holy crap. about frakkin time something happened this season.
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Posts: 82 (01/30/09 10:19 PM) Registered User |
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Katy Carney |
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Posts: 4076 (01/30/09 11:49 PM) |
HOLY SHIT. That was amazing. I can't wait to see Roslin and the cylons tear through Zarek and his followers. I hope she strings Gaeta up and removes the
rest of his limbs only allowing him the sweet taste of death once he's gone completely insane.
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Mateui |
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Posts: 2355 (01/31/09 8:06 AM) Registered user |
THAT EPISODE HAD 33-LIKE EPICNESS!
I can't wait to see how this all pans out. I'm a little worried that we haven't heard from Cavil and his gang for a little while, and I have this dark feeling that he'll just show up with his fleet all the while this revolution is still taking place, just to muck everything up more so than it already is. I'm so glad Roslin got her fire back and is ready to take down Zarek and Gaeta. I want them all to be punched in the face by Starbuck and then promptly thrown out of the airlock. I'm really surprised as to how many people Gaeta was able to convince (Racetrack?!), and a little confused as to why Hoshi wasn't in on it. I guess Gaeta was afraid he wouldn't support him, but I imagine that their relationship is kind of over - Hoshi was taken away from the CIC... Anyway, next week should be awesome as well. |
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Piranhahaha |
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Posts: 11788 (01/31/09 8:19 AM)
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I dunno. I have issues with Gaeta, the guy who formerly endured being ostracized for defending the Constitution, is suddenly a Zarek-class rebel? I don't
see how the final five being revealed caused him to shift so dramatically. Plus, he ought to be wracked with guilt over his role on New Caprica as laid out in
the webisodes. Maybe his leg is causing an infection that's making him go loopy?
I hate to say it, but this smacked of the writers arbitrarily changing a character just to cause chaos. He is the absolutey last guy who'd go traitor. It is heartening to see Laura back on her game, though. Meanwhile, what was the dirty little secret between Gaeta and Baltar? The death list? Everyone knows about that already. |
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Baulder |
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Posts: 373 (01/31/09 9:52 AM) Registered user |
So this whole situation is basically all of the minor characters vs. all the major ones. Having Racetrack, Tom Zarek, Seelix, Gaeta, and Hotdog (we never saw
him do anything but didn't they mention him being on viper duty at te end of the episoide?) all going bad is amazing. I hope that Starbuck and the others
get to shoot all of them. The airlock is too easy of a way for traitors to die. After this arc is over it really clears the way for the show to focus on the
main characters until the end. They are clearing out the people who deserve an ending but don't deserve to eat up screen time when there are only a few
shows left. (How many episoides are left anyway?)
I don't think that Gaeta going bad is such a streatch. Since season 3 we have been shown that he is a weak person with strong moral ideals. He thinks what he is doing is the right thing to protect the remaining members of the fleet. Laura in the previews gives me chills. I hope she personally gets to take out Zarek. |
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DanteAmore |
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Posts: 886 (01/31/09 9:53 AM) Registered User |
Mateui wrote: Just a wild guess: |
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Posts: 3404 (01/31/09 10:22 AM) Registered User |
Piranhahaha wrote:We know what the secret is, Gaeta purjured himself in an antempt to have the government execute Baltar. |
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Posts: 299 (01/31/09 11:36 AM) |
Amazing Episode. If they can keep this up for the remaining 5 I will be happy. It was nice to see badass Starbuck & Roslyn back again. It gave me chills
when Adama turned to Tigh and said it was an honor serving with him. Great to see the resolution there.
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Katy Carney |
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Posts: 4078 (01/31/09 12:14 PM) |
The "secret" was what happened in the webisodes. Gaeta was working with an Eight and giving her lists of names he thought she was trying to free
them, but she was killing them. That's why Baltar thinks Gaeta is a traitor.
