SQN v. TH

[Osprey]

OK, we [mostly] loved SQN. We [mostly] adored TH. Since by storyline these 2 eps. are linked together, I figger I'd throw it out there -- is one better than the other? Or is that like chossing between children?

[genji2000]

Hmm... well Sine Qua Non has Athena being ace in it, but The Hub has another Eight in a leadership position. I'll swing towards The Hub because it introduces a new Eight in a smashing outfit.

[Shane]

Together equal. Separate.. Hub is better than SQN.

[Joe Beaudoin Jr.]

They are two different POVs of the same story, basically. One of it told by the Fleet's perspective, the other from the basestar's.

You really have to watch both. It's like a two-parter, except more complicated.

[redwards95]

I like "The Hub" better by a large margin. I'm not fond of SQN's Caprica-6 pregnancy storyline, its overly long Lee becomes President storyline, or its admiral waits for Roslin in a raptor ending. There are a quite a few logical holes in TH and the mission to rescue D'anna and destroy the hub is carried off with far too much ease, but otherwise it's a very fine episode.

[Osprey]

except for 2 parters tend to be sequential; these [as Joe notes] have approx. 90% overlap.

I voted above for TH, and I think i did so for 1. more explosions 2. more sharon and, most important by far, 3. several questions raised by SQN get answered by TH.

[genji2000]

1. more explosions

rofl

[stavrosg]

Maybe we lean towards TH as its more recent, but yes, I voted TH, too, for the reasons outlined by Osprey.

[1Nivek1]

There was just too much in "SineQ" that irked me (Romo, Lee taking over without a Zarek fight). But, I don't think it was a bad idea to "split" the episodes. Thought that was a good idea as there were two different "settings" at the same time.

I think TH was the superior episode (granted, they had more to work with), and undoubtedly that's why RDM aired it 2nd of the two (not to mention it left Adama reading a book for a "week" waiting).

[Washi]

Sine Qua Non is so much better it saddens me that they're compared at all, much less in The Hub's favour. Sine Qua Non was written sharply, with wit and with precise characterisation. It was directed very well, and it featured fantastic acting. Basically, it represented the things that are usually good about BSG.

Now the Hub, that didn't have those things. Well the acting was still very good, but the material they had to work with was largely very poor. The episode had almost no attention to detail, vandalised suspension of belief (which are two of the core strengths of BSG since the mini-series). The assault on the Hub was basically as cliched sci-fi as you can get, with even less believability than the attacks on the Death Star in Star Wars. I suppose I can only pray to the lords of Kobol that I don't have to see BSG this thick and trite again for the remainder of the season.

[mariarilke]

The only thing SQN has better than TH is a "deep" name.

[Washi]

A deep name alone would beat the drivel crammed into much of The Hub.

[Seanathin]

the hub was far better, I just though so much of SQN was just build up to something that you knew was coming from the start. Also I'm not to keen on Taylors episodes the writing always irks me, both diologe and structure, whereas the writing in the Hub suprised me having not like her other episodes.

SQN has many of the problems of things that are wrong with S4 and the hub has many of the things that are write with it.

i'm just glad the mid season cliffhanger is being written by Tompson& Weddle because they have yet to let me down.