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billybob476

IN the mini series the original theme was used as the Colonial national anthem.

Bryancd

Quote from: Dangelus on March 22, 2009, 12:36:56 PM
Maybe I'm going crazy but I'm sure I remember a scene (not sure if it was in the mini series or an early season) where a character is whistling the theme tune to Original BSG. I remember thinking that was pretty cool!

You did. :)

Feathers

Was it really MacNee. I was sure it was Hyde-White. He was in the show too in the early days. Some sort of scientist I think.

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Feathers

Well I never. Hyde-White was in one episode as someone important but the scientist character was in 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'.

I've always believed he was the credit announcer. I hate being wrong :(

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Maybe I'm going crazy but I'm sure I remember a scene (not sure if it was in the mini series or an early season) where a character is whistling the theme tune to Original BSG. I remember thinking that was pretty cool!
Quote from: billybob476 on March 22, 2009, 12:56:07 PM
IN the mini series the original theme was used as the Colonial national anthem.

Yep.  And if I remember correctly, it was played during Galactica's retirement ceremony during the first part of the mini-series.  There's also a really cool version of the song on one of McCreary's BSG soundtracks (I think it's season 2)

Kirk-Fu

I have to say, while I wasnt thrilled with BSG as of late, RM did a great job on the ending. It wasnt a suprise though, it was one of the possible endings in our office pool.
Plus, the whole 'It's all happened before, it will all happen again' kinda hinted at it. But, it was a great relief to see them all out of harms way.
Loved the way Cavil went out...just cool.

But, now what to do on friday nights for TV viewing?


Geekyfanboy

Battlestar Galactica Series Finale Redux: So Do We Live Happily Ever After?

Jennifer Godwin Jennifer Godwin – Sat Mar 21, 1:27 pm ET
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Well played!

Battlestar Galactica, a visually grim and philosophically dark series for the duration of its run, had no obligation to end with twittering birds, romantic curlicues and happy, healing Helo. It was a gift, then, that it ended on such a triumphal, thoughtful note, and for that gift plus the entirety of four epic years with this great story, we offer a sincere and hearty thank you to the creators, cast and crew.

But enough niceties. Let's get cracking into what went down in the series finale of Battlestar Galactica and, more importantly, what series creator Ronald D. Moore has to say about it...

Look Homeward: So at last Kara Thrace (Katee Sackhoff) goes to her hard-earned rest. She found Earth, yo! For the record, though, that man teaching her piano (and therefore giving her the FTL-drive coordinates to our new home) was not Daniel. According to Ronald D. Moore at the BSG finale event last week, "Daniel's definitely a rabbit hole" that fans fell down and not the key to Kara's everlasting mystery. Instead, says R.D.M., "Kara is what you want her to be. It's easy to put the label on her of angel or messenger of God. Kara Thrace died, was resurrected, and came back and took the people to their final end. That was destiny in the show."

The Vixen and the Geek: Well, after four years of sex, lies and hallucinations, we've learned that both Caprica Six and Gaius Baltar were haunted by each other, but what they were haunted by remains unclear. According to R.D.M., "We never tried to name exactly what we called the Head-Baltar and Head-Six throughout the show internally, and we never really looked at them as angels or demons, because they would periodically say evil things and good things, and they tended to save people and tended to damn people. There was a sense that they worked in service of something else—you could say a higher power or you could say another power—that was guiding and helping, sometimes obstructing, sometimes tempting the mortal people in the show. The idea at the very end was whatever they are in service of continues and is eternal and is always around. And they too are still around, and they too are still here with us, with all of us who are the children of Hera, and in one way, shape or form they continue to walk among us and watch, and at some point they may or may not intercede at a key moment. That was the concept behind the last images." And if you ask us, those last images were quite magnificent. Also magnificent? Caprica's declaration that she'd always wanted to be proud of Baltar, the revelation of their genuine love and affection for one another, Baltar's speech to Cavil about a leap of faith, and Baltar weeping in Caprica's arms about...farming. Were you happy with that coupling finally coming to be?

Mountain Men: Were you happy with the lonely fates of the Chief and Lee Adama? The Chief is apparently off to be a great Scot, and Lee wanders the world...Was that the right ending for those two?

Heart: It's hard to call Helo and Athena a fairy-tale couple when there was that time that Athena was punitively raped for being a Cylon, and then that other time when Helo frakked Athena's "evil twin" Boomer, but still...Gotta love where those two started and that they ended up together, bickering adorably. Not to mention the fact that their cutest-kid-in-the-fleet moppet Hera turned out to be mitochondrial Eve.

Did the Agathon family ending make you happiest, or were you more delighted by Adama posthumously making Roslin his wife?

Were you satisfied or disappointed with the series finale of Battlestar Galactica?


lostrekkie

I personally loved the ending to BSG. I liked how they didn't really answer who Starbuck was, or who Head-Six and Head-Baltar were. It was very cool and stayed true to the mythology of the show that was started way back in the miniseries. I read that a few people thought that the answers that were given were copouts, but they dont really realize that the ideas put forth were things that have been in the show since the start.

My only problem with the ending is I really don't like the fate of Chief Tyrol. I don't know, but to think of him all alone on Scotland. Same to a slightly lesser degree with Adama. Why would Adama never see his son again? That makes little sense to me. Sure, he may need some time apart, but to never see him again.

Lee's ending actually my favorite. It made sense that he would want to go out, explore, find new things. It was very nice.
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One thing I think to keep in mind is this is just what they said they would all do, after like 5 minutes on Earth.  Hard to say that in a month, a year, ten years, people didn't change their minds and do something else.  It's just a little slice of time we were shown.

billybob476


Geekyfanboy

"Galactica" Could Have Had a Very Different Ending
April 1, 2009 by Michael Hickerson   || Category: TV News

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2009/04/01/galactica-could-have-had-a-very-differnent-edning/

With the finale of "Battlestar Galactica" in the books, series producer Ron Moore has been giving fans some insight into other ways the series could have ended.

Moore recently wrote in the SciFi Channel discussion boards that one intial idea was to not destroy the ship by having it fly into the sun, but instead to have it crash in a Peruvian jungle.

"There was a point in the development process where we discussed the idea of the Galactica not being destroyed, but having somehow landed on the surface more or less intact, but unable to ever get into orbit again (the particulars here were never worked out, so don't ask how she made it down without being torn apart). We talked about them basically abandoning the ship and moving out into the world.

"Cut to the present-day in Central America where there are these enormous mysterious mounds that archeologists have not been able to understand (it may have been South America, I can't recall the exact location, but these mounds really do exist). Someone is doing a new kind of survey of the mounds with some kind of ground-penetrating radar or something and lo and behold, we see the outlines of the Galactica still buried under the surface."

Moore said they ultimately didn't go with the ending because they wouldn't have been able to reconcile it with the "reality" of the series.

"It was an intriguing idea and we bandied it about for a while, but ultimately rejected it as a little too cute and also felt that it would violate our contemporary reality, in essence 'branching off' the BSG story in 2009 into an parallel reality where a battlestar was discovered in Central America. I wanted the end of the show to directly relate to us, not to a world where that event had occurred."

Trekkygeek

I would have almost wet my pants for that ending, so cool
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Feathers


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Trekkygeek

Quote from: Feathers on April 13, 2009, 07:11:13 AM
Quote from: Trekkygeek on April 13, 2009, 06:59:48 AM
I would have almost wet my pants for that ending, so cool

Horrible thought! ;)

Really? I don't think that ending would have been THAT horrible  ;D
You could learn something from Mr Spock Doctor..... Stop thinking with your glands"