The Epic Battlestar Galactica series discussion thread

[Secretagentnumber6]

Today at NOON EST, new Galactica webisodes starring Athena and Gaeta. Apparently these are set at the end of where Season 4 left off with its midseason finale. I am excited about these and the new season. Here is the link for the site where the webisodes will be:

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/webisodes/

[ArieS]

I'm confused
I'm at season 3 right now on DVD.
I thought season 4 was the final season?
So there're new episodes and they are on internet only?

[Secretagentnumber6]

Originally Posted by ArieS

I'm confused
I'm at season 3 right now on DVD.
I thought season 4 was the final season?
So there're new episodes and they are on internet only?

Season 4 is the final season. But they split it up into two seperate mini seasons. The second half of season 4 starts in the middle of January. The previous half was last summer. The webisodes are just a series of shorts with a continuous storyline that fits in between the halves of season 4. Hope that helps.

[Psychonaut]

Might have to check these out. As much as I'm upset the show is ending, I can't wait for the final season to start.

[ArieS]

thanks

[ckent22]

Never seen one episode, but was wondering if it's a decent show.

[johnarnold101]

I really wanted to get into it but like "Lost" and "Heros" it went into to many different directions and made it not so fun to follow if you missed an episode here and there. I plan on watching some of this season since they get to earth.

[Lucy Diamond]

I've seen quite a few people on that show who used to be in a Canadian teen mellowdrama called Edgemont.


I have only seen a few Battlestar Gallactica episodes, but I liked what I saw.

[fronn]

It's a fantastic series... One of the few that I'll definitely be buying on BR (Lost and Heroes are fun, but there's nothing there that I'd want to rewatch).

It's probably my favorite TV show on at the moment.

I was actually rather unimpressed by the mini series when I started watching it last year (I only just started a few months back), but once real episodes started I was hooked.

I'd say give it a chance -- mini series + a couple episodes should give you an idea of the series. It definitely is a show that you can't be missing episodes of though.

[Elandyll]

This past Friday, Jan. 16th, we had the first of the last episodes of what I think will remain a great classic of TV Sci Fi.

It started of with a bang (pun intended), not only revealing who is the 5th Cylon, but also a few other things happening.

[Show spoiler]So what do you guys think? If Ellen Tigh was the 5th, isn't Starbuck a Cylon? Seemed pretty clear that the presence of a "Hub" of some kind on Earth was hinted at, and that Starbuck would be the 5th Cylon, but then comes along Tigh's revelation that Ellen was with him back in the days.
Also, Duala's suicide: My wife and I were literally WTF?!
Other WTF: The 13th tribe were actually Cylons. So basically Humanoid Cylons are a sort of "ultimate" human that through evolution we would tend to become, but still cannot get rid of our inner traits that lead us to self destruction, via our own creations?

Another great episode imo. Can't wait to see more, even if I know that every episode get us closer to the end of this awesome show.

P.S: haven't been able to find another thread about this in particular, but feel free to merge if I missed it.

[doctorD]

Originally Posted by Elandyll

This past Friday, Jan. 16th, we had the first of the last episodes of what I think will remain a great classic of TV Sci Fi.

It started of with a bang (pun intended), not only revealing who is the 5th Cylon, but also a few other things happening.

[Show spoiler]So what do you guys think? If Ellen Tigh was the 5th, isn't Starbuck a Cylon? Seemed pretty clear that the presence of a "Hub" of some kind on Earth was hinted at, and that Starbuck would be the 5th Cylon, but then comes along Tigh's revelation that Ellen was with him back in the days.
Also, Duala's suicide: My wife and I were literally WTF?!
Other WTF: The 13th tribe were actually Cylons. So basically Humanoid Cylons are a sort of "ultimate" human that through evolution we would tend to become, but still cannot get rid of our inner traits that lead us to self destruction, via our own creations?

[Show spoiler] My wife and I initially thought that maybe everyone is a cylon but I keep going back to the intro where it is stated that there are 12 and we know who 11 of them are so I don't know!

[Astalder]

[Show spoiler]I think it may be a mistake to deem Ellen the fifth Cylon based on a memory of Tigh. They've already established with the Six that he imagines her in place of other women. I swear I saw Kara's face there when she first rolled over, I didn't freeze frame it, but either way I'm inclined to think it might be the case. Also it seemed to be Kara's hair there. Also the vision was flawed, as Tigh has aged with Adama. If the fifth Cylon is not Kara, then they're writing themselves into a place where she is a literal act of God, poof, I find my theory more plausibel personally.

[peter008]

you know, censorship has it' place but this is getting ridiculous

[un4gvn94538]

Originally Posted by peter008

you know, censorship has it' place but this is getting ridiculous

chill. its not censorship. its how the hid details so they dont spoil it for anyone. just highlight anything covered like when you copy and past a sentence to reveal the secret message.

[peter008]

thanx for the info i will chill now sorry.

[Secretagentnumber6]

Just a note. Ron Moore declared that the person declared as the 5th Cylon in the episode is for sure the final of the final five

[Show spoiler]Ellen Tigh

. There can be no debate, since he is the creator of the show.

Here is the link to the article.

Ron Moore Talks

[AintNoSin]

There's nothing significant about her being the final cylon. She was simply the last one to be revealed.

The head-frak is that

[Show spoiler]one of the final five offed another one of the final five for collaborating with the Cylons!

.

[Zvi]

I didn't quite get where they're headed with all this. How many copies of who are running around, or were running around and all that super depressing struff.

[jadedeath]

I've always figured...

[Show spoiler] that there's actually 13 breeds of Cylon based on the fact that there was 13 tribes of Kobol.

I have serious issue with them saying that the final five are actually FROM earth since the other Cylons were created and designed, but the final 5 are poof there all the sudden?

The first part of season 4 devolved into a 'this happens because the writers say so and not because it makes any logical sense' and unfortunately it seems to be continuing into the latter half of season 5.

It's actually something that's been bugging me for awhile now, the 7 original models of cylons were programed to 'not think about' the final 5... but I fail to see how that's logically possible with one of the original 7 models being number 8. Somewhere along the lines at least one of the original 7 models should logically learn how to count and figure out that something is wrong.

The beginning of season 4/end of season 3 was also kind of annoying, why not reveal that someone ELSE was a Cylon? Now every main character and their second cousin is a Cylon. It's just overkill or bad writing, I'm not sure which just yet.

Logan

[katharsis]

Looks like they are just struggling to bring this to end already.
They probably never thought as far as Season 3 and 4 when they started this show off.
I just hope that it will not get too cheesy, because I really love the first 2 seasons!