A Disquiet Follows My Soul - 1/24/09

[Shane]

• Episode broadcast at 10pm EST/9pm CST Friday 24 January on the Sci Fi Channel
• Live IRC chat on the Battlestar Forum, starting an hour before and lasting an hour after
• Additional content to be available on SciFi.com following broadcast
• Episode broadcast at 9pm Tuesday 27 January on Sky One in the UK

Please note that this thread is a spoiler zone. Do not read this thread if you don't want to be spoiled about the episode. With that in mind use the spoiler tag if these things apply:

• Future events that are revealed as part of the 'A Disquiet Follows My Soul' broadcast (e.g. promo clips, previews, etc.)
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Questions - From Battlestar Wiki Episode Page

• Based on the many instances in the episode where Admiral Adama is shown not to feel very well (and is "popping pills"), that the Fleet has still not found a home, and that Laura Roslin has relinquished (for now) her role as leader, is William Adama, in fact, the dying leader of the Pythian prophecy?
• Will Tyrol continue to maintain custody of Nicky?
• Will people in the Fleet mistakenly suspect Kara Thrace of being the Final Cylon, now that Lee Adama has publicly let slip that the Fifth Cylon is a woman?
• Besides Tigh, Admiral Adama, and Lee Adama, who else in the Fleet knows that Ellen Tigh is the Final Cylon?
• How many others on Galactica have sided with Gaeta and Zarek?
• Which model Cylon was killed on the Tylium ship?

[genji2000]

Right - I bet you lot don't give Shane the same jip you gave me.

This is the real beginning of S4.5, having been written after (!) the writers' strike. The inexorable and irresistible march towards the climax of the entire series starts here. No more messing about guessing who's the Final Cylon, no more wasting time chasing a pipe dream called Earth. The cards are on the table. It's going to be difficult to watch but the journey's end draws nearer.

Same?

[Pnutmaster]

Originally Posted by genji2000

The cards are on the table. It's going to be difficult to watch but the journey's end draws nearer.

And people are gonna stop dropping like flies

I see the same teal (or whatever) blanket in the YouWillKnowTheBullSh*t image

[Hofner1962]

Oh Genji - of course we aren't. He's Shane - hell, he's Cavil

Originally Posted by Pnutmaster

And people are gonna stop dropping like flies

I see the same teal (or whatever) blanket in the YouWillKnowTheBullSh*t image

more like seafoam green ... "No timbo - I meant brown - I did, I meant brown - please . . ."

[thevarrior]

Originally Posted by Hofner1962

Oh Genji - of course we aren't. He's Shane - hell, he's Cavil


more like seafoam green ... "No timbo - I meant brown - I did, I meant brown - please . . ."

Shane is indeed Number One on this forum :P.

[Hofner1962]

Originally Posted by thevarrior

sig:The day comes when we can't hide from the things we've done.

Just so long as we can keep hiding from the people.

[Capedia]

Words for the fleet from the film Cast Away:

I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

[OldManRivers]

I'm going to declare it:
I liked this episode.


Now I'll wait a few pages before I check back from all the folks who said "This episode was crap." Please, prove me wrong.

[Shane]

I just opened the poll. I have to rate this one "OK". It was able to handle the drama... not much action which I always enjoyed.

[Gougef]

Originally Posted by OldManRivers

I'm going to declare it:
I liked this episode.


Now I'll wait a few pages before I check back from all the folks who said "This episode was crap." Please, prove me wrong.

I like it better than last weeks.

Last week suffered from having too much expectations.

[TPL2008]

I liked this episode a lot.

Is it not ironic that Gaeta should be the rebellious one against Cylon collusion considering that he was the right-hand man to Baltar in his Cylon puppet government? (Granted he was the one giving the insurgents details.)

He has been pushed this way for a while, the clash with Starbuck over Leoben was what cost him his leg and the continued use of Cylons in the fleet was probably the last straw. Tigh as x-o, Athena a pilot (used for arresting the VP) and Anders (still a viper pilot presumably).

Setting up for a lot of action next week one thinks.

[TheKid965]

"Laundry reports?"

I almost never laugh out loud when watching this show - granted, it almost never puts me in a position where I might want to laugh. I laughed at that reveal. It may be the oldest bluff in the book, but in the right hands it can still be quite effective. The Old Man's still got it, it seems.

(Of course, now it begs the question why Zarek, who we assume is so politically savvy, just accepted Adama's word for what was in those files without checking them himself. Oh well, sometimes you have to ask the audience to make that buy in order to get where you want to go. It's still curious, though.)

This was a nice episode - not as monumentally anticipated as "Sometimes a Great Notion," which I think works in its favor. I took it as a chance to catch our breath after the blockbuster reveals of the past week, and to prepare ourselves mentally for the next major arc, which looks like civil war within the Fleet... something heavy to be sure.

Hmm... first a Cylon civil war, now it looks like the humans are about to have one. Another aspect of the "this has all happened before, it will all happen again" mantra?

Looking forward to next week, because...

...in interviews, it seems Ellen is in all but one of the last episodes - and she wasn't in this one. So next week begins the hard sell of Ellen as the fifth, which I know some people are waiting on before passing judgement.

[Batman316]

*flees to the Internet Black Out Zone

[ouiouiwewe]

Following the flow of events in this episode, I perceive that the status quo of the fleet is massively shaken by the fact that Adama and Roslin had led people to nowhere and that they've failed.

Now, here's this:
(1) The admiral and the president have led the fleet to Earth as promised and prophesized
(2) The fact that the 13th colony destroyed itself is not something that can be anticipated
(3) There were no other viable alternatives present when the fleet escaped the 12 colonies

Perhaps the average colonial citizens and their mass media are similar to those of the U.S.?

[Zlaticko]

Zarek bid everyone stay on New Caprica. The Cylons would not have found them or Earth if they had continued.

Dumbass.