Where Do I Start?
Posted by Maggie
March 26th, 2007 at 12:07pm
In Battlestar Galactica
If you haven’t yet seen the season finale of Battlestar Galactica, you’re not going to want to read the rest of this post. You’re also not going to want to read this post if you don’t watch Battlestar Galactica, because you will think the whole thing is completely nutters.
What a strange episode. This show is never normal, but this is something else entirely. I’m left with nothing but questions.
- Bob Dylan: Cylon? God?
- Saul and Bill have been friends for 40 years. Does that mean that the Cylons planted Saul on one of the 12 worlds 40 years ago? I thought the skin jobs were relatively new creations. Didn’t he fight in the first Cylon war? Against the Cylons? And he aged? I haven’t seen any evidence that the other Cylons age. I know the Cylons are crafty, but that’s a long-term plan, dude.
- So they all show up in that weird room, having followed Bob Dylan’s lyrics there. Now, do they know that they’re Cylons, or are they just assuming that they are because they’ve been drawn to that spot against their will?
- They let Lee climb back in a Viper and head out there, after all that? They had an extra Viper just lying around for him?
- For a show with such a fantastic score, why the sudden heavy rock and roll? I mean, I have nothing against guitars, but I’m just wondering why Bob Dylan, overall, as a plot point?
- Starbuck? In a plane? Happy smile? Earth? What?
- Saul: Bill’s best friend, crazy wife, strong sense of duty. Chief: religious upbringing, was in love with a Cylon, union man. Anders: famous triangle player, resistance fighter, okay with an open marriage. Kara: duh. Tory: ??????? Seriously, Tory? What’s your deal?
- So, earth, huh? Is it earth now as it is? Earth of the future? Alternate reality earth? Earth of the past?
- They’re messing with us, aren’t they? This is all happening in Roslin’s head on a drug trip?
- Remember when the show had cliffhangers that made sense? Just a little?
- What is UP with the show not coming back until 2008? That’s soooo long!
Yeah, my brain exploded a little there at the end. My main problem with it is what you said about Tigh - we haven’t ever seen the Cylon models age, but presumably Adama has seen Tigh age. So WTF, writers?
And it really made me more happy than confused to see Starbuck again. I don’t care what is up with her special density. I’m just happy she’s back. Because I lurve her.
Ronald Moore said in an interview, way way back at the start of the show, that he always wanted to end it with the characters wandering down a long tunnel as Jimi Hendrix played, only to be greeted by Dick Gregory, who claims to be God.
I thought he was joking. Maybe he wasn’t.
I don’t think those guys are the Final Five! But now they think they are, and it’ll completely frack with their heads!
(Who knows, though.)
So was your prediction right?
Word for word.
Not that I’m gloating or anything.
Interesting theory. What are they if not the final five, though? How did Starbuck escape having her ship blown up if she wasn’t a Cylon?
Your prediction was based on last week, right? Because anyone predicting before those 4 started hearing music I’d be REALLY impressed with. Not that I don’t hand it to you.
I’m wondering if they turn out to NOT be the final four. That proclamation, “We’re Cylons, and we have been so all along” was a little on the nose for BSG. I still say Galactica itself will get Cylonized, like a base ship.
I figured Lee felt like crap after the trial, they have extra Vipers (half the pilots are dead or nuggets, after all) and no one on deck thought to question giving one to Lee. He probably didn’t tell everyone the extent of his quitting, and clearly Adama and the control deck didn’t know he was in that Viper.
I’m still pissed that we were robbed of the scene where Anders, after everything, NOW decides to join the already underway nugget program. The scene where Adama asks him to join the military, or tells him he’s like a daughter to him. Maybe a deleted scene, please, DVDs?
I’m getting seriously pissed at all the people of NBC/SciFi that keep screwing up great TV shows. First it was Stargate SG-1, then they stopped replaying Firefly, now they’re making us wait a whole year to see BSG. Frakkin’ aye, man!