Daybreak, Part 1 (419)

[Briangate78]

I am likely in the minority here, but I really really loved this episode. It set up a lot of drama and used a lot of flashbacks to fuel what these characters are going through now and then. One of the most heartfeld moments of the entire series was when Adama escorts Rosyln to the volunteer side and she says "you don't intend to leave me behind" or something like that. The emotion was just so powerful. Normally set up eps are rather boring, but this one kept me on the edge of my seat and for the first time these characters really made me feel what they have been going through. Some eps for the last 10 were pretty pointless but this one was spot on the mark. So, a 9/10 for Daybreak for an excellent set up to something really big that and was filled with a lot of emotions.

[Shan Bruce Lee]

it isn't really filler. it's a set up for the end. setting the stage and making sure all the pieces are in place.

The only real set-up was showing Starbuck and Adama asking Anders what the notes meant and then Adama asking anybody that wants to volunteer to go with them.

The rest was running in circles.

[bmadiuk]

I'm just glad that half this thread feels the same way I do. What an absolute waste of the last 10 episodes. I was expecting more. Not 8 filler episodes that could easily have been put into a 30 minute opening of an hour episode. 2 hours (1.25 of actual show time considering the commercial breaks) to explain the last 5 years and the entire Battlestar plotline? I can't imagine how that is possible in and around the battle at the colony.

There's SO many loose ends. Remember the breeding colony on Caprica where they harvested Kara's ovary? What the FRAK happened to that? I mean there's dozens and dozens of little plot lines like that and we will never get the true closure we should have because the last half of this season has been awfully written.

If I wanted slow drama with no plot advancement, I'd watch Days of our Lives.

[bfldworker]

One of the other things I liked about the episode (which isn't much, mind you). Is the line that Sam shot off. In typical Hybrid form.

Spins and turns, angles and curves, the shape of dreams half remembered. Slip the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of perfection. A perfect face, a perfect lace, find a perfect world for the end of Kara Thrace.
End of line.

[bfldworker]

I just got done watching it again. I have to recant most of what I have said. I still think the first 15 minutes was pointless. I felt the story could have started without the back story of the Adamas, Thrace and Roslin.

However, the rest wasn't all that bad on second blush. It shows how hard it was for people to leave the ship that has been home and it's protector for the better part of 4 years.

Personally I liked how Adm Adama stepped up and made the decision to get Hara back. I do wish however it showed all 3 hours of it.

[Valar]

I think that Kara Thrace is the harbinger of death for the Cylons.
Personally I was hooked to this episode. I've watched every BSG episode since the minseries in 2003 and the couple hundred jumps they took in the first epi
The second half of BSG is a wind down of all that has transpired. The explanation of the Final Five and their role, Cavil, the mythology, accepting the idea that Cylons and humans can co-exist after billions died by their hands.
There's so much to take in and yet you're still left wondering what's next?
I admit some of the flashbacks had me wondering if i was watching LOST, but at the same time - this is Moore. All will be answered on March 20th.

[HAL2100]

For those interested in the ramblings of a naked man with a shaved head sitting in a tub of goo whose as plugged in as plugged in gets... (I wonder if he Twitters as he's plugged in and unplugged)

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

[ToasterOnFire]

I really enjoyed it, including the flashbacks, but I can't comment as to the whole thing until I've seen the final 2 hours. I don't think the flashbacks were thrown in there just to fill time.

So...is Galactica going to shove the Colony into the singularity? Will they both go in? If they do, does the singularity mean death or rebirth? (Disney's Black Hole movie, haha!) Will those who didn't go with the Galactica end up being the only surviving humans or the ones who don't get to be reborn in the new cycle? Is Baltar truly the one who can stop the human/Cylon cycle of death?

I'm approaching next Friday with a mixture of anticipation, fear, and sadness.

[Vale_Sg1]

I really enjoyed it, including the flashbacks, but I can't comment as to the whole thing until I've seen the final 2 hours. I don't think the flashbacks were thrown in there just to fill time.

I agree. It was frustrating to see the last few episodes tick by without anything of relevance happening in terms of plot, or any questions being answered, but I believe all these scattered pieces will come together in the finale to show us the bigger picture.

I'm approaching next Friday with a mixture of anticipation, fear, and sadness.

Me, too. On one hand I can't wait to see the episode, on the other, I wish I could delay this forever.

[Anubis00]

Lee's flashback shows how much he has changed. Lee likes order, likes things neat a bird in your apartment isn't neat.

A bird in your apartment isn't neat,yet shoving glasses to the floor along with other things is?

[cheese]

I was profoundly disappointed with Daybreak.

Islanded I felt was fairly slow, but accepted it as quiet setting up for the finale...

And then we get more set up. Not only that but horrible stalling. The flashbacks felt like they dragged and honestly, I don't think they were neccessary unless there was some major reason for their inclusion that becomes apparent later. For the first fifteen minutes I wanted to get stuck into the real story, not look back.

This whole second half of the season has had a lot of slow, pondering moments. With the number of issues they need to address and wrap up I'm astonished with the amount of time wasting.

Was there a reason for skipping over Adama's decision, and his conversation with Sam? I'd rather have seen that than flashbacks. More Helo/Athena would have been nice, or more of the crew making their decision. I wonder if he said something that they don't want us to know until the right moment.

Revealing so little new information and advancing the plot only in the last ten minutes made this one of my least favorite episodes of Galactica.

I'm really worred that the ending is going to be fluffed, I struggle to see how they can wrap this up in the time that's left.

[Pharaoh Atem]

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new command.

[DBLOCK59]

Here's what I think is gonna happen in the end....

Kara Thrace will find out she is the first cylon/human hybrid and the daughter of the missing Cylon Daniel. The Galactica will crash into the Cylon Colony while at the same moment Kara Thrace is shot, killed, and falls into the Black Hole the Colony is hovering next to. After falling through it she will fall onto Earth 2000 years in the past. The Gal/Colony will possibly also fall through the hole and BECOME the destruction of Earth 2000 years in the past.

"IT HAPPENED BEFORE...IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN"

[DBLOCK59]

Here's what I think is gonna happen.

The Galactica will crash into the Cylon Colony while at the same moment Kara Thrace is shot, killed, and falls into the Black Hole the Colony is hovering next to. After falling through it she will fall onto Earth 2000 years in the past. The Gal/Colony will possibly also fall through the hole and BECOME the destruction of Earth 2000 years in the past.

"IT HAS HAPPEN BEFORE. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN."

[Skydiver]

i have a funny feeling, next week a bunch of people will be going 'ooohhh so THAT's what that meant in part one'