Battlestar Galactica:Season Finale {SPOILERS UNLIMITED} 1.4.05

[Krieg]

I have a feeling he might end up being the manifestation of the God they keep talking about.

Now that would be pretty damn disturbing!

Wonder if they'll throw in the cloven hoof as well.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Apollo and Starbuck:
I don´t know if they will actually enforce this direction, it might take some time since they will re-use it. But whenever it happens, it won´t be an easy one. Personally, I could imagine that Apollo doesn´t have the same feelings for Starbuck then she has for him - he might see her more as his sister (similar as his father sees her as his daughter). But if not, the problems with military protocol and regulations will be there.
I would consider this relationship as just another way to frack up with the characters and to make things worse (for the characters, not for the viewers than they are.

Starbuck:
I think the interesting thing is: A lot of people say she is portrayed as "know-it-all" and "best at everything". But if you look at it, she fails aund succeeds just like the rest, and is best at "Shooting Cylons out of the fracking sky!". In her sniper mission, she missed the target. As interrogater, she failed to get any valuable information. She made okay in the Security Job on Cloud 9, but Apollo was there with her. As a flight instructor, she managed to train the pilots to a good level (see Hand of God), but it was already established that she served as flight instructor before. She was able to fight off 8 Raiders, and managed to escape with a crashed Raider. Starbuck made up a good attack plan in Hand of God, but she wasn´t alone there.

 

[Kaledor]

They left it, imo, intentionally vague about whether she's his manifestation of guilt about what he did with a real Six (effectively allowing her to shut down the colonial defense system by thinking with his little head) or whether she's implanted in him somewhere. And the writers have done an excellent job, again imo, of keeping you guessing, first pushing you one way and then the other. The last episode there, though, certainly pushes quite hard into the latter camp.

I love that it has been intentially vague. You can clearly make a case for both possibilities. Personally, I'd like Baltar to be crazy and just imagining Six.

Here's another thought:
During the finale, when Six is fighting Starbuck, Six seems to indicate that she knows Starbuck... so does indicate that The Six chip inside Baltar is letting other cylons know what is going on. Six certainly would be upset with Starbuck after the sex scene a few episodes ago. OOOOORRR is this a byproduct of the interogation scene where the cylon knew Starbuck and passed his information on.

They introduced Boxy, the annoying little kid from the original show, in the mini-series, though he wasn't Apollo's son (like he was in the original). At least I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be Boxy.

IIRC...Boxey wasn't Apollo's kid in the original. He was Jane Seymore's Character's. Apollo later fell in love with Seymore (and who wouldn't )... but I don't think he ever adopted the annoying kid.

 

[DonAdam]

I too watched the show on BitTorrent. Didn't mean to, but somehow missed the first two episodes of the series (thought they started the same week as SG1), and so had no recourse but to download... and then we got hooked and watched the whole thing over a couple of weeks.

I like that all the characters have flaws; even when its hard to empathize with them they're interesting. The only two things I don't like about the series are Starbuck being chosen to interrogate the Cylon (wouldn't the XO have been a thousand times more qualified? and interesting?) and that Boomer has yet to develop a personality. She's just a weathervane, going whichever way the wind blows.

As far as the way the show is going, I've got this theory. Most of it is obvious from the series:

The cylons need a purpose, a plan to make their existence worthwhile. It's possible that there is some cylon overmind-central computer thing that is God running the show.

Starbuck talked about the cosmic cycle- events are repeating themselves.

So, naturally, this isn't the first time the cylons have invaded. It is entirely possible that cylons that look like humans have guided human development several times in order to create the cycle. The refugees are meant to repopulate Kobol, and then the colonies, thus making Kobol again the source.

The cylons could have struck later. They had a spy on the Galactica; if they wanted to wipe out the whole human race, they could have waited until it was decomissioned, since it is the only ship that can efffectively fight them.

The humans worship the 12 lords of Kobol. There are 12 human cylon models; they can appear in multiple places at once. They are the 12 olympians, gods that lived among men. (I'll let you guess which one is Aphrodite )

I think Boomer shot Adama because he's screwing up the plan. When 6 tried to manipulate him, he didn't fall for it at all. The series is going to be about breaking the historical cycle, one artificially created by the cylons.

So, yeah, that's my theory.

 

[Wolf72]

Count Ilbis the original Cylon?? I just though he was a manifestation of the/a devil/demon ...

and the cylons were suppossed to be droids from a reptilian race ... ironically where they turned on their masters and wiped them out (i think).

 

[Belen]

Count Ilbis the original Cylon?? I just though he was a manifestation of the/a devil/demon ...

and the cylons were suppossed to be droids from a reptilian race ... ironically where they turned on their masters and wiped them out (i think).

Iblis influenced the reptillian Cylons into becoming the mechanical race. If you watched the episode, pay attention to where he interacts with John Colicos' Baltar. Baltar recognizes Iblis voice as that of the Cylon Imperious Leader.

Boxey: Apollo marries Serena (Jane Seymour) in the original series. When she dies, he becomes Boxey's father. He refers to Apollo as his Dad and Adama as his grandfather.

Funny enough, Boxey is in the new series, but they have only used him once to make a rude comment to Tigh while he was hanging with Starbuck.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Some good theories in here. The only thing I am worried about is that they will make Boomer the 7of9 of Galactica. Sure she's hot, but either space her, or if you want to study the baby, wait until she has it then space her. Having a Cylon running around the ship isn't a good idea.

Another point I agree with is, why have pilots doing interrogations and non-flight stuff so much? Doesn't the ship have security troops and the like?

 

[Truth Seeker]

Hmmmm, a lot of speculation going on here, which is a good thing. But I need an answer for this mystery.

HOW THE FRAK, did #6 get on and get off *if she did* Galatica, when Baltar was faslely accused of sabotaging the defense systems. And no one, can find her...no even a DNA strand.

Your turn...explain ta me

 

[Storm Raven]

Another point I agree with is, why have pilots doing interrogations and non-flight stuff so much? Doesn't the ship have security troops and the like?

They are probably absurdly short of officers of any type, which could explain why Starbuck and Apollo seem to get pushed into positions they are not particularly suited for.

 

[Storm Raven]

HOW THE FRAK, did #6 get on and get off *if she did* Galatica, when Baltar was faslely accused of sabotaging the defense systems. And no one, can find her...no even a DNA strand.

Maybe she didn't need to. Maybe she just needed to activate Boomer to do it (by remote signal), and then put Boomer back into "sleeper" mode.