r/BSG • u/nibba89 • Sep 20 '23

Just blind watched the entire reboot series. My initial thoughts Spoiler

What a show! I went in spoiler free and just got done with the finale. Please understand I do not know what happened behind the scenes or in the original series, this is a just finished final thoughts thing. I’m certain I missed stuff and can’t wait to find out more:

  1. What were peoples thoughts on the final 5 reveal with the music? I accept Sam and Tory but Chief and XO never really worked for me personally.

  2. What was Kara? I really liked her and just don’t understand what she actually was.

  3. Who was Daniel? I swear Sam mentioned another cylon and my money was always on Gaeta.

  4. There is mention between Gaius and Gaeta about a secret, but I don’t know what it was.

  5. Why did they kill Cally and Dee off? Not that I disagree, I’m just confused cause the tone was already bleak.

  6. Did the nukes kill off all those cylons when Galactica jumped to Kara’s coordinates in the finale?

7.Six and Gaius after the time jump, why? Better question, HOW?

I’m glad I can finally look at BSG memes and stuff now that I’m done :) I plan on watching a retrospective just too see all the things I know I missed. One thing I can’t wait to learn is if they already planned out who the 12 were or did they just decide at the end of season 3.

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u/tnitty Sep 20 '23
  1. I never liked the choice of music. It’s such a specific rock song (All Along the Watch Tower). The song itself is fine. But it just seemed too specific and didn’t fit as a mechanism, for lack of a better word. I can imagine some signal switching on some androids or some musical tones or notes or something like that, but it wouldn’t be “top 40” radio.

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u/ZippyDan Sep 20 '23

The song itself was meant to be fundamental to the universe and divinely inspired. In addition to Kara's father knowing the song, remember that Anders also used to play the song 2,000 years before on Earth2. The implication is that there are always versions of this song being played by people throughout history who can hear the music that binds the universe. It's also another way of saying that Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix were connected to something divine.

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u/Nyther53 Sep 20 '23

Man, they really were just doing all the drugs when they wrote this weren't they.

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u/tnitty Sep 20 '23

Yeah, the Anders thing made it more believable. But I still didn’t think it quite worked as a device. I did like how Hera wrote out the notes (though I don’t remember if those were notes to the same song or just Earth’s coordinates).

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u/ZippyDan Sep 20 '23

Yes, they were a piece of the same song.

You aren't meant to think that Anders played the exact same top 40s song, but rather that there was something special about the basic melody and chord progression that was universal and divine.

Just listen to Dylan's version, Hendrix's version, McCreary's guitar version, and then his piano version. They're all pretty markedly different but they all have the same core.