March 05, 2005

Battlestar Galactica now has downloadable podcast commentaries! (If you aren't down with podcasting you can also just download the mp3 of the commentary) You can listen to them as you watch the show (or tape the show and watch it again with the commentary). Who needs DVD's?
posted by jccalhoun 19 years ago
  • Well, since nobody else seems to want to comment, I'll say it: Thanks for posting this! Here in New Zealand, we're just onto Episode 2, and this is something cool to look forward to... Yes I am a Sci-fi geek
  • I think this is one of the cleverest ideas I've seen in ages. It's perfectly pitched to the audience, and costs nothing for the producers to make. I'm just building a series of high profile weblogs for a British national newspaper - this is such a stealable idea, I think we're going to have to do it too. Downloadable official commentary tracks. *sigh* genius.
  • I watched the show last night and taped it and just got done listening to it with the commentary and it really is very cool. There are beeps at the commercial breaks so it gives it a feeling of the old film strips they showed in school or the read along books that would beep when you were supposed to turn the page or the slide. It is also interesting because unlike DVD commentaries, where you presumably know how the series ends, in this case we haven't seen the next episode so it serves as a tool to make viewers more attentive to the series and helps to create more deidcated viewers. Great marketing strategy and at least on this first podcast you learn a LOT of backstory for the characters. Nine thumbs up. I wonder if the eventual DVDs will just use these or if there will be other commentaries? Very interesting to see if other series pick up on this. I would LOVE to see Lost do this!
  • Oh man, #2 will love this. I'll have to get them in time for Ep. 3 next week. While it was on TV last night I was demolishing the garden. Cylons aren't my thing.
  • Episode 9 is the first one to have the mp3 commentary so there isn't one for ep3 yet unfortunately.
  • Oh. Bugger.
  • Well, damn. I'm starting to regret watching the entire first season over Christmas vacation.
  • Thanks for this link! I actually listened to the MP3 while I was at work today and found it quite enjoyable on its own.
  • I like the new cylons. Boomer is teh hawt.
  • I realized recently that my desk lamp is the same as the lamps used on Galactica. Costs twenty euro or so at IKEA.
  • Must...find out...what happens...to...Starbuck... *head asplodes*
  • I miss Xena.
  • Starbucks first interview after she doesn't eject (caution: annoying DJ chatter)
  • Isn't that desklamp called a Frak?
  • It's called "Format", I think. I likes it even more now that it's famous.
  • I'm waiting for the time when they land on Earth and they meet up with Wolfman Jack on their flying motorbikes.
  • MY DESK LAMP IS RIGHT OFF OF GALACTICA!!! (I'm still quite excited about this)
  • heehee mr. medusa & I have recently discovered the fun that is BSG, on DVD. we are about 10?? episodes in right now. just past the terrorist dude trying to become prez....
  • Wait until season 2.
  • !
  • Zarek has got his own comic book.
  • I still can't believe the thing that just happened that I can't talk about because I don't want to spoil it for Medusa.
  • Season 3.5 finale?
  • MCT: type it reall small.
  • Spoiler link for those who want to know.
  • OMFrakkinG
  • Bob Dylan was a Cylon? I should have known...
  • is a Cylon. No mere human could have a voice that squeaky.
  • My celebrity desk lamp, or "Desky Spreadlight" as he's known in the industry, featured prominently in last week's episode. He was on the desks of the lawyers and the judges at the tribunal. Desky's available for a small fee to illuminate parties, soirees, dinners, etc.
  • When may we commence with open, spoiler-laden discussion?
  • I still have two episodes to catch up on, dammit. Thank you, bittorrent. Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou.
  • Oh, what the hell. Go for it. I'll be soaking in them this evening anyway.
  • NEW EPISODES IN 2008?!? 2008?!?
  • I think they've committed for another season.
  • 2008 = at least 10 months away. I can wait a day.
  • They've said they're going to do some kind of side TV movie or miniseries in the fall to keep the fans frothy until spring of '08.
  • 2008??? *cries*
  • Battleshore Who now?
  • They've said they're going to do some kind of side TV movie or miniseries in the fall *Visions of Star Wars Christmas Special dance in head*
  • *dons Cylon costume, pantses petebest*
  • we finished season one last night, I'll try to catch up quickly!!
