BattleStar Galactica - SPOILER WARNING

[Yeah_Baby]

Bumped to remind everyone its back for the last time on this Friday the 16th.

[worth]

I want it to start, but I don't want it to be over!

[Yeah_Baby]

On another note, Razor was included with the Season 4.0 DVDs. Which would be great, if I didn't already own it . Now I know how people who bought he stand alone miniseries feel!

[Canada 02]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

On another note, Razor was included with the Season 4.0 DVDs. Which would be great, if I didn't already own it . Now I know how people who bought he stand alone miniseries feel!

crap! i just bought it

[worth]

I have razor and the miniseries. I haven't bought season 4.0 yet though. If I had know i would have avoided buying razor. I haven't even watched it yet off the DVD.

[Cowperson]

A review of tonights season 4.5 opener in the New York Times if anyone is interested.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/ar...tlestar&st=cse

Interesting that one scene was held back from even the critics. I suspect we'll find out who the fifth Cylon is tonight.

Be aware that tonight's episode is about 3 or four minutes longer than your DVR is expecting.

"Catch the Frak Up" are two videos that can be pretty hilarious. If you haven't seen the series or the final season, then major spoilers obviously.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_UtpFDHDfcQ

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=d2GcJR2uwhw

A few things from TIME magazine - Battlestar in the top 10 dramas of 2008 and the season 4.0 finale one of the top ten episodes of the year. Major spoilers if you haven't seen season 4.0

http://www.time.com/time/specials/20...863403,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/specials/20...863375,00.html

Also in Time, this story looks at the final season coming - major spoilers if you haven't seen season 4.0

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...870487,00.html

"Did The Cylons Invent Facebook?" - in the LA Times in the last few days is something pretty funny. Fairly spoiler free. Just amusing.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/./ph...lestarbook.jpg and the story behind it here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...ing-sci-f.html

Also in the LA Times in the last few days is this interview with Michael Hogan, the Canadian actor playing Colonel Tigh. Major, major spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen season 4.0 yet

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/show...star-ga-3.html

Cowperson

[CaptainCrunch]

Ok, its time to put up your guesses as to the identity of the 5th cylon, and why.

My guess, Tom Zarek, played by Richard Hatch

Why? It goes back to the byline that everything that happened before will happen again. Bear with me on this.

The original series, happened in a far previous time line, we know that the battlestar galactica eventually found earth, probably settled on it, then went to war, the survivors returned to the original colonies. Tom Zarek is a cylon copy of the original Apollo, and one of the five.

[MrMastodonFarm]

So my guide is showing two episodes tonight, is that correct?

Nevermind, just one episode... but it seems Space is showing the entire 10 webisode series "The Face of the Enemy" before the new episode tonight.

[Canada 02]

I think they bring back Cally as the fifth Cylon, otherwise there are two human/cylon hybrid babies

[bomber317]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Be aware that tonight's episode is about 3 or four minutes longer than your DVR is expecting.
Cowperson

Thanks for the info, I'll have to edit my PVR settings tonight before I head out.

I thought the 5th cylon wasn't aboard any of the human ships?

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

I think they bring back Cally as the fifth Cylon, otherwise there are two human/cylon hybrid babies

I can't see Adama being the fifth Cylon since he was the guy, in the webisodes, who had found the Cylon experimentations.

Roslin is going to be the fifth Cylon I think. Magic blood fixes her right up. She visions the same things the Cylons see. Yada, yada, yada.

I've seen some people theorizing that the end of this show will see Starbuck and the two Cylon/human children as the only survivors, probably back on Kobol, holding hands as the camera fades away. Starbuck as the mother figure.

The actors, in their cryptic comments, all seem to agree there is a generally tragic but beautiful ending to this series that seems to have made all of them cry. The above would probably fit that bill. It's pretty convenient that the potential two Cylon/human children are a boy and a girl.

Oh, and some think Tigh is Starbuck's father. Or Leoben.

Cowperson

[Cowperson]

A rather fascinating farewell page at Variety Magazine . . . . this should occupy your attention until air time.

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?lay...star_galactica

And, if you missed it last summer, Six and Starbuck talk motorcycles.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,4079469.story

Cowperson

[Wookie]

Wow, I didn't notice Cowperson come back until This thread. I saw it was bumped and wondered... "Did he return?" But figured it was unlikely and thought I'd look later!

You just got the only thanks I've ever given - and it's for posting

Excited and sad at the same time to see this show end.

[CaptainCrunch]

Well after this we have Caprica, then they'll be the Nu Battlestar Galactica the next generation.

Come on we all want to see Ron Moore's take on the flying motorcycles and the super scouts.

Don't we?

My gut tells me that the last scene in this series will be the death whether intentional or not of the Battlestar itself.

[Barnes]

4 Minutes people!

[Canada 02]

So, Dualla has been emphasized during the 'Previouslies' and in the early minutes

edit. that was frak'n unexpected

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

So, Dualla has been emphasized during the 'Previouslies' and in the early minutes

edit. that was frak'n unexpected

A few minutes before the deed, I turned to my Mrs. Cowperson and said: "Why do I get the impression she's going to off herself?"

Wow. What an episode. And mysteries created even as we thought they were being solved. Brilliantly done.

(Also, not to be a mood killer, but the New York Times is right in saying Edward James Olmos is guilty of "over-acting.")

Cowperson

[Canada 02]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Also, not to be a mood killer, but the New York Times is right in saying Edward James Olmos is guilty of "over-acting.

Cowperson

yeah the scene in the morgue and the scene with Tigh were over the top

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

yeah the scene in the morgue and the scene with Tigh were over the top

I don't know--I guess to me, he struck just the right energy for those scenes, which he'd been holding in up until then. I happen to think Olmos is a virtuoso, though--so he can't do much wrong in my books. But to me he shouldered much of the burden of communicating just what the discovery means to the 39,000-odd other survivors.

Here's my question (in white--Spoilers below):

If Ellen is the fifth cylon, then "what the frak" is Kara Thrace? When she found herself, my wife and I immediately said "OK, so she's the fifth." But if she isn't--what is she?"

[MrMastodonFarm]

Seriously, her?