She’s only mostly dead…
Drugging Hera maybe?
And the phantom pianist disappeared off the watchtower.
Spooky!
<chills> Watchtower!..
Kara, I AM your Father!..
Chief and Boomer are getting seriously creepy, betcha Hera was stored in that handy Carry-On luggage…
OK, which one of us was the first to call Daniel as Starbuck’s papa?
I hate kids in sci fi shows anyway.
'Splodey
Boomer, you bitch!
And we have our 'Splodey!
We’re getting seriously dark here
Me, in this thread, in post #36
Well, that was exciting.
Does the Chief remind anyone else of Ernest Borgnie, however you spell it?
The whole distorting space thing is a pretty cool side effect of jumping.
But retracting the flightpod wouldn’t have stopped her jumping and would have hurt the ship worse?
I meant including past threads (ie since we first learned of Daniel 7).
Man, this one was brutal.
Guess we know now why Boomer had to come back, eh?
How the frack do you get that from this episode? All we know is that Kara or Kara’s father is “plugged into” the same thing that Hera is.
Okay, I’m making a pre-emptive call here…
Before the end of the series, the Rebel BaseStar will be re-Og-ened (like christened, but cooler… 
) “Galactica” and will become the flagship of the RTF, as well as the symbol of Cylon-Human integration
The Cavilcade will show up, and the show will end with the BaseStar Galactica and the Cavilcade exchanging full-out weapons fire as the show fades to black, the series will not have a conventional ending, we will leave the show open-ended with the BaseStar Galactica and the Cavilcade continuing their battles
I can live with that. Beats “We are all Cylons, Happy, Happy, Joy Joy!” :rolleyes:
Wow.
That was a great episode. I’m in awe.
Yeah, I don’t see a happy ending coming.
I like to react before reading what others thought about the conclusion. I’ll go back and see what everbody said when this is posted.
40 minutes of slow build, 20 minutes of HOLYFRAK!
Chief is done. I figure he’ll go the Colonial equivalent of Bud Dwyer next week. Boomer played him like a fiddle. He knows it, and that ain’t the kind of thing he can live with…
I think Rosilyn just died. Boomer’s dead. Hera’s dead. Prolly lost several redshirts.
Don’t think Galactica is gonna blow…not yet anyway.
Starbuck has to be some flavor of cylon, I think. That was “All Along the Watchtower” she finally pecked out, with Hera’s help, right?
Ellen Tigh is all over the frakking place. Pyscho bitch last week, semi sane this week.
Piano man also smokes filtertips. Guess he has Cottle’ hookup.
Was that a bag of weed just hanging mysteriously near the Final Five bar table?
Starbuck really loves Anders? I did not think she was capable of love.
Assignng a ding for semi-aware Athena being bound such that she could not make any noise while her husband is frakking Boomer. A groan, tossing and turning…throwing her body at the door…something.
Think we’re gonna be getting a little more mystical than I expected.
Buckle up, folks. It’s gonna be a hell of a ride from here on out.
I give the episode an B+ overall. The end of the episode really compensated for the dragging ass pace of the start and middle.
Athena pretty obviously had a concussion of some sort – blood dribbling out her nose (and ears?), blurry vision, staggering around when she finally gets out much later – not so much a good sign.
I’m glad that Karl, at least, didn’t instantly clue to the fact that Boomer wasn’t Athena. I’m a bit surprised that Hera didn’t pick up, given Boomer’s past experience trying to care for her on the basestar.
I actually think Boomer was being sincere in what she said to the Chief. I just think that John Cavil has her all mind-fracked to heck, as he needed her for his Xanatos Gambit to… steal Hera for leverage on the Final Five, maybe?
Boomer is fracked, either way, of course. Madame Airlock and Helo + Athena will be on her six. Toasted toaster, she is.
Don’t think Laura is dead, but suspect she will be in sickbay for her extended dying scene next episode (as previewed in her Elosha visions).
And, yeah, Kara loves Sam. And Lee. And Bill Adama, for that matter. Always has. Problem is… she’s fracked up, and her love has bad consequences. As is always the case in getting involved with the crazy.
Also: I think the slow pace of the beginning was needed to set up the dawning horror that was the ending of this episode. I suspect that’s why last episode was such a break in the momentum buildup, to make this work better. Maybe Moore will comment in his podcast.
Ron Moore sleeps well at night. 