  • Just a note: I just got out of a company-wide staff meeting in which the last 20 minutes was a company-wide decontruction of last night's episode. Informal tallies have it about even between the "I loved it and can't wait for 2008" and "they totally jumped a shark somewhere near the Ionian Nebula." NERDS!
  • Fes, I actually thought of you last night while watching - for some reason everybody's clothing, and in particular the men's civvie suits, looked really ill-fitting.
  • I'm trying so hard not to FTP an episode here from home. I am failing.
  • I am now prepared to declare this thread spoiler-tastic, when others are so inclined.
  • Are you going to expose the FOUR NEWLY REVEALED CYLON MOLES ONBOARD THE GALACTICA? Have you considered the consequences of such an act?
  • WTF? Marc Antony and Cleopatra both die? What kind of an ending is that?
  • Oh sorry. Wrong show.
  • Ack!
  • And Number Six is really nu.. mmmph... mmmmmmph... some Canadian lawyer just stuffed a bandanna in my mouth!
  • What, she's hot? Available? Inclined to fix me a sandwich? I NEED TO KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW...
  • *kicks Fes* Wake up, dude!
  • I am now prepared to declare this thread spoiler-tastic, when others are so inclined. I'm ready. What the fuck was that about?
  • Wait, what? Err, umm, there's a new Battlestar Galatica series? *drifts back into the daddy coma*
  • WTF? Marc Antony and Cleopatra both die? What kind of an ending is that? Don't worry, their minds just upload into new Cylon bodies.
  • Dylan Thomas was a Cylon?
  • I am not pleased about this 2008 thing.
  • So, who reckons that Starbuck and Apollo have to wear those adult nappies when they're on patrol?
  • I wasn't sure where to post this, but I knew it had to be posted: The Prisonbear, a "Prisoner" parody one with stuffed toys. I was amazed at the detailed recreation of the sets.
  • Whoever wins, it's sure to be hot. *is looking forward to pro-feminist TV series*
  • ...must...fight...urge...
  • it's quite good, i've been led to believe. not great, according to my sources. but very watchable, insofar as i've been informed. in any case, it's only three weeks for those of ye in the u.s. (as opposed to eight months for we in the benighted union of the european countries).
  • It occurs to me that, as I don't have cable or satellite, I have no reason to fight this urge.
  • I did not fight the urge, and it's great. It totally sets up a whole world of plot for the fourth series, and it adds in interesting backstory for (madly) the end of the second series. The captured Six on the Pegasus, for example, and why Kane *really*really* hated her. Oh, and there's...well...Old Style Centurions... zmmmm-zm zmmmmm-zm zzzmmmmm-zm
  • This was much better than I'd dared hope. The...the...the thing with the...and then the old Cylons...and the... and then she... /dies
  • Heh. Mrs roryk and I watched the first series of the new Battlestar shortly after the birth of our first child. One night, when both of us were very sleep-deprived, I heard her calling out in her sleep "My baby's NOT a Cylon!".
  • Best. Baby. Story. EVAR.
  • Very apt!
  • Edward James Olmos is awesome. Now I'm going to watch the show out of spite...wait just a minute!
  • More depressing? I can hardly see how. I keep expecting Fortinbras to show up and arrange the burials.
  • I will cling to my belief that they will find Earth populated with non-murderous nymphomaniac Cylons who own liquor stores.
  • I've just started renting Battlestar Galactica from Lovefilm.com Talk about coming late to the party.
  • But at least you're here now. Wheee! *pours some shots, screams "Combat landings!!", falls off the sofa*
  • Roll on Friday. I'm so excited I could spit!
  • *spits*
  • Set condition one throughout the site!!!
  • Missed the season premiere? The Sci Fi Channel is streaming the entire episode.
  • This news almost makes up for my hard drive crash this weekend.
  • THE CENTURIONS SHOT THEM ALL!!!!11!!
  • That was a good episode. Thank God for webcasts. I don't see how they could possibly wrap up all the loose threads in one season, though.
  • I luagh 'til my innards ache every time I even think of Cylon & Garfunkel.
