Re: BSG Season 2 Finale (SPOILER CONTENT - BE WARN
Holy crap that was awesome!
It really seemed kind of unnecessary to make it a year as well, they could've easily made it a month or so and had the same effect.
Oh no, a year makes the Cylons' return that much more devastating. After a month people are still thinking maybe they'll come, etc. But after a year even Adama and Ty assumed they were finished with the Cylons.
Also not sure what to make of the Cylons. What was the point in saying they were giving up on fighting the humans and then coming and occupying them, and why was one of them the six model that was supposedly leading the Cylon resistance movement against the destruction of the remaining humans?
A mystery left for season 3, obviously, but we can speculate given what info we have.
It seems as if the Cylons have abandoned their mission to destroy humanity. This is a result of the "war heroes." Perhaps in the interest of intra-Cylon peace, they decided to compromise.
They still despise humans, so perhaps they want to use them as slave labor and/or, since they see humans as inherently destructive, they ultimately want to make sure that they are never powerful again.
The crucial element here is what the current state of the Cylons' religious beliefs is. Dean Stockwell (a brilliant casting choice!) said that the Cylons abandoned God. We need to see how true that is and what the consequences are.
(this was written after I saw vacantlook's similar post on the subject)
I know Dr. Franklin doesn't think it's funny to space people, but I think I would laugh.
Apparently Roselyn agrees with you. She's come to enjoy that order.
The only thing I can imagine is that it really is a dream and by the end of the season premiere it will be shown as thus.
If that happens, I may quit watching. I've come to respect this show because, like Babylon 5, they don't fuck around like that. When people die, they stay dead, and when people screw up, things are actually screwed up! No "reset button," no interchangeable seasons or episodes, nothing.
When people are living the kind of hectic, dangerous lives these people are, everything moves faster. Sure, to us the idea of a guy "accidentally" beating the living hell out of a woman than marrying her and knocking her up in the space of a year is absurd, but refugees occupied solely with survival live at a much faster pace. They don't have time for the kind of navel-gazing introspection and "finding myself" bullshit that we luxuriate in.
Doral - They guy from the pilot who was the photographer, who usually wears red suits.
Just to get our teminology straight- this is the same one that came in with 6 and Sharon at the very end, to whom Balter surrendered, yes?
I call him the Kevin Spacey cylon.
