They made 20 eps for the second season...but we're only getting 10 now w/the other 10 in January..while the UK gets all 20 in a row next month!
Is anyone else out there watching this besides me?
I think the remake is brilliant!
I'm lovin' it! The SECOND best show on Television--LOL
I too love the new series and have been watching them religiously! It's been great because it was something to watch while waiting for the new season of Doctor Who and now that has come to past, we have the second season of BG to carry us over making the wait for Christmas Invasion a little easier.
Regardless, the new BG is great. I loved the original, and love this version as well.
The only thing that really is going to bug me is the division in the season coming up in a couple weeks.
They made 20 eps for the second season...but we're only getting 10 now w/the other 10 in January..while the UK gets all 20 in a row next month!
Looks like we're going to have to pull a "Dr.Who" on them and download early!
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Big treat tonight, folks. Battlestar Galactica season finale, a 90 minute show.
Hiawatha Bray (Tech writer for the Boston GLobe) saw an early release version, and he gave it a 6 out of 5.
But another reason to watch (for me at least) is they'll be airing a TV spot for Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, the game my company just released last week.
I'm psyched!
And as for today's Podshock discussion, the second trailer for Who aired in the last few minutes of Stargate: Atlantis, not BG. And it aired in the same spot on the second go-round.
So tonight, have your TIVOs ready, it's going to be a great night on SciFi Channel!
Next week, however... ooooooh boy!
Sean.
Ronald D. Moore said that they would be taking some risks in this season finale... So I am expecting the unexpected. But really BSG has pretty much always been that way for the most part.
We will see tonight.
Cheers,
Louis
[QUOTE BY= seanhuxter]But another reason to watch (for me at least) is they'll be airing a TV spot for Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, the game my company just released last week.[/QUOTE]
Nice commercial. Intrigued. Mac version?
Taras
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No Mac version. Sorry.
Sean.
[QUOTE BY= Louis]
Ronald D. Moore said that they would be taking some risks in this season finale... So I am expecting the unexpected. But really BSG has pretty much always been that way for the most part.
We will see tonight.[/QUOTE]
What a finale...
Taras
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With word from a Globe tech writer that this was a 6 out of 5, and that it introduces a new direction, and twists, I actually expected a new direction, and twists.
What we got was a big ball of MEH...
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Look, up until the explosion, it was going fine, I thought.
Then what happens? Baltar wins, they settle the planet, and oh my... the Cylons find them.
Where's the new direction? Where's the twist?
Non-existent.
It looks like they intend to spend next season saving money on CGI so they can base it on a mud-slung planet where the great show reverts to a show about muddy rebels fighting in dirt.
Ugh. I really don't like this much at all.
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Sean.
Wow Sean... Nice work with hiding the spoilers with white text.
Yeah, I tend to agree with you.
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[ Shortly after the explosion, Baltar falls asleep at his desk... I keep on waiting for him to wake up at the desk to learn the whole planet-side story on New Caprica was just a dream... I know it is lame and Dallas or Dynasty did it years ago... but it beats the one year gap and them mucking in the mud... Sigh. I haven't felt this let down since Galactica: 1980... I could have seen this coming in another 2 or 3 years when the show may have needed a new direction or something... but not while it was in it's stride. That is why I tend to feel they are not going to stick around on New Caprica too long. That is why we skipped ahead a year... most of their stay on this planet is behind them. Somehow the they are going to leave the planet and regroup the fleet and get back to what they were doing before settling on this rock.
I think the new direction is a plesant change.
I felt like the stories were dragging a bit with the whole new cylon every episode and the petty political intrigue. Now there is soooo many more places to go with them as well as keep with the old themes. I think this is a bold step and (Highlight Spolier)as for the ball of dirt philosophy don't forget that they are not all on the planet! Galatica and Pegasus can have many a wild space romp ahead.
Just my humble opinion.
Ronald Moore and David Eick were pretty ballsy with their remake of the show at the beginning (Starbuck is female, Boomer a Cyclon) and this is just another ballsy move on their part. I prefer to just wait until next year and let them tell their story. So far, it's always been worth the wait.
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I'm not going to do the white type thing. Just don't read if you haven't watched it yet.
Also, I just watched the last three episodes back to back so the events discussed may be events leading up to the finale.
• The One Year Later thing didn't really bother me much. The time frame of 9 months later from the Cylon's first attack on the Colonies and the events of New Caprica and the Birth of the Cylon baby is what irked me more. I imagined it being longer than that, maybe two years like in real time.
