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Yeah, Honey I shrunk the Crew is probably one of the best episodes to date. I’m hoping to have my review done of it my tonight.
Thanks Frey.
Yes I made it down here safely and without any problems. Of course, once I got here the problems started. Nothing horrible, just the typical move-in and set up hassles. And of course there all the red tape that comes with starting off at a new school.
Mandara K: I’m studying nuclear engineering (space power and propulsion).
I’ve got a tremendous backlog of reviews, pics and transcripts to upload. I expect to have them all done by tomorrow, as I’ve largely taken care of all the bureaucracy down here, for now…
Also I’m having some trouble with all of my previous email accounts, especially the sadgeezer account. If you sent mail to me at that account in the last few days, I haven’t be able to read it yet. Sorry.
Bobo wrote:when is the full review coming online?
Sorry a lot of real life stuff going on right now.
Click here for my full explanation”mandara wrote:Where’s the review, doll?
Sorry a lot of real life stuff going on right now.
Click here for my full explanationIt can be done faster. I usually get it done within 2 hours. Occasionally a few minutes over that. However I usually wait until after the encore presentation/West coast feed to upload it, so as to not really really upset TPTB.
Glad to read that you enjoy the reviews.
To answer your question, yes the BSG reviews were posted before the episodes aired in the States. This time around though, the US sees the first 10 episodes first, hence the “delay”. SkyOne will start airing the second half of the season sometime around December (not sure yet). I try to get reviews done within a week of my first seeing it. Concievably I’ll have reviews out for the last ten episodes of the season, before it airs in the US (assuming that I can legally obtain a copy, and it airs well before in the UK). It wouldn’t surprise me though if it only airs a week or two early in the UK this time around.
”mandara wrote:I mean we know om Zarek’s peeps elected him why type of people would elect a murderer and a terrorist as their leader. that would be a psyche to delve into, the people that make the Colonies.
It happens all the time in countries all over the globe. I see some election results and think “WTF?!’
I’m certain those ebay DVDs are bootlegs. Someone has been selling those things on ebay for over a year. In fact s/he was selling it when the show was still orginally airing (up to the most recently aired episode). It’s pretty sad…
”mandara wrote:Yeah, try 69 for a while.
You don’t have to tell me twice! 8)
You see his eye has been trained to see 47, just as we can train our mind to see many things.
Actually my brother is the one who constantly points out the 47’s to me. I think its contrived, much like numerology in general. There’s a great line from Pi where the mentor says something to the effect of if you look for any specific number, you will find it everywhere, just by virtue of looking for it. I’ll have to look up the exact line later.
Ironically I pointed out a 47 for my brother earlier today. His reaction was similiar to the one I always give him: the middle finger. He told me that 47 rarly turned up in another Ron Moore series, Roswell. But then I reminded him of what year the crash took place.Oh, sorry, good review of Valley of Darkness.
Thanks, but like I alluded to earlier it was rushed and not very funny.
This ep was so dark you couldn’t see the dead , I mean Hitchcock could pace scenes well to build suspense, this was a rush through.
I’m sure if it were up to the producers, and hour episode would really be 2 hours long, with the same amount of diolouge and action. The miniseries was cut to run in a three hour slot, by removing a few small scenes and getting rid of all the distracting pauses, silences, long shots etc.
But at the end of the day, they only have ~42 minutes to tell their story, so rushing has to happen.DO you read Dante? That would pep up this constant borrowing from movies. “associate with fine books and fine people one of my mentors’ said. And he also says if you associate with evil people even if you are a good person, you will end up doing evil.
Do I read Dante, or do they read Dante? I read it about a year ago. I occasionally reference it for some off colour jokes with friends. Or just to be a bastard and creep people out… 👿
That’s enough, waiting on that review of “Fragged”
I really hope to have it done by Wednesday night. Really really hope.
But I have two episodes of TTR to review, with transcripts and screengrabs. Ideally that will be done by Tuesday… But realistically I should put more effort into TTR as it draws many more people to the site than BSG.
