Okay I added BSG to my netflix, I've never seen the new one. The problem is that it starts with episode 3 "33 minutes". Netflix instant que shows episode 1 and 2 but I cannot access them. Says it's a 4hr mini series the explains the beginning. Am I looking in the wrong place for this mini series in netflix, it just shows season 1??? Which gives me my problem. So maybe someone could explain the mini series and who this hot blond chick is, and why this professor or Dr keeps seeing her. Is it like Terminator and Matrix? We created them and now they are owning us? Please explain without giving away spoilers.
Please explain the beginning of new BSG I'm lost
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Contec
Master Member
explain that would be giving away spoilers..
What contec said ! :thumbsup
Do yourself a favor and DON'T go look up
SPOILERS or anything for the show..
By the time you hit the end of the train
ride you will appreciate the fact you didn't !
Oh ,and too add one small detail for your viewing
pleasure.. After Season 2 is over go and get RAZOR
the Mini-Movie ! It's a great expansion of things that
happen in Season 2 and WON'T spoil anything but will
add ALLOT to your enjoyment of the events in Season 2...
:love
Do yourself a favor and DON'T go look up
SPOILERS or anything for the show..
By the time you hit the end of the train
ride you will appreciate the fact you didn't !
Oh ,and too add one small detail for your viewing
pleasure.. After Season 2 is over go and get RAZOR
the Mini-Movie ! It's a great expansion of things that
happen in Season 2 and WON'T spoil anything but will
add ALLOT to your enjoyment of the events in Season 2...
:love
dualedge
Sr Member
It's a lot to explain and if you're going to try watching the whole series, you don't want to start the story on "chapter 2", y'know? If netflix doesn't have the original miniseries available (I'm surprised they don't), then you might be able to borrow it from a friend if you know anybody that has it. It's not all that expensive if you want to buy it... unfortunately they don't seem to rent it on iTunes either - it's only available for purchase. If you're going to bother watching the series though, I definitey wouldn't skip the miniseries. Without it, you're missing the whole setup for the series.
Update... it looks like the miniseries IS available on netflix. You can't do an "instant play" but you can get the disc sent to your house. It's listed right at the top of "season 1" as miniseries part 1 and part 2.
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Batt...ab253_0_srl&strkid=185928469_0_0&trkid=438381
Delmustator
Sr Member
Well the blonde chick _________________. Baltar is now _______________. The whole time the __________ were planning to _________ the ___________. You see there are _______ models and they all like __________. One _________ can be seen on Hawaii Five-O now.
That pretty much sums it up..
That pretty much sums it up..
Sigma-LS
Sr Member
The action starts winding down after their budget gets kind of tight later in the series but they pull out the stops for the finale.
Some of the best visuals are in the miniseries (in the top 4 fights of the series for me).
Good stuff to be sure. I haven't been able to get into Caprica though. Now that it's airing new episodes and the plot is a bit further on I might try picking it up again. I want to see the re-imagining of the first cylon war so bad. Well that and a copy of Adama's painting in my study.:love
Some of the best visuals are in the miniseries (in the top 4 fights of the series for me).
Good stuff to be sure. I haven't been able to get into Caprica though. Now that it's airing new episodes and the plot is a bit further on I might try picking it up again. I want to see the re-imagining of the first cylon war so bad. Well that and a copy of Adama's painting in my study.:love
0neiros
Master Member
A lot of People Bagged hard on the Miniseries, which I thoroughly Enjoyed, Especially when the Old Gal cuts loose with her Armament. 2 Things to look for in it that won't spoil anything for you. When Laura meets with her Dr. After the Scene, Rewind to just before they pan down to her in the office. You can see Serenity from Firefly coming in for a landing. In one scene of the "Rag Tag Fleet" you can see at the far end, the USS Enterprise NCC - 1701 from STTOS.
epilepticsquirl
Sr Member
The cylons dun and ****ed **** up. That would sum it up pretty well.
In all seriousness, go buy the miniseries or the complete box set. You won't be disappointed.
In all seriousness, go buy the miniseries or the complete box set. You won't be disappointed.
There are those who believe that life here... began out there. With tribes of humans. Who MAY have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. SOME believe that there may YET be brothers of man... who even now, fight to survive... somewhere far across the heavens. :sleep
But this is not their story. :lol
But this is not their story. :lol
division 6
Master Member
Then after watching the whole series watch The Plan, everything from the Cylons point of view.
If you buy season one it comes with the mini series and season 4.0 comes with Razor.
If you buy season one it comes with the mini series and season 4.0 comes with Razor.
Contec
Master Member
The year is 1987, and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot, Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. a young loner on a crusade, to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless.
Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
We have the capability to blown out of their trajectory into an orbit which freezes his life support systems, and returns Steve Austin to Earth, 500 years later to build the world's first bionic man.......
This is not their story either :lol
kalkamel
Master Member
And boy, is she hot. So say we all. :love
"So say we all."
propologist
Sr Member
they jumped the shark for me having female cylons...just go back and watch the originals
firesprite
Master Member
Ignore the nay-sayers and give it a go. IMO, one of the BEST shows ever... I miss it terribly. It's one of the few shows I've ever watched that had me wishing entire weeks of my life away because I couldn't wait to see what would happen next!