• Celebrity Cylons? Lucy Lawless and now Dean Stockwell are Cylons? The Stargate shows have also been picking old Sci-Fi/Fandom Genre shows for actors. Yeah, the actors gotta work too and it really isn't a big deal but if any more show up, I feel it will distract from the story. This probably isn't a problem for most viewers, I imagine. Probably just me.
• This might be resolved next season but what happened to the offer put forward by the Dean Stockwell Cylon? Maybe I'll go watch it again but wasn't he saying the Cylons made a mistake and were offering a truce of sorts? I guess the humans didn't take it since perhaps they really did thrown those two Cylons in the brig out the airlock. And yet one year later, the Cyclons arrive at New Caprica (I guess the Cylons were not giving up the old Caprica).
THEORIES FOR NEXT SEASON:
• Perhaps the Cylons that arrived at New Caprica were NOT an attack force? We saw with the Number 6 Cylon and the Sharon Cylon, that there can be a Civil War brewing within the Cylon society. Perhaps the Cylons arriving at New Caprica were refugees like the Galactica fleet? (The individuals with some love for the human race vs. the hardline dogma Cyclons lead by the Lucy Lawless type Cylons, hence her expanded role next season). Perhaps we'll see more of the Cylons and Humans moving toward the center to co-existing for peace? (As symbolized by the half human/half Cylon baby). These co-existing Cylons are in contrast to the statement put out by the Dean Stockwell Cylon that the Cylons realized that it was a mistake to emulate the Humans and should have just existed apart from the Humans.
LONG TERM THEORIES:
Who knows how long this series will last but I see it eventually ending with the Cylons and Humans learning to co-exist. Since Religion plays such a prominent role in the show, isn't it a metaphor for the only solution in real life with so many different religions and people? Or maybe I'm just thinking WAY too much on this?? LOL
Another crazy idea from the events with their clues to Earth and Athena's Arrow storyline from a while back: Perhaps those Zodiac star patterns were not the position they needed to be in the galaxy but rather a time from the past? The star patterns shift over time and perhaps the star patterns they saw in the clues were how Caprica would have saw them thousands of years back? In short, Caprica is Earth. The search for Earth and the 13th colony is the return to their past (not physically) and Caprica rather than running from it? The search for one's self, past, and place in the galaxy. That would explain why so many of the fashions, props, and names are so similar to Earth's. It's a journey of self, not a trip thru the stars.
Anyway, my crazy thoughts. Thanks for reading.
[QUOTE BY= atomic99] ...
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I'm not going to do the white type thing. Just don't read if you haven't watched it yet.
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• Celebrity Cyclons? Lucy Lawless and now Dean Stockwell are Cyclons? The Stargate shows have also been picking old Sci-Fi/Fandom Genre shows for actors. Yeah, the actors gotta work too and it really isn't a big deal but if any more show up, I feel it will distract from the story. This probably isn't a problem for most viewers, I imagine. Probably just me.
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I find this actually a bit reminiscent to the original Battlestar Galactica that used actors which at that time had been known for other genre work such as John Colicos (Baltar, formerly known for his work as Kor in the original Star Trek series), and Jonathan Harris (voice of Lucifer, formerly known for his work as Dr. Smith in Lost in Space), and Patrick Macnee as both the voice of the Imperious Leader and the part of Count Iblis (previously known for his work as Mr. Steed in The Avengers), and perhaps a bit of stretch, but Anne Lockhart who played Sheba was known to science fiction fans as the daughter of June Lockhart (of Lost in Space). And of course, while not known for any 'genre work' we had Rick Springfield as Zac in the original pilot movie.
In a sense, I just see the revisioned series falling in the same tradition of the original... from the very point when they got Richard Hatch on board the series.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on how the series may pan out from here. We will wait and see. I feel that... or perhaps I just hope that they can't stay planet-bound too long... thinking that perhaps within six or so episodes of the next season, they will be back as a fleet in space again in search of Earth.
Or go the Dallas way since we saw Baltar fall asleep at his desk... have him wake up only to discover this whole affair was just a premonition in a form of a dream... 
LOL
Cheers,
Louis
Did anyone see the news that SciFi channel is going ahead with a prequel series called Caprica, chronicling the rise of the Cylons? I read it today at aintitcool.com. I wonder what Ken thinks about this, as he feels (and I agree) that they go to the same well too often. We just finished the second season.
