More about the song:
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
Boxed Set, Vol. III: "That Can't Be Good..."
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le nubian - Mar 26, 2007 2:20:07 am PDT #8688 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Theodosia - Mar 26, 2007 2:21:51 am PDT #8689 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
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.
Jessica - Mar 26, 2007 2:24:13 am PDT #8690 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Kate P. - Mar 26, 2007 2:48:03 am PDT #8691 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
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.
Laura - Mar 26, 2007 4:00:33 am PDT #8692 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
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!
DCJensen - Mar 26, 2007 4:04:29 am PDT #8693 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I'm amused at the All along the Watchtower stuff. Especially since I made this quick-and-dirty music video of the season two final three minutes last year.
(23 MB, WMV)
sumi - Mar 26, 2007 4:28:48 am PDT #8694 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Jessica, I'm thinking the same thing: the final five (assuming that Kara is one of them) are activated by closeness to Earth so their mission has something to do with earth.
And was "All Along the Watchtower" one of the songs in the Voyager space probe?
WindSparrow - Mar 26, 2007 4:31:12 am PDT #8695 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Welcome, maggiesox. We hardly ever bite new people. Well, unless they like that sort of thing.
sumi - Mar 26, 2007 4:38:00 am PDT #8696 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Juliebird - Mar 26, 2007 4:50:15 am PDT #8697 of 10001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I love Claudia Black like nobody's business, but Claudia, honey--you gotta work on that accent. It's still wrong.
I think her American is better than Ben's ,strike>Sebacean Australish.
This and This.
But what was more wrong than that was seeing Jeffrey Spender all bronzed and oiled up and if I put my hand over his face I didn't mind it too much.
Really liked Lee's speech, the way it was written and the way Bamber delivered it (loved Lee's whole pissed-off/petulant attitude when he first gets in the witness box "I SO do not want to be here!")