There Must Be Some Way Out Of Here
So Battlestar Galactica is back for its final run. And things seems to be falling apart. In fact, I don't know where they can go from here. They spent the whole series searching for Earth, and now that they've found it, they're leaving. Meanwhile, the fleet is working with the Cylons (assuming you can tell humans and Cylons apart anymore).
Oh yeah, we discovered the fifth Cylon. I didn't see it coming, but I can't say the revelation was entirely satisfying. And I bet when the show started they had no clue it would turn out this way.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:29 AM
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I don't know where they're going either, but they still have two battles to deal with. The Cylon civil war and the need to find a place where they can live in peace. If the whole thing is them dealing with their broken dreams, they won't make it.
You're missing how fresh the final episodes are. The slate has been wiped cleaen. They finally found what they were looking for but it wasn't what they wanted, and all their beliefs have been shattered. So many of the confident character now have no idea what to do. Yet Baltar has suddenly regained his focus.
Haven't ever watched this version of BG (maybe I'll get the DVDs someday and catch up- right I still picture Lorne Greene) but there was a great reference in Big Bang Theory last night.
A recent Ron Moore interview confirmed that many of the specific things stated in the new episode are, in fact, true as stated.
(This is the sort of thing that interviews are good for: it's not giving stuff away, as much as it's discouraging speculation in a direction that the writers intended to shut off.)
In the interview, he also makes clear that many recent revelations, including this one, were only decided relatively recently in the writing process.... as we have been surmising.
After reading the interview, it's now clear the Cylons had a plan, but the producers didn't.
Also, I don't get D'Anna's reaction to what was revealed in the opera house.
His reference to D'Anna in the opera house appears to be an badly thought-out retcon. Common sense indicates that Tigh was the person she apologized too; no matter who else was a Cylon, Tigh was hurt by the Cylons more than anyone. But to add to the drama of the "fifth", RM now claims that she was apologizing to the fifth, even though that makes no sense.
But none of it makes sense.
For me, the biggest gap in the writers' brains is the matter of the Cylon homeworld / home region. The Cylons occupied twelve colonies, and did so in such a way that when Starbuck visited Caprica, she often had to elude Cylons. From this, we must conclude that the total number of copies of the Original Seven Skinjobs must be at least in the hundreds of thousands, and more likely in the millions. Clearly, then, the humans' new allies plus Brother Cavil's pursuing fleet are a tiny fraction of the Cylon race.
What are all the Cylons doing back home, then? I've complained about this before (i.e., do we assume that hundreds of thousands of Threes were executed when the order to box that line was decided? without executions, you can't box a living Cylon. and who enforced that law, since supposedly Centurions will not kill skinjobs?). Regardless, the Cylons back home ought to have built a new Resurrection Hub by now. Unless you assume that the Cylon civilization in the past had powerful technology (capable of building ships, Resurrection Hubs, etc.) which was lost due to some cataclysm... but such an assumption seems totally unwarranted.
I have several other complaints about inconsistencies but they'd be spoilers for the new episode....
This might be a spoiler, but I think they found an "Earth" but it was a Cylon earth, not the real human Earth, which is the finale of the series. The other possibility, which everyone is thinking now, is that the Cylons are the real humans and have been all along.
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