Evil Porkchop

Great... another reason for the haters of the F-22 program to demand it's end.

Semantics. Saying our present is BSG's future, and BSG's preset is our past. It's a cop-out at best, and horrible storytelling at worse. Hell the ending would have been more satisfying if they would have just left out the whole Proto-human/Eve thing and never flashed the 150,000 years later thing. Some people liked it, some didn't. I just felt it cheapened the story. I've went back and watched S1, S2, S3, and S4.0 before S4.5 started and the first two seasons really are quite different from the last 2. Season 3 meshes relatively well, but as soon as Starbuck came back and 4 of the final 5 were revealed at the end of S3 RDM has to retcon so much of the first 2 seasons. I won't blame just RDM for the way BSG ended or the way S4.5 went. Some of this was the writer's strike that happened. So RDM had to create a plausible ending (the end of S4 with Cinder Earth) just in case S4.5 never saw the day of light. Besides discarding all the technology the Colonials had and bascially vanishing into the pages of "our history" no lessons are taught, nothing is remembered and from the ending provided, you can see signs of the cycle starting again. I would have ended it 6000-8000 years in the future. They could have landed on our Earth and for whatever reason the planet could be un-inhabited (God/It could have made that happen), or on any other planet and just called it Earth. They don't leave all the technology behind, but the Colonials do decide to become more "naturalistic" and live in peace with the rebel cyclons etc. etc.

With the ending we received, I would have preferred RDM just ended BSG with the Cinder Earth scenes at the end of Season 4. Season 4.5 was such a mess for the most part, and the ending was less than satisfying. RDM painted himself into a corner by saying they would find Earth. But you are correct BSG is almost 2 different TV shows. The mini, S1, S2 being one show. Then Season 3 and 4 being the second show. But I guess this is what happens with you actually have no plan. RDM readily admits to this. They really should have at least plotted the highlights for the whole show before they got into the narrative story telling so they didn't have a ton of ret-cons and other mis-steps along the way. Still though, BSG was/is better than 99% of the current trash on TV. I think the point where BSG started to take a turn for the worse was when they revealed Tigh, Galen, Sam, and Tori were cylons and the ommission of the #7 model. The creators had to retcon far to much and let's be honest other than more or less saying "we are one of the final 5 cyclons" the F5 really did nothing. They had no great insight, no great revelations until Sam was shot in the neck and even then only he remembered anything. Anyways I would have rather the story ended 150,000 in the future, instead of 150,000 years in our past.

Daniel is just the name of a character in Caprica so far. His connection to #7 Daniel or the final five is all fan speculation and nothing more at this point.

I do not have high hopes with Jane Espenson being one of the major developers/writer for this series. I'm sorry but almost every episode she wrote for BSG was Soap Opera like crap, with Deadlock being the worst episode of the series. I'll give it a chance, would be nice to see a glimpse of the Colonies before the war. But I would rather a prequel deal with Adama when he was a Viper pilot set during the first Cylon war. Or go even farther back than that and do a series called Kobol, and really dive into the mythology of BSG.

Just want to say that I completely agree with your assessment of Moore's comic book work and the rather pathetic attempts to adapt them to the cinematic medium. Moore is a genius of comic book writing and his work has inspired a generation of writers. Just because his work doesn't translate to the big screen does not make it bad. Moore has continually insisted that his work doesn't translate and people continue to refuse to believe him.

I believe this was added because DC wanted it to be 12 issues. I may be wrong, so please correct me if I am. If I recall correctly this wasn't in the original story but was later added in the TPB. So while not defending th director or the movie, as I haven't seen it. I have only read the TPB. Those things were not integral to the Watchman story, but rather added to it.

I really enjoyed Nite-Owl II in the comic over all the other characters. Rorshach was much more one dimensional IMO, much more of the "Wolverine, I'll never compromise" character. Nite-Owl seemed to be conflicted though out much of the Watchmen comic. I really hope that carried over to the movie... which I have yet to see.

I know no-one but me would even want this. But if I was ending the series. I would have them all jump to Kobol, but surprise, surprise Cavil's fleet is there waiting to kill em all. Big battle ensues, Galactica gets taken out, Cavil's forces are defeated. The Fleet and Rebel cyclons settle on Kobol. Cycle start over again.... potentially. I know it's a cookie cutter type ending. But I like it. Of couse I would like the question answered as to what exactly Kara is, and what the Final 5 really know... but nonetheless.

Well she's the only ship in the fleet... at least militarily speaking. I'm really hoping the next 3 hrs... well more like 2+15 hrs is going to be really good. I can already see that BSG isn't going to end the way I would have wrapped up the series. But I'm still ready for the ride.

Damn right, and she's gonna go down fighting by kicking the hell out of Cavil's forces next week.

Aren't Su27/MiG29s also pure Air Superiorty fighters too though? I think that all 3 aircraft a for the most part evenly matched and it would come down to the pilots.

This episode's writer, Jane Espenson should never, ever be allowed near anything do to with BSG again. Sadly she is one of the writers for Caprica and for one of the BSG movies. This was by far the worst episode to date. With characters completely going against what they have been for 4 seasons. The last 4 episodes better be pretty damn good to get the bitter taste out of my mouth that this one left.

And Hasbro can get a 2 for 1 deal since they can release the Night Raven painted up like the Sky Raven, since we all know they like the re-paints.