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angela8675 |
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Posts: 811 (01/31/09 6:18 PM) Registered User |
Dante, in the last episode of last season, the resurrection hub was destroyed and that made the cylons stop resurrecting. The hub was the sort of relay point,
where there memories went to before they were downloaded into another body on whatever resurrection ship was closest to the location of death.
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SurvivorArctic |
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Posts: 14335 (01/31/09 6:30 PM) Not a team player
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Hot fucking damn. Now that is the episode I have been waiting for.
I don't think it was much of a stretch for Gaeta to turn into a rebel. I've been waiting for that to happen for a few episodes. Still, about time for an action packed episode. |
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Piranhahaha |
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Posts: 11791 (01/31/09 6:33 PM)
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That's what I thought too. What I wonder though is if they find a resurrection ship still operational, could they save their identities on that ship and
get resurrected?
This is basically like having a laptop that you never back up to a hard drive. Anyhow, of the two ideas for the dirty little secret, we have Gaeta in webisodes working with the psycho 8 and the perjury thing. The problem with the the psycho 8 is that he didn't know he was sending those people to their deaths. He thought he was saving them, just as he saved the people on the execution list signed by Baltar. The perjury issue makes sense, but mainly because it made no sense when it happened, so maybe this is where it comes into play. The thing is that if Romo Lampkin couldn't prove perjury then, how could Baltar do it now? Maybe by having a newly-allied skinjob set the record straight? I still don't like Gaeta turning mutineer. That guy went through hell and high water to remain loyal to civilian command on new Caprica, to the point where he almost got tossed out an airlock. This is too drastic of a personality shift, which makes me wonder why they showed him scratching his stump just before the mutiny began -- maybe he's ill? Anyhow, so who were the two 8's that died in the webisodes. Obviously Boomer's fine for the time being, but who were the other two, or at least the 8 in the flight suit? |
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Sue5858 |
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Posts: 4146 (01/31/09 10:51 PM) Registered User |
The pacing on the show was better than recent - but it's more of the same. Ron Moore has done this storyline over and over and over again. We had
inserection and near civil war before - both on the colonial ships and on the cylon ships. He needs to think up a new plot device.
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SurvivorArctic |
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Posts: 14343 (01/31/09 10:52 PM) Not a team player
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Please stop watching it because I am tired of reading the same post from you over and over and over again.
tia! |
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Goosehead |
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Posts: 1410 (01/31/09 10:53 PM) Registered User |
Gaeta going traitor makes perfect sense considering the webisodes. He trusted a Cylon so strongly and she was betraying him the entire time ... as a result he
simply can't standby while he sees humanity make the same mistake. And like Lee suggested, it was only a few years ago that the Cylons practically
eradicated the entire human race. There'd be a lot of hatred and suspicion left over for a full on mutiny, me thinks. The real question is why did Tigh
and, particularly, Adama feel it was necessary to stay behind? It seemed pretty clear that the Raptor was getting away.
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SurvivorArctic |
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Posts: 14347 (02/01/09 12:30 AM) Not a team player
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There is no way Adama would abandon his ship. No way in hell. I can totally see how he would stay and how, out of loyalty and love, Tigh would remain with him.
There is just no way The Old Man would abandon ship. |
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Goosehead |
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Posts: 1412 (02/01/09 12:49 AM) Registered User |
I guess that's true. I don't really understand the whole naval/fleet of spaceships culture ... but as a leader of an entire fleet, I would think it
would be important for him to live to fight on and not just martyr himself. But I think you're right SA, what you said is clearly what the directors were
going for.
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SurvivorArctic |
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Posts: 14349 (02/01/09 1:24 AM) Not a team player
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There have been a few episodes that show Adama's absolute loyalty to his ship and the people on it. I knew he would stay even if it meant death. The
Captain always goes down with the ship.
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Piranhahaha |
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Posts: 11793 (02/01/09 1:33 AM)
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SurvivorArctic |
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Posts: 14350 (02/01/09 1:44 AM) Not a team player
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It is FAR too late in the night for oblique posts.
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