# Battlestar Galactica Finale Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206 "2009-03-20T19:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/1 "2009-03-20T19:33:19Z")
Remember, it’s on an hour early tonight and runs for 2 hours and 10 minutes. Want to start listing questions we still have? 1. What is Starbuck 2. What’s the Opera House mean? 3. Who/What are the head beings that appear to Baltar and Caprica Six(the people they see and talk too)? Let’s enjoy this night. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/2 "2009-03-20T19:54:39Z")
Just listing questions, not trying to answer? Fair enough, gotta start somewhere. What does “Watchtower” signify? How’d Kara get the new Viper? How’d her body get to Earth? How did us Earthers get to be Cylons? What is Hera’s importance? Will the fleet find a new home planet? ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/3 "2009-03-20T20:36:17Z")
_How did us Earthers get to be Cylons?_ On Kobol, a group of humans discovered/created resurrection technology. This group, the 13th tribe, stopped procreating viviparously, and sustained themselves via resurrection. During the exodus from Kobol, the 13th tribe headed to Earth. At this point, these humans were already skinjobs. They eventually rediscovered sexual reproduction and “forgot” resurrection, only for the Final Five to rediscover it very shortly before the apocalypse on Earth. At least, that’s what I remember of the exposition by the Final Five. ---
**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 20, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/4 "2009-03-20T20:38:14Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Let’s enjoy this night. I’ll lie back, and think of England. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/5 "2009-03-20T20:50:00Z")
[QUOTE=II Gyan II;10957479At least, that’s what I remember of the exposition by the Final Five.[/QUOTE] That’s what Sam said, yes- but, okay, the questions then would be: - How come Earth has all these humanoid fossils? - Why don’t any of us know anything about this non-Earth origin of ours, or that we ever had resurrection technology? - When are we going to convert back to worship of the Greek gods and build a temple to them on Brooklyn Heights? ---
**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 20, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/6 "2009-03-20T21:03:41Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > - How come Earth has all these humanoid fossils? Charles Darwin was a Cylon. ---
**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/7 "2009-03-20T21:04:28Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > - How come Earth has all these humanoid fossils? > - Why don’t any of us know anything about this non-Earth origin of ours, or that we ever had resurrection technology? The Earth in the BSG universe is not our dimension/timeline, despite the apparent presence of someone channeling Dylan. The Greek nomenclature and pantheon is just a ‘coincidence’ in BSG. Do you mean the humanoid fossils shown in 4.10/11? Those are the remains of the skinjobs. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/8 "2009-03-20T21:07:08Z")
Don’t forget, if you want to watch the entire finale, it starts at 8:00, re-airing the first hour from last week. Ronald Moore really didn’t design that as Act 1 or a stand alone episode. He intended it to be watched straight through. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/9 "2009-03-20T22:55:16Z")
Also, I _believe_ that the finale is scheduled to run ten minutes or so past the second hour – for those of you recording, beware. ---
**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 20, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/10 "2009-03-20T23:07:27Z")
EDIT: removed, bad joke, spoiler for another show. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/11 "2009-03-20T23:25:06Z")
Flying motorcycles would be cool. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/12 "2009-03-21T00:06:56Z")
I would be tempted to subscribe to the following theory: that HeadSix, HeadBaltar, Adama’sDeadWife, PianoMan, etc. are subroutines built into everyone (everyone’s got Cylon ancestors if you go back far enough), except for one thing… Remember the episode where a six showed up and tried to frame Baltar of collaborating with the Cylons (in a way other than what he actually did)? All the time she was aboard Galactica, HeadSix either wouldn’t or couldn’t appear to Baltar. Then she vanishes- as in two marines tailing her lose sight of her around an corner for a few seconds, and when they catch up there’s only an empty corridor. Never found, no record of how she could have gotten off the ship. So it does look like something with woo-woo powers is out there. Something transported Kara’s corpse and wrecked Viper to Earth. Re. Opera House: We’ve seen how Cylons can picture the world the way they want; maybe the opera house is just a virtual setting- maybe it’s how Hera sees the Colony. ---
**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 21, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/13 "2009-03-21T00:12:31Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Remember, it’s on an hour early tonight and runs for 2 hours and 10 minutes. > > Want to start listing questions we still have?.. What happened to **Cervaise**? This is the second BSG thread in a row he’s missed (& the last ever). P.S. It looks like we’ll be getting a sneak preview of Caprica tonight. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/14 "2009-03-21T00:58:02Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Don’t forget, if you want to watch the entire finale, it starts at 8:00, re-airing the first hour from last week. > > Ronald Moore really didn’t design that as Act 1 or a stand alone episode. He intended it to be watched straight through. Actual start time depends on your TV source. For me Part 2 starts at 6:00pm PDT and ends at 8:11pm. Yes, be sure your DVR records past the normal end time! ---
**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:** [March 21, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/15 "2009-03-21T01:00:15Z")
Toward the end of pt.1, Starbuck says “Based on the coordinates we got from Sam…” So, whoever thought that Sam wasn’t the one to tell them where the Colony was last week, there’s the answer. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/16 "2009-03-21T01:10:01Z")
On your scorecard, next to “Puking Adama”, mark a 1. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/17 "2009-03-21T01:10:37Z")
Whoa, Orion ---
**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:** [March 21, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/18 "2009-03-21T01:11:38Z")
Still liking the flashback. Totally realized he was a former student before he 'fessed up. Not so much liking the puking Adama, though. ---
**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 21, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/19 "2009-03-21T01:21:41Z")
Admiral Hoshi and President Lamkin. 😃 ---
**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:** [March 21, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206/20 "2009-03-21T01:22:58Z")
Hoshi? Lampkin?? Cripes, the fleet is doomed. ooh, Centurions! … wonder if we’ll see Leoben. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-finale-thread/490206.md?page=2)