I agree, there’s a lot left to sew up, but I’m not sure there’s time. In the past, Adama & Roslin have had those healing forgive and forget amnesty moments, but this time? I don’t know. I’ll be a little disappointed if they do it again. I can’t see everyone coming together and making up before the resolution of the story.
Helo, Athena & Gage certainly have some unfinished business.
Maybe there’ll be another boxing episode.
Y’all reckon Visionware (R) will stand up to molten DVDs?
Adama should’ve simply handed him a pistol when he said that. What’s going to happen to Lee? If the Quorum isn’t reinstate will he rejoin the military? If it is he could easily become the next Vice-President.
I think Lee will have to be vice-president or senior member of the new Quorum. He and Roslyn are the only high-ranking survivors of the civilian government.
It seems ships’ captains are a big deal. We don’t see them much. Maybe a new Quorum made of the various ships’ pilots wouldn’t be so bad.
Speculation ahead.
My belief: The show is going to get dark. Really, really dark. As in, torturously dark, even more grim and gutwrenching than it already is, in order to make the ambiguous ending seem uplifting. (Vague comments from inside the production suggest the cast loved the script for the final episode.) This, I think, can be expected. How it will be accomplished, though, is what we’re waiting to see.
So here’s the speculative part, not based on anything concrete other than the above:
We’re not done with the events we’ve seen, but it’s not just more political machinations, and arguing about who gets to be in the Quorum now; this was a near total collapse of civilized governance, and a wrenching, primitive panic. The fleet begins to come apart at the seams. Two or more factions form – those loyal to Roslin, those loyal to the mutineers, those loyal to Zarek (I distinguish the latter two as being “anti-Cylon” and “entirely self-interested,” having formed a temporary marriage of convenience which may or may not still be relevant), and perhaps the Cylons separately. All are horrified at the outcome of the mutiny, but divisions are deep, and none are willing to lay down arms and make peace. A schism forms, or several. Part of the fleet buggers out: if we’re no longer looking for Earth, if anywhere good is good enough, and if you-all no longer pretend to have the answers, then frak you, we’re history. Some go back to the original colonies, perhaps to sue for peace, or perhaps to resume the fight; others head off into the black, hoping to stumble over a planetary oasis. Upon which some or all of them run into Cavil’s forces, and are butchered. Roslin’s whiteboard count: down to 15k or fewer. Thus is the stage set for the finale, whatever it might be.
So that’s one possible route, moving forward with the story instead of going back over old ground. Bottom line, however all of this develops, you know it’s going to be intense and seriously, seriously bleak.
Agreed. Jim Morrison said it best: “No-one here gets out alive.”
They’ve been hammering the whole “This has all happened before, it will all happen again” mantra so hard that a complete “Wild Bunch” ending is unlikely. There have to be some survivors somewhere to start the cycle anew. But the body count is going to get very, very high, and we are going to watch all of our heroes fall. After all, that’s what heroes do.
I predict that Galactica and possibly Adama will be sacrificed in destroying Cavil and company. Some Cylons and Humans will survive and Live Happily Ever After. :rolleyes:
The problem with the schism theory is that there is one and only one tylium ship. No one is going far without it. The fleet might already have split if it wasn’t for that.
I’m still unclear about where the fleet is. Are they still orbiting Earth (if it really is Earth)?
I like the theory that the fleet ends up somehow becoming the original 13 tribes - including a tribe of Cylons.
Is it Friday yet?
No. Adama vowed to find them a home and they packed up and left. However, as someone pointed out upthread, if the Bucket really is starting to come apart at the seams, they may be better off turning back around for Earth.
No. They left Earth behind after “Sometimes a Great Notion”. By the webisodes timeframe, they’d been several days away from Earth. By now, they haven’t been around Earth for some time.
Good point, but people have made less rational choices, both in the show and in the real world.
Earth is radioactive. The Cylons can live there (if they can make anything grow, that is), but the humans cannot. That’s also why the humans cannot return to the Twelve Colonies.
Kobol and New Caprica are inhabitable, but the Cylons know where they are.
That’s something that bugs me about “earth.” The Geiger counter indicated radiation, but did they ever say “too much radiation?” A geiger counter will always indicate some radiation. It’s not like everyone ran back to their ships as soon as they saw the radiation level. I didn’t see anyone shooting up anti-radiation meds. Starbuck and Leoben were walking through dry grass and that grass didn’t die 2,000 years ago or whatever. Obviously there’s vegetation. I don’t get why they would abandon earth just because there’s no civilization extant. Is it really unusable real estate?
I agree, if they could’ve lived in New Caprica - which seemed awfully cold and barren - they could’ve been fine on Earth.
I suppose it could be said that they landed in the most hospitable part of the planet and that most of the rest was completely dead and irradiated, but even so there is less then 40,0000 of them left and where else are they going to go?
Yes. Gaius Baltar is talking with someone about soil and water samples, and says that they’ll have to tell everyone not to drink any of the water. That was the real revelation that Earth was still radioactive; the Geiger counter was just there for show-bizzy effect.