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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 02:45pm on 31/08/2009
I have now watched all of Battlestar Galactica.
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posted by [personal profile] andrewducker at 02:00pm on 31/08/2009
Congratulations.

Any feelings on the ending?

I was mostly struck by "But, what, and, hang on, oh, whatever, I can live with that ending, I guess."
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:13pm on 31/08/2009
It has all happened before and will happen again - it seemed to tie things up in a way that satisfied me. More of an ending than a climax, maybe? Though Hitchhikers has spoiled me for the pastoral happy ending :-)
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posted by [personal profile] andrewducker at 02:18pm on 31/08/2009
Well, I assume you noticed the bathtub on the bridge, just before the B Ark crashed?

I think it was [livejournal.com profile] swisstone who pointed out that this was the intro to the original BSG:
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis.

which fits quite nicely.

Oh, and Edward James Olmos likes to think that it fits back into his work on Bladerunner, where mankind has started producing artifical humans, who will once again attempt to replace them...
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:32pm on 31/08/2009
Bathtub, oh yes :-)

I think "skin job" was coined in Blade Runner?
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posted by [personal profile] andrewducker at 02:40pm on 31/08/2009
How on earth did I miss that??
One of the most prominent examples of Replicant-like robots in modern culture are the humanoid Cylons on the Sci-Fi Channel series Battlestar Galactica. Blade Runner was acknowledged as an influence on the series. Actor Edward James Olmos, who stars in the series, also co-starred in Blade Runner. Tricia Helfer, who plays the main humanoid-Cylon character "Number Six" on the series, was having trouble determining how to play a humanoid robot when production began, so co-star Olmos advised her to watch Blade Runner. Helfer has stated that it greatly informed how she approached the role. The human resistance on Cylon-occupied Caprica even referred to the Cylons as "skin jobs," the slang term for Replicants from Blade Runner, in the late season 2 episode "Downloaded". Episode writer Bradley Thompson inserted the line hoping science fiction fans would notice and enjoy the reference: the term met with popular reception by fans, and subsequently many characters in the next two seasons of the series regularly refer to the humanoid Cylons as "skin jobs".
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posted by [identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com at 09:45pm on 31/08/2009
I got the distinct Hitchhiker feel at the end too!
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posted by [identity profile] saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com at 02:06pm on 31/08/2009
I'm impressed.
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posted by [identity profile] grytpype-thynne.livejournal.com at 03:42pm on 31/08/2009
Now you have your specialist subject for Mastermind
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posted by [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ at 04:37pm on 31/08/2009
Excellent.
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posted by [identity profile] sphyg.livejournal.com at 09:16am on 01/09/2009
That was quick ;) What did you think?
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