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The Official Battlestar Galactica Thread : SPOILERS
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I finally got to see the last two episodes of Season 3 last night, and.... wow. It was obvious from early on what was going to happen, and yet it was utterly compelling, a bit like watching an accident in slow motion replay and knowing what the result would be but being unable to tear yourself away from it.
I too think the choice of song is interesting. I was a bit disappointed to read in Bear McCreary's blog that the song is meant to be recorded by an artist from the 12 colonies (which is very interesting in itself - as it indicates a weird parallel - entanglement?
- between Earth and the colonies; perhaps the "Earth version" is based on a distant memory on an old colonies' folk song brought with the 13th tribe?)
I thought it would be more interesting if, as the fleet gets closer to Earth, they would start running into radio waves which have been emitted from the planet years ago; which are having some weird effect on the remaining Cylons. As if, any broadcasts from Earth would trigger the activation of the remaining Cylons so they can prevent/influence/react to the humans reaching Earth.
Which raises another question, when will they reach Earth? Will it be present day/past/future Earth? I'm another who thought it would be a good finish if when the fleet arrive, they realise everyone on Earth was Cylon, but that doesn't tally with the Cylons being unable to reproduce with each other.
Can't wait for season 4!
I too think the choice of song is interesting. I was a bit disappointed to read in Bear McCreary's blog that the song is meant to be recorded by an artist from the 12 colonies (which is very interesting in itself - as it indicates a weird parallel - entanglement?
- between Earth and the colonies; perhaps the "Earth version" is based on a distant memory on an old colonies' folk song brought with the 13th tribe?)I thought it would be more interesting if, as the fleet gets closer to Earth, they would start running into radio waves which have been emitted from the planet years ago; which are having some weird effect on the remaining Cylons. As if, any broadcasts from Earth would trigger the activation of the remaining Cylons so they can prevent/influence/react to the humans reaching Earth.
Which raises another question, when will they reach Earth? Will it be present day/past/future Earth? I'm another who thought it would be a good finish if when the fleet arrive, they realise everyone on Earth was Cylon, but that doesn't tally with the Cylons being unable to reproduce with each other.
Can't wait for season 4!
Even though I'd read that phrase before, I had to google it to see what you meant! Obviously I meant, when in fictional Earth time, rather than when in real Earth time, but I'm sure you knew that..
Actually, this made me think it'd be interesting if - dependent on how much faster than light the fleet's FTL drives are - they could catch up with the EM signals emitted from the colonies at the time of the attack.
It'd be quite a spooky, haunting episode if they could relive the events of the attack again though the news coverage of that day; seeing and hearing thousands of people again all of whom are now dead. It also would be an interesting, immediate vehicle for introducing any new information about the attack, without resorting to yet another flashback.
What if the day Roslin saw Baltar and Six on Caprica, a news camera filming her caught them together in the background, thus "incriminating" him again?
The attack only happened two years ago in BSG time. I'd say they're a lot further than two light-years away from the Colonies now.
At the beginning of Baltar's trial, during the "How do we measure loss?" speech, the prosecutor says the attack was two years ago.
Do they have 365 day years? Given that our year is for our planet to rotate around our sun, and they're all from different planets, maybe they have 500 day years?
Do they have 365 day years? Given that our year is for our planet to rotate around our sun, and they're all from different planets, maybe they have 500 day years?
Well 1000 days isn't quite three earth years either- so it could be a under exaggeration on the lawyers part.
Hmmm, interesting. Considering the jumps are portrayed as being virtually instantaneous, they've actually spent very, very little time travelling faster than light. The FTL drives must be far, far faster than light if they've travelled even 2 light years already.
I know my knowledge of relativity is nigh non-existant, but wouldn't time (theoretically) pass faster on a ship flying at FTL speeds? Thus, while the people on the fleet have experienced 2 years passing, a longer time would have passed elsewhere. So maybe it is possible they could intercept the transmissions from the colonies after all..
I know my knowledge of relativity is nigh non-existant, but wouldn't time (theoretically) pass faster on a ship flying at FTL speeds? Thus, while the people on the fleet have experienced 2 years passing, a longer time would have passed elsewhere. So maybe it is possible they could intercept the transmissions from the colonies after all..
Do they have 365 day years? Given that our year is for our planet to rotate around our sun, and they're all from different planets, maybe they have 500 day years?
Given that they have 12 planets, by which one do they measure time?
Hmmm, interesting. Considering the jumps are portrayed as being virtually instantaneous, they've actually spent very, very little time travelling faster than light. The FTL drives must be far, far faster than light if they've travelled even 2 light years already.
I know my knowledge of relativity is nigh non-existant, but wouldn't time (theoretically) pass faster on a ship flying at FTL speeds? Thus, while the people on the fleet have experienced 2 years passing, a longer time would have passed elsewhere. So maybe it is possible they could intercept the transmissions from the colonies after all..
The FTL jumps look more like worm hole travel than anything else. Theoretically going faster than light is impossible (i think) so maybe the reason they are called FTL drives is because they use a worm hole to get to another point in space faster than light would get there via a direct route.
To bring in a different show... in star trek they travel faster than light by warping space. Basically the warp drive creates a bubble around the ship which compresses the distance between where you are and where you want to be. In this bubble they ship travels seemingly faster than light outside the bubble.
I'd say each ship would normally measure time based on what planet it is from. I'm assuming most of the planets have similar length days. Although like boats here they would probably change the time based on which planet they were going to, to get people on board accustomed to the new time.
It is probable that they now all use the same time standard. Probably CMT (Caprica Mean Time).
I don't think they'd use Cobol's time because they haven't been there in generations.
Sounds plausible, though working out the myriad timezone differences across the continents of 12 planets of differing rotational and orbital periods, where the official time/date will have no relationship to the local "time" of day would be freakishly confusing.
And I can't even get my "smart"phone, Xbox 360 or PC to get the right time of day even with network time enabled - and that's just in one timezone!
In so far as we have the faintest idea what worm hole travel might look like, then yes, it looks like wormhole travel.
I'm always impressed when SciFi shows put a lot of effort into making the technobabble plausible and with at least some basis in real science, as opposed to having mere "AutoMagic Hyperspeed Generators". Such as the inertial dampeners during space flight, or the "Heisenberg compensators" in Star Trek's transporters must have had the geeks squirming in glee.
Yeah, I heard about Eddies' comments regarding this as well. Until I hear it from Ron Moore himself I'll take these types of reports with a grain of salt...
Does anyone have any BSG news as of late? I haven't heard anything at all regarding Season 4 or the Pegasus movie - is it still slated for a fall/winter release?
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