Boom boom boom
See, in the miniseries of BSG Adama has the following exchange with Starbuck (who is jogging around Glactica, the soon to be plunged-into-a-life-or-death-struggle-on-which-the-fate-of-the-enti- er, retired battlestar):
Adama: What do you hear?
Starbuck: Nothing but the rain.
Adama: Grab your gun and bring in the cat.
Starbuck: Boom boom boom.
This is later repeated when Adama is getting ready to flee a massive Cylon attack and Adama is telling Starbuck to get her and Apollo's broken viper back home or they're going to be left.
So now the rapid fire "This is what you're going to see this week" clips that run after the main titles (accompanied by Bear McCreary's trademark percussion) are called the Boom Boom Booms (see? cause of the drums and cause it's a Starbuck line). Some people hate them. My brother Jeff is one of them. They discontinued them for the first few eps of season two. Then cooler heads (that don't hang on the Glactica message boards as much, I'd wager) prevailed and they brought them back. Mission: Impossible used to do this, so did Space: 1999.
They really don't spoil anything nearly as much as the "previously on Buffy the Vamp- er Battlestar Galactica" (gee, why is Dorrel in the POBSG? Maybe he'll be back this week?) or the blasted PREVIEWS (that I don't watch anymore). They usually edit the BBBs to mislead you as to what's happening anyway.
Well, that was pretty long winded. But Aaron Williams says it better. Jeff, this one's for you.
So say we all.
Adama: What do you hear?
Starbuck: Nothing but the rain.
Adama: Grab your gun and bring in the cat.
Starbuck: Boom boom boom.
This is later repeated when Adama is getting ready to flee a massive Cylon attack and Adama is telling Starbuck to get her and Apollo's broken viper back home or they're going to be left.
So now the rapid fire "This is what you're going to see this week" clips that run after the main titles (accompanied by Bear McCreary's trademark percussion) are called the Boom Boom Booms (see? cause of the drums and cause it's a Starbuck line). Some people hate them. My brother Jeff is one of them. They discontinued them for the first few eps of season two. Then cooler heads (that don't hang on the Glactica message boards as much, I'd wager) prevailed and they brought them back. Mission: Impossible used to do this, so did Space: 1999.
They really don't spoil anything nearly as much as the "previously on Buffy the Vamp- er Battlestar Galactica" (gee, why is Dorrel in the POBSG? Maybe he'll be back this week?) or the blasted PREVIEWS (that I don't watch anymore). They usually edit the BBBs to mislead you as to what's happening anyway.
Well, that was pretty long winded. But Aaron Williams says it better. Jeff, this one's for you.
So say we all.
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