 - Nice, solid A story. The B story was only so-so.
This episode was carried entirely by Baltar. I loved it!
This is the hysterical paranoid panic mode we've come
to love to loath. He asks the questions we've been
wanting answers to, also.
Now if we could only see virtual Baltar again...
Isaac Kuo
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5 stars (Patches O'Houlihan)
0-1 stars (The CEO)
jay...
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4.6.
There was some very important info about the Cylons in
this one, but the episode itself was, by the usual standards
of the series, relatively weak, and would have only
managed a 4 but for the fantastic confrontation between
Adama, Tigh, and Starbuck.
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cloud dreamer...
Hobart Floyt...
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4.0 stars (Agent Zed)
I'm not sure I can rate this one objectively particularly
if it was filmed after August 27, 2006. If it was filmed
after that date:
I WANT MY WRITING CREDIT!!!!!
But I guess I'll just have to settle for: I told you so.
A sizable chunk of it was my Worldcon masquerade
presentation and most of the comments I made
at the two BSG panels. (I must have made an impression
on the writers...)
Was the line about coincidences also a coincidence?
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Stephen Adams...
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Incomplete. It's a two parter. Right now, if push came to shove,
I'd give it a 3.8. This may change significantly, depending on
how they resolve the issues in the conclusion.
They'll get a 5 if Baltar utters the words "Speak, Centurion" while
percehed in a chair on a pedastal...
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Gio...
Citroen...
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I give it a 4
There were plenty of great performances and excellent villan
development. The one thing that bothers me is Apollo's viper listed
his rank as Major. I thought he made Commander. Maybe the Colonials
don't bother updating thier viper's paint jobs.
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First-2-Die...
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5.0
It's like it is the first real Galactica show of the season. This is what
the S3 premiere should have been - together with next week's Part 2.
Red Shirt
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bllbickel...
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I'm not loving some of this season's predictable images: It was obvious
more than a month ago that Starbuck would signal her "return" by
hacking off her hair, and the Star Chamber episode was bound to end
with the judges realizing they'd crossed the line and one by one
turning their backs on the one or two unrepentant judges and leaving
the room.
Bill Bickel
http://www.crimepundit.com
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stocksami...
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4.8
They packed a lot into one episode. Quick resolution of festering
personal issues, juicy details about the Cylons and an important
development of a possible weapon against them.
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Lizard...
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4.5
Alane...
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I'm giving it a 4.0. The story was a little too cluttered for me. I did
enjoy
the Kara hair-cutting, though, especially since I mentioned last week I was
waiting for such a scene. With Adama shaving off the 'stache and Lee shaving
off the pounds, Kara's hair had to be the next to go.
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Wow.
What an amazingly DENSE episode, in a good way. While Exodus Part II
was chaotic, this was packed. Cylon viruses! Strange artifacts from
the 13th colony! (Maybe) Tigh and Starbuck, united in angsty despair!
Cylon hybrids reading half-poetry, half-computer code! Weird oil
droplet control systems! Boomer gets a new call sign! (And apparently
a bug...)
-0.5 for the idea a virus could be transmitted by downloading the
CONSCIOUSNESS into a new body. You know, the show HAS a scientific
advisor with a few doctorates. He really should have caught that one.
Obveeus...
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Meanwhile, if she has the magic 'love' or whatever other special ingredient
is needed to make babies, shouldn't she be pregnant again soon (by now)?
jphamlore...
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No, because they aren't doing it in the rain. :-)
Earl Greida...
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Good point. Radioactive rain might be the secret.
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jayembee...
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Why? What's being downloaded is data. If the "virus" is also just
data, then it can be downloaded as well.
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Andrew Venor...
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That depends. It would be silly to think a a biological virus could
spread that way. However if it was a computer virus, then I could see
it spreading through out the Cylon race by the downloading process.
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Obveeus...
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Two things to consider:
1. Think computer virus, not biological virus. Notice that humans were
mvp...
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Christopher Basken...
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Caprica-Sharon is Boomer.
Christopher Basken...
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Yes, Mark caught me on this error already, but thanks.
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ted...
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It's not clear if we saw Boomer tonight. I'd suspect the naked Park
was not Boomer since Boomer would probably still feel some of the Colonial
nudity taboo (though the Colonial taboo seems weaker than the US one, maybe
more European..). I think the Park in the control room scenes was Boomer
though. (The main Six was definitely Caprica).
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from "A Fire Upon the Deep". Except that "anything that
processes data virus" could also infect humans. And aliens.
(And programmable toaster ovens, too, for that matter.)
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unaffected.
Barry Margolin...
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But they said that was because of their different DNA, not because the
virus was of a different form. Think dog disease.
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2. there was no claim that the virus did spread through download. The only
claim was that it *might* and the Cylons were not willing to risk it.
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Love the idea that Cylons see what they want to see. It explains a lot
about New Caprica.
"I don't see starving, rioting, humans. I see a peaceful glade with
fluffy bunnies."
"We don't talk about them." (The other five) Interesting plot
development, or bizaare copout for not having all the models on New
Caprica?
Andrew Venor...
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I suppose a little of both. The writers do need to keep a few surprises
up their sleeves for future episodes. And I suppose the other five
models having broken off from the main group is as good of an excuse as
any for not showing them to the audience right now.
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stocksami...
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The Sharon that is on the Galactica is not the same one that was Boomer.
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