Jun 18 2009
Battlestar Galactica, Final Season, Eps 1-4
It turns out that pre-ordering stuff online is great. Not because it arrives at your door as soon as it’s released, but because you forget it’s on order at all. When it finally comes it’s like a surprise gift from yourself.
Battlestar Galactica: The Final Season was posted to us when we were on holiday.
I wonder if there’s a way to set up “surprise” orders using an online wishlist? Every month, approximately, the system would order something for you. Obviously you’d need to give it some money. Maybe add a certain amount into an account on a weekly basis, and the system would choose it’s next product and — assuming it didn’t have enough cash on hand — wait until the account was flush enough.
Obviously if you add five pounds to the account every week you’re not going to get anything very expensive and it would spoil the excitement if the system waited 8 months without making a single purchase. So there would have to be some cut-off. I suppose the sensible thing is just not to add stupidly expensive items to the automated wish list.
Anyway, all that’s just prelude because I haven’t much to say about BSG yet. We’ve watched the first disc, episodes 1–4. Spoilers from here on, so bail now if you haven’t watched this far!
The big reveal at the start of the series — that the Earth colony were apparently made up of human-type Cylons, and that the “final four” lived on that Earth two millenia ago. Exciting! But then everyone ignores this. :-(
Felix and Zarek have a little coup, which gets a bit exciting but ultimately leads nowhere good. There’s some mysterious slash marks up the wall of the engine room, like a big space monster was in there earlier. Not sure what that’s about.
It looks like Sam’s about to die, and I don’t think the secret Cylons can resurrect. Well, they wouldn’t be very secret if the resurrection ships had whole rooms full of identical bodies that didn’t match any of the known Cyclons. Ellen Tigh might have been a Cylon, but I don’t think she is the “final Cylon” because she died ages ago. If we’re supposed to believe any prophecy about the final Cylon, it’s that (a) they’re not in the fleet and (b) they know the way to Earth. This fits Starbuck better (with some wrangling around “not in the fleet” meaning “has gone off for a while” rather than “totally unknown to the fleet”). And her story is getting more interesting by the minute. Her Cylon stalker has got totally spooked and run off somewhere cos Starbuck is just too damn weird.
We’ve been warned that things get very sad towards the end. Multiple people have suggested a good drink will be in order (I don’t know if that’s to dull the pain or to commiserate once the series has ended).