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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 17:49:02 GMT -5
Part II
Tigh prepares to be airlocked.
Adama breaks down. OMG, my heart is breaking here.
Adama looses faith in Earth, in everything.
Lee "takes care of it."
Asking Kara about the viper again.
And... Kara finds out the Anders and Tyrol are Cylons. Ooh!
Tigh is aiming for a noble death.
Kara inspects the viper again. That's going to trigger her connection with Earth again, isn't it?
Lee just turned the tables on D'Anna.
Kara turns on the viper. A compass that points to Earth?
The tension is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
"God" brought D'Anna back.
Kara shows up at the nick of time. Yep, she knows there Earth is.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 17:55:41 GMT -5
Part III
Something's orchestrating this for a purpose. A higher power.
End result: cooperation. Just like D'Anna wanted.
Ending the cycle. All this has happened before...but it doesn't have to happen again. Not if we make up our minds to change. Take a different path, right here, right now. Ooh!
The question is: where do we go from here? That's always the question, isn't it?
Adama tries to decide what to do next.
Lee passes the presidency back to Roslin.
It's the end of the line. Live together, die alone? ;D
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 18:02:58 GMT -5
Part IV
The Jump to Earth.
And there it is.
3 years since the beginning of Exodus.
They keep saying "the journey is at an end," which makes me think it's not.
Montage of celebration This feels like the end of Return of the Jedi.
And now for the cliffhanger.
Radioactivity. Se we/13th colonists destroyed themselves in a nuclear war.
Is where they're at supposed to be a recognizable landmark or just something nondescript?
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 18:03:19 GMT -5
I frakkin' love Bear McCreary. That is all.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 18:04:59 GMT -5
Well, I guess we got the answer to the question that we had in the last thread, huh? A little of column A and a little of Column B as far as what I was predicting.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 18:07:57 GMT -5
MmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmLeeinasuit. Tasty. "I want the four in your fleet." D'Anna is being all hard-ass. And Roslin wants Adama to be just as hard-ass. Blow the ship, with her on it?! Damn! Are we gonna get Dee and Gaeta as a couple? "Our people are back, sir." Aaaaaand here we go! Cylons ahoy. We only want to love and protect them. Hmmmmm. And Lee says if they want to go, he'll let them. Nicely done, Tory. And Tigh is totally flumoxed that she wants to go with the Cylons. Is Lee only agreeing because he sees Roslin as a role model or does he really agree? Me? I think blowing up the ship is a bad bad bad idea. I was thinking they were couply too. But then I thought maybe I only thought that because I thought they would be good for each other.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 18:09:34 GMT -5
Nuke the basestar, or "those four could give themselves up". Well, hell. Tory looks happy. And Roslin's taking care of Baltar. Which is just so very very wrong. Thank you for not murdering me. I love living and I want to thank you for saving my life. Oh, well, actually I've asked them to blow up the ship. I brought you your medication. And to be with my people. Heeee! Baltar just did a version of Willow's "I knew it, not in the sense of having any idea". ;DI'm done taking orders from you. Ouch! Well, at least a part of her has to be remembering being pimped out. Executing the prisoners? What the hell, D'Anna! Are you just pissed because not all the final four are jumping into your arms? You're just asking to get nuked. Eeeeeeeep!! Chief is hearing the signal!! Are the Cylons trying to call them? No, because they all hear it and Tory's reaction surprised them. Earth!! It's Earth calling them!! The Viper is telling them where Earth is!! Like how Starbuck heard the pull of it. Is Tigh going to turn himself in? Yep. Holy hell. Turns out there's another kind of Cylon we didn't know about. I'm one of them. Adama is soooooooo in denial. Oh, hell. And that's Tigh's idea? Put himself on the line to be airlocked to save the hostages. That's . . . kind of a workable idea. Only, it won't work if it's just one of them, will it? Brainshare!
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 18:10:55 GMT -5
I thought Tigh was the one who was all about rolling the hard Six... BWAH!!!
