I love how the ONE time they did, all the fears were validated.
Gaeta (sp?) did a damn good job all things considered
Athena was the one who did all the work. What did Gaeta do? Plug some patch cables in?
And then pulled them out. Good team work.
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.
Gaeta is a traitorous shitbag as evidenced by his death by firing squad.
That whole arc made me sad.
So much. I really liked Gaeta before he was a traitor.
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
The network with its fake daemons and firewalls lasted how long? A minute or so?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
We just watched it last year and I can’t believe I missed it the first go round. We were blown away.
It's just a pity on a great show to have such a bad ending.
Wasn't that bad IMO.
It's way less bad on rewatch. Like we had it good back then for what we considered a bad ending lol
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.
What show is this from?
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.
I always like to tell my BSG story.
Best TV ever made.
You have a great flat mate there too
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.
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.
Keep those frackin' toasters outta here!
Keep those frackin’ IOT toasters outta here!
So say we all!
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"That's right- landlines. I want corded phones fucking everywhere that don't talk to anything but each other."
i am out of the loop here once again.
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.
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.
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
It's funny that I am rewatching the series right now. Thankfully it is still as good as I remember it
Except this time the threat was from Chief Tyrol, surely not foreshadowing anything at all.
Hint: :q!
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