Comments on: BSG: Sometimes A Great Notion

By: Guillermo

Guillermo — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:14:08 +0000

I think the events of the webisodes happen right after this episode. At the start of the first webisode, it appears that the fleet has already jumped away from Earth, and Felix seems in pretty bad shape and suffering from lack of sleep, which could have been caused by Dee’s death.

Also, I loved how everyone who has jokingly said “I’m the fifth cylon!” in the past six months was somehow right. We’re all cylons!

By: jen

jen — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:31:27 +0000

“Back on Earth, the “final four” cylons have revelations of their own. Chief recongizes the ghostly paintings on the wall of a ruin”

That painting was his nuclear shadow (http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/09/nuclear-shadows-in-hiroshima/), when the bomb went off and he was vaporized his body left that shadow from the blast on the wall.

It was nice seeing Tigh more in control than I’ve *ever* seen him, he’s always been hanging from a thread and half drunk, but it was him who disabled his gun then then did the same to Bill’s when he dropped it. Being a cylon seems to have been a strengthening point for him.

The whole ep had me reeling. When dee show her self my arms flew into the air and 30 seconds later as Gaeta hovered at her side crying my arms were still int he air frozen, and I finally took a breath. It stunned me that much. There was a brief shiny moment of light in dark tunnel, a gem that said life goes on, life finds a way, love conquers all and all that shit – then BAM GONE! And you realize she just wanted to go out on a good thought. How sad is that?

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:37:06 +0000

Yeah, don’t trust Felix any more for some reason.

By: Ged Maheux

Ged Maheux — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:05:25 +0000

Nice analysis Dave. This episode was indeed dark and the death of Dee was the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence. I wish I hadn’t known someone was going to die in this episode, but that is the danger of reading spoilers I guess.

I have to believe that somehow, the end of the series will bring hope, particularly for Adama and Roslin, although I no fraking clue how Moore will get there. I also note that this episode didn’t answer what Gaida was about to do at the end of the webisodes. Perhaps that is still to come.

I look forward to discussing Sometimes A Great Notion on our next podcast. So say we all!