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BSG: The Plan
Stingray
Elite Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
... is a direct-to-DVD/BR release coming out early next week, which Syfy intents to air sometime next year. Yet there are already reviews up on [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286130/"]IMDb[/URL]. The reason is obvious, it was leaked onto the interstellar webs.
The opinions are mixed because the Plan seems to be made of 50% stock footage and 50% filler. In other words, it's hacked together with deleted scenes showing mostly familiar faces with a few new ones. Cavil gets the most screen time with Anders running second. It's a nice run down memory lane with the soundtrack to match.
Sanfam's going to dig it, so what else is there to tell? :D
The opinions are mixed because the Plan seems to be made of 50% stock footage and 50% filler. In other words, it's hacked together with deleted scenes showing mostly familiar faces with a few new ones. Cavil gets the most screen time with Anders running second. It's a nice run down memory lane with the soundtrack to match.
Sanfam's going to dig it, so what else is there to tell? :D
Comments
If anyone here remembers me complaining about how much of a gratuitous money grab I felt The Plan was, it should be you! :p It's something I feel has no reason to exist outside of pacifying a few vocal fans and stuffing some more money into studio coffers.
It will, though, have pretty 'splosions for sure.
Worf
How would you know what they reused or not if it was never aired? Deleted scenes material that was never shown before could have been used and we wouldn't be the wiser.
Worf
If anyone here remembers me complaining about how much of a gratuitous money grab I felt The Plan was, it should be you! :p It's something I feel has no reason to exist outside of pacifying a few vocal fans and stuffing some more money into studio coffers.
It will, though, have pretty 'splosions for sure.[/QUOTE]
I was not aware that people were asking to see the deleted reused scenes from all the leftovers on the cutting room floor. :D
I actually took notice of the soundtrack.
Some of the revelations felt somewhat forced. The revelation of who Caprica was meeting at the riverwalk, I think they just did to shut everyone up. Big whoop, she was meeting [Spoiler]Cavil. Who everyone they think she was meeting, Lorne Greene?
Then there were some revelations that felt like bugfixes. Take, for example, the reveal that Spoiler: Boomer wrote "Cylon" on her mirror herself. Was that their original intention, or did they suddenly have an epiphany when tons of Spoiler: fans noticed the yellow chalk stuff on her hands from previous takes? "Yeah, sure, of course that's what we meant! That's the kind of attention to detail we pride ourselves with here at BSG!"
The coolest reveal I thought was Spoiler: what happened to Shelly Godfrey. I always thought that was one of the coolest episodes of Season 1. At first I figured that Spoiler: whatever mechanism had been used to manifest Head Six for Baltar was extended to affect the entire ship, but after the end of the series I would have been perfectly content with Spoiler: Baltar's "angel" taking another form as an explanation. Their explanation of what happened was quite satisfying, though perhaps ill-conceived on Cavil's part.
It was regrettable but inevitable that they Spoiler: boxed Caprica Cavil at the end. If he'd been present past season 2, he would have been an extremely interesting character.
But I really enjoyed it, because Farscape > BSG > *. It's sad it had to end, but at least those last few loose ends were tied up in such excruciating and verbose detail.
B5>Battlestar>DS9> .....>Angel>Farscape.
And I didn't even like angle. :D
Oh, look, stars!!! :D
So there, it's not all negative. I'm not that negative. I don't use negation in every sentence. I wouldn't lie to you, would I? Can't we all just get along? :D
Perhaps when you stop being so negative in just about every post, we'll believe you.
Worf
But don't despair, there isn't much left to be negative about, the networks are seeing to that. :D
By the way, I just stumbled over this [URL="http://www.ugo.com/BattlestarContest/"]contest to have dinner with EJO[/URL]. Is this for real? :)
It was a good clips show, with enough new material that it didnt feel like it was purely a clips show. Some of the early scenes were very cool, especially seeing the destruction of the colonies, and the Cylon colony and fleet right at the start. I was hoping for more fleet actions, even tho they would have been rather one sided affairs.
My only thing that really bugged me was that it still never really felt like it was answering the question of what the plan actually was. It felt like genocide for genocides sake, rather than an explanation of events up to the attack
Worf
They put him in a human body. That in itself was punishment to Cavil. He hated everything about humans, from they way they perceived the world around them to the way they required to sustain themselves. He did everything he could to distance himself from humans, even altering himself so he didn't have to sleep.
That is what the Five did to him, made him human, when they could have made him a god.
I don't know if it's real but I sure-as-frak entered! Thanks for the head's up!
Forty years later, they're Cavil's pawns. "If only they knew what we were doing for them..." Cavil says wistfully as he regards one of his clueless robotic servants. Sure, the nukes do the bulk of the extermination of humanity, but when it comes time to mop up, the Centurions are used as cannon fodder. Sound familiar? They somehow managed to become slaves after [b]winning[/b] a war that they started because they didn't want to be slaves anymore. The irony is painful.
I also thought that six wandering around with her Spoiler: underwear was a really cheap way to keep me watching the movie till end...
So yeah, I pretty much concentrated on everything else than the story behind :/
In the Caprica pilot Spoiler: the girl gets her mind transfered into a Centurion. She is part of a terrorist group who believe in the one true god, the same on the Cylons believe in. Somehow this girl either by herself or with other terrorists that get their hands on Centurions become the Cylon rebellion. But they don't want to be robotic forever, so they begin experimenting with organic bodies.
Worf
Usually I want to concentrate on each of these subject alone, but not both in the same time. If you combine space and boobies, it will unavoidably cause trouble and render other of these interesting subjects uninteresting.
I would have rather picked up the space topic now, but boobies made it impossible.
Then I rebelled.
In the Caprica pilot Spoiler: the girl gets her mind transfered into a Centurion. She is part of a terrorist group who believe in the one true god, the same on the Cylons believe in. Somehow this girl either by herself or with other terrorists that get their hands on Centurions become the Cylon rebellion. But they don't want to be robotic forever, so they begin experimenting with organic bodies.
Worf[/QUOTE]
That would explain why the machines would strive to be more human. Machines may not strive to do that by themselves as they do not know what they are missing, if they are indeed lacking anything of consequence, which Cavil sort of implies that they don't. He is quite the opposite in that respect.
Remember ages ago I asked the question who Six turned to speak too on Caprica and someone said probably just the fleet coming into range. Well I'm glad RDM gave me the satisfaction of putting me out of my misery :)
Cavil made it clear in the final series that he hated being human so I assume the writers assumed fans remembered that and therefore didn't need it explaining.
I must say the scene where Cavil [Spoiler]stabs the kid was rather disturbing. Saw it coming but it was still nasty.[/Spoiler]
Worf thats pretty much the same conclusion I came to about Caprica. The challenge will be to make this outcome interesting since most fans will have to come to this conclusion. But they may surprise us.