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Battlestar Galactica Mid-Season Finale
Jun 16, 2008 | 2:06 PM
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I'm very sad today.  One of my favorite shows, impacted my the writer's strike, will not return to air their final 10 episodes until the first quarter of 2009.  However, I hear, like the Razor 2-hour movie that bridged the gap for us, there is at least two more movies in the works, and I believe we'll get to see that perhaps this fall. 

This show has always been edgy and sexy, has earned itself a Peabody Award, and what you expect to happen never does. 

I thought the final episode would be about them finding earth, but what earth?  Our past, our present or our future?  By a matter of deduction, I ruled out present-day Earth since that was done in the original series.  That left me with future Earth or past Earth.  Either Earth-case-scenarios would have made for interesting TV.  My thoughts about past Earth were they settled with their half-cylon/half-human children and eventually a new human race emerged.  My thoughts about a future Earth was one technologically advanced to beat back the cylons.  That is why I'm a viewer, and the writers on BSG are where they are.

I was not at all suspecting that we would land on earth at the mid-season finale on Friday night.  I couldn't tell if it was San Francisco or New York City (with bridge could possibly be either) and the reason I couldn't tell is that they arrived on an earth that was blown up by nukes.  So these are my thoughts after watching it a season time Friday night:

1.   Did we blow ourselves up, or did the other group of cylons find earth and blow it up themselves?

2.  Did they land in an alternate reality Earth? 

3.  Did they go down the wrong wormhole? 

I kept thinking about Starbuck's experience and her coming back months later when only a little bit of time elapsed for her.  That would point to some sort of time-related event.  The final 5 cylons had already been to earth and knew the way.  Again, that points to some sort of time-related event.  And the phrase they used throughout the series, "What has happened before will happen again" indicates perhaps there is some time loop going on.  Did making peace with the cylons alter their destiny?  Will they try to figure out time travel so they can go back to earth before they blow themselves up and show the citizens of earth that if cylons and humans, enemies for more than 50 years, can make peace with each other, than so can we? 

I believe one of the movies is going to be earth-based and show why the cities were nuked. 

So let's hear it my closet BSG friends!  What are your theories?

Oh, and a little "nugget" for you all:  I heard that the last episode was 3 hours long and they might just air it as a three-parter, making us having the final 12 episodes coming in 2009 instead of the final 10. 

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Robin9223 read my blog view my photos
Jun 16, 2008 | 7:02 PM

I have no idea where on Earth they were, but all was gone. And I hate that we have to wait 6 + months to find out.
PBMom read my blog view my photos
Jun 17, 2008 | 1:42 AM

No theories Robin?? Who do you think the final cylon is? Do you think Starbuck will now finally divorce Sam, her now-revealed cylon husband, and Apollo and Starbuck will have a happy ending, or will Ronald Moore even give us a happy ending? We know the final cylon is not Rosalind, and I don't think Adama is either because there are working on a prequel called Caprica and info on that show leads me to believe that definitely isn't it. I thought maybe Gaida or maybe even Dee or maybe they'll let Tom (Richard Hatch the old Apollo) be the final one. It definitely is someone who is not in the painting currently.
Robin9223 read my blog view my photos
Jun 17, 2008 | 7:27 AM

The hubs and I have always bounced back and forth the idea of Roslin, Adama or Baltar as the 5th. They are making it look like it is Starbuck, but who knows. They just need to stop teasing us.
45ACP read my blog
Jun 17, 2008 | 9:43 AM

With the cloud cover that was over the earth in the space scenes, you could not tell land masses. Was it 'earth' as we define it, or some other planet? I don't think it was cylons, destruction looked to be too aged, not recent.
Have to wait to see.....
PBMom read my blog view my photos
Jun 17, 2008 | 12:41 PM

Well that bridge sure looked like either the San Francisco bridge from a different angle than we used to see it or the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. I don't think that there would be another solar system where the star constellations matched with ours. Which brings me back to the different sci-fi theories of time.
45ACP read my blog
Jun 18, 2008 | 7:17 AM

PBMom... Just remember, the constellations may have matched, but matched what? How do we know that they are the constellations that match to our 'earth'? I too am a BSG fan. I don't know, just speculation on my part. Something to think about...
PBMom read my blog view my photos
Jun 18, 2008 | 4:03 PM

Well, remember the constellations on the planet Kobol they found that was the map to Earth? That, in looking up at the night sky, the people from the 13th tribe would be looking at those constellations. They are the constellations (Aries, Pisces, Gemini, etc.) Those are our constellations. No?
45ACP read my blog
Jun 19, 2008 | 8:37 AM

Forgot about that one...

We will have to see if any future mini-movies, or whatever give any more details!
texasdebs read my blog view my photos
Jun 27, 2008 | 4:59 PM

PBMom: I used to love to watch it when I was a kid, I didn't even know it was back.

I didn't realize how much you dig sci-fi. Cool.
PBMom read my blog view my photos
Jun 28, 2008 | 12:52 AM

TexasDebs: I was a skeptic that this could be remade, after all I was in total love with Richard Hatch as Apollo and Dirk Benedict as Starbuck in the original series. I was blown away by the miniseries in 2003. Then I heard they were going to make it into a series, and I was ecstatic. This year is the final year, the writers decided that, not the network. They felt that at the end of the fourth season, their story will be done. Most of the Blockbuster stores have copies of at least the miniseries in their Sci-Fi section. There are some people who still dislike the new version, but the biggest skeptic of them all, Richard Hatch, gave his thumbs up and they actually let him have a part on the show and he was quite good in that role.

Oh yeah, I'm a total Sci-Fi nerd.

You have computer access, I think you might be able to watch some of the episodes on Scifi.com
I'll go check and let you know.
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Mother of a 12-year-old child with autism, mild hypotonic CP, dyspraxia, MR and a seizure disorder. Married for 15 years. Have worked full-time as a telecommuter for the last 19 years. I've been the special needs minister at our church, but time demands haven't allowed me to go back. Published before in "Catholic Digest", and different poems in several books of poetry. I love 24, American Idol, Lost, Jericho and Sci-Fi (Stargate Atlantis, SG-1, Farscape, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica). My husband and I are huge movie buffs. I love to swim. I love golden retrievers. They are awesome dogs. I used to sing/take formal vocal lessons and had a formal vocal recital at Hamman Hall at Rice University in the mid 1980's. Although my friends have encouraged me that I need to write about my life story, I've made several attempts and it isn't going too well. I love blogging. It's my new creative outlet. I am a member of Texas School Watch, an advocacy group bent on exposing misuse of your tax dollars within school districts. Join the fight at: http://texasschoolwatch10
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