Because there are a lot of different ways this could go.
The connection between Hera and the FF music?
Kara’s piano memories and what they might mean?
Timing of Hera music and kidnapping by Boomer?
There are many more connections involved with music this episode - so what do you guys think?
But what does the music have to do with all this?
seem to “turn on” the FF and/or get their attention.
IF Daniel is indeed Starbucks dad, maybe he wasn’t completely wiped out by Cavil. He could have implanted the FF with the wake up song. He knew the left hand part of the tune - I didn’t see any chords in Hera’s “sheet music”, just melody. If he was just a “head dad”, he implanted the tune in baby-Starbuck as well. Hera picked up the tune when it woke the FF and seeing the sheet music woke up Starbuck as well (at least to the tune).
Or maybe I just took too much cold medicine tonight…
when it woke the FF would work if she’s a hybrid, maybe
But then, there’s Starbuck, unaffected by the tune until now
i hate to say it, but… I called it! my first real prediction to really come true on the show.
http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showthread.php?p=147642#post147642
Role of music: To be frakkin badass, thats what.
And even now, has anything changed? She didn’t seem activated or anything. Granted, she was moved by the experience because a child’s drawing gave her the extra notes, and the guy she’d been talking to ended not really being there, and the melody brought back memories of childhood.
But I didn’t get the sense that she’d been affected by the song itself. So in that respect, nothing has really moved forward very much.
Dispite what I thought before, it now very much appears that Daniel is Starbucks father.
So time for some more shameless speculation!
Daniel was artistic. Daniel was the “child” of the final five and it would seem very close to Ellen.
The FF brought that song with them from Earth and perhaps played it for and taught it to Daniel.
Daniel was memory blocked and dumped with the humans by Cavil (as he did with the FF, whom he also hated)
Daniel fathers Starbuck. Still remembers that song (but doesn’t quite know why) so he plays it for and teaches it to his child (Starbuck)
Starbuck is special because she is the first blended Cylon-Human baby.
Hera is the second “Hylon”. Both Kara and Hera are tapped into all sorts of odd cosmic things but because Hera is so young she just lets it all flow through her. Shes not afraid of it nor does she have an adult mind thats conditioned to block out or rationalize such things.
Still don’t know how Starbuck AND her Viper got resurrected. The FF took the ship they downloaded to on their journey to the 12 Colonies. So this is still in the dark.
Still don’t know wtf Baltar is…(I thought he was Daniel until tonight…looks like that was wrong)
I still think by the time its all done we will find out that Baltar isn’t 100% Human. Too much funky stuff going on with him for him to be “just a guy”.
Bear’s blog is up!
I have to say, it’s a long read but really really interesting (especially if you are into music). I particularly enjoy knowing about the Gershwin and Ravel pieces - particularly since those are pieces that I know and play! hehe.
That’s some pretty good cold medicine.
Welcome aboard tavman.
Yah, from way back like, how does Baltar survive the blast that killed Caprica Six and destroyed his house? How is it that Balter can project like the Cylons? How & why does he see a Head-Six? Don’t you just love it.
Obviously there is some significance to Hera’s drawing a pattern (which my wife, watching the episode with me, first thought might be a star map of some kind) that, when placed on a staff, spells out “All Along the Watchtower.” The fact that the tune is the same as what Kara remembered learning from her father (who is a head character now, maybe? Or is he just a memory? Is he related to head Leoben?) as a child is obviously important and might mean that she (and Hera?) is related to the earthican five in some way (I’m wondering if, perhaps, the fact that Hera is a cylon/human hybrid and she has a connection to Watchtower whether this may mean that the FF are also cylon-human mixes, as well as Starbuck).
Music can also be a powerful trigger of memories and, obviously, is meaningful to a lot of people. I thought it was interesting that in the end Kara sits down besides Anders and plays him her father’s recording. Something’s coming out of that.
I couldn’t help, however, being a little skeptical about the process of composition as depicted in this episode, but mostly because my own process is so different (I don’t sit at the piano, for instance. I used to do it all in my head, now I write at the computer). Overall, it’s obvious that Bear McCreary had some advisory role in the writing of this episode as the treatment of practical music making was handled more tastefully and effectively than it usually is on television and film.
No, it hasn’t. But nothing’s quite the same either. Obviously the music and Starbuck’s relationship to it and the FF in this episode will be a launch pad to something major as we wrap things up in the next three weeks.
Also, the Galactica is shot up to hell now. That seems to be a pretty significant development.
Wait a minute. “Watchtower” started to play, and the lights on Galactica started to blink, when Kara returned to the Fleet at the end of “Crossroads.” In this episodes, the lights were constantly blinking (because the ship is falling apart, yes, but still) and Kara played “Watchtower.” Maybe Kara isn’t affected by the song so much as she’s what’s transmitting it, similar to how Hera seems to be by writing the notes down, but doesn’t seem affected by it herself? Anybody want to run with that?
Yay!
As for Kara’s identity, yeah, that’s what I gathered, too. It doesn’t answer where the Viper came from, but it’s a big step.
As far as Hera’s drawing: could it be both notes and a star map? We’ve been wondering for a long time why this particular song is so important; perhaps whoever was leaving breadcrumbs for the Colonials to follow wanted them to get to Earth(f), see the destruction that comes from people-machine strife and learn from it, and then take the “Watchtower” path to a new home?
Music can also be a powerful trigger of memories and, obviously, is meaningful to a lot of people. I thought it was interesting that in the end Kara sits down besides Anders and plays him her father’s recording. Something’s coming out of that.
Good point; I was too busy tearing up to think through why Kara was doing that. I can’t take credit for catching it, but how awesome is it that the tape says the recording was “Live at the Opera House”?
I couldn’t help, however, being a little skeptical about the process of composition as depicted in this episode, but mostly because my own process is so different (I don’t sit at the piano, for instance. I used to do it all in my head, now I write at the computer). Overall, it’s obvious that Bear McCreary had some advisory role in the writing of this episode as the treatment of practical music making was handled more tastefully and effectively than it usually is on television and film.
Thanks for the insider perspective, Armando. I know nothing about composition, but I did wonder whether the vision/projection was Kara’s understanding of the composing process or if it was her subconscious trying to work out her memories through trial and error.
I just checked Bear’s blog and there’s no mention of this, but I think it’s pretty cool. The title of the episode is “Someone to watch over me” from a Gershwin song. Bring up Heeding the Call and cue it to about 1:42. That piece of melody ties Heeding the Call and Watchtower together. Sing “Someone to Watch Over Me” to the melody. It fits perfectly. Might just change the name of the song on my iPod…
Anders is about to wake up, and he will have some important information.
This is what I think also.
And maybe the star map part of it will lead them back to Kobol. Cavil & Co will finally be defeated and humans & cylons will blend. Breaking the cycle forever.