"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief...

[athelind]

NINE MONTHS??? NOTHING until frakking 2008??


scarfman pointed out that "All Along the Watchtower" isn't Cylon music -- it's Earth music. The Colonial Fab Four may not be the Cylon Final Five, no matter what they themselves might think.

Even before we really were able to hear what the music was, I was fairly sure that it was going to tie into Starbuck's return. So, boom, Earth music -- and Starbuck appears at the end, saying "I've Found Earth!"

I think quelonzia may owe me a dollar.

But what does 2008 hold?

The mysterious power fluctuations, the even more mysterious psychic impressions, and the appearance of Five Figures In White So Bright It Glows... are those dream-images any more the "Final Five" Cylons than our Dylan-singing compadres?

You have to wonder just where

they're going with all this...

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

The ship pic reminds of one that Starbuck saw in the original series, the ep in which they met Satan.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

...and do you know how hard it is to FIND a shot of that frakking thing on the Web?

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Shoulda asked me- I have BSG Classic on DVD. };>

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

They're going to land on earth and have super powers!

[terminotaur.livejournal.com]

If they go that route I will hunt down their production studio, and there will be a reckoning.... :)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

If anyone could pull it off, though...

[susandeer.livejournal.com]

Maybe if we say 'frack' as many times as they do, the time will go faster. Or slower. Hmm.

9 months. Frack.

[toy-dragon.livejournal.com]

First, there's going to be a Battlestar Pegasus movie between now and 2008 - aired on SciFi this summer. The movie isn't random story wank, but will deal with Cain's one-woman crusade against the Cylons and supposedly, plot details relating to season 4 and Earth that the Galactica crew never got to encounter because, well, Cain sort of got shot in the head before going through the rest of her backlog with them.


Note however, that Adama DID have a copy of the Pegasus log in his own quarters, that he started to read through... did he ever finish it? Hmm...

Next, an interesting note about "All Along in the Watch Tower".

This was, originally, a Bob Dylan song covered most famously by Jimmy Hendrix. Moore has always intended to use it somewhere, because he feels it goes along with the resolution of the show's storyline. However, there's a subtle twist here:

The version of Watchtower that plays in "ghost" form inside Galactica, is the Earthly, Hendrix cover, just very distorted. The version that plays overtly, mixed in with BSG-style orchestration at the end, is a new version Moore specifically instructed Bear McCreary to score as if it was recorded by a Colonial pop artist, jacking into some memetic force that also caused Bob Dylan to write the song on Earth, thus providing a possible link to the similarities between Colonial and Earth culture - the insinuation is that it could be a link /without/ requiring the story we're seeing to be set either in the past or the future and have a more mundane and linear reason why the Colonials say, wear suits like Earth fashion and built military trucks that look like Hummers.

I strongly suspect Moore is playing at something far weirder, and thus far more interesting.

(While a lot of people have snarked nuBSG for being "cheap" and using recognizable clothes and guns and cars in an alien setting, Moore did claim from the beginning that the long-term payoff for why the Colonial society seemed to mirror details of Earth's products and conventions merely happened to go along with budget constraints by good fortune - there's a real reason for the similarities beyond having not enough money to build Alien Space Mugs every time somebody has to walk in with a cup of coffee.)

[atomicdumbass.livejournal.com]

Count Iblis, please. He hot.