Solo4114
Master Member
To balance out the gushing of the fans here, I'll say the following.
It is, indeed, an exceptionally well done show from the perspective of watching the characters develop.
My advice to you as a novice to the series:
1.) IGNORE THE MYSTERIES. By the time you watch the finale, the mysteries will be irrelevant. This includes (a) who are the human/Cylon models, (b) what is the Cylon plan, (c) what's the deal with the prophecies and such.
2.) Remember: they made it up as they went along. Every detail was NOT planned in advance. Much of the show's major developments came not as a result of some overarching show bible, but rather as a result of the writers saying "Hey, wouldn't it be interesting if we did XYZ?"
3.) There is a VERY strong spiritual element to the show. This is NOT a hard sci-fi show, despite what the tone of the first season might suggest.
and finally,
4.) Do not expect major fleet vs. fleet fighter action. The first season plays very much as "life aboard an aircraft carrier." The show becomes less about that as it progresses, and becomes far more focused on the individual characters.
Probably Points 1 and 2 are the most important on that list. I only say this stuff so that you can manage your expectations to best enjoy the series. Personally, I felt the shift in focus (Point 4) hurt the show. I really disliked how the "mysteries" (Point 1) were handled and resolved, and I hated that the show seemed to suggest there was this overarching sense of where it was all going when the writers were actually just throwing it together on the fly and were themselves FAR more focused on the characters (Point 2). I can't stress that enough: this is a character drama. Do NOT be fooled by the plot points. They are merely there to provide interesting things for the characters to do. Do NOT be taken in by the intro to every episode which seems to suggest that there are bigger mysteries driving the show. The mysteries angle was, apparently, far more a product of the network than the writers, and the writers CLEARLY rebelled against that.
If you manage your expectations, and take the show is the writers seemed to intend it (IE: character drama, not "great big mystery plus lots of action" as the network tried to pitch it to the public), you'll probably really enjoy it. I think there's a lot to love, but as I watched it while it was going on, I ended up really irritated by how the show changed over time and how the network happily manipulated viewers when the writers had no intention of paying off the mysteries that were built up (or at least had no intention of paying them off WELL).
It is, indeed, an exceptionally well done show from the perspective of watching the characters develop.
My advice to you as a novice to the series:
1.) IGNORE THE MYSTERIES. By the time you watch the finale, the mysteries will be irrelevant. This includes (a) who are the human/Cylon models, (b) what is the Cylon plan, (c) what's the deal with the prophecies and such.
2.) Remember: they made it up as they went along. Every detail was NOT planned in advance. Much of the show's major developments came not as a result of some overarching show bible, but rather as a result of the writers saying "Hey, wouldn't it be interesting if we did XYZ?"
3.) There is a VERY strong spiritual element to the show. This is NOT a hard sci-fi show, despite what the tone of the first season might suggest.
and finally,
4.) Do not expect major fleet vs. fleet fighter action. The first season plays very much as "life aboard an aircraft carrier." The show becomes less about that as it progresses, and becomes far more focused on the individual characters.
Probably Points 1 and 2 are the most important on that list. I only say this stuff so that you can manage your expectations to best enjoy the series. Personally, I felt the shift in focus (Point 4) hurt the show. I really disliked how the "mysteries" (Point 1) were handled and resolved, and I hated that the show seemed to suggest there was this overarching sense of where it was all going when the writers were actually just throwing it together on the fly and were themselves FAR more focused on the characters (Point 2). I can't stress that enough: this is a character drama. Do NOT be fooled by the plot points. They are merely there to provide interesting things for the characters to do. Do NOT be taken in by the intro to every episode which seems to suggest that there are bigger mysteries driving the show. The mysteries angle was, apparently, far more a product of the network than the writers, and the writers CLEARLY rebelled against that.
If you manage your expectations, and take the show is the writers seemed to intend it (IE: character drama, not "great big mystery plus lots of action" as the network tried to pitch it to the public), you'll probably really enjoy it. I think there's a lot to love, but as I watched it while it was going on, I ended up really irritated by how the show changed over time and how the network happily manipulated viewers when the writers had no intention of paying off the mysteries that were built up (or at least had no intention of paying them off WELL).
Solo4114
Master Member
Yeah, just to be clear, there IS a great show in there. But the problem was in how the show was marketed, I think, and some of the thrust of the show early on. It's clear -- after the fact -- that the writers were more interested in other stuff than what seemed to be the focus early on (and which later shifted), but even though I'm still smarting from the "Raptor bump solution" and other similar bits, I can't deny that the characters are just a blast to watch and are incredibly well written. With only a few exceptions, I rarely find myself looking back on them and thinking they did anything truly out of character -- and if they did, they soon made it clear that it WASN'T out of character, but rather was explained by something else.
If you can go in with the right set of expectations (IE: not the ones I had
) then the show's probably a good bit more fulfilling.
If you can go in with the right set of expectations (IE: not the ones I had
) then the show's probably a good bit more fulfilling.Similar threads
