Battlestar Galactica -- Season 4

**rockymtnhigh** · 03-21-2009 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by long_time_DNC

Too many good things to comment on and man, talk about ripping your heart out when Bill said goodbye to Lee and Kara! That part got to me more than Roslyn actually dying.

Kara *poofing* was pretty weird...don't know what she was and not knowing was okay with me. I can deal with that mystery.

It was a bittersweet, but satisfying ending.

One question: 150k years later...who the heck are Caprica and Gaius? Were they cylons? Did they somehow rebuild rez tech? Who were they? That really has me puzzled. I've rewatched that end scene twice and am still confused. Anyone else confused, or am I just plain missing something there?

Otherwise, it was an ending I could enjoy...but will sure miss this show...

I would have liked a bit more to explain Kara, but her disappearing, and head Baltar and six jumping through time, suggest to me that all three are super-natural/angels/god, something....

As I write, I am re-watching, and am at the crucial scene...

BALTAR: "I see angels, angels in this very room. ... there is another force at work here, there always has been, its undeniable, we have all experienced it, everyone in this room has witnessed events that they can't fathom, let alone explain away by rational means, puzzles deciphered in prophecy, dreams given to a chosen few, our loved ones - dead. Risen. Whether we want to call that god or Gods or some sublime inspiration, or a divine force we cannot know or undstand, it does not matter, it doesn't matter, it is here, it exists, and our two destinies are entwined in its force.... "

CAVILL: "If that were true, and that's a big if, How do I know this force has our best interest in mind. How do you know that God is on your side?"

BALTAR: "I don't. God is not on any one side. God is a force of nature, beyond good and evil, good and evil created earth; you want to break the cycle... break the cycle of birth, death, rebirth, destruction, escape, death... and that's in our hands, and our hands only... it requires a leap of faith, it requires that we live in hope, not fear."

wow, some serious stuff. I too can't wait for the BD of the entire series, and just want to watch it all over again, from start to finish as a result of the ending.

**rockymtnhigh** · 03-21-2009 10:01 AM

Less weighty stuff...

Doc:"their DNA is compatible with ours..."

Baltar:"meaning we can breed with them..."

Old Man: "You've got a one track mind doc."

Baltar: "I'm talking about the survival of the human race, not some get-together with the natives."

Old Man: "You also have no sense of humor."

"How is that possible, human beings naturally evolved on a planet one million light years away... the odds against that are....

Baltar: astronomical yeah, one might even say there was a divine hand at work."

**dfergie** · 03-21-2009 10:12 AM

I liked the part before the battle when Adama was obviously distressed over all of the cables etc in the CIC and Tighe said something like, We can still air lock them...

**dfergie** · 03-21-2009 10:31 AM

Maureen Ryan's
Chicago Tribune Article

**rockymtnhigh** · 03-21-2009 10:39 AM

Somehow watching the last hour of it a second time is more emotional than it was the first time. Very bittersweet in the end.

**dfergie** · 03-21-2009 10:45 AM

Earlier this week in New York, Battlestar Galactica’s co-creators David Eick and Ron Moore, along with cast members Mary McDonnell (President Roslin) and Edward James Olmos (Admiral Adama), sat down with the press for a Q&A session following a screening of the last episode.

Source & More:
Discover Magazine.com