Brikar

I guess me and my roommate were the only people on the planet who didn't think "Razor" was anything special to write home about. With a muddled storyline and full of missed opportunities, "Razor" just doesn't hold a candle to some of the truly fabulous stuff the show has come up with over the last few years. But the Internet fandom that I've seen are lapping it up. Oh well.

I guess it's sort of like how I feel about "Star Trek: Generations" - there are a lot of great scenes, but when you put them all together in a movie, it's not as good as you think it should be.

The special effects are fantastic; the Pegasus' escape from the dockyards during the initial Cylon attack is pretty damn impressive to look at. The original series Cylons work well enough, though they look cheesier than the new ones. There have been a few minor tweeks - they're thinner than the men in suits from the original show, and they move much better (obviously). But once they speak, all you can do is laugh.

But I can't help but feel overwhelmed by the fact that this "Battlestar movie event" or however Sci-Fi is touting it really isn't all that great. It's fun... but wholly disposable entertainment.

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Bean

I couldn't agree more. The FX were spectacular for the shipyard scene, almost makes me wish it had of lasted longer. But the storyline was subpar for BSG. It certainly doesn't live up to it's hype on any level.

I guess part of it is the "stand alone" nature of the movie. It doesn't appear to advance the overall BSG plot in any way, except maybe the little blurb at the end about a certain lead character. And even that doesn't really do alot.

Overall I was dissapointed with it.

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Brikar

I feel like they should have either made a Galactica movie or made a Pegasus movie, because mashing the two together didn't work out, and the runtime clearly favors Pegasus and then asks us to care about Galactica. And it just doesn't work.

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Bean

Yeah, a Pegasus movie showing the Pegasus carrying out more attacks on the Cylons would have been my preference. Then wrap it up at the end with them finding the Galactica.

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Cymro

How about a movie that explains why they abandoned the Colonies and went in search of Earth? Or why there's only 50,000 of them left?

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Brikar

Um. Yeah.

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Was it just me or did the people they were experimenting on look an awful lot like the humanoid Cylons? Not quite identical, but sort of similar. The people Adama tried to rescue in the Husker flashback looked a lot like Six and Leoben, and I think one of the ones on the Baseship looked like Sharon.

I'm sort of getting an idea of how they might be planning to explain Saul Tigh and the rest of them.

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Bean

I'm not sure what you mean about explaining Tigh, but yeah you're right about the people Adama tried to rescue. I'm thinking that they were either "prototypes" of the human Cylons, or humans that were the original "templates" for them.

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Cymro

Well, what I'm saying is that because those people looked like templates, perhaps those templates were eventually developed by the mainstream Cylons to become the models we already know, and the final five were more akin to the ones that were "an evolutionary dead end". If anything, it explains why Tigh has memories from the war - the real Tigh was captured and the duplicate retained the personality.

If we are to accept that the "guardians" are seperate from the other Cylons, than can we not propose that perhaps the final five are "fundamentally different" because of this?

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Bean

Yeah, that makes sense, I just didn't get what you meant at first.

One of the ideas I had was that maybe the difference us that one faction was aspiring not to evolve, but to actually BECOME human (The Guardians). The other Cylons saw this as a type of heresy or something and this is where the divide happened.

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