BSG Season 4

[chris_b]

Gah...damn these mid-season breaks! 2009 seems a long way off!

[thalamus]

Just finished watching the mid-season finale of Galactica - Christ...how emotional was that?

Half way through, I realised it was a mid-season finale and started wondering what the "running kick in the bollocks" (copyright Bog) would be.

As the credits rolled I wiped my eyes, smiled, shook my head and sighed "You fucking cunts..."

Absolutely fantastic episode, though.

[techno12]

Great stuff!

I was half expecting a ruined Statue of Liberty to scroll into view during the final shot...

Indeed, where do they go from here...?

[thalamus]

Indeed, where do they go from here...?

You could start with spoiler tags

[disciple]

where do they go from here...?

Speculation :

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Well there's the final of the five, the one that took Starbuck and her ship, they need answers so surely they head there?

There has to be another world out there, presumably clues on Earth will lead there.

I have this horrid feeling it's going to be a Matrix Architect-style ending.

[techno12]

Indeed, where do they go from here...?

You could start with spoiler tags

What?!!

You'd be a pretty stupid fool to read a thread on something before watching it if you were that bothered!

I actually considered 'spoiler' but thought anyone reading this thread wouldn't be stupid enough to do so before watching the latest episode.

Sheesh!

[Jamie]

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Now that they've semi made peace with the Cylons and discovered Earth together doesn't that mean that they now aren't running from the Cylons and, therefore, don't need to find a new home and can just go back to the 12 colony planets anyway?

[axel000]

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I believe there's greater symbology here. Earth is the hell to which the gods send colonies that are self destructive... so the cyclons and remaining colonies, perpetually at war, have been led to earth to see the results of that.

I think the final episode(s) are going to be very symbolic and go back to their belief system and why this all happened.

[Darkflame]

Good last eppisode, but I found most of that season pretty "meh".
Too much random shouting at eachother for too long.

Also, really, didnt anyone else think the "final 5" was the most underwealming, random, pulled-out-of-a-hat thing ever?
So, what, she knew she was a cyclon? or not?


blah, my random theory;

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They are all cyclons, just different models.
Real humans died out long ago

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Now that they've semi made peace with the Cylons and discovered Earth together doesn't that mean that they now aren't running from the Cylons and, therefore, don't need to find a new home and can just go back to the 12 colony planets anyway?

I was thinking the same.
Guess fear of the other cylon group stops that.

[thalamus]

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I believe there's greater symbology here. Earth is the hell to which the gods send colonies that are self destructive... so the cyclons and remaining colonies, perpetually at war, have been led to earth to see the results of that.

I think the final episode(s) are going to be very symbolic and go back to their belief system and why this all happened.

I like that explanation a lot - but how do you stretch that over 10 remaining episodes without leaving the audiences feeling like the ride wasn't worth the wait?

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As for the final cylon? Has to be Baltar or Starbuck, and my money right now is on the latter (how else would they bring her back from the dead and send her back in a new ship?).

[aureole]

Unless they're going to bring in the Ship Of Lights.

The final Cylon wasn't in the fleet: which makes it one of the hostages ... or someone else entirely - who might be the architect of Starbucks living.

[Kronos]

Good thing I watched episodes 5 to 10 before reading this thread today the isn't it! Watching it like that makes it easier to watch, you feel less guilty about skipping some of the filler without losing too much of the story.

When does it kick off again for the rest of the season?

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Hmmm you know what, when those Viper pilots where whoop whooping and jibbering at the cylon pilots who would have to tow them in I though fuck you, I hope it's a trick and you all get wiped out. Nicely done, there is no 'good guys' as such in that scene as the cylons were giving up their immortality really.

I liked the way the visions went for Laura, ie you need to prove you are worth saving as a species so she patched up poor Baltar. And yes I am guessing Baltar is the fifth cylon as that might explain seeing no.6 all the time and Starbuck was on the flight deck IIRC when she said the final 4 so that implies the fifth must be on the basestar already perhaps?

I don't agree with Axel there, because the faction of the cylons that are with the humans are not the ones bent on the destruction of the human race and they made a great sacrifice by giving up immortality.

I think Athena needs a bullet to the face stupid bitch, the rest I have spoilered, don't wanna spoil it for anyone it is quite a nice little cliff hanger.

And yes it was very Planet of the Apes!! The final 5 have been to earth already, maybe it is a simple case of humans Vs cylons past war, and they need to rebuild it. 10 episodes of rebuilding life on earth would be a bit cock mind....unless the other half of the cylon faction found them and it's an all out last stand kind of battle? There better be a crap load of battles and effects and not 10 episodes of sentimental bullshit 'rebuilding a life together on destroyed planet earth' plz k thnx

Oh and it would have been much funnier if the final 5 were completely different people and it was just a case of delusional paranoia oh well it was a bit predictable in that respect.

[DutchLlama]

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Damn you, God damn you! Damn you all to hell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmw6Jne0tAQ

That was one of the best end scenes of a movie I've ever seen (greatly ruined in the 2002 remake which was just plain silly).

I saw that in the '80s on telly and it shocked me profoundly back then. I'm glad I saw the movie back then (when a nuclear war was a real possibility, not something that only happens in sci-fi) and didn't have the ending spoiled by the DVD cover (whoever designed that should be turned into a slave by apes!).

My guess is that it's not Earth but Terra. They got all the data wrong (they were made by the ancients whose star charts weren't as sophisticated as the later humans).

[moosedude]

boxset for the first half of season 4 has just come out in the UK this week. really enjoying it so far. good distraction from my current cold state.

[Governmentyard]

Full ending reveal! (not really, obv)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ZyF8_HH ... re=related