Last frakkin' episode Review
Last frakkin’ episode was the best thing I’ve ever seen in TV for the last years. EJO was right talking about the end (I wished you had been wrong about our expectations).
Here comes my little review of Daybreak part2
- Adama and Tight’s flashback in the night club was really disturbing. It did go with Tigh and Ellen’s characters but not with Adama (not even being drunk). It did contrast with Tigh’s crazy-like behavior while shouting something to the dancing girl.
- Really disgusting the scene where Adama is puking (very realistic). There’s something wrong with it. After the vomiting, when the camera shows Adama from behind and goes in front of him later, there are a few seconds where we can see him with no trace of vomit in his chin. Details, people!!!
- Laura Roslin thanking Doc Cottle for all he has done to keep her alive all these years on borrowed time. Laura crying, and Doc struggling not to. Wonderful scene played by Mary Mcdonell. First time I cried in this episode
- Hoshi promoted to Admiral? Lucky for them he gave his badges back because I couldn’t see him leading the fleet.
- Galactica’s charge against the cylon baseship was stunning. I almost couldn’t stand the strain I was feeling, and after it finished I realized I was holding my breath.
- In the cylon enemy baseship when I saw Apollo in his space suit and the friendly centurions behind him I felt relieved, knowing they had been enemies for many years and that they now worked together to achieve something as one (despite the fact that they are more like automated machines that do what the “skinjobs” order them)
- The marine cutting the cylon fuselage with a mini-blowtorch was hilarious, considering they had few minutes, not hours(like drilling a wall woth a fork)
- Shocking seeing the “old” cylon models fighting, not only along, but against the “new” models
- Both Baltar’s and Caprica hallucination faces were priceless (reminds me of Tigh’s “one-eye” face when finding out Roslin in Adama’s bathrobe).
- Although I’ve never liked Boomer I have to say she found redemption after rescuing Hera (not before Athena’s eyes though, but I guess she was not expecting it either). Saving her was her way of paying the doubt she had with Adama from years before that we find out in one of the flashbacks.
- Action scenes were fantastic and adrenalin was high in all of them. It crossed my mind, more than once, the idea that none of the men and women going to the cylon baseship was going to come back. Think about it: human against machines (Terminators against humans, you know their fate)
- Anguish is what I felt when Laura, on stimulants and morphine, was trying to catch up with Hera around Galactica’s corridors and enemy cylons were chasing them (mainly Hera).
- Again music plays an important part. We know how related music and mathematics are. Well, here Kara uses the numbers she associated the notes to in Someone to watch over me to enter a new FTL coordinates to escape from Cavil and his cylons.
- After jumping, Galactica falling apart..
- Another touching scene was the last goodbye from Adama to his ship, leaving in his viper with the name Hushker on the fuselage, and flying one last time around it before going to the planet they are going to settle in. Second time he dies (first when he accepts Laura is not going to follow her diloxin treatments anymore)
- Romo Lampkin is the new President. He wouldn’t be my first choice but I guess they had to put someone known by the audience.
- Tyrol’s reaction to Tory being the one who killed his wife. Understandable but not acceptable. If he hadn’t done it things would have been different, but probably history wouldn’t repeat itself again and again.
- I never thought Sam Anders’ fate was going to be this one. When Kara is saying goodbye he says “See you on the other side”, after she’s departed. Was he conscious all the time he was connected? Was it a reflex?? I guess we will never know
- Another surprise was Kara disappearing into thin air. I saw she and Lee living happily ever after (and I’m not a Lee/Kara shipper). An angel? Everyone saw her, touched her. Was her a figment of everyone’s imagination?
- Finally, Laura/Bill scenes deserve some lines. First of all, their scenes together are heartbreaking. And they didn’t deserve the end they gave them (solitude nevertheless for him, worse than death). That’s the one thing I didn’t like at all of last episode.
Bill takes Laura to the raptor for her last moments saying goodbye to Lee and Kara before leaving (too short for a non-premeditated action). Lee knows he is not coming back, even after Laura’s death. Why? Did I miss anything? Now that relationship father-son has got better than any other past time, does it feel right to you that he wouldn’t come back? That he would live the rest of his live alone in this planet? Or does Lee suspect Bill won’t “survive” past Laura’s death? I missed some conversation between them before the battle began.
- “Our” Earth people being the evolution of the colonials, the advance tech in robotics that’s being accomplished as a precursor of cylon model...Wonderful end. It was well written for the tragic story RDM wanted to give us and I have to say that not even Blade Runner looked darker than BSG does.
My personal gratitude to all who made possible this fantastic TV show…scifi or maybe not scifi at all.