First after, again, being gone for a bit let me say to darth, Hey back!
I'm with Alluveal on last week's ep. While it was slow paced, I think there's always more beneath the surface. You all act like Lee will be in charge for some period of time. He won't since Roslyn will return pretty quickly. I thought it a bit of a stretch for them to put Lee in charge and to allow Adama to dictate who the president should be. It should've been Zerrick, period, he was in line and Adama should've been told he had to deal with him. End of line.
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Now...last night's ep was frakkin' wonderful! There is so much info being played out here that if you're not careful you'll miss something crucial. From Roselyn's visions while jumping and the revelation that she won't let herself love (and I was happy to see the Priest back...I love her!) to the fact that when they were returning Roselyn was seeing the Priest when they weren't jumping; from Baltar's "you're a person, too" conversation with the centurion (and it's very odd reaction) to his morph-induced confession (what a damn good scene!); from the Sharon's admitting to peaking into Athena's memories to Helo's almost horrified reaction at seeing all the "dead" cylon bodies; from the hybrid knowingly jumping them to complete their mission (when was it ever in on the mission? It was down when the mission was planned.) to it's being aware that the 3 was back; from D'Anna's revival (and great killing of Cavil...LOL) to her now being the only 3 in existance (this will give her a uniquely "human" perception now) and her out for #1 position on things to her frakking with Roselyn's head for a second about her being the 5th (I knew it was going to be something like that)....well, I could just go on and on. This was a wondefully written episode! Roselyn's admittance to loving Adama at the end was great and is very important to her character going forward I believe.
Now...Over at Trekmovie.com there's a weekly article that Anthony (the site runner) posts every week on BSG. In a recent one (I believe it was the article for last week's ep) he had some interview links to an interview with Olmos and a mention of Aaron Douglass' thoughts on the 5th cylon. Here is the link:
http://news.scifinow.co.uk/?p=234
Here is a bit of what was said:
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“It’s not a happy ending, we end up with almost nothing,” the 61-year-old actor told journalists from the magazine over the weekend, while jokingly recommending that people don’t watch it. Previously in the day, Olmos had described how highly he rated the show, reaffirming his previous statement that it was the best television that he had been involved with. “Twenty years from now, people will see this as excellent post-9/11 television. It’ll be marketed in a way that demonstrates sociological change for the time.”
And here is what Douglass said about the 5th:'
Olmos also revealed that the cast now know who the final Cylon is as they’ve shot the last episode, but he remained tight-lipped over the final fifth’s identity. However, Aaron Douglas did say that all of the guesses and popular theories he’d seen on internet forums and blogs “don’t even come close”.
Ok, so armed with this info and doing what Alluveal is doing in looking at the moments and after thinking long and hard on this ep and those leading up to it and after talking at length about it, my roommate and I have begun to believe we may have an inkling of who the 5th cylon is, how and why they are important, what their search for redemption could be (the hybrids have referred to the 5th as being one searching for redemption, coming out of a dark place), and what’s going to happen when they find earth.
The trailer for the next ep seems to indicate they find earth, which would make it a cliffhanger for sure. What a place to leave us with them finding earth in the last 5 or 10 minutes. That could possibly make sense though, because that would leave them the entire last half of the final season to reveal, explain, conclude and generally wrap things up.
And just to give you all a hint as to who we believe is the 5th cylon, it’s someone who is trully not in the “last supper” picture, but who has been there, quietly, the entire series and has had some influence on key people. Considering Douglass says no one has come close and since I've seen this person rarely if ever even mentioned...then well, we'll wait and see.
If you all want me to post our thoughts and conclusions here at the near mid-mark of the final season, I will be happy to do so. But I don't want to post them right off since they could possibly end up leading someone to conclusions that spoil the rest of the show for them. For me, having believed I may have possibly figured this thing out to some degree, it doesn't spoil it...it now becomes a matter of seeing how right I turn out to be.
I'll check back and see what your desire is later and if you seem to want me to go into it, I will be glad to do so.
Oh and as for why they split the season, it was not planned to be split like this, but the strike affected the show's production, so they had to split it. This is why they're now considering doing up to 4 more Razor-like TV movies immediately before the sets are struck that will be shown in the time between now and when the last 10 episodes air. These movies will do what Razor did and give very important backstory that's key to the end of the series. This also strengthens my hypothosis as to who the 5th may be and where this will all end. There will also be a series of mini-webisodes building back up to the final 10 eps.
So...now I just sit back and see what you guys want me to do. Don't take too long. (Can you tell I really want to share my thoughts with you guys? And let's be clear, you guys are the only forum I'm sharing this with. Why? Because, no one talks BSG like you guys! You're the best! Well, after all, you're B5 folk and B5 folk are always the best to talk shows like this with...because we've had a lot of practice
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