Comments | willskyfall: Ahem: OMG. BSG.

willskyfall

Ahem: OMG. BSG.

Jan 17, 2009 00:31

Welcome back, everybody!

Went with sithjawa and ziqueenmab to the frak-party fan screening of Season 4.5's premiere in Pasadena tonight. Took me about 20 minutes to recover my senses after the episode ended ( Read more... )

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dclayh January 17 2009, 21:41:03 UTC

Well, I enjoyed the analysis over at the AV Club; I don't really have much to add except that I approve of Ellen as the 12th cylon even though I was always rather bored by her character, simply because it's so amazingly random. And I agree with one of the comments that Starbuck may turn out to be a "thirteenth" cylon to go with the thirteen tribes.

dclayh January 17 2009, 21:42:45 UTC

Er, assuming that Ellen turns out to actually be the twelfth cylon, I meant to say; I could easily buy that as just another Tigh hallucination.

willskyfall January 17 2009, 23:00:30 UTC

An opinion that sithjawa forwarded (that was getting kicked around the room last night) is that rather than being the 12th Cylon, Ellen Tigh is the prototype for the Sixes. (Which would explain why Saul keeps hallucinating Ellen's face on Caprica-Six, and would reinforce the Power of Love theory for how Cylons get pregnant.) Of course, if this is the case, there may be a lot of other prototypes running around about which we have no idea . . .

Also: is Starbuck, as of "Maelstrom", the 13th Cylon? WTFrak is up with that plot arc?

dramaturgca January 18 2009, 01:59:57 UTC

RDM's interviews seem to be pretty clear about Ellen being the Fifth and not a weird older Six. On the other hand, he also said Starbuck wasn't coming back so he may just be a big fat liar...

dramaturgca January 18 2009, 01:58:25 UTC

OMGs. Just... OMGs. The Dee thing just blew me out of the water.

mothie January 19 2009, 19:37:12 UTC

Still reeling from the Dee thing myself. That was such a gut punch to the audience. Dee was the first "love interest" character on Galactica, with the whole puppy love theme with Gata. So cruel to do her in.

As we were discussing afterward, they'd d*mn well better tie it all together in the end or we'll be d*mn pissed. (Having lived thru the ending of The Prisoner and Twin Peaks, we know how bad a good show can go.)

willskyfall January 19 2009, 22:06:43 UTC

From the various tidbits I've seen online from the cast and writing staff, I'm betting that most of the hanging questions will get answered by the season finale. I'm not convinced the writers Had a Plan from the beginning, but at this point I think they know how they're going to end the show. :)

partly_cloudy January 20 2009, 16:29:52 UTC

Hey, The Prisoner ended on a fascinating note! Notice that he was fine until he accepted their version of reality and played into it (by taking the stand and trying to give a speech during that basement scene in the finale). There are some remarkable similarities to Kafka's protagonist in The Trial (through McGoohan said he'd never read Kafka before writing the finale). I'm still wondering just what the heck happened at the end, but it was fascinating food for thought. Well, for me, anyway. :)

mothie January 20 2009, 20:08:57 UTC

I'm glad you were fascinated. I'm too practically minded to appreciate it myself. But what was with the truck scene?

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notsteven January 20 2009, 05:56:45 UTC

I haven't watched the show for a while, but I just tried out the BSG board game and it's actually pretty good. I was not a Cylon, I swear.