BSG live-commentary: battlestar galactica miniseries part 1

me

9:33 PM

good good

is john mccain in battlestar galactica

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Sonia Saraiya

9:34 PM

hahaahahahah

YES

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me

9:34 PM

yes my friend, it is happening

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Sonia Saraiya

9:34 PM

YESSSSSSSSSSS

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

SO SAY WE AWLL

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Sonia Saraiya

9:35 PM

OMG PLEASE LIVEBLOG YOUR VIEWING EXPERIECE

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me

9:36 PM

i love edward james olmos

i just love him

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Sonia Saraiya

9:37 PM

i know he is a human teddy bear

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me

9:39 PM

he really is

awww baby adama (that is edward james olmos yes)

oh man

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Sonia Saraiya

9:39 PM

yeah EJO = adama

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me

9:39 PM

who is that playing starbuck

i recognize her face

but i can't place her

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Sonia Saraiya

9:39 PM

KATEE SACKOFF

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me

9:39 PM

but what else has she been in

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Sonia Saraiya

9:39 PM

starbuckkkkkk

no idea

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me

9:42 PM

WAY TO PUNCH THAT OLD DUDE IN THE FACE

YES

oh

john mccain

even better

OH MY GOD SHE WAS ON UNDRESSED

AHHHH

SHE WAS THE LESBIAN ON UNDRESSED

I KNEW IT

i was looking at her face and i was like, i know i have seen you doing it with a woman

but i didn't want to say that

but now it's okay

because it was on undressed

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Sonia Saraiya

9:43 PM

LOL

hahahahaha

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me

9:52 PM

oh no, why is this lady dying of cancer

sexy sexy cylon, gonna eat that human's baby

i assume

why did she kill a baby, because she's a robot?

logical fallacy

isaac asimov

or something

robot laws

etc

sexy sexy robot having sexy sexy sex with random human dude

scientist i assume

she's wearing pleather underwear

ew

oh man her spine is made of LIGHT

i knew that from like every preview ever

is lee adama the wesley crusher of battlestar?

ah man i love it when people have fake fights so they can do it in a supply closet

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Sonia Saraiya

9:53 PM

omg supply closet

sexytimes

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me

10:06 PM

....cylons like god?

what?

god she is the sexiest robot ever

that ever was gonna murder all humans

OH BRILLIANT

YES

YES

OH MY GOD

YES

NETWORKING COMPUTERS RUINS THE WORLD

YES

THIS IS GREAT

/computernerdwetdreams

oh dip starbuck

you do sexy sexy pushups

man

i think it has been a minute

since i have hooked up with anybody

apparently

or just everyone on this show is sexy

this is the sexiest show that ever caused nerdgasms that does not include nathan filion

hahahahaha, awkward family times! yayyyyy that is pretty obligatory for any plot development to be able to happen

ahhhh families. happy families are all alike; unhappy families are unique in their unhappiness.

gettin my tolstoi on

OH DIP IDIOT SCIENTIST

WAY TO KILL ALL HUMANS WITH YOUR LOW RESISTANCE TO SEXY LADIES

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Sonia Saraiya

10:07 PM

this is amazing for me, obviously

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me

10:08 PM

knowing what happens you mean?

oh edward james olmos, i would follow you into war in a second

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me

10:15 PM

lolololol bro you just killed humanity because you can't keep your pants on

oh my god that explosion was AWESOME

sure humanity destroying w/e

omg sonia so may tropes

HE WAS ONE DAY FROM RETIREMENT

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me

10:27 PM

ugh

why is there noise in space

also i just read a really great article by this air force guy who was like, talking about accuracy in space fighting in movies

and now BSG is pretty accurate except for that they follow a model that doesn't really make sense for space battle, like, they do it well, but it would be a stupid way to have them fight

i guess

or something

anyway it was cool

k so now everyone is dead

and this lady is still dying of cancer, casually

FRAK FRAK FRAK

that guy just sorta started bleeding

like

randomly

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me

10:35 PM

i'm in love with the woman with the cancer

she is a bamf

yeah baby adama! i'm so proud of you

blowing shit up

UGH

HOW IS DOUCHE SCIENCE DUDE STILL ALIVE

UGH

7 million people die in caprica city and HE gets to live?

BULLLLLLLL

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me

10:39 PM

oh my god

if he gets a spot on that ship i am just going to punch my tv

i hate that guy

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me

10:43 PM

ps please read this week's modern love, it's frigging amazing

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Sonia Saraiya

10:43 PM

how are you doing lol

ooh ok

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me

10:46 PM

i'm takinga reading break

basically

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Sonia Saraiya

10:46 PM

hahaha

nice

ok but you seem to be enjoying it 

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me

10:47 PM

indee

d

i will continue to watch it

in about three minutes when i finish reading social Qs

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Sonia Saraiya

10:47 PM

hahaha nice

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me

10:48 PM

my legs feel broken

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Sonia Saraiya

10:49 PM

yikes!

why?

