Battlestar Galactica Episode Thread *SPOILERS*

[screamingmetal]

I know, and I've hated each and every one

Apparently Moore said that even the characters in the picture could be the missing cylon, so don't count on it being a missing character. BUT, I do think it's Gaeta....

I actually just read this from Entertainment Weekly that first printed the Last Supper picture:

"We have not yet revealed the final [unknown] Cylon." Does that mean the people already at the table aren't the final Cylon? Moore laughs. "You ferreted that out pretty slyly. I didn't really want to give that away."

Moore later said in another interview:

MR: Just so I understand what I think you told EW for the story that went with the photo, none of the people in that photo is the final Cylon, right?

RDM: Yeah. I said that. I probably shouldn’t have said that [laughs] but I have said that. So, yeah [that is the case, the final Cylon is not any of the people in the photo].

So the final Cylon is apparently someone not seated at the table. I have a firm suspicion about Gaeta, he's in the position to cause the most harm.

 

[Darth Caedus]

I actually just read this from Entertainment Weekly that first printed the Last Supper picture:

Moore later said in another interview:

So the final Cylon is apparently someone not seated at the table. I have a firm suspicion about Gaeta, he's in the position to cause the most harm.

NICE, I must have misread what he said. But I do think it's Gaeta. REALLY glad he ruled out the adamas, starbuck, and roslin; that would have been a cop out

 

[Fritz]

Very good episode (even though the old man wasn't in it). I'm looking forward to seeing how Kera convinces Helo to go to the base station.

 

[gdb]

They're turning Baltar into Chris from Northern Exposure. A curious thing to do.

What does Moore mean Starbuck isn't the final Cylon? Then... but... how...

 

[Darklord Dave]

Both Moore and Sackhoff have heavily implied that Kara isn't the final Cylon. But they've hinted that she's not strictly human either.

 

[Fritz]

...But they've hinted that she's not strictly human either.

She is the herald of the apocalypse. The harbinger of death.

 

[Darth Rage]

They're turning Baltar into Chris from Northern Exposure. A curious thing to do.

Never saw the show, so I don't get the reference, but I see Baltar becoming more like an unassuming Jim Jones or David Karesh, cult leader of doom.

 

[gdb]

Never saw the show, so I don't get the reference, but I see Baltar becoming more like an unassuming Jim Jones or David Karesh, cult leader of doom.

Chris was an ex-con who would give metaphysical wisdom in between records during his morning radio show -- and like Baltar had the way with the ladies. The town was split as to whether he was talking mumbo jumbo boardering on the blasphemous or philosophical gold.

Baltar did certainly have his Jim Jones moments in Friday's episode.

 

[Batty]

I got a Vincent D'Onofrio/Full Metal Jacket vibe from the now bald Tyrol.

 

[Darth Caedus]

Chris was an ex-con who would give metaphysical wisdom in between records during his morning radio show -- and like Baltar had the way with the ladies. The town was split as to whether he was talking mumbo jumbo boardering on the blasphemous or philosophical gold.

Baltar did certainly have his Jim Jones moments in Friday's episode.

Yep, Baltar was certain spewing his type of garbage that those zealots were eating up. RIGHT after Tyrell tried to choke Baltar, he had this look on his face that I thought said that he knew Tyrell was a cylon (with him being so strong). THen the conversation he had with him made me think that again, some of you guys said that scene was boring, but I thought it was awesome.

 

[Darklord Dave]

RIGHT after Tyrell tried to choke Baltar, he had this look on his face that I thought said that he knew Tyrell was a cylon (with him being so strong). THen the conversation he had with him made me think that again, some of you guys said that scene was boring, but I thought it was awesome.

I think they're really trying to build up the paranoia of the not-final 4 cylons - both with Tyrel and Baltar and Tigh's interaction with 6. They are continually worrying about being found out and the show producers are playing into that.

 

[screamingmetal]

Never saw the show, so I don't get the reference, but I see Baltar becoming more like an unassuming Jim Jones or David Karesh, cult leader of doom.

I'm actually seeing direct parallels with Jesus. Especially after Baltar disrupted the Old Gods Temple ceremony. Did anyone else pick up on the cult's symbol looking suspiciously like a bird, as in the Holy Spirit Dove depiction?

Maybe the Cylons represent Judaism and Baltar's sect will represent Christianity?

 

[Darth Caedus]

I'm actually seeing direct parallels with Jesus. Especially after Baltar disrupted the Old Gods Temple ceremony. Did anyone else pick up on the cult's symbol looking suspiciously like a bird, as in the Holy Spirit Dove depiction?

Maybe the Cylons represent Judaism and Baltar's sect will represent Christianity?

I for one think that caprica six in baltar's head more represent jesus than baltar, with baltar being like a vessel for her. I didn't see the cult's symbol, have to rewatch it.

 

[yodasan]

I got a Vincent D'Onofrio/Full Metal Jacket vibe from the now bald Tyrol.

Totally agree with that.

 

[DarkArtist81]

I'm not sure.... I don't have any clue anymore. They surprise me every time it seems.

I am dead set on believing that Baltar is something else though, has to be. There just is no other plausible explanation for it. Every theory has been shattered. That's one of the biggest questions that I want to know. He's always been my favorite character, and it's been interesting watching him develop. I just want to know what the Hell his part is in all of this.

 

[Fubeca]

One of the Q&A's I just read said that Baltar's religion thing doesn't really have much to do with what is going on with BSG...

https://io9.com/340986/secrets-of-battlestar-season-four-betrayed-in-new-photo

Read #5

 

[gdb]

I think that Ron Moore has designed the show to be applicable as opposed to allegorical or representational. Whereas in Star Trek Klingons = Soviets, the new BSG enjoys envoking imagery that have echoes with the real world without being tied to direct correlations. For instance the Cylon occupation of New Caprica explored some of the same territory of our occupation of Iraq but did so without making any political conclusions. So too I think the show's religious overtones should be thought of as exploitive to make the show more applicable to its audience rather than making some grand statement. Except, of course, that the Cylons have been waging their war based on fanatical fudamentalism while the humans have been practicing a religiously tolerant pluralism.

 

[Darth Caedus]

One of the Q&A's I just read said that Baltar's religion thing doesn't really have much to do with what is going on with BSG...

https://io9.com/340986/secrets-of-battlestar-season-four-betrayed-in-new-photo

Read #5

From that, I think that Starbuck is goign to do something CRAZY and the only person to forgive her is going to be anders (because he knows that he'll have to forgive her because he's a cylon)

 

[Sick Boy 82]

This last episode was so awesome. I want to believe that Starbuck isn't going crazy and will lead the human race to Earth, but the way the Hybrid was talking, it doesn't seem that way. I hope that part is a dream or something.

And I love the civil war between the Cylon factions! Makes it seem like one side is more human than the other.......!!

And that part with 6 beating the crap out of Tigh was rather enjoyable. Is that weird??

Well, can't wait for next week!!! Keep this going.

Can we get Katee and Grace to do Playboy with Tricia??!! Please god!!

 

[Crix]

I read an interview with Edward James Olmos that it's not going to have a happy ending. I can't believe that they would kill off the WHOLE fleet, but maybe just a few people make it to Earth? Like the crew aboard Starbuck's ship? That wouldn't be too bad in my opinion. It's like the ending of Aliens. Only like 3 people (and half a droid) survived, so it's a bittersweet ending.