My guess for the final Cylon is Gaeta. That would be sweet justice for him considering the jerk he's been lately. I know it's definitely not Kara even though they are trying to make it look like it is.
Has anyone else been extremely aggravated with Roslin lately? It really hacks me off that she seems to think she has the monopoly on truth and that her thoughts and beliefs are the only correct ones. I mean she has a drug-induced hallucination and expects the entire fleet to follow it and sends Kara off on a mission to retrieve the Arrow. But Kara actually sees Earth, has pictures of it, but no, it must be a cylon trick? Kara must be a cylon? Ugh, I'm so tired of her condescension toward Commander Adama because he believes in Kara. I wish he would say "Frak you" and do his own thing.
I really don't like the preview flashes BSG does at the very beginning of the show. For this last episode, they totally showed a shot of Tory punching Cally and someone pushing the airlock button. It was not at all a surprise that it happened. I really wish they would not have shown that, especially after reading the latest entry at Bear McCreary's blog (here's the snipet from it and I highly recommend reading his blog!
http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/ ):
As Tory explains herself to Cally, the yialli tanbur, duduk and zhong hu play statements of the Final Four theme (which I explained in detail in my He That Believeth… entry). In these first few episodes of Season Four, we have witnessed each of the Final Four react to the knowledge of their Cylon natures differently, yet this melodic theme has represented them all. Here it underscores Tory reaching out to Cally, though the orchestration still suggests that there’s something unsettling about the whole situation.
This conversation was a delicate tight-rope walk for me, since I wanted to keep up the tension, but I also wanted to mislead the audience into believing that Tory might be genuinely trying to save Cally from making a terrible mistake. And, naturally, I forgot to consider the hysterically screaming baby in the scene that renders this cue virtually inaudible anyway… this is what soundtrack albums are for I guess.
Regardless, the moment leading up to Tory striking Cally is an excellent example of musical misdirection.
Cally falls to her knees, and Tory comforts her. I scored this touching scene as if the episode were about to fade to black on a warm, resolved ending. A solo duduk enters, playing a lush arrangement of the original Cally / Tyrol love theme.
This familiar tune, tracing all the way back to Season 1, washes away the sour, dissonant and melancholy Cally Theme that has reverberated throughout the entire episode. And for a fleeting moment, it appears as if all is well. Of course, we soon discover Tory is up to no good…
I personally felt that the opening title drum montage betrayed this wonderful moment, since we clearly saw Tory smacking Cally. So, you guys will have to let me know if this fleeting moment of compassion actually tricked you or not, but I hope it did.
For me, the sudden shift in tone when Tory knocks Cally back is one of the most vicious and brutal moments in the entire series and I’m thrilled that the score could play such an effective and sneaky role.
Honestly, his music did almost trick me. I almost could believe it was all going to be okay, but I still knew about that moment that Tory strikes Cally. Shame the preview ruined it.
A lot of us rejoiced when Cally was airlocked! She was an annoying character and personally I don't like the actress. Someone even went so far as to make this icon:
After rewatching the episode, I actually feel sorry for Cally now. A lot of people were wondering if her going crazy had something to do with the nebula, or if the nebula affected her son and he was being more cranky which made her more tired...but I think it was mostly her husband not being around. I think she was tired from raising their child on her own, she didn't feel supported and loved, then on top of that suspecting an affair...that's enough to really affect someone. Add finding out your husband is a cylon, it isn't surprising she lost it.
Tory's callousness did surprise me. She seems to be really understanding what it means to be a cylon. She seems to be realizing her power. It's going to be interesting to see what she starts to do and how Tigh will react.
I also wonder how they don't know that Cally was murdered? Surely they can tell the airlock was not activated from the inside?
when Kara mentions she feels as if she were watching herself from an alien body... I don't know what to make of it, does he look at her like that because he perfectly understands what she's going through, or because he's just realized she could be a cylon?
I just hate seeing him continually used. You can tell he doesn't want to give in to her, that he knows he's being used, but he can't resist her.
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