Just read about the prequel... not sure I like the idea yet. check it out yourself:
scifi wire
(spoiler warning for anyone who has not seen the second season finale episode)
I didn't know anything about this until now myself. I am a bit skeptical, I must admit. We don't even have Battlestar Galactica any more... because them being trapped on a planet without the Galactica... is not Battlestar Galactica if that is what the series has become when it returns this October.
Louis,
Hey, this seems like Battlestar Galactica. Battlestar Galactica 1980 to be precise... 
Taras
[QUOTE BY= tarashnat]
Louis,
Hey, this seems like Battlestar Galactica. Battlestar Galactica 1980 to be precise...
Taras[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I believe I may have made a reference earlier in this thread comparing it to Galactica 1980 as well (or perhaps in another thread/forum or in a email on this subject).
Seems like history is doomed to repeat itself.
Cheers,
Louis
Just saw this and thought some of you might like to know.... no spoilers really....
"Callis: New BSG To Be 'Far Darker'
"This Is Remorseless And Relentless," Actor Said
(May 09 2006) - If you thought the first two seasons of "Battlestar Galactica" were dark and brooding, well, then you haven't seen nothin' yet, series star James Callis told SciFi Wire.
"In the upcoming episodes, the simplest way to explain what happens is that the wheat is separated from the chaff," Callis said in an interview at this month's Saturn Awards in Universal City, Calif. "I'm not actually sure at this moment which I belong to, which bothers me, whether I'm the wheat or the chaff. All I know is that we are necessarily separated."
Callis plays Gaius Baltar, the new Colonial president and maybe Cylon-conspirator.
Callis said comparisons of the coming third season, in which the humans struggle under Cylon domination, to France under the Nazi occupation of World War II are apt.
"And the first few scripts of this particular season are phenomenal," he said, "and far darker and more gritty and more worrying than anything that you have seen before. I really am not just saying that. I remember just reading it going, 'My God almighty, this is remorseless and relentless.' And as such should be very gripping television. Even though it's very, I think, the word is dystopic."
The third season of "Battlestar Galactica" gets underway with new episodes in October on the SciFi Channel. - Article by Scott Nance "
[QUOTE BY= WarrenPeace]
The third season of "Battlestar Galactica" gets underway with new episodes in October on the SciFi Channel. - Article by Scott Nance "[/QUOTE]
It's the October start I'm not thrilled with. We always look forward to the start of SciFi Friday in July and January. I've always really liked the split season: when everything on network TV is in reruns, I've got the SciFi channel to turn to!
oooooohhhhhh trust me.. galactica 1980 this is definatley not
even in the uk, we still have managed to see the first part of season 3 via some downloading
season 3 airs next week, jan 11th
and yes, im gonna watch it all on my 50' plasma in glorious hd
i really cant wait to see the vipers launching from the rapidly plummeting galactica, and the demise of the pegasus
this programme redifines sci-fi and i wont spoil it for you any more - watch it, enjoy it, think about it... its closer to the bone than people give it credit for...
still my number 1 programme ( dr who and torchwood run close ) but this hits the spot week in week out
sorry if u dont agree, but were all entitled to our opinion, lots wrote torchwood off, and its was slow off the mark, but gets my vote for quality tv, and david tennant is, and possibly always will be the doctor
Yep, I just took it as read that everyone watching DW was watching BSG. I wouldn't say it was never disappointing, though. A lot of the back half of season 2 (or season 2.5, if ya will) was not quite at the same level as it had been up to that point, but generally it doesn't disappoint. It's the genuine benchmark for quality SF in the 21st century. I think that the recent Hugo win for "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances" wasn't particularly because those episodes were genuinely better-written than "Pegasus", but just that the Hugo voters were generally voting for the re-popularization of Doctor Who. (They were also comparing unequal things; a finished story versus just one part of a whole.)
