DISQUS

Doctor Zee · 1 year ago

And so, Battlestar Galactica is reduced to a simple fable - we run from our past, believing the future holds something better for our species, while praying we can rise above our dark “human nature” before we do ourselves in. This episode was a mirror, showing how despite hope for a bright technological future, we’re simultaneously on the knife’s edge of destruction.

In one episode, Battlestar Galactica moved beyond the addictive, nit-picky details like “who is the last Cylon?” and “how did Tigh get Six pregnant?” and reminded me of the big picture - our irrepressibly hopeful yet frustratingly misguided humanity.

Enter Doctor Zee - The Fifth Cylon

“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr

http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2008/06/14/...

funkdigital · 1 year ago

Great observations. You're comments about the final four/five were dead on. They did nothing but fall apart or bitch. Anders is annoying, btw.
http://funkdigital.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/all...

liza · 1 year ago

Yeah, it does seem like they had to just throw it all together at the end there and just damn all the questions we hoped were going to get answered. it was like the rest of the fleet didn't matter anymore ~ the cave in to colloborate with cylons did seem way too easy -- but it all happened so fast that maybe the human civil war will follow in the next episode. Tigh couldn't have gotten 6 pregnant --cylons can't reproduce. The line about children can't really fulfill their potential or destiny until their parents die was perhaps a clue about the humans being the parents of the cylons and needing to die (from this commentary on the finale) the final four really were lame in their inability to do anything!

AND was I the only one who fully expected the Statue of Liberty in that last scene on ravaged earth - with Charlton Heston (damn them all to hell!) (apparently not when you read the commentary i linked to)

webomatica · 1 year ago

Yeah - I did enjoy the episode but in retrospect my favorite season was #2.
At this point I'd also like the show to start wrapping things up and
answering the burning questions - they still have a good chance to do so.

And a Planet Of The Apes ending would have been pretty funny, sounds like a
good idea for a youtube / parody video!