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Is there any sci-fi better than this? Please suggest.

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Is there any sci-fi better than this?
Please suggest.
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Say pretty please
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>>83908176
"Pretty"
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>>83908156
Unfortunately not. I was just thinking about doing a rewatch too.
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sg-1 till macgyver leaves

ds9 after season 1
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>>83908156

it is the best

also Caprica is plebfilter. Morman space cult terrorists, gay space mafia, matrix whores.

show was great and got canceled for ghost hunters season 17. fuck syfy
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>>83908156
But it has plot threads dropped half way through because of the writers strike and the new writers were incompetent. It's a shame but the show is absolute shit because of it.
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>>83908254
I agree. I couldn't stand Caprica more than 10mins.
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>>83908209
>there was never a gunner crew episode

gay
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>>83908228
>sg-1
stop reading there, and op got the perfect answer
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>>83908254
>program intended to show the origins of the Cybernetic Lifeform Node and the beginnings of the Cylon war
>we get family angst, theologists quibbling, the Internet and some gangster shit
You're right. It is a plebfilter.
If you watched it for more than 2 episodes, you're a pleb
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Babylon 5
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>>83908318

you miss understand I am saying that I LIKED Caprica. fucking pleb
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>>83908156
Star Trek DS9
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>>83908451

literally lynched. You probably hate twin peaks season 3 too
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>>83908209
>no air in space
>somehow there is still flames of explosion


HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH
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>>83908652
>what is a chemical oxidizer
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>>83908156
Hard to be better than Galactica, but you should definitely see The Expanse. Loved BSG, loving The Expanse.
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>>83908708
Don't give such obvious trolls (You)s
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>>83908228
>>83908539
>>83908605
>>83908780
OP here. Thanks guys. I'll check these. BTW, I'm still open to suggestions.
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>>83908156
farscape, Babylon 5
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>>83908156
Battlestar Galactica is the best space-ship-sci-fi show, Person of Interest is the best non-space-ship-sci-fi show. The intro to the show gives you a tl;dr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOnQ8CD3v4g

Fair warning though, it's a stealth sci-fi, it starts out with The Machine as being basically a plot device, but by season 4 it's full cyberpunk.
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>>83908976

what
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>>83908201
"With a cherry on top"
>Why use a wormhole weapon
>Why not a blackhole weapon
>racism

Farscape is fun, but it's not better than BSG. The only true contender we have nowadays is The Expanse.

Watch SG-1 and SGU, if you don't mind older stuff check out Babylon 5, it was ambitious but was trying to do more than it could.

Red Dwarf is more of a comedy but it is solid sci-fi too.
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>>83908976
Hey, OP here, thanks man. I heard Person of Interest many times however, I didn't watch it. Dunno why.

One question, is it really sci-fi or is it somewhere between crime/action/and sci fi?
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>>83909035
What is this post supposed to convey?
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>>83908976
>person of interest
>not sense8
Yes I know, it's extremely gay, but it's still good.
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>>83908156
NO
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>>83909056
>>83908976
>person of interest
>not sense8
Yes I know, it's extremely gay, but it's still good. You can trust me anon, search your feelings.
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>>83909075
that fact alone makes it trash
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>>83908156
boring. literally dropped by second episode.
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>>83909056
Like I say, it's a stealth sci-fi, with the rest being action/crime procedural stuff, like CSI but not terrible. Most of season 1, The Machine is just a plot device to tell them someone is in trouble, but as they go about saving people, others take notice of The Machine and try and kill it / control it / make their own version of it. Eventually, The Machine will become a character, and I don't want to spoil more than that because it's just great.
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>>83909189
Ok, thanks. Let's give it a try. Adding to my list.
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>>83908318
You got filtered pleb, The Last Jedi is coming out soon, that's probably more your speed.
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Babylon 5 is surprisingly good once you get past the childish props, costumes etc..
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>>83908642
>comparing bullshit galactica to twin peaks
off yourself degenerate
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>>83908364
I think it was pretty much implied that the guns were somewhat automated. The bridge was the only crew needed to operate them. So basically a couple of crew members there probably monitored them and made sure they were operating as expected; maybe even focused their fire and optimized for certain conditions.

I'm more concerned with the lack of custodial staff: just who the hell cleaned that place?
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>>83909894
its great the Lando Gkar dou is unmatched.
https://youtu.be/pJmuHNDcXLQ
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>>83910167
The small chain guns are automated but you can see there are domes for a person to look through between the barrels of all the large guns, I can't tell if there's anyone in there though.

