BSG 3/25/07Follow

I actually liked this a lot. I'm intrigued by the positions that the 4 cyclons hold within the fleet.

On another forum that I read it appears that everyone else completely hated it.

Also, I have never heard that song before in my life, but I'm guessing from the discussions that it is something a lot of people recognize.

Omega 1, Smash 0.

Not a bad Dylan song, either, although nobody would argue it's the best he ever wrote. I don't watch this show, never have, but how the hell can you not know this song? Unacceptable.

SPOILERS DO NOT CONTINUE UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN IT. YOU WILL REGRET IT!

I will repeat what I said in IRC:

BSG OMG 2008 WTH NOOOOO!

now to be articulate about it:
Okay so, we have Tigh, Tyrol, Anders, and Tory who are all supposedly positive they are cylons with the fifth left up in the air. From the storyline it seems we're led to believe that it is Kara. Yet, in this episode we have Roslin now sharing dreams with Rebel Six, Sharon, and Hera all of which, lets note, are in some way cylon so maybe Roslin is the last of the final five?

What follows is conjecture.

Still, if we're to believe Tigh's a cylon then human models apparently have been around for at least 30 years (since Adama's known him). If that's true, and maybe the final five are in fact the first original models - maybe the 13th colony contained the final five or maybe the legends stem from the final five breaking away from the others and in fact ARE the 13th colony (apparently the 13th colony had some kind of bio weapon that works on cylons and so understand them to some extent *episode with infected space probe*)

Further, if Kara made it to Earth, the idea that Earth either has cylons on it or at least has some kind of resurrection "ship" or ability within range of where her ship exploded becomes more probable (I mean how DID she surivive).

Right now I'm inclined to believe that the last of the final five must include Roslin in some way but that Kara definitely has a cylon connection as well.

Further, we still haven't received an explanation as to how Baltar is in Rebel Six's head and vice versa. Yet another lose end.

Ron Moore has even said he'll make everyone "Question what it means to be a Cylon" which opens even more VERY interesting possibilities. Is it possible that human cylons and standard humans (for lack of a better term) aren't that different / have reached a point where they are indistinguishable from each other? In which case, what does it mean to be a cylon? They use their "projection" ability which connects them and allows for extra perception (per se) but baltar does something very much like it and the music the final five hear on the ship as well as the dreams Roslin and the cylon defectors have all seem to point to this ability. So then can any human develop this (cylon or standard)?

Lets hope this stays amazing and doesn't go the way of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Less conjecture, more facts to follow.

Finally, NBC had only signed on for the back half of the next season due to, unfortunately horrible rating and DVD sales so they were going to release a two hour mini-series which was rumored to originally be for a Pegasus storyline to sedate the fans during the long break. Although, due to the drop in ratings there was a lot of talk about the show getting canceled all together and the mini-series being used to tie up the story (an impossible task for 2 hours at this point). Personally, I'm a strong supporter of this series and I would be extremely disappointed to see it die although, with the way that all "big" and prime time t.v. has gone over the last decade (where only the insanely high ratings matter) I wouldn't be surprised. Luckily though, we wont have to worry about that since as of Thursday it's been announced that we have another 22 episodes to look forward to in 2008!

Anyway, as of late Nielsen Ratings have apparently dropped to 0.9% for a grand total of about 991,800 households in attendance. Unfortunately that number is probably far from true with the amount of people who torrent or view this show on the Scifi website (netting over a million downloads last sunday at www.eztvefnet.org).

So lets hope that this episode brings in more loyal viewers then it pushes away and that 2008 is awesome, eh?! I can't wait!

Edited, Mar 26th 2007 3:09am by Pandora

I honestly don't know any Hendrix songs.

You don't know the Voodoo Child?

I don't follow BSG but it seems that song might fit as well.

The thing is I really do agree that she is cylon. It's the only way she could have gotten to Earth without getting ultra corny. At the same time there are some things to look at: just before the fleet lost power Roslin knew it was going to happen (or so we presume from her "headache" just before). Also, Kara jumped in at the same exact time as that cylon fleet, and unless they lost power too they're unlike most we've run into. I mean usually they immediately start firing huge barrages but did you see or hear a single rocket/bullet/etc?

So then you have to wonder whether this cylon "fleet" is from Earth, I mean Vipers don't have FTL drives.

Is this a new fleet? Maybe the next season is going to consist of Galactica and the "human" fleet teaming up with this cylon fleet and Kara to make it to Earth in some way!
Tyrol gave us the tip off on that saying "after all this time a switch just goes off like that!?" (or something very close to that effect) so I think it was very much like how Boomer just suddenly shot Adama except instead of activating some dormant reason to sabotage they just now know what they are. It is very interesting how the producers made sure we noted Tigh's and Tory's positions as the "right hand [people]" to the two most important (rank wise) people in the fleet. The Chief also is an obvious strategic position but what about Anders?

Edited, Mar 26th 2007 8:41am by Pandora

Well, he was the leader of the resistance and I would imagine he would have some influence over a lot of the civilians. He has pretty much been the leader whenever civilians are involved in fighting the cylons.

Considering the claims to the effect of "yes, Starbuck is really dead" that have issued forth from that quarter since "Maelstrom" aired, while he's probably not actually LYING, he's almost certainly playing fast and loose with his wording. I'd take anything he says in an interview with a large grain of salt.

Just another show that sold out the intelligence of it's fan base in favor of cheap stupid story contrivances that defy logic or story integrity, but offer meaningless 1 second 'shock' value.

Oh well, it lasted longer than most shows do before resorting to this stupidity. See also: Lost.

it was one of the best ones in its history. but damn, no more until 2008, that is the suX0r

Totally offtopic. Crescent are you from Pittsburgh or did you just happen to find that article online? I'm about ten minutes out of town in the North Hills.

Nice. Can I borrow a cup of sugar neighbor?