Last Night on BSG

[thebitterguy]

Okay, when Lee's gunnin' it through the nebula, right before he meets Dirk Benedict in Drag, he looks up and there's some kind of fairly significant sized ship above him that doesn't look like a colonial ship or a basestar. Now, did that really happen, or was the stir fry getting to my brain?

Comments

[thebitterguy]

That's apparently not a question. They just wanted to use a bit of recognizeable music, but there's no Zimmermanian significance.

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

I posted the above comment a few minutes after watching the episode. I can now think of several rationalizations for the music, though I'm not sure if I am completely happy with any of them. It was a fantastic finale, but I fear for where it might lead.

What do you mean by "Zimmermanian significance"?

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

This just in:

"I happened to catch Ron Moore in the hallway at Universal and, in a brief conversation, got everything I needed to know. I learned that the idea was not that Bob Dylan necessarily exists in the characters' universe, but that an artist on one of the colonies may have recorded a song with the exact same melody and lyrics. Perhaps this unknown performer and Dylan pulled inspiration from a common, ethereal source. Therefore, I was told to make no musical references to any "Earthly" versions, Hendrix, Dylan or any others. The arrangement needed to sound like a pop song that belonged in the Galactica universe, not our own."

From here (http://www.bearmccreary.com/html/blog/blogmain.htm).

I think I'm even more confused now.

[thebitterguy]

I think I'm even more confused now.

Can't get no relief, eh?

Bob Dylan's birth name is Bob Zimmerman, btw.