Battlestar Galactica

[Eternalknight]

Have faith; the Caprica stuff becomes important later on.

 

[dravot]

I just watched episode 8, with eps 9 and 10 waiting in the wings. Bittorrent is my friend. 12 is downloading at home, and I'll have to redo 11 after that, and then the holy grail...Ep 13. *wipes drool from face*

I loved 7, 8 just replaced it as my new favorite.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Just watched the season finale. The only thing I can say is Holy Cow!!!! I love this show!!!! What a cliffhanger! What an ending! Where is the show going? I can't wait to find out.

 

[Laurel]

I, as with TDRandall, I have only seen the few aired in the US. So going from Mini series info only:

At the end of the mini they were burying thier dead... lots of them. They had just lost thier homes, families, jobs, and any sense of hope. The priestess (Religious figure?) made a little speech and no one seemed to react of express anything. So Adama stood up and did a big rally speech-- reminded me of Bill Pullman's in Independence Day. Adama said only a very select few of the highest government leaders knew the location of Earth.

Later when talking to the President he admits that people need hope, and I thought he said it was a lie.... the president was concerned about what happens when everyone finds out they aren't on a direct course to Earth, and Adama sort of shrugged it off as something to deal with when the times comes.

It seemed to just be a focus point of now we have someplace to go with more like us there, but other then that nothing special.

Even if they did know where to go--
Why is Earth the big place to go- in the mini it sounded like it was a colony that left the others behind? Why bring the Cylons to Earth? Why not start anew?

 

[Laurel]

Have faith; the Caprica stuff becomes important later on.

I hope so... currently that is the big down part of the show. Small clips of someone that we know very, very little about, and currently don't care much.

Eternalknight, you have given me hope the directors actually have a plan for it

 

[Eternalknight]

I hope so... currently that is the big down part of the show. Small clips of someone that we know very, very little about, and currently don't care much.

Eternalknight, you have given me hope the directors actually have a plan for it

Glad to help. You'll have to put up with not knowing until around the end of episode 12; although you may have an inkling of why it becomes important a little earlier than that.

 

[dravot]

Glad to help. You'll have to put up with not knowing until around the end of episode 12; although you may have an inkling of why it becomes important a little earlier than that.

I've seen through ep 10, and I'm seeing that inkling. Hopefully I'll be able to catch eps 11-13 in the next day or so.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Which surprised me as Moore said before the mini-series that they were ditching the alien astronaut aspect of Battlestar Galactica. Which probably means: a) They just changed their minds or b) there's some twist/revelation concerning Earth in the series' future.

I'm hoping for b). If only because, frankly, the only loss of suspension of disbelief I'm
having about the series is how modern-like the 12-Colony culture is, when they have
no connection to modern Earth culture.

It's no biggie, but it nags at me.

The idea is that humans came forth on Kobol*, advanced, and then colonized the 12 colonies. Later, there was a 13th colony, Earth, that was founded, but the original 12 colonies never had any direct connection to it.

One would presume that the colonies evolved in the way they did because (wild speculation here) they were colonised about the same time, from the same pool of culture, and kept in contact with each other as they advanced. There's obviously some degree of variety in the colonies, as witnessed by the commentary in ep3 (the prison one, when D and Billy discuss Sagittaria), but if they were separated from each other for very long, they'd've diverged much more. Given that much of Western civilization comes from Greek culture, it wouldn't be surprising that the Colonies are similar to the Western civilization we live in today.

Earth, on the other hand, was either an experiment or a failed colony, and at some point everybody started doing everything differently, and wound up living the history we read of today. So, there's a bit of Ancient Astronauts in there, but the story requires it; however, we're not going to wallow in it.

Now, what I want to know is...why'd Kobol kick the colonies to the curb, and not maintain contact? I guess we might find out, or might not.

Brad

* - Keep...wanting...to add...d...to the end...

 

[LightPhoenix]

The finale owned. That's all I have to say.

Bloody lucky people who get to see it all for the first time.

My one complaint with the season is that the Caprica stuff takes much too long to become part of the plot.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Even if they did know where to go--
Why is Earth the big place to go- in the mini it sounded like it was a colony that left the others behind? Why bring the Cylons to Earth? Why not start anew?

It might just be a psychological trick - they need a goal.
And installing a new colony? This people might call themselves colonials, but they aren´t colonists. If there is a world out there like the other 12 colonies, it sounds so much better.

But there is another problem: They know there are little habitable planets, and they know they are followed by Cylons. A new colony might not be a safe place.

Spoiler

From the last episodes it appears as if they still consider colonizing an option, even if everybody still believes in Earth

They might also assume that Earth - being one of the 13 Colonies of Cobol - will have a similar technogical level as the other 12 Colonies. They might hope that Earth cannot only defend itself against the Cylons, but that it can even strike back.
(And we don´t know how Earth will look if they ever visit it - in TOS, it was a contemporary Earth, but it could be anything in TNS.)