Fair enough. I'd forgotten that scene.. probably because I thought it was awful. Totally gratuituos. Is that in there just to instruct us that Cylons are willing to kill babies? Say it ain't so!
Nevertheless, I still entertain the theory that Baltar is a Cylon... perhaps the first of these human-infiltrator models... a one-of-a-kind, thereby not having a replica walking around in the last scene... planted on Caprica to start to foment his pro-technology beliefs...
I thought about those trails for a few seconds while I was watching... but then figured, ah hell... maybe their crystals forming in the wake of whatever those missiles are using as propellant... then I decided I was geeking out too much on a small detail... (and had a prescient moment, as well-- "I foresee myself messaging about this on slashdot...")
Okay, I've read a bunch of the positive and negative comments, and I tend to agree with the pro-series faction. I'm a childhood fan of the old show, and it was, in part, fun to see an old relic of my memory resurrected with some fancy new SFX, etc.
I particularly liked some of the homages to classic sci-fi films, especially BladeRunner. Of course.
Did anyone else see Rutger and Harrison while Adama and the Cylon were fighting hand-to-hand down in the boiler room? When the cylon says 'I've seen things you can't imagine'... it's not a rip-off, kids. It's a tip of the hat.
So this gets me thinking, while I'm happily ensconced in my sofa, crunching popcorn-- what's all this about Number 6 planting a chip in Baltar's brain? Do I buy that? What if Number 6 is really just in Baltar's brain the whole time? Do we ever see her interact with anyone else? (this is an honest question; I don't recall)....
Regardless of 6's reality, this leads me to wonder if Baltar himself isn't a Cylon. Another homage to Blade Runner-- the replicant who doesn't realize he's not human (or to the Matrix-- the Neo program that thinks he's human).
I'd be pretty impressed if they go there with the series...
Yes, this makes sense. An exchange that's even more important to this, I think, is that between Blondie Cylon and Baltar in the outdoors, when she asks him if he's bothered by her faith? She says something like 'God wants this..." It's as though the Cylons are religious zealots, bold and determined, while the humans have grown soft and weak, putting gift shops in their flight hangars.
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Fair enough. I'd forgotten that scene.. probably because I thought it was awful. Totally gratuituos. Is that in there just to instruct us that Cylons are willing to kill babies? Say it ain't so!
Nevertheless, I still entertain the theory that Baltar is a Cylon... perhaps the first of these human-infiltrator models... a one-of-a-kind, thereby not having a replica walking around in the last scene... planted on Caprica to start to foment his pro-technology beliefs...
Ah well, that's enough of that...
If I'm not mistaken, I think Glen Larson was a 'Consulting Producer (or something like that) on this ...
I thought about those trails for a few seconds while I was watching... but then figured, ah hell... maybe their crystals forming in the wake of whatever those missiles are using as propellant...
then I decided I was geeking out too much on a small detail... (and had a prescient moment, as well-- "I foresee myself messaging about this on slashdot...")
yadda yadda yadda
Okay, I've read a bunch of the positive and negative comments, and I tend to agree with the pro-series faction.
I'm a childhood fan of the old show, and it was, in part, fun to see an old relic of my memory resurrected with some fancy new SFX, etc.
I particularly liked some of the homages to classic sci-fi films, especially BladeRunner. Of course.
Did anyone else see Rutger and Harrison while Adama and the Cylon were fighting hand-to-hand down in the boiler room? When the cylon says 'I've seen things you can't imagine'... it's not a rip-off, kids. It's a tip of the hat.
So this gets me thinking, while I'm happily ensconced in my sofa, crunching popcorn-- what's all this about Number 6 planting a chip in Baltar's brain? Do I buy that?
What if Number 6 is really just in Baltar's brain the whole time? Do we ever see her interact with anyone else? (this is an honest question; I don't recall)....
Regardless of 6's reality, this leads me to wonder if Baltar himself isn't a Cylon.
Another homage to Blade Runner-- the replicant who doesn't realize he's not human (or to the Matrix-- the Neo program that thinks he's human).
I'd be pretty impressed if they go there with the series...
Yes, this makes sense. An exchange that's even more important to this, I think, is that between Blondie Cylon and Baltar in the outdoors, when she asks him if he's bothered by her faith? She says something like 'God wants this..."
It's as though the Cylons are religious zealots, bold and determined, while the humans have grown soft and weak, putting gift shops in their flight hangars.