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earth is radioactive, there’s a lot of greenery and animals near the area of the chernobyl disaster but people are technically not allowed to live in specific areas because it is still too radioactive
Trivia for space nerds: Even before they arrived at Earth, I knew they had to be near, as in a few episodes before, in space shots, one could see the distinctive shape of the Orion constellation in the background of stars. When I saw Orion I became very exited ! To my knowledge, up to this final episodes background stars had been mostly random. My understanding is that Orion is first seen during the Demetrius mission, in episode 4-03, “The Ties That Bind”. 😉
D'Annawas never one for introspection. There was this episode in S2, I think, that she said baldfacedly that humans didn't have a cylon's respect for life - after killing 20 billion people.
I think you're correct. I believe D'anna says that to Caprica Six and Boomer when trapped in the parking garage after Sam's bomb exploded back on Caprica...the episode where Boomer is having a difficult time adjusting to being a cylon.
@@valek005 I believe it’s discussed in the dvd commentary for the next episode. EJO was spreading doom and gloom on the set about how this was the end and they were never coming back to enforce the atmosphere 😂
Yep that’s correct, the next episode was the last one completed before the strike and could have possibly been the final episode ever. And it’s an even grimmer way to end the series than this would have been. (I often wonder if that’s why you get that important reveal in the final moments of the next episode, so as to basically answer the big remaining question, in case it did end up being cancelled.)
I'm really looking forward to seeing your view on how they ultimately finish this show. The ending kinda divided people at the time, some absolutely loving it and saying it's perfect, while others being really disappointed. Personally I love how they end this show.
True . And while the ending of BSG is certainly bitter sweet, it's miles from disappointingly sucking ass like the end of Lost or Game of Thrones -- the contemporaries of BSG .
BSG did a sloppy job of depicting the post nuked conditions on Caprica. Given the scope of the nuking there ought to have been a "nuclear winter." If you have a strong constitution you might watch "Threads." It depicts nuclear winter well.
Back in mini-series aboard Colonial One, the wireless information was that a nuclear weapon had been detonated above Caprica City. Which opens the possibility ( define 'above' ) that Caprica was not destroyed, but simply rendered radioactive enough to kill organic matter while leaving buildings intact. Which would be a logical possibility as we learn in the download episode of the Cylon plan to restore the planet for Cylons to live there. Just a thought.
Initially, post-war, the Cylons occupied Caprica and made it a home (before changing their mind and leaving). While Cylons are more resistant to radiation than humans, they are not impervious to it (nothing is). Presumably, they didn't nuke Caprica so hard as to make it a wasteland, just enough to knock out any capacity to resist and let the Centurions mop up the scattered survivors.
The cylons that are with the fleet are the good ones. The Cavil faction of Cylons are still trying to destroy humanity, granted they dont have resurrection anymore but could still fight humans . So the bad cylons would just nuke caprica again if the humans came back. Plus it took everything to make it this far to earth. going back would be just as hard plus Cavil would be waiting for them
You're right. @17:20 The Opera House. There's more to all of this. And there is more to "Earth." Just keep this question in mind... How have we seen the "human" Cylons repeatedly treat the Centurions? Because, dammit, the "human" Cylons are now in charge. And how would a sentient mechanical Centurion react to that? The brilliance of this show plays upon our assumptions.
*very* minor spoiler, and only that something doesn't happen: I always thought it would be a hell of a thing if the next episode started with Billy Keikeya (the final Cylon in this scenario) striding across the scorched earth towards the crew and yelling "Took you motherfrakkers long enough!"
If Sharon is number 8 and there are five more Cylons, doesn't that total 13? Perhaps a convoluted plot device can be introduced to explain a horrible math mistake. 😄
The whole hostage dynamic seems flawed. The 4 cylons on Galactica know who they are, but as far as everyone else -- including D'Anna -- knows, they are still in think-they-are-human mode. So, when D'Anna is threatening (and actually starting) to kill hostages, it begs the question what is she trying to accomplish -- to force individuals who don't even know they are cylons to self-identify and hop over to the Base Star? Even after Tory defects, and possibly reveals to D'Anna that the other 3 know they are cylons (but that no one else on Galactica knows), the hostage threat is still illogical. D'Anna can't expect the fleet to turn the remaining cyclons over if the fleet doesn't know who they are and neither she nor they will tell them. Dan. PS: That's a Geiger Counter sound on earth. It shows low-level radiation. Presumably indicating a very-long-ago nuclear war. I half expected to see a partially-buried Statue of Liberty on that coastline... ("Damn you all to hell").
I believe the next episode would've actually been the final one. But either way, both an extremely bleak ending, but also fitting for a show about the end of the world.
No spoilers, but remember what Gaeta says about the constellations matching. This may make sense now, standing on Earth, but won't make sense in the final episode of the series.
