I've flown back and forth to NY, like, three times during the past month. To make the time pass more quickly, I started downloading Battlestar Galactica episodes to my iPhone on the recommendation of friends who claim the series rivals The Wire in its awesomeness. It does.
I don't know why Lev resists it so much.
He resists because it goes against his brand. I believe that brand is 'frightened away by anything awesome'.
anon76
Aug. 3, 2009 14:42:pm
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Quittner is my new hero.
And now we've got a man on the inside....
Kemper
Aug. 3, 2009 14:42:pm
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Insidious! And he's the tech blogger too- its like having the access codes to the defense mainframe.
anon76
Aug. 3, 2009 14:54:pm
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Lev does not want the time to pass more quickly. Lev is afraid of his own mortality.
Ironically, he could learn a lot from Starbuck in season 3.5.
Church
Aug. 3, 2009 14:57:pm
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There must be some way out of here...
Dave
Aug. 3, 2009 17:45:pm
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No way. If Lev starts watching, then I have to be a cylon or whatever and copy him. I just don't have that kind of time. I know, maybe my 5-yr-old daughter will get into it, then I can just kinda osmose. Yelling "frak it" in kindergarten won't get her in trouble, will it?
dennitzio
Aug. 3, 2009 19:26:pm
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Oh come on, now you're just trying to butter up the commenters.
Cliff
Aug. 4, 2009 02:42:am
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"There's no reason to get excited," the thief he kindly spoke.
pinagbayanan
Aug. 4, 2009 06:57:am
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Perhaps Lev simply is skeptical by nature? Perhaps he suspects that if everyone acts all culty and raves about a show as though it has no downside, he suspects they just want him to join their cult? Perhaps he read the reviews of the final season and realizes the whole show just kind of craps out and betrays most of its stated goals in the first season?
Whatever the reason, Lev is right to resist it.
The second season was pretty great, though. I'd say the run through the Kobal arc from the end of the first season through the end of the New Caprica arc from the third was a really, really solid show, but then...well...run away Lev! Run away!
republibotthreepointoh
Aug. 4, 2009 13:01:pm
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Hey man, I loved BSG, but it's no Wire
Rorschach
Aug. 4, 2009 16:19:pm
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I'm on the record on this blog as supporting Lev in his assbackwardness toward BSG. However, reading the comments on here reminded me that he really has no credibility in evaluating science fiction until he has seen the awesomeness that is the New Caprica rescue. For me, that scene is the new standard against which all contenders will be judged. So if you've never seen it Lev, then how can you know?
tyrantking
Aug. 4, 2009 18:34:pm
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Lev resists it because he's an idiot who now sees it as some sort of badge of honor that he has never seen it.
jthomann
Aug. 4, 2009 18:43:pm
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Resisting the mindless "One of us" chanting is never an idiotic thing to do.
That said, Tyrantking is right: the New Caprica rescue was the high-water-mark of the series. Alas, the problem with high-water-marks is that it's all downhill from there, mixaphorically speaking.
So Lev, what SF shows *do* you like? Just to silence these obsessive heathens...
republibotthreepointoh
Aug. 4, 2009 18:48:pm
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"Resisting the mindless "One of us" chanting is never an idiotic thing to do."
You are not of the body?
Church
Aug. 4, 2009 20:40:pm
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No, Landru, I am not of the body. Nor am I Herbert. Reach?
republibotthreepointoh
Aug. 4, 2009 20:47:pm
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Lev, sadly, is definitely Herbert.
anon76
Aug. 4, 2009 22:01:pm
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Well, yeah, that much is unquestionably true. Probably nonmutual as well.
republibotthreepointoh
Aug. 4, 2009 23:12:pm
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wtf? Is that BSG or Scientology?
dennitzio
Aug. 5, 2009 01:07:am
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Poor Josh. Writes a post that is a clear cry for love to you BSGniacs here and STILL most of the comments are about LG. Only Kemper had the empathy to put Josh on the pedestal up with Lev.
dennitzio
Aug. 5, 2009 01:17:am
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I called him insidious. That's like a free comparison to Christopher Lee: Nerd Gold!
I also compared him to Gaius Baltar (or perhaps Tricia Helfer- didn't think it out too well). If that's not love from a BSGniac, then I just don't know what I can do.
anon76
Aug. 5, 2009 03:31:am
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That's Star Trek ('The way to Eden'- the one with the space hippies). Get with the nerd program, man.
anon76
Aug. 5, 2009 03:34:am
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Waitaminit, isn't Landru from that Old West episode? I'm so confused.
dennitzio
Aug. 5, 2009 11:23:am
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Yes. The New Caprica rescue holds the title of Most Crowning Moment of Pure Awesome on TV to date.
nerdyengineer
Aug. 6, 2009 02:00:am
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