Little oops...

thomas7g · December 14th, 2003, 07:35 PM

Hey! Lets start a thread of minor film mistakes that were made!

Not the kind of mistake like "I don't like making starbuck being female" but rather the regular small things that the film editors missed.

I have one. Right before the first spacial jump the galactica's lauch bays retract inwards. But when the ship is seen at the start of the jump, the bays are out again!

baafan · December 14th, 2003, 09:24 PM

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... Right before the first spacial jump the galactica's lauch bays retract inwards. But when the ship is seen at the start of the jump, the bays are out again!

Speaking of which, I don't understand the logic of why the launch bays need to be retracted for a FTL jump. Based on what few ships we saw doing FTL jumps, none of them had to make any special preps for jump other than do the "calcuations" and/or have appropriate co-ordinates.

You would think for a military vessel like the Galactica, having to retract your launch bays before an FTL jump is a major tactical weakness. So while not a filming error, this to me is an "logical" error.

Here's another logical error. Six talked about how she can't die. That when her body is no longer functional, her memories and consciousness is transferred to another copy of "herself." Well, as we saw in the closing sequence, there were about 4-5 "sixes". So would she "transfer" to an already activated body or an unused one? And if unused, isn't that kind of a waste? And being able to transfer, implies a communications link of some sort back to the her "next" body or, for a lack of a better word, the collective. And if a collective, we have the Borg re-imaged!

December 16th, 2003, 02:53 PM

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Here's another logical error. Six talked about how she can't die. That when her body is no longer functional, her memories and consciousness is transferred to another copy of "herself." Well, as we saw in the closing sequence, there were about 4-5 "sixes". So would she "transfer" to an already activated body or an unused one? And if unused, isn't that kind of a waste? And being able to transfer, implies a communications link of some sort back to the her "next" body or, for a lack of a better word, the collective. And if a collective, we have the Borg re-imaged! [/B]

I don't see why it makes a difference whether or not she goes into a current or new body. I certainly hope this is not a Borg re-imaged situation, though.

Yminale · December 16th, 2003, 03:25 PM

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Here's another logical error. Six talked about how she can't die. That when her body is no longer functional, her memories and consciousness is transferred to another copy of "herself." Well, as we saw in the closing sequence, there were about 4-5 "sixes". So would she "transfer" to an already activated body or an unused one? And if unused, isn't that kind of a waste? And being able to transfer, implies a communications link of some sort back to the her "next" body or, for a lack of a better word, the collective. And if a collective, we have the Borg re-imaged!

I haven't heard about any religion that made rational or logical sense. Her belief that she will live on may be part of her religious ideology even if it isn't actually true.

baafan · December 16th, 2003, 07:55 PM

sdwebguy said:

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I don't see why it makes a difference whether or not she goes into a current or new body.

I agree, it probably doesn't make any real difference. My only point I was trying to make is that why would the Cylons keep a perfectly good "body" laying around waiting for a "transfer." Conversely, would they jump into an already active body? To me, either one of these alternatives doesn't make sense to me.

Maybe a third alternative is that her consciousness transfers back to some "main frame" computer. The Cylons then create a new body and then transfer the mind/consciousness into it.

Heck, since they can transfer, why not just continually "backup/transfer" the memories/knowledge to the "main frame", making the current body and mind completely expendable? Or have the Cylons evolved so far that they "care" about retaining their "core/inner selves?"

Titon · December 17th, 2003, 05:46 AM

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When Sex ...errr I mean Six was bouncing up and down on Gayius and her spine glowing, I thought I saw her black panties still on.

Sorry, but.........LMAO!

Ara · December 17th, 2003, 06:07 AM

I think the actor who plays Baltar flubbed a word during the incarceration scene when the second Cylon operative was in the jail cell. Baltar was talking about the Cylon device on the bridge and he flubbed a word. It fit perfectly with the scene, but I don't think it was scripted that way.

Domiano · December 17th, 2003, 06:18 AM

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When Sex ...errr I mean Six was bouncing up and down on Gayius and her spine glowing, I thought I saw her black panties still on.

Sorry, but.........LMAO!

Maybe when it comes out on DVD the black panties will dissapear?

No one mentioned the chip in Baltar's head....Could that chip be sending signals back to the Cylons?

lordpenquin · December 17th, 2003, 06:24 AM

I think that the retracting of the landing bays was more of a safety issue. When they jump, the disappear and reappear in a different spot. What if they accidentily jumped into an asteroid field, and asteroids started flying into the landing bays? It would have made more sense to have "blast doors" close on either ends of the bays, rather than have them retract.

As to the "soul" transfer, I think it would be more logical do handle it like the sixth day where they recorded your "soul" onto a disc, and if your body died, they made a new one and dumped the data back into it. The way they set it up, the cylon body would require a sub-space transmitter and a strong power source to use it. Yet in the autopsy they said the cylon was biological with no electronic components. It is possible to have a biological sub-space transmitter, but highly unlikely. It would require a tech level that not even the cylons could achive in 40 years. And if they are merely biological, how did sixes spine glow like that if there were not some mechanical component? All these questions arise because of bad writing.

lordpenquin · December 17th, 2003, 10:08 AM

Once again I refer to the sixth day, where they had a "body farm" of "blanks" that would take final form when the data was tranfered into them. I don't think that the cylons have a collective like the borg. I think they all have their own "soul" and have free will. This is hinted at with the model six that baltar knew. She fell in love with him, saved his life and implanted a chip in his brain so she could be with him. Perhaps it transmits data back to the cylons, but I think six was just a bit delusional because she didn't know how to handle the whole love emotion thing. She helped the cylons destroy the humans, yet helped baltar find the one cylon and the cylon device on the galactica. She's at odds with herself at what to do.