GWC Podcast #103

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#1

The week we take on the penultimate BSG 4.0 episode. Highlights: we discuss Baltar’s “confession” (and really detailed wound), debate how having a cylon wife might affect marriage vows (and subsequent verbal contracts), laud the restraint of cylon flight suit fashion designers, note Roslin’s slow and thorough walk to the Dark Side, question the requirement that cylons give up their immortality to earn trust (but recognize the war implications of unlimited re-spawns), discuss Elosha’s brief return to BSG, enjoy Three’s “psyche!” moment, analyze the 4.0 finale trailer, and wonder if there are any “chick centurions.”

http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/2008/06/08/gwc-podcast-103/

#2

oh thank god, i was going frakin crazy

#3

woohoo! The new phonebook’s here!

#4

I knew you guys would sell-out eventually, frakin money balcubines.

#5

what, does that imply you aren’t anymore?

#6

Wow, Barb, that was kinda scary. You sounded like nightmare grandmas. So shnogging is OK but saying ass isn’t?

#7

Theres crazy, and Barb/Romo/Chuck crazy. I’m normally the 1st, but I was heading to the 2nd.

#8

Wow…thats more than straight to the gutter

#9

lol Seen-Bear sterns I saw the building over spring break, like 2 days after the crash, I laughed.

#10

Chuck, your wrong.

#11

Audra that might be funny, but it brings back Borat memmories :eeek:

#12

best looking bald man ever

#13

Interesting discussion about the multi-Sharon/Helo situation. You make lots of good points, but I thought of another problem with Cylons falling in love. Now that a bunch of 8’s have accessed Athena’s memories, does that mean there are a lot of Sharons who love Helo, but are destined to live a life of unrequited love?

#14

this could be the impetus for the cylon(z)’ rebuilding their technology, including the hub. the Sharons want their own Helos

#15

Either what Phil said, or we get the Helocubines

#16

Woah. I just finished the Chuck’s rant…did I miss something somewhere? Anyone point me to a thread that I should read as background?

EDIT: I have since gone and read the background, no need to draw that conversation into this discussion. Thank you all for pointing me in the right direction.

#17

about the Magical Black People role (not just black woman, but most of the time it is), Matrix had the Oracle. It is a very common stereotype in movies and tv shows. But after all, elders have more life expereince, so I suppose it is more natural for them to give more useful advices.

#18

http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showthread.php?t=2290&page=3

started with my thread. though I was more wondering about people on the forum and not Chuck Audra and Sean.

#19

I’m 10 minutes in. RE: Chuck’s comments on ‘Sine Qua Non’. The episode has grown on me. At first I felt there was something amiss, something not quite right. After multiple viewings, I’ve grown to love it. I think the reason why is as the show loves to go against the grain, it’s designed to throw you off balance. To come at you from a different direction and change your perceptions. That’s real life. No matter how hard you plan or prepare, real life always throws the unexpected. I think the episode makes Romo stronger because it makes him more human and complex. Just my oipinion, y’all.

#20

Great discussion about the effects of resurrection on the ability for the humans and cylons the find common ground. My question after they destroyed the Hub was not the loss of the ability to resurrect, but what is the possibility of cylons to procreate? Obviously, they have significant difficulties doing it biologically, unless a human or Final Fiver are involved. However, can they still make new versions of the old 7 models? Will they each just start off as fresh without any shared memories, just the personality quirks endemic to teach model? If they can’t create new individuals, then by destroying the Hub they haven’t only made each individual mortal, but they’ve also fated their own species to extinction. That would seem less than wise to my thinking.