S04E08 - Sine Qua Non Episode Discusion <spoilers>

they should have named this episode “threshold” then i’d understand

My prediction is the delay for S4.5 is because they’re having trouble with the direction its going…

BSG, The Musical

With E.J. Olmos singing his own rendition of 'I was born under a wandering star"

“hrmm… mmmmblle… I …hrmmmmmmm waaass born… under a wandering… star… mmmbbbbbllll… do your job… hrmmmmmmm”

Gods! What an idea for the Final Cylon… a sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania.

I can find nothing sweet about that

Or they changed the order of the scenes in editing, which is even more likely.

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The Caprica-6 + Baltar = no babby, Tigh + Caprica-6 = babby makes perfect sense to me

Baltar, if nothing else, was in close proximity to a nuclear blast, probably received enough radiation to make his family jewels glow in the dark (perhaps that’s what makes him such a hit with the ladies).

He won’t be becoming a parent less’n he had some ‘Gaius Jr’ in the deep freeze.
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I have a wild theory. All the Sixs are pregnant now; they are pregnant to Hera; what they are carrying will be used to resurrect Hera, if anything happens to her. I can’t imagine a better way for a Six Hera away from her mommy.

How would they all be pregnant? Not all the Sharons got pregnant when Athena did. I don’t know, I don’t really have a theory on what’s going with this whole Hera thing. It is barely moving forward at all (like much of the story), and now that Caprica Six is pregnant it seems the Hera angle is going to loose some steam.

I guess we can expect something interesting about the visions in the Opera House, maybe they are about something totally unexpected, and nothing to do with Hera after all.

A galactica version of baby jesus maybe…

interesting…

Six did try to approach Helo on the planet, but the Eight beat 6 to it…

I thought that at first, but Tyrol has long hair in that scene. Couldn’t have happened in that time frame.

  • David -

I’m pretty sure Racetrack said:

“I can’t see a f*cking thing from here”

When they were surveying the dead raptor. I bet this gets edited out in the US version tonight.

I think she said fraking. It happens at about 14:50ish if anyone else would like to confirm it.

But perhaps, just perhaps, they were close enough to the res ship before it was blasted and Natalie is still alive…

And now that the rez ship is blasted, that means they are ALL dieing leaders now! hurrrah!

It reminds me of the Roman Senate in the old “sword & sandals” movies. A bunch of old men in togas, sitting around going “rabble rabble rabble”.

I thought the same thing. The camera pulled in close, just like it did with Anders & the Eight, so it’s obviously significant. To be honest, I hadn’t even considered him until I saw this episode.

We can’t be sure of that. Maybe he loves cabbage. :smiley:

You do know that a baby doesn’t happen every single time, right? :rolleyes:

Wouldn’t that be “Jesi”?

I thought so too! I listened several times; she does say “frakking”, but it’s sort of mangled, like she almost said something else.

Great synopsis! I am going to miss Natalie and was curious to see where she was going (apparently not far). I like that Lee is now President, and that Romo is showing the same signs of stress that others in the fleet are.

It will be interesting to see what happens if Laura makes it back to the fleet. I actually hope she doesn’t become president again. I think it will be interesting to see her focus on her own mortality and the spiritual ramifications without the distraction of governing…

I think that the people (certainly the Quorum) will be like, “Honey, we don’t want you back. Things are better this way, trust us.”

ok once again ill need to rewatch but is it me or do major plot points go by fast? ok romo’s cat…did he say there was more than one and did he just keep a dead one around as well as the alive bkitty? where did the fleet jump to? last known place where the hybrid was or did racetrack find that? where did the other pilots that adama made go jump to? is adama just gonna hang out,read,play with himself, and wait for rosilyn to come back? what do ya’ll think athena was humming? thanks in advance!

This episode was particularly rushed.

ok romo’s cat…did he say there was more than one and did he just keep a dead one around as well as the alive bkitty?

The cat was dead the whole time. Only Romo could see the living one.

where did the fleet jump to?

They didn’t. The Galactica jumped. Adama abandoned the fleet.

last known place where the hybrid was or did racetrack find that?

Racetrack found that, or at least they assumed that she did.

where did the other pilots that adama made go jump to?

I don’t think that was very clear. Maybe random jump points radiating out from the wreckage?

is adama just gonna hang out,read,play with himself, and wait for rosilyn to come back?

Yeah, that plan was a bit dodgy. Won’t he run out of food, fuel, and air in a few days?

what do ya’ll think athena was humming? thanks in advance!

It’s a traditional Korean children’s song.

She first sang/hummed it in mid season 1, when she was petting the Raider that Starbuck captured. To confirm with 'Pretty Hair, I do believe RDM says in the podcast that it was a lullaby Grace Park knew from childhood.

I have more to say about this episode. I have a party in the real world to go to. Will comment later.