And it works like any boat at sea, the lowest ranked petty officers cleaned up. I'm sure you see some of the knuckledraggers with mops and such. And Adama has a bunch of staff that seem to just wait on him ("Jaffy brings me coffee")
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>>83909894
YES.
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Are all of you memeing me? BSG was the worst fucking sci fi show I've ever seen in my life.

Outside of everyone talking in an annoying hushed whisper making some people entirely incomprehensible and the sets being made out of pegboard, the fucking retarded plot and final episode should've quelled all doubt that the show is shit.

We're talking about the newer one, right?
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>>83910338
Yes, we're talking about the newer reboot.

You have shit taste.
Perhaps you would prefer the one where the Cylons attack LA in 70s?
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>>83910552

I watched through the entire reboot with some friends of mine and it was unanimous that the show was nonredeemable shit. From the sets, to the contrived OH NO YOU CAN'T DIFFERENTIATE A CYLON FROM A HUMAN to the fucking way the people spoke to one another. The camera work was also horrible. Everything about the fucking show was terrible. Utterly terrible.
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>>83910610
>with some friends of mine
This where I know you're trolling.
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>>83908156
It's the only sci-fi show i really like because it puts the interpersonal conflicts front and center and not the space magic type tech or progressive social politics.
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>>83910610
>being this wrong on a Mauritian animal husbandry forum

Rethink your life.
Yes the last season wasn't all that great and yes the finale was weak as shit. The rest of your """opinion""" is straight contrarian trash.
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>>83910610
>OH NO YOU CAN'T DIFFERENTIATE A CYLON FROM A HUMAN
Yes, that would be a legitimite and grave concern.

Watch it again in 5 or 10 years and maybe your opinion will be different.
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>>83910338
>everyone talking in an annoying hushed whisper
Other than William "Husker" Adama, who?

>the sets being made out of pegboard
Okay. So is the problem that they didn't waste money? It makes sense to have a way to secure stuff to the walls on a space ship without welding it in place.

>the fucking retarded plot and final episode
I smell a Fedora

>>83910610
>contrived
>How dare they deliberately write a show about robots looking like humans?!
What did you mean by this, seriously?

>The camera work was also horrible
It's not all directed by the same person. The ones Adama directed were great.
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Favorite BSG scene?

>Forget which episode
>A number 5 model cylon is on the bridge of the galactica posing as a human
>Baltar comes in, starts making weird faces and off hand comments to her.
>She addresses him in front of everyone
>he thinks she's the 5 in his head, ignores her
>slowly realizes she's real, and what that implies about the safety of the ship but he can't tell anyone.

God I miss that wacky show.
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>>83910662
That's how I feel too, every character in Battlestar Galactica is real, and flawed, and it makes them feel so alive. That's why Final Cut is one of my favourite episodes

>>83910859
>but he can't tell anyone
I didn't like that Baltar didn't realise he could say something like:

>Oh my Lord of Kobol! This woman is identical to my assistant who died during the attacks on Caprica! Someone arrest her and look up her military file from when she got clearance to access all your data!
He could then pretend to work out that she must be a Cylon and he had been ignorant of their plan.
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>>83910610
>OH NO YOU CAN'T DIFFERENTIATE A CYLON FROM A HUMAN
That's your big strife? It's not that unbelievable that tech can achieve an exact copy of humans, given enough time and practice.

The biggest issue with the show was by far the "final 5" bit. Bunch of forced shit they could have done without. Should have just been a couple hidden ones (general Tigh and the Chief), which nobody knows of until near the very end (the big "we've done this before" reveal). None of the cylons or humans should have known about them either; let them rediscover themselves as they come to their previous planet (their previous self's planet). Maybe nobody else ever knows about them either (though maybe Adama gets to have one last talk with Sigh, though the Chief stays hidden?).
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the expanse is about as good as it gets for sci fi right now, there isn't much else on the same level.
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>>83910955
I know about farming
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>>83910955
It would draw suspicion towards Baltar (though he already had that due to his character) and he would be questioned (like, was your assistant responsible for the attack/blast? Did you leak any classified info to her?). Not to mention he didn't know if she knew what he knew.
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>>83910859
The entire Tomb of Athena scene always gives me goosebumps. Runners up:

