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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:21:03 GMT -5
oodles of yeehah resurection stuff! Tory doesn't want galen to see the whole killing Cally thing. And that proved to be the impediment to the procedure. and now tory's dead, so they can't give the sercet of resuretion. So why did cavil blow his own brians out? and Racetrack blows the colony. And it's the mucis that's the key... "All along the watchtower" is the key to the place to jump to. Flashback to Kara and Lee drinking with drunken Zak passed out on the couch. First moments of intimacy between these two eventual soulmates And Galactica has made her last jump. Oh god, poor girl, poor girl "Sitrep?" "The ship is frakked, sir!" And Galen earned his being an outcast. HOLY SHIT! All of this has happened before! They went back in time through a combination of broken FTL and the magic Dylan coordinates! OR SOMETHING I DON'T EVEN KNOW. For some reason that in red gave me a fit of giggles. ;D Me too. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:22:20 GMT -5
"hey, i don't mean to rush you, but you are keeping two civilizations waiting!" ;D "yeah, yeah, yeah, you're forgiven for all your dark secrets. let's do this." so tigh! ;D Heh! Yes! And then, of course, those dark secrets just frakked everything up, didn't they?
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:22:50 GMT -5
I know.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:23:45 GMT -5
So the rest of the fleet arrives! maybe it isn't time travel! Neanderthals! "One-track mind, Doc." I'd say there was a divine hand at work what with two planets having the SAME FUCKING CONTINENTAL STRUCTURE!! "Break the cycle" leave it all behind and start over. Lee's going luddite. Great. I'd rather have modern tools and modern medicine, thank you very much. I disagree with Lee so intesely I can barely express it. Nice. Planting people in the various places where we have them pegged as the earliest humans. Destroying all their ships. Oh, so freaking retarded. You can have an agrarian society without building cities, with some companion technology. Didn't none of these twits watch Firefly?Oh! "See you on the other side" Clearly, they had no Joss equivalent. Strip bars, but no Joss. That hadly qualifies as "civilization". ;D This! ;D
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:26:29 GMT -5
Actually, this ending is somewhat anti-climactic in a way. Trading their technology for the chance to start over and let humans evolve the hard way. Again. And, maybe it will happen again as humans experiment with AI. The cycle may be broken for a time but not forever. . .. Well, I wasn't expecting a happy fluffy puppies kind of ending, cuz this is BSG. I'm just amazed it didn't turn out to be a truly suicidal misison to the Cylon base. I was slighty afeared we were gonna get a "rocks fall, everyone dies" kind of ending.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:28:55 GMT -5
He doesn't like that name? Rachael, didn't you once say that Baltar was the Cylon god? Or was that Shan? Someone said it! Was Baltar referring to himself here? Wow. Now, that bit of the ending I thought was really cool. Ooooh! I hadn't thought of that!! Cool!
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:32:08 GMT -5
So, I'm with those who oppose Lee's lunatic Luddite plan. At least the DOCTOR would have objected. "Um. Okay, but can I at least keep the antibiotics?" And...small groups. No. Way to inbreed, motherfrakkers. And that'll be nearly literal in a few generations. Plus, small groups are harder to defend if the natives turn out to be not-so-peaceful. I get why they did it - unlike the Pernese, these folks aren't going to be permitted to rediscover their actual heritage in a few thousand years...but, still. Stupid as all getout, people. I kinda figure that our BSG folks pretty much all died out, because, well, they probably would, wouldn't they? Maybe a few of them somehow intermingled with the original inhabitants, but that's about it.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:36:25 GMT -5
i have no idea if this is what they intended or just what i took from it, but personally i interpreted the main group they looked at through the binoculars as a hunting group. i guess maybe i interpreted them that way just because it seems to be the way ancient peoples are usually depicted. (well, that and the spears, or at least what looked to me like spears) No, actually I meant the Galactica human groups, which were never shown to be more than a few dozen - undoubtedly for casting purposes - extras aren't hugely expensive, but why bother? Yeah, I assumed casting. Well, and possibly to also imply that they were all splitting up into small groups of people. But probably mostly 'cuz it was cheaper to film.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:39:21 GMT -5
Of course, Baltar stays. Oy, to the Battlestar ramming the Cylon colony imagery. Sperm to egg? Or 'up yours'. ;D Oy to the imagery indeed. ;D Wasn't that so cool!? Yeah, that was probably a guarrantee, wasn't it?
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:41:10 GMT -5
First, to Onjel for calling it. Second, have to disagree with folks about the value of the bucolic, "let's start over" dying, disappearing, "what are your plans now?", etc. scenes. BSG may not follow the rules of Science Fiction but it does follow the rules of character-driven drama which, IMO, is what it truly is: All the major characters come to know themselves. Everyone is left in touch with who they truly are. Third we seem to be skipping past what is, IMO, the central scene. The showdown in the CIC. The higher power, through the "Opera House" vision/prophecy guides Human and Cylons to a place where they must decide whether to end the cycle of violence. In that scene Balthar, for all his many, many faults, is indeed God's spokesperson. Initially the answer is yes, but proves too difficult to carry out. Tyrol exacts vengeance on Tory for Callie's murder. The cycle begins anew. Excellent point about the importance of the "Opera House" vision.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:44:30 GMT -5
That's it exactly!! "Do the astronauts have weapons?"
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:45:31 GMT -5
Part II Roslin and Cottle. Bidding goodbye. 2 days. Helo acting as CAP. Athena's come out of her room. Rescue mission planning. Cylon powwow. Using Anders to sabotage the colony. Clever. Adama giving over command to... Wait, who the hell is this? Ohhh, *this* is Hoshi. OK, then. The CIC is starting to look like the strip club. Still not to late to flush them all out the airlock. Hee! Did we get a glimpse of NekkidAnders there? Lampkin again. He's been designated President. Hee! Baltar. I never belonged to you. You appropriated me. Hmm. Baltar joins the resistance rescue mission. Centurions too. With a red stripe to distinguish them from Cavill's Centurions? I can't believe I missed the red strip stuff!! **facepalms**
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:48:19 GMT -5
Part III More preparations. Triage. Caprica and Baltar. Packing Heat. Adama makes another Inspirational Speech. Do they even have a home? I mean there's all this stuff about evacuating Galactica, but does the fleet even have anywhere to go? What is they're overall game plan at this point? Good question! I assume their game plan was the same one they were probably planning once they knew they had to start breaking up the Galactica. Try to find some close by habitable planet and . . . well, pretty much do what they did at the end here, now that I think of it. Huh. Yes, that's what I thought too.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:49:57 GMT -5
Part VI Damage assessment. I'm getting a distinct Captain Planet vibe here. Tory doesn't want everybody else to learn about her dirty secrets. Hee! Ah, downloading the resurrection designs. Then I guess the super computer will take care of the rest. Oh, yeah. That bit about Tory killing Cally. That went well! Fight, fight, fight. Now the colony looks a little like the Shadows from Babylon 5. The music is Resurrection? I have no idea what's going on here, but it's freakin' cool. Heeee! Also? So true! ;D
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Post by Lola m on Mar 23, 2009 0:51:01 GMT -5
I'm so bummed it's almost over! It's not over. It's completed. Oh, well put!
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