Battlestar Galactica: Final Season

[Omniscia]

Sooner or later, someone's going to wonder how that key got outside the airlock, unless Tory puts it back after it's repressurized.

[Wholly Schmidt]

Originally Posted by Omniscia

Sooner or later, someone's going to wonder how that key got outside the airlock, unless Tory puts it back after it's repressurized.

No, they won't. Much larger plots and plot holes have been ignored in the past.

[nixon66]

What do you mean? Nothing like that has happened before!

[André Costa]

Originally Posted by nixon66

What do you mean? Nothing like that has happened before!

Uh???

[Dan_Theman]

Hmm. I don't have any issues with the disposal of Cally (sp?). She was annoying, although that's pretty realistic IMO - not everyone who's a part of a rag-tag fugitive fleet will be able to always carry themselves with a suave manner, confident fighter-jockey attitude, or edge-of-interesting-insanity like most of the crew seems to, so she brought a little more "humanity" to the show. Such is life.

However, the one problem I do have with the show is that I'm stressed about there being only one remaining "Six" model. That's just not fair ;-)

Of course, that could also set up a potential decision on her part to work against the Cylons knowing that they eradicated (almost) all of her kind. Of course that in turn could set up a potential backstab later in the season. Just some speculation, but mostly whining that I need more Tricia Helfer in my life (at least from what I gathered, she's garnered a recurring role in another series ... although that may just be from some fevered dream of mine).

[Andrew Mayer]

Did they intimate that all the sixes were blown up?

I can't really keep track of the plot anymore. I'm just riding the emotional roller coaster...

[André Costa]

Originally Posted by Andrew Mayer

Did they intimate that all the sixes were blown up?

I can't really keep track of the plot anymore. I'm just riding the emotional roller coaster...

Like i mentioned some posts ago, i "think" they were just trying to get rid of those specific models that lead the rebelion so that when they died, their memories/experiences wouldn't be passed onto the Six Hivemind.

They probably have many Six models on the ressurection ships.

[Dan_Theman]

Ahh - thanks for the hopeful news on that one. I took it completely differently, but I'll be glad to be wrong on this count.

[Quaro]

That's the way I took it as well. They eliminated the hub server in the area so the insurrection couldn't spread to the other sixes.

[Mike O'Malley]

Originally Posted by Mike Jamieson

I think that's why she needed Tyrol's key. It's reasonable that there might be some sort of override to allow individuals who know what they're doing to service the launch tube.

It'd be smarter to limit that override to inside the control room, so that your maintenance buddy could make sure you didn't do something stupid like blow yourself out the airlock while servicing the tube.

Pedantry, I love thee.

[ColonelT]

Originally Posted by bloo

I thought I saw Athena feeding [Hera] at the table on the Demitrius.

Checked that on the rewatch and unless I'm missing something, the only thing Athena was nursing was a cup of coffee. Hera where are you?

[Woolen Horde]

I remember reading this back when it first appeared, but I stumbled on the New York Times Magazine article about Ron Moore and Battlestar Galactica. Such an interesting read. (PS, it's written by PC.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/ma...GALACTICA.html

[Woolen Horde]

Gentlemen, enjoy!
http://fashionartedit.blogspot.com/2...attlestar.html

[rjcc]

no Dee and Tory?

FAIL.

[CSL]

No Cally either?

[RichardC]

Did they intimate that all the sixes were blown up?

I didn't get that impression. I thought Cavil's ambush took out a lot of them, but not the actual leaders. Otherwise, the Cylon Civil War is going to be a bit crap. Speaking of which, I hope the Hera plot doesn't take up any more time than absolutely necessary, especially given Tyrol's kid, and the fact that I didn't remotely care about it at the time.

[Rollory]

Thucydides, _History of the Peloponnesian War_, chapter 5:

In former generations there was an Athenian of the name of Cylon, a victor at the Olympic games, of good birth and powerful position, who had married a daughter of Theagenes, a Megarian, at that time tyrant of Megara. Now this Cylon was inquiring at Delphi; when he was told by the god to seize the Acropolis of Athens on the grand festival of Zeus.

[Woolen Horde]

Awww, Sci-Fi is now just showing the first half of each new episode at noon on Fridays. The first half ends on such an awesome Baltar note, too. And Tori is so becomming a hot, evil, hot, seductress, hot cylon.

[Raguel]

Originally Posted by André Costa

Uh???

I don't want to put words in nixon's mouth, but based on my knowledge of biology/evolution, if we assume the cylons made themselves human by using humans as a reference point, then the human(s) in question were susceptible to the virus, which would make said human(s) hundreds of years old (before humans became immune).

edit: alternatively, the "blueprint" was made hundreds of years in the past.

