Thread: Battlestar Galactica -- Season 4

Preview for next weeks show from our Northern Neighbors...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbC4KkAUiL8]YouTube - Canadian promo for No Exit[/ame]

Wow, that's a lot different! Interesting...I wonder why the folks up north get a different preview?

Originally Posted by long_time_DNC

Wow, that's a lot different! Interesting...I wonder why the folks up north get a different preview?

Don't know, but I guess that answers what happened to Anders...

Originally Posted by long_time_DNC

1 dead Zarek
2 dead Zarek
3 dead Zarek
4
5 dead Zarek
6 dead Zarek
7 dead Zarek
more...

You just knew that was going to be the last scene when they faded to black !
He deserved what he got.

Perhaps I thought wrong earlier. Was there or wasnt there a centurion around the goo-bath? Wherever she is the room looks pretty small.

Originally Posted by Sammy033

Maybe those big cracks in the engine room are simply covering something up, hidden away in the ship from when it was first constructed. I got the sense that Galen was more surprised than simply thinking "uh oh"... as tho it shouldnt be there, even via battle damage. But I could be totally wrong.

I was thinking two things about the FTL Engine Room scene: One) The FTL drive looked like something out of Galaxy Quest. Those spinning reciprocating sleeves would be impossible without CGI. Two) The marks that the Chief is looking at look to me like claw gouges more than cracks. Maybe there's still a Centurion or two from that one raid from Season 1 (or was it 2?) Or some kind of space beastie?

But I do agree that if Galactica had jumped, it might have been too much for that structure, possibly causing the loss of the flagship and all hands on board. That might also mean that for better or worse, Galactica is stuck in the system until repairs can be made.

However, that whole sequence brings up one glaring problem: What kind of engine room is it that no one ever visits? Watching the show Friday night, I got the impression that the FTL drive room is off-limits to personnel (no technicians; no guards; crappy lighting; and large, fast-moving machinery without safety guards). If that's the case, it's no wonder that the damage to the bulkhead wouldn't be noticed. But, is that any way to design a star ship?

Originally Posted by dfergie

Don't know, but I guess that answers what happened to Anders...

Guess they should've shot one in the back of the head sooner...

Originally Posted by Foxbat

I was thinking two things about the FTL Engine Room scene: One) The FTL drive looked like something out of Galaxy Quest. Those spinning reciprocating sleeves would be impossible without CGI. Two) The marks that the Chief is looking at look to me like claw gouges more than cracks. Maybe there's still a Centurion or two from that one raid from Season 1 (or was it 2?) Or some kind of space beastie?

But I do agree that if Galactica had jumped, it might have been too much for that structure, possibly causing the loss of the flagship and all hands on board. That might also mean that for better or worse, Galactica is stuck in the system until repairs can be made.

However, that whole sequence brings up one glaring problem: What kind of engine room is it that no one ever visits? Watching the show Friday night, I got the impression that the FTL drive room is off-limits to personnel (no technicians; no guards; crappy lighting; and large, fast-moving machinery without safety guards). If that's the case, it's no wonder that the damage to the bulkhead wouldn't be noticed. But, is that any way to design a star ship?

There was some bent / warped framework below the cracks or stress fractures. Tyrol was the Chief of the ship before being busted back, nobody took up the slack I guess on checking up on things... and like you say no guards so unless there was a problem nobody might be down there to see...

I got the feeling he snuck into the engine area via the crawl ways. There could be guards just standing right outside the door. Perhaps an adjacent room with people monitoring what is going on. Galen just might not have wanted to test the loyalties of people along the way.

All I can say is that it is a pretty elaborate plan that is at least 30 years in the making. Setting it all up then programming all the cylons to forget. Only the centurians seem to know and they are not talking, but they are doing eye ball scans...