If there are any wanna-be reviewers lurking out there. I could really really use a hand right now!
At the very least, I’m uploading screengrabs tonight from Fragged.
Cult may be a strong and hyperbolic word. But there is certainly lots of evidence that 47 turns up a lot in his shows.
I have a favourite number too… 😈
aneeqa wrote:This is just hurting the Bsg fans and community. We all should work together to help out the community. Salaams
Pendle wrote:Seems like an honest mistake to me, no need to get your head lost about it if they have said sorry.
I have made my peace with this issue. As an experiment (in futility or masochism?). I’ve allowed the Fragged transcript to be freely reposted elsewhere with the modest citation provided at the top of the transcript. I wonder what will happen?
I know, isn’t it great. Now that the Bush administration has withdrawn its pretty grievance abot ITER’s location (Bush was bitter about France’s stane on Iraq), we are that much closer to worldwide energy independence.
And fusion reactors can’t explode/meltdown the same way fission nukes can. They’re actually very safe, aside from the local (in the reactor room) radaition and heat.
In the defense of kamisama103, I can tell the difference between the two accents, and even after I saw the Scotish flag on his arm I thought he was Irish. The actor didn’t do a very good job with the accent the first few episodes. It’s since improved.
Go ahead, I took the first 15, you can do the next 15.
I don’t go to your site and slam you so stay off mine!
Thanks for the link 7th_Dizbuster. I’ve seen that code myself, and tested implementing it on the site a few weeks ago. Yes, it will work. However it will prevent people from using the transcripts to copy paste their favourite lines in threads and elsewhere. Or similarly other innocent uses. I get too many hits from them to want to scare off the visitors that know where the true transcripts come from.
Besides, it took me 20 seconds to figure out a way around it. So I researched another code for use with that one. But that can cause some other problems later on.
With the harassment, my patience is wearing thin on this issue; and it’s about to be not fun. I wonder how long it would take him write his own frakking transcripts from scratch?
cubejockey wrote:Goddamn can Jamie Barber act. Freaking out and trying to keep composure and all…
I was pleasantly surprised by his performance tonight. Normally he doesn’t convey as being a strong leader to the audience. Instead he often seems ineffective when it comes to commanding.
When will Doc Coddle die? Because we he gets on the galactica (Adama critical….a hundred chewed up dead crewmembers). I think he’ll have a stroke.
He seems too calm to me to have a stroke. Must be all that smoking that calms him down. Or maybe the cigs will give him the stroke…
I’d venture to say they lost about 100 crewmembers. Final tally on next weeks opening, eh?
I was going to save this for the review but, tonight’s opening total had 47874 survivors. Its a well known fact that Moore is in the “47” cult. That number is featured twice in the total “47” 8 “74”. Albeit the last time backwards. It must pain him to have to get rid of such a sly reference (and a nice palindrome)
We gained that “knuckledragger” named Jammer. He was interesting an well written in…freaking out but kinda bragging when he helped knock out those two last cylons.
He made his first appearance in Litmus, as the deckhand who causes some minor trouble after Roslin’s address. He’s a punk, and it’s nice to see that they kept writing his character that way. His trash talking after the cylons were killed, after they took out a several dozen a piece in the hour prior nonetheless, made me want to slap him.
Starbuck: After they attacked, I never… I never pined over any of my old crap. Never missed it. Stupid view of the parking lot. Broken toilet in the bathroom. You know, everyone I know… is fighting to get back what they had. And fighting I’m fighting ’cause they don’t know how to do anything else. [Sighing]
” …And fighting I’m fighting ’cause they don’t know how to do anything else.”