[Andrew Mayer]

Well, lookie here:

[Woolen Horde]

Yeah, I'm surprised that not many have brought up the Ship of Lights two-parter from the original series. (In it, the Galactica fighters begin to disappear while on patrol; they all report seeing lights speeding around them. Eventually, Starbuck and Apollo disappear, and they suddenly find themselves in some kind of weird, heavenly place, wearing brand-spanking new uniforms and gear.)

[Spire]

Good episode tonight, I thought. Not the most exciting episode of the season but one of the better written ones. The religious stuff is really getting interesting and I'm excited to see where they take it. If they handle the religion issue as well as they handled the insurgency issue back at the beginning of Season 3, we're in for some great material.

[Omniscia]

Yeah, it wasn't bad, but Roslyn's sudden change of hair was rather distracting. Not that much time has elapsed between episodes.

[Athryn]

Originally Posted by Omniscia

Yeah, it wasn't bad, but Roslyn's sudden change of hair was rather distracting. Not that much time has elapsed between episodes.

Chemotherapy and hair loss: What should you expect?

Hair usually begins falling out 10 to 14 days after you start treatment. It could fall out very quickly in clumps or gradually. You'll likely notice accumulations of loose hair on your pillow, in your hairbrush or in your sink or shower drain.

Source.

If you watched Breaking Bad, for example, it was only a couple weeks after he started chemo that he goes and shaves his head because he's basically pulling it out in clumps.

I thought Sauls wife appearing in Sixes body was the most disconcerting part of the show. It just looked .... wrong.

[jerri blank]

I was probably just tired tonight while watching, but I'm finding the religious stuff boring. I think the policy issue is interesting - do you make a special rule burdening just one religion because of that religion's leader's potential to cause trouble?

Lee is sort of cast as an idealist these days, so it's easy to forget that he's the guy who destroyed a civilian ship in the first regular ep of Season 1 because it appeared to have been infiltrated by the Cylons. ("33" was the ep that got me truly hooked on the show.)

[Andrew Mayer]

Originally Posted by jerri blank

("33" was the ep that got me truly hooked on the show.)

That would be the first episode... :-)

I liked this one. Dark and moody, but very internal.

I didn't buy Rosalyn's reasons for not putting Baltar off the ship. The would have been better off not mentioning it.

But I really like watching the new Cylons become Cylon. That's fun.

[SlyFrog]

Baltar going all Jesus in the temple was hilarious.

Rosalyn threatening Baltar for the 80th time (oh yeah, she'd been so lenient on him him in the past) was also hilarious.

[Desslock]

I preferred the very beginning of the series, when it was more of a science fiction/disaster film/military survivalist series, and wish they hadn't brought in and gradually expanded the supernatural elements and mysticism. Although even that is preferrable to some of the goofy "let's pretend we're not in a survival situation under military protection" to rationalize goofy episodes to be include analogues to our elections, press, media, entertainment, and current events almost like a Law & Order episode would. The military/shoot-em-up/revenge or escape the Cylons aspects of the show are long gone, to the point where once lead characters like Adama have been literally reduced to playing nurse.

THAT ALL SAID, I thought yesterday's episode was fantastic, and easily the best of the new season. There needs to be more Baltar..and the virtual Baltar in Six's head...and the virtual Baltar in Baltar's head... and the metaphysical aspects of the show look like they're heading towards an interesting conclusion. And the special effects in the space scenes are still outstanding, and really creatively rendered. I like the different perspectives, including the "awakenings", we're being given on the Cylon consciousness.

I'm actually really interested in the show again, and looking foward to seeing how it all comes together, even though I'm not expecting any clean, entirely satisfactory resolutions. You have to give the BG series credit for originality - it's certainly unlike any prior sci-fi space opera.

[Aleck]

Originally Posted by Athryn

I thought Sauls wife appearing in Sixes body was the most disconcerting part of the show. It just looked .... wrong.

One of the guys I watched it with (and yes, we have a regular BSG get together...) suggested that what freaked him out was that Tigh's wife could be an older version of Six. I doubt that's the direction they're going, but a pretty interesting concept if Tigh was a cylon and married to a cylon. :)

Last night was good, but I don't feel like they really moved the plot forward much at all. I hope they can keep the intrigue and general soap opera stuff in check while moving the plot forward.

[Jason Becker]

Originally Posted by Desslock

There needs to be more Baltar..and the virtual Baltar in Six's head...and the virtual Baltar in Baltar's head... .

Well it looks like the writer's have given a clue/hint of something about the "virtual six" with what she does at the very end of the episode. I'm sure BSG fanboy's on threads everywhere are tossing out theory's left and right on internet message boards now.