Saturday, May 10, 2008
Season 4: Faith
Roslin is bald like ex-Chief Tyrol! And she may be starting to buy into Baltar's religion.
But most of the action this episode takes place on the sewage ship. Gaeta, the guy most likely to be the final Cylon, is shot by Anders. Jumping to visit the Cylons seemed like a really bad idea, so clearly Anders was in the wrong here, but of course, it turned out that Starbuck was right. It's too bad Gaeta had to take a bullet and possible lose his leg.
The "hybrid" on the Cylon base ship tells Starbuck some mumbo-jumbo about how the Final Five are from Earth and Starbuck will lead them to the "end." Or something like that. Who knows what it means?
Next week, they will apparently bring the Cylon base ship back to the Colonial fleet.
In comments, someone proposed that they will find Earth uninhabited, and we on Earth today are descendants of matings between Cylons and humans. If the commenter is right, this means the writers of the show are buying into the anti-Darwinist movement; humans didn't evolve from chimpanzees, nope, we came here from outer space.
I was just about positive this would happen until the season 3 finale: the show has scrupulously avoided any explicit references to real-world culture, except the "Watchtower" song. In that episode, the Chief and Anders were talking about it, and one of them said, "it's like a song from childhood" in a meaningful tone. The sensible interpretation is that these are our descendants, not ancestors, otherwise how could they be singing one of our songs?
Still, with all the importance invested in the half-breed babies and the easy moral of peace-through-interbreeding, it's just about impossible that they won't be the progenitors of a new race. I wouldn't be too surprised if the writers went ahead and made them the viewers' ancestors anyway, but I would be a little disappointed.
: 5/13/2008 2:10 AMWhoops, I realized I was wrong the second I posted - I forgot about the gods and the constellations. My larger point stands, though.
: 5/13/2008 2:12 AMIIRC, it was supposed to be sort of a parallel evolution thing, how Watchtower would sound if it were invented by (if you'll forgive me) someone a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
: 5/20/2008 11:25 PM