Friday, June 13, 2008
Season 4: Revelations
PRE-EPISODE THOUGHTS
The title of tonight's episode suggests that we are going go find stuff out. Either that, or the characters in the show will find out stuff that we, the viewers, already know.
LIVE-BLOGGING THE EPISODE
10:13
Bummer, we don't get to find out who the fifth Cylon is. Deanna says there are only four aboard the fleet.
Deanna is holding the humans hostage aboard the base ship until she gets the four Cylons. She thinks they know the way to Earth. Do they?
Tory sure was pretty eager to join her Cylon brothers and sisters.
Poor Felix Gaeta is hobbling around the bridge without a leg. I guess he's not a Cylon after all.
Anyway, Roslin, and Bill and Lee Adama, are plotting to destroy the base ship rather then let Deanna get the four Cylons and the Way to Earth. You can't trust humans. This is the leftist writers telling us that the United States is an evil country.
10:24
I wonder if the Viper is the fifth Cylon?
Tigh may be a Cylon, but at least he's still loyal to humanity. Not like that bitch Tory.
Admiral Adama points out to Tigh that they've known each other for 30 years, how could he possibly be a Cylon? Good question, I hope it will be answered.
10:38
I'm pretty sure that the Viper is the Cylon, and Starbuck figured out that the Viper knows the way to Earth.
I'll feel pretty stupid if I turn out to be wrong about this.
Starbuck arrives just in time to stop Lee from pushing the button to throw Tigh out the airlock.
10:48
The Viper had the location to Earth, but I guess it's not the final Cylon. I feel stupid.
Lee made nice with Deanna and the humans and Cylons will go to Earth together. As someone who lives on Earth, I'm not so happy about a Cylon base ship here. The Cylons destroyed twelve planets already, what if they decide to go for number thirteen?
10:59
Everyone's at Earth now. That was quick. It looks like a planet in which everyone who used to live there was wiped out in some apocalypse. We see the ancient ruins of a city of an advanced civilization. What's going on? Is this our future, our past, or some other planet?
POST-EPISODE THOUGHTS
First I rewatched the scenes with Starbuck and the Viper. The Viper is receiving a Colonial signal that no other viper is receiving, and this signal has the coordinates of Earth. WHY is one Viper receiving a signal that no other Viper or signal receiver is receiving? My theory that the Viper is the final Cylon hasn't been disproved. Although I think it's unlikely, because such a revelation wouldn't be as shocking as finding out that Roslin or Adama is the final Cylon.
Then I rewatched the scenes of Earth. There is nothing that identifies this as the planet that we live on. You cannot see any recognizable continents in the views of this Earth from space. On the ground, the ruins are vagely reminiscent of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan, but they are NOT the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan. If someone knows of some other city on the water that matches what we saw, I'm waiting to hear about it, but that's NOT Manhattan.
Finally, I realize now that this is the final episode of the first half of the season. We won't get to find out what happened for a long time.
IT'S NOT MANHATTAN
That's not what the Brooklyn Bridge looks like. That's not what Manhattan looks like when viewed from Brooklyn. The buildings are too far away. The geography is wrong. There's no Stonehenge-like temple in Brooklyn. Sorry to disappoint everyone. The special effects people could have clearly identified this planet as our planet if they wanted too. They were obviously instructed by Ron Moore to make the planet and the ruined city look generic. It COULD be our Earth, but there are no visuals in the final minutes of the episode that confirm that.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Season 4: Hub
I forgot to watch Battlestar Galactica on Friday. Imagine that. But luckily, my Tivo didn’t forget about it.
In this episode, Baltar is wounded. In his wounded state, he reveals to Roslin that he gave the access codes to the Cylons. Roslin then lets him bleed to death as punishment. But then, when the base ship jumps, Roslin has another vision in which the black woman tells her she should let Baltar live. So after he vision is over, she proceeds to administer proper first aid to Baltar.
Also, the Resurrection Hub was destroyed, and one Deanna was rescued. The Deanna told Roslin she was one of the Final Five. Then she laughed. Ha ha, just a joke. We don’t find out who the final Cylon is this episode.
In the last scene, Admiral Adama and Roslin are reunited.