None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

[constance]

I just watched the season finale of Battlestar Galactica, and I know I should've watched it weeks ago, but it took me a while to get those last episodes downloaded. But now I've watched it, and I really really want to talk about it. I mean! Gosh!

I don't even know where to start, honestly -- I just feel all keyed up and agog and even though I sort of guessed some of the twists, in the way that I guess twists, one of about six possibles floating around in my head and one turns out to be right and I'm not convinced it's really going to happen until it does, that doesn't mean I didn't watch it all going down with my mouth hanging open.

Wait, I do know where to start. It occurred to me that things might be headed for cylonhood for the music-hearers as soon as I realized not everyone was hearing the music, and then all I really needed to do was make note of who was hearing it and who wasn't to guess who those cylons might be. And then when they started quoting lyrics and I realized what song they were hearing, I just started laughing, because.

Okay, you know, none of the Cylons ever really talk about their God in any way but the most nebulous and general way, as far as I can recall, but when they started quoting lyrics, I suddenly started laughing because more than just about anything in the world, what I wanted right then was for the Cylons' monotheism to be centered around Bob Dylan. I wanted "All Along the Watchtower" to be some kind of ancient sacred hymn.

So what did you think of the season finale? Please share, I'm begging you!

Comments

[dahlia-777.livejournal.com]

I was blown away by the last ep too! I swear to you, my palms were sweating and I was shaking and I was sitting bolt upright on the sofa mouthing "OMG, OMG, OMG!!!" like a maniac. Colonel Tigh was the biggest shock, but Tyrol was a surprise too. Anders and Roslin's aide, meh, not so bothered. I always thought Billy was a Cylon so I was mentally prepared for his replacement to be one too. But Tigh - how screwed up is he going to be now? Loved how he went *straight* into denial. Loved it.

Kara - what a fab way for her to come back after all the angst and emo-handwringing just before she "died". I wasn't spoiled for her reappearance but I totally expected it. I don't know if she's the final cylon or not but it would make sense. Either that or she's made some Very Significant Discovery on that mysterious gas planet she disappeared into.

And can I just say that I love Baltar SO MUCH! I feel disloyal to Kara for saying this because she's my favourite character nearly all of the time, but whenever Baltar's on screen I'm not watching anyone else, you know what I'm saying...?

[tofty.livejournal.com]

After the idea that the people hearing the music might very well be Cylons dawned on me, I spent the rest of the episode in pretty heavy denial myself! I sat there clenching the arms of my desk chair with my mouth open, thinking NO WAY THIS IS SO COMPLETELY INSANE (caps entirely appropriate here) -- not only the idea of the Cylons themselves, which the only one who didn't leave me completely enraptured and agog was Tori, in whom I've always perceived a kind of robotic quality (not that I expected her to be a Cylon, just that she's so incredibly methodical and chilly). I love the idea of Anders as a Cylon almost as much as I adore both Tigh and Tyrol as Cylons, though. Think of him trapped under rubble with Sharon and Caprica and D'Anna! And Sharon and Caprica letting him go! ♥ I wonder if they knew he was one of them?

And I wonder who D'Anna was apologizing to, when she finally saw the final five before we did! I'm thinking Tigh, because she was pretty nasty about him when she was making the documentary -- but who knows, really.

Oh, man. As far as my favorite character goes, I'd be hard-pressed to say. Starbuck and Baltar and Roslin and Tigh (and to a lesser degree Adama and Lee and Tyrol) are all completely mesmerizing to me, and my favorite tends to change with the storylines they're working out as opposed to their characters. But yeah, Baltar is divine, isn't he?! OMG, his line at the end of the trial was vintage Gaius: "I always knew that I was going to be acquitted, but the fact that I have been found innocent shouldn't disguise in any way that this trial has been a total pantomime." *dies* I do love him so.

[dahlia-777.livejournal.com]

Think of him trapped under rubble with Sharon and Caprica and D'Anna! And Sharon and Caprica letting him go! I'd forgotten that but you're so right - delicious irony. I don't think they know who the other cylons are - they're machines and could just remove that from their "memory", either to further their cause or because of some rift we don't yet know about. Maybe the cylons we've just found out about deliberately wiped their memory? We don't even know how they fit into the cylon hierarchy yet. Is Tigh chief cylon? Oh, so many possibilities.

How do you feel about the makers saying the next series will be the last? In a way I think it's good - they'll quit while they're ahead, and at least there's no risk of it being cancelled because of stupid ratings (RIP Sunset Beach - I'm still bitter!). But on the other hand it's such a shame and I'll miss it so much. It's more than a TV show, you know. It transcends mere entertainment - it's art!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I feel exactly the same about the proposed series end. I'm glad they're limiting themselves to a strictly-regulated time frame, and quitting before the show starts to crumble. But I don't know what I'll do without BSG! It's one of the things I've looked forward to most, since I first started watching it.

They had better answer all those questions before the series ends, though. If they don't, I will have to cut somebody.