Uh…well Hedge you got me on that one..Is that a typo to trip up transcript thieves? I’m still trying to decipher that line.[/quote]
I mostly take it all from the subtitles. Tonight’s episode was really frakked up in terms of errors. Usually its only 1-2 plus capitalization errors. Tonight they mis-assigned lines, added or missed lines entirely, threw words into weird places (as shown above). In my haste to get these things out so fast. I occasionally miss a few errors, or make some myself when typing descriptions. I actually remember catching that one, but based on the hectic way I prepare these things, I skipped it and meant to fix it later. I fixed it now.When I change things for the thieves, it’s always little things. (So that I can prove their origin later) Big changes are easily spotted, and only slow down the thief for a moment, and it only serves to aggrevate normal fans. I could actually stop all theft if I really wanted to. But it would prevent people from easily copy-pasting lines for threads, and it would also make saving the webpages sort of a hassle. I’d rather not punish the whole community because of one “arsey” fan.
edit: grammar
”mandara wrote:Did you add a few extra lines like i said to to keep thieves away?
No I didn’t add any lines. But I did put in a few “easter eggs” per se, such that I can easily prove that it came from this site.
I was however very tempted to change one line:
cubejockey wrote:Strabuck: No, no, no, no, no! £&$* took my ride.
(Boomer flies off in Starbuck’s Raider)LOL[/quote]
That one. Great line. I don’t think it will age well though, since it really does place the show in the early-mid 00’s. I wanted to change it to: “Your bitch took my ride”. Since that’s what I heard the frist time I watched. I think its funnier that way, but I’m going for accuracy. Which reminds me I need to correct someone’s name.cubejockey wrote:I noticed in a Flashback scenes that the door on Adama’s Flat had a number 3 centered in the camera shot. Any speculation?
Naw, he’s not a cylon. People have known him too long for him to be a cylon. I will however be adding “Las SadGeezer” odds to the personnel reviews, on each characters’ chance of being a cylon.
Was Moore thinking of the beginning of “Apocolypse Now” when he wrote that flashback? Nice Touch with what we think may be Ellen hogging up his matress. Should’ve set her on fire instead of the sash.
Yes to Apocolypse Now. No it wasn’t Ellen, just another fluzie.
Oops, I knew my lazy butt forgot to correct something. Actually I have a lot more to correct besides that menu… 😉
Thanks for the heads up
lvcambot wrote:Since then.. Sci-Fi fans have had to throw up to Alien Resurrection and Titan A.E..
Hey, hey! I actually like Titan A.E.! No one agrees with me, but I liked it, mostly for the soundtrack and cool looking ships. 8)
Firefly is an acquired taste. It took a while before I really started to appreciate it. I think most people had that problem and that’s why it was cancelled.
Serenity will probably rock. But I don’t anticipate it doing so hot at the box office though. I’d be surprised if it got a sequel. Surprised, and very happy.
Oh and Angel seasons 2-4 were most excellent too. 😆
Thanks for the link.
I wonder if he’ll nearly die twice from complications from the shooting, or if it’ll be a whole other incident that will nearly claim him.
Hmm, a censor-alarming scene involving Lucy Lawless, does it involve a bathtub?
I don’t understand how they can introduce another big reporter after Colonial Day. At least not in the fleet, since all three major ones have already had their introduction. One even got an “exclusive” with the Vice President.
Maybe she’ll be a reporter stuck on Caprica, recording the struggles of a human resistance there. With Starbuck, Helo and Caprica-Boomer stuck there, Caprica should be a more fleshed out and have a much larger arc. A human resistance seems the logical way to go.
Anyone else haev any ideas?
It wouldn’t surprise me if Sky One finished the second season before Sci Fi Channel. But for them to finish 3 months ahead seems a bit odd. I would suspect Sci Fi would try to keep the airings withing a few weeks, lest they have the same problem as last season with downloaders. But I’m certainly not privy to those details, and if the UK finishes way early again, then so be it.
They’re not as big as universe killers, but hte nova bombs of Andromeda and Star Trek: Generations can take out a sun, and by proxy an entire star system.
Sidhecafe wrote:I don’t think that’s the acting so much as the directing…..
You’re right. But I said a few cast members. Some immediately come to mind who are incapable of acting.
We’ve got some dedicated sadgeezers here.
Sidhecafe wrote:Actually we’re not suppose to drink until after 4:30 pm. 😀 so 6 more hours til a beverage.
