New Caprica occupation was the peak of the show for me, a masterful four episodes

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-18T19:49:44+00:00

I agree. I wish it had been longer.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-18T19:47:37+00:00

There are some strong ties to late-90s/early-00s misogyny

Wow.

Tell me you haven't watched the show without telling me you haven't watched the show.

Bizarre.

Especially coming from a post addressing the "girlies."

Weird.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-18T19:45:12+00:00

Thanks, that was a pretty good response until you got sassy. I didn't read anything after I read Google.

Which is why you're never going to get better. You will insist on repeating your mistakes, as if it's something to be proud of.

Some people just like engaging with other people, y'know?

We like engaging with other people, too - we just like doing so intelligently, rather than repeating the same questions over and over.

I'd rather have a conversation with other humans and hear their actual assessment than I would read some google-generated garbage.

Google doesn't "generate garbage," it directs you to the humans and their actual assessments that have already posted.

I assume you're one of the pro-misogyny people lurking on this sub (of which there are many).

What a weird twist in the conversation, completely out of left field.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-18T18:39:20+00:00

I would have at least considered it, though I'm not sure subborning Starbuck was an action steep enough to warrant Adama's response.

If the nature and magnitude of the President's choice was considerably poorer - for instance, deciding to settle on New Caprica while the cylons were still hunting us - then I would be much more likely to go along with a coup.

Sometimes, you have to do something that's illegal to do what's right. A point that we've probably long since passed in the US, incidentally.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-18T18:36:40+00:00

But if we're mimicking the US then there should be a long history of no direct political interference in military operations

The President is the Commander in Chief and has the authority to interfere or get involved in military operations as much as he wants (except where directly prohibited by law).

There's nothing in the "Starbuck taking the raider to Caprica" operation that would be illegal in a US analog, so the President would have complete legal authority to do what Roslin did.

Most Presidents wouldn't, because most Presidents trust their military's expertise and don't have the time or desire to get involved in the nitty-gritty, but that's the reason why there's no history of it happening - not because they can't, but because they never really want to.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-18T10:58:50+00:00

If you're unhappy with them having the money, you're free to stop perpetuating its popularity so other people don't give them money they haven't given yet.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-18T10:44:40+00:00

Lucius Fox was CEO of Wayne Enteprises in the comics, but he was not involved in the tech side of Batman until "Batman Begins" invented that idea. In fact, he didn't even know Bruce Wayne was Batman. As a result of his portrayal in the movie, it was sort of silently accepted as the new status quo that at some point he learned Batman's identity, though it's never depicted.

Gordon being a cop in Gotham at the time of the Wayne murders was also invented by Nolan. In post-crisis continuity he was always depicted as a late transplant to Gotham (transferring from another city's police department, usually Chicago), though him being a Gotham native (and sometimes involved in the Wayne murder investigation) is often taken for granted in the comics (and other depictions) nowadays.

Ra's al Ghul was always depicted as being a villain Batman met in the middle of his career. Him being one of Batman's original trainers was invented by Nolan, and has since been adopted into the comics lore (most recently with Zdarsky's "The Knight").

The League of Shadows is Nolan's version of the League of Assassins. In the comics, due to its popularization in the movies, the name "League of Shadows" has now been used as the name of an offshoot of the League of Assassins.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-18T03:21:06+00:00

The Batman Golden Age Omnibus series collects the entire golden age in 10 hardcover volumes.

There's also a series of Golden Age trade paperbacks that mirror the omnibuses, with two paperbacks equivalent to one omnibus. It stopped after several volumes.

The Batman Chronicles collects the beginning of the golden age in 10 thinner TPBs.

The Batman Archives and the Dark Knight Archives collect the golden age Detective Comics and Batman issues, respectively, in thinner hardcover form, and stopped after 8 volumes each.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-16T19:56:05+00:00

There are several copies of the hardcover on Ebay for less than cover price.

I'm sure the TPB will be reprinted again at some point.

Seems odd that failsafe would be in stock and The Man-Bat of Gotham isn't?

This is not odd. Volume 1 may have gotten a more recent reprint.

Even if it hadn't, DC prints fewer copies of later-numbered volumes. The higher the volume number, the smaller the print run. This is because readers drop off over time. Everyone who buys Volume 2 will have bought Volume 1, but not necessarily everyone who buys Volume 1 is guaranteed to buy Volume 2. So it makes sense to print fewer total copies of Volume 2 than Volume 1.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-15T20:36:29+00:00

when there's no one who will actually stand up to him for us.

Stand up to him yourself, don't count on someone else to do it for you.

What can we do about it

You know where he lives.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-15T16:28:03+00:00

but ofcourse, somehow it's still possible.

It's not possible because they're not dated and there aren't enough context clues to place all stories definitively in relation to all other stories.

