Too funny considering I spent the day at Cedar Point Sunday. lol
For the record, I was planning to buy this anyway. After having seen it, I want to have this DVD even more. Don’t judge me because I use the tools that are available to me.
Word!!!
I must admit I was so excited for the Plan to come out and we rushed home to watch it and we were left a little wanting. While it was nice to see the ole familiar characters, we were expecting more questions to be answered and a little more of a story.
I liked it but found myself a little wanting on the adventure side of it. Almost felt like (and I mean this in the best possible way). Like its an academic exercise. in character motivation, but still all in all a great movie and Cavil is my favorite cylon so i can’t complain to loudly.
Cavil: I’m talking about the fact that you’re walking around the fleet wearing that jacket and more importantly, that face! You’re recognisable.
Five: His jacket was burgundy. This is teal.
And that my friends makes all the difference!;)Guess who just got their copy in the mail? Me, yep.
As soon as I get home, I’m pressing play!!
Here’s a question- Was the boy Cavil killed real, or just a head character? I only ask because I seriously doubt that after 200+ days in the fleet, anyone has fresh apples to eat.
Loved whore Six- she did a spot on Ellen Tigh impression. Cavil programs a Six to have his mother’s personality so he can frak her any time…ewwww.
I enjoyed that W.B.Yeats reference from the hybrid.
I found The Plan pretty weak overall, but enjoyed the hell out of it regardless. Brain Candy for the true BSG fan. But I shudder to think of what anyone not previously exposed to BSG would think of it… I guess it’s not very likely they’d watch it.
Oh, and Cody… I downloaded it, and then I bought it. The system worked. (I would have bought it regardless, but I just couldn’t wait!)
Just finished watching the blu-ray of The Plan. Not sure what to make of it exactly. I did like it but it is certainly for fans only. It does make me want to start a rewatch. I really wish they had explained the story of the Olympic Carrier more. It seemed like they were going to and then didn’t.
Pegasus had fruit.
And there is always the botanical cruiser (the domey one)
Remember this was before the rush for algae :]
In the promos when I saw Simon saying “Ill blow up my ship” I thought it was going to be the olympic carrier for sure. But no.
The mystery lives on
Awww. Just saw it. Me likes.
Maybe I’m in double trouble, then. Not only did I download it 9 days early, I converted it to iPod format and watched it a couple of times on my iPod touch. I then gave it to 5 different friends in both AVI and iPod touch format.
Then, yesterday, I purchased the Blu-ray to complete my BSG Blu-ray collection.
Win-Win.
I guess that makes sense enough. Thanks for the reminder.
I just wanted that boy to be Head Daniel so badly!
I am probably going to be in the minority, but I really did not like this.
The Title is “The Plan” and the only mention of a plan was “everything dies last week.”
Everything else was Cavil trying to ad-lib, no plan.
Seeing Ellen put onto the ship injured, ruined for me the finding of her later when it was said that nobody remembered her being there.
I gave the Cylon and Cavil a lot more credit BEFORE having seen this.
Had “the Plan” been, to keep a small number of humans alive and Guide them to Earth so they could see the futility of their own existence before Cavil put them out of their misery. And kept the FIVE in the fleet to torture them. Then, Boomer blowing the water supply, so that she could be sent on the mission to find the water ON KOBAL, would have been part of a “PLAN”
I am very disappointed. VERY (and it makes me sad)
I am kinda glad that the “plan” was cavil trying to deal with the enemy after contact . In militery terms we aways say that no plan lasts after contact with the enemy… after that it’s all new plans ( at least the details). If there had been a sweeping large enveloping plan that included haveing the 5 be the resistance and all that… it would have been epic, but stupid.
The way it worked out was a little more believable! and epic in it’s own way!)
So I just finished watching The Plan, and I have to be blatantly honest, I didn’t think it was super-great. Don’t get me wrong, it filled in a LOT of gaps and tied some things together very nicely, especially the scene from the miniseries where Caprica Six turns away as Baltar leaves and talks to the “hidden stranger.” But in my humble opinion, I don’t think Fleet-Cavil really had a plan once he realized the genocide wasn’t complete, he was just ad-libbing it on the fly.
A few things I found noteworthy:
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You see what evil d-bags a lot of the original seven were as they smiled while watching the nukes rain down on the Twelve Colonies. Hearing the hybrid talk about the destruction so nonchalantly was unnerving.
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Holy crap, that was a lot of boobage.
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Resistance-Cavil was one of the only original seven models who got it right; the Cylons threw a temper tantrum on a cataclysmic scale when humanity didn’t love them as the humans loved themselves. Bringing their anger forward in the form of nuclear holocaust and genocide was NOT the way to go.
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Fleet-Cavil was the biggest d-bag of them all, much like we all realized after he vented to Ellen after her resurrection about seeing gamma rays, hearing x-rays, etc. sounding like a cranky child throwing a temper tantrum. Plus, he stabbed a kid! Holy frak! I’m wondering if they’ll have to cut that scene out when it gets broadcast. I also feel a little more bad for Boomer, considering how badly Fleet-Cavil brainwashed her into split personalities. I am a little curious what the elephant figuring represents though.
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Fleet-Simon was proof that not all Cylons are programmed evil. The fact that he airlocked himself rather than blow up the ship and family he’d become attached to shows it. It’s a shame there weren’t more like him within the Cylon ranks, he’d have probably had more lines.
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Fleet-Cavil “lesson plan” for humanity contained one big flaw: if he wanted to teach humanity to change their “sinful ways,” destroying every last one of them leaves no one left to learn.
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Was kinda nifty revisit the attack on the Scorpia Shipyards and see Pegasus make a cameo. If you look real carefully, you’ll see a squadron of Cylon Raiders strafing a line of parked Raptors right next to the Pegasus’s hangar pod; that same event was shown during the attack in Razor.
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Fleet-Cavil was right about one thing in his “future speech” as he’s floating away from Galactica: as a machine, he can come to know much more. Too bad he didn’t consider forgiveness and love as one of those possibilities.
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Resistance-Simon was a d-bag for setting Kara up to be nabbed for the Farm. Admittedly, Resistance-Cavil was wrong to encourage Simon to do it too, but at the very least, he was open to the idea of changing his perspective and opinion of humans after he watched how much they cared for each other in the face of such adversity. Seeing that, he gave up on trying to shove the idea of forgiving the Cylons down Sam’s throat.
I’m sure there’s other noteworthy stuff on this, but it’s 12:30 and I’m tired. xD
It’s a reference to the idiom: Memory like an elephant. Means you never forget. Made me chuckle.
I quite enjoyed it, though it wasn’t what I had expected… I’ll post more thots later.
But for now: SIMON SPEAKS!
if anything (and there was much more there), that made The Plan worthwhile (ok bad pun there)