Season 4: Islanded in a Stream of Stars - 3/06/09

[Pnutmaster]

• Episode broadcast at 10pm EST/9pm CST Friday 6 March 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 10 March 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. With that in mind use the spoiler tag if these things apply:

• Future events that are revealed as part of the 'Islanded in a Stream of Stars' broadcast (e.g. promo clips, previews, etc.)
• Future episode related plots that are known to tie in with this episode or might happen from this episode

Questions from the Battlestar Wiki Episode page:

• What does Cavil mean when he tells Hera that she will soon have new playmates?
• Will Galactica be stripped after all?
• How conscious is Anders?
• Anders recites the lyrics to the real-world folk song "There's Hole in My Bucket". Galactica was derisively referred to as "The Bucket" prior the fall of the Colonies. Given the precarious state of Galactica's hull, along with the earlier uses of "All Along the Watchtower" and other real-life literature and poem references, is there a significance to this?
• Can the Colony be found by Galactica's scout ships?
• How can Baltar tell that Starbuck's blood came from a dead body? Baltar explains how in dialogue; forensic science can tell the difference between a post-mortem blood sample and one taken from a living creature.
  • A corpse produces "death enzymes" as it decomposes. Its likely Baltar found high concentrations of these enzymes on the dogtags.
• Is the planet that Boomer jumps in front of Jupiter? The color patterns are similar, the rocky moon could be Ganymede or Callisto, and there is a hint of the Great Red Spot at the lower left.
• Might Boomer defect from Cavil because of her new attachment to Hera?
• Does the presence of First Cylon War-era Cylon Raiders at the Colony indicate the presence of older-model Cylon Centurions, too?
• Does Cavil intend to pursue biological reproduction, recreate the resurrection process, or both?
• Do the Eights consider the rest of the Final Five their parents? Do other models also regard some or all of the Final Five as parental figures?
• When the dying Number Eight refers to Tigh as her father, is she simply referring to him as being the father of her kind, or is she being literal and giving a clue as to the origin of the Number Eight model (just as Cavil is established to be based upon Ellen's father)?

[Osprey]

the admiral looks rather "put out"

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[Capedia]

Originally Posted by Osprey

the admiral looks rather "put out"

Perhaps because his girlfriend can’t in her current condition.

[Osprey]

harsh ...

[thevarrior]

That's just wrong, dude.

And he looks like his combo of pissed off/drunk/sad that we like.

[Batman316]

The Admiral striding the decks for the last time....

[weedkiller]

I love how realistic every background scene is on the Galactica. Dirty, old, rode hard and put away wet. No whitewash, new paint smell like trek ships.

[Static_Shadow]

Originally Posted by weedkiller

I love how realistic every background scene is on the Galactica. Dirty, old, road hard and put away wet. No whitewash, new paint smell like trek ships.

Nope, just the stench of Cylon goops. ;-)

[Hofner1962]

Originally Posted by weedkiller

I love how realistic every background scene is on the Galactica. Dirty, old, road hard and put away wet. No whitewash, new paint smell like trek ships.

Isn't that rode hard. It is a horse reference
"She looks like she was ridden hard and put away wet"

[ghostofwilwheaton]

Originally Posted by Hofner1962

Isn't that rode hard. It is a horse reference
"She looks like she was ridden hard and put away wet"

I am starting to notice a pattern in all of hof's posts. I'll need to double-check my Freudian literature, but suffice it to say Hof has issues.

[Pnutmaster]

And a box of tissues handy when posting about his favorite subject.

[thevarrior]

So galactica is actually James Callis's penis?

Sorry. Just throwing that out there.

[Osprey]

y'know, the ep. wil air tomorrow, they'll be like 200 comments on this thread, and EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO STARTS @ PAGE ONE will get stuck reading these oh-so-sensitive riffs ...

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[thevarrior]

Bah. Let the younglings squirm.

[Osprey]

oh, i know y'all won't change, i wuz jus' observing ...
:-)