BattleStar Galactica:Season 3.0--10/20/06--Arc 3

[Mistwell]

I love how the show is still roughly following the original show, but in a totally new and different way.

When we first saw the Pegasus last season I think I, along with most othgers, thought the ship was doomed to die in a fight with multiple cylon basestars. But for a while there it seemed they really were going to keep it.

And I also thought, probably with many others, that Baltar would end up with the cyclons, like he did in the orignal show. But, after a while I was starting to think he would not.

Now, the original show plotline, like a poorly written old-age prophecy, has finally come to pass.

Very cool. I just hope they don't follow with BSG 1980

 

[Ahnehnois]

From what it loooked like with Pegasus, they don't really have escape pods (at least not FTL capable ones) on the Battlestar, so they need Raptors to do the evacuating. Even if they had on board - Galacticas destruction or evacuation would have meant the failure of the mission - once the Basestars and the Raiders aren't bound with Galactica, they can shoot down the escaping ships (or nuke the whole city and all ships from orbit). If Galactica had survived long enough to let the ships escape, they could probably have used any escape pods/raptors available and give up the ship. But their job was to evacuate the planets population, they couldn't leave before that.

Still, it was certainly a neccessity to lose Pegasus, not Galactica, from a story-telling perspective and they could have played it out differently if they _really_ wanted.

It's been established the Pegasus is more advanced and runs on a much smaller crew, thus making it much more feasible to evacuate quickly with a few raptors. I think that's a decent rationale for them letting it be destroyed rather than Galactica.

 

[Banshee16]

Can anyone provide a synopsis of what happened on Saturday? My understanding is that the humans escaped New Caprica, Pegasus was destroyed (were Lee and Dee killed?), Tigh killed his wife, Baltar's been stranded, and the humans are on the run again. Anything else I missed?

Did Kara and the others all get off the planet? Gaeta, Tyrell, etc.?

Banshee

 

[dravot]

Can anyone provide a synopsis of what happened on Saturday? My understanding is that the humans escaped New Caprica, Pegasus was destroyed (were Lee and Dee killed?), Tigh killed his wife, Baltar's been stranded, and the humans are on the run again. Anything else I missed?

Did Kara and the others all get off the planet? Gaeta, Tyrell, etc.?

Banshee

Pegasus was destroyed, but there were no stated casualties. Lee and D made it off.

Everyone got off planet except for Boomer's baby Hera. Her protectors were found dead in the street, but the baby was still alive, and now in cylon custody.

 

[Steel_Wind]

As for the Why was the Pegasus destroyed instead of Galactica?

Ron Moore answers this in his podcast:

1 - The show is called Battlestar Galactica, not Battlestar Pegasus. Peggy was always going to have to go down, but the writers wanted it to mean something. Saving the human race from New Caprica, saving the Galactica and destroying three base stars in the fight (well, one in the fight and two in her death throes) was as dramatic as it got.

And of course one base star survives. That's the one Dann'a, Caprica Six, Boomer and Baltar get away to, presumably.

2- As for why destroy it now Ron Moore explained in his podcast, again it was largely a practical decision as much as a dramatic one:
Production needed the space on the soundset where they film as there was no more large space available. There were only ever 4 internal sets for the Pegasus. The Commander's ready room, the CIC, a corridor and a multi-purpose room they used for a number of purposes depending on how they dressed it up (brig, pilot's ready room, etc).

The show is soon going to shift and use Baltar to give us a window into what the interiors of the Basestars look like. In order to build those sets, they needed the space being taken up by the Pegasus sets.

Out with the old, in with the new.

 

[LightPhoenix]

From what it loooked like with Pegasus, they don't really have escape pods (at least not FTL capable ones) on the Battlestar, so they need Raptors to do the evacuating. Even if they had on board - Galacticas destruction or evacuation would have meant the failure of the mission - once the Basestars and the Raiders aren't bound with Galactica, they can shoot down the escaping ships (or nuke the whole city and all ships from orbit). If Galactica had survived long enough to let the ships escape, they could probably have used any escape pods/raptors available and give up the ship. But their job was to evacuate the planets population, they couldn't leave before that.

I could buy that explanation, if one of the lines before that wasn't that most of civilian fleet had already escaped.

1 - The show is called Battlestar Galactica, not Battlestar Pegasus. Peggy was always going to have to go down, but the writers wanted it to mean something. Saving the human race from New Caprica, saving the Galactica and destroying three base stars in the fight (well, one in the fight and two in her death throes) was as dramatic as it got.

Oh, I know that's the case, and said as much in my last post. It just felt very contrieved, that's all. And really, it's a minor nitpick in a rediculously awesome episode.

 

[Truth Seeker]

This will have to do...don't have that refine type software to keep the pic intergity at higher resolution.

So does anyone know where to get a nice hi-res screenshot of Galactica peeking out of the nebula? That's a desktop background right there! Heck, even a shot of Pegasus opening up with her forward batteries would be pretty sweet!

 

[Geoff]

Everyone got off planet except for Boomer's baby Hera.

"Not everyone."

 

[Truth Seeker]

Thanks for this, but still Ron and a few others did say, that Pegs was going to go...before the end of Season 2.5 anyway.
But what a way, she/he did...in true Battlestar fashion.

As for the Why was the Pegasus destroyed instead of Galactica?

Ron Moore answers this in his podcast:

1 - The show is called Battlestar Galactica, not Battlestar Pegasus. Peggy was always going to have to go down, but the writers wanted it to mean something. Saving the human race from New Caprica, saving the Galactica and destroying three base stars in the fight (well, one in the fight and two in her death throes) was as dramatic as it got.

And of course one base star survives. That's the one Dann'a, Caprica Six, Boomer and Baltar get away to, presumably.

2- As for why destroy it now Ron Moore explained in his podcast, again it was largely a practical decision as much as a dramatic one:
Production needed the space on the soundset where they film as there was no more large space available. There were only ever 4 internal sets for the Pegasus. The Commander's ready room, the CIC, a corridor and a multi-purpose room they used for a number of purposes depending on how they dressed it up (brig, pilot's ready room, etc).

The show is soon going to shift and use Baltar to give us a window into what the interiors of the Basestars look like. In order to build those sets, they needed the space being taken up by the Pegasus sets.

Out with the old, in with the new.

 

[Ambrus]

I just hope they don't follow with BSG 1980

Heh. It'd be especially funny if they didn't end up on modern day earth as they did in the original series, but instead actually end up back in 1980 again.