OT: Season 3 BSG

[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.

[Atrocities]

SPOILER

Lee too is back in uniform and notices a unidentified craft on the DRADIS. When he investigates, he finds Kara in her viper. She says she’s been to Earth and can show them the way.

And we will have to wait a nearly six months to see how this one gets explained away. Didn't someone say something about Star Trek? "He's dead Jim!" ooops wait spoke too soon. "Spock?"

And if you really want to get sick, well read this next bit.

Tigh, Tyrol, Anders and Foster are all independently driven by the Dylan tune to the same launch tube. All four are horrified to come to the conclusion that they’ve all always been Cylons!

So Tigh and Tyrol are cylon's this whole time. Ok ya I buy that. Yup, its completely plausible. Totally didn't see this coming. And here the whole time they have been on board the Galatica, getting drunk, leading the resistance, having Tigh's eye gouged out by other cylons and they never knew he was one of them. Boomer was sleeping with Tyrol, and never ever figured out he was a machine. Oh ya, makes perfect sense to now make him and Tigh out to be cylons. Thats like saying FDR was really a Nazi or something. Hell why not... While we are at it, lets makes Winston Churchill out be one too. This is a writers gage, a bad joke, or worse yet, a ratings ploy in yet another "lets mix it up" plot twisting season ender.

They will do anything for ratings. I don't know whether I should laugh at this or just simply cry at its utter and complete absurdity. I just want to cry.

But after watching the last episode of Stargate SG1, I find myself unable to do so. I think the series ender was a little low tech, too short, and best described as anti-climatic. A lot of work for no pay out. A long wait for a train than never came. Six hours of hard core sex with no climax. A really sexually nasty dream that you wake up from right when its beginning to get good to the sound of a screaming alarm and kids bouncing on your bed demanding breakfast. The kind of dream that all you want to do is kill yourself after waking up from just to find yourself stuck in hell where death is your only escape.

Well at least SG1's series ender was epic compared to that of Enterprise. And at least we have two DVD movies to look forward too unless the plug is pulled on them as well.

[AgentZero]

On the upside, by my count episode 19 was 44min11sec, which is a little under two minutes more than the average 42min20sec. Sure, it's not much, but it's a step in the right direction.

Also, it's more or less established that the majority of Cylons don't seem to know who the final five are, and if they are Galactica crewmembers, that would explain Six's "Oh God, we're so sorry," reaction upon seeing the face(s) of the five.

But I'm of the thinking that the Colonials are all really Cylons, decended from those who wiped out humanity to begin with, so anybody in the fleet discovering that they're a Cylon fits in perfectly with my theory.

[Renegade 13]

Personally, I've never understood why all cylons wouldn't know who all the other cylons were. They're machines, it's not like their society was fragmented before the human-form cylons were created. So it follows that they'd know who everyone else was.

[Wade]

http://www.galciv2.com/

This G4: X-Play video review of Galactic Cicilizations II; Dark Avatar has a humorous Battlestar Galactica continuing skit.

The game has gotten near perfect reviews from many major and minor review sites.

[Atrocities]

Ya just think if Aaron had their resources and talent at his disposal, image what he could have done with the SE franchise.

[Renegade 13]

Wade said:
http://www.galciv2.com/

The game has gotten near perfect reviews from many major and minor review sites.

*Gags*