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Spoiler Alert If you haven’t yet seen the final episode of Battlestar Galactica and plan to do so, stop. Immediately after establishing that the Galactica has found the real Earth, and showing us that the entire fleet has arrived, the show basically took a turn I never would have anticipated. As I’ve mentioned earlier (check [...]
Yesterday I Wrote: So, what’s left, and what needs to be done in the last episode: explain why Hera is important; rescue her from Cavil (probably) and provide some indication of how she will lead to a better future for humans and Cylons (alternatively, give us a dark, unhappy ending where she isn’t saved and [...]
UPDATE: March 20, 2009 I’m getting a lot of search traffic for this post today. If you are interested, you might also want to read my discussion of what is left to be explained in the final episode which you can find here. Friday Night’s episode, “No Exit,” went a long way towards assuring me [...]
I’m getting a bunch of hits today from people looking for answers to various Battlestar Galactica questions. They keep hitting my old posts. I presume the interest is based on last night’s episode. My problem is that I haven’t seen last night’s episode, and won’t have a chance to do so until tonight. I’ll try [...]
So, I haven’t yet watched the new episode from last night, “The Disquiet That Follows My Soul,” but this is based upon the prior two episodes in which the Colonial Fleet finds Earth, arrives, and then discovers that it was destroyed in a holocaust thousands of years ago. It is clear that Ronald D. Moore [...]
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. Burnt Norton, of Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot. While waiting [...]
Croesus was a king of ancient Greece. A few decades before the events that inspired the movie 300, he had the idea to invade and conquer the Persian empire. So he consulted the Oracle at Delphi, who famously advised him that: If Croesus goes to war he will destroy a great empire. Thinking that this [...]
Second Update: January 24, 2008: After writing the first update about a week ago, I listened to the Ron Moore podcast for “Sometimes A Great Notion.” In that podcast, Moore says (I’m paraphrasing and quoting from memory) that they spent a lot of time at a writers’ retreat making sure they had the back story [...]
Well, when I wrote this post on Friday, I mentioned that I did so because the previews for that night’s episode indicated they might, might, have something to say about Cylon skin job control over the mechanical Cylons. The actual payoff was much more complete than I expected. Inhibitors. The skin jobs inserted inhibitors into [...]
While discussing Battlestar Galactica, my wife made a good point. There has been no discussion among the Colonial Fleet, at least that we have seen, about how to handle any possible diplomatic approach to the people of Earth. I agreed, and share with her my imagining of how the conversation would go if the Colonial [...]
