GALACTICA

Pre-episode thoughts

The final episode. It all seems so pointless now. Nothing makes any sense. Adama is risking thousands of lives to rescue Hera even though he should be more concerned about protecting humanity rather than catering to the whims of Cylons.

9:10

The first 10 minutes is devoted to flashbacks. Lee is having dinner and getting drunk with brother Zack and Kara, Bill Adama and Saul and Ellen Tigh are at a nightclub getting drunk. Edward James Olmos hams it up grimmacing when he's drinking the pretend alcohol. I wonder if a hard-drinking man like Bill Adama can handle his liquor better than that? Afterwards, Bill is seen puking his guts out on the street.

Roslin is set up on a blind date with a younger man. If I were up, I'd suddenly remember that I forgot to feed my dog, but he pretends to like her even though she's old.

Finally, back on Galactica, Gaius is talking to the Cylon in his brain.

9:22 PM

Preparations are made for the pointless suicide mission (well, I'm sure it won't be pointless... I guess they will go back in time through the black hole and become their own ancestors).

Hoshi, Gaeta's gay lover, is made the new admiral of of the fleet. Where did THAT come from? And Romo Lampkin is the new President. Huh? Where did THAT come from?

Anders is hooked up to the bridge in his hybrid tank. He's going to jam the Cylon signals. I hope he knows his role. He seems like an autistic kid with leukemia, not a guy who's going to save the Galactica from Cylon signals.

Gaius stays aboard Galactica. What does he think he's going to do? Lee hands him a gun. I guess he's a foot soldier now.

9:38

Huge battle. Galactica looks outgunned. I think this mission was a really dumb idea.

Meanwhile, inside the Cylon stronghold, "Boomer" kills the black doctor Cylon to save Hera. Didn't "Boomer" put Hera into his clutches in the first place? Women are so irrational.

9:50

"Boomer" gives the bay to "Athena," who then kills her.

Gaius and "Caprica Six" jointly see the Six and Gaius in their brains. Will the mystery finally be revealed?

More fighting going on. Gunfire, explosions, etc.

10:08 PM

Opera House mumbo jumbo.

Gaius gives a speech that convinces Cavil to give Hera back to the humans and make peace, in exchange for resurrection technology which the Final Five will give them.

10:19 PM

It's EARTH!!!! It's EARTH!!!!

Everyone saw that coming. Let's back up.

The Final Five Cylons are transferring the resurrection data, but during the transfer, there's a flashback of Tori using her super-Cylon strength to throw Callie into the air like she's a rag doll. Then she jettisons her out the airlock. This outrages Tyrol who breaks off the contact and kills Tori. I personally think she had that coming.

Cavil thinks there was an intentional plan to renege on the deal, so he orders the Cylons to open fire. There's a brief firefight on the bridge, and Bill Adama orders Kara to jump the ship. Now, I ask, isn't there are regular navigator to do this? But of course, if the person's who's job it is to enter the coordinates did his job, then Kara wouldn't have been able to enter the numbers corresponding to the notes in her song, which takes Galactica to our Earth.

10:30 PM

It is just as I predicted several episodes ago! The fleet has arrived in Earth's past, and we, that is you reading this, and I writing this, we are descended from the humans and Cylons of the fleet.

For reasons that are unknown, the humans decide to abandon all of their technology and go native. The ships are to be sent into the sun to burn up. Why????? This makes absolutely no sense at all, except to explain why there are no ancient ruins or other evidence that any of this happened in our past.

10:39 PM

They played the classic Battlestar Galactica music as the fleet, their only defense if Cylons or other enemies find them, was flown into the sun and destroyed.

10:56 PM

Kara just disappeared on Lee. I guess he died back on the other Earth, and this Kara who was hanging around all season was an angel sent to guide humans to Earth. Too bad there is no Ship of Lights.

Roslin died.

11:09

Well that's over. The only thing I was wrong about was that I predicted there would be time travel. There was no time travel. Our Earth is the second Earth. The first Earth they found was the first Earth.

I did write, back at the end of season 4.0, that it was not our Earth they were on. I was right about that.

PRE-EPISODE

I think this is the penultimate episode.

10:15 PM

The first fifteen minutes of this penultimate episode takes place on New Caprica before the Cylon attack. They waited until NOW to do this scene? Or maybe, they just want to remind us of the show's beginnings.

Gaius's father has an accent that sounds like a cross between Scotty from Star Trak and Chris Multisanti fromt he Sopranos.

New Caprica looks remarkably like a city on the United States in the year 2009.

I think I liked Roslin better when she was some ditzy government worker living on New Caprica, and not the President of the Colonies. It's too bad about her family being killed by a drunk driver.

10:26 PM

The Gaius flashback reminds me of the days where I used to be envious of him for having such hot tall blonde girlfriend. Tricia Helfer was a Victoria's Secret model before she played a Cylon. She was 30 years old when the show started, but now she's almost 35. So sad.

10:36 PM

Nothing much really happened since the last commercial break. Bill Adama and Kara went to visit Anders in his hybrid tank. Kara confirmed that she found her dead body on "Earth."

10:46 PM

Apparently, Anders told them the location of Hera, although I didn't see that.

In the final scene before commercial break, we see Helo and Athena. The latter looks ugly without her makeup.

10:57 PM

The "one way trip" from the previews last week refer to the rescue mission. This seems like a stupid mission to me. It has never been made clear to me why Hera is so important. It seems like Cylon religious superstition that's not the concern of humans. Not worth risking my life for.

11:01 PM

The preview shows that the final two-hour episdoe next week will have a lot of battles and explosions, but it seems pointless to me.

10:07 PM

If I were Adama, I'd say "let Hera die, I don't want the Cylon race to survive. The galaxy isn't big enough for humans and Cylons." But the wuss is going to mount a rescue expidition.

"Athena" is having a mental breakdown because Hera was kidnapped. I still don't understand why "Boomer" was able to beat up "Athena" so easily, because they are supposed to be identical. Maybe "Boomer" has been working out.

Oh no! The Galactica is falling apart at the sames. The Battlestar could survive combat with Cylons, but can't survive just floating in space.

10:19 PM

The Cylon Base Ship is going to be the new military command for the fleet. I feel safe now. We can trust the Cylons.

The new council is looking forward to scavenging the Galactica for its parts. Lee is mortified.

"Boomer" isn't as good with children as "Athena" was.

10:30 PM

Starbuck mentions the Cylon detector to Baltar while he's shaving. I thought everyone forgot about the Cylon detector.

And perhaps more relevant to the plot, Baltar thinks the Number Six in his head is an angel.

Talking about angels, are we ever going to see the Ship of Lights before this series ends?

Then Starbuck visits Anders at the Cylon Base ship. They've hooked him up to the hybrid tank. He starts spouting off hybrid mumbo-jumbo. It seems to effect everyone in the fleet. Ooooh, psychic Cylon powers.

10:45 PM

OOPS, I was srong about Anders, he's hooked up to a hybrid tank on Galactica! He can control the Galactica with his brain. Tigh demanded that he be unplugged.

Was Roslin smoking a joint???

"You're job is to follow orders. Do you understand?" No, Helo has never understood that he's supposed to follow orders. He thinks he can do whatever he wants.

At the funeral, Baltar says that Kara Thrace died, and is now an Angel. Bill Adama And Kara/Starbuck are pissed.

11:00 PM

Hera is now in Cavil's evil clutches.

Bill Adama decides to abandon ship.

The previews show us that next week, the "truth" will finally be revealed. And there will be a "one way trip" for those who are willing.