Finally mostly caught up, and the only thing that's sticking out is the horrible wig Lee wore throughout most of the ep (or the stylist ruined his hair with too much product and over-blow-drying).

Not impressed with most of it.

What tickles me is that I was making "Galactica is B Ark" jokes waaaaaay back in S1 or S2. And I was right! Bwah!

I could have done without the "Science is BAD" lecture and proto-Cylon montage at the end, but you know, I think this show has earned it. Not the scene specifically, but the right to be a little indulgent in the end.

(And speaking of indulgent, the 45-minute denoument played much better with commercials than it did at the screening. Since we didn't have a clock to pace ourselves by, pretty much every time they faded to black on Earth, we thought it was over. It was like RotK times A MILLION.)

Ron Moore - about Daniel:

What exactly was Kara, and were people chasing down a rabbit hole when they assumed her father was Daniel, the missing 8th model cylon?

Ron Moore: Daniel is definitely a rabbit hole. It was an unintentional rabbit hole, to be honest. I was kind of surprised when I started picking up [that] speculation online.

For those of you who don’t know, there was a deep part of the cylon backstory that had to do with one of the cylons that was created by the final five [called Daniel. Daniel] was later sort of aborted by Cavill… it was always intended just to be sort of an interesting bit of backstory about Cavill and his jealously. A Cain and Abel sort of allegory. Then people really started grabbing on to it and seizing on it as some major part of the mythology. In couple of interviews and in the last podcast I tried to go out of my way to say “look, don’t spend too much time and energy on this particular theory,” because it was never intended to be that major a piece of the mythology.

Moore: Kara is what you want her to be. It’s easy to put the label on her of “angel” or “messenger of God” or something like that. Kara Thrace died and was resurrected and came back and took the people to their final end. That was her role, her destiny in the show… We debated back and forth in the writers’ room about giving it more clarity and saying definitively what she is. We decided that the more you try to put a name on it, the less interesting it became, and we just decided this was the most interesting way for her to go out, with her just disappearing and [leave people wondering exactly what she was].

From a Discover Magazine interview with Ron Moore and David Eick.

Yeah, I feel that way too.

I know too much about non-tech subsistence living to believe they're going to be happy for very long, especially without medicine and, oh, guns and just about everything else.

At least Baltar does know about farming, which explains why at least Hera may live long enough to procreate.

Personally, I'd like to think that Sam was smart enough to say, oh yes, I'll take the fleet into the Sun, park it all on the far side of the Moon and then monitor when each of the mini-colonies starts to get really miserable and decide that living on the land without technology really really sucks and they're sorry about the whole idea, then he send down a shuttle with some medicine and an invitation to come back and live in a brand new comfortable Basestar that he's been building with the help of Centurions who with their newly installed free-will decided they still want to serve skinjobs.

Also, Roslin and Dualla, Zack, Boomer, and a couple others get resurrected just like Kara and there's happy reunions all over.

As long as I'm asking for stuff, I'd like a pony. Failing that, a small goat for my backyard.

From a Discover Magazine interview with Ron Moore and David Eick.

Heh - that was from the panel on Monday. (Questions from the audience, not Discover magazine.)

I know too much about non-tech subsistence living to believe they're going to be happy for very long, especially without medicine and, oh, guns and just about everything else.

I figure that's why Hera specifically is "mitochondrial Eve" - nobody else lived long enough to have more kids.

The feeling among the group I watched with was that the reason everyone agreed to the "let's split up and live off the land" plan was that nobody was really listening past the "let's split up" part. After 4 years cooped up on those ships, I'd probably jump at the chance for my own continent too, whatever my chances for survivial were.

Yeah, I'm sure the idea of as much space as possible was extremely appealing - particularly in the bright light of day and in summer.

Come winter and/or the first large predators - I'm sure that changed pretty quickly.

And a 150,000 years ago, there were Very Big Predators indeed, like short-faced bears and sabertooth cats. I mean, stuff that makes grown polar bears look cuddly.

At least we now know who killed off the mammoths....

They could have re-imagined Muffit as a cave bear!

I have to laugh at the thought of most of these people surviving the first winter. They don't know what's safe to eat or even touch, they are apparently avoiding the locals, who could give them information (shades of the Prime Directive with all its sticky colonialistic paternalism), and they're giving up on really important knowledge and technology.

Dumb.

Also, my Tivo cut out in the scene where Bill was sitting on a hilltop talking to dead!Laura. What happened after that?

Loving all the 'that was a bad plan' realism from the Buffistas. I get the cabin fever rationalization, but no tools other than what they can carry? Whuhuh? Haven't any of them watched Earth 2, for goodness sakes? Cargo pods make efficient living quarters.

I can see not wanting to contaminate any existing cultures...ala Prime Directive...but with all the technology available, they couldn't build sensors or something?

Baltar's, "I know about farming" choke-up caught me so off guard, I sobbed out loud. Nicely done.

I agree with the dissatisfaction over the resolution of Hera's purpose upthread. It seemed as if Adama's 'she's valuable and we'll fight to the death for her (actually) was a battle cry for its own sake. Though, I suppose, if you are going to go down, might as well go down hard.

Must rewatch.

I don't suppose it matters, but I wonder if other SCC viewers thought that Derek really pulled the trigger. I'm leaning toward yes...