# Battlestar Galactica (1/21/07) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845 "2007-01-21T16:43:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/61 "2007-01-23T00:30:47Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] I wish the Cylons’ model numbering system made more sense. We’ve got Three, Five, Six and Eight. Leoben, Cavil and Simon are unknown. The fact that Boomer is an Eight seems to imply the Cylons we’re now referring to as the “final five” were created after the Eight model. [/QUOTE] Thing One and Thing Two might have been failed prototypes, making the five Nos. 9 thru 13. The Eights are the ones who’ve disobeyed orders, lost their grip on reality, and even actually produced a traitor, but no, instead they have to box the type whose actress has a big contract. Not the Eights. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/62 "2007-01-23T00:31:58Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] D’ohh! [/QUOTE] Not to pile on here, but it was “My husband \*ordered \* me …” ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/63 "2007-01-23T01:42:28Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] Thing One and Thing Two might have been failed prototypes, making the five Nos. 9 thru 13. The Eights are the ones who’ve disobeyed orders, lost their grip on reality, and even actually produced a traitor, but no, instead they have to box the type whose actress has a big contract. Not the Eights. [/QUOTE] But the 8s are also the only model to bear children. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/64 "2007-01-23T01:49:01Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Perhaps it refers to some sort of sporting event. [/QUOTE] Just wait 'til everyone starts shortening it to “F5.” I won’t know if I’m in a Battlestar thread or a _Survivor_ thread. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/65 "2007-01-23T03:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=ElvisL1ves] Not to pile on here, but it was “My husband \*ordered \* me …” [/QUOTE] Which is why one should never have sex with the help. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/66 "2007-01-23T03:40:12Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Which is why one should never have sex with the help. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Crossreading the Rome threads and this one made this comment unduely bizzare. And now, for no particular reason, Baltar the Cylon Jesus is morphing into Mark Antony the King of the Goats for me. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/67 "2007-01-23T03:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] Crossreading the Rome threads and this one made this comment unduely bizzare. And now, for no particular reason, Baltar the Cylon Jesus is morphing into Mark Antony the King of the Goats. [/QUOTE] Thats ok, a couple of weeks ago I saw baltar get killed by during an argonaught coup attempt… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/68 "2007-01-23T04:31:15Z")
[QUOTE=MacTech] yes the “i’m sorry” remark means the Mystery Toaster that D’anna (why do i always want to type “Deanna” there, i’m sensing much confusion, captain…) saw had to have been someone she was hostile to hmm, Roslyn is a possibility, Starbuck, vaguely, making it Baltar would be too easy and too much of a cop-out hey, how about Blanders, she did try to knock him out with a chunk of the street back on Caprica… “Bad Toaster…hit Blanders…with _street!_” (good luck figuring out _that_ paraphrased obscure quote 😉 ) Making Blanders (name sounds remarkably like “blender”, another appliance, or “Bender” a known antisocial robot with the desire to Kill All Humans…) a Toaster gives TPTB another way to mind-frell…err, sorry, make that mind _frak_ Kara… [/QUOTE] Which one is Blanders? I think you’ve got the key, though. Who would she need to apologize to? Did she have much to do wtih Starbuck’s imprisonment. Or Tigh’s? Didn’t she have a really weird look on her face when she heard that the temple was 4k years old? Was it an “Am I a Cylon” look? I think I asked this last season, but I’m still confused about the hybrids. What are the hybrids of? Do the writers ever explain that? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/69 "2007-01-23T05:07:12Z")
Well, i watched the rerun of last night’s episode, and unless TPTB are mind-frakking us again, it appears that, according to next week’s preview that Baltar is a Toaster, it shows him being tortur…errr…“interrogated” onboard Galactica, then suddenly waking up gasping in a Goocuzi™ sort of a cop-out if you ask me, if it turns out to be true they _REALLY_ need to fire the preview staff, they’ve spoiled a _lot_ of “cliffhanger” endings recently ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/70 "2007-01-23T05:12:03Z")
[QUOTE=MacTech] Well, i watched the rerun of last night’s episode, and unless TPTB are mind-frakking us again, it appears that, according to next week’s preview that Baltar is a Toaster, it shows him being tortur…errr…“interrogated” onboard Galactica, then suddenly waking up gasping in a Goocuzi™ sort of a cop-out if you ask me, if it turns out to be true they _REALLY_ need to fire the preview staff, they’ve spoiled a _lot_ of “cliffhanger” endings recently [/QUOTE] Well, that would suck because in order for B to wake up in goo the Cylons would have to be carrying around spare bodies. If they’ve got spare bodies for the F5 what’s the big mystery about D’Anna trying to see what they look like? Maybe it’s just healing goo and not resurrection goo. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/71 "2007-01-23T05:38:48Z")
[spoiler]which lends credence to the theory that TPTB are simply making it up as they go along, and unlike the Toasters, _they_ have _no_ plan… besides, the gasp Balty lets out was the startled, panicked gasp of a resurrected Cylon who had just regained conciousness and found themselves in a “Tub-O’-Snot™” brand Goocuzi… (okay, i admit it, i just wanted to refer to the Goocuzi™ as a “Tub-O-Snot” 😉 ) …and is it just me, or does the goo in the Goocuzi™ bear more than a passing resemblance to Ectoplasmic Residue?, i’d imagine there are outtakes somewhere where the actor in the Goocuzi™ looks at the camera and states “He slimed me…”, or moans out “Braaaaiiiinnns!!!” [/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/72 "2007-01-23T05:47:20Z")
or… he’s dreaming again… just sayin… not like they’ve ever pulled that one on us… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/73 "2007-01-23T06:07:33Z")
I thought Starbuck was already the World’s Best Everything. Now she’s the Prophet, too?! ---
**Author:** ![Pigs\_in\_Space](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@Pigs\_in\_Space](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pigs_in_Space)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/74 "2007-01-23T06:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=MacTech] hey, how about Blanders, she did try to knock him out with a chunk of the street back on Caprica… “Bad Toaster…hit Blanders…with _street!_” (good luck figuring out _that_ paraphrased obscure quote 😉 ) [/QUOTE] The Tick Did anyone else think the mystery toaster was taller than D’anna? That would considerably narrow the field. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/75 "2007-01-23T08:39:40Z")
[QUOTE=simster] or… he’s dreaming again… just sayin… not like they’ve ever pulled that one on us… [/QUOTE] That’s the buzz on the streets. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/76 "2007-01-23T13:30:42Z")
The idea that Baltar is dreaming seems pretty obvious to me. It might be an idea to wait a week before whipping out “they suck! they’re making it up as they go!”. Or not. Hysteria can be fun! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/77 "2007-01-23T13:39:25Z")
[QUOTE=simster] or… he’s dreaming again… just sayin… not like they’ve ever pulled that one on us… [/QUOTE] Hence my original comment of “unless they’re pulling a mind-frak on us”, yes it could be a dream/nightmare sequence… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/78 "2007-01-23T13:40:24Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] It might be an idea to wait a week before whipping out “they suck! they’re making it up as they go!”. [/QUOTE] I don’t think they fellate, but I gather from the pod casts they are making it up as they go along. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/79 "2007-01-23T14:36:53Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I don’t think they fellate, but I gather from the pod casts they are making it up as they go along. [/QUOTE] I gather they have a general arc for the big stuff (IE - what the Cylons want, how it will end, and the road to Earth) but the smaller stories are made up as they go along. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845/80 "2007-01-23T15:23:21Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] That’s the buzz on the streets. [/QUOTE] Maybe it’s his own mucous from his near-constant weeping. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-1-21-07/388845.md?page=5)