We try to go to premieres whenever there is one in Toronto, but more often than not, we’re just standing in line like everybody else to see the movies we’re excited about on opening night! But we pretty much always see them together.

And we’ll have Part 2 of EJO up on Tuesday, I think!

~Matt

Yes, I like what you said about Kendra Shaw being the possible FC. So many things point away from this being true, yet so many things SHOULD point to it as being true. Again, the significance of what the hybrid told her. Just WHY exactly did he say that he had been watching HER all of her life? What would be the relevance in putting that into the episode if it wouldn’t have some significance later on? Why even introduce her as a viable character in the first place, if she isn’t the FC? It makes no sense. And yeah, I don’t like the fact that the writers didn’t have things already “in place” from the beginning. It’s like they were writing off the cuff and tossing darts at names and faces as to who the FF would be. Makes me nervous a little, but then I’m sure the last few episodes will tie up some loose ends. Let’s hope.

Quick question: Do you two go to premieres together? I saw your review of “Tropic Thunder” and just wondered if you both go to screenings with each other?

On another note, can’t wait for Part Deux of EJO’s Q&A. Please don’t keep us waiting too long.

Did I hear EJO correctly when he said they couldn’t live there because of the radioactive conditions? That’s at 3:35 in the video: “Earth was devastated… We couldn’t even stay there”. That’d throw a wrench in most presuppositions. In that case, the despair of the destruction of the Colonies was only delayed until the much famed Earth was turned from imaginary myth to a real and shattered hope. That’ll get lots of discontent and rebellion riled up among humans and cylons alike. Will they stay there in the end even though it’s bordering on toxic for them to do so? Come to think of it… that ending IS worthy of Ron Moore’s affinity for twisted endings…

Then there’s the whole death business. We’ve got ~10 episodes to kill AT LEAST 2/3rds of the main cast. Let’s get one of the main players dead right away, wait two episodes, start knocking them off every other episode, with the endgame killing two or three an episode in the endgame. I bet the Galactica bites it in the end too – there’s been talk here and there about it looking more worse for wear as the season goes on. My question is about what the source of the fighting will be. People will die when the Cylons formerly under Cavil show up. People will die with the infighting that’ll happen beginning 6 hours after the arrival at Earth among the humans. People will die during Cylon-Human fighting as the alliance is strained. People will die when the Centurions rebel against the skinjobs (Raiders too?). However, RDM’s probably going to invent one or two other sources of massive death – I’m not sure what they’ll be. Thoughts?

The sheer randomness of the selection of the FC really throws a lot of wrenches in a lot of our thoughts, mine especially. I still want to see the imitation of the Greek Pantheon in the gender of the Cylons, whether or not they do anything with it, simply because it would be such an easy way for them to tap into that other part of that world (As I’ve argued before, this requires that the FC be female). However, if they were putting up pictures on the wall and thinking about different arrangements, I have trouble thinking that babies were being considered because babies can’t act. Hera can do those creepy things every now and then, but I don’t see RDM thinking that a young child would be capable of keeping up with the kind of twisted plot developments he would love. Being purely comical for a moment, just imagine how emotionally scaring it would be for a kid to try to handle the twisted mind of RDM…

Random aside on Kendra Shaw – I don’t think she’s a cylon, but it occurs to me that something would work better if she were: How did the old hybrid know her sins? He might have been able to tap into the Cylon data center to get access to that information. This would be a brilliant way of tying in that whole scene between her and the Hybrid with the prophecy, as well as getting the other things said about Starbuck out in the view of other characters. Having Shaw resurrect on Earth would make sense if the 5 are from Earth (something few people seem to consider for some reason), so we could run into her during the first episode. She’d certainly introduce fun and new dynamics for the last leg of the show – something I think would be fun. Anyways, I’m not counting on her, but this is a concept that makes sense.

Additional thought: If Ellen Tigh is the FC, she’d need to come back looking young again for the show to be consistent. Again, resurrection on Earth would make that easiest in terms of storytelling.

Oi, now to wait for the next ones.

Thanks folks for another drip feed of BSG! It’s just the downer is such a bummer afterwards!

Hope to see some of you guys there!

~Matt

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