# Battlestar Galactica 4.21 "Daybreak" Part One **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379 "2009-03-13T23:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [March 18, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/121 "2009-03-18T17:29:25Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I especially liked when they asked him what was his favorite thing about working on BSG, and he replied “I got to make out with Tricia. A lot. Really, really, a lot.” I thought he played for the other team, as it were. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/122 "2009-03-18T17:56:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I thought he played for the other team, as it were. 😕 According to [imdb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130536/bio), he’s married with 2 young kids. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/123 "2009-03-18T17:58:09Z")
He played a gay guy in the Bridget Jones movie. But that was a role. Speaking of James Callis, has he ever been seen together with Alexander Siddig el Fadil? I’m convinced they’re the same guy. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2009, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/124 "2009-03-18T18:34:23Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > According to [imdb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0130536/bio), he’s married with 2 young kids. Thanks for the link. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/125 "2009-03-18T19:44:35Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > Speaking of James Callis, has he ever been seen together with Alexander Siddig el Fadil? I’m convinced they’re the same guy. Dr. Bashir, right? I thought for years it was the same guy until I looked it up one day and thought, “WTF?” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/126 "2009-03-18T19:55:12Z")
> [@troub](#): > > Dr. Bashir, right? Yup! And, both characters are brilliant, conceited young scientists, with six-letter names, beginning with B, ending with R. Coincidence? I think not! ---
**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:** [March 18, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/127 "2009-03-18T20:17:21Z")
> [@Corner\_Case](#): > > …In the preview for the finale I saw the following:Are you sure you want to read this?1. A character (maybe Boomer/Sharon/et.al ?) holding a gun on a aged Anders. Is the finale spanning years/decades? Does this mean Galactica survives? > 2. A UN-style conference or religious meeting. A robed figure presides. Two stands on either side of the podium with old-style cylon heads on them. Baltar looking small and meek in the crowd. Adama and Baltar are survivors? Any others? Is that person at the podium a Being-Of-Light? > What are your interpretations? What preview is that? 😕 I didn’t see any of of that in the SciFi preview. Is the Canadian one different? ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/128 "2009-03-18T20:19:36Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > What preview is that? I didn’t see any of of that in the SciFi preview? Is the Canadian one different? Oops, preview in “_The Last Frakkin’ Special_”. Sorry for the confusion. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/129 "2009-03-18T20:50:53Z")
> [@Corner\_Case](#): > > Oops, preview in “_The Last Frakkin’ Special_”. Sorry for the confusion. Do you have a link where I can see it? ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/130 "2009-03-18T23:04:20Z")
> [@Corner\_Case](#): > > What feels very wrong is Adama leading a suicide mission. It is irresponsible to leave the fleet vulnerable by taking every military resource on this mission. Did Anders have an earth-shattering revelation? [sub]Like his dick will fall off unless he does this?[/sub] > > In the preview for the finale I saw the following:Are you sure you want to read this?1. A character (maybe Boomer/Sharon/et.al ?) holding a gun on a aged Anders. Is the finale spanning years/decades? Does this mean Galactica survives? > 2. A UN-style conference or religious meeting. A robed figure presides. Two stands on either side of the podium with old-style cylon heads on them. Baltar looking small and meek in the crowd. Adama and Baltar are survivors? Any others? Is that person at the podium a Being-Of-Light? > What are your interpretations? Methinks you misread the “preview”. The frakkin’ special interspersed scenes from throughout the series. 1. Anders doesn’t look particularly aged to me. He’s been through a lot and just looks a bit ragged. Also wasn’t that the scene from _Islanded in a Stream of Stars_ two weeks ago? 2. The so-called UN-style meeting was a scene from the mini-series over 5 years ago. That was the first time we heard the “So say we all” chant. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/131 "2009-03-19T13:41:54Z")
> [@nivlac](#): > > Methinks you misread the “preview”. The frakkin’ special interspersed scenes from throughout the series. 1. Anders looks bald, wrinkled and sunken cheeked, but you may be right. 2. The UN-style meeting being from the beginning sounds probable too. Thanks for the reread; once I think one idea it’s hard to think another. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/132 "2009-03-19T13:54:35Z")
The more I think about it, the more I’m sure that the unpleasant task that would take only one hour of Adama’s life was the decommissioning ceremony itself. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/133 "2009-03-19T14:00:41Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Do you have a link where I can see it? Sorry, no. The snippets were in the SciFi Channel’s _The Last Frakkin’ Special_. However, another read of the snippets is in [post 131](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10951744&postcount=131) above and suggests that they may not be what I thought they were. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/134 "2009-03-19T14:06:38Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > The more I think about it, the more I’m sure that the unpleasant task that would take only one hour of Adama’s life was the decommissioning ceremony itself. I don’t know. It seemed like he was being asked to do something **beneath** him. That’s why he was rattling off his experience - he’s commanded thousands of troops, been in charge of billions of cubits worth of equipment. I’d think being involved in a decommisioning ceremony would be an expected duty and honor for the previous commander of a ship - this sounded more like he had to go through a background check to get a job as a bank teller, or had to spend an hour being interviewed by some 25 yahron old HR drone. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/135 "2009-03-19T14:27:28Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > The more I think about it, the more I’m sure that the unpleasant task that would take only one hour of Adama’s life was the decommissioning ceremony itself. If it was related to the military why would Adama be in a business suit instead of his uniform? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/136 "2009-03-19T14:40:04Z")
Good point. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379/137 "2009-03-19T15:02:13Z")
Based on a totally unrelated email I just got, I’m predicting that the thing Bill Adama has to do for an hour is sit over the dunk tank at the annual Colonial Fleet picnic & carnival. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-21-daybreak-part-one/489379.md?page=6)