  • What happened to The Plan? They used to have A Plan, but now One Will Be Revealed. I beginning to think maybe they never had a plan at all.
  • PARSLEYSAGEROSEMARYANDTHYME
  • WTF? I started watching the most recent episode online, couldn't finish, went back today, and it's pulled.
  • Wait, seems to be an adblock problem. *shakes fist*
  • I would say it was an airlock problem.
  • Am I crazy, or did it really look like Baltar was picked up off the floor in the scene outside his super-sexy cult compound? Because that takes the whole "seeing shit that ain't there" thing to a whole new level. Also, given that only Cylons are seeing the invisible people, doesn't that mean necessarily that Baltar is number twelve?
  • He could be schizophrenic.
  • It really did look like Baltar was picked off the floor, yes. If Baltar is number 12, why didn't he hear the music? I thought from the thing with Zena in the temple that Baltar couldn't be one of the remaining Cylons?
  • I think he has been said definitely not to be a Cylon within the show (then again, the other Cylons could have been lying to him). Plus, he's in the Last Supper picture that came out a while back, and the producers have said that the final Cylon is *not* in that picture. “You already know the answer to these questions. It’s all right there. Just examine every episode closely and the truth will emerge. Or break out a magnifying glass and go over that Last Supper photo one more time. Ron Moore laid it all out for you.” — David Weddle Some current online speculation is that the final Cylon is Anastasia Dualla, although having not followed the series, I can't say how likely that seems. It *does* seem that Baltar is too obvious a choice, plus, do you want that schmuck ordering around all the other Cylons?
  • The Dualla point is interesting. So in the original, Peter is talking to John, but here Apollo is not talking to anyone. If he was talking to someone, would it be Dualla? The Caprica 6 Cylon is standing, whereas Jesus was sitting, but her hands are oriented as JC's were in the original. Why the goblet between Tigh (sp?) and Apollo? Seems to indicate that somebody is missing.
  • Apollo seems to be very intently scrutinizing the goblet.
  • Some analysis here, along with links to other analyses, including an interesting image manipulation. Another possibility is that Peter is missing, Apollo is Judas, and Baltar is John. However, Baltar's position is very similar to that of Judas in the da Vinci mural, plus he's wearing similar colours.
  • On the other hand, from the wiki: However, the importance of this photo is seriously put to question given Aaron Douglas' comments on the photo. According to the actor, he was unsure that Moore had anything to do with the photo, given that Moore was not present for the shoot. Additionally, the photo shoot had at least six different setups and the actors had changed places during the photo shoot, thus contending that there is no hidden meaning for the photo.
  • Dee as the 12th is an interesting idea, but if it's true, then Baltar is the only non-Cylon who's having the "hallucinations," for lack of a better term, which doesn't make sense to me. I had assumed that that whole thing was the Cylon ability to see what they want around them, that Baltar didn't realize he had the ability because he didn't know he was a Cylon, but was creating his personal Six out of desperate emotional need to be with her. This would also explain why Tigh sees his wife when he goes to see Six in the brig (which, btw, was some steamy hot S&M action there). It doesn't, however, explain why Baltar started seeing himself a couple of episodes ago (unless you want to chalk that up to narcissism), nor does it explain how "Invisible Six" picked him up off the floor in the confrontation with the military. If that latter really did happen the way it looked, then these hallucinations are not hallucinations, and the whole thing gets more interesting. With all these loose ends, I just don't see a way to wrap all this up by the end of a truncated season that isn't going to suck. I really, really hope I'm wrong about that. I'd rather they ended with a bunch of unanswered questions, then had a big TV movie or mini-series down the road to wrap the whole thing up.
  • > I'd rather they ended with a bunch of unanswered questions, then had a big TV movie or mini-series down the road to wrap the whole thing up. They might plan to use Caprica to answer some questions with the idea that this could draw in viewers.
  • William Adama also experienced hallucinations during his encounter with the first hybrid.
  • I dunno, for my money they've painted themselves into a corner. I can't imagine a single character who could turn out to be #12 without my reaction being, "Really? What a lame cop-out."
  • What about Dirk Benedict?
