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The Official Battlestar Galactica Thread : SPOILERS

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Alright, all caught up via Hulu, so now I can finally chime in...

I've been wondering - what's stopping the Cylons from unleashing the Centurions onto the fleet stationed inside? The question bugged me enough from enjoying the penultimate episode in which D'Anna was whisked away by Helo. Well, apparently, D'Anna and I are like thinkers. (Yeah, I know the other Cylons talked about doing the hostage thing before, but they seemed to decide against it in the end. Leoben in particular brought Baltar in to reason with D'Anna for that reason.)

The show goes to break with a strong blow to the stomach (which is how I like it!). There are tons of possibilities for how they're going to wrap everything up, which is great except for the long wait to February 2009... (Not getting my hopes up for Caprica yet; my fears is that it'll look too much like the melodramatic soap opera on board the Cylon Basestars instead of the wonderfully gritty, incredibly human drama amongst the Colonial fleet.)

[Spoliers, duh]

Two things I really like: Tori's viciousness and the eerie parallel of two sides armed with nukes realizing that their mutually assured destruction was not worth it... only to land on the charred ruins of a radioactive wasteland.
 
I thought there were supposed to be some webisodes as well... no matter, I'm just glad to know when the final chapter will finally be airing! :cool:
 
I seemed to remember some type of special airing this fall before the series begins again, sort of like they did last season with the Pegasus flash back. Any truth to this?:confused:
 
Caprica is supposed to be premiering in the next couple of months, if I recall correctly. There is a trailer on SciFi for it... Looks pretty interesting.

I need me some new BSG!!!
 
I'm going to have to go with Dualla on this. Lee needs a slap in the face.

My other suspects is some random guy that was on the baseship at the time, and Tom Zarek.

I really hope its not Gaeta.
 
Yeah, I don't like the idea of the final Cylon being Gaeta either. Just not sure who it can be though without being very controversial...

Anyway, I enjoyed the Face of the Enemy webisodes, but am really looking forward to the final main episodes to see how they actually tie everything up. There has been so much potential built up, so many unanswered questions, so may loose ends - I have concerns over whether RDM & Co. will actually be able to satisfy everyone and satisfactorily address everything without this .5 of a season being a letdown, but I sure hope they do this great series justice, finish strong and have saved their greatest "wow" moments for the end. :cool:
 
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Yeah, I don't like the idea of the final Cylon being Gaeta either. Just not sure who it can be though without being very controversial...

Anyway, I enjoyed the Face of the Enemy webisodes, but am really looking forward to the final main episodes to see how they actually tie everything up. There has been so much potential built up, so many unanswered questions, so may loose ends - I have concerns over whether RDM & Co. will actually be able to satisfy everyone and satisfactorily address everything without this .5 of a season being a letdown, but I sure hope they do this great series justice, finish strong and have saved their greatest "wow" moments for the end. :cool:
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I have a feeling it's going to be great. I like that they took time off. It indicates to me that they really want to do this right.
 
leekohler said:
I have a feeling it's going to be great. I like that they took time off. It indicates to me that they really want to do this right.
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I sure hope so! I do have faith in RDM - if it was any other show or production team, I probably would have very low expectations. ;)

Anywho, glad to see there are still a few members subscribed to this thread! I had even forgot I created it so long ago, nice to see it continuing - at least for another few months I guess til the show wraps. ;)
 
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I sure hope so! I do have faith in RDM - if it was any other show or production team, I probably would have very low expectations.
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Hopefully he'll actually write an episode or two this season. He hasn't written one since Occupation/Precipice at the dawn of Season 3! I'm sure he's showrunning to a certain extent, but he's also got the best technique on the show.
 
Marble said:
Hopefully he'll actually write an episode or two this season. He hasn't written one since Occupation/Precipice at the dawn of Season 3! I'm sure he's showrunning to a certain extent, but he's also got the best technique on the show.
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Abosolutely agree - here's hoping he takes more of a direct involvement in these final episodes in terms of writing and so forth.
 
Interesting....so a few thoughts...

Firstly, how did the bones get recognised as Cylon when the Earth Cylons predate the Colonial ones by several millennia and left well before the current Cylons were invented? How did Starbuck's Viper get to Earth when Lee saw it crash on the gas planet? Does everybody who dies on Earth get "reborn in the stars", and if so where did all the other Cylons (us) go? Is it even location based? If this total resurrection theory is true are we likely to see Dee again, or any of the others that died for that matter? Is that the real meaning behind the "All of this has happened before..." mantra, that the afterlife is just more of the same in a different part of space?
 
Holy crap. I don't know where they're going with this, but that was a bleak start to the final season.
 
Spoilers for people who haven't seen 4x11:


Interesting start. They addressed several of the main mysteries in this episode alone... the final of the five, the circular motif, the "song" that brought the special cylons together, and at least some of the ambiguity around Starbuck's past. I'm glad that they're not drawing us out with these questions anymore. I was getting tired waiting through what would have otherwise been decent enough television for the revelations that actually "mattered."

One or two interesting twists, but otherwise kind of meandering. The suicide theme was mostly in the way for me; it was well dramatized, but not very fully explored, and not really central to the story what with all the "main" plot threads competing with it for our attention. Starbuck discovering her own corpse was affecting as an image, but it would have been more potent if we understood the implications. And of course, Dee, for the shock value, but that was really just tying up a loose end in a way that fit with the mood of the episode.

Some decent direction: I quite liked peering through Roslyn's burning book at Starbuck building her pier in the twilight.

EDIT: Also, I was fairly bored by the webisodes, but then I usually am. Not to diss on the story, which actually wasn't that bad, but it would have been better as a single vignette. I'm just not sold on the format.
 
This episode did not let me down.

What this all means? I have no clue.

But I tell you what... I CAN'T WAIT TO FIND OUT!

P.S. I'm soooo glad BSG is back on, "Like an old friend".... (I know cheesy, but the show is amazing!)
 
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