GWC Podcast #85

[GalaxyRanger]

You know, I think this kind of discussion of genres and concepts other than SciFi may be one of the biggest draws and differentiating factors of the GWC. It’s surprising diversity of topics humanizes a forum that could, by the nature of it’s main focus, tend to be cold, insular and even exclusionary. (It is so often that forums of hard-core fans, be they sport fans, roll players, what have you, raise cred-based walls around what essentially become feisty groups of navel-gazers.)
And it’s my opinion that it’s the GWC Crew that is responsible for the inclusionary and general friendly nature found here. Their original decision to podcast the good-natured banter of friends, side tracks and all (instead of say, recaps, staunch declarations of theory and general over-emphatic opinionization) has attracted a similar fan-base with similarly diverse interests.
I would hazard that while having many overlapping interests, not one GWC forum member would described themself exactly as any other would, and I for one am happy for it.
Though this isn’t really the thread for it, thank-you Audra, Chuck and Sean for creating, and setting the example for, such a special place.

Oh yeah, you’re absolutely right. And this forum and the podcast would work wonder against the clichéing that often haunts SciFi fans, you know, we’re oftentimes stereotyped as being so aloof and detached from earthly matters that we don’t care about anything but SciFi (and that’s the good cliché) or (and that’s the bad cliché) people will think that SciFi geeks are childish, need to grow up, etc.
At least I have frequently come across opinions like these in other people.

[dxf]

…stlll chipping away at #85. Random notes:

The discussion of RDM’s better work vs. his not-so-better work reminded me of classic literature-talk, like desingating works like “This Side of Paradise” as “minor Fitzgerald.” Like, there’s “major Moore” and “minor Moore.”

And I’m resisting the temptation to pick up the ball of Galactica-Related Porn Titles and run with it.

[bkitty]

I always assumed the resurrection ships more or less worked like a server printing. When a cylon dies, the data gets sent to the server (resurrection ship). At that point the server then decides whether to “print” the cylon to locally attached printer (onboard tub of goo) or a printer located somewhere else on the network (any other ship close-by ship with a tub of goo). If the resurrection ship is destroyed/out of range then the cylon data is just lost, because you still need the server to print to the printer. Having a printer alone isn’t enough. The resurrection ship is probably necessary to 1) figure out where the cylon is going to be resurrected 2) create a queue (store the cylon until a tub of goo is available) 3) reformat the cylon data into a format the goo understands (along the lines of creating a postscript file) (cylonscript?). What I wonder is how the resurrection decides where the cylon should be resurrected? Presumably in a case like Sharon’s she put in a request before she died and that was somehow attached to her data, but what about when a cylon dies with no warning? I’m guessing there’s some sort of default printer (tub of goo)? And if that’s out of range they just get resurrected on the resurrection ship?

Most awesome explanation, yet! Yoooo are as goooooods!

[timmers]

I always assumed the resurrection ships more or less worked like a server printing. …the server then decides whether to “print” the cylon to locally attached printer (onboard tub of goo) or a printer located somewhere else on the network (any other ship close-by ship with a tub of goo). If the resurrection ship is destroyed/out of range then the cylon data is just lost, because you still need the server to print to the printer. …?

Sheer awesomeness. The whole resurrection ship thingy was feeling a bit like one of those THIS IS A PLOT DEVICE things, which couldn’t be beaten into making any sense. This makes great sense of it though, and addresses the fact that it looks to me like the ‘interesting’ de-gooings aren’t happening on the resurrection ship, and also that one scene when d’anna gets boxed which IS on the resurrection ship.

yay for you

[timmers]

• Speaking of Sharon…much love for her…just don’t entirely trust her. Look at “water” again from Season 1…just this feeling that at some point, her programming will kick in and it’ll be all over.

But that was Sharon(Boomer) not Sharon(Athena) wasn’t it? and Sharon(Athena) claimed (IIRC) that she didn’t have that programming.

Now I know its not conclusive, as a whole lotta people don’t realise their ‘company’ PCs are doing keystroke monitoring or whatnot, but I’m in the camp where I’m inclined to believe Sharon(Athena) doesn’t have sleeper cell programming… mainly for the reason that it’d be a bit too pat and ‘easy’ for the writers to do, and if it were the case I’ll probably feel a bit let down