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me

10:49 PM

because i'm sitting funny i assume

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Sonia Saraiya

10:49 PM

oh ok

and not because they are actually broken

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me

10:49 PM

seriously what is john mccain doing on battlestar

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Sonia Saraiya

10:51 PM

LOL

straight illin

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me

10:54 PM

starbuck had better continue to be alive

or i will divorce this show

also i know she's straight but i'm gonna pretend

DID THE FRACKING SHIP JUST GET NUKED

FRACK

drunk john mccain is failing his crew

drunk john mccain is killing hundreds of people

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Sonia Saraiya

10:54 PM

i mean yeah

it's frak btw

but i mean that's cool whatever

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me

10:54 PM

frack is what you do to destroy the environment and cause earthquakes

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Sonia Saraiya

10:55 PM

yesm

frak is how we get around network censors!

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me

10:56 PM

fraking sounds like it would be like, "frayking"

hahahahah

DAMMIT DOUCHE SCIENTIST

DAMMIT

WHY DID YOU GET NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

HE DIDN'T GET PICKED

OH MY GOD

HE IS THE DICKEST

OH MY GOD

I HATE HIM

wait

wait

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Sonia Saraiya

10:56 PM

hahahahaahahahahahahaha

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me

10:56 PM

wait

he didn't douche up

OH BALLS

DUDE

NO

WHY IS THAT GUY NOT GOING WITH HER

TO THE SHIP

WHATEVER THAT GUY IS

I LIKE THAT GUY

WHY

D:

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Sonia Saraiya

10:57 PM

Helo

is his name

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me

10:57 PM

also why are they taking that crazy old lady

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Sonia Saraiya

10:57 PM

and yes

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me

10:58 PM

and seriously, we're really saving the idiot d-bag who caused this whole problem?

i mean i know nobody knows that he did it

but like

ew

NO GUY THAT I AM EQUATING TO JAYNE

NOOOOO

DON'T DIEEEEE

ON THE PLANET

HELO

HELO-JAYNE

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Sonia Saraiya

10:58 PM

hahahahaha

THE HERO OF CAPRICA

THE MAN THEY CALL HELOJAYNE

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me

10:59 PM

hahahaha

OH SHIT

EVERYONE IS DEAD

AS IN THE PRESIDENT

ETC

SHIT

also how bonkers that she's just like, "so this is the message that happens when everyone is dead"

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Sonia Saraiya

11:00 PM

yeah

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me

11:00 PM

AND SHE'S SLOWLY DYING

IRONY

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Sonia Saraiya

11:00 PM

ths is what you're taught when you're in the cabinet

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me

11:00 PM

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIROOOOOOONYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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Sonia Saraiya

11:00 PM

hahahaahahaha

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me

11:01 PM

oh man, is this like, y the last man, where the highest ranking official left is the like vice-governor of the agriculture department or whatever

kobal? cabal? kobol?

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Sonia Saraiya

11:02 PM

kobol

right on three

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me

11:02 PM

i can't believe all these people are like, let's grab our tape recorders

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Sonia Saraiya

11:02 PM

except this is WAY BETTER THAN Y THE LAST MAN

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me

11:03 PM

yeah that comic is stupid

drunk john mccain knows how to kill people for the greater good

shitballs that is a dead burnt person

or also possibly darth maul

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Sonia Saraiya

11:03 PM

yup.

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me

11:05 PM

oh adama, you carry the weight of the future of your civilization on your weathered eyebrows

side note, whenever i see "ceylon tea" i think it's cylon tea

OH GOD

GALACTICA IS THE LAST BASTION OF HOPE FOR HUMANS

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Sonia Saraiya

11:06 PM

how

HOW have you never watched this show

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me

11:06 PM

dude

i have no idea

i

have

no

idea

okay, i have to say, the shape that the messages print in, is essentially the least efficient way of printing

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Sonia Saraiya

11:06 PM

hahaha yes

i think that is a throwback to the 1970s galactica

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me

11:07 PM

YAY AMERICAN DOCTOR WHO

OHHHHHHH PRESIDENT

BOOM

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Sonia Saraiya

11:07 PM

this is just so amazing.

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me

11:09 PM

hahah

oh god

i'm glad that this father-son-fraught-relationship-bickering is ruining everything

ALSO

she's the secretary of education

aren't we like thousands of years in the future

how is it that the woman has to be the secretary of education

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Sonia Saraiya

11:10 PM

hahahahahahaha

i can't answer that

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me

11:11 PM

drunk john mccain looks bewildered

OH SHIT

SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED

I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT IT WAS

BUT IT INVOLVED A CONFUSING THING ON A MONITOR

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Sonia Saraiya

11:11 PM

HAH

the dradis perhaps?

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me

11:12 PM

AND NOW ADAMA IS SAD BECAUSE HE THINKS HIS SON IS DEAD BUT HE TOTALLY ISN'T I BET

drunk john mccain has homosexual feelings for adama

sexy sexy old man gay feelings

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Sonia Saraiya

11:12 PM

carling omg

you are my favorite