I just got a tip from PopCritics that we might want to set our DVRs to tape BSG long tonight -- apparently it will run one minute longer than usual.
Meanwhile, please feel free to come here later after you see "Revelations" and let us know what you think! Logan and I sure enjoyed it.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Extra minute tonight?
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Yeah, just confirmed it on my DVR that it's running 1:01 tonight.
Mike
PopCritics
1 minute of sneak preview for next year perhaps?
I watched it already and can say it .... well it makes me feel weird inside. The ending just made me feel.... WEIRD heh there's no other word for it.
You know, whenever someone with the handle "ron" posts here, I get the shivers.
Just sayin'.
It's a common enough name.
;)
I watched it at scifi.com - couldn't wait for BT or whatever...all I can say is....WOW.
let the hiatus from hell x 1000 commence.
The online versions were a tad longer. I won't give anything away but you have to wonder where they go from here. The cast likes what they've done so I trust that what's to come is good but it's an interesting turn of events to say the least.
This was an absolutely amazing episode. I watched it streaming today and was surprised that it went on a little longer than usual. I second the motion of the anonymous poster...where can they possibly go from here?
I saw it this morning and I totally cried at the end. And I agree with Greg "let the hiatus from hell x 1000 commence"!!!
Teri
The ending is satisfyingly depressive.
I wish they were more clear on when the season will pick back up.
What a frackin ending...but I think the point of where can they go from here is missing the point, which is that they can go anywhere now, limitations cease. I think it was brilliant.
Katee Sackhoff said if the strike hiatus had killed the show, they could have ended here. I can see that - cutting off the last 2 minutes would have made a beautiful last show. Now those last 2 minutes?! Holy Frak! 1st quarter 2009 never seemed so far away. Did you see the looks on their faces? All I could think was planet of the apes times 10.
I doubt very highly that they've found Earth.
I laughed, I cried, I sat with my jaw hanging open. That was incredible. It looks like the show is going to go in a direction that I didn't necessarily expect in the episodes to come. It's nice to still be surprised.
Seriously, that was great.
That was such an Antonioni ending. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. They could've finished the series there, sure. But boy are we glad they don't have to.
Absolutely and without a doubt? If you say so. You could tell that was New York? How?
This episode is chilling because life just lost its focus for everyone on Galactica. No longer is there one goal, one enemy, one way to define success or failure. Now they have to start living. Living on the ashes of a world that already died.
In a word, Sobering. I shall continue to put my faith in RDM, Cast and Crew to amaze and astound me for a few more months of episodes, Hiatus from Hell notwithstanding.
Fr*k yah, what a show!
Wow... what an ending.
Yes, if I am seeing it right, they are on a highly radioactive Statue of Liberty island.
There is plenty of room to go from here. One, where do you live? Not a nuked wasteland. Two, the 4 cylons were in the fleet. Was the fifth already on the cylon base star? Three, the third race that has been pulling everybodies strings, where are they? Four, if Earth is dead, where did Kara go to get her shiny new "ghost" viper?
Oh yah, plenty more to come!
I love this show - I really do. It's been the best television show I've had the privilege of watching in my 25 years.
But they have to end it. I can't deal with these breaks anymore. After an episode like tonight, how can you? The twists and turns that they've put us through the past 6 (7?) years have made this some of the most watchable programming on the telly.
And like all great loves, it has to end. I can't spend the rest of my life waiting for the next BSG episode.
Devastating but wonderful tonight. . . . where do they go from here?
It's not Earth. The only confirmation they gave was a star fix...? Notice that all the shots of the planet were either in the shadows, or covered in clouds so you couldn't identify the landforms. No land marks were given on the planet, such as identifyable elements of NYC, (skyline, statue arm, etc.)
Had RDM wanted us to KNOW this was earth, we would have seen the planet as shown at the end of Season 3. Also, RDM said they would get to a place "they" call earth long before the end of the series. Not "our" earth, which was clearly seen at the end of Season 3.
Third point, it was fortold that Roslin is a dying leader who would lead the way to earth, but never step foot on it herself... where was she at the end of the episode? Not on earth.
11 episodes to go, Galactica found the reminance of a planet once settled by the 13th tribe. All this has happened before, and it will happen again. My guess is they moved on... just as the Galactica moved on from Caprica. The 13th moved to a place "WE" call earth. Just another stop along the path...
Oh, and what about the Cavils, Dorells, and Rick Worthys? No aliance there...
The real question is who nuked the planet -- the inhabitants, or the 1,4,5 Cylon faction that had somehow managed to get to the planet before the Colonial-Rebel alliance?
Hmmmm... that was cool. I mean how depressing to have hopes of living on a paradise like Earth, only to see it vaporized by war....
