Battlestar Galactica:Season 2; Part 5 NSCR/8.12.05

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Theory: Adama is the prophet, not Roslin.

Argumentation: In season 1, after the intro theme, we get drumbeat-future-flashes. At end of season 1, Adama gets shot, and goes comatose. Season 2 begins, and drumbeat-future-flashes are gone. At the end of 4th ep of season 2, Adama comes out of coma. And lo, as of the 5th ep, drumbeat-future-flashes are back ...

QED.

I think you may be on to something there.

Though one thing that's been bothering me...what did the Cylon's actually DO to Starbuck? Would it have been possible to transfer Boomer's baby to Starbuck? Remember, she said that the Cylons are having trouble with breeding...and Starbuck is 'very special'.

 

[wingsandsword]

Theory: Adama is the prophet, not Roslin.

Argumentation: In season 1, after the intro theme, we get drumbeat-future-flashes. At end of season 1, Adama gets shot, and goes comatose. Season 2 begins, and drumbeat-future-flashes are gone. At the end of 4th ep of season 2, Adama comes out of coma. And lo, as of the 5th ep, drumbeat-future-flashes are back ...

Then there's the reverse spin on that: Roslin is the prophet.

At the end of season 1, when we lose the drum beats & flashes into the future, Roslin has been deposed as the President and leader (since the prophet is supposed to lead them). In the 5th episode, she has reasserted control of the fleet and her role of leading the people to Kobol and then to Earth.

 

[Fast Learner]

If I were Starbuck, I sure would have been suspicious as hell as to why that doc needed to do a pelvic exam. What, would he have done a prostate exam on a man? In an aid hospital? I hardly think so.

A couple of possibilities on the additional surgery she received: They removed the cyst from her ovary because they want to help ensure she makes a baby, they removed one ovary entirely in order to harvest eggs from it, they harvested eggs but left the ovary in place, they implanted someone else's fetus, or they removed an egg, performed in-vitro fertilization with Cylon seed, and implanted the fertilized egg (or eggs).

I love the theories about the precognitive drum sequences! Great stuff!

 

[Fast Learner]

NSCR=No Spoiler Caps Required.

I'd wondered what that was, thanks!

(Maybe no spoiler Code required? Either way, makes much more sense now.)

 

[Wolf72]

hmm, maybe Roslin is the catalyst for Adama ...

 

[LightPhoenix]

Well, it looks like Roslin and her followers won't be waiting long for that arrow. It should be very interesting to see Starbuck, Helo, and Caprica-Boomer come back to this situation. Especially since I have to wonder... does C-Boomer know Galactica-Boomer is dead? That would be an awkward situation to come back to, especially given the events that have happened since. I'm also looking forward to Starbuck being put in the middle of everything... sure, she might have jumped off against Adama's orders, but will she really join Roslin? Somehow, I think that's farther than she's willing to go.

[edit] Also, note when C-Boomer comes back... right after G-Boomer is killed.

One thing I'm really surprised about is that Adama is not only upkeeping the martial law, but making more use of it than Tigh did. I kind of expected him to come back and fix the whole mess, make peace and get things moving. I know he knows the fleet must be unified or die to the Cylons, and this doesn't seem to be the way to help that goal. His behavior just seems odd to me.

I have to wonder at this juncture if Doc Cottle is a Cylon. We know he's had direct, medical contact with both Roslin and Adama. We know the Cylons can doctor, we know they have some sort of biotech. Cottle has Roslin hooked on some sort of psychotropic drug. He operated on Adama at least once that we saw. He seems in too good a position to influence the whole thing.

 

[Fast Learner]

It's worth noting that Roslin asked for that drug, that the Doc warned her against it, and that she insisted anyway, knowing about its addictiveness.

 

[Sir Brennen]

One other thing -- I rather like the show, but does anyone else think the science of Battlestar Galactica makes Star Trek look logical and internally consistent? Did all the writers flunk high school biology?

Can you give some specific examples of what you're talking about?

 

[LightPhoenix]

It's worth noting that Roslin asked for that drug, that the Doc warned her against it, and that she insisted anyway, knowing about its addictiveness.

See, I know she's president and all, and Cottle is supposed to be somewhat... rougher around the edges than the classical portrayal of a doctor. Still, I really don't think most doctors would let someone go on a highly addictive, hallucinogenic drug for very long if at all. Steroid use (I know, they're not hallucinogens), for example, is very highly monitored and patients are generally weaned off of it as soon as possible, since the body can become dependant on it. I see it as analogous to a doctor precribing mescaline for a patient. Which, as I type it, is probably the basis for whatever her mystical plant is supposed to be.

It's also a point of interest as to where this is coming from, since it seems like it would be a controlled substance. It's obviously not widely available, or Billy would have gotten some himself. Why would Cottle have a stock of this stuff?

 

[dravot]

It's also a point of interest as to where this is coming from, since it seems like it would be a controlled substance. It's obviously not widely available, or Billy would have gotten some himself. Why would Cottle have a stock of this stuff?

He didn't have any in stock. He said in the mini-series that someone out in the fleet had to have some, and he'd seek it out for her.