For those who feel nuGalactica is the greatest scifi evah!

[jollyreaper]

Praise thread. No haters allowed. So say y'all.

[Darksider]

*Sigh*

We really need a facepalm emoticon.

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

at every stage of my development, lucy lawless has been on an appropriate television show for my tastes

[Flagg]

So you basically created this thread for mindless +1 bullshit because the other thread didn't go the way you wanted? Stark is right, let the adults talk and go get us some drinks, kid.

[Guardsman Bass]

As much as Blood and Chrome gets bashed over being a paint-by-numbers story with special effects, I actually do enjoy it. It's refreshing to get a straight-up space opera storyline once in a while, even if it's just a spectacle - not every SF has to be meaningful or even that dramatic.

[jollyreaper]

So you basically created this thread for mindless +1 bullshit because the other thread didn't go the way you wanted? Stark is right, let the adults talk and go get us some drinks, kid.

You misunderstand. It's a thread to sing the praises of the show. Obviously there are fans, disappointed fans and haters. The other thread is for disappointed fans. There's not really anything productive to be had from haters, no insights to be had.

The question wasn't "Did Galactica fail?" but "If you think Galactica failed..."

So, praise thread, no hating.

[jollyreaper]

at every stage of my development, lucy lawless has been on an appropriate television show for my tastes

And this is a Good Thing(tm). And never when I watched Xena did I think she would end up in Spartacus...

[JLTucker]

Listen, jollyreaper: I responded in that thread to prevent group think and to make sure everyone wasn't patting each other on the back with excessive agreement. I think the thread is more interesting the way it is now and I'm having the best time posting on this forum I've had in years. It's frustrating, but completely worth it as I love discussing art.

[jollyreaper]

Well, I'm glad it's providing interest. I like arguing ideas, I just hate it when arguments devolve into personal slander. The preface of the entire thread is "This didn't work for me; if it didn't work for you, why?" Whatever the critics say, RDM is making bank, DVD's are still selling, so even with the ratings drop it's a commercial success for him. He's continuing to put out material. So are the Black Eyed Peas. No matter what my opinion of them is, they are at the top of the game in pop music.

[Stark]

Do you honestly think he's referring to your contributions? Like, for serious?

[jollyreaper]

Do you honestly think he's referring to your contributions? Like, for serious?

+1 ad hominem against JR!

[Gandalf]

Praise thread. No haters allowed. So say y'all.

Doesn't segregating discussion of x based on whether or not one liked it ruin any chances of good conversation? Instead of a back and forth you just make two circlejerks.

[Stark]

Do you honestly think he's referring to your contributions? Like, for serious?

+1 ad hominem against JR!

I don't think you know what that means. Did you know that it was not an appropriate response?

If you think Tucker is enjoying that thread because of your posts (well, putting aside the humour element), I really want to know because it would blow me the fuck away.

This is, unfortunately for you, not an 'ad hominem'. You're just an idiot.

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

stark you're from nz right

surely you know lucy lawless personally

[Stark]

Sherry and I were in dunners just the other week actually.

She came to dinner, my uncle is mad famous in dunners.

Oyster chowder om nom etc.

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

nepotist

[jollyreaper]

Praise thread. No haters allowed. So say y'all.

Doesn't segregating discussion of x based on whether or not one liked it ruin any chances of good conversation? Instead of a back and forth you just make two circlejerks.

Or we could keep it all in one thread and it would all be yeah-huh and nuh-uh. I was trying to avoid that.

[Stark]

It sounds like you just flat-out agreed you didn't want discussion.

[Vendetta]

Look Stark, I don't know if you know what it's like on the rest of the internet where JR is from, but out there you're not allowed to criticise other people's opinions in a way that might provoke discussion, because that might offend someone.

This is why he is so obviously bad at engaging in discussion, because he's had no practise, see?

[jollyreaper]

It actually appears more like purposeless trolling and name-calling and then the claim of having the moral high ground of being an adult.

But whatever. You're having fun, Far be it from me to spoil your pleasure.

[JLTucker]

It actually appears more like purposeless trolling and name-calling and then the claim of having the moral high ground of being an adult.

But whatever. You're having fun, Far be it from me to spoil your pleasure.

If I watch the series again over the coming weeks and bestow my praise, will you join the discussion to say the praise isn't warranted?

[Flagg]

It actually appears more like purposeless trolling and name-calling and then the claim of having the moral high ground of being an adult.

But whatever. You're having fun, Far be it from me to spoil your pleasure.

Dude, fuck off and die. The only one doing any trolling is you.

[jollyreaper]

It actually appears more like purposeless trolling and name-calling and then the claim of having the moral high ground of being an adult.

But whatever. You're having fun, Far be it from me to spoil your pleasure.

If I watch the series again over the coming weeks and bestow my praise, will you join the discussion to say the praise isn't warranted?

Not in this thread, no. What's the point in trying to convince someone who enjoyed something that they didn't actually enjoy it or that they shouldn't have? There's analysis -- teasing apart a story to see how it did and didn't work -- and then there's just being a dick.

[JLTucker]

If I watch the series again over the coming weeks and bestow my praise, will you join the discussion to say the praise isn't warranted?

Not in this thread, no. What's the point in trying to convince someone who enjoyed something that they didn't actually enjoy it or that they shouldn't have? There's analysis -- teasing apart a story to see how it did and didn't work -- and then there's just being a dick.

I'd encourage you to air your disagreements if I did. But thankfully, I have no desire to watch all the episodes again any time soon.

[Stark]

There's analysis -- teasing apart a story to see how it did and didn't work -- and then there's just being a dick.

I wonder what calling everyone you don't like a troll counts as in this simplistic breakdown?

The idea people who like something and people who don't need to be segregated is fucking bizarre. As an adult, I can have intelligent conversations with people about things I don't like (indeed it appears I'm more able to discuss nBSG than you and I fucking hate it). Its important to keep the main object in view, which hopefully isn't 'echo chamber of people who agree with me'.