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

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Could it be....

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I did not notice I will now have to check the tape.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

i thought i saw it too, but i think that was reflections in the cockpit window.

[thebitterguy]

Macnee-mania is running wild!

I could dig that.

[thebitterguy]

That would be both a disappointment and a relief, since I would then have one less thing to wonder about for another year.

[thebitterguy]

Cool. I think we deleted our bit on the PVR, so I can't go back and check w/o downloading it.

[uncut-diamond.livejournal.com]

I am gonna have to download that ep again.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I wasn't sure what I was seeing either.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

It was reflections of the nebula in the cockpit window, Apollo only reacts to Starbuck.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

something about the way the reflection looks just made it hard for me to match it up... took a few viewings.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

I concur. My sharp-eyed companion said "it's just the reflection."

Notwithstanding, that whole fucking episode was tits. It was a giant robot with tits. It was, like, an Eva.

[spross.livejournal.com]

Why is it that whenever they Mind "F"! someone in SF TV they keep breaking out some cover of "All Along the Watchtower"?

[thebitterguy]

Really? When have they used that before?

[thebitterguy]

I wish there had been a mysterious ship in the clouds. That would have been another bit of cool.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

But we're agreed? Battletech Caraticus is pretty f'in cool at times?

[thebitterguy]

Oh, CattleMech Karateka can be enjoyable, but I'm uncertain about this "wait 'till next year!" thingy.

And did they HAVE to bring the ugly lady back?

[spross.livejournal.com]

I forget the name of the miniseries. I remember it had something to do with virtual reality,and the only memorable scenes were a dead businessman singing "All Along the Watchtower" and the villain of the piece yelling "We are storming the gates of heaven!"

Admittedly one example does not equate to always or often, but it seemed to require comment.

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

More importantly, how did Bob Dylan get on that side of the galaxy? Tigh was actually saying the lyric "said the joker to the thief" aloud at one point, when he was leaning up against the wall while... listening for the weird sounds, I guess.

I'm totally confused.

Hmm, I wonder if Bob Dylan knows that he's a cylon?

[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.