>"Humanity's children are returning home. Today."
>Roslin/The Captain on the radio and finding out she's the president
>The Battle of Ragnar
>The 33 minutes montages
>Shooting down the Olympic Carrier
>The dinner party with Ellen Tigh
>Webm related, obviously
>Cally finds out the truth about The Chief
>"I've been to Earth"
>The entire finale from start to finish, especially Adama's monologue

It's all so fucking good. I've probably missed loads but that's a wall of text already.
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after they learned that earth was a pile of shit why didn't they just go back to fucking kobol...? they make a big deal out of finding a habitable planet yet they know exactly where kobol is
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>>83908156
Is that an official poster? If so, embarrassing.
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>>83911296
I appreciate their treatment of a space vehicle in atmosphere. Much better than other "war in stars" movies that allow space vehicles to maneuver like trick planes in atmosphere.
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>>83911369
>they know exactly where kobol is
So do the Cylons though, and they're hiding from Cavil at that point. Also, they've gone so far out of their way, and they found out that the Galactica was FUBAR before they decided what to do.
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>>83908156
>space gimmicks for autism
>with primetime-tier shitty drama and identity politics
>ass pull ending

Just as bad as the expanse. They're both for autists who identify as space enthusiasts.
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>>83911665
let me guess you watch dark matter lol
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>>83911665
But there is literally nothing better out there for your "space enthusiasts". BSG and the Expanse are the best offerings.
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My favorite scifi show. Probably never be remade tho
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>>83911405
Are you honestly kidding? Do you have any concept of how much energy it would take to warp space? It blow the hemisphere off. A repulsorlift drive or any depiction of a spaceship hovering without destroying everything underneath of it is equally bad.
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>>83908156
Babylon 5, better long running plot/complex characters.
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>>83911709
I don't watch sci fi. I read lots though.

>>83911717
Space enthusiasts are people who think they know a lot about space while possessing no formal education on the matter. That's all. BSG and the Expanse are just primetime dramas. The Expanse was designed specifically for the WWE audience.
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>>83911735
>a spaceship hovering
There was no hover in that webm, just free fall. Your "warping space" and "repulsorlift drive" nonsense is just that, nonsense. Don't expect some kind of reality in made up/theoretical technology; you come off sounding just as stupid.
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>>83908156
As far as drama goes the first three seasons are pure kino

it gets a little LOST up it's own ass and ends with a literal asspull. but the journey is worth it.

also, space artillery.
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Cleopatra 2525 is the best scifi show ever!
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>>83911788
>the WWE audience.
Like the stampede wrastling? Your delusional af.

But you did nothing to counter my point: there is literally nothing better.
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>>83911796
>it's just a movie, lol.

Like the Expanse. Nothing about that show is realistic either.
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>>83911735
The only thing not accounted for is how the Battlestar displaces particles occupying the space of the ship.

If you're in a void it's not as big an issue, I think the ship and crew would over time accumulate defects and foreign elements in their bodies. space is only like 99.99% empty.
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>>83911788
yes this guys right, only physicists should be allowed to write, read, and watch sci fi
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>>83911834
>there is literally nothing better.

On tv, of course there wouldn't be. TV audiences are very simple minded, especially the ones who watch the sci fi channel. The expanse aired just before WWE, so that's the audience they aimed for.
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>>83911926
what the hell are you talking about, before WWE? so all shows that come on before WWE are only there to get people ready to watch WWE

lol wtf is this
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>>83911926
>The expanse aired just before WWE, so that's the audience they aimed for.
Where the fuck is the WWE and the Expanse on the same channel

otherwise what the fuck are you even talking about you absolute tool
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>>83911911
I don't see why you're upset that it's unrealistic.

>>83911904
Yeah even if they somehow mitigated the energy of the "jump" the ship appearing in the air would force out all the other air which would heat it more than an atomic bomb would.

The pressure change from all the air rushing into the space that the ship occupied when it jumped out would probably kill the people on the ground below it. Instant worst hurricane ever for a moment.
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>>83911962
>Tv channels don't organize their time blocks, they want people to only tune in for one hour of their advertising.
Seems a good way to go out of business.

