I'm watching the new Carrie on Prime and Michael Trucco (Sam Anders) plays a jerk bad guy lawyer, but he is fantastic in the role. I also now realize that he played a jerk bad guy businessman in The Fall of the House of Usher, and he was even better in that role. I didn't recognize him at the time, because had been over 10 years since my last BSG rewatch. But I just finished a rewatch a few weeks ago and it is still fresh in my mind.

Carrie and House of Usher are both Mike Flanagan shows. He uses a lot of the same actors and actresses in his different shows. Apparently Michael Truco was also in Black Mass, but I don't remember him in that. Helo and Starbuck are also in Carrie. President Roslin is in House of Usher. I've got 2 episodes left to watch in Carrie, but I'm loving it so far. I also love House of Usher and I recommend both shows if you want to see Michael Trucco being awesome.

Enjoy all

Check out this model we made of the TOS galactica.

36”. Resin printed 10kg. Light effects.

So a brief history of the show. I think I’ve tried to watch this show three times. Once in the 2000s, and one other time in the 2010s. Both times I started with 33, and it felt like I was missing an episode, then was told to start from the mini series, and just never got to it.

Finally I gave it a solid try while on a long flight back in May. Same thing. Forgot about starting with the mini series, but finally did. I have to admit I didn’t immediately fall in love with it, but it was interesting enough to keep watching.

I can’t remember exactly which episodes, but there were some episodes where I felt it was a slog, and some that I was like “oh interesting! Let’s see where this goes”.

I can’t remember which episode it was, but there was one episode in season 2 where I just lost the motivation to watch for a while. Then maybe a month later, I decided to keep watching. I’d watch 20 minutes here, 30 minutes there.

For me though, once we got to the end of season 3, I was like “oh wow! Things are getting really interesting!” And I had to start fighting myself to get some sleep, etc.

The finale I felt was okay. I think I had the same problems most people had with it, including the latter half of season 4.

All in all though, now that it’s finished, I’ll definitely miss the characters of the world. I definitely want to do a re-watch minus some of the filler episodes sometime next year or so.

Should start around 19:04ish.

Not long, but a fun tidbit.

This episode takes place in parking garage.
One of the cars is a Tucker torpedo 48, if you ever saw the movie Tucker with Jeff Bridges.
Pretty neat choice to use a classic car for a futuristic movie.
The tucker was considered a futuristic car with 3 headlights.

These small quirky touches are really interesting.
Like we notice that the battlestar galactica isn’t a totally advanced ship although it has faster than light travel. Not like the starship Enterprise. Instead they still got phones and these large metal doors.

Some photos of my collections.
I touched up the action figures
3D printed the Viper helmet and added a jacket to the 12 inch warrior.
3D printed the guns and chest plate.
The raiders in my collection. One shoots one does not.

I read all of Battlestar Prometheus back in the day, and I've got all of them saved as PDFs to go back and look at. Wouldn't call it groundbreaking writing, but it's still more content within the universe.

Asking partially because I've been working on some vignettes set during Deadlock/the first Cylon war era, not sure if it's something other fans like or would want to see.

Related, and funny given the setting, it makes me a little nervous to put any of my creative work online because of frakking toaster getting their hands on it. 🤣

Anyway, looking forward to hearing opinions.

So say we all.

EDIT: Okay, I am gathering that either nobody cares, or if they do care, it must involve sexy times. Gotcha.

Video cross-posted from IG, not my OC.

My BSG rewatch (Starting with TOS. G80, then Caprica and the RDM series) has me in a mood to collect BSG again.

But is the 6 that ended up on Earth-2, at the end of the series, the same 6 that Gaius fell in love with on Caprica, Caprica 6?

Or is she a different 6? It was hard for me to keep track of all of them. I wouldn't mind it either way. It would be poetic if she was the same 6 as Caprica 6, and it would be tragic hope if it were a different 6.

Both would align with BSG themes.

But what do you think? And is there something obvious that I'm missing?

I recently downloaded the demo of off steam and I want to know some tips and tricks to generally improve as well as know peoples thoughts on the full game and if it’s worth buying

I was like ‘omg Helo! :)’ And then ‘omg… Helo. :(‘

Not just for fun, I would vote for Starbuck as we would need someone who can inspire optimism, which we need in the condition that we are in.

I’m sure it has been discussed, but I personally haven’t seen anyone factor in time into the cycle of “all this has happened before, and all will happen again”

Time is a major factor in stars alignment. Constellations change over time. If I remember from the show, the constellations they see from the tomb of Apollo are our current? Perhaps a few generations from now will use our constellations as a path back.

The cycle gets weird when it comes to Earth and Kobol, and the constellation/colony names are our current constellations. Kobol is supposedly the birth of mankind but then there’s native humans on Earth ‘50,000 years ago” my thinking is that Kobol is the next step after our current time. Within the next 50 years we have developed our own cylons(clankers?) and the next exodus will send our descendants to Kobol back in time somehow(intentional or not?). Kobol gets our constellation names and the path to Earth, but it is lost and they go to the 12 colonies. The cycle is a closed loop paradox.

I don't see anything before this episode unless I go back to the 1970's seasons. Am I missing something here?

This episode had the best intro (not the titles, just similar to the “plan” one we got in the 1st 3 seasons) and we only got it one time. If they ever remaster the series, they should just use this one since the plan kinda fizzled out in a meaningful reveal like we thought it would.

Edit: obviously they would need to fill in space to not spoil the cylon reveals throughout the series, but it could certainly be done. I’d argue it would make people more invested in all the models being revealed as milestones.

https://youtu.be/o84-IhXrT10?is=hKWmUWcRVO5OObtE

I gotta admit. This is my first watch of BSG, and at times it’s a bit of a slog. Some episodes are downright great, and Black Market caused me to take a month break from it (which I learned is an agreed upon consensus. lol.). But man, just finished season 3, and these last few episodes, especially the final one, was top notch! Should really sleep soon, but I wanna get season 4 started!

I know very late to the party but I’m currently watching the show for the first time. It’s been pretty good so far but gosh this was definitely one of the greatest 2 episodes of TV I’ve seen in years! Up there with Crawlspace from Breaking Bad or the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones.

The acting was incredible! Jamie Bamber gave an Oscar worthy performance with his final monologue. Possibly the best one I’ve seen out of any of the actors on the show so far. He sacrifices everything for the law. The relationship with his father, the president, even his wife! The actor playing the lawyer as well is one hell of a character. I don’t know if he’ll be a regular in season 4 yet but wouldn’t mind if it did. Olmos too who I normally like I found myself angry with here. Not to say his acting wasn’t good. It was but Adama making his choices here was infuriating.

Gauis I of course was still rooting for. He’s definitely not a perfect man but I’m glad he’s been acquitted. He’s still smug and arrogant but not a traitor.

But that final? Woah! The final reveal of the final four was surprising. I figured Starbuck was still alive but the way it was handled coupled with the All Along the Watchtower cover made it so satisfying!

Mike Flanagan got a mini Battlestar Galactica reunion on Carrie

Was just watching the new Carrie series and was like... wait a sec... these people look frakin' familar.

It works! I had the "Missile Command" version with I was a kid.