Battlestar Galactica - General Discussion #1: BSG Crew Are The Kings/Queens of "Whoa"

crash landing · 06-27-2009, 05:30 AM

This is the thread where we can talk about why we love BSG so much and discuss how we got into the show. Also maybe our stories because not sure how many people started from the start, so maybe stories about how you your marathon of the series went. Cause I know that I've got quite a story

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The world ended with no warning, and all that was left … was hope.

The Cylons were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies. Intelligent robots, they were used as slaves and soldiers to fight humanity's wars. But the Cylons became sentient and they rebelled. Man and machine fought to a bloody stalemate, then the Cylons withdrew to a remote region of space.

A truce between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons lasted for 40 tense and silent years. Each year, on the anniversary of the treaty-signing, humanity sent an envoy to the neutral ground of Armistice Station to meet with a Cylon envoy. For 39 years, no Cylon envoy came.

Then, on the 40th anniversary, a stunning blonde — a Cylon in human form — met the human envoy … moments before the Cylons vaporized the station and launched a genocidal attack on the Twelve Colonies.

In one devastating day, billions of human lives were consumed by nuclear fires. Only those souls fortunate enough to be aboard starships were able to band together and escape and flee into deep space, led by the sole surviving Colonial warship, the battlestar Galactica.

The Galactica and its crew seemed to be unlikely saviors for humanity's fewer than 50,000 desperate survivors. The ship was old and had been about to be decommissioned and turned into a museum when the Cylon attack occurred. In the aftermath its commanding officer, William Adama, found himself responsible for safeguarding the last remnants of the human race.

Meanwhile, the annihilation of the Colonial government on Caprica resulted in the succession of Laura Roslin, the Secretary of Education, to the presidency. Driven by prophetic visions and political necessity, she set the fleet upon a quest that will take it into the farthest reaches of unexplored space … in search of the mythical, lost "13th colony" — Earth

**Violent Delights** · 06-27-2009, 06:52 AM

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Also maybe our stories because not sure how many people started from the start, so maybe stories about how you your marathon of the series went. Cause I know that I've got quite a story

I bought the S1-3 boxset a few weeks before Razor was going to be on

so i had to watch all 3 before that

crash landing · 06-27-2009, 06:54 AM

I did the mini-series and everything up to 4x10 in 5 weeks or so

Would have been less but can't remember why, think something happened

**Violent Delights** · 06-27-2009, 06:58 AM

wow

crash landing · 06-27-2009, 07:00 AM

I know

I don't know what I want to do with a re-watch though

I'm sure that I would watch episodes everyday, but would I do 2 episodes or 4 episodes. I'm sure I re-watch of everything wouldn't take too long for me. Plus might wait until after The Plan comes out

**Violent Delights** · 06-27-2009, 07:16 AM

I usually watch 2 at a time

I've been watching The Mentalist, so i haven't watched any so far today

crash landing · 06-27-2009, 07:28 AM

I normal do 4

most of the time

**Violent Delights** · 06-27-2009, 07:37 AM

I like to watch other things too

crash landing · 06-27-2009, 07:56 AM

I tend to do one thing at a time but starting to do 2 at a time now

crash landing · 06-27-2009, 08:05 AM

Now we got over the story of starting the show

how about

Why do you love BSG?

**crazy_diamond** · 06-27-2009, 11:50 AM

Thanks for starting this Sarah

, love the animation and I changed the title to what we discussed

Why do I love BSG?
Awesome Acting, Writing, Directing.

Everything really. It gels so well into making the best show ever

, and also I like the way it echo's what is going on in today's world. It makes you think as a viewer which is always a great thing in my book...

You really pull for the characters in the show, you care for them as people...