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This week's Battlestar Galactica.
2006-11-04, 9:33 AM #1
Seriously, Apollo lost like 100 pounds in 2 days.

This show is getting better and better every week. The writing this week was outstanding, I'd put this episode as one of my favorite episodes ever.

The Gaius storyline is getting really good. I'm really interested in what the Cylons are going to do with him. I don't think it's coincidental that they revealed there are 12 humanoid cylons this episode. If Gaius was a cylon, that would make him the 13th, alligning with other aspects of the show.

Also interested if the disease passed to him, (or to Athena/Boomer/Sharon/#8/Asian Cylon), or whatnot. I'm wondering also if Tigh is going to actually end up leaving. Also: How could the original 13 colonies have anticipated the Cylons coming? Or was it merely coincidence that the beacon infected them somehow? Many questions this episode!
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2006-11-04, 9:39 AM #2
Apollo's juicing.

Also, Per the mentioning of the 12 Cylon models. I don't think Baltar would be the 13th model. I think he would just be one of the 12 models. That would be swank if he really is a Cylon. I don't think Tigh will leave. Adama will knock some sense into him. ****, he tore Starbuck three new ones. <3 Adama.
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2006-11-04, 9:58 AM #3
Didn't they say there were 12 models in like... the miniseries?
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2006-11-04, 10:02 AM #4
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2006-11-04, 10:07 AM #5
Well, I really love how artsy they got with the camera angles, cuts, and music in the Cylon parts.
2006-11-04, 12:11 PM #6
Veger's right - in the mini-series, Adama finds a note that says there are 12 Cylon human models, which raised the questions of "who are the models?" and "who left the note?"

I really hope they don't forget to resolve that second question.
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2006-11-04, 12:20 PM #7
BSG!
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2006-11-05, 4:14 PM #8
Man, Adama is just the ultimate badass. Ever. Going into this episode I was thinking that something had to give in regards to Tigh...on one hand it would be sort of strange for them to do away with a character who was in old Galactica, but on the other hand they can't keep this up forever.

I don't think Baltar is a cylon, though - why would six have needed to seduce him in the miniseries if he was? (I also thought that it was Baltar who left the note, trying to help the humans without having to explain how he knows what he knows)

And it's funny how Boomer is now Athena. :D
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2006-11-05, 4:17 PM #9
Boomer was a different cylon.

Athena wasn't happy at the end.
2006-11-05, 5:07 PM #10
I really doubt they'll give Tigh the boot. He's far too proud to commit suicide, and right off I can't picture anyone killing him.

It took him awhile before he finally stopped being a complete drunkard, but he did do it. I imagine he'll eventually find the will to pull himself back together this time too. He might not come back the same guy he used to be seeing as he went through hell, but he'll come back.
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2006-11-06, 1:29 AM #11
Originally posted by Tracer:
I don't think Baltar is a cylon, though - why would six have needed to seduce him in the miniseries if he was?

Six said they never, ever talk about the other five. Maybe they were mistakes, turned rogue, etc. It's possible the seven Cylons don't even know who the other five are.

Also, the beacon thing was sweet. It confirms, for real, that Earth actually exists. I wonder how long it will take them to find it, if they do? Maybe there won't be anything left of it, or maybe they'll be some huge powerful space faring civilization that will come to the colonies' rescue. Who knows...
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2006-11-06, 2:20 AM #12
Originally posted by Emon:
or maybe they'll be some huge powerful space faring civilization that will come to the colonies' rescue. Who knows...


Even if they found Earth as we know it, they could at least get much bigger nukes...
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2006-11-06, 2:37 AM #13
Haha, yeah. Cylons + hydrogen bombs = dead Cylons.
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2006-11-06, 10:07 AM #14
Just so I'm clear, was the hybrid who flew the baseship one of the final five cylons?

And yeah, it is nice to see some real progress towards Earth.
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2006-11-06, 11:29 AM #15
I don't think so, Tracer. They're a separate entity, just as Raiders are, perhaps. Not entirely sentient, they just do what they're designed for.
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2006-11-06, 1:12 PM #16
Yeah. The hybrids are pretty much just the central computer for the baseships.

Anyone know why the Six Baltar ran into on the infected baseship had brown/black hair?
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2006-11-06, 2:03 PM #17
I just chalked it up to an individualistic nature. It seems to me that the Six's and the Sharons are the most individualistic of the human clyons.
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2006-11-06, 2:19 PM #18
I missed part of the show. How do they know the beacon from earth?
I wholly expected Tigh to off himself, since he told Adama he wouldn't see him again. I was surprised when he didn't.
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2006-11-06, 3:00 PM #19
Originally posted by phoenix_9286:
Yeah. The hybrids are pretty much just the central computer for the baseships.

Anyone know why the Six Baltar ran into on the infected baseship had brown/black hair?

Product of disease. She wanted to be brunette. Pseudo-Cylon.

I can't wait for Friday now :(
Code to the left of him, code to the right of him, code in front of him compil'd and thundered. Programm'd at with shot and $SHELL. Boldly he typed and well. Into the jaws of C. Into the mouth of PERL. Debug'd the 0x258.
2006-11-06, 3:13 PM #20
Originally posted by Chewbubba:
I wholly expected Tigh to off himself, since he told Adama he wouldn't see him again. I was surprised when he didn't.

Eh? He said that man didn't exist anymore, not that he wouldn't be around anymore.
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2006-11-06, 3:41 PM #21
If he said "that man doesn't exist anymore....and you won't be seeing him again", I'd say that's clear that he's going to still be the XO, but he won't change his personality. What throws us off is he said "That man doesn't exist anymore...and you won't be seeing me again", which implies he won't be the XO and he will off himself, or go to antoher ship, or something.
2006-11-06, 3:44 PM #22
I thought Helo was the XO now...

That does shed some light on the 'you won't be seeing him again' line - like Chewbubba, I thought that he meant that he was going to commit suicide. It was interesting how they kept cutting between Kara getting it together and Tigh falling apart..
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2006-11-06, 3:48 PM #23
He was the XO when Galactica and Pagasus were off away from New Caprica. I don't know how the new leadership is quite working out at this point. Apollo has the second highest rank of anyone there.
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2006-11-06, 6:35 PM #24
I'm betting Helo's relationship to Sharron/Boomer/Athena bites him in the butt somehow and gets him canned from his XO position.
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2006-11-06, 9:04 PM #25
If that happens, it'll bite Adama in the *** too. He's the one who gave her a comission and is letting her serve on Galactica.
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2006-11-06, 9:10 PM #26
"This cylon lover forgot that I'm still the ranking XO of this ship"
-Saul Tigh, after the Exodus, talking to Geta on the bridge

Helio was replacing Geta's job.

And it looks like Apollo is the cheif of the CAG now
2006-11-06, 9:12 PM #27
Ranking doesn't necessarily mean serving. Tigh was a colonel and was XO before going to New Caprica, but I don't know to what capacity he was serving upon returning.
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