• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    6 months ago

    I always like to tell my BSG story.

    1. Watch mini series, it’s good
    2. Don’t get into the rest, forget about it
    3. Come home one day to flat mate watching it on DVD, just as the Galactica jumps into the atmosphere on New Caprica and jumps out again.
    4. Me: “I need to watch this from the start”
    5. Flat mate ejects the disc right then and there and inserts the first disc of the first season.
    6. We watch it every night until the end

    Best TV ever made.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I’m a little sad that the first re-exposure was pretty much the pinnacle badass moment of the series. It’s a great show, but that might have still set the expectations a bit high.

    • SSTF@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The overall story really flailed around as the later seasons went on (IIRC during a writers’ strike is when there was a lot of issues), but ‘33’- the first episode of the first season is so fantastic I still remember it distinctly.

      The style, tone, and acting of BSG really kept the show intriguing even if the plot went in circles sometimes.

        • aquafunkalisticbootywhap@lemmy.sdf.org
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          6 months ago

          one of my absolute favs. it’s a co-op where one player is randomly, secretly a cylon, sabotaging the groups efforts.

          you can toss people in the brig. theyll protest “Im not the cylon!!!” and if youre wrong (youre often wrong), the group suffers by losing the jailed character’s special ability, while trying to fight off an attack until managing to jump.

          best part? half way through, you draw new loyalty cards. sleeper cylon activated!!!

          its genuinely hard not to run out of food, or water, or just get overrun by a boarding party. some of the best fun losing Ive ever had

          • Dalvoron@lemm.ee
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            6 months ago

            Truly it’s a hard game even if there were no cylons. Humans rarely win in my games. Alas, it’s out of print 😭. Its spiritual successor Unfathomable seems good as well, though I’ve only played it once

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    6 months ago

    BTW I love how this show continues to hold its own today. I started rewatching it a couple weeks ago, and my wife stopped behind the couch one day and now I am not allowed to watch a second of it unless she’s there to enjoy it too.