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In Reply to: TV Asylum pick: the new Battlestar Gallactica... posted by EdM on October 3, 2005 at 14:15:13:
There are WAY too many inconsistancies for me. Okay, Baltar doesn't have a chip in his head and he's not crazy. The cylons can't be detected by any means, because there's no difference between them and the humans. The cylons can get pregnant. Riiight.If the cylons have this level of technology, that they can create LIFE, not just a simulation, then the humans are SO effing outmatched there's no contest.
If THAT was the story, that would be one thing. But the writers don't even realize how far out they've gone.
Oh yeah. The issue sidearm is the 9mm? Gimme a break! They could think of nothing better? I don't have a problem with slugthrowers, not at all. But a 9mm? That's not even a good cartridge for our level of technology, so why would an advanced society use it? Plus, it's a lousy idea to be shooting metal slugs on board space craft...has a nasty habit of going places that can prove fatal to lots of your shipmates. Think ferrocrystal.
And so on and so on and so on.
I've watched all the eps so far, but I doubt I'll be back in January. I love sci-fi, but Ronald D. Moore screwed up Carnivale after a promising start, and he's showing that he can't deliver over time.
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All good points.. Moore often states he is not interested in "sci-fi" as much as charactor development and I can appreciate that.One aspect that answers some of your points and which sold me on a lot of points was the fact that they had to use old technology (read no chips or networks) to avoid Cylon virus infection. Hence no new weapons that could be used against the humans.
I too have a problem with the Cylons physical makeup- either they're machines or not, either they can be detected or not. Moore does keep skirting this issue but supposedly "all will be expalined.."
We'll see.Still appreciate the show for sheer entertainment value.
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