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Die Hard is a classic, Die Hard 2 was somewhat acceptable as a seqeul, Die Hard 3 was just silly, that whole running around with Samuel Jackson chasing bombs just didn't work, and even Jeremy Irons managed to come off as unimpressive as a criminal mastermind. This, I don't know, I guess it depends if they can balance the humor anction and suspense. A car chase with a fighterplane seems a litte retareded though.

Whats the moral of the story anyway, exterminate the weak ? Fashist babykillers for teh win.

Seems to me it was squarely aimed at getting back the Iranian diplomatic mission that was arrested on suspicion of espionage. further, the fact that the prisoners are getting the movie star treatment seems a testament to the insincerity of the charges. If these were really infiltrators they would be interogated rather more vigorously.

I saw that yesterday as well, pretty much what I expected, full of hyperbole and orientalism set to 500%, and like Sin City, full of lines that are near impossible to deliver without sounding foolish. Awesome graphics, awesome battles.

Iran is a strange amalgam of zealot leftovers from the revolution who actively seek confrontation, albeit perhaps not a military one, and moderates who have a better understanding of international diplomacy and no wish to see sanctions.

Looks like good clean fun to me. Not going to ridicule them anymore than they have already done to themsleves, sorry.

So whats her special destuny if she is a clone and not starbuck, to die rather uneventfully and be replaced by a replicant ? That hardly seems grand emough.

Unfortunately Starbuck is tied into the annying ball-and-chain plotline to do with the pithian propecy. I just hope they don't spend too much time with that and in doing so lose sight of the fact that it is well... utterly lame.

Well, she is back and confirmed for season 4, how ?, does it matter, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off both Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriaty and they were none worse for the wear in the next installment. This should teach us that nothing is permanent if the character is too popular, see Superman.

uh, as far as i understand it, the EU itself cannot go to war anyway as it is primarily an economic agreement, right? is the EU leadership elected by the people, or appointed by the states? there was supposed to be a common EU defence policy and an EU rapid reaction force, but it hasen't happened yet. It was mostly a German and French wet dream, the rest aren't that interested. The EU comission is is selected by governments, only the EU parliament is elected by the people. The comission has more hands on power in the day to day leadership of the EU. So, it's hardly a democracy. The parliament though can fire the comission through a vote of no confidence, and has done so in the past during the corruption scandals.

My money is on Lt. Gaeta.

Nothing drastic is gonna happen, Blair can't start a war just before he's out the door,

Yoy guys even have your own sattelite to keep an eye on the malcontents, or more to the point, the lunatic prince had too much money and had to spend it on something.

My only gripe is that they used a sissy version of All along the watchtower instead of Hendrix's.

Well, how long exactly would it take for radio waves to travel several galaxies ? I think earth is a little further gone than the 60s.

Entirely uneventful, except for my neigthbours dropping by and asking me if I wanted to swap appartments with them. Which I might do.

The Itunes purchases are more value per viewer than TV add $. Battlestar has developed a following of people for whom this is an easier way of following the show than TV, this is not refelected in the ratings. Sci Fi is obviously quite interested in learnig how to turn this into real revenue growth. If they could just make sure that the show airs simultaneously on Itunes and TV they could cut down on the freebe downloaders as well. As for the show itself, it suffers from the same syndrome that all shows do after several seasons, the plot has become a ball-and-chain, and new viewers don't know whats going on. The main plot is also tied into the length of the show itself, I mean, whats left to do after they find earth and defeat the cylons. No wonder they are stalling.

What are you talking about ? Helo and Sharon did have a daugther, so edvidently they could reproduce

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Someone posted it at the Battlestar forums. I assume its genuine A few things though, the show apparently shanged time slot and more people are using Itunes to download episodes, so it might not be as disasterous as it looks at first glance.

Ratings started seriously dropping in season two and haven't recovered yet. SEASON 1 Episode Title...........................Ep#..........Airdate.......Rating BSG Mini-Series part 1.........................12/08/2003......3.2 BSG Mini-Series part 2.........................12/09/2003......3.8 33 and Water.......................101/102....01/14/2005......2.6 Bastille Day............................103........01/21/2005......2.3 Act of Contrition......................104........01/28/2005......2.5 You Can't Go Home Again........105........02/04/2005......2.5 Litmus....................................106........02/11/2005......2.5 Six Degrees of Separation........107........02/18/2005......2.2 Flesh and Bone........................108........02/25/2005......2.5 Tigh Me Up Tigh Me Down.........109........03/04/2005......2.1 Hand of God............................110........03/11/2005......2.2 Colonial Day............................111........03/18/2005......2.3 Kobol's Last Gleaming part 1.....112........03/25/2005......2.2 Kobol's Last Gleaming part 2.....113........04/01/2005......2.5 SEASON 2 Episode Title.............................Ep#..........Airdate........Rating Scattered.................................201........07/15/2005.......2.6 Valley of Darkness....................202........07/22/2005.......2.0 Fragged....................................203........07/29/2005.......2.0 Resistance................................204........08/05/2005.......1.9 The Farm..................................205........08/12/2005.......2.0 Home, part 1.............................206........08/19/2005.......2.1 Home, part 2.............................207........08/26/2005.......2.1 Final Cut...................................208........09/09/2005.......2.0 Flight of the Phoenix...................209........09/16/2005.......1.9 Pegasus....................................210........09/23/2005.......2.0 Resurrection Ship, part 1............211........01/06/2006.......2.1 Resurrection Ship, part 2............212........01/13/2006.......1.9 Epiphanies................................213........01/20/2006........1.9 Black Market.............................214........01/27/2006........1.8 Scar.........................................215........02/03/2006........1.9 Sacrifice...................................216........02/10/2006........1.8 The Captain's Hand....................217........02/17/2006........1.7 Downloaded..............................218........02/24/2006........1.8 Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 1...219........03/03/2006........1.8 Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2...220........03/10/2006........1.9 SEASON 3 Episode Title..............................Ep#.........Airdate...........Rating The Occupation..........................301........10/06/2006........1.8 Precipice...................................302........10/06/2006........1.8 Exodus part 1............................303.........10/13/2006........1.6 Exodus part 2............................304.........10/20/2006........1.5 Collaborators............................305.........10/27/2006........1.4 Torn.........................................306.........11/03/2006........1.5 A Measure of Salvation...............307.........11/10/2006........1.5 Hero.........................................308.........11/17/2006........1.3 Unfinished Business....................309.........12/01/2006........1.3 The Passage..............................310.........12/09/2006........1.3 The Eye of Jupiter......................311.........12/15/2006........1.4 Rapture.....................................312.........01/21/2007........1.4 Taking a Break..........................313..........01/28/2007.......1.5 The Woman, King.......................314..........02/11/2007.......1.2 A Day in the Life.........................315..........02/18/2007.......1.2 Dirty Hands................................316..........02/25/2007.......1.1 Maelstrom..................................317..........03/04/2007.......1.1

I can't pick just one, and it seems like a lot of work rigth now anyway.

Might just be that the exects gave them 13 episodes as a kick in the backside, improve ratings or get cut off kinda deal.

Whats a Deus EX Machina in plot terms ?