Saturday, June 14, 2008

A Week of Speculation

If you don't give a crap about Battlestar Galactica, you're excused from reading this post.

Okay, now, if you haven't seen tonight's episode yet and don't want it spoiled, you, too, may be excused from reading further.

So, they all reach Earth, humans and Cylons, in some sort of truce. And find a dead world. I'd been thinking, only half in jest, they'd find the Statue of Liberty half buried in the dirt and a bunch of sophisticated, clothed apes running around. My other theory, in case I was wrong about the devastation, was that they'd be attacked by the Earthers defending their home.

Talk about a tense hour. I thought it would take Kara forever to race through the ship with the news about the Viper. But the biggie is next week's final reveal. Who (or perhaps, what) is the last of the 5 secret Cylons?

I love the show and doubt I'll ever watch it again. It's brilliant. It's dark and it delves into the human psyche like no show before it. And yet, it isn't fun and when it comes to rewatching tv shows, I prefer an element of fun. There's been precious little humor. There's been hope. In the midst of all the pain and fears and destruction, there was the bit of hope the last of humanity held onto as they sought the fabled Earth, hoping to find a home, to find sanctuary there. Now, that appears to be dashed and what I'd hoped was going to ultimately be a tale of human survival and hope looks to be something far darker by the time the last episode draws to a close. Which is fine. It should be what it needs to be. But I don't think it's a place I would want to revisit, no matter how well done, no matter how brilliant.

Gonna be a long week, though.

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7 comments:

  1. Next week!! Are you kidding? BSG won't have another new episode until 2009! When in 2009 I don't know but Moore has gone on record that they don't want to get lost in the new fall shows or the sports so I'm guessing next summer!

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  2. They showed coming attractions, so I assumed next week. This is supposed to be the last season, and I hadn't read that it was coming back. I didn't think they had many episodes left. I thought this was the second half of the season that started last year and picked up again in April. SF Channel does split seasons. Stargate Atlantis just ended its last season a few months ago and the new season starts in July.

    I really don't see what more BG can do after they reveal the 5th unknown Cylon and wrap things up. If they've got more planned than that, enough to fill another season or half a season, it had better be amazing, cuz I doubt nothing will top that as a series ender. Because that's what things have been building to.

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  3. I just checked the schedule for this coming Friday, and I don't see BG on it. So that basically sucks. They shouldn't have shown the coming attractions the way they did without making a big announcement that it would be months til we see that.

    And I really don't see that they can squeeze too many more episodes from this. It definitely feels like we're near the end. Waiting til 2009, if you're right, Paul, will certainly erode my interest. It took 2-3 episodes for me to get back into it this time.

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  4. I found the little article:
    "Battlestar Galactica fans are well-advised to sit back and savor this Friday's midseason finale, because the balance of Season 4 — the series' last, lest we forget — won't be hitting the tube until after "the first of the year," says executive producer Ronald D. Moore. And that's a best-case scenario.
    At a Wednesday-night screening of this week's episode, Moore explained to TVGuide.com that even though they are currently filming the series' final scenes, the "practical realities" of post-production — coupled with the formidable end-of-year competition presented by new fall series, baseball and football — places the onset of the final episodes at the start of 2009, at the earliest. "Realistically, there's no way to get back on the air faster," he apologetically added."

    This is the last season, we're just going to get it in two WIDELY separated chunks!

    I also wonder what they have left to show other than the Fifth Cylon (my wife is betting on Lee Adama) now that we've see "Earth" unless it's not really Earth. They are also talking TV movies after the series wraps. What's left?

    I agree that it's a downer of a series although well done. I yielded to an impulse and bought season 1 on DVD but I held fast on buying any more and when SCI-FI ran a week long marathon of the entire series before they started season 4 I got it on the DVR and burned them to discs. But even so I doubt I'll ever watch the whole thing again.

    In the four seasons I can only recall one humorous scene - when Baltar was devising his Cylon detecting procedure and Adama was getting Tigh's wife back on Galactica there was a funny exchange between several of the leads in his lab. That's it!

    The trailers on SCI-Fi are so spoilery I don't watch them and when I burn the episode to a disc I trim off the "previously," the opening and closing credits and the trailers so I never see them these days.

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  5. Thanks for posting that, Paul.

    You know, oddly enough, I could see it ending just where they left it. It was a perfect, shock ending. I suppose I'll end up watching it when it returns, sometime between January and April (no doubt depending on the Stargate schedule). I'm sure it's been filmed or nearly done, but as a midseason cliffhanger, it doesn't work nearly as well as past ones because all I'm waiting for is who the 5th missing Cylon is, and if I never see that answered, there's all the fun of speculation. It's not enough to keep me watching if I have to wait so long. I hope they haven't hurt themselves with such a long wait.

    I know there were fans of The Sopranos who lost interest when they had a long wait for the last season.

    And if they pull the "it's not really Earth," after all that led up to that episode, that will be the worst kind of cop-out.

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  6. Well, they could come back with Baltar coming out of the shower in his lakeside home on Caprica, Caprica Six on the bed and have her say she'd had the strangest dream …

    Maybe not - it's been done.

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  7. LOL. So, would you say, Paul, that they jumped the shark when Baltar had his hair cut. ;)

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