>>83912015
Syfy.
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>>83911926
>On tv, of course there wouldn't be.
>on a board dedicated to /tv/

Wut? Are you implying there is something better online or thru netflix/amazon/hulu/etc? Because I think your full of shit. There is most definitely better literary sources, but this isn't /lit/
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>>83912105
There was a medium before television.
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>>83912021
>the ship appearing in the air would force out all the other air which would heat it more than an atomic bomb would.
That's assuming the jump is not instantaneous. If the ship as a whole is instantly transported to that location, there's no time for the air to get out of the way. I would think any particulate matter would be assimilated or wind up in the ship's atmosphere. This would limit the technology to unpolluted space, probably deep space if it's to be used with any regularity.

Or maybe the ship "unzips" from a singularity, which is kind of what it looks like. In which case you are probably right.
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>>83912105
But if you want best television live-action science fiction. Babylon 5 would have to be it. Battlestar is Once Upon A Time "In Space".
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>>83912116
so go read a book and jerk off on /lit/?
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>>83912067
>SyFy airs the WWE now
>mfw
I am so glad I don't have cable
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>>83912145
>there's no time for the air to get out of the way

There is no such thing as "instantaneous", for one. But if the air could not get away then it would fuse with the hull and that would result in a tremendous ball of plasma where the ship and a good chunk of the continent used to be.
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>>83908539
this. B5 is the greatest sci fi show ever made
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>>83911665
>identity politics
"If we identify you as a Cylon: airlock" is not identity politics.
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>>83912250
>whos a cylon is he a cylon no hes not a cylon but now he is a cylon he was one all along what about her is she a cylon the chief sure loves her nah shes not a cylon really no she isnt okay he is now god exists heres earth the end.
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>>83912279
>whos a cylon is he a cylon no hes not a cylon but now he is a cylon he was one all along what about her is she a cylon the chief sure loves her nah shes not a cylon really no she isnt okay he is
That's not identity politics either, that's paranoia

>now god exists heres earth the end.
And I don't know how you think that relates to it, but the religious aspects of Battlestar were signposted from day 1, and I don't know how you can watch the season 3 finale and not realise something supernatural is going on, even if you missed the confirming that Head Six and Head Baltar aren't hallucinations or implants.
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>>83912191
>SyFy airs the WWE now
They don't.
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>>83912151
>Babylon 5
To be fair, I haven't really gotten into that, but it seems to amateurish. Maybe that's just the first few episodes though? Also, shows that over do other species, and yet they all look like cheap human costumes, are fucking eye sores. Nothing realistic about infinte alien diversity, yet all looking like off colored humans with funky hair.
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>>83911904
>The only thing not accounted for is how the Battlestar displaces particles occupying the space of the ship.
They do later though, space collapses at the point of a FTL jump and when Boomer kidnaps the kid she jumps while right next to the Galactica and it rips off the hull near her jump point.
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>>83912515
>has a great story
>buhh these costumes and graphics look like they had a tv budget!

Yeah that's why television science fiction is the worst it's ever been. TV audiences won't watch it unless it has shiny fidget spinner graphics and gimmicks, those cost a lot of money, so the show has to appeal to "all audiences" to have a chance of recouping the costs.
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>>83911709
nothing wrong wwith dark matter, faggot
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>>83912425
The fact that supernatural exists doesn't mean a Deus ex Machina stops being bad writing.

Also the ending was scientifically retarded since the starmaps on Kobol and flags of the colonies obviously showed the modern skymap of Earth, not the one it had 150 000 years ago.
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>>83911721
that's as much a sci-fi show as power rangersi s
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>>83912692
there's nothing wrong with it if you have 0 taste in females
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>>83908176

/thread
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>>83908156
I've never seen battlestar but SG-1 is my favourite of all time. SG: Atlantis was also very very good and SGU started off badly but started getting interesting before they cancelled it. Firefly was also ridiculously good, probably my second favourite of all time.

>>83908228
>>83908605
I just started watching DS9 and struggled through the first episode. The next few episodes were better and I'm getting into it. Looking forward to season 2 now
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>>83912721
>Deus ex Machina
This is usually applied to actual asspulls, Kara's storline took literally 2 years to play out, you'd have to be a fucking idiot not to realise what happened as soon as she came back from the dead

>scientifically retarded
Stars are not stationary, and the original Earth was very close to their home Earth, again, as you see in the season 3 finale.
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>>83912865
I'm more triggered by the idea humans evolved on two different planets

I am willing to forgive FTL travel and God taking a personal interest in a convoy of space-faring humans but not this
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>>83912639
More to do with the "too many" aliens concept. Same reason I never got into Star Trek. They think sentient life is common, when everything else points to the contrary. The fact they always seem to have these Galactic central control places is a big leap into the trash. Ya, the costumes could be better, but I'd rather not have so many alien species to begin with. Makes for a poor sci fi.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWl1ZteUS8U
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>>83912993
I'm fine with an abundance of aliens if they are actually, you know, alien. Instead we get generic humanoids with makeup. Like the human bodyplan is this perfect form everything moves towards. Real aliens are probably more like insects. Intelligent aliens might not exist at all, but there's definitely some life out there.

