Season ender of Battlestar Galactica. Holy shit what the frak is going on!
I’m not sure how I feel about what I just saw.
I was riveted. I raised my arm to pump it for Lee Adama and for Baltar. When Tigh said,” Too much confusion,” I said no way. When he shortly added “there must be some kind of way out of here,” I said “oh shit. This isn’t happening. I can’t believing this is happening. They are not quoting on Bob Dylan/Jimi Hendrix.”
By the time someone actually got all, “Said the joker to the thief,” and “I can’t get no relief,” I could not deny what I was seeing and hearing. “Oh my frakking god they are not,” said I over and over again. Except I didn’t use Frak.
But it’s true. They did it and I can’t decide if it’s the coolest thing ever or if the shark dear has pearly whites dear because BG has strapped on a leather jacket and water skis and gotten up close and personal with one.
All Along The Watchtower.
Thousands of years later.
What the fuck!
Are the other 4 of the final 5 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?
I certainly don’t believe they’re Tigh, Chief, Anders, and Roslin’s sexy assistant. I don’t care what was implied I will bet that they are not Cylons. Something else is going on here.
Cylons, no matter how cool they are, are not all about the classic rock. Especially classic rock from thousands of years ago.
And yet it wasn’t Dylan or Hendrix they played. Who was it? It actually sounded like Bono singing at first. Did U2 cover Watchtower? Then it didn’t sound like him either and sounded more like some Sci fi channel house band.
If you’re going to use that song you have to give me Dylan or Hendrix.
Get me the real artist or do a song you can get the real recording for. Tigh hearing some Credence man.
I see Chief as a Rush man and Rush is all about the future. That’s why their music goes so well with playing video games as was illustrated so ably by Phillip J Fry.
Anders I see as a Beatles man. A Day In The Life. Revolution maybe.
Sexy assistant girl, Tory I think her name is, she’d hear Kashmir.
Just no house bands.
Don’t get me wrong I love that song. More so the Hendrix version because we also get one of the greatest opening riffs in rock history imo. But it would have been cooler to hear one of the two main versions.
Who was that singing that song!
What does this mean? I’m not going to know for a year. Or more. I need answers!
How does Dylan or one of his songs anyway, get into the consciousness of 4 people thousands of years later and galaxies away from Earth?
Or is it thousands of years ago?
Are they heading to Earth in the 60′s? Are Cylons the Vietcong? Were the Miracle Mets Cylons? Did they take out Kennedy?
I doubt it but why does that song filter through the millenia and vast distances when so little of our Earth’s culture remains intact in its present form on the show?
This is perhaps the greatest question ever posed by a science fiction show. Until now only the question of why Starbuck’s death was as anticlimactic as Tasha Yar’s could compete. Unless we count Scully’s cancer and Mulder’s sister.
But they actually did it. They had them singing All Along The Watchtower on Battlestar Galactica.
Could it be the song survived as a kid’s song sung at bedtime and had only recently been forgotten? Some of its lyrics certainly fit nicely. Did they sing it on Kobol and Tigh and the rest are somehow connected to the Lords of Kobol?
And what about Roslin sharing dreams with 2 Cylons and a hybrid? What does that imply?
As for the rest of the show Lee’s speech kicked ass and made me want to kiss him. That was the Lee of season 1 who spoke for me. But it was Baltar getting the Jesus towel on his head as his apostles led him to safety that really made me wet myself. This was the Baltar resolution I’d wanted since early in the season. Him becoming an underground prophet with legitimately wise musings and important ideas while at the same time being a self centered idiot was the best and only way out of his perceived betrayal and subsequent recapture by the fleet. Without killing him anyway. And I don’t think anyone wanted that.
That segment of the episode went down real smooth.
The Dylan was awesomely astounding, but I can’t gauge how to feel about it yet. It’s got potential to be amazing but then so did the career of Cory Feldman. I loved how much the song showing up blew my mind. But it needs a viable explanation at some point to shake off the skepticism that makes me worry the show is trying to get all Wonder Years in space to lure people back and get the rating back up.
And I’d feel better if those 4 are not Cylons. And I don’t think they are. At least not in the way Cylons are typically regarded.
Maybe they’re heralds of some kind. Maybe mediums or Kobol prophets. Something. But not 4 of 5. If Chief is a Cylon than so am I damn it! And maybe we are. And I can live with something like that. But they are not Cylons like Sharon was.
And then there was the Starbuckian ending.
Haaated it.
She was getting creepy enough before her whole mandala maelstrom end with her whiny poor mans Lost flashbacks. And though she was a favorite early on for me she just grew too abrasive and nasty. But at the end of this ep she was extra creepy. Religiously creepy. I hadn’t even begun to miss her yet. It’s too soon. I didn’t even get a chance to remember the good times. And rather than redeem her lousy death show it makes me feel even more ripped off. And I still don’t think she’s back next year. I don’t even know if that was really her. She seemed fake. Like a hollogram. And was that Earth at the end? Didn’t look like it to me though I get the impression it must have been. And did it mean they’re all there as the season ends? Of just heading in the right direction? And is the whole fleet following Starbuck?
I wanted a less abstract ending. A bigger moment not a music video.
But they really went and did it. They used the song. Dylan on Galactica.
There’s too much confusion.
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