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[-] HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world 77 points 5 months ago

I love how the ONE time they did, all the fears were validated.

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 months ago

Gaeta (sp?) did a damn good job all things considered

[-] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Athena was the one who did all the work. What did Gaeta do? Plug some patch cables in?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 14 points 5 months ago

And then pulled them out. Good team work.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 5 months ago

Set up a multi layered firewall that delayed the inevitable for long enough for them to execute their plan, for one.

Gaeta is the unsung hero of that series.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Gaeta is a traitorous shitbag as evidenced by his death by firing squad.

[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 months ago

That whole arc made me sad.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

So much. I really liked Gaeta before he was a traitor.

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago

All he ever did was try to do the right thing and generally his reward was watching the people he loved get killed or people he trusted rise to power and betray him/leave him in the dust.

I’m not saying what he did was OK, but that bitterness festered over a very long period and over many events. Not to mention this all started with the genocide of the human race, which I imagine is going to take a bit of a mental toll on someone lol

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Gaeta was the one feeding the resistance information.

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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago

The network with its fake daemons and firewalls lasted how long? A minute or so?

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[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 56 points 5 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.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

It's a blessing and a curse. It's great to be able to share stuff but also, what do you mean you're too tired to watch it's the last episode of the season come on

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 9 points 5 months ago

I usually pump the brakes with series. She likes to binge, I prefer to watch a couple at a time and let the story sink in before proceeding another day.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

I would so hate watcing a great show with you. I want to know what happens next and I want to know it NOW haha

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

Nah, if I binge I find I forget a lot of the content. Watching one or maximum two episodes at a time stretches the good feeling from the watching, maximizing pleasure.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago

The binge amnesia allows for surprises on the rewatches

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[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 months ago

We just watched it last year and I can’t believe I missed it the first go round. We were blown away.

[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

It's just a pity on a great show to have such a bad ending.

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

Wasn't that bad IMO.

[-] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

It's way less bad on rewatch. Like we had it good back then for what we considered a bad ending lol

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[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I haven't watched the show before, but it's been my Sunday ritual for a little while now. I watch while ironing my shirts, it's really good ! Character writing is 10/10.

[-] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago
[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh you’re in for a ride! Battlestar Galactica. Not the one from the seventies, the one from the aughts. This series broke my mind on what a sci-fi series could be and do. Start with the movie/miniseries, continue with the full on series.

The 2 x 1.5 h miniseries is from 2003. The series from 2004.

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[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 33 points 5 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.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

You have a great flat mate there too

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.

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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 5 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.

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[-] Dalvoron@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Then you discover the board game and it's a whole new level of great

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Keep those frackin' toasters outta here!

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Keep those frackin’ IOT toasters outta here!

[-] teft@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago
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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

toasters

Problematic language.

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[-] Jobe@feddit.org 28 points 5 months ago
[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

So say we all!

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago
[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago

"That's right- landlines. I want corded phones fucking everywhere that don't talk to anything but each other."

[-] A_A@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

i am out of the loop here once again.

[-] Eylrid@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago

In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can't be hacked by the Cylons.

In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 months ago

Just to clarify a point of the show, it isn't too old to be networked. They had that ability then. They had just previously fought a war with the Cylons, in which the Galactica was built for and fought in, so not networking was standard protocall then. The military decided, after a long peace, they should have networked ships, assuming the Cylon threat was gone. This cause nearly all modern military vessels to be open to exploit, except the Galactica and few remaining older vessels.

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[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago
[-] A_A@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks for this article describing the actual computer system update crisis ... but still, i do not know what this photograph of some guy means in your post ...
Edit : never mind someone else explained it to me here

[-] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

It's funny that I am rewatching the series right now. Thankfully it is still as good as I remember it

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

Except this time the threat was from Chief Tyrol, surely not foreshadowing anything at all.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

LOL

Yup.

It can be good to live an analog life, y'all.

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