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Dollhouse- I think this was one of the better eps so far. Lots of interesting developments and reveals. For one thing, we didn't have a "heavy-handed parallel to the Dollhouse" MotW. Patton Oswalt is this filthy rich internet mogul who hires a doll (did they say it was always Echo? It sounded like he had been doing it for a while, and I don't think Echo has been around for that amount of time) to play his wife to relive a tragic day in his life, but as a sort of redo. Its a really sad story, really. He finally got his big break, and wanted to surprise his wife with the new house he just bought. So he was all mysterious, asking her to meet him somewhere- and ends up dying on a car accident on the way there. All he wanted was to see that look of happiness in her face when he revealed it, but it was not to be. So he hires dolls so he can relive the day it was supposed to go.
But Ballard figures out he's involved (after doing a weird armlock nerve pinch thing on Romo Lampkin) and interrupts it, leading a funny gag where Echo as his wife thinks the FBI is after him because his internet thing is pr0n. But wow, Ballard is pretty bad-ass, totally schooling Patton Oswalt's bodyguards even though he's still recovering from that bullet wound. But they have a talk, where Patton Oswalt tells him his sob story, calls Ballard out on his White Knight saving the girl fantasy, and saying the Dollhouse is bigger than him and there's no way they'd believe him over the rich internet guy (I dunno what the hell Helo was saying when he was telling Mellie if it was someone other than Echo there, he would've taken them down?! How would things have ended any different?!)
Meanwhile, Sierra has a freak out when Victor touches her, and they think Victor had sex with her. But Langton figures out it was Sierra's handler, but not before making him think he got away with it by having Victor and his handler taken in to custody. And what the hell, the first thing he does when someone else is sent up for the rape he committed is to try it again?! Won't it be obvious it wasn't Victor or his handler when Sierra's still having problems. And is it me, or was the whole thing totally pedophilic? I mean, yeah, Sierra's all grown up, but she talks like she's a little girl, so his whole game thing was totally pedophile sex predatory! But lucky for her, Langton stops him.
Anyhoo, the Dollhouse sends Echo after Ballard, and they have a pretty cool, knock down, dragout fight. But apparently a mole inside the dollhouse added something to her imprint (the doctor? Topher's asian assistant?), who warns Ballard off, telling him to play it cool and that there's a mole in the dollhouse helping him. And there's a "we" trying to take the dollhouse. Or dollhouses, apparently, there's 20 or so in major cities around the world. And Ballard's no good to them dead, so he has to act like he's backing off. Because they want his help, because they think there's a more nefarious purpose to the dollhouse than the whole hooker/assassin/whatever thing.
Oh, he's also been getting closer to Mellie. When they first showed her, they made her seem like a crazy stalker lady, like Mel from Flight of the Conchords or something. But she's actually a sweet, cute girl. Particularly when she's being all self-depreciating, obvious that she has a thing for Ballard but trying and failing to play it cool (well, I guess she's kinda cool about it, but still closer to dorking out). Anyways, after Patton's comment that Ballard doesn't have anyone, he ends up banging Mellie, and they have a cute little conversation post coitus, when he leaves and gets in the aforementioned fight with Echo. Echo warns him that the Dollhouse will do everything they can to get to him, so he immediately worries about Mellie.
And the way things were going, the cute, "not drop dead gorgeous" "plain" girl (I actually thinks she's really pretty with nice sweater cows, I just mean she's set up as the "homely" girl.) getting the hunk, and them being all sweet on each other, I would've thought she was totally toast, if I hadn't looked her up previously and saw one of her credits on imdb for Dollhouse was not Mellie, but one of the NATO letter thingies, so I've known she was actually a doll for a while. Anyhoo, Adelle had told Sierra's handler he could make up for it by killing Mellie, so he breaks in and throws Mellie around a bit, until Adelle calls and says a code word on the answering machine that activates Mellie's hidden killer programming, where she kicks Sierra's handler's ass, finally offing him with this totally cool curb stomp manuever where he ended up landing chin first on the edge of the coffee table, and while he lay there, Mellie stomps that back of his head, breaking his neck. Awesome!
Anyways, Adelle turns her off with another phrase (and geez, its a good thing that brawl didn't end up destroying the answering machine, otherwise that would've blown up in her face!) and the cops think the handler was a Russian assassin, so Ballard's suspended over that and Echo shooting a cop and making it look like it was Ballard (how is he not arrested?!).
Oh, throughout the ep, pieces of a news documentary about the "dollhouse urban legend" are intercut. Some where pretty funny, like the totally closeted gay guy interview. It seems to be a whole pro-con debate, though all the pro arguments are kinda weak. Like the one girl being all, "getting to party with rich people, no consequences, where do I sign up?" thing. Ida know, yeah, she's being all not remembering what you did you don't have to drag that baggage around, but if you don't want to remember it, doesn't it mean that its not actually fun?!
