Anything in particular bring on this epiphany, Al?

Alright no more crazy Al driving only boring Al driving from now on. I will not use my car to prove anything, impress anyone or cause any trouble. It is a tool that gets me from point A to point B and nothing else. It doesn't do anything magical or special, it is a normal car made by the hands of humans and is therefore subject to the laws and limitations of this world.

Like I said, he was out in the country and it's the cities the cylons were targetting. When Boomer decided to stay on Caprica and let Baltar take her place on the ship back to Galactica, you'll remember there were a whole ton of rural-lookin people trying to get on that ship too. There were definitely a bunch of survivors after the attack, enough to mount a rebel force on Caprica, and who knows what happened on the other 11 colonial planets. I think the fact that Baltar survived is not impossible... but exactly HOW he survived is something that I think they will reveal in season 4.

NEXT SUNDAY IS THE SEAON FINALE!!! Do you think it's going to be as insane as the season 2 final episode??? It doesn't seem like it is... but then again in season 2 I thought it wasn't going anywhere until that last episode and then I was like HOLY SHIT.

Well, it's the original Apollo that plays Tom Zarek, but that's another story. (I looked it up because the dude's name is Richard Hatch, and I read that name as a 'special guest star' but I didn't remember seeing fat naked Survivor dude in the show.)

I'll have to disagree with your explanation of Baltar's non-death, though. At the risk of devolving into a depressingly geeky conversation (eh, who am I kidding), radiation-sickness isn't really the way that a thermonuclear bomb kills people; at least not instantly. Generally, it is the giant explosion, heat and blunt force, that does it.

Given, then, that it's a physically traumatic and heat-related insult, and having seen all the gunshots and stabbings and whatnot that have killed Cylons throughout the show, it seems a pretty weak explanation that she shielded him from the giant explosion -- one that still killed her and destroyed his home -- and that that allowed him to survive.

Maybe it's not something that they'll ever explain. But it seems like a rather glaring unanswered question.

I'm impressed.

the old one was cheesey. Starbuck was a guy in that one. Actually, the actor who played Starbuck in the original series (I think) is the guy who plays Vice President Tom Zarek in the new series. Also, the actor who plays Hot Dog is the son of the actor who plays Admiral Adama.

If you are a big BSG super nerd of the old 70's~80's series I would be more impressed.

Paras, I am caught up in the series. Gaius Baltar survived the nuclear explosion because Caprica Six shielded him. She died as a result, but was obviously resurrected. Later in the series they show that cylons are somehow far more resistant to radioactive bombardment (though not immune) than humans are; when they try to find a way through the radioactive gas clouds to get to the algae planet (in order to replenish their dwindling food supplies), they send Sharon as a scout who single-handedly finds the way through, whereas when the human pilots who already know the path try to make it in a few jumps, they get sick from the radioactivity. Presumably the nuclear blast was far enough away (Baltar had a fancy rural home OUTSIDE OF Caprica City, and it was the city which was the main target) that the explosion itself wasn't strong enough to kill Baltar (being shielded by Caprica Six). And it is possible that the Cylon resistance to radiation is strong enough to also act as a radioactive shield. However, this resistance may have aided Baltar in other ways that at this moment remain unclear.

If you hadn't noticed... I am something of a BSG super nerd at the moment.

And I am not ashamed of it.

fuuuuuuck...

so, i finally gave in and phoned the doctor, because whatever it is that hit me like a ton of bricks last week seems to be here to stay. but, i can't see even a substitute doctor until monday. AND the receptionist had the gall to laugh at me and say "I'm jealous" when i said i was sleeping 12-ish hours a day and still exhausted (because she can't even sleep that long). how the hell am i supposed to get my papers written or present to the industry folks if i'm not awake enough to think straight? i also can't afford to miss any more classes... and it's taking every ounce of my concentration to get this bloody statistics homework done...


okay, sorry, i'm done whining now. i'll leave you in peace.

oh hey Jesse
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we're going to be giving away tickets to METRIC probably starting next week, for the next 5 weeks on wednesday nights at Velvet. On my Tuesday we're going to be giving away !!! tickets, and for thursdays it's gonna be TRANS AM. more details to follow - that's like my new big thing i'm working on for Starlite