I know they provided an explanation for why everyone's a humanoid in Star Trek. it's still ridiculously convenient.
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>>83912993
If you want realism there wouldn't be any other species or interstellar travel.

People have preconceived notions and TV sci fi can only afford to stay in production when those notions are coddled. They never get orbital mechanics right either, look at gravity and how popular that was despite having a magic cloud of space shrapnel as the villain.
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>>83913102
>Like the human bodyplan is this perfect form everything moves towards
But it is though, and you're not being any more creative when you say it must look like something weird to you like an insect.

Humans look the way we do because it was the most efficient form. It's not a coincidence that our sensory organs are located as high up as possible, that our brains are as close to the bulk of our sensory organs as possible, that we have as few limbs as bilateral symmetry will give us, and that we breathe a a very reactive chemical.

Convergent evolution is a thing. I can 100% guarantee that anything that evolves our level of sentience won't have more than 4 limbs and one head. It just takes too much energy to grow extra limbs.
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>>83913155
Even The Expanse, arguably the only show slavishly devoted to getting space travel "right" has to compress events so that people are making Jovian trips in a matter of days instead of weeks or months. It's all a bit tiresome.
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>>83913255
>it was the most efficient form
For the exact selection pressures we experienced and limited by the conditions of the planet we originated on. Most planets are not like Earth, and will have entirely different pressures depending on the other lifeforms and conditions there.
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>>83913284
While beating the audience over the head with expository dialogue about the science of what's happening that any half-brained sci-fi audience should already know.

Oh and microgravity sex scenes, nerds love that. Just like how game of thrones would distract idiots from long exposition with titty scenes.
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>>83913255
Practically all mammals and even the goddamn dinosaurs were quadrapeds with a brain and nervous system located in the skull. Maybe the reason is dinosaurs and mammals are all related and evolved from a similar 4-legged critter.

Even if we assume all life is carbon based, uses water for a solvent and breathes oxygen, there's a lot of variety in how intelligent organisms can evolve. Spiders and octopi, while not writing novels, display novel intelligence that could develop into sentience if humans were not around changing the environment too fast for them to adapt.
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>>83913347
>For the exact selection pressures we experienced and limited by the conditions of the planet we originated on.
That really only matters to how our lungs work and how thick our skin and eyes are. Not our physical arrangement of limbs.

>Most planets are not like Earth, and will have entirely different pressures depending on the other lifeforms and conditions there.

99% of planets with life will never develop sentience on our level. Nothing else on earth ever has. Higher Intelligence is a fluke of evolution, not a common outcome or a goal.
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>>83913390
>While beating the audience over the head with expository dialogue
I hate this so much. Naomi is practically a narrator in season 2, it's extremely grating. Just shut the fuck up and trust the audience to figure things out instead of spoonfeeding.

It's already dead to me.
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>>83913284
>has to compress events so that people are making Jovian trips in a matter of days instead of weeks or months

That's my biggest issue with the show. It kind of builds into other issues as well. They push the over the top non-stop action, and it is forced into the story by using this plot device. They could tone it down; reduce the intensity/action and get the space travel right, but that would require use of time jumps which might dislodge the pace.
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>>83913445
>Practically all mammals and even the goddamn dinosaurs were quadrapeds with a brain and nervous system located in the skull. Maybe the reason is dinosaurs and mammals are all related and evolved from a similar 4-legged critter.
Maybe because all the six legged fish that tried to survive ashore millions of years before that were out-competed by the four legged fish who needed less energy to grow and survive.

>Even if we assume all life is carbon based,
Anything sentient will have to be. Their energy needs are too high.

>Spiders and octopi, while not writing novels, display novel intelligence that could develop into sentience if humans were not around changing the environment too fast for them to adapt.
Spiders are about as smart as a computer ai, don't know where you're coming from with that. Cephelopods are about as smart as a good dog at best. They cannot forge metals underwater though, so they'll max out about the same place as every primate other than humans have.

