DISQUS

Mark Dykeman · 1 year ago

I get the feeling that TPTB have started a bunch of things during the series that just aren't going to get resolved properly unless they get some serious treatment in part 2 of this season, like:

- Starbuck's story - where the heck did her Viper come from when she "returned from Earth"
- little Nicky the secret Cylon child
- Hera herself... got to be more to her.. plus she seems to be ageing quickly
- Gaita..? Dee...?
- Tory killing Cally
- the shared visions between Roslin, Caprica-6, and Athena
- Tom Zarek - there's got to be more to happen with him
- now C-6 is pregnant...
- why aren't there any more worries about food or fuel?
- the Galactica itself probably isn't in great shape since the New Caprica rescue/atmospheric plunge and burn
- the fact that they haven't run out of things like medication, alcohol, basic supplies like clothing, weapons/ordanance...
- I expect the series to end with Galactica's destruction, among other things


But I expect next week to be quite good, too. :)

webomatica · 1 year ago

Totally - with a list like that, how will the show tie up any of those
threads satisfyingly? Each one - say "why does Batlar see Head Six and share
visions with Roslin and Sharon" could have a whole show to itself. I don't
think they could save it all for the last episode and do some huge
mega-solution without any one of the topics getting short shrift. This is
why I have been jonesing for answers for quite some time or hoping
characters die so we don't have to think about their parts in the plot or
even their candidacy as the last of the final five.

Lastly, Tom Zarek - I happened upon another (admittedly weak) bit of evidece
for him being the fifth cylon. All the other four have "T" in their names:
Colonel Tigh, Samuel "T" Anders, Tory, and Tyrol. The only other characters
I can think of with "T" are Starbuck (Kara Thrace) and... Tom Zarek. But
there's a lot of other evidence for him being the last of the final five -
always on the outskirts of credibility and jockeying for power in the fleet
in illegitimate ways. Plus, the tie in of having him be the key to the whole
series would be a neat tie-in from the original to the reimagining.

Mark Dykeman · 1 year ago

See, I think they're royally screwing Zarek's character over in the series because he's coming across as very, very weak, a pushover, even, because now he's given up the presidency twice with nothing to show for it except his life. He really hasn't done anything significant except helping Lee get his seat on the quorum (for reasons that still aren't clear).

I think they have to pull off some kind of major plot twist in order to make him relevant. Making him the 5th could help but it would have to be done perfectly in order to have credibility.

You know, I totally forgot about Head Six and Head Baltar... mainly because I think that TPTB have forgotten, too...

Sprague D · 1 year ago

Jason, I wanted to send an email -- but I was too dumb to figure out your address... ;-)

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webomatica · 1 year ago

Thanks - I think I solved it by disabling a plug in. Will have to revisit to
see if that really fixed the error. I'm using Firefox 3 which doesn't seem
to support firebug...