March 11, 2006
[full circle] 12:19 PM
My my my wasn't that Battlestar finale seven bits of amazing? To save from spoiling it for others, click to read some email correspondence regarding plot points in the finale.
On a spoiler free note: Damn, that was Bear's best score since the season one finale. Screw the new age crap of the Pegasus arc and give me Lay Down Your Burdens, stat.
My initial thoughts: the rogue cylon (Leoben, Six, and Sharon) sect and Humans vs. Lucy Lawless and her relentless band of "get the fuck back here!" cylons. That is season 3. It's pretty obvious they cylon want babies, and have all along, but only Sharon's appeared to work out, so I believe the hybrid babies are the goal of the peaceful cylons. That, and I'm sure Lucy isn't so pleased with being killed with a giant piece of rubble.
One thing Greg doesn't touch upon is how awesome it is that Leoben reappeared from Flesh and Bone seeking out Kara. If you've forgotten, Leoben is the cylon who Kara Abu Ghraib'd in season one. They talked about faith, and then he was promptly put out an airlock.
Greg writes:
Don't mind the one year later but...
- are we going to be innundated with flashbacks for the past "year" all next season? that is something NOT to look forward too...
I can see the flashbacks occuring every now and then, or BSG will become the new LOST - but i doubt the cast and crew are antsy to prep and wear two sets of uniforms and hair for an entire season. I doubt that's too lovely on the budget, either.
- just cause Starbuck was drunk she and Apollo haven't spoken in a year????
I seriously doubt THAT's what Dualla was talking about with Lee and Kara, given her tone when dealing with the call. There's something else there, but I'm sure Anders is involved.
- is the Gallactica Sharon rotting away in her cell?
I'm sure she's making some papier mache and has turned herself in to Martha Frakking Stewart. Much like Six and Gina, I'm sure Sharon 3.0 isn't going to be happy when she finds Sharon 2.0 in the brig.
- if the Cylons said they were going away, why come back???? LAME
The Cylons did go away, BUT, after a year of trials perhaps they still cannot concieve babies. I mean, having a bajillion copies of 12 people has to get old, and evolution is part of destiny, machine OR human. We need look no further than The Farm or Kobol's Last Gleaming to know that children are front and center on the Cylon mind - lest we forget the great lengths they went to for Caprica Sharon and Helo to knock boots.
- can you believe they gave the computer guy on Galactica an actual reason to exist on the show?
Yes, his new position is "Dead during a take-over of the presidency." Boy just pointed out that Gaeda is the most ethical character on the show, and they treat him that way, unlike Dualla who's a bipolar hooker.
- guess Billly wasn't a cylon. I still say he's the "Apollo" one.
I LOVE the Tory decoy leading to the revelation about Priest. The Preist/Priest cell conversation was a highlight of exposition on dramatic television.
- I'm more convinced that each Cylon is a representation of one of the greek gods. I thought Dean Stockwell's one was great and hope to see him back.
Indeed, and how tricky of them naming her Tory aka Troy/a Trojan Horse. Granted she did fuck up Roslin's term, but not in the way I had imagined. Does anyone else hope Stockwell's Cylon goes by the name of "Ziggy?"
- So Richard Hatch helps Baltar get elected and then he's just gone???
Oh Gregory, 90 minutes and at the end of the season, the guest star budget only goes so far. And new sets for a colony on earth and a shload of matte fx shots. Me think Zarek is gone for budgetary (and not story) reasons.
- Wouldn't they have landed more ships to help build PHYSICAL structures on the planet? Even after a year, couldn't they have built a brick house or two? I don't get this living in tents crap. Maybe for the first month or two...
Please direct your attention to New Orleans. Also, keep in mind that the planet is frigid like Dee, we haven't seen much lumber, and it's doubtful any of the ships just happened to be carrying construction supplies. If there isn't even a capitol building, you can imagine things are stretched pretty thin. I mean, Baltar is President Selfish.
OR why not allude to a minority who refuse to settle who were all on the ships orbiting (and who escaped) the planet. Isn't there 50,000 or so survivors? Even counting the ones who died in the nuclear blast, ithe show says there are 39,000 on New Caprica. Gotta assume maybe 3-4,000 escaped in the jump?
Skeleton crews on Galactia and Pegasus, as well as ... what? 6 other ships we saw jump away in the orbiting fleet? They're there, you'll just have to be patient - we haven't seen the Quarum of Tweleve in months, and that doesn't seem to bother you.
- So they are told the Cylons abandonded all of the colonies. Um....wouldn't Adama go and look for survivors on his own even if Baltar said no? Isn't there a quarum which would pressure the president to do so???? How would they know if all of the colonies were that uninhabitable? There woudln't be "one" that wasn't hit as bad
I've always been under the assumption that Caprica got off relatively easy due to its size - yes it's been nuked, but the planet is still a planet. I doubt many people are keen to live in fall-out however. Plus, the Fleet was keen to settle on New Caprica not only because it was a planet, but because it was shielded by the nebulathingamajig (love those nebulas). The cylons reappeared, as I'm sure everyone knew was going to happen, so why go back to the scene of the crime when you can hide?
And now we've come full cirlce: Cylon occupied New Caprica, Baltar the bringer of doom yet again, and a rag-tag understaffed fleet yet again on the run.
October is too far.
What about that whole Roslyn remembering Baltar being with Number Six on Caprica before the attack?
by your command...
Posted by: matt at March 13, 2006 9:00 AM
