Battlestar Galactica--What The Frak Is Going On?
I just watched the season finale of Battlestar Galactica and I'm more confused than ever. (I get the feeling some spoilers are afoot).
I mean, I was troubled enough by the tral of Baltar. I even questioned the need for one, but once it started it was run very strangely. On this episode, for instance, there's false testimony condemning the defendant, which Baltar's lawyer essentially ignores. If I were on the defense team, I would definitely cross-examine. And later, even if there's some sort of Fifth Amendment rights allowed, I would put my client on the stand since he has a story to tell that no one knows about regarding the gun to his head when he signed an incriminating document.
Even later, after Baltar is found not guilty, he thinks he'll go on a book tour? Huh? There's less then 40,000 people alive. Even if they're big readers, and there's a thriving publishing industry, isn't this a bit much? Then, after that, even though thousands think he's a traitor who betrayed the human race, he just walks around the ship like it's no big a deal.
But Baltar is a sideshow. We found out a bunch of secondary characters are actually Cylons (or believe they are). I have no idea why it's them, how it can be them, or what the secret "plan" of the Cylons is. I certainly have no idea what they're supposed to do next.
Weirdest of all, these newly-aware Cylons start quoting Bob Dylan. So Dylan, or at least "All Along The Watchtower," exists in the world of Battlestar Galactica.
There was one good thing--Starbuck is back. I thought she had some sort of destiny. I guess we'll find out what it is in 2008.
posted by LAGuy @ 1:40 AM
5 Comments:
I think they are Cylon resistance. They were 4 out of the 5 leaders of the reistance on New Caprica. I am thinking at some point afaction broke lose from the Cylons that didnt want to kill their human creators. Notice how the other cylons talk about them or even know about them as to their ID. I think Cavill might and that is why he boxed the threes after she saw their faces.
PS Interesting theory I saw. What if everyone are Cylons(except Eart) and the Cylons keep fighting this Civil war and forgot who they were. Would explain why they seem to have no records of this 13 th coloney and keep calling it myths and having to look in the scriptures
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At least they seem to be on track again, more because of Starbuck than the new Cylons. They're really close to Earth now, so something has to happen.
Assuming there is a logical answer (which I am not convinced of, nor have I ever been), then there are two possibilities:
1. The "Earth" they are searching for is not actually our planet. Instead, our planet, which we call Earth, is their Kobol. Thus the entire show is in OUR future, and our Earth (including Bob Dylan) is in their past.
2. After Earth was founded, communication between Earth and Kobol continued. This explains how the Tomb of Athena and the Eye of Jupiter and all those things are able to know stuff about Earth. Moreover, Cylons are much older than the humans have believed, and were already around when the Opera House and the Eye of Jupiter were created.
In any event, have you noticed that there are actually two cylon/human hybrid babies, now? Still, I don't see why this is such a big deal: if the Cylons want hybrids, why didn't they just do tons of cross-breeding on New Caprica, or have Baltar sire babies with a bunch of Sixes and Threes?
I don't see how the Earth they search for can be a different Earth from ours, since the final shot of the season showed a planet that was either ours or a remarkable copy.
Very true.
In any event, the incredible coincidences just keep mounting. Consider that even if there are multiple copies of Tigh, Chief Tyrol, and Sharon (Boomer) elsewhere in the galaxy, there can't have been more than one copy of each within the Twelve Colonies' military organization. (They would be fingerprinted, etc.) So why would all three happen to have been on the only military ship that wasn't wiped out in the initial attack?
What continues to bug me is the feeling that this won't be all explained. Tigh, Tyrol, Anders, and the cute Karl Rove presumably all have memories of their childhoods. Suppose, then, that Tyrol's memories of the past ten years are real, and his memories earlier than that point are fake. What, then, happened ten years ago? The Tyrol-Cylon must have had his memories erased and was inserted into the human world. But inserted by whom? Surely not the Cylon leadership we've seen, since the primary seven models have never even seen the other five.
Another minor continuity problem. The opera house scene used to involve Baltar and the Imaginary Six. Suddenly, Caprica Six is in it. Is this a sign of a deep connection between I6 and C6? Or are the writers just sloppy?
Meanwhile, there is Starbuck. Her ship cracked up -- but no, somehow she teleported to Earth and is back. Or is she? One episode ago I was convinced she would come back as a Cylon. Now I'm not sure.
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