Just one, briefly. The whole show has been an illusion in Baltar’s head, in the split second between when he realizes that a nuke has gone off next to his house and his incineration. 
Oh good Lord! My plan was to download the whole of the second part of the fourth series as it was broadcast in the US and then watch all the episodes together. My resolve broke, and I have just now caught up.
Wow. My heart is racing. They are really going balls to the wall to the end, and now I’m stuck in “Aaargh another week to wait!!!” mode.
It’s a good thing you’re not a writer for this show. It’s thinking like that which makes ropes and tree limbs go so well together. 
Huh? That was a Six? I thought that was Xenabot!
I dunno, but it’s probably the first time Baltar has ever uttered the words “my responsibility”.
Oh, and an unanswered question: what were the mutineers going to do the various Cylonese prisoners (regular, Final Five, half-breed, spouses)? Since the prisoners weren’t summarily killed, then they were presumably being held hostage. To what end?
I figured the velociraptors had gotten loose.
I’d guess they were holding them to prevent the basestar from attacking. We’re in control now - you can accept it or the final 3/4 get airlocked. And it looked like they were holding Athena for the sole purpose of raping/torturing her later because of the Pegasus guy.
Thank you!
Holy crap, Michael Trucco had broken his back in a car accident?!
I saw that!! Maybe that’s why he was mostly “aaah aaaahh” and letting her drag him around? But holy crap–that’s dedication to your job, right there. :X
The count’s below 32,600 now.
I liked that little moment between Zarek and Gaeta at the end. Zarek’s been a great character, and unlike Gaeta, he never had any illusions that, once they started, it would be kill-or-be-killed. He probably always pictured going out like that.
So, all those times they referred to “spinning up the FTL”, they meant it literally – a big mechanically spinning gizmo. I’ve come to love the technology on this show for the same reasons it irritated me at first – because so much of it looks like stuff we could actually build.
It’s as if we were handed just three truly advanced thingies: 1) whatever makes FTL jumps possible; 2) the incredibly compact, powerful and long-burning rocket engines the Vipers and Raptors have; 3) fusion reactors or whatever the main power source is on the larger ships. The rest – DRADIS, computers, the various industrial processes – looks like stuff we could do with existing technology. (Though Galactica’s main hull must be some terrifically strong alloy.)
So the mutiny’s over, and the ringleaders are dead, but the tensions that made the mutiny possible are still there – a lot of people, both military and civilian, will never accept an alliance with a Basestar full of Cylons. (Not to mention that they could all be half-crazy from four years of unrelenting stress. No wonder some people kill themselves.)
And, they’ll need a whole new Quorum.
I’m beginning to believe that the BSG universe isn’t the big, happy, cupcakes-and-confetti universe I once thought it was…
I think I’ve heard that the Caprica series will show a more technologically advanced Twelve Colonies, and that what we’ve seen in BSG is the result of a deliberate policy of dumbing down the tech to make it more Cylon-proof. (In the pilot movie when Baltar was being interviewed, didn’t they discuss the question of whether some of the tech restrictions should be removed?)
You know… we have seen FTL drives before. That’s what Lee used for the EMP in the miniseries. I’ll have to go back and do a visual comparison.
When Napoleon I had a minor and inoffensive member of the French royal family assassinated (to intimidate the rest) — a move that shattered his reputation throughout Europe — Metternich is reported to have said, “It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.” My reaction when Zarek had the Quorum terminated. From there on, the coup was doomed, since Gaeta (while a Galaxy-class wart in every other way) had just enough devotion to the Oath that he could be counted on to flinch at the right moment.
So while I’m glad both of them paid the price, and I consider both of them excellent arguments for retroactive birth control, I’m somehow pleased that Gaeta got a moment of relief from the pain in his leg. He didn’t deserve anything more, but he deserved that much.
Jumped to thread end - I missed it Friday night - can someone PM me as to where I can rewatch online? I’m doing my bestest to avoid spoilerificness.
The risk of drinking vodka then going online leads to mistakes like this one: I totally read that as “When** Napoleon and I** had a minor and inoffensive…”
You can see where my confusion lay. Fortunately, vodka is only a speed bump and not a roadblock in my reasoning and I did figure out what you meant. I just felt retarded afterward, is all.
I was thinking the same thing. Plus, it’s not like they’ve been able to take Galactica in for maintenance. She’s been shot up, bombed, dropped through the atmosphere, jumped excessively… poor gal’s gotta be showing some stress!
One (rather minor) thing I’ve been wondering: why did Adama take off his admiral clips and give them to Gaeta?
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the shots of Gaeta looking at those clips with a mix of “what have I done? am I ready for this responsibility? did I really just betray the man I’ve followed all these years?” (The actor really nailed these last two episodes). But I was surprised to see Adama throw off a symbol of his command. I’d have expected him to hang onto them since he didn’t recognize the authority of the muntineers.
As a lot of us do after an episode with vodka, for sure.
I’m not quite that old. Though some mornings it feels that way. . . .
It’s about time to quote Voltaire, “The English occasionally shoot a few admirals to encourage the others”, but I can’t seem to work it in. 