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Boxed Set, Vol. III: "That Can't Be Good..."
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Welcome, Maggiesox! This is the right place to talk about BSG (among other shows).
And I love Claudia Black like nobody's business, but Claudia, honey--you gotta work on that accent. It's still wrong.
I feel bad for her--she's so awesome and yet she has so much trouble with an American accent.
I think her American is better than Ben's SebaceanAustralish.
I may be opening a can of worms, here, but it seems to me that Chief and the others were quick to identify themselves as Cylons. Is it possible that the answer to who/what they are isn't quite so simple?
Hi, maggiesox, and welcome! That interpretation of the song is going to give me a lot to chew on for the ::BIG!SIGH:: next 9 months or so.
I feel like I have to rewatch the last four episodes before I have a more coherent opinion. Until then I'm going with chrismg:
"And now, if you give us TEN MONTHS to THINK REAL HARD, we'll explain how this all MAKES SENSE!"
Now that I've had a few minutes to think about it, I'm formulating a theory where it turns out that Bob Dylan is the fifth Cylon.
I may need more caffeine.
it seems to me that Chief and the others were quick to identify themselves as Cylons. Is it possible that the answer to who/what they are isn't quite so simple?
I think they are Cylons, but that the Final Five are a different sort of Cylon than the 7 we've already met. The screener I saw a few weeks ago didn't have the effects finished, so I didn't realize that they were AT the nebula when the "switch" was flipped and they all woke up -- I'd already been assuming that the Final Five were connected to Earth (because of the song - I can't remember another instance of a real-life song from Earth being used in the show), and now I'm sure of it. The music gets increasingly louder the closer they get to the nebula (and therefore Earth), and I think it's being close to Earth that activated them.
The thing that is ridiculously awesome, and here is the part where I put on my music nerd hat: 'All Along the Watchtower' is a song written in reverse.
Huh, really? I'd never heard that before. Do you know why it was written that way, maggiesox? (And welcome!)
So it turns out that I *love* the idea of Chief, Tigh, Tory, and Sam being Cylons. LOVE. Like, I was ready to give up on the show, but this (and the reappearance of Kara) has sucked me right back in. I'm excited to find out what they'll do now, and what their mission was (or if they'll ever know for sure), and whether or not they're fundamentally different from the Cylons we know already, and what's going to happen to Chief and Cally's baby. Oh -- it just occurred to me that Chief being a Cylon might go some way towards explaining that scene where he beats the crap out of Cally (which was never really explained, was it?). Hmm.
BSG: Of course we would have a song that has been picked apart and analyzed bunches. Shiny! The Final Five are different from the rest but we don't know how they are different. Bad ass revolutionary different? Or the four may not be Cylon at all, but have been deluded into thinking they are. I'm thinking more that they are Cylon, but not on the same mission as the others.
eta: Welcome maggiesox!