Battlestar Galactica

[Arthur_Parker]

[Tannhauser]

A better episode.  Showed that they may actually attempt to finish this series.



Starbuck has now resolved her mommy issues, her daddy issues and even her life issues (mostly on that one).  She is ready to move on or to achieve her destiny.

[Oban]

Excellent episode.

[HaemishM]

The Cylon memory share makes me think that Baltar's brain got the Head Six as a Cylon death download. It's also making me think that the guy behind all the weird shit is one of Baltar's personalities we haven't seen yet that he doesn't even know existed. Which would really be a shitty copout.

[Arthur_Parker]

[pants]

I kinda lost interest halfway through the 2nd series, but I still keep tabs on this thread.  One question - did they ever resolve exactly what head 6 is?  Has baltar got a brain tumor, or is she being beamed into his head or something?  Has this ever been resolved?

[rattran]

Head 6 (and Head Baltar) just kinda fell out of the series for quite a while. I don't expect them to resolve what they are/were

[palmer_eldritch]

I kinda lost interest halfway through the 2nd series, but I still keep tabs on this thread.  One question - did they ever resolve exactly what head 6 is?  Has baltar got a brain tumor, or is she being beamed into his head or something?  Has this ever been resolved?

Baltar had a brain scan which found there was nothing odd in his head, as I recall. But it was never explained what head 6 is. Caprica 6 had a head Baltar for a bit too.

[Quinton]

I kinda lost interest halfway through the 2nd series, but I still keep tabs on this thread.  One question - did they ever resolve exactly what head 6 is?  Has baltar got a brain tumor, or is she being beamed into his head or something?  Has this ever been resolved?

Baltar had a brain scan which found there was nothing odd in his head, as I recall. But it was never explained what head 6 is. Caprica 6 had a head Baltar for a bit too.

I'm kinda sad that they never sorted this out.

One of my favorite fake-outs in the show was where Caprica 6 is resurrected and meets Baltar, and for just a moment I'm thinking "no way, Baltar's a cylon..." until I realize that for some reason, C6 has a head Baltar.

[HaemishM]

The 6 and Baltar are sharing data like Cylons do.

[Lum]

There have been many "head-cases".

Baltar - sees a hypersexualized, hyperreligious version of Caprica-6. Still does.
Caprica-6 - sees a sane, calm well-groomed version of Baltar. Hasn't seen him much, though...
...Baltar ALSO saw Head-Baltar once, which was more than a little passing-strange.
Starbuck saw a Head-Leoben (who admitted at the end he wasn't Leoben at all) during Maelstrom before she died.

And most recently:


So, yeah, this is not a minor plot point, and it'll get explained.

http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Virtual_beings

[MrHat]

Uh.  Is Hulu 1 week behind?  I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

[Numtini]

Pretty amazing episode. Anyone catch the title of the tape?

[Venkman]

The guard at the brig was reading Mind & Matter on Tyrel's first visit with Boomer. I'm not smart enough to know why that is significant, except that they made a point of showing it big enough to be obvious.

Otherwise, a good episode that showed the true nature of many of the characters.

I'm still just a little put out though that the Final Five, the scion of skinjob myth and society for thousands of years (apparently), are little more than squabbling scientists who haven't the wearwithall to throw their status around a little with the Rebels. Like, why weren't they immediately elevated to leaders of the Rebel basestar?

[Gobbeldygook]

Uh.  Is Hulu 1 week behind?  I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Yes.  Episodes are now posted online a week after airing.

[MrHat]

Uh.  Is Hulu 1 week behind?  I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Yes.  Episodes are now posted online a week after airing.

Thanks.  I was getting very confused.

[Riggswolfe]

I'm kind of annoyed by Tyrol in this last episode. His actions with Boomer seemed...a bit out of the blue. He hasn't been shown to be pining for her really and he was so damned naive I wanted to smack him.

The rest of it was pretty good.

[Numtini]

If there are any shrinks left in the fleet, the Chief is a lifetime meal ticket. He started in a secret love with someone who turned out to be a cylon agent and shot his boss. Then he married the woman who shot his previous girlfriend. Then his old girlfriend from Earth tossed that wife out the airlock.

Almost any romantic action with anyone could be explained adequately with that history. There's enough material for a conference.

[Tale]

He also turned out to be a cylon himself, in a hopeless situation. So resuming his relationship with the cylon might have offered hope.

[Samwise]

I hate to admit it, but I got chills when Starbuck started playing the song.   

[Numtini]

So did I. I hadn't caught the tune at all until they went into it.

[Tale]

Sorry but it annoys me. It's a great song - Bob Dylan wrote it, Jimi Hendrix made it famous, U2 did a version of it, and then somebody's kid from the show made an unrecognisable ambient version of it, they used it on the show and geeks across the internet go "wow".

There's a similar thread to this on my MMO guild's forum and they hadn't even heard of All Along The Watchtower until BSG. I was embarrassed on behalf of all nerds.

[Mrbloodworth]

Whos Bob Dylan?

[Engels]

I don't even get why that song choice is so cool. I mean, they're in freakin Space. Somehow Dylan is sending brain wave patterns to the Cylon Opera house?

[sidereal]

What?  No.  Jimi.

Yes, he took that much acid.  His spirit is broadcasting a remix of his song to alien robots in another galaxy.  No big deal.

[Soln]

I presume it's just the same as Klingon Shakespeare. 

[Raguel]

I guess I'm a sap, but I liked how the "chasing a car" bit dovetailed with the Boomer/Tyrol story. It was obvious it wasn't going to end well, but I had no idea how badly it would go.


I can't think of an episode since the end of New Caprica that I liked as much as this one.

[Samwise]

It wasn't the song choice so much that made me go , it was having Hera, the Final Five, and Starbuck all tied together in an instant by a few notes of music.  It was a fucking cool way of doing it.

It does help that I like the song (mainly Jimi's version of it, although I actually thought it sounded pretty cool being banged out on a piano like that).

[HaemishM]

I love the song. But BSG really pissed me off when they did the final 5 reveal and used a SUPERBOMBASTICMR.CRAPTASTIC shitty shit shit shit version of it by none of the artists who have made that song great over the years.

[Samwise]

Agreed on that point.

[Tale]

I don't even get why that song choice is so cool. I mean, they're in freakin Space. Somehow Dylan is sending brain wave patterns to the Cylon Opera house?

This has all happened before and will happen again. So Bob Dylan (and probably Jimi) were tuned into the endlessly repeating cosmic vibe, man. That's where the song really comes from (?).

[SnakeCharmer]

Re the song:

When I heard it, the first thought in my head was the cylon playing it was have some sort of latent memory pop up that is supposed to allude to just how far back the cylons go as far as creation.  Possibly some sort of AI that was developed in the 1960's.

But I could just be speculating out of my ass.

[Kirth]

Re the song:

When I heard it, the first thought in my head was the cylon playing it was have some sort of latent memory pop up that is supposed to allude to just how far back the cylons go as far as creation.  Possibly some sort of AI that was developed in the 1960's.

But I could just be speculating out of my ass.

I think one of the Ron Moore podcasts explained that they wanted something that was recognizable as being from earth but not a existing version of it (the song).

[Tale]

For anyone unfamiliar with it, this is the classic, definitive version of the song: All Along The Watchtower (linking for audio, not video - audio is a bit cut off at the end unfortunately). It's a cover version, but this is the version that would usually be played on radio if somebody requested it.

[HaemishM]

Yeah, that's the stuff.