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The Long Patrol

The Long Patrol

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Mark and Michael take a look at the seventh episode of Battlestar Galactica (1978), "The Long Patrol." From IMDB's unnecessarily-long description, "Starbuck's unplanned double-date with Cassiopeia and Athena on the recently-reopened luxury liner Rising Star is interrupted when the Galactica picks up long-range transmission traffic indicting human life in a distant solar system on the other side of a vast asteroid dust field. Starbuck is recalled to duty to pilot the Starchaser, an up-powered reconnaissance viper denuded of weaponry and bearing a voice-activated computer - Computer, Oral Response Activated, known simply as CORA - that can handle the vast increase in performance in the new viper. Starbuck is enthralled by the new viper, but less enthusiastic about CORA, who bears a personality that grates on Starbucks nerves. Starbuck picks up two star-craft from hundreds of years vintage and in the process he is double-crossed and knocked unconscious by a smuggler of liquor. Starbuck later finds himself incarcerated on Proteus, a prison planetoid that is a surviving body from hundreds of such penal facilities scattered through the stars by the Colonies during the Cylon War, facilities that made munitions and liquor for the war effort. Proteus is now manned by the distant antecedents of its original guards and prisoners and continues to make ambrosia for Colonial warriors, even though hundreds of years worth of ambrosia have never left the planet - and the planet may not even survive, as a Cylon patrol that has detected Starbuck's now-stolen viper has spotted the planetoid while the stolen viper is being pursued by Apollo and Boomer."If you'd like to watch the episode prior to listening to our breakdown, it can be found here.Here are some things we mention during the episode:Before we get to that, though, the episode image of Starbuck that Michael pulled is straight up Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi, feeding into his theory that Star Wars actually ripped off BSG WAY more than the other way around. You're a hack, George Lucas.Correction from our episode ("Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 2"): In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the place where the sun shines through the crystal to reveal the location of the Ark is the MAP ROOM, not the Well of Souls (which is where the Ark is). So the hosts are not as dumb as they appeared. It just took them a while to realize that. Though given that Michael claims Raiders of the Lost Ark is his favorite movie, he REALLY should know better. (MICHAEL'S NOTE: Sorry, but it's difficult to listen to EVERY word that Mark says. I mean, come on. Are you???) The Last Starfighter. Turns out that movie DOES also use the name “Centauri” (which BSG introduces here as a new unit of time, apparently tired of using “centons” for everything from a second to a year). However, it’s not the name of the planet, it’s the name of a character in the movie. (MICHAEL'S NOTE: The Last Starfighter is awesome, and may be one of my most nostalgic movies.) Star Trek. The “thing that they work for,” as Mark so ineloquently puts it, is THE FEDERATION. Honestly between the Well of Souls fiasco and not being able to remember this basic Star Trek fact, both the hosts should lose any geek cred they may have had. (MICHAEL'S NOTE: Last night, I texted my high school friends with a Simpsons reference that The Crown reminded me of. So, no, we shouldn't.)BSG takes a turn for the sitcom-y, with parallels to both Three’s Company (every episode) and the Friends episode “The One with the Two Parties".Dirk Benedict as Starbuck is finally coming together and getting some of the charming slimeball vibe we came to know and love from Benedict as Face in The A-Team.Unprompted, Michael brings up The Last Jedi. AGAIN. (MICHAEL'S NOTE: I mean, it was definitely prompted, and you'd think Mark would stop begging me to link to it in the show notes. Stop trying to make link happen.)Mark’s sci-fi book recommendation, The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. It’s the first book of a trilogy, and after you finish it you’ll definitely want to continue into The Dark Forest and Death’s End. (MICHAEL'S NOTE: Remember earlier in these notes when Mark tried to claim he's not as big a geek as it appears?) Mrs. Doubtfire has another dinner scene with one character jumping between two different roles that can’t find out about each other. (MICHAEL'S NOTE: This movie is THIRTY YEARS OLD, AND WE'RE ALL A MILLION YEARS OLD!)If you'd like to follow us on social media or send us a message, check us out at our website, and you can also send us a voicemail or text. If you're enjoying Deja Reviewed, it'd really help us out if you subscribe and give us a rating wherever you're listening. Thank you, as always, for listening!
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