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3rd Season Battlestar Galactica - A Measure of Salvation - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !
10 Nov 2006 18:40:01 -0800
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Michael S. Schiffer...
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That's true, though populations can also develop resistance via
natural selection. (Though the timescale here is pretty short for
that.) That's one way diseases become chronic, and it's a reason
Earl Greida...
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Exactly, the timescale is to short for the population to have "evolved" a
resistance to it. But, I think you are correct that the writers are taking
that approach.
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that a given disease can be much more devastating to a completely
unexposed population. (The most famous example being the effects of
Old World diseases on New World populations post-Columbus.)
Selection can also make the disease itself adapt (killing the host
more slowly-- or not at all, as long as the disease itself can hang
Earl Greida...
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Also, for the record, that was a quote from a web-site. If there is a typo
then address the web-site author.
"Measles, also called rubeola, is a highly contagious - but rare -
respiratory infection that's caused by a virus."
However a quick trip to Dictionary.com has this definition for rubeola.
n : an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red
spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children [syn: measles,
morbilli]
Also, for measles we have
. (used with a singular or plural verb) Pathology.
a. an acute infectious disease occurring mostly in children, characterized
by catarrhal and febrile symptoms and an eruption of small red spots;
rubeola.
And, just for another source, I used my old Merriam Webster's Collegiate
Dictionay, 10th Edition which has a one word definition for Rubeola,
measles.
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on and make copies of itself-- means more opportunity to pass itself
on vs. variants that make the victim drop in 24 hours, so less
virulent strains will tend to spread preferentially).
At this point, I don't really trust the science of BG for this to be
entirely thought out. But I'd guess that it's closer to what the
show was getting at than immunity by exposure and/or vaccination.
After all, if it were part of the Colonials' routine immunizations,
the Cylons could just adopt the same regimen and the disease
wouldn't be a genocidal threat. (As I mentioned in another post,
there are enough public health measures they could take, up to and
including temporarily abandoning the resurrection process, that
successful genocide isn't really a plausible outcome. But clearly
that's not the position held by anyone within the show itself.)
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"A Measure of Salvation"
(11-10-06 BSG)
spam...
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I agree about Lucy but not McDonnell.
At least no one has commented on Sackoff wearing too much.
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spam...
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Indeed!
And Rachel could do with less clothing too.
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spam...
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SG is not about homos, although with Hewlett you sometimes wonder. He
had a perfect opportunity to hallucinate about Amanda and the best he
can do is strip her down to her bra.
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5 stars (ton)
0-1 stars (microgram)
Tapio Erola...
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3.9 (Short Ton) Moving plot forward, but surprisingly thin.
*If Helo could sabotage lifesupport in brig by just removing couple
connectors without raising any alarms, the engineer who designed
lifesupport system in Galactica deserves to be spaced for criminal
incompetence. Lifesupport is one of the most critical systems on a
spaceship and requires triple- or quadruple redundancy and multiple
alarms if something goes wrong.
*Too bad the infected basestar went boom, because it would have made a
real nice addition to the Fleet, even without raider complement.
Smells just a bit too convenient scriptwriter dodge...
*The properties of the virus were just too convenient for practical
suspension of disbelief.
*Thirteen colonies haven't completely outlawed bioweapons? Interesting.
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stocksami...
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4.2
I didn't like the disconnect between the end of the prior episode and
the beginning of this one. Last week Athena was getting ill, now shes
spam...
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Was she ill or was she despondent?
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going back. That doesn't compute. It was still an entertaining
David B...
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She wasn't getting ill in the last episode. She was in shock and utter
some Cylon prayer or quoting scripture.
Tony Calguire...
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Is that what it was supposed to be? If so, then it was a sloppy bit of
storytelling. As soon as Sharon arrives in the vicinity of the diseased
ship, she starts talking that nonsense language like the Basestar "Hybrid".
And while I'm at it, that was a sloppy bit of storytelling as well... in an
episode centered around a contagious disease, they introduce us to a
perfectly healthy character who talks like she has a brain infection.
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episode with a new nugget of info about the lost colonies and Earth.
Even though this weeks attempt at bio warfare failed, they still have
the virus and could use it in the future if the situation gets
desparate.
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Gio...
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3.5 stars, Adama is still far too sentimental, he allows mutiny.
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spam...
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5 stars. This is classic RDM redemption drama. To appreciate that,
watch the last couple seasons of DS9. He is the master.
spam...
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Redemption occurs in the last episodes. You have to wait.
spam...
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RDM characterized BSG as a "space opera". That's a soap opera in
space, IOW a redemption drama.
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Who? Just about everyone, each in his or her own way. Essentially
everyone on the show is in need of some form of redemption.
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Zombie Elvis...
Stephen Adams...
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2.2 One of the weakest of the episodes in the entire series
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