Kind of suspect that both Humans and Cylons return to a previously destroyed planet. Any parallels here, as we currently find ways to rush ourselves into space colonization.
What kind message is that? Dead planet? Maybe they escaped from it in the first place after "Not getting it about Collaboration. A.K.A. Peace,” and they were all originally Cylons to begin with. Then they split in two camps years later (Toasters / Humans), not knowing they were originally related, only to fight each other for survival. And then return (Called Back) to their destroyed Earth, to learn the ultimate lesson. Get along or die. Or spend your life drifting around in space. Space toilets and space food have got to be a real drag. But then again, so is destroying a planet with human assisted global warming climate change and acid rain...
Kinda sounds like us right now, always finding enemies, or at least having governments and religions that make us have and create enemies, while searching for our planetary paradise.
Anyway, we like them BSG folks and the Cylons are not from here, as much as scientists would like to think we luckily evolved from primordial soup. We were made by machines.
One more comment about machines and Cylons, and us. Is it not rather interesting that right as we humans evolve and develop, and get ourselves into global predicament problems, embedded technology pops out of our highly fabricated DNA spools and gives us a global communication and education tool such as the "Internet..."
Hmmmm. Gotta love those Cylons...
Put on Kraftwerk's Man Machine record
Put the original Planet of the Apes in your DVD player but turn the sound off
Listen and watch ... you're inside the mind of a Cylon
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If it's not Earth, then it's a cheap fake-out (unless they do a really cool reveal with a hidden marker pointing the way)
i thought the ending scene at the very last second was meant to be remnants of the golden gate bridge rather than anything having to do with NYC. the very last frame shows (from my perspective) the GGB jutting out from the right side of the screen.
also, no mention of the 5th in the comments...
if the 5th is not someone in the fleet, who could it be? considering it's supposed to be someone who was in the show from the beginning, someone who is not currently in the fleet and someone who we as viewers are supposed to see as very human and far from suspicious, i think the final cylon might be the late Billy, Roslin's first assistant. i know, it's a long shot.
also, i think the whole "this has happened before" thing might be a precursor to the show - that is, i think maybe the beings we believe to be humans of the colonies are actually cylons of earth. the cylons in the show, then, are second-generation cylons. i think the actual humans are long-since dead and no one is aware of their true nature in the show.
"this happened all before" means that there was already a war between 'humans' and 'cylons' which lead to an exodus. now there is another except it is between the original earth cylons and the cylons the earth cylons created.
not saying i know, just a wacky theory because i have no idea what's really going on!
When I saw the bridge, I thought of the Brooklyn Bridge and NYC.
http://www.inetours.com/New_York/Images/Brklyn/Brooklyn_Bridge_SnSt_3847.jpg
I'm having a hard time believing that this is earth. It was too easy...too soon. Then again, I had the hardest time believing Darth Vader was Luke's father after seeing The Empire Strikes Back for the first time.
But I'm tending to agree with Zatnukatel (good post BTW). It's not earth, but it is another breadcrumb to follow.
Ack. The image link in my post got cut off.
Someone with a good shot of the bridge from BSG should comnpare it to the one from this link.
http://www.inetours.com/New_York/Images/
Brklyn/Brooklyn_Bridge_SnSt_3847.jpg
had a thought...maybe the planet they have landed on is not original earth but a second earth - the planet that became home after an exodus from our earth.
i do think, however, that they have found the "earth" they were looking for. maybe now they will find out of an original earth. or maybe that was new york or sf or some other earth city.
oh, the humanity!
i was not, however, expecting so much to happen in this episode. this leaves room for much, much more plot development than i expected from the entirety of the show. i expected the show to end with a shot of earth as they find to - and then a fade to black, kind of like the ending to star trek voyager.
that could still be possible if they have not found our earth...but i hope not. i'd like to see what becomes of them.
i think a lot could still be developed into the whole notion that we don't know when in time this is all occuring. they could end it with this being a prelude to our earth and imply that our ancestors are the fleet and cylons (or just cylons).
mmmmmmm...we are cylons. take me to your leader!
You ever watch a movie, there is the climax, it's over, and you think, what's next?
Finally, we get a what's next. I don't wanna wait 9 months, but hey, worth it for the best TV ever.
More thought leads me to believe it is the "Temple of Aurora" or what ever that was referenced earlier in the show as being on "Earth". So not our Earth.
That being said, where is the Colonial signal coming from and why point them here?
As far as the Fifth, take however was on the cylon ship and remove those in the last supper picture. Maybe one of the pilots who has been around since the beginning? (Hint, hint.)
My apologies to kittens every where.
James
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