  • *head asplode*
  • Way, way back in S1, when they had the episode about the black market, I remember thinking how awesome it would be if Benedict pulled a Richard Hatch and got cast as the head of the black market. Thus endeth the fanwank.
  • I only JUST NOW DISCOVERED that you can watch episodes of CLASSIC BSG and BUCK MOTHERFUCKING ROGERS on nbc.com. Worlds are colliding here. Worlds. Colliding.
  • I could never reconcile Twiki's appearance and voice. He was like the love child of Maria the Robot and Yosemite Sam.
  • I just used to look at his head and wonder why it was shaped like a glans.
  • Wow, Freudian. Dead giveaway. But it totally was and don't pretend you didn't think it too.
  • Has there been no episode this week? (disclosure: I don't like the series that much [no aliens] but I burn 'em for me uncle to watch) .. oh, homunculus' article answers my question. Danke.
  • Yeah, I kind figured that's what it would look like.
  • Hush! Some of us are just starting the day.
  • Yeah, I kind figured that's what it would look like. There were no earth whores. I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE EARTH WHORES. And by the way? Sci-Fi Channel? You know how you decided a few weeks ago that you'd start delaying the online release of your episodes by a full week? That drove me back to bittorrent, where I'm not watching your ads. Just FYI, not the best business decision you ever made.
  • So, since we now have to wait until NEXT FRAKKIN' YEAR for closure, time for some proper speculating that we started upthread. Who is the final Cylon? Major character - Roslin, Lee, Adama, Starbuck, Baltar? Minor character - Dualla, Gaeta, Romo, Zarek? Dead character - Billy, Ellen Tigh, Admiral Cane? Character We've Never Seen - Zac Adama, Joseph Adama? Is there any way for the big reveal not to be, as TUM said, a lame cop-out?
  • Roslin's not it -- they already did the jokey thing with that. Starbuck I don't think either, because that's got the obvious set-up, since EVERYBODY thinks she could be a Cylon. Baltar would be a stupid choice, methinks. Either of the Adamas, a bit obvious as far as "twists" go, but I could see it happening. I hope not, but it could be. Minors: Dualla really interests me here -- I think that would throw a lot of viewers for a loop. Gaeta less so, though I'm wondering if they're setting up for him to be the final, what with the whole lost leg plotline, which could conceivably make for a nice little Keyser Soze-ish reversal. Romo and Zarek, meh. Dead interests me too, particularly Billy, who would make for a good wolf in sheep's clothing. Tigh's wife too, as his killing her was a major moment in the series that would be thrown into a whole new light. Cane, meh. As for characters we've never seen, it's said that all five are in the fleet, and one supposes they have a full head count, so I think this both (a) unlikely and (b) more dissatisfyingly cop-outish than most of the other options. That's like introducing a new character in the last two chapters of a murder mystery, only to find out that hedunit. There's no easy way to parse it all. The fact that Tigh has aged (and indicated that he thinks it means the final five are "different") would point to an older character, except that none of the other four are older, unless you want to say that they were originally created as Cylon babies. Clearly their origin comes from or is otherwise connected to Earth eons ago, as they're programmed to respond to very old Earth music. I dunno. The writers claim the strike really helped them out with the show's plotline, gave them a chance to go back over everything and take a better approach to ending it. But it's going to take something really out of left field and awesome to satisfy. I really think way too much about this stuff. DO NOT get me started on "The Wire," which I've only recently discovered and am Netflixing like mad.
  • Two more outta-left-field ideas that the interwebs have provided me with: 1. The Final Cylon is Galactica itself (or the Viper Starbuck came back from Earth unharmed in, or even the Pegasus) -- nowhere is it said that the remaining Cylon is a skinjob. Hmmmmm. 2. Boxey. This is a not unpopular theory, strangely, but you will probably, like me, be asking yourself, who the feck is Boxey? According to teh wiki, he is "the young boy Boomer saved from Caprica during the initial Cylon attack on the Colonies. He initially accompanies Boomer and Starbuck aboard Galactica, but is only briefly seen thereafter, and his subsequent whereabouts are unknown. Boxey is the son of the Colonial officer sent to Armistice Station (who was seduced by a Six copy shortly before the station's destruction), as evidenced by the photo the officer had on his desk." Hmmmmmmm. Part of me would love it to be Billy. Another part of me would love it to be Helo. But I'm pretty sure I'm wrong on both counts. *thinks too much about this stuff also* Have you got onto Doctor Who yet?
