Battlestar Galactica 411: The Hub open thread (COMMENTS CONTAIN SPOILERS)
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Right before the Basestar jumped in they showed a traveling energy ball. I'm starting to think BSG's "Jump drive" is akin to Star Trek's transporter where it deconstructs you into energy and transmits it.
Posted by: Scorpius | June 06, 2008 at 09:38 PM
HA HA HA Deanna totally p0wned Laura with that, "You don't know you're one of them?"
Posted by: Jacqueline | June 07, 2008 at 02:28 AM
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY Bill/Laura love forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jacqueline | June 07, 2008 at 02:31 AM
Damnit, I thought we were going to find out this episode who the final Cylon is. :(
They better show us next week. I am getting impatient.
Posted by: Jacqueline | June 07, 2008 at 02:32 AM
Damnit, I thought we were going to find out this episode who the final Cylon is. :(
You know, Tyrol was saying something was "not right" about Starbuck's Viper. What if it is....
Posted by: Scorpius | June 07, 2008 at 06:13 AM
There are 12 models of Cylons that look like humans.
Posted by: Jacqueline | June 07, 2008 at 06:26 AM
Could be a transformer, or a Founder.
Posted by: Scorpius | June 07, 2008 at 06:35 AM
It's either going to be Doc Cottle or Billy. I can feel it.
However, D'anna trolling Roslin (complete with sinking feeling music) was totally frakking awesome.
Posted by: RFJason | June 07, 2008 at 09:25 AM
I keep wondering if the centurion that Baltar was talking to survived. If so, the argument that God did not intend the Centurions to be slaves could end up having unintended consequences.
Or did everyone dodge a bullet there?
Posted by: JD | June 07, 2008 at 05:48 PM
He looked pretty blowed up and smashed to pieces to me.
Posted by: Philip Welch | June 07, 2008 at 05:59 PM
Substitutes sloppy sentimentality for moral judgment and drips with religion and mysticism. Baltar should have been out the airlock centons ago. Roslind continually mistakes her dreams, imaginary gods, demons, gut stirrings, gas pains/feelings as tools of cognition. If goats were available in the fleet, she would be interpreting the bumps in their entrails according to how she FEELS about them to make decisions affecting the remaining ~40K of humanity.
Posted by: anonxxx | June 07, 2008 at 06:19 PM
What I'm surprised about is that the Cylon didn't just shoot Baltar (considering they have had all their constraints removed by Nina). Sure the Mech Cylons are sentient, but all that talk about dogs, food and snouts have got to be making the mech Cylon think "What the frack is this organic bag of mostly water talking about?"
Posted by: Scorpius | June 07, 2008 at 08:26 PM
In TV it's practically an inviolate rule that the male and female leads eventually are involved romantically. All too often it feels like it's forced like such relationships exist only because it is in the plot, or it's expected to happen.
This is why the whole Lee/Kara thing really doesn't work for me.
However, I'm betting the Laura/Bill relationship was never originally on the agenda for the show. It's evolved naturally, it feels true, not forced on the characters.
Onto the issue of the ressurection hub:
They are talking about its destruction as if they can never build a new one. Why can't they?
Posted by: Shawn Levasseur | June 07, 2008 at 09:52 PM
I also thought they had resurrection facilities on the planets they occupied.
Posted by: Jacqueline | June 07, 2008 at 09:54 PM
I think the point of the hub was that it was needed for all the other ressurection facilities to be able to operate.
Which doesn't sound right to me. This one irreplaceable hub to 'rule them all' makes no sense to me. It creates too abvious of an Achilles heel to the Cylons. It reeks of 'plot contrivance' in order to get the story wrapped up this season.
I'm willing to suspend disbelief. But it did get a bit tougher.
Posted by: Shawn Levasseur | June 08, 2008 at 12:26 AM
It's kind of like they wanted to redo the resurrection ship story even after establishing they can build new resurrection ships.
Posted by: Philip Welch | June 08, 2008 at 06:31 AM
Or they just had a very bad case of central planning? While I find it hard to believe that the ship can't be replaced, my best guess is that maybe the central control has to be brought up before the individual cylons who will be connected to it (as an order of operations thing). So new cyclons could be created that would work with the new hub but the current generation are in deep trouble.
Now, it is possible that this could be fixed but the big mystery of the series is that we don;t have an "inventor/planner" cyclon. Who created this technology? Who developed the final five? Who originally put control chips into the centurions?
I am betting on an older model of Centurion that the skinjobs purged. After all, a raider could identify a member of the final five -- they and the centurions may have been more important than it looks like now.
Posted by: JD | June 08, 2008 at 11:23 AM
"Now, it is possible that this could be fixed but the big mystery of the series is that we don;t have an "inventor/planner" cyclon."
There is an upside to that... Remeber the tail end of Matrix: Reloaded?
Posted by: Shawn Levasseur | June 08, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Shawn,
I'm trying desperately to forget that the last two Matrix movies were even made.
Posted by: Scorpius | June 08, 2008 at 05:41 PM
My point exactly.
Posted by: Shawn Levasseur | June 08, 2008 at 07:00 PM