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?
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?
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RANT
I'm not going to go as far as to say that BG has "jumped the shark," but I fear that R. Moore is fueling up the boat and is strapping on his skis... all he lacks is a ramp and a shark. Here's why:
The large jumps in the timeline.
-One minute Kara's team is on Caprica getting the shoite mortared out of them, then "pouf!"... Cylons are gone and Brother Father Admiral Albert Calavicci (D. Stockwell) appears. (No shocker there, based on the writer's affinity for double speak I pegged him as a Cylon when he was counseling Tyrol in the last eppy.) Anyhoo, the next thing we know Kara's team is back on Galactica looking quite refreshed and perky. Sorry, they took heavy losses and I don't buy the "springiness" in their respective demeanors. [Notwithstanding the alleged "withdrawal of all Cylon forces from the Colonies..." (which smells like Bantha poodoo to me)].
-The "one year later" on New Caprica had both my wife and I saying "huh!?" I was incredulous to believe that the writers were actually thinking I would buy that. The entire last 20 minutes of the show my wife and I were speculating about whose "dream" this was. I'm going to really lose faith in this show if Patrick Duffy does a "shower scene" cameo.
More naked Tricia Helfer
... sorry, we've been there, done that, repeatedly, ad nauseum, to the point where it's just gratuitous. She's a great actress and she is undeniably attractive... I'm just tired of the unnecessary titillation. It has grown boring and tiresome.
/RANT
That's not to say it was all bad. Here's what I thougt worked very well:
The scene between Tyrol and Callie was very moving. It shows what separates human "love" from the Cylon's "imitation" of love... when humans love each other in its purest (i.e. selfless) form) unconditional forgiveness results. That was a great scene... well written, superbly acted... I want more like this!!!
A stark contrast to not-preggers-anymore-Sharon who has demonstrated that her love for Helo was an act (or at least all about self). She has no sympathy for Helo's loss... and all she wants is revenge. Cylon "love" is shallow and self-centered indeed. Another great scene.
The "Plan" seems to be clarifying itself (assuming that the last 45 minutes of the finale wasn't a dream Baltar had when he fell asleep face down on his desk). The Cylons orchestrated the "discovery" of New Caprica. That means that one of the Raptor pilots (from the raptor that got "lost" on the first jump of the Caprica Rescue) is a Cylon and deliberately programmed the wrong coordinates for the jump. The Cylons knew that they could (with the aid of Baltar... who is 101% toaster) convince the human remnants that they needed to settle there and practically dismantle the military. Cylons then "find" them (the radiation sig. from the destruction of the Cloud9 was a red herring) and put humanity under occupation.
Interesting how Caprica-Six kept looking at Baltar in the "surrender" scene. She seemed to be almost tearfully regretful for what was happening to Baltar. Helfer's acting talent cannot be denied.
More later after I have had additional time to "digest..."
It was all great. The one-year thing is good, and certainly no one's dream. The Baltar/Gina sex wasn't gratuitous, she was finally psychologically ready to express her love for him (when she knew she going to blow herself up shortly).
Now, if the Cylons had orchestrated the finding of the planet they would have known where it was all along. Instead, they needed to pick up the signature from Gina's nuke. So, it was just something that worked to their advantage.
I especially enjoyed the irony that both copies of an atheistic model posed as priests, the apperance of Leoben, and the voiceover by Tricia Helfer at the end.
a little on the Gaius irony....
Pegasus Six wants him to kill her on Pegasus so she will not be reborn. She doesn't want to live with the memory of the sexual trauma she experienced on Pegasus. She gives Baltar the gun. He refuses and says he is in love with her. Gives her a place to hide.
And then... Baltar gives her a weapon she uses to kill herself. She kills herself after one night of sex with him... which she only acquiesces to after he says something like I'm through with this, or I'm leaving, we're done. Something like that. Though voluntary, I believe emotionally that one moment of sex was still not the choice she would have made. So she finally kills herself.
Baltar is involved for second time in making it possible for the cylon to attack humanity, with a six model. In both cases the six models are killed by nukes.
Just some minor irony.
I thought it was a dream too, at first. Gaius puts his head down, then picks it back up, and the desk is different, I think, and I think Gaius might be dressed slightly different. The camera had panned slowly forward to him, and he laid his head down. Now the camera pans back slowly, we see an older fashion lamp.... and an hourglass on his desk. We hear Gaeta say... the Union is waiting for our answer mr. president. So I think... it's a dream... it's the civil war... he's president of the confederacy? Well okay... that didn't make any sense.... it's not that kind of parallel universe (if parallel at all).
Then they flash 1 year later.... but I'm suspicious the rest of the show that he's dreaming. After watching a second time... I guess I don't think it was a dream. I think the writers wanted us to think or suspect it was a dream... just to throw us off. Saying the "union is waiting' deliberately so even when we realize it's not (can't be) a civil war dream... we still think it's a dream.
Or was I the only one having a civil war flash back?
I can't say I had a Civil War flashback, but I must admit I was surprised that it was one year later. I was expecting about 3 weeks, which thus far was the maximum jump the writers pulled on us. My first reaction-this is either a dream, or the writers are getting sloppy and running out of ideas for this whole ship-fleet straggling survivors thing. The idea of..."Hey, let's throw the viewers for a loop and not only go in a different direction from TOS, but let's go in a different direction from ourselves. I'm getting used to the idea of it now...
...only question is, what will the survivor count be for the first episode of season 3? 49,550 is where we left off. Predictions, anyone?
With the media hoping for a birdflu epidemic, my guess is we will have an epidemic episode, or arc, where the penicillin and other drugs we take for granted are no longer present... as we are seeing with Kara's hubby already. Everybody dying from diseases that are just supposed to be inconveniences.
I'm guessing that's how people will die. I'm guessing but my sense is the cylons have arrived to "help" human kind... by setting up a totalitarian regime of some sort. But ultimately.... I'm guessing they will go for big numbers, like the Black Death in Europe in the 1300's.... three different plague deseases including bubonic wiping out 25-50% of the population. Sharon said a "dark time".... a dark ages?
My question is.... will Doral still be making coffee for everybody? Wasn't making coffee for everybody what led to the first cylon war? Maybe the Dorals want to force the humans to make coffee for the rest of the cylons from now on.
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