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I first discovered Jammer by way of his excellent and insightful Deep Space Nine recaps & reviews. I’ve read them repeatedly over the years and his site was actually a big inspiration for me to do my own commentaries. While my own bsg commentaries have leaned heavily toward fangasm, you’ll find Jammers’ to contain a more coherent recap as well as being proper reviews with ratings assigned. His discussions also containing a lot of deeper analysis of the show; he’s bound to make you think of something new about the episode you thought you understood. For those of you about to embark on a re-watch, or just refreshing your memory about all that has been, check out Jammer’s Battlestar Galactica reviews!
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I know that you don’t let yourself be guided by what you think the fan reaction might be, and you do what you feel is right for the show, but the ending of Kara - her just disappearing like that. That’ll certainly be a starting point for debate.
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Oh yeah, it’ll be controversial. There will be people who will absolutely hate it and think that we failed in our mission. We debated it in the [writers] room, I thought about it a long time, and I had sort of the same answer. And the more I struggled to give definition to it, the less satisfying it became. There various avenues we went down, discussions, saying she’s specifically this or that. And every time it felt uninteresting and kind of pedestrian.
It felt like, if she’s truly connected to the Eternal, if she’s connected to this other power, this other thing in the universe, as long as you know she’s connected to it and she’s fulfilled her destiny, brought us to this place, brought us to two Earths, really, that’s enough. That should just be left to your imagination, left to your inquiry, left you to try to fill in the blanks we leave. That was my answer and I’m sure -- I know - people will debate it. |
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I think the one that maybe tugged at the ol’ heartstrings a bit, for me at least, was the Adama Family Goodbye. For years, Lee and pappy didn’t really get along...then they finally start to form some kind of relationship, and dad hops in to a Raptor and leaves. I can definitely empathize with at least the first part of that, and I can imagine the pure suckage of finally forming that bond only to have him leave.
And, seriously, did the writers secretly HATE Lee Adama? I mean, he lost EVERYONE this season. Did his character rape a nun in a deleted scene or something? Karma was a BITCH. |
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 Read the fucktastically hillarious comic I wrote during the bsg commentaries
 What begins as an attempt to differentiate themselves ends in verbal fisticufs. And this time, it’s personal. |
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I don’t want to spend too much time on Daniel, but did you realize that you were giving Kara’s father this name that was so similar to Daniel?
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That I had no idea. I only found that out online. I went, “Is that true? I guess it is.” It’s one of those things where you’re inside the show and doing it, you don’t realize that people are going to seize on this detail and it gets a life of its own. When I saw that stuff spreading online, I was really astonished. “Really? Daniel? They’re obsessed with Daniel.” So I started telling every interviewer, “Please tell people not to focus on Daniel, because they’re really going to be disappointed.”
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If all of current humanity descends from Hera that means one thing: Most of the Galactica fleet did not contribute, biologically-speaking, to the new race. i.e. most everyone else and their offspring died off after settlement. I’m sure a few random children mixed in with some of Hera’s descendants, probably the ones setting around Africa. But those poor saps sent to Australia, Scotland or North America? Yeah... they all died.
I know I'm over-thinking things a bit; the equivalent of civilian contractors on the Death Star. I doubt that’s the message we’re supposed to leave the finale with but these kind of thoughts occur to me after blogging about nothing but bsg for three months. |
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It was a simple way to communicate the idea clearly that this is not the future. This is the story of a culture that gave birth to ours. There was an episode in season one in which Helo and Sharon are running for their lives and they hole up in a diner, and there’s a Cylon centurion cornering them, and for the longest time we planned to have an old jukebox in the diner that would play, “Yesterday,” or whatever we could afford.
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Probably not “Yesterday.”
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Check out rdm’s podcasts. They’re like dvd commentaries, featuring behind-the-scenes dish on every episode. Grab a scotch, a smoke and dig into your favorite episode(s).
4x01 He That Believeth in Me
4x02 Six of One
4x03 The Ties That Bind
4x04 Escape Velocity
4x05 The Road Less Traveled
4x06 Faith
4x09 The Hub
4x10 Revelations
4x11 Sometimes A Great Notion
4x12 A Disquiet Follows My Soul
4x13 The Oath
4x14 Blood on the Scales
4x15 No Exit
4x16 Deadlock
4x17 Someone to Watch Over Me
4x18 Islanded in a Stream of Stars
4x19&20 Daybreak [Parts 1-3]
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All I know is now I’m really scared of my Roomba
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Okay, something from The Guess Who. I think we felt it was too soon, and would confuse things. It would be so non-specific that people would just be thrown by it. But we were thinking about it that far back, that music would be a great way to tell the audience about the cyclical theme... All the colloquialisms and slang that you hear, and how people interrelate... we get that from them, not the other way around.
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Our next dose of bsg related content will be the Caprica spin-off, which drops in 1 month April 26, 2009. Trailer:
Our next dose of 100% bsg will be The Plan, expected to be released fall of 2009. It may not be the last as it’s rumored up to three tv movies may be be produced. Trailer:
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I don't watch the show (haha suckers!) but I did want to give an insight into mitochondrial eve. Since the 46 chromosomes in a new embryo are a mix of 23 from mom and 23 from dad AND we get rearranged pieces in the next generation that might be a partial mom and partial dad chromosome 1 (or whatever) we can't claim to have all descended from one of any type.
Because every man's Y is from his dad, and only his dad, if a dad only has daughters his Y-lineage stops. Go back far enough in time, say 60,000 years... There were many "men" around, but at some point in time every one has had only daughters so we can say that only one of them is Y-chromosome Adam.
Because mitochondria have DNA, and mitochondria only get passed from mother to sons and daughters (they be in the egg, dontchaknow) it is a little harder to "wipe out" a linage. But it still can happen as if she has only sons: they will carry Mom's mitochondria, but not pass them on. So... there could be hundreds of females present 140,000 years ago that all have ancestors surviving, but all but one of them has had only sons in the distant past. Which means we all have a common great^5000 grandmother.
Make sense?
No.
Kyle is dead on.
@Liam - Pick up a science magazine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
Didn't say he wasn't right on, Martinator. Kyle is very capable. I glanced at it and it didn't make sense. Actually, it did make sense, but I was only half paying attention and thought a brief answer would be funnier.
That said, I'm on the opposite side, James. The more I think about it, the more the BSG finale, and the last half-season kinda pooped in my mouth a little.
Throwing out a line like "Everyone decided a clean slate was better" or whatever, when you couldn't get the fleet captains to agree on anything, let alone everyone in the entire fleet - that was too much of a stretch for me. And flashing forward 150 000 years was too much. I couldn't figure out what the message was they were trying to send us from the first episode? They need to show us examples? Nah, I didn't like it.
@Kyle: That is awesome, apparently I should check my science facts. But that's what you get when you let just anyone have a domain name. So it's very possible that many of the survivors did live. Cool
@Liam: I can respect that opinion, totally. For me I liked seeing the characters through this end run, even though it did just kind of slowly wind down, rather than go out with more of spectacular flourish.