Actually, I don't think D'anna is going to be back anytime soon because I believe when I was reading an article in TV Guide about her departure, I think she said she was moving on to other things. I wish she would come back though. She was a big influence on everything.No, I just think D'anna will be back
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The Official Battlestar Galactica Thread : SPOILERS
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Am I the only one who thinks that the use of "All Along the Watchtower" has significance? How could the cylons know that song unless...they'd already been to Earth? I think that the cylons reached Earth a long time ago and are waiting to finish off humanity when BSG gets there.
Yeah, you think there would be some significance to it... apart from the fact that the most famous cover of it was by Hendrix, who also knew the location to Earth (Third Stone From the Sun)
and the fact that if you change a couple letters in Bob Dylan's last name you get "Bob Cylon"... 
I take it that the music comes from the next signpost to Earth (maybe it relays signals from Earth, or people from Earth have been back there and set a new beacon in the nebula, or something). I think it's that the "final five" are for some reason able to RECEIVE it, not that they already had it in their programming. Or it could be a purely psychic connection they have to Earth.
What I'm wondering is, why are the four of them so sure? The music alone would rate is very weird and worrisome, but not "proof of being a Cylon." They wanted to find some way to doubt the truth, but they couldn't. So I'm thinking some "switch was flipped" inside them, as Tyrol said, and know they have the sudden KNOWLEDGE, in addition to the music, that they are Cylons. Maybe the music even triggered their knowledge, and drew them all together, without that being something they were intended to do by their programming. (The workout room then has no significance except it's where they came together from their various parts of the ship, led by the music not to that location but to each other.) This is further suggested by the fact that when Cylon sleeper agents are triggered, they tend to act on the Cylon side (even if they lapse back to human afterward like Boomer). But these Cylons are fighting it from the very moment they are triggered--which makes me think they have been triggered early, when they weren't yet (if ever) supposed to know what they are.
Their awareness of what they are might not be what the Cylons OR the final five truly want. The signal from/about Earth may have thrown a monkey wrench into some Cylon plans.
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Now you can fly a Viper yourself
Battlestar Galactica: Beyond The Red Line
It's free and completely standalone, and has a story integrated with the TV show (warning - Season 2 spoilers):
http://www.macologist.org/showthread.php?t=3658
Do a Command-F for "torrent" to find the OS X version link Leppe has posted.
ABOUT THE DEMO
Drafted and pressed into service, your only hope of survival is to fall in line and train to join the ranks of the elite Viper pilots of Battlestar Pegasus. Get a taste of the action that awaits you in the upcoming main campaign with intense single- and multiplayer missions. Will you become one of Pegasus’ elite, or will you give your life in the vast, cold battleground of deep space?
GAME FEATURES
Powered by the revamped Freespace 2 engine
Entirely stand-alone, Freespace 2 not required
Accurately detailed high-resolution ship models
High quality, originally engineered audio
Authentic, original in-game soundtrack, in addition to pieces by Bear McCreary and Richard Gibbs
Original characters and voice acting
A three mission single player campaign depicting never-before-seen events, interwoven with and true to the series’ storyline
Head online and go head-to-head with your friends—and foes—in intense multiplayer missions including Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and others
Exciting Viper combat with authentic weaponry and flight controls
Battlestar Galactica: Beyond The Red Line
It's free and completely standalone, and has a story integrated with the TV show (warning - Season 2 spoilers):
http://www.macologist.org/showthread.php?t=3658
Do a Command-F for "torrent" to find the OS X version link Leppe has posted.
ABOUT THE DEMO
Drafted and pressed into service, your only hope of survival is to fall in line and train to join the ranks of the elite Viper pilots of Battlestar Pegasus. Get a taste of the action that awaits you in the upcoming main campaign with intense single- and multiplayer missions. Will you become one of Pegasus’ elite, or will you give your life in the vast, cold battleground of deep space?
GAME FEATURES
Powered by the revamped Freespace 2 engine
Entirely stand-alone, Freespace 2 not required
Accurately detailed high-resolution ship models
High quality, originally engineered audio
Authentic, original in-game soundtrack, in addition to pieces by Bear McCreary and Richard Gibbs
Original characters and voice acting
A three mission single player campaign depicting never-before-seen events, interwoven with and true to the series’ storyline
Head online and go head-to-head with your friends—and foes—in intense multiplayer missions including Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and others
Exciting Viper combat with authentic weaponry and flight controls
It would be really interesting if, rather than Earth being a separated colony / tribe of the children of Kobol, the reverse was true, and the colonies were anciently formed by departed people of Earth. All the symbology still works.