  • The Final Cylon is Galactica itself (or the Viper Starbuck came back from Earth unharmed in, or even the Pegasus) -- nowhere is it said that the remaining Cylon is a skinjob. Hmmmmm. I actually almost wrote this in my last comment, on account of the fact that the music appeared to come from the ship itself. Seems like it could work or could be stupid. I have no idea. No, I've never actually seen a single episode of either the old or the new, though reading flashboy's tweets on the subject occasionally piques my interest.
  • Yeah, Galactica is an interesting idea. Not quite sure how they'd narratively pull that off tho. Sort-of satisfying, sort-of not. The thing that makes me think it might be Helo is all the fuss about Hera being a Special Child - if she was Special because she was half-human half-Cylon, then at this point the Chief's son should be Special too, but no one's even mentioned him. But if she's special because she's actually born of two Cylons... I dunno. oooooh. Doctor Who rocks. You guys still have multiregion DVD, right?
  • Yes ma'am.
  • I think it's Dr. Cottle.
  • Now THAT I wouldn't have seen coming, if you hadn't written it.
  • The final Cylon is the whole human race. Trust me on this. That is what the twist will be. That's why: "this has happened before and will happen again.. and again.." That explains what happened to Earth. It explains everything.
  • So did Starbuck destroy the human race because she discovered it was Cylon?
  • OK...I'm here late, but I've been watching an episode a day and I just caught up... When the Number 3 (D'Anna) is talking to Roslin (after her joke about her being a Cylon), she says only four of the final five are in the Colonial fleet. That rules out all of the human characters except those that were on the baseship at the time (Or Bill Adama, who was technically not with the fleet). Making it Galactica itself would take some fancy writing to make me not hate the idea. I honestly don't think I can hold out through the summer.
  • only four of the final five I'd forgotten that. Yeah, that makes sense -- there's no single character they can pick that we already know who wouldn't be a disappointment. Hopefully the writers know that.
  • I was somewhat disappointed at the phrase "in the Colonial fleet," because it rules out the Galactica. (Which is, after all, in the Colonial fleet.) I'm pretty sure it's Roslin - she had that swoony bit when they jumped into the nebula, and she's sharing dreams with the others. But part of me still thinks it's Ellen Tigh. I recently re-watched the first season, and they were really working to convince us that Ellen was a Cylon. I'll be pissed if the fifth turns out to be a new character who just pops in from nowhere. Severely pissed.
  • There's a short trailer for Caprica on scifi.com. Plus it's been confirmed that BSG will return in January. So only 5 months and 1 week and 1 day and 15 hours to go. Or thereabouts.
  • And this information is available from homunculus's link, by the way, which i should've read first...
  • Yes. Oh, more please.
  • What MCT said.
  • Yes. More. Now. I'm increasingly thinking Helo is the fifth toaster. Although was a little alarmed to see both Cally and Ellen Tigh on the set in h-dogg's link... The picture that seems to show Head!Six and Head!Baltar together was cute though.
  • BSG props auction Must. Have. Life-size. Viper.
  • Some of the items to be offered in the live auction include:
    • Caprica Six’s red dress
     Some rich pervert is about to become very happy. But holy crap, do I want a Viper and Tigh's eyepatch and liquor bottle.
  • You can still get the BSG desk lamps at Ikea.
  • When I was a kid we sent away for a cardboard viper cockpit interior that you folded together. Our woodbox was a life-size viper for many sectars. Aren't rich perverts always fairly happy?
  • Season 4.5 trailer HOLY CRAP
  • Indeed, the BSG theological implications are staggering. Or feltercarb...whatever.
  • !!!
  • Incidentally, if any of you wants to get me the "Top Gun" mug, or really anything from that catalogue, we'll totally be BFFs.
  • io9's Favorite BSG Fan Theories I'm still guessing it's Dr. Cottle, second guess would be Baltar's lawyer, Romo Lampkin. Although Hank's theory is interesting.
