ok, so i have little time to watch TV or post blogs. i tried to catch up with BSG last nite, only to find that not all of the episodes are posted online. there's been 9 episodes; i saw #1, then 2-4 weren't up anymore, and 5-8 were, and 9 isn't up yet.
can i just say
TOLD YOU on calling the 13th cylon? his name was daniel, which is significant to me for reasons we won't go into... the new theory everyone is jumping on is he was starbuck's father. this is because ellen describes him as "artistic" and then we see kara playing piano with "slick," an imaginary character who ends up being a manifestation of her father. the song they play is bear mccreary's "all along the watchtower" theme that initially triggered the final 4 (pre-ellen). the fact that she knows it, the final 5 know it, sam played it thousands of years ago on earth, and the dying 8 knew it in sick bay leads me to think that daniel/mr. thrace could easily have known it. my theory is that kara is actually a human/cylon hybrid, and hera is not the "first." however, if the "re-imagined" series stays true in any way to the original series, starbuck is going to die on friday anyway, making hera just as important. kara resurrected because ellen's rez technology is somewhere still on earth, and i'm sure a big secret is hybrid kids can rez, but i don't know. also, we see that sam can function like a ship-hybrid, so anything is possible. (i realize now that i mis-called something; there were only 5 who returned to Caprica from Earth, not 12 or 13.)
in re: to the episodes i missed: i know what happened, and that was... sad. almost pointless, really, but it killed off two central characters. big step forward. left sam in his condition, which opened the door for those visions of the past and future. (side note: killed off one of the two male characters portrayed as at least bi--hoshi is still around, i think i saw him in the last few episodes, i need to see the old episodes to know if they showed his reaction to the execution.)
i hope RDM has enough sense to pepper the final 2-hour episode with a steady mix of action, death, and mysticism. angels, resurrections, and especially starbuck and gaius baltar need to be explained. "this is not all we are" and "all this has happened before, and it all will happen again" need to be demonstrated, and leoben needs to make a final showing.
i want to make a dead list, not really enough time to do that, but there's a good number of characters that have died that were important to the show that could end up showing up in the last episode, and there's also a lot of live characters who could end up dead in the last episode.
most likely to show up again:
billy
bulldog
dualla
gaeta
zarek
zak (highly unlikely)
kat
most likely to bite it:
galactica
bill adama
roslin
starbuck (aka "the harbinger of death")
boomer
caprica 6
cavil
simon
doral (is his model still alive?)
most likely to make it:
most cylon models (at least a few 6's, 8's, the final 5, etc.)
hera
apollo
frak, is there anyone else?
gaius, gods damn it, you know he's going to make it, always does. (which means caprica 6 might make it too, especially with the whole "dying leader shall know the truth of the opera house" bit)
joe the bartender
one of the saddest things to me is that not all of the cylon models make it. i'm the kind of guy who likes complete sets. cavil, leoben, d'anna, simon, doral, natalie, daniel, sharon, tory, saul, galen, sam, and ellen... they just belong together. daniel is gone, for good it seems, the last 3/d'anna stayed on earth to die, and doral has been MIA forever. (leoben has also been missing since "sometimes a great notion.") i feel like they all should be alive at the end to intermarry with the humans and start something new. it's probably not going to happen though.
i have very few predictions for next week. (edit: just saw doral on the preview for next week. he's still there.) the preview was unhelpful, at best. people shoot at each other. galactica take heavy damage. sam yells. roslin looks like she's in a straight jacket. kara shoot the hell out of stuff. apollo has a space suit on, and then he doesn't and he needs a haircut. not a whole lot of cylons shown, but it's 2 hours, anything can happen.
fiery end? peace? destruction of all but a few? finding of a habitable earth? i vote for fiery end, but that's just me. i'd hate to see some of the characters go, but at the same time, i'd like to see some real drama take place.
and i don't know when i'll see it, because i'll be out, i think, when it's airing.
balls.