I get that you want to be contrary and creative at the same time. But convergent evolution applies greatly in a homogeneous universe like ours.
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Saying that we shouldn't be surprised at the "God did it" ending of BSG because the religious themes were in the show from the start is like trying to justify Allah showing up in Homeland because there are Muslims in it
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>>83913470
>Nothing else on earth ever has
It's just an ecological niche that can only accommodate one species barring exceptional circumstances, we wiped out all the competitors, like Neanderthals.

>Higher Intelligence is a fluke of evolution
It's really not, once you get to the point of fire and unlock a vast new food supply, weapon and survival tool all in one, the genie is out of the bottle and intelligence becomes the new selection pressure.
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>>83913560
You can have religious themes without god being real. "God did it" is still an asspull.
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>>83913528
They would have to take the show in the direction of a more intimate, human-condition-in-space kino instead of following "X crew member's problem of the week". i don't see it happening. season 1 suggested this as a possibility, but it just went into sitcom-action territory in season 2 that doesn't sit right with me at all. i didn't care for the "kino" bit with glowing julia either. if you read the novels the deviations in tone are clear. eros should have been a nightmare.
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>>83913560
>Constant evidence of the existence of a divine hand is the same as people believing in a desert religion with no proof
No it isn't

>>83913632
>asspull
It isn't though. Or are you honestly fucking stupid and didn't notice anything strange until the last few minutes of the finale?
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>>83913629
>It's just an ecological niche that can only accommodate one species barring exceptional circumstances, we wiped out all the competitors, like Neanderthals.
Then why weren't there sentient dinosaurs?

>fire
It takes a tremendous amount of intelligence to already exist for a species to be able to utilize fire, much less tame it.
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>>83913736
Did the characters on the show solve their problems? Or did something else solve them?
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>>83908156
>the last supper but jesus is a woman
cool and original
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>>83913736
BSG could not have ended well if they failed their mission anyway. They had to somehow retrieve Hera AND not die in the process AND destroy the Cylons pursuing them relentlessly.

It's a deus ex machina but it's at least honest about it. also as bullshit asspulls go it's not as bad as corking up the butthole of the universe in some cave.
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>>83913763
>Then why weren't there sentient dinosaurs?
How do you know there weren't?

>tremendous amount of intelligence to already exist for a species to be able to utilize fire
Rubbing sticks together is not hard, and over evolutionary time, creatures like apes will start fires all the time, it just takes one accident to set off the chain reaction.

>>83913802
Both
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>>83908156
No no, this is the best sci-fi ever made, the plot is soo intresting,i mean the epic journey of this politheistic people to a new land under the guide of the true monotheistic god, man it's so inspiring everyone should learn something about this great epic series!
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>>83911061
>I know about farming

>>83911296
>Adama's monologue

Haters gonna hate, nothing will ever top this show.
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>>83913874
>>Then why weren't there sentient dinosaurs?
>How do you know there weren't?
bruh...
there were no sentient dinosaurs.
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>>83913945
Look up what sentient means
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>>83913976
bruh...

there were no sapient dinosaurs
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>>83914015
How do you know there weren't?
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>>83914098
Where are all the ruins

In the absence of evidence we must presume that dinosaurs were some impressive megafauna, but not mammals and not in the same league. they were literal brainlets.

birds are the Einsteins of dinosaurs.
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>For those of you just joining us from the Pyramid game on Geminon, welcome to The Spotlight, our weekly interview program devoted to people making news on Caprica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHp9oZPqs8E
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>>83909894

"No!"
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>>83914143
Sapience comes before architecture, and what makes you think buildings would survive whatever cataclysm took out most forms of life on the planet and the millenia of inactivity afterwards?

I don't think dinosaurs built anything, but to completely rule out that they could have been intelligent because you haven't seen huts is ludicrous.
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>>83913284
the show has to compress and skip over travelling times because it's kind of useless information. do you really want to see "2 weeks later" or "5 days later" every fucking time they travel somewhere? who gives a shit?

the books do go into this though, almost every time they have to travel somewhere they explain how long it will take to get there.
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>>83914224
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>>83914279
>the books do go into this though, almost every time they have to travel somewhere they explain how long it will take to get there.
the books are literally better
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>>83911721
I tried watching this a few times and it just seemed too weird, and not in a good way. One of the episodes, for some reason the crew needed to drink the girl alien's pee to cure something??
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