  • I'm still holding out for Helo. Cottle is definitely a possibility. Or maybe Billy. Please, not Dee. Or Starbuck. I am so scared this will turn out to be a devastating anticlimax. Argh. When's the next ep? Friday? Argh.
  • Starbuck's too obvious. There's no way, I don't think.
  • Oh holy crap, the 13-minute re-cap video is hilarious.
  • That was great. Is it Friday yet?
  • The other idea I had was that The Galactica is the final Cylon. But it would be kind of hard for it to fit into one of those robes...
  • It's Friday!
  • That is the only good news I've had in a week. /stuckhomewithasickbabyandapileofwork
  • ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET??
  • I have to wait an extra day, too. No cable, so I'm going to have to...um...wait for a perfectly...legal and above-board method of not downloading the file from bt.
  • Can we talk about this yet?
  • I totally spoiled it for #2 today, who didn't even know the new season had started. Vaguely disappointed about #5.
  • I didn't see it coming at all. Poll: The Final Cylon SHOULD Have Been . . .
  • Well, it sort of works from a perspective of Tigh's character arc, but yeah, looking at it as THE BIG REVEAL that they'd been building up to for so long, it really fell flat. I think the one saving grace there is it leaves open the question of what the hell Starbuck is.
  • Shall we keep the discussion totally open from here on in, ie don't read the thread till you've seen the latest episode? Well, I'm confused. WTF Starbuck. You're right, mct, that's what's gonna keep it interesting. The Dee thing I didn't see coming at all. As for THE BIG REVEAL, I was reading somewhere that the producers were saying it wasn't meant to be that much of a BIG REVEAL, it's just that the writers' strike meant that months of waiting around for it built it up to unjustified hype. I ... dunno. Didn't Baltar's cylon detector way back in Season One actually identify Ellen as a cylon? Which was then assumed not to be working, but maybe now it actually was? Or am remembering that wrong? Meh. Je suis un peu underwhelmed.
  • Aha! I did remember right! Baltar knew she was a cylon! This makes it slightly better.
  • The more I think about it, the more I like it. It really underscores the tragedy of Tigh killing her after she fed info on the resistance to Cavil, then finding out he was a Cylon the whole time. That was such an emotionally crippling moment for him, and then to discover that she's also a toaster... But wait. Resurrection's over with, right? So she can't come back?
  • Wait again. She wasn't one of the seven, so she wouldn't have been on a resurrection ship anyway. Doi.
  • Hee, toaster.
  • I'm happy enough with Ellen, especially with respect to Tigh's interactions with Caprica Six. But so many questions raised!
  • "Interactions" would be one word.
  • IT'S FRIDAY AGAIN!!@!
  • Wheeeeeeeeeee!
  • Must... stay awake... until 10... so sleepy... "Moonlight"... so awful.... zzzz....
  • "Moonlight"... so awful.. Well, sometimes the networks do have a reason for canceling a show as they apparently did there. Poor Mr. Gaeta. Methinks his end will be just as much a bummer as Dee.
  • Poor Mr. Gaeta. Methinks his end will be just as much a bummer as Dee. Something tells me, given some of the cruelly ironic twists that some of the characters' arcs have taken, that he'll finally be airlocked once and for all.
  • Yeah, I just hope he goes out as interesting a supporting character as he came in. I've worked with folks like him: idealists to a fault in many cases.
  • Re: BG in Obama Era, I think it still could be, but it's nice that they're on their way out. While I think this will be a series that lasts long on ye old DVD and future media, it was definitely borne of the times, and some of the bite will be gone separated from that context. ...of course, being able to see a series one episode after another instead of having to wait week after week is a whole different experience.
  • Haven't seen the ep, but am fully spoilered, and to be honest, I think I can happily live without watching it... Is it me, or is this getting a little, um, Days of Our Lives-ey?
  • Things have been in steady decline since the escape from New Caprica, yeah. Which, by the way, was one of the awesomest things ever. If you know the plot points from Friday's show, you didn't miss a whole lot.