P.S. I kind of want Earth to ultimately side with the Cylons and not the colonists.
It would be really interesting if, rather than Earth being a separated colony / tribe of the children of Kobol, the reverse was true, and the colonies were anciently formed by departed people of Earth. All the symbology still works.
P.S. I kind of want Earth to ultimately side with the Cylons and not the colonists.
That's what I expect. Consider this: the scriptures seem to KNOW where the 13th colony went. How? Because the 13th colony was just going BACK to a place humanity had already been before
And what I want is for the fleet to locate Earth and then decide to just run away--for fear of leading the Cylons there. I think that would make a nice open ending, and also would avoid having to deal with the question of just what IS going on with Earth at the time of the show. It wouldn't have to be a totally sad ending, because there could also be signs of peace between the Cylons and humans. But if Adama and Roslin aren't SURE what will happen, then they might take no chances and make the hard call to conceal the fact that they found Earth. Even lie to their own people about it! (Plus, if they never quite make it to Earth, maybe Roslin gets to live?)
I bet it comes down to who has the most moneyP.S. I kind of want Earth to ultimately side with the Cylons and not the colonists.
I bet it comes down to who has the most money
All right, all right, I just voted for the Cylons because I like their fashion sense.
A bit late in posting this, but below is the cake from our group's BSG finale party. (I certainly wasn't responsible for this!) Oh, and it was really good!
Mmmmm.... Chocolate and french fries.....
(I'd have served algae, but that's just me.)
Those are apple slices, but interesting thought...Algae I don't know, but seaweed, at least, could have been used in some nice starters... maybe next time.
All right, all right, I just voted for the Cylons because I like their fashion sense.
I'll vote for the Cylons because of Lucy Lawless, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park...
I'll vote for the Cylons because of Lucy Lawless, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park...
I second that motion.
I'll vote for the Cylons because of Lucy Lawless, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park...
Wouldn't that make things awkward.
"Hey you're cheating with my girlfriend"
"No i'm not! She's a different 6!"
"I don't believe you!!"
Que: big fight
Now you can fly a Viper yourself
Battlestar Galactica: Beyond The Red Line
It's free and completely standalone, and has a story integrated with the TV show (warning - Season 2 spoilers):
http://www.macologist.org/showthread.php?t=3658
Do a Command-F for "torrent" to find the OS X version link Leppe has posted.
Thanks for posting the info. Been looking at the game-warden.com site/forum for a while now in anticipation. And I was afraid that the demo would not be available on mac for a while. Take that Savage2.
edit: Yes! I can even play it on my PB
Downloading the latest podcast (The BSG Frak Party) as we speak! It's an hour and fifteen minutes of Q&A with Ron Moore, should be good!
Yep, I'll watch my iTunes eps with podcast commentary over the summer. It's usually pretty interesting--IIRC from the DVDs.
In the other thread about the season-3 finale, LtCarter47 posted a link to composer Bear McCreary's blog, discussing the song he arranged for the finale:
http://www.bearmccreary.com/html/blog/blogmain.htm
(Did you know they put on a live concert of each season's music? Did you know the "duduk" is that mournful instrument you're always hearing? Did you know the "cylon theme" has actual toaster sounds in it? Did you know that some of the chanting is latin translation of the words of the Hybrid or the Kobol scriptures? His past blog entries are pretty interesting too, with many audio files and notation snippets. Not to mention, it looks to me like Macs are being used.)
Anyway, McCreary posted a graphic of the theme he composed for the song:
I don't read music, but I was curious enough to enter those notes into GarageBand (just Command-click on the musical staff view--easy!)
Results attached I won't get THOSE 10 minutes back...
In the other thread about the season-3 finale, LtCarter47 posted a link to composer Bear McCreary's blog, discussing the song he arranged for the finale:
http://www.bearmccreary.com/html/blog/blogmain.htm
(Did you know they put on a live concert of each season's music? Did you know the "duduk" is that mournful instrument you're always hearing? Did you know the "cylon theme" has actual toaster sounds in it? Did you know that some of the chanting is latin translation of the words of the Hybrid or the Kobol scriptures? His past blog entries are pretty interesting too, with many audio files and notation snippets. Not to mention, it looks to me like Macs are being used.)
Anyway, McCreary posted a graphic of the theme he composed for the song:
I don't read music, but I was curious enough to enter those notes into GarageBand (just Command-click on the musical staff view--easy!)
Results attached
I won't get THOSE 10 minutes back...
Yea.. except its been confirmed Starbuck will return in the next season... that'll be 2008 :-(
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