Monday, September 26, 2011

Funny stuff my parents have said while watching "Battlestar Galactica"

I first showed my parents the Miniseries when I was only an episode or two into Season 4. Fortunately, by the time they actually got to the show proper, I had pretty much finished. So whenever they watched it and said anything that was absolutely hilarious in hindsight, I had to do my best not to completely crack up on the spot. Most of these, naturally, had to do with the identities of the Final Five.

Here are some of my favorites. Spoilers for all you very-late-to-the-party people:

Miniseries
After the explosion on Ragnar, Adama and Leoben are trapped in a corridor. Adama turns to Leoben and says "is there another way out of here?" And which point, I am not making this up, my mother says "there must be some kinda way outta here..." (surprisingly, she missed the first three quotes in "Crossroads, Part II").

Miniseries et seq
My mother has accused pretty much every named character in the show of being a Cylon... except Chief Tyrol. This got especially funny when he wanders around on the Algae Planet in "The Eye of Jupiter." And then survives decompression a lot better than Cally in "A Day in the Life."

"Valley of Darkness"
Col. Tigh: "Thank the gods I didn't have kids." Mom: "Uh-oh, are we gonna find out he had kids?"

"The Captain's Hand" et seq
Calling Tory Foster a Cylon pretty much every time she shows up. I'm convinced that one of the main reasons that they made her a Cylon was because she was such an obvious candidate that it would make the other three easier to sell.

"Downloaded"
After Anders blows up the cafe on Cylon-occuped Caprica, D'anna and Boomer haul him out of the rubble. Mother: "Uh-oh, they don't recognize that model." I came this close to completely losing it.

"Crossroads, Part I"
Just when I thought we had reached the end of opportunities for unintentionally hilarious statements, upon hearing the first strains of "All Along the Watchtower," Dad says: "It's Starbuck's favorite song! She's sending them a signal!" So close, and yet so far. (Yeah, none of them bought her death in "Maelstrom.")

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