GWC Podcast #100

That is way cool to have Trucco call in with 100th podcast message. For the GWC podcast covering the BSG series ending episode, can someone get Ron Moore to leave a message. That would be so fitting to have the guy who lead the transformation of a campy show into one of the best shows on television ever leave a message on the best BSG enthusiasts podcasts on the planet.

Just a thought.

CHUCK, AUDRA, AND SEAN ROCK!!!

Congrats on 100. To celebrate I found this:

//youtu.be/11N-BD1aBo0

Y’all are magic!!

I loved the show!

I almost peed my pants when I heard him. WOW!

Let’s add some wacko conspiricy type evidence to bolster the “it would be cool” argument for Geta being #5.

  1. It would be cool.

  2. On new caprica, every leading member of the resistance was a cylon. Geta supplied them information from the inside as the president’s aid.

  3. When Baltar tries to commit suicide in his prison cell who rescues him? Geta. How is it that he wakes up? He hears music. The very same song Six is humming in Baltar’s ear. Camera angles suggest that the mother in the bunk above him was humming a lullaby to her child, but might that have really been a red herring and the music was entirely in Geta’s head.

  4. Later he stabs Baltar with a pen after Baltar whispers something into his ear. Perhaps that the six in his head said he was #5?

  5. When stabbing him though the neck with the pen he misses? Come on!! If he really meant to kill Baltar he would have stabbed him twice. Geez. Obviously a cylon ploy to divert suspicion.

  6. The “Don’t put me under” It was because he knows he is a cylon. It has been said that your defenses are down and you are highly open to interrogation when first regaining consciousness after being put under for surgery. He didn’t want to take the chance that he would reveal himself too early.

  7. The singing. More music. Probably hear the tune or something like it in the opera house. Dead giveaway.

  8. Tiger tatoo. If that doesn’t scream cylon I don’t know what does.

Anti-theory. If he is the last cylon he seems to be the only one who hasn’t gotten laid since the initial attack. Sucks to be him. How’s he going to attract a woman now that he’s gonna be known as “Stumpy”

If this has been mentioned before on this thread, my apologies.
Early the podcast there was talk about a reference in the episode to “Undiscovered Country” and what that meant.
To be honest, I don’t remember that scene in the episode, but could it be that it’s a direct references to Shakespeare’s Hamlet in which “Undiscovered Country” is death?
Exhibit A:

To be, or not to be–that is the question…

blah, blah, blah…yada, yada, yada

…Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?

Possibly indirectly, Thot.

This makes sense because if the FF are actually of Earth, then they may be the ones to sense that residing on NC just isn’t right. They would fight the strongest to continue on to Earth.

The one fly in the ointment is that Gaeta had a huge role in giving the presidency to Baltar in the first place by uncovering the stolen election…

Congrats on your 100th! What anniversary is that? Plutonium?

And Audra mentioned me! I’m famous! :smiley:

I’m just finishing up listening to podcast 100 (I was only able to listen to it live for the last 30 minutes). And I just gotta say again kudos to kmehthas (David) for that amazing song.

Apologies accepted.

I think you’re both right, in the original Shakespearean meaning the undiscovered country is death and what’s beyond death, in Star Trek VI it’s the future which hasn’t been written in stone - both interpretations work well for BSG and they don’t exclude each other

Sean is. He lost his ability to see shades of green in his right eye!

Yaaay! 100 !!! It was fun to hear the Stern clips that got me to come over here, start listening to the podcasts and have fun in the forum :slight_smile: and now 100 tildas, one for each episode:

Hoorah! Congrats again on 100 podcasts! I look forward to (re)listening to this later tonight.

  • David -

P.S. See below in my sig to download the Still Alive song.

Holy craaaaap! That song brought back memories. I haven’t heard that since third grade. In math class our teacher would put on a record (a 33) that had math songs on it, including that one. I was really into the music and memorizing the words, and only because of that did I win one of our times-tables contests. Lol! I don’t think I’ve ever seen the video before.

David, thanks again for the awesome song!!

It was a fun podcast to listen to… there should be more crazy fabulous songs from here on out! that was awesome.

Thanks :smiley:

I’ve got the antidote for your anti-theory right here.

I consider his role as an incredibly key member of the CIC crew, his (unrecognized) role in the resistance, and his tattoo to be the best pieces of proof. Your points on the music (especially in the Butterfingers episode) are really sharp!

You ‘yada, yada, yada’ Shakespeare??? That takes some cojones.

Oh, and 100% guaranteed, the undiscovered country refers to death. Just look at the context with both the Cylons and their newly-found and accepted mortality, as well as Baltar’s and Roslin’s ‘crossing the river’ mumbo-jumbo. It is only incidental the expression coincides with a Trek reference.

Death and what comes after death. Cause for the Cylons, the next life comes after death HOLY CRAP!!!

Has anyone considered the possibility that, well some religions on Earth believe in re-birth - now the Cylons actually get reborn, so what if through some mystical means the humans that end up on Earth eventually get some kind of capability for rebirth, but they have to live a whole life before that?

Huzzah on the 100th podcast! Keep 'em coming! Thanks Chuck, Sean, and Audra for all the work you do on them and the blog and forum. :slight_smile: