Battlestar Galactica: Season Four

[Dinner]

WTF? Now there is another mystery cylon they thought they'd just sneak in in the last 6 episodes?

[Solver]

The Five Earth Cylons creating skinjobs to make peace between the rebellious Cylons and their human masters... and the skinjobs turn on the Final Five. Sublime irony.

[OzzyKP]

So... what's with Adama causing a civil war in the fleet over wanting to use Cylon technology, and then balking initially when Galen wants to use it to fix the ship?

[The diplomat]

So... what's with Adama causing a civil war in the fleet over wanting to use Cylon technology, and then balking initially when Galen wants to use it to fix the ship?

The difference is that the FTL drives are just a single piece of technology that would allow the fleet to jump faster. Gallen's tech would be a biological entity that would grow inside Galactica. The ship would actually become part cylon. It is quite ironic that the ship that symbolizes humanity's struggle against the cylons can only survive by itself becoming part cylon.

[chequita guevara]

So the Final Five are actually the First Five.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Five Earth Cylons creating skinjobs to make peace between the rebellious Cylons and their human masters... and the skinjobs turn on the Final Five. Sublime irony.

All this has happened before and will happen again.

Oh, btw, speaking of such, I liked the new opening title scene to the episode.

It is quite ironic that the ship that symbolizes humanity's struggle against the cylons can only survive by itself becoming part cylon.

Metaphor!

[Gibsie]

I did like the contrast between "John" whining about his organic body, and wanting to be metal, whilst over on Galactica the Admiral was worried about using organic Cylon technology to fix the metal aspect of the ship.

I reckon that Daniel will turn out to be Starbuck in some weird situation.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The in vogue rumor is that Daniel was Starbuck's father.

[Whoha]

Spoiler:

They should probably also deal with the relativistic kinetic kill weapon of mind boggling power that they inadvertantly introduced also.

[Solver]

I'm pretty sure that the Number Seven/Daniel Cylon will not play any role. I can definitely see how it could be tied into the storyline, and related to Starbuck, but it'd be a bit of a letdown after thinking there were 12 Cylons all along. So I view this just as a bit of retroactive continuity to show why there's no Number Seven model (and further show how Cavil is a psycho). If, as it was said in this episode, the Number Seven model line is completely gone, then the revelation doesn't really conflict with the "there are twelve models" approach.

[Nikolai]

Spoiler:

They should probably also deal with the relativistic kinetic kill weapon of mind boggling power that they inadvertantly introduced also.

I think I missed that one. What are we talking of here?

[Whoha]

I think I missed that one. What are we talking of here?

Spoiler:

The ship that they used to travel to the colonies in shortened their own journey to months. Even shortening it to years would have an absolutely absurd energy requirement, and a very small piece of material travelling as quickly as that ship can packs a lot of kinetic energy.

[Imran Siddiqui]

We are talking about a show involving sentient machines and jumping through space, so I'm thinking we can give them a pass for any unrealistic scientific stuff.

[Whoha]

Theres nothing unrealistic about it at all, its just that it has implications for them that they should deal with.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm guessing they don't.

One can argue that jumping through time/space requires more energy. We just don't know.