Terminator: SCC- I thought tonight's SCC was pretty good as well. So, in the future sub thing, the box contains a T-1000, which is let loose on the sub. The crew wants to hunt it down, but Queeg says to let it go. Jesse, being the loyal soldier, follows orders. This makes the crew all paranoid, leading to the crew rioting and beating her up. Queeg ends up killing the instigator, but now Jesse wants answers. Interesting though, if Queeg wasn't a Terminator, and that same thing went down and it was a human who saved her, would it be as big an issue? As Queeg said, the guy was mutinying, and the penalty is death. Yeah, he didn't get a trial, and I know a terminator is so strong its way easy for it to kill someone, but I can see a human possibly accidentally killing the guy to save Jesse. So really, would it be no harm, no foul if Queeg wasn't metal?
Anyhoo, Queeg's the typical robot/military soldier, following orders unquestioningly, not telling the crew because "they don't need to know". Again, if he was human, would they accept those orders just fine? I mean, military shows/movies, it happens all the time, the grunts reluctantly forced to do this or that even though they don't understand because the guys in charge say to. They can get pissed and give impassioned speeches, but they rarely mutiny over it! So, Jesse pops him, then scuttles the ship. But not before the T-1000 finds her and tells her to to tell John the answer is no. Future Cameron (or is that past Cameron?) debriefs her, and Jesse raises a stink about it and Cameron reveals the question is "Will you join us?" Interesting, now was it always gonna say no, and possibly kill John, so she did right? Or was it because of the crews' actions that it said no? Oh, and Jesse was preggers, but either when she was getting her ass kicked or when they had to rapidly ascend when they abandoned ship, she lost the baby.
In the present, John Henry reveals to Weaver he found "resignation letters" for everyone (including Ellison) on Weaver's team with no dates for use when they outlive their usefulness so she can disappear them. He's all, they shouldn't kill Ellison because he's their friend, while Weaver tells him they need to be ready for every contingency.
Even more importantly, John confronts Jesse, saying he figure out Riley was from the future a while ago, and has known about Jesse, but figured out just a little later than Riley that the plan was to make it look Like Cam killed her to turn him off machines. So he was too late to save her. Interesting, he tells Jesse even if Cameron did actually kill Riley, or Jesse did a better job of framing her, John still prolly wouldn't have destroyed Cameron. But, he also tells her the reason he does rely on machines so much is because they are expendable.
Anyways, he lets her go. But Derek confronts her in the parking lot, and its obvious he's there to kill her. He rationalizes it by saying she's a different Jesse, since the timeline was changed. But we don't actually see him kill her. Yeah, it cuts away right as he's about to pull the trigger, and it looks like he was kinda hesitating, so I think its open to interpretation. Its heavily implied her did, but I think the door is still open for her to come back.
Friday Night Lights- Lots of interesting developments on FNL. So Buddy's in financial trouble, so he ended up risking and losing Lyla's college fund. He beats the guy up at the Landing Strip, causing 30K worth of damage (bull, how the hell did he cause $30,000 worth of damage?!). So he ends up in lockup, so Coach sends Tami to get Lyla, while he goes to pick up Julie from Matt's. Only he arrives earlier than expected and catches them in bed together! Whoops.
So Lyla moves in with Tim after Buddy reveals he lost he college fund, and Tami and Julie have a heartfelt talk about sex. Lucky for Matt, Coach does not kill him.
Tyra is needing to make up the time she missed, and goes to Landry for help tutoring her for the SATs. Landry of course does, but then finally gets tired of her (and her family!) using him all the time, so he calls her on it, comparing it to "The Giving Tree". Julie basically confirms this for her, that she does kinda use Landry.
Anyways, Tyra tries to prove she's not selfish by getting Landry's band a gig at this bar. And wait, she tells the owner they're good and she'll bring over her friends, who she says look like Julie. Julie's pretty cute and all, but she's also jailbait. So the OWNER OF A BAR is cool with a bunch of obviously underage girls frequenting his establishment?! The gig seems to go well, and it looks like Tyra has eyes for him.
Meanwhile, JD meets this cute redhead Madison at a party. Wait, I just realized, was that a Scrubs reference when Madison asked him if he like Appletinis? Anyways, she comes over to his house in a ridiculously short skirt, and his dad is all, you can't let girls interfere with football. So he dumps her, but then Tim tells him how ridiculous he's being, and how he'll lose the respect of the team if he's dumping hotties who are into him like that because "his daddy told him to". So after they win the big game (even though the refs were obviously biased and the coach got so mad he was kicked out of the game) he sneaks out with her. His mom is cool with it, but his father might just tan his hide when he returns.
BSG- saved this for last, even though