If you haven't seen the season finale of Battlestar Galactica, read no further.
For the rest of you... damn! At first I kept thinking, "This is some kind of alternate reality flashforward. They're not really doing this, are they? They're not really uprooting all of the characters and relationships so fundamentally, are they? Holy crap, they are. And is Starbuck... pregnant? Six's detonation of the nuclear warhead made no sense at the time, but the payoff was brilliant and made it all come together in retrospect. I have to quibble a bit, though-- the implication of the Cylons being a little over a light year away and taking a little over a year to reach New Caprica is that they left for the source of the explosion immediately and took a year to get there. That makes no sense. The Cylons have always been nipping at the Colonials' heels, so I don't understand why it would have taken them so long to reach New Caprica. Some explanation that tied into the so-called "reprieve" seems required.
It looks like the show is heading in a different direction next season, and I'm excited to see how it all plays out. Are we in for an entire season of bifurcated stories between the fleet and New Caprica (as with season one), or will they abandon New Caprica early on and return to the ragtag fugitive fleet format? Will the Cylons discover Sharon's baby? Will Anders survive? What the hell happened between Lee and Kara, anyway?
And we have to wait until October.
Posted by Peter at March 13, 2006 01:40 PMIt didn't take a year for the Cylons to reach New Caprica, it took a year for the radiation from the nuke to reach the Cylons. Presumably they jumped to New Caprica immediately as soon as they saw the radiation.
Posted by: Doug Orleans on March 13, 2006 03:14 PMAhhhhhhh! That makes SO much more sense. Thanks, Doug.
Posted by: Peter on March 14, 2006 11:28 AM