Is that when the day shift ends?
That’s cool though, the most I get is a broken water fountain and a refrigerator condemned by the local health department. 😉Wow, that is creepy, yet very appropriate. I knew Tarkin would be in the movie, and having a Farscape actor in SW, sort of went without saying. I mean there aren’t that many actors in Australia to begin with, and many of them were on Farscape at one point or another. I wonder if there are any other Farscape alumni in the movie.
I think this thread should be made into a news story for the front page.
I’m with hisshadow. I’m not expecting a lot out of the film. And if it weren’t Star Wars, I’d likely wait for it to be out on video. My angst isn’t with the storyline, but more with the disgusting acting and direction from episodes I and II. The worst part is that I know that a few cast members can do a MUCH better job than they did. It’s as if they didn’t rehearse, and were given their lines as the camera was rolling.
Cool song!
I myself have very limited experience with C. I only need my thumbs to count how many times I’ve used it. I use C++ usually. But in the last couple days I’ve been scrammbling to learn Fortran. I need to learn it to do some engineering coding for my jobthis summer, and pretty much for the rest of my life too…
mikeiz4u wrote:PS I was the only one in the theater to be carrying my towel.
No, my brother and I took our out of sheer sadgeezer-ness.
Which brings up another point, they never explained why towels are so important.I’m lazy, so here’s my review reposted from another thread.
Hitch Hikers was definitely a family movie. Special effects wise it was, of course, better than the BBC version. Kudos to them for using puppets and models instead of the CGI garbage that everyone else uses today. CGI is only bad because in a few years it won’t look that realistic. Unfortunately any acting talent was wasted in this film. I could tell that most of the cast was desperate to actually act, but were somehow held back (I blame direction, or some other PTB). Mos Def especially; I think that if the script or direction let him, he could have done an absolutely terrific job. A lot of potential wasted.
Sadly the BBC was better for laughs and invoking higher brain functions. The beeb series was also better at capturing the feel of the universe. The movie just seemed to imply it. Despite that, they did a nice job with the Vogons, (love the grunt Vogons in the gimp suits) and their bureaucratic culture. There was a good scene with lots of good bureaucrat jokes. On the flip side, the Vogons had too large a role to play in the movie.
Lastly, the movie left out the latter certain parts of the book and BBC series. It ended in a good place, especially since it was a relatively long movie (and really long for a family movie), so its not that bad.
For sadgeezers: 2.5 stars out of 5
For kidgeezers, 4.5 stars out of 5Techincally yes. However its done pretty much everywhere for every TV show and movie, so its mostly ignored by the lawyers. (Yes, go ahead and post them)
Only if you intend to sell it, or use the images in an official capacity then they might have a problem with it…
Hitch Hikers was definitely a family movie. Special effects wise it was, of course, better than the BBC version. Kudos to them for using puppets and models instead of the CGI garbage that everyone else uses today. CGI is only bad because in a few years it won’t look that realistic. Unfortunately any acting talent was wasted in this film. I could tell that most of the cast was desperate to actually act, but were somehow held back (I blame direction, or some other PTB). Mos Def especially; I think that if the script or direction let him, he could have done an absolutely terrific job. A lot of potential wasted.
Sadly the BBC was better for laughs and invoking higher brain functions. The beeb series was also better at capturing the feel of the universe. The movie just seemed to imply it. Despite that, they did a nice job with the Vogons, (love the grunt Vogons in the gimp suits) and their bureaucratic culture. There was a good scene with lots of good bureaucrat jokes. On the flip side, the Vogons had too large a role to play in the movie.
Lastly, the movie left out the latter certain parts of the book and BBC series. It ended in a good place, especially since it was a relatively long movie (and really long for a family movie), so its not that bad.
For sadgeezers: 2.5 stars out of 5
For kidgeezers, 4.5 stars out of 5I will admit that I do occasionally watch those train wrecks. And I almost always regret it later. There’s only been a few good ones, Cube 2: Hypercube is the first to come to mind. Anonymous Rex, Slipstream and Riverworld were all passable and worth watching once. Alien Apocalypse with Bruce Campell was utter B Film crap, but since it has Bruce, it was excusable, expected and enjoyable.