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 18:11:46 GMT -5
I'm finding all the scenes of people reacting to be . . . way more moving than I thought they would be. Man. I didn't think it would be, but it is. Damn. And there goes the other shoe. Earth. All ruined and deserted and wrecked. Check underground. There may be apes.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Jun 14, 2008 18:22:15 GMT -5
Bear McCreary's blog post about the music in the episode is here. Here is an excerpt, wherein he explains what the lyrics were that we heard: However, the most memorable choral passages in this cue come during the intense action sequences, heard first when Kara sprints through the hallways and nuclear warheads are being armed. Here, the choir shouts an aggressive chant in Samoan. I wrote the text, trying to imagine an ancient Colonial war-chant, which was then translated into Samoan by Ben Jones at UCLA:
* Togiola ina ia ola o Sacrifice to live * Ola ina ia oti o Live to die
Lee clears the tube of everyone but Tigh, raising the stakes. At this moment, the key shifts down from D#minor to C#minor, the key I set “All Along the Watchtower” in. The musical intensity increases, suggesting that this really could be the moment where we say goodbye to Colonel Tigh. On the next cut to Kara sprinting, the chanting choir returns:
* Tu’u atu lou ma:navaga mulimuli o Give your last breath * Mo le fatu o le taua o To the seed of war * Ta:tou fai fa’atasi ‘uma o So say we all
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Post by Michelle on Jun 14, 2008 19:40:00 GMT -5
So, is this an example of "it's all happened before"? And now they get to show if they really are able to forge a new path? And what happened to Kara when she reached Earth before? Who spiffed up her ship and sent her back? And were the final four on Earth before when it wasn't all wrecked or after?
Hell of a cliffhanger. Three excellent questions!! I think you might be on to something there. Will the show reveal how her ship came back looking better than it did when she left?
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Post by Michelle on Jun 14, 2008 19:43:57 GMT -5
i loved the pan of the reactions at the end - adama and roslin together (d'anna walking up to join them), helo and athena together. tory reaching out to touch sam and sam walking away; caprica six reaching out to touch tigh and him standing there quietly letting her. dee and apollo and starbuck all standing alone. just thought it was really neat. i have no idea why the skyline struck me as manhattan's, but it did - like they were standing by the ruined statue of liberty looking out onto ruined new york city. interesting (but not particularly surprising) that tory was treated the worst by the humans and had the fewest qualms about giving up her old life to go be with the cylons. I noticed the way Tory touched Sam and he pulled away as well. Interesting. And Caprica Six comforting Tigh even though he's roughed her up a time or two. Did Doc Cottle tell her that she's preggers, I wonder?
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Post by Michelle on Jun 14, 2008 19:46:42 GMT -5
Speculation: Seems obvious to me why the 2 warring civilizations had to go to earth together: Neither humans, nor cylons can live on a radioactive planet. Had either arrived on their own they would either have given up entirely, committed mass suicide or simply died off. Of maybe gone back into space to commit nasty genocidal vengance on the the other side, assigning "fault" to the others. But, obviously (speculation) the hybrid children are going to be able somehow to live on earth and bring it back to life. So the human and cylon fleets will park above in space, interbreed like bunnies and produce a new race to populate earth. Tada! Ronald Moore needs your resume, stat! I think you might be onto something. Anyone read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? It's about a father and son in a post-apocalyptic world. If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it as good prep for the second half of this season.
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Post by artemis on Jun 14, 2008 20:20:42 GMT -5
Anyone read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? It's about a father and son in a post-apocalyptic world. If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it as good prep for the second half of this season. i believe that's currently being made into a movie, too.
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Post by artemis on Jun 14, 2008 20:22:23 GMT -5
Bear McCreary's blog post about the music in the episode is here. Here is an excerpt, wherein he explains what the lyrics were that we heard: <snip> fascinating stuff! thanks much for posting it.
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