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[Bowser]

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***WARNING - The discussions going on in this thread could contain spoilers at any point in time, so if you are not current with the show and don't want to get info on future shows, read on at your own risk.

[Third Eye]

Whoa. I know they said it was going to end bleak, but whoa. Without getting too spoilerific, I was not expecting the death we got tonight. Great episode.

[chris]

I don't want to reveal anything; but what an emotion jerker.

A great, great hour of despair.

Body slam after another....who is starbuck???

[chris]

Originally Posted by Third Eye

Whoa. I know they said it was going to end bleak, but whoa. Without getting too spoilerific, I was not expecting the death we got tonight. Great episode.

After the hour was over, I just sat there and wondered what most people would do if after 4 years of fighting and running, their dream and hope was gone.

THe producers did a wonderful job of conveying the depair....what a wasted death.

[siberian khatru]

I had to pour myself a drink halfway through.

[keg in kc]

That was one of the best episodes of the entire series.

I can't remember the last time I said "oh shit" that many times in an hour.

[Crush]

One of the best episodes ever. The remaining nine episodes are going to be very interesting.

[007]

I haven't read anything previous to my post but I am 40 minutes in and HOLY SHIT!!!!

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

I had to pour myself a drink halfway through.

No shit. That made Doctor Zhivago look like Shrek.

The writers really seem to dislike these characters. A lot.

[007]

And we are still up in the air about the fifth.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Guru

And we are still up in the air about the fifth.

I'd say you're right. That was too easy.

What is Starbuck?

I'm waiting for a ship of light to appear.

[007]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I'd say you're right. That was too easy.

What is Starbuck?

I'm waiting for a ship of light to appear.

They have left us with three possibles and I am betting it is none of them. heh

Starbuck seems the most obvious but there will be something to explain that away.

[Adept Havelock]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I'd say you're right. That was too easy.

What is Starbuck?

I'm waiting for a ship of light to appear.

One of the best episodes they've done.

I'm thinking the fifth is just who they said. Prototype for the "6's"?

I think Starbuck is an agent of something else. Whatever power/entity manifested itself as "Not-Leoben" in "Maelstrom", perhaps. I'm guessing that whatever orchestrated her loss and return ended up with the ovary the toasters took in season two. Ship of Lights? Do they have a Viper factory? Or a flag?

It would be interesting to see how they could pull that off in the context of TNS.

Looks like Deanna is pulling an "Athena". Athena of Kobol, not the toaster that had Helo's kid, that is. She stayed behind out of grief while the others boarded the Galleon and left for "Earth". Then threw herself from the mountaintops of "The Gates of Hera". Kind of ironic, considering her statement she was staying to get off the cosmic merry-go-round.

Didn't see the death coming. Damn....that one hurt.

[Nightwish]

The whole Planet Graveyard thing has got me wondering. If the planet was settled entirely by Cylons, then who nuked them? Did they do themselves in? Maybe the humans nuked them to start the whole thing, thus making the Cylon attack on Caprica fair play, so to speak. And did the Cylons supplant the human population of earth, or did they settle it, meaning that the original human homeworld was not earth?

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Adept Havelock

I'm thinking the fifth is just who they said. Prototype for the "6's"?

That's the consensus on the sci-fi boards, apparently RDM says there's no shenanigans and she's it. It's going to be interesting going back to some of the older episodes to see how it all ties together.

Originally Posted by Nightwish

The whole Planet Graveyard thing has got me wondering. If the planet was settled entirely by Cylons, then who nuked them? Did they do themselves in? Maybe the humans nuked them to start the whole thing, thus making the Cylon attack on Caprica fair play, so to speak. And did the Cylons supplant the human population of earth, or did they settle it, meaning that the original human homeworld was not earth?

One theory is that they have everything backwards, that the Cylons are the originals and the humans are the creations, and that the humans rebelled to destroy their creaters. That we (meaning the viewers) are cylons, and it's all a way to frak with our perception of 'good' and 'evil'. To make us identify with the Cylons instead of the RTF. It's also an interesting way of twisting the "it's all happened before" mythos.

Very interesting stuff, wherever they go with it.

[007]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

That's the consensus on the sci-fi boards, apparently RDM says there's no shenanigans and she's it. It's going to be interesting going back to some of the older episodes to see how it all ties together.One theory is that they have everything backwards, that the Cylons are the originals and the humans are the creations, and that the humans rebelled to destroy their creaters. That we (meaning the viewers) are cylons, and it's all a way to frak with our perception of 'good' and 'evil'. To make us identify with the Cylons instead of the RTF. It's also an interesting way of twisting the "it's all happened before" mythos.

Very interesting stuff, wherever they go with it.

Red glowing backs for everyone.