I'd be happy as long as it was as accurate as the relatively older PTE F-18 and A-10. Granted the F-18 had a rather large nose section, but it is nowhere near a horrible as the Thunderwing or this new Night Raven they are putting out.

Wow, after seeing the picture of the new Night Raven being held like a gun, there is no way in hell I will be buying that. Still it's so sad that we can get a relatively accurate and good looking F-22 from a company that probably isn't 1/10th the size of Hasbro. But Hasbro can't even design a completely new vehicle that doesn't look like some Fisher Price toy. Here's to hoping True Heros gets all their new vehicles in to TRU's soon.

At this point that would be the best ending IMO. Then in another 2000 years or so the "Cylons" can go off to Earth, and the 12 Colonies can head off again too. Right now I'm firmly in the camp that everyone is "technically" a Cylon. This weeks episode to me was a little weak. Sure some stuff happened, but it is all set-up to next week.

Here, here. From what I have read and granted it's not as much as most. But the 'Cat could carry more ordinance further and faster than even the SuperBug can. And when ordinance was packed on the 'Cat it's performance was not affected nearly as much as a Hornets. Too bad the Navy couldn't pull their heads out of their collective asses. The Super Bug was never an efficient replacement for the Tomcat and never will be. I believe I also read that (Northrop) Grumman wanted to upgrade the F-14/produce new actual airframes and the Navy more or less cut them off at the knees on that plan. At least the Air Force is actually getting/already has an aircraft (the F-22) that is an upgrade to the F-15. (I won't debate who should have won the fly-off between the YF-22 and the YF-23 though). To me what the Navy did with the F-14 and F-18 would be like the Air Force giving up it's F-15s to use a larger version of the F-16 like the F-2.

Still can't believe that the Navy retired the F-14 in favor of using (Super) Hornets for everything.

I would reccomend priming the surface (IMO white primer if painting white, grey primer for any other color), and then lightly sand it. It will make the paint go on much easier, and black is a PIA to cover up with a lighter color. Also you make want to sand down the area of the landing gear doors a bit. A coat of primer, then 1-2 coats of paint, and a sealer will make them rub and difficult to close. I have already painted up one of those F-22s into Skystriker colors. It was basically a testbed for my next F-22 re-paint which will be a Low-Viz or yet another Skystriker scheme. I just used generic Krylon Primer, and some Krylon Fusion White and Fusion Black. The only parts that rub are the gear doors (which I already know what I will do to fix that next time in addition to the sanding). If this really is your first project I would just go with either Krylon paints or the generic Wal-Mart brand. Then if you decide to do another after learning some of the issues like I did, and then possibly upgrade to Tamiya or Testors spray paints. But to be honest unless Krylon doesn't have the color you want I would not bother with expensive model paints for something like the F-22. On a side note I gotta say this is the best G.I. Joe compatable vehicles to come out in over 10 years IMO. Yes the bbi stuff is nice (and I have both the F-18 and F-16), but for relative realism and playability the F-22 is where it's at. I plan to buy at least 5-6 more and have a whole squadron of them in various paint schemes.

Scott AFB is the one you are referring to. I'm stationed there too. My unit used to do fly-overs for the STL airshow. I have no idea of Scott is even having an airshow this year, but in all honesty unless they bring in some Raptors I have no interest in it.

Seems odd that it would be a YF-23, since it never made it past the prototype. I know the Joes always got experimental/high-tech stuff, but the F/A-22 would make more sense to me. But please no http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/04/thunderwingjet/ at the very least come up with a new mold. I'm still holding out hope for the Skystriker to get re-issued.

Yeah, the C-17 is a very, very cool plane with some of its abilities. I remember when I first stationed at Scott AFB back in 96/97 and the C-17 was still very new, and they had one here doing a demo for the yearly airshow. Well the AF wanted to show off all the C-17's capabilites with combat landings/take-offs, and the pilot ended up standing it/scraping the tail... needless the say the AMC 4 Stat General that was in attendance was not happy. Guess my point is, that "heavies" are far more agile than people give them credit for... especially the C-17. Oh, and the C-141 was able to back up under it's own power too... and the C-5 can too, but C-5's need a waiver (C-141 didn't) to do that... at least last time I checked.

If all of that really happens, and I hope it does. Then I just hope that Moore has an explanation as to why. I don't want the series to end with un-answered questions.

I wont quit buying toys, but I am already getting much more picky on what I will and won't buy... and to be quite honest much of the new stuff coming out is un-impressive IMO. I'm already very close to swearing off 25th G.I. Joes, Yamato's new 1/60 look great, but at nearly the price of a 1/48 it's hard to justify myself buying one. Also the value of the dollar has not dropped that dramatically... it has only fallen about 10% over the last year, while the price of oil has soared by over 60%. So to blame the cost of gas/oil, on a "weak" dollar is inacurate. The one thing I don't understand is that there is not a shortage of oil or gasoline. When was the last time you could not fill up your car/truck at the local filling station. When was the last time the government was rationing out "gasoline cards". Most of us weren't even born the last time that happened in the 70's. Despite natural disators and civil unrest in oil producing/refining countries, the oil supply has never been in as much danger as many believe. About 25% of the current cost of oil/gas can be attributed to speculators.