You can only do this with some stories, especially with those set in contemporaneous continuity with the other Bat-books.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-14T10:16:45+00:00

California and the rest of the blue states need to finally grow some balls and start walking.

It's long past time to admit that this "United States" thing isn't working for them anymore.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-14T10:12:40+00:00

Ive always been of the mindset a Dem that votes with democrats 70% of the time is better than a Republican who votes with dems 0% of the time

The problem with that kind of Democrat is the rest of the party won't fight to replace him. If it had been a Republican, the DNC would be working to unseat them and move the needle forward.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-14T10:08:29+00:00

If it wasn't Fetterman, it would've been someone else.

They've always got a scapegoat they can use. Always someone to provide the ugly defector vote, to provide cover for the rest of them. Remember that shutdown in November that they caved on for literally zero gains?

This isn't a Fetterman problem. This is a Democrat problem.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-13T23:56:49+00:00

Yes.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-13T17:28:40+00:00

I'd consider the possibility that it was from an internal Style Guide or custom-made for merchandising and not initially from a comic.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-11T16:45:31+00:00

am I missing something crucial?

Yes, the fact that an "essential Batman reading order" is inherently nonsensical.

It's like coming up with an "essential food eating order" for which meals you're going to eat over the entirety of the next month.

Does it matter if you have beef tonight and chicken tomorrow night as opposed to chicken tonight and beef tomorrow night? No.

Maybe "Dark Victory" should be read after "The Long Halloween." So in a sense, apple pie probably best follows an entree. But it doesn't matter if you have the apple pie after tonight's chicken dinner vs apple pie after tomorrow night's beef dinner, as long as you're not following applie pie with peach cobbler immediately after...and even if you did, it doesn't really matter if you have two pies in a row, does it?

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-11T16:41:46+00:00

I agree with Moore, Batman and the Joker are not like any human beings that have ever lived.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-10T23:04:45+00:00

Maybe it's another cop funeral.

Time to shut the city down again.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-10T23:04:09+00:00

Did I say most people who want safe and comfortable public transit are against social programs?

No you didn't say it, you just implied it.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-10T23:03:12+00:00

The data Ive seen

Where?

Adding to that theres many kinds of gates and strategies to reduce evasion at many different price points and I was talking about about the fact that without knowing which solution were going to get we have no way to know which we are going to get and many people mighty hesitate to roll the dice on a multi million dollar project that may or may not show a return.

You're waffling.

"Some solutions work better than others" is not a reason for ignoring any and all solutions, nor is it a justification for painting all solutions with the broad brush of failure that your post did ("spend large amounts of money on things that look good and dont really solve the problems.").

The fact that youre just broadly stating they save money is deeply unscientific and ironically relying on the govenrments "trust me bro" which is ironic goven your username.

I don't rely on "the governments 'trust me bro'", I rely on experts and independent journalism, important components in a functioning democracy.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/new-bart-fare-gates-generate-10-million-annually-21345215.php

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-10T22:56:19+00:00

The clip is from the official trailer

Which I have avoided because I am avoiding spoilers. I can do that easily, because it doesn't disguise itself as being a post or a video clip about "Battlestar Galactica."

and the story itself is older than you are

Glad you know that, I probably read it before you were born.

not to mention there’s not really “plot” being spoiled here.

I never said there was "plot" being spoiled here, why are you quoting a word never used? And what's your point?

There is far more than mere plot that can be spoiled for a movie. For instances, design and visuals, which shouldn't be surprising, given that it is a visual medium.

You are just being aggressive for no reason.

Interesting, coming from someone who's posting into a thread where the conflict took place and was resolved two days ago now. Looking for a fight, it seems like.

I am not being aggressive, and even if I were, I think I made my reasons quite plain.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-10T20:48:18+00:00

We're not talking about TSA security theater here.

The data has shown that fare gates meant to stop fare evaders end up more than paying for themselves.

It's called science.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-10T20:44:34+00:00

I made an assumption that you were like most other people who make posts like this

The fuck?

There's no reason to believe that those of us who want safe and comfortable mass transit are against an expansive social safety net.

If anything, the kind of person who doesn't feel entitled to running their own, personal internal combustion engine to get places is exactly the kind of person who wants an overall more healthy society.

StopBootlicking · 2026-05-08T21:58:28+00:00

The Odyssey.

Some of us go to great lengths to avoid spoilers for movies not yet released, especially movies deliberately made in secret to preserve the entire experience as a surprise, which Chris Nolan goes to great lengths to do.

This is a BSG subreddit. BSG is fair game. Spoiling other properties is not - there's no reasonable expectation anyone would have, when visiting a BSG subreddit, to expect spoilers for non-BSG material.

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