From the Horse's Mouth

RDM recently posted the following concerning spoilers on his blog. I understand it's a bit outdated (March 3rd), but I don't have a lot of downtime to search for this stuff anymore. Plus, a lot of stuff out there is chock full of spoilery. So here goes:

Surfed through the official boards and saw a LOT of spoiler photos from the finale. I'm not trying to be snarky, or ruin anyone's fun or trample anyone's speech, but I gotta say, I'm pretty disappointed that so much material is getting posted. There's a lot of people who work really, really hard on the show who are waiting to see the finale and have the pleasure of surprising the audience and it's a bummer when it's ruined this close to the final airdate. Obviously, people can do what they want, it's a free country but I'd really appreciate it if the photos posted so far were confined to that thread and if people resisted the temptation to post any more shots or any more plot details. I've resisted going through the locked-down security regimes that the studios sometimes go through to protect material, but this is the kind of thing that could reverse that policy and make everything harder to access.
Thanks and enjoy the show.

I agree with starchild that RDM is a bit liberal with how much he reveals of plot lines in his podcasts (that's why I avoid them for a large chunk of time after the episode airs). I do, however, fully support his views on the spoiler photos. Imagine if you saw a shot of New Caprica City before the finale, or Starbuck with the long hair (I still can't get over that). What kind of suspense would be there? Why even bother watching? Anyway...I feel that the same goes for plotlines, if not moreso. And there is my take on spoilers.

Season Finale, Part 2

90 minutes...90 minutes of wonderment. Here goes.

Subtitles would have been nice for Cally. "Eer cre butttt yr." What? Just like Litmus, this shows the deep amount of respect and love the deck crew has for their chief. Maybe too much love there, but it's nice, in a twisted sort of way.

WHAT?! So...the priest IS a Cylon. News flash, everyone: even the most obivous, red herring kinds of people ain't people. (Recall: "I haven't seen you at any of the Cylon meetings.") That's an interesting play by the writers...thing is, they can't possibly do it again, so Ellen's out. Or can they? So...Ellen is in, because they want us to think they won't do it again. They're messing with my head here! Well, if they are indeed by age, this guy has to be number one. No wonder he said prayer to the lords does diddly. Also, the Cylons have had human models for a really long time, apparently. After all, he said he had been preaching since before Tyrol was around. This reveal has opened up a lot of new possibilities. Or, an identical twin of the priest (who is also a priest) fell in with Anders' crowd earlier and we didn't see him and...nah, he's a Cylon. (And now it's confirmed. This running commentary has its advantages and its myriad disadvantages. You all have to cope. Sorry.) I wonder where this "greener pastures" thing will lead. Has this been their plan all along? Doesn't make much sense, rebuilding Caprica only to leave it. I assume this involves G-Boomer and Caprica Six, but where are these green pastures? I find it intriguing that the priest was saying the Cylon needed to be the best machines out there, that they can't muddle the programming with trying to become human, but the two models that held the power were the ones that were most human, the ones that were controlled by love. At this point, we are just at the 36-hour marker, so the number 3 from the garage will upload soon, unless all rebirthing has been abandoned.

Eight...thinking back to first season, Sharon told Baltar there were eight Cylons in the fleet. She is eight. There is the conclusion of all that "subconsciousness or guessing" discussion from earlier. Or maybe she was actually saying there were eight in the fleet, but I like this better. It's more clean.

Gaius' patriotism, wonderfully ironic. Ellen also wants to settle on the planet...theme amongst the Cylon (in-fleet ones, at least)?

Starbuck introducing Anders to her pseudo-daddy. How cute. And now she's skipping. Anders and Apollo really do look the same. How incredibly awkward for Lee.

How many people were involved in the election rigging? How far up does this go? Oh, my, how exciting. I was having flashbacks to 2000, there. Now...Roslin was Reagan last week, and now she still is in the conservative's place, at least by the election of 2000...no clever switch of policitcal ideologies, I guess. But...the night is still young...

Adama says, "I suggest you take your victory, and leave it at that, Doctor." Two weeks ago, Roslin said, "You have your pound of flesh, Sarah. I suggest you take it." Ah...a match made on Kobol.

I love the scene between Baltar and Adama after he first takes office. First off, Colonial One is completely empty. Second, Gaius is crying while saying that he does not have to listen to anyone.

And now we have jumped a year. This keeps happening. I guess the writers are getting bored of the 24-style writing that held for the entire first season and most of the second. I understand it, but it leaves a lot of story-lines to be filled in on, and it confuses me a bit. The first season lasted maybe 2 months, and this season has spanned a year and a half. Starbuck really did take her sweet time getting to Anders. Also, there is the return of the Adama 'stache and Starbuck's newfound long hair to cope with! Cally is pregnant...too much to cope with. With the longer hair up top, the wider face, and the jacket unbuttoned just so, Bamber looks like he has reprised his role from the Horatio Hornblower series.

Gaius has betrayed the humans twice now. How does that feel?

Wonderful closing line by Kara. I've got goosebumps. Is it October yet?

Bittersweet

Tomorrow will be a bittersweet day. It marks the second season finale (90 minutes, everyone!) of Battlestar Galactica. It promises to be fantastic, but then there will be no more Battlestar for several months--the new season, as far as I know, does not begin until October. In the interim, I plan on watching season one (with commentary) and making some posts about new insights and all that.

Happy watching!

Season Finale, Part 1

Went a new direction with the teaser music, unified throughout it, culminating to, "Something dark is coming, Helo, I can feel it." Then the strung-out Chief beats Callie with a paperweight? (I'm sure he was holding something, but what was it?)

Gauis keeps referring to "god" in the singular. Reminds me of a deleted scene from season one. Gaius uses the singular, and Six grabbed his face, stared in his eyes, and said, "You referred to god in the singular...it's moments like this that remind me of how much I love you..."

I really like this priest that's "helping" Tyrol. Very blunt and witty. Plus, he's got some crazy eyes. He really reminds me of Commander Adama from TOS...Lorne Greene. That was an amazing moment when the priest said that Tyrol thought he was a Cylon. I think it would be a tad too ironic if either of them was one, especially the priest. (Cylon meetings...so brilliant because they have them!)

We like President Roslin becsue she is our new Ronald Reagan (There he goes again...). Or maybe we like Gaius because he is FDR (Fearing fear itself.)

That was a great cliffhanger. This show is so brilliant. I don't know what my Friday nights would be like without it. Perhaps I would have friends...but who needs friends when you can have such stunning writing and character development...such gorgeous sci-fi.