OT: Season 3 BSG

[Atrocities]

very good read and accurate.

[Randallw]

I didn't think he made a real Cylon detector. He just made something up and then claimed to have developed one to get the suspicion off himself. In the mini-series he just got lucky when he framed a bloke he didn't like much and that guy ended up being a Cylon.

[MasterChiToes]

Long long ago, I decided that everyone from the 12 colonies were Cylons... they are descended from the original Cylons from Kobol who destroyed the real humanity. Hopefully, the old and new Cylons will eventually team up and destroy Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

Adama is the Imperius Leader!

I miss Iblis and the ancients from the original series... now that had plotz plot potential.

[Atrocities]

Could someone please explain to me what in the hell just happened in the last episode (19)? I cannot figure out what it was I just watched. Tye (sp) thinks the Galatica is a cylon now? Baltar is a religious icon? Lee Adama is a traitor, The president has cancer again and along with that she having visions, Caprica 6 is now a mind reader, and Adama wants Lee thrown in the brig! WTH! The episode made no sense what so ever! It was like watching an alcoholically induced bad dream. Hell I had a hang over after watching it.

[AgentZero]

Sounds like all kinds of madness! My usual torrent site didn't have episode 19 up for some reason, so I'm a little late in getting it, but I'm sure I'll have something insightful to say after I've watched it.

[Atrocities]

I think I should have been stoned or drunk before watching it. I think it would have made more sense then. Hell for Adama to go from "I love you son" to "I won't have an officer who has no integrity serving under me" is a huge leap.

The only thing I can figure out is that perhaps the sounds Tye is hearing might be somehow affecting the crew putting them on edge and pitting them against each other.

[Will]

Atrocities said:
Could someone please explain to me what in the hell just happened in the last episode (19)? I cannot figure out what it was I just watched. Tye (sp) thinks the Galatica is a cylon now?

No, Tigh keeps hearing little snatches of music, which very few others around him seem to hear (it appears only Anders and Tori can hear it in this episode). It's driving him crazy, trying to find out where it's coming from. It's affecting Tori to a somewhat lesser extent, and Anders is occasionally distracted by it.

Atrocities said:
Baltar is a religious icon?

Baltar's leaked book and his distinction of living among the Cylons without being killed may have something to do with the religious reverence. While he's hated by many in the fleet, just by speaking out against the power duo of Adama and Roslin, while being in the position of a martyr would gain him favor with a minority.

Atrocities said:
Lee Adama is a traitor, The president has cancer again and along with that she having visions, Caprica 6 is now a mind reader, and Adama wants Lee thrown in the brig!

Lee is trying to escape his father's shadow by becoming his grandfather. He can't move higher in the military now than CAG, as long as his father lives. If he is to achieve anything more in his life, Lee needed to find a way to do it outside of the military. Since he's an idealist (see the episode introducing Tom Zarek), being part of Baltar's defense seems the perfect way for him to affect change and be something other than his father's son.

As for the President, I don't think it's so far-fetched that the cancer has returned. Survivors of cancer are at higher risk to later develop cancer again in the future. The visions would seem to be a side effect of her taking the hallucinatory drugs again.

And Caprica Six, I don't believe has any kind of mind reading abilities. She got a cue from her inner Baltar, and the more she went down that road, the more the reactions of Tigh gave her to say. I think she was talking as much about herself as she was of Tigh, since she believes that Baltar really is good as dead, and she'll soon have a gruesome death to deal with as well (before waking up again).

And I think the threat of throwing Lee and Baltar's lawyer in the brig was more because they were basically forcing his lady-friend to admit something deeply personal in public, again (similar to the first time she admitted she had cancer and was dying, only without the physical bars around her).


Also, if you listen closely to the teaser at the end, you hear Tori say "This isn't happening," and the Chief say "It's true... we're Cylons" as the music that Tigh, Anders, and Tori were hearing plays. Combine that with RDM saying that season 3 would see at least some of the Final Five revealed... well, there's only one episode left...

[Atrocities]

Well I will keep watching. I just cannot turn my eyes away from this.

[Tim_Ward]

Reguarding the headBaltar/Tigh thing, it was probably a combination of a fairly professional bit of cold reading and bits and pieces Caprica Six picked up from the occupation grapevine.

It's definately a good thing that Roslin's cancer returned. The magic-cylon blood miracle cure in season 2 stretched credibility a little too far.

And I think the threat of throwing Lee and Baltar's lawyer in the brig was more because they were basically forcing his lady-friend to admit something deeply personal in public, again (similar to the first time she admitted she had cancer and was dying, only without the physical bars around her).

And in character, too... remember how Adama reacted with the tribunal in season 1 started going somewhere he didn't want it to?

[Azselendor]

the music seemed to contain the cylon hum, and I hope they don't reveal any of them as cylons - but please, no more cylons!

but if you like spoilers, http://www.thetvremote.com/battlesta...nale-spoilers/


and fear for the worst.