Friday, February 10, 2006
Short TV Post
Battlestar Galactica was pretty good, about hostage taking. It was an all Czech Republic gun parade for the hostage takers. Dana Delaney (who has not aged well at all--she was so hot just 15 years ago; now she looks a little dowdy) had a CZ 83 probably in .380. Nice ladies gun. The first guy to go, the one Lee Adama got the better of, had a CZ 52 (in 7.62 x 25mm). That's the gun I have. The big lunking guy had a CZ vz61 Skorpion submachine gun (in puny little .32 ACP). The most nervous of the guys, who was killed last, had a squarish gun that I had trouble identifying. (I'll update if it's easier to see on the rerun).
Lee Adama went down from friendly fire by Starbuck (who was so butch firing two pistols in two hands independent (can't be done accurately unless you have chameleon like independent eye movement)--that's probably why she hit her friend and former lover, she was neglecting to actually aim the pistol), but the bullet missed the pulmonary artery and he didn't bleed out in the minute or two it can take in real life. When Delaney was threatening to kill Col. Tigh's wife, most in the room I was watching it in were yelling "Do it!" and "Waste the bitch!" So of course she survives. Billy didn't. Unlucky in love...dead before the end of the hour. Proof that it's a hard edged show. They'll take out a regular as soon as look at him.
The politics of the show were Israeli-like. We don't negotiate with terrorists or hostage takers (but we're willing to pretend to in order to gain an advantage so that our crack anti-terrorist squads can kill them all and save at least most of the hostages). It's a sound policy even if it seems heartless.
I don't believe the Grace Park cylon character is fracking with them (to use the show's vernacular). When is Lucy Lawless coming back?
Lee Adama went down from friendly fire by Starbuck (who was so butch firing two pistols in two hands independent (can't be done accurately unless you have chameleon like independent eye movement)--that's probably why she hit her friend and former lover, she was neglecting to actually aim the pistol), but the bullet missed the pulmonary artery and he didn't bleed out in the minute or two it can take in real life. When Delaney was threatening to kill Col. Tigh's wife, most in the room I was watching it in were yelling "Do it!" and "Waste the bitch!" So of course she survives. Billy didn't. Unlucky in love...dead before the end of the hour. Proof that it's a hard edged show. They'll take out a regular as soon as look at him.
The politics of the show were Israeli-like. We don't negotiate with terrorists or hostage takers (but we're willing to pretend to in order to gain an advantage so that our crack anti-terrorist squads can kill them all and save at least most of the hostages). It's a sound policy even if it seems heartless.
I don't believe the Grace Park cylon character is fracking with them (to use the show's vernacular). When is Lucy Lawless coming back?
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 9:29 PM 
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I guess you're not watching it. I'll write about the Shield if it gets interesting enough. I wish there were some good movies around to write about but, alas, there are none.
You don't think that maybe the Cylon is just trying to kill enough time to have her baby and unleash whatever kooky prophecy the Cylons hold to as dear? I felt that way after the refusal to identify the other Cylons within the fleet...
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: 1:37 AM
: 1:37 AM
Isn't it possible, Andy, that the Sharon cylon is in the dark about others in the fleet? She didn't "know" that she was a cylon for 10 episodes or so. The baby is clearly a key to something thougb, but I say that only because of the advertising.
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