  • Things have been in steady decline since the escape from New Caprica, yeah. I remember speaking with a mate about that. He likes BG and all, but found all of season 3 a bit too dark. My thought was they needed to balance out the dark with a little more adventure and heroics that still had character...like remember when they did that raid on the mine or refinery or whatnot and Apollo did some crazy flying? That was good stuff. Still, I'm enjoying things enough to watch it 'til the end.
  • I'd still like to know what the Cylons' "plan" was. For years I was convinced that they had a plan, but it seems that like the humans, they were just winging it. Gaeta's arc: "Yay! Gaeta" -> "OH NOES, Gaeta!" -> "Poor Gaeta!" -> "OMG FFS Gaeta!".
  • Bah. Move over Galactica, it's time for Space Judge!
  • Okay, I watched that one twice in a row. That ruled more than Caesar. Fucking wow. But yeah, OMG FFS Gaeta!
  • For years I was convinced that they had a plan I think they did have a plan, but like humans, they kinda put it on the back burner when life got in the way. Well, that and the civil war. I expect the still evil Cylons will pop in a few episodes down the line.
  • Hmm, I (might) stand corrected, apparently we'll find out more about The Plan after the series ends with a TV movie (see seventh graph).
  • HOLY CRAP. Okay, it's getting good again. The acting and writing in the latest ep is nothing short of amazing. There was an interview with Edward James Olmos last year when he said that it was going to get really dark, and man, he wasn't kidding. Holy crap. Wow.
  • Okay, DOWNLOADING NOW
  • I really liked the scene with Baltar and Gaeta. Like I mentioned earlier, Gaeta reminds me of several idealistic people I've met and that brought it home. I also am annoyed that Zarek just doesn't seem to get the big picture. Ever. Of course, that's true to life too, as for some people it's always all about them.
  • Okay, I hate John Hodgman's stinking guts, that lucky bastard.
  • John Hodgman? As in, Daily Show John Hodgman?
  • Oui. Had a cameo last night.
  • Also, whole bunch of stuff makes sense now. They answered a metric ton of questions last night.
  • Hodgman is a cylon, I'm sure of it.
  • "Hello, I'm a Mac." "And I'm a fraking toaster."
  • Metric ton of answers, yeah. Couple of good new questions too, though... Am somewhat annoyed that they chose to reveal the final fifth in Tigh's frankly underwhelming vision on Earth -- if that had been the first time we saw her, that would have been *brilliant*
  • Also, shit! only 5 episodes left to go!
  • You know how the past few eps have been quite, um, dark? This one? Really dark. Also, beautifully directed. But, wow, that's some fracked up shit right there. Awesome.
  • This latest episode was very harsh at the end. And the stuff around Starbuck is bleak. Last week was kind of meh for me, especially after the mutiny episodes which i found to be enthralling.
  • I liked last week, but yeah, not as good as the mutiny. It really sucks that the series is starting to get so good again RIGHT AT THE EFFING END. Poor Hera. :(
  • I have a Starbuck theory. You know Daniel,the Number 7 Cylon, the arty one that we've never seen that Cavil killed? Starbuck's dad.
  • John Hodgman is Daniel.
  • *head asplode*
  • Well, yeah, that was the dude at the piano, right? I thought that was the point.
  • Yes, I think so. I'm still not clear on Starbuck's death and regeneration on Earth.
  • All will be revealed...or else.
  • Where Chief go?
  • Apparently, into the brig.
  • The real question, of course, is what's next?
  • well, that's done then.
  • .
  • Hmm.
  • On the whole, I'm content with it. They really dropped the ball on Kara.
  • Looks like they fucked it up.
  • So Starbuck's a fairy?
  • In an interview, one of the show's writers said she's "whatever we want her to be." Which, come on.
  • Bah humbug.
  • I'm mother-frakking Boomer, yo! Pop-pop! Grace Park answers all the questions you want answered about the finale.
  • I think my understanding of the finale was severely hampered by not being able to tell all the Boomers apart. Someone once told me you can tell them apart by the way they walk, but... honestly.
  • Meh, I could've done without the VR stuff. Parts of it were good, but the intelligent-avatar plotline didn't work for me.
  • Not to worry. Highly trained militarists will control it sometimes.
  • Oh yeah, nothing could go wrong here....
  • North Koreans want in on the fun
  • Amazing.