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Very. Good. Question.
The reason the raptor and vipers weren’t damaged previously is because it wasn’t convenient for the plot.
I read a quote from RDM complaining that Voyager didn’t work because the audience was “lied to” about the status of the ship and the realities of being lost in space with no local ship dock for repair or supplies, but a sudden implementation of FTL drives as destructive weaponry should certainly raise a few eyebrows, since it would seem like a pretty major component of space travel on a show about… space travel.
Obviously.
Chuck, I didn’t catch the Roslin on the floor thing first time around either. When I watched it again in the morning with my wife I noticed it. Afterwards I was talking to my wife and I brought up the same thing Sean did. I said, “I think Roslin is dead. I can totally see them starting the next show with a funeral service. No big dramatic tear-jerky death scene. Just, she’s dead. Oh and by the way, Adama’s other girl is dying also. Watch out for falling rafters!”
Thanks for breaking down the notes for us less musically inclined piano players, now I can bask in the musical goodness at home :).
I’d like to see some small death scene with Roslin and Adama. Come on, something!
I took another look at the shot and all things consider the surface damage to Galatica was not all that bad.
What we do know is Galatica is in really bad shape. In some shots the old girl is bumping and grinding for no apparent reason and through explanation she is being held together by duck tape and hot glue or at the very least Cylon goo.
Granted she is a very big ship but I’m thinking that she is a house made from cards waiting to cave in at the slights breeze.
The question I have then is this just an indication of just how bad things are on the good old girl as compared to a perfectly functional Raptor or Viper?
Am I the only one that thinks back on Adama saying “They cut corners?” and snicker because it’s the major design aspect of the 12 colonies?
Some interesting points as to my theory…
Kenneth Biller is a writer on BSG. Like RDM he was also a writer on ST-Voyager
One of the episodes on STV that Kenneth Biller is credited for writing was Virtuoso
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709006/
The basic plot is…
The Doctor’s singing talent is so appreciated by one species that he is considering resigning his Starfleet commission and staying on with his millions of adoring fans.
It turns out that it’s not his voice that this species appreciates but rather the mathematical notation of the music. They never heard music before and are not able to appreciate beyond what they were familiar with. The punch line their next music star sang like a bag of cats that ended with a standing ovation.
Be interesting to see how this is going to play out with out someone accusing a rehash of an old idea. The again there is a bit of Close Encounters mixed in as well. 
I was under the impression that Helo is third in the chain of command.
But wow, Frankie, that seems right on, and I love it when properties treat music as more than serious, and as the very answer we seek (like my avatar, Chrono Cross).
Ah, very nice!
I didn’t catch that, and so obvious.
I love the idea of Watchtower containing a hidden code!!!
History is full of cryptographers and composers hiding codes in their music:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2007/interact/puzzles/musicalcodes.shtml
There are tons of pieces of music that begin B-A-C-B flat, because B flat is called “H” in German, and so the first four notes spell “BACH” as a tribute to perhaps composer who best married mathematics and intuition.
In my misspent youth as a Composition Major, I spent my time trying to insert hidden extra-musical meaning in my music. For instance, I ran Martin Luther King’s “I had a dream” speech through a machine that turned it into notes from the pitches, and then scored it for French horn, with percussion and cello accompaniment. Unfortunately, it sounded like crap, which explains why I’m a chemist today.
In RDM’s podcast, he calls Head Dad “Slick”!
I prefer Sean, Audra & Chuck’s name.
Ya I love the idea of hidden codes as well. When Watchtower was first reveled though there was no clear indication as to the importance of the particular choice. I mean it was and is an interesting tune but if you look at it historically to me it seems more of a bridge between classical music and rock and roll. It was a tune you listen to rather than dance to which was the preference of the time. The late 60’s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Along_the_Watchtower
In the case of BSG though I don’t think Dylan’s version is as reverent as Jimi Hendrix’s as a possibility of hiding code with in the cord changes. I’ll let you read the wiki but a key point I think was Dylan’s reaction.
“Dylan has described his reaction to hearing Hendrix’s version: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn’t think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day”
To me Hendrix’s version was like a Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper moment. It was the second time around that the use of that particular tune that the hair stood up on the back of my neck. At first it was a kind of secret handshake used to identify the final five and is now something RDM says is important and need to be paid attention to as it’s the beginning of the end.
But
Still to come is the need for a primer, a context, a means to identify what is being looked at. You can say that mathematically “The Last Super” could be notated as 2+2=4 but what is the relevance with out having the primer?
I think Hera has the primer, which is the second drawing she was working on when she gave Starbuck the first drawing. I think that this is the motavator Adama needs to go after Hera and piting his poor busted battlestar against any Cylon battlestars that might remain.
I wonder if an apt comparison would be a large wave hitting a cork (even a large cork) versus hitting a boat or ship. The cork would simply be moved by the wave, while the boat or ship might be overturned or damage. Forgive my crude comparison, but it seem like that is what happened. When the tillium ship jumped the Vipers and Raptors were pushed away. The Galactica is simply too big to be pushed away, so it sustained certain localized damage instead.
That’s a very good comparison.
I gasped and hit the g/f’s leg and said, “Did she just DIE? Just like that?!” And we disagreed. She thought that she passed out but wasn’t dead. We’ll see. It seemed crass to take a quarter bet on it.
Yeah, who doesn’t want to see/have that moment? Precisely why we’re not likely to get it. It will add an extra layer of pain to her death and his loss.
Damn, you’re a smarty.
So I talked with a friend who just caught the ep this morning and she said, “Wow, the Chief has nothing left to live for. Think he’ll commit suicide?” I hadn’t considered suicide, and I hope he doesn’t, but good god poor Chief.
He’s always been my second favorite character (my heart belongs to Starbuck) and it makes me so sad that he has lost everything. He lost his world, his love, his humanity, his wife, his son, his love again, and the future she helped him to see and believe in. Jeez, it is enough to force on to desperate extremes.
What does the Chief need to achieve some sort of closure? I do not think there will be any happy ending for him anymore, but I want to see him give his life in service to something more that he can still believe in. What is it?