Thread: Battlestar Galactica -- Season 4

Originally Posted by Foxbat

I guess I'm still hung up on Kara and the Viper. Her ship is destroyed and she comes back, fine. It's A Miracle. But for her to find her Viper, on Earth, untold light years away from the system she disappeared, is a little heavy-handed. It was never properly "explained", other than to say, It's A Miracle. Kara's an Angel, so anything goes. It's not very satisfying, that's all.

I agree. They took a cheap way out, by not explaining anything about who Kara was, how she came to be resurrected; but they did the same thing with head-six/Baltar; obviously something "bigger" than the rational world, and while I can accept it, I think it was cheap. He could have done better, and we, the loyal fans, really deserved more.

Here is something I have been mulling over -- and it goes back to the mini-series. Six saved Baltar from the nuclear blasts. How? The woman we now know as Caprica six didn't have that power? How did she save both him and her? Or was it the head-six that saved him? Since it probably was, the question I still have is how?

But.. I know no answers will ever come, so I will accept it, and move on.

Originally Posted by dfergie

Ok, some food for thought... Tory played a pretty big role inadvertently... by killing Callie she caused Gaelen to break the "chain" uploading resurrection to Cavils group thus breaking the cycle. If Cavil had re-gained resurrection chances are being the sorry frakker he was he would have continued pursuing the Colonials...

That same chain of events explains every basketball game I have watched that had a bad ending at the end... iF we only got that one Free-throw we would have won!

But yes. a lot of stuff came together to have that end result.

Originally Posted by dfergie

Ok, some food for thought... Tory played a pretty big role inadvertently... by killing Callie she caused Gaelen to break the "chain" uploading resurrection to Cavils group thus breaking the cycle. If Cavil had re-gained resurrection chances are being the sorry frakker he was he would have continued pursuing the Colonials...

And, she really deserved the choking she got.

Originally Posted by ripnbigc

And, she really deserved the choking she got.

That's for sure...

Originally Posted by long_time_DNC

I have both CDs as well...I thought it was on Star Tracks, but didn't take it out of the drawer to look. I wish they'd done more discs in that series of movie title themes.



Yep, shortly after almost falling apart after the jump, there's a shot of the rear of Galactica, with the sub-light engines sputtering to life. After all it had been through, I was surprised those engines still worked at all. But yes, the Galactica is under it's own power as it went past the moon. Also, remember the solar wind (charged particle streams) would have an effect on atmosphere venting from the Galactica as well, just as it does on gasses venting from comets.

I agree, Africa looked a bit odd, but Australia looked pretty good. And at 150k years in the past, they were also probably tinkering with some continental drift ideas in the CGI imaging.

Does anyone know where they filmed those final outside shots? Wherever it was, it looked like a nice location shoot.

I've been pondering the mortality rate of the final settlers. They'd been traveling in ships (aside from a short stop on New Caprica) for nearly 4 years. Prior to that, they all lived in what would be considered an advanced, industrial society. So, I wonder which colonies thrived, which died-out, etc. I would think "camping" would get tiresome after awhile and they'd build cabins, maybe in clusters, forming small villages and towns. An ice age here and there would make life a lot tougher, mortality rates would rise, migrations would happen. How long did it take the colonials to go "tribal"? Language obviously changed, drastically, from standard english to various languages. How'd they get along with the natives? Lots of interesting things to imagine in that mythos...that evidently led us to where we are today.

And then there's the issue of the Centurions. Did they go form a new cylon colony somewhere? Did they try to reinvent hybrids, or did they try to become better machines? Did they learn anything from the lessons they observed from the skinjobs and abandon that whole approach? I'd like to think so.

It was a good story...

MikeD-C, you're a good guesser! Go write a good scifi story.

Thanks, but what makes you think I was guessing? Maybe the writers read this thread a year ago and stole my ideas for the ending?

Originally Posted by rockymtnhigh

I agree. They took a cheap way out, by not explaining anything about who Kara was, how she came to be resurrected; but they did the same thing with head-six/Baltar; obviously something "bigger" than the rational world, and while I can accept it, I think it was cheap. He could have done better, and we, the loyal fans, really deserved more.

Here is something I have been mulling over -- and it goes back to the mini-series. Six saved Baltar from the nuclear blasts. How? The woman we now know as Caprica six didn't have that power? How did she save both him and her? Or was it the head-six that saved him? Since it probably was, the question I still have is how?

But.. I know no answers will ever come, so I will accept it, and move on.

Maybe the Baltar and the Caprica 6 you saw in the blast were really the angels and that is why they "survived" the blast.

OT but, Little Big Man is on tonight with a young Mary McDonnell ...

Originally Posted by MikeD-C05

Maybe the Baltar and the Caprica 6 you saw in the blast were really the angels and that is why they "survived" the blast.

Well then what about horny Baltar? how did he survive it? He was in the bedroom overlooking the lake when it occured.

Originally Posted by rockymtnhigh

Well then what about horny Baltar? how did he survive it? He was in the bedroom overlooking the lake when it occured.

Maybe the angels protected the real Baltar and Caprica from the blast , so they could continue to carry out "God's plan" . They could transport them both to a space ship orbiting the planet. Look at how the angel Kara was able to live like a human and still disappear at will at the end of the finale. We really don't know how angels can do all that they do . Besides I remember Baltar being shielded by Caprica six and the bomb blast coming in behind them . It was showed in the opening credits every week over and over again.