Vote for your favourite BSG episode to date (1 to 9)

c0y0te

Since we have the christmas break approaching and we are more than half way through season one 1 thought it might be a good idea to see which episode everyone liked the most to date.

A reminder for everyone who was sleeping through the introduction...

Episode 1: 33
The Convoy of refugees is attacked exactly thirty three minutes after every FTL jump, leading many to believe there is a traitor in their midst.

Episode 2: Water
Boomer wakes up in a storage locker soaking wet and carrying a bag with a bomb in it. Moments later, several explosions rip through the Battlestar Galactica bleeding her of 60% of her water. Now the crew struggles to find another source of water before riots threaten to destroy the convoy.

Episode 3: Bastille Day
Lee has an idea to use prisoners to collect a new supply of water from underground on an icy moon, but the leader of a group of insurgents uses the opportunity to take some of the ship's officers hostage.

Episode 4: Act of Contrition
When a accident causes the death of 20 of Galactica's fighter pilots on the hangar deck, Kara must train a new squad, bringing back painful memories for her and Lee.

Episode 5: You Can't Go Home Again
When Kara goes missing under enemy fire, Lee and his father stir up resentment by using too many of the Galactica's scanty resources in their attempts to find her.

Episode 6: Litmus
When an attack by some of the new humanoid Cylons reveals their existence, a tribunal is convened to determine if any more of them are hiding among the crew of the Galactica.

Episode 7: Six Degrees of Seperation
Baltar becomes quite confused when Number Six suddenly appears on the Galactica under a new name, and accuses him of being a traitor.

Episode 8: Flesh and Bone
Kara has a crisis of conscience when she is ordered to torture a Cylon prisoner to find out where a bomb has been hidden on the Galactica.

Episode 9: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
Col. Tigh's estranged wife turns up on the Galactica, asking for a reconciliation.

Vote for your favourite episode and feel free to post your reasoning. This debate should give us something to argue about through Christmas!

c0y0te

Johnny Storm

Episode 5: You Cant Go Home Again

#4 followed closely by #1
I liked these episodes because they were unpredictable, dramatic and packed with incidents. IE they had something to say.

Belisarius

Episode 2: Water

33

Its unfortunate but It set a stratospherically high standard for the rest of the series

Nuttzz

Episode 2: Water

33 for me also

Haruspex

Episode 8: Flesh and Bone

If I hadn't seen episode 7 yet then definitely 33 but Six Degrees of Seperation shades it for me because of its brilliant showcasing of the man we love to hate - Dr. Gaius Baltar!

Actually, c0y0te, you've really brought it home that we only have four more BSG episodes remaining until the season finale!

I'm guessing Enterprise Season 4 will fill BSG's slot on Monday nights thereafter. At least it'll still be Sci-Fi Monday though!

c0y0te

Episode 2: Water

I'm still trying to make my mind up between "33" and "Six Degrees of Seperation" myself :rolleyes: ... both were great episodes and I'm having a tough time deciding on which one I liked the best.

Hmm... may have to just toss a coin

c0y0te

Haruspex

Episode 8: Flesh and Bone

c0y0te wrote:

I'm still trying to make my mind up between "33" and "Six Degrees of Seperation" myself :rolleyes: ... both were great episodes and I'm having a tough time deciding on which one I liked the best.

Join me!
Can't let me be the only one who voted for Six Degrees of Seperation!
Does lobbying a mod disqualify?

endplate

Episode 2: Water

It has to be 33 for me. It was the sort of program that just got you gripped with the series you could feel tension and stress everywhere

NeoSlicerZ

Episode 2: Water

33 tbh

Ivan

Episode 9: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

I'm sorry. There is just something about water torture.
Its just so... efficient.

I thought Flesh & Bone was a great episode. A nice physicological insight into the mind of Starbuck and that Cylon; Lee is it?

Anyway, fantastic ep, imho.

David Stewart

Episode 3: Bastille Day

I voted for water because it showed just how vulnerable they are. Baltar's calculations as to the needs of the fleet in terms of meat, vegetables and water were chilling and this was something the original series never looked at.

endplate

Episode 2: Water

David Stewart wrote:

I voted for water because it showed just how vulnerable they are. Baltar's calculations as to the needs of the fleet in terms of meat, vegetables and water were chilling and this was something the original series never looked at.

Speaking of which how much food is available to feed the 50,000 or so people

Sooner or Later

Episode 2: Water

It has to be 33.

Best ... episode ... ever.

Stark

Episode 8: Flesh and Bone

You forgot to include the miniseries in the poll

c0y0te

Episode 2: Water

OK... thought long and hard about it, and as much as I loved 'six degrees of seperation' for all the fun and games with our favourite on screen lunatic couple, I've got to give credit where it's due, and '33' was perhaps the best opening episode of any sci-fi series I've seen. Ever.

Think about that for a sec. All the Star Treks and other dross.... Bab 5 and even Farscape didn't have an opening episode that gripped me as much as "33" did. That's a hell of thing

For me, the fact that the series starts days after the mini-series, that the crew are beyond tired and exhausted, they are right on the limit, that the situation just seems hopeless from the get go... was a brave choice to make for the series producers. It introduced the characters again to us since the mini series, but didn't treat the audience like kids. It assumed we would take onboard the adult themes, the pace and the dark overtones of the episode and roll with it... and we did. Oh boy did we

I may have issues with later episodes and some continuity items (which may or may not be resolved by the end of season 1).. but still, that season opener was fantastic and beats some of my best loved sci-fi ever. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. BSG has the "potential" to be regarded in the same sentances as uber shows like Babylon 5 and Farscape.

c0y0te :cool:

c0y0te

Episode 2: Water

ROFL... just noticed that no one has voted for either 'You Can't Go home again' or 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down'.

Wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that one episode made no fracking sense (repair alien ship with piece of cloth, learn to fly bio-ship by squeezing it until it behaves itself, outfly your own fighters using new improved flying techniques while oxygen depraved and injured:))... and the other was totally over the top (oversexed, overacted, carricuture version of paranoia central which again, made no sense in the end).

Wow - looks like we have people with actual taste voting so far

c0y0te

Steven

Episode 8: Flesh and Bone

It was hard to choose between "33" and "Six Degrees of Seperation" so I went the road less travelled to push it ahead of "Bastille Day", but damn, that first episode set one hell of a high bar.

Johnny Storm

Episode 5: You Cant Go Home Again

c0y0te wrote:

ROFL... just noticed that no one has voted for either 'You Can't Go home again' or 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down'.

Wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that one episode made no fracking sense (repair alien ship with piece of cloth, learn to fly bio-ship by squeezing it until it behaves itself, outfly your own fighters using new improved flying techniques while oxygen depraved and injured:))... and the other was totally over the top (oversexed, overacted, carricuture version of paranoia central which again, made no sense in the end).

Wow - looks like we have people with actual taste voting so far

c0y0te

Add to that - bail out of spaceship while its being incinerated by atmospheric friction and survive, clad only in warm leatherette spacesuit

TCamen

Episode 9: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

Just noticed the poll now, oh well -- Was torn between '33' and 'Flesh and Bone' so went with the slow-burning arc-y feel of F+B, over the action of '33'.

I wonder if '33' will still be favourite after we've seen all 13?

'Hand of God' is bound to have some support.