DIscussion Post for "Final Cut" (Ep.8 of 2nd Season)

[gentlehobbit]

Here is a separate post for "Final Cut" (the 8th episode in Season Two) since thematically it is a stand-alone episode

This post is for the Second Season group (formerly the First Season group!) -- claudia603 and sophinisba. As for all posts like this, everyone is welcome to join in and comment, discuss, ask questions. However, please bear in mind that these posts

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[sophinisba]

This was not my favorite episode! It felt gimmicky to me, like every drama has to have its outsider perspective episode with its handheld camera and cute misunderstanding. The reveal at the end was TOTALLY AWESOME and of course made me see everything that had come before differently, but I didn't enjoy most of the episode as I was watching it to the extent that I've enjoyed most other episodes. I also really loved those few seconds of Sharon with the Doctor and how that was handled. The other Sharon on Caprica being all gleeful and saying "I'm still alive!" when she saw the footage creeped me the hell out (in a good way).

So now I am wondering (by which I mean wondering and speculating, NOT asking to be told what's going to happen) what the end really means, apart from the whole OMG SHE'S A CYLON, I mean, why is it beneficial to the Cylons to have this documentary shown to the whole fleet, or why do they think it is? Do they want the population to be pro-military in general, or do they want people to be impressed with a certain leader (who we will find out at some point is also a Cylon)? Or is there certain specific information they want to get out to other Cylons lying low in the fleet? What is their deal?

[gentlehobbit]

I'm very purposefully *not* touching on any meaning in the future or lack thereof; but there is one aspect of the documentary that I rather liked. It showed what life is like on the Galactica as a viper pilot, the stresses and hell they go through and what it means to climb into that cockpit and hang on to the training of "already expect to be dead". It is a sobering look at what you may have guessed at hitherto, but not really, necessarily, considered.

And as a nostalgic child of the 70s, I squeeed and jumped up and down when they used the original Battlestar Galactica music in the documentary. :D

[claudia603]

oh, I was going to ask about the music thing -- I hadn't realized that was the original BSG music!!

[gentlehobbit]

Yes... and I even had the piano music to it when I was 13 or so, and practiced it until I could play it by memory. I still can take a fairly good stab at it now. :)