Frankenfish wasn’t that great, but compared to other scifi Saturday movies, it’s pretty decent. And I only watched that because my brother, who works at Blockbuster, told me that people were always renting it and asking about. So he rented it and we watched it together to see what the fuss was about.
I’m sorry but I guess I’m just not a big enough masochist to sit through most of those films(sic) even if its to MST3K ’em.
YOWAYYO wrote:So my question is, has this marketing bonanza reached your part of the states?
It’s only reached Texas recently?! It must have started north and moved south, becuase Cinco de Mayo had been yet another excuse to drink (specifically Corona’s and Tequilla) for a while up here in Philly.
try this one:
http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=594Or click the picture
kokopelli wrote:Where do you get those transcripts from?
Good review.
Thank-you.
I use a TV-in card to capture the closed captions. I then format it into something slightly easier to read.
Things frequently change between pilots and the actual series. Six’s appearance and Gus’s sissifacation come to mind immediately for TTR.
The voice of Six always changes. She was first voiced by Patricia Beckman in Episode 1: Love and Darph. Then in the unreleased second episode: Oh Brother, Terry Farrell voiced Six, and she redid the voice of Six for episode 1. Terry was supposed to do the voice in the TV series but backed out after 3 episodes. She was replaced by Gina Gershon, and those episodes were re-recorded for continuity. Now for whatever reason, Six is being voiced by Carmen Electra.
Sorry, I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. According to blogs and interviews, some sort of dark age struck the colonists soon after they arrived in the new system. It took them hundreds of years before they made contact with each other again. When Rome fell, almost all knowledge was lost, it took a thousand years to crawl out of the dark ages. It doesn’t surprise me that very little previous scientific knowledge from Kobol would have survived, or even be perverted by leaders in the dark times.
It got better as the season progressed. Not a lot better, but its becoming its own series now, and not just some Staragte spinoff. Though in truth, the only reason I watch it and not record it is because it come on before BSG. Otherwise it’s would always be VCR fodder.
I thik it has aired in the UK, but I could be wrong. If you’re really in a hurry to see, and illegal downloading isn’t your thing, it’s been released in the US on DVD.
I’ve heard rumours of a spin off series, but nothing with substance. I wouldn’t get my hopes up…
I’m glad you brought this up, I’ve been meaning to talk about this.
I can’t say I’m entirely surprised. I started having my doubts as to the movies quality when:
1)It’s release date was moved up very suddenly, and too close to the intended premier to be shrugged off.*
2) I saw ads for it on buses, TV, billboards etc a month before the new release.
Coincidently both of these happened on the same day so I’m hesitant say which had first gave me that impressionl.Both of those points are always symptoms of a bad movie. The most recent example was Riddick, which I knew wouldn’t be that good when I saw a TV ad a month before the premier. Not that Riddick was awful, just not as good as it could have been.
With all that said, I am impressed with what I’ve seen in the ads. Its a great improvement over the BBC series, special effects wise. Not that, that’s difficult. Maybe the studio just wanted to be the first big film out for the summer season. Of course they are starting the season pretty early this year…
I’ll reserve judgment until after I see the movie.
*Some movies, such as Aeon Flux have had their release date changed numerous times. AF is now scheduled for Dec 31, but it was first tentatively scheduled for the summer, then the fall, then…
But this movie (And Serenity) had their release changed over half a year in advance, which doesn’t mean too much, (except that its not big enough to compete in the summer)damocles wrote:Here is my review for Kobols Last Gleaming Part I
And I’ve added it to the site.
damocles cool review can be found here:
And the last transcript of the season:
YAY! I can have my Friday nights back!
Really, I thought the season got better as it progressed. Which really isn’t that difficult considering its earlier episodes. I personally was lookig forward to the season finale, and I though they pulled it off nicely, depsite the damned obligatory cliffhanger.