Never quite got some people's fear of the whole New Caprica arc. Was it ever a serious proposition that BSG was going to be a planet-based drama? It never felt like we were going to be there for very long, to me.
i think the new caprica arc was designed to make ppl want more, ask questions
i mean there were a lot of questions to be answered
like just how many kebabs and pizzas did appollo munch on?
and why?
mind u, after what starbuck did to him ( and we'll fid out what that was in 'unfinished business' i think most men would have done the same
theres so many avenues to explore after the evacuation, and its ultimate consequence.. the unnessecary loss of life
revenge, deceit, lies, broken promises, murder, sacrifice... its all there, and it doesnt fail to deliver
theyll be off new caprica by the end of episode 3.. and im still wondering how many times kara is gonna kill leoben before he finally gets the message
does anyone know if its true that kara thrace is gonna get killed off, apparantly its in the episode 15..'dirty hands'?
according to viper station.. katee sackhoff was quoted as shoutin at fans 'im great.. just filmed MY last scenes'
really hope this doesnt happen... shes fantastic!
[QUOTE BY= helo_75] does anyone know if its true that kara thrace is gonna get killed off, apparantly its in the episode 15..'dirty hands'?
according to viper station.. katee sackhoff was quoted as shoutin at fans 'im great.. just filmed MY last scenes'
really hope this doesnt happen... shes fantastic!
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This was posted on www.tvguide.com under Ask Ausiello:
Question: First off, happy new year, Michael! I share my birthday with Masi Oka, but I have no strange abilities or special gifts. However, you do: You have the power to make me feel better in a split second by confirming that Katee Sackhoff isn't getting killed off Battlestar Galactica.— Clara
Ausiello: My powers are apparently failing me, because all signs are pointing to Starbuck's imminent demise. In a radio interview with Portland's KUFO-FM last month, Katee all but confirmed that she's leaving the show later this season — although she stopped short of saying Starbuck dies. If you ask me, this whole thing carries with it the stench of a highly coordinated foiler. I mean, Ron Moore would be out of his frakkin' mind to deep-six Starbuck, right?
Anyone see the season finale tonight? Of the season finale's this one's the most thought-provoking. A part of me thinks they've maybe jumped the shark here (or at least could've used a 90 minute finale like last year). A part of me is still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor. But all of me thinks that the ambiguous "returns in 2008" is an awfully, awfully long time to wait. Ya think it's that far away because of all this Caprica business? Or because they want to generate a lot of anticipation and thereby try to shore up the show's flagging ratings? Even if it debuts in January 2008, that'll still be the longest season hiatus to date, won't it?
[QUOTE BY= DarthSkeptical] ... A part of me is still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor...[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, the Sci-Fi Channel had SPOILED it for me ahead of time. In one of their emails they sent out promoting the season finale, they gave away too much. So I was able to conclude what was going to be revealed at the end of this episode well in advance. So my jaw was firmly in place.
Yes, it is a very long gap between seasons... and I would venture to say you are correct that this is probably the longest stretch of time between seasons for BSG. This too was not a surprise to me as I already heard that season 4 would be in 2008. It may have been through producer's Ronald D. Moore commentary podcast. I am not sure. Though the gap is still shorter than the gap between series 1 and 2 of Torchwood, assuming BSG Season 4 begins in January 2008.
I am still not sure what is going on with the proposed Caprica series... and from what I gathered on the commentary podcast, neither is the producer... or perhaps he was just being deliberately aloof about it when he said something to the effect that it "may or may not happen" (I may be paraphrasing here).
I would like to say more about the season finale, but I can't without revealing spoilers.
Cheers,
Louis
Louis not revealin spoilers, hmmm, I-Con must have really wiped him out! 
I am getting the weird feeling of Battlestar Galactica 1980 again... They find Earth... but have to cut the budget—arrrrggghhhhhhh! I had all but buried that memory in the recesses of my brain and now it has moved to the front. Cold sweats...
I'm rewatching it now. 1 word: FRAK!
(I just wanted to use "Frak" in a post. I wonder if I can do it at work...)
Some BSG news:
Last week an announcement was made that a BSG movie will appear on the network and then be sold on DVD in late 2007. I believe this story will tell how the Battlestar Pegasus escaped from Caprica.
Next in 2008 I believe there will be 22 episodes of BSG instead of 13. It appears that Universal is backing the show and have asked for more episodes.
I won't go into detail as to the finale last night, but I was impressed. As with any series, the ending left more questions than it answered, but it definitely has me wanting more.
What I like about BSG is that there are story arcs that take places over seasons and the writing is typically strong. I had hoped that Torchwood would take this approaching, but alas, the creative team didn't.
Although there's not BSG until possibly late this year, I'm definitely looking forward to 2008 (although it's a heck of a long way away)--still that gives me time to watch Doctor Who and do other stuff!
Without giving too much away... does this mean that Bob Dylan is somewhat less than human?
