Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World

[Nealithi]

https://sfdebris.com/videos/bsg/bsg78_1.php

A review I have long waited for.

My only comment on the reviews itself? Themself? Why rescue one person, and why not show the refugees more. Extras cost lots of money. Basically why the borg always use one cube at a time. You can have two cubes or Data in makeup.

Okay not my only comment. Mostly because I thought of this while writing this. I feel sorry for the woman that had to play the robot dog. But I think the idea was to show robots are not in and of themselves the enemy. Sure the Cylons are bad, but not all machines even thinking ones are. Just my thought.

[Frustration]

The sheer improbability of mines capable of being ignited by blaster fire and destroying the planet is a leap too far, IMO. Coal deposits are one thing, they're geologically insignificant, and require access to surface air to burn, but a substance so easily activated that a future gun could set it off could never have been set down in the first place.

One of the many problems with treating planets as stand-ins for regions.

[Nealithi]

Ahem. "We believe it was caused by over-mining and insufficient safety precautions."

Seriously the only planet detonator I find plausible is the Death Star. If only because of scale.

I don't think it is so much treating planets as regions. As writers have no sense of scale. And my favourite comment on that. And I am paraphrasing. George R. R. Martin saw the wall the designers made. He looked at it and said that is a damn big wall. They said they did it to the scale in his books. His reply was. "Then I made it too big!"

[CharlesPhipps]

I mean, for the Klingons and Praxis, it's a Dilithium mine. You know that nonsensical magical substance that allows reality to be altered so lightspeed can happen. They also use antimatter for everything in Star Trek. I don't have my suspension of disbelief broken too much that they blew up their moon. Because we're already dealing in nonsensium.

[Madner Kami]

Sure the Cylons are bad, but not all machines even thinking ones are. Just my thought.

U-hu. Exactly what a thinking machine would say in order to convince us of this.

[Frustration]

We're all thinking machines. Some of us are made of meat.

[Frustration]

If memory serves, the moon of Praxis was being used as an energy production station, likely producing antimatter to be used as fuel.

In theory, we can do that now - not on a useful scale, but our technology allows it. Increasing the scale makes a horrendous disaster possible, yeah - loss of containment would cause a tremendous burst of gamma rays. Nothing about that is nonsensical.

[Nealithi]

I mean, for the Klingons and Praxis, it's a Dilithium mine. You know that nonsensical magical substance that allows reality to be altered so lightspeed can happen. They also use antimatter for everything in Star Trek. I don't have my suspension of disbelief broken too much that they blew up their moon. Because we're already dealing in nonsensium.

Wasn't it a tibenum mine? The stuff they used to power blasters and the FTL drives so it was similarly fantasy fuel?

[Nealithi]

Sure the Cylons are bad, but not all machines even thinking ones are. Just my thought.

U-hu. Exactly what a thinking machine would say in order to convince us of this.

I have not been a synth since the day I was buil, err born.

[TGLS]

Poor Pinocchio. He hasn't been a synth since the day he was built and everyone assumes he's a liar.