Battlestar Galactica 4×10 – EARTH!! but…..?? June 14, 2008
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This was one fraked up episode. Four of the final five reveal themselves –
Cylon’s almost blow up all of humanity (again).
Somehow Starbuck’s magic viper has the co-ordinates for Earth magically pop up
Cylons and humans are friends again – four of final five get amnesty
and
BAAAAM.
They find Earth?? But it’s been destroyed by a nuclear holocaust.
OOHHH and no more new Battlestar Galactica episodes till 2009..and there are 12 more episode apparently still in the works.
I liked this episode until the Earth part – in the classic series getting to Earth was the whole purpose of the show as it was here.
With another 12 episodes to go (in 2009) what happens now??? Sure there are a lot of loose ends and oh yeah the final cylon who somehow will make all things btr.
Ronald Moore could have ended this mid-season finale with the jump to Earth and then just seeing the blue planet….but no he had to go and ruin it and remind us that his version of Battlestar Galactica is a dark place where no one is ever really happy and its all just a big frakin allegory for how messed up our own planet is.
A year or more from now when Battlestar Galactica returns sure we’ll watch – we all want to know what happens.
Though one thing for sure now – Battlestar Galactica 1980 isn’t happening again..Starbuck isn’t going to walk into a McDonalds and no one can ever truly go home again.
At least they didn’t show a Planet of the Apes Statue of Liberty sticking out of the mud but the vision of a destroyed New York isn’t all that far off. One day, i’d really like to see a truly original view of Earth in popular SciFi instead of the same boring vision.
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I don’t think that anything else would be fit in BSG than exactly what we got. Besides, BSG is not done yet, there’s a third intelligence at play, beyond the humans and the cylons. And it ain’t the Gods.
I’m sure they are going to find survivors somewhere…and since they have meds to counteract the radiation sickness, it should still be interesting
Maybe the same magical power that fixed(and overhauled) Starbuck’s Viper can restore Earth and humanity?
Or maybe there’s a lot more questions to be answered.
I was pretty disappointed. I really REALLY wanted the last shot of the show to be them finding Earth with the remaining ships of the fleet flying towards it. Now we have to deal with some non-space drama. I dunno…it’s gonna be a long wait!
Its not going to be a long wiat because it will never happen!! Last I heard BSG was finished production in 2008 when they reach earth and the show ends No more shows for 2009. Unless that have changed this is decision in recent months. I think you will see one last episode to tie up the loose ends. then they will make there farewell on high note or a twist. like explaining what year the 13 tribe colonized Earth, or whats the fraking year when they rediscovered Earth? Is the final fith cylon, the Imperious leader after all? And just where are all the fraking aliens in the galaxy? With as many planets and spread out they have apparently colonized, they have yet to come across other sentient life.. come on!!! Pehaps their gods are really and always have been the aliens from the white ctystal ships from the 78 series and will reappear, wipe everyone memory or roll back time before any of it ever happened, or perhaps a sect of classic 78 cylons found earth already and were the ones to destroy it. There are so many thing that could be done. and I would enjoy watching. But Honestly I dont think it will happen, they have fullfilled their promise to the fans, they reached Earth. and like on new caprica its time for them to settle down fade to black and continue on in the imaginations of it fans. I started out disliking the mini series when it began because of it ultra radical changes. But I have grown to love it after the first season. And it was cool to see sorta classic cylon raiders and classic cylons walking arond again. Although I ddnt think they used them to there full potential. Bon Voyage BSG! I’ll miss you.
It ain’t Earth. Can’t be. It is just another frakked up human colony with a big sign-post saying “Earth That Way” on it.
What they should find on the surface of a war scared Earth are the sentinels from the Matrix. The Cylons quickly learn to plug into the matrix and kick… er… never mind.
Well it was an attempt, an attempt to explain rather lamely the extremely lame ending of the first half of season 4.0.
Now all we need is Mega-Maid and everything will make sense.
“Its not going to be a long wiat because it will never happen!! Last I heard BSG was finished production in 2008 when they reach earth and the show ends No more shows for 2009”
Er… are you sure about that? All the interviews to cast and crew I’ve read show that they were just ending filmimg the last episodes of the promised second batch of Season Four episodes. This mid-Season finale was done just before the writers’ strike.
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Just watched the first half of season 4. OMG!!! What went wrong with the amazing concept of BSG? All that drawn out stuff about Laura Roslyn dying, followed by a highly contrived peace with the cylons: From “We’re gonna nuke the fleet,” to “Oh, alright then, let’s all be firends,” within about three minutes???? WTF!!! And then, the central premise of BSG – i.e. the discovery of Earth – is glossed over in about six minutes. I’m amazed! Such a wonderful build up; three incredible series’. And now this? I just hope that what we saw is just someones nightmare, and that they haven’t yet found earth at all. Come on guys, the discovery of earth just has soooo much potential for making some of the best sci-fi ever; please don’t tell us you’ve missed an opportunity here. Hitchcock once said the three rules of good movie making are “Make ’em wait. Make ’em wait, and Make ’em wait.” Well, we’ve all waited patiently for three and a half series… and the wait has been awesome. Please don’t let us down now with some crummy cobbled together ending – that would be really frakked up!