[QUOTE BY= DarthSkeptical] Anyone see the season finale tonight? Of the season finale's this one's the most thought-provoking. A part of me thinks they've maybe jumped the shark here (or at least could've used a 90 minute finale like last year). A part of me is still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor. But all of me thinks that the ambiguous "returns in 2008" is an awfully, awfully long time to wait. Ya think it's that far away because of all this Caprica business? Or because they want to generate a lot of anticipation and thereby try to shore up the show's flagging ratings? Even if it debuts in January 2008, that'll still be the longest season hiatus to date, won't it?[/QUOTE]
I finally got around to watching the finale, and now I'm able to go back and read these posts. I remember watching the season 2 finale and thinking, "what are they doing??" But they pulled it off, big time. I was blown away by this finale, too, and I'm giving Ronald D. Moore the benefit of the doubt. Louis, Ken, and James like to say "In RTD we trust." Over three seasons of Galactica, I've learned that, "In RDM I trust, too."
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Oh, and I nearly forgot...I thought Mark Sheppard (who had the semi-recurring role as Badger on Firefly) was awesome as Romo Lampkin. I hope his character makes another appearance or two in season four.
[QUOTE BY= Louis]
Without giving too much away... does this mean that Bob Dylan is somewhat less than human?[/QUOTE]
That was Dylan? I guessed Jimmi Hendrix. Was that just a cover I was thinking of?
[QUOTE BY= Linquel] [QUOTE BY= Louis]
Without giving too much away... does this mean that Bob Dylan is somewhat less than human?[/QUOTE]
That was Dylan? I guessed Jimmi Hendrix. Was that just a cover I was thinking of?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the Hendrix song is a cover of the Bob Dylan song.
Cheers,
Louis
Did anyone else watch the end of BSG? Did you like it? I liked it about 90% I really was hoping there would be some kind of explanation for certain things, like Starbuck's return. But all-in-all I thought it was a great show, start to finish.
I was mostly happy with it.
- The Galactica's assault on the Cylon colony was outstanding.
- The Six and Baltar Angel/God inference was a fitting twist.
- It would've been nice to learn more about the missing "Daniel" cylon. Kind of frustrating how they can drop that bombshell on us and just brush it aside...maybe we'll learn more in the upcoming Caprica series...
- The thing I didn't really like was the happy-go-lucky feel of the whole episode. One of the themes of the whole series was loss: loss of home planet, lifestyles, freedom, etc. The humans were contantly getting their butts kicked by the cylons, and yet in this episode it was mostly the humans doing the kicking. I'm not saying I wanted everyone to die, but I think for dramatic effect it would've been better to see 1 or 2 main characters meet a tragic end. Roslin's death was no shock, since it had been expected for weeks. Starbuck was already "dead", Anders was mostly dead, and nobody liked Tory anyway. I thought at the very least that either Lee or Baltar would be offed...
But all in all, a decent finale.
I enjoyed the finale, but I couldn't stop thinking that I was watching the ending to The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was waiting for Lee to go teach Scrabble to the other people on 'Earth.'
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- The Galactica's assault on the Cylon colony was outstanding.
[/quote]Agreed, although there were some dodgy CGI moments with the "classic" Cylons. I don't think they ever quite figured out how to appropriately light something that was ultra-bright chrome in low-light, grungy environments. The one Baltar kills, and therefore gets a closeup, looked particularly unreal.
[QUOTE BY= sgb1975]
- It would've been nice to learn more about the missing "Daniel" cylon. Kind of frustrating how they can drop that bombshell on us and just brush it aside...maybe we'll learn more in the upcoming Caprica series...[/quote]See, I think that, too. But I'm perhaps less frustrated than you are. I think it might turn into something rather brilliant. Especially since the [i]Caprica[/i] trailers suggest that the main character who creates the first human Cylon is, in fact, named Daniel. I'm currently looking on the Daniel thing as spoiler, not dangling plot thread. It's likely to take us years to know whether Daniel really means anything, or if, like Kara's child, it's a sort of deadend.
[QUOTE BY= sgb1975]
- The thing I didn't really like was the happy-go-lucky feel of the whole episode. One of the themes of the whole series was loss: loss of home planet, lifestyles, freedom, etc. The humans were contantly getting their butts kicked by the cylons, and yet in this episode it was mostly the humans doing the kicking. I'm not saying I wanted everyone to die, but I think for dramatic effect it would've been better to see 1 or 2 main characters meet a tragic end. Roslin's death was no shock, since it had been expected for weeks. Starbuck was already "dead", Anders was mostly dead, and nobody liked Tory anyway. I thought at the very least that either Lee or Baltar would be offed...[/quote]Well, of course by the end, the "rag tag fleet" wasn't strictly human any more. It was an increasingly integrated human-cylon fleet. The whole point of the series now appears to be that humans and cylons working together are stronger than either working separately. So, I tend to think that the combined Human-Cylon assault group needed to be shown to have some success or the whole fabric of the show would come undone. That said, the casualties were rather high, even if they didn't necessarily come to haunt our regulars much beyond Boomer. Moreover, there's no doubt that the human-cylon force would've been totally wiped out had Baltar's argument not carried the day, and had Racetrack's corpse not blown the colony into a black hole.
On the whole, I'm currently regarding it as one of the most successful conclusions to any series. What surprised me was how it did try to uphold one of the basic tenets of the original show. Now some have quibbled that perhaps they landed too far into Earth's past, and maybe that's true from a strict reading of anthropological/evolutionary standpoint. But as a fairy tale, and all stories are really fairy tales at their core, I was shocked that this story worked as a conclusion not just to this version of BSG, but to Larson's as well. The cyclical nature of life—"this has all happened before and it will agian"—was a key theme of the original BSG. To my mind, it's the only thing that lifted BSG above its contemporaries like Buck Rogers. More to the point, it was the thin sliver of philosophy that saved BSG from a LucasFilm lawsuit for infringement of the Star Wars concepts.
Yet, Galactica 1980, aside from having simply awful dialogue and weekly plots, threw away the entirety of the BSG mythology at the whim of NBC execs. RDM's finale is thus the ending that the original never got, but for which it was basically aiming.
We can, and should, argue details. Did Leobin/Kara get enough of a resolution? What the hell was Kara? Does it make sense that the Colonials/Rebel Cylons could get a unanimous decision to abandon all their technology? Would the Adamas really have walked away from each other?
These are all interesting questions. Even in death, the show keeps us guessing.
But when you step back and look at the whole thing, you realize that although the individual parts may be at wide variance with what you as an individual viewer might have wanted, or the ways in which Richard Hatch and his band of "resumptionists" might have wanted to redeliver the BSG brand, the ending gives us something that not only satisfactorily resolves the RDM version of the show, but it also gives additional credence to the GAL original. The last hour, in particular, is basically what Larson saw as the end of his show, too. One wonders if he had been able to make it to Earth's past, instead of 1980's North America, whether there would have been a need to "re-imagine" the series at all.
[QUOTE BY= DarthSkeptical]
[QUOTE BY= sgb1975]
- It would've been nice to learn more about the missing "Daniel" cylon. Kind of frustrating how they can drop that bombshell on us and just brush it aside...maybe we'll learn more in the upcoming Caprica series...[/quote]See, I think that, too. But I'm perhaps less frustrated than you are. I think it might turn into something rather brilliant. Especially since the Caprica trailers suggest that the main character who creates the first human Cylon is, in fact, named Daniel. I'm currently looking on the Daniel thing as spoiler, not dangling plot thread. It's likely to take us years to know whether Daniel really means anything, or if, like Kara's child, it's a sort of deadend.
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Great post, DS. I don't know if either of you (DS or SGB ) listened to any of the RDM podcasts near the end of the show, but in the second to last podcast he actually goes out of his way to say that Daniel would not be factoring into the finale at all. He didn't anticipate how many people would jump on the Daniel business and didn't want that many people to be disappointed when the finale aired. Of course, I didn't listen to the podcast until watching the complete ending. I also was expecting Starbuck and/or Baltar to somehow be "related" to the Daniel model whose genetic line was corrupted.
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Edited to add that what RDM said about Daniel in the podcast in no way negates DS's theory about Daniel somehow factoring into the Caprica mythology. I totally missed that and I think it would be just like RDM to do something exactly like what you're suggesting.
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Edited again to add just one more thing, I swear. I thought this was hysterical. I love The Onion.
Obama Depressed, Distant Since 'Battlestar Galactica' Series Finale
Browsing. I best stay out of this posting
[QUOTE BY= Chase] Browsing. I best stay out of this posting[/QUOTE]
Hear, Hear!
I have nothing to add to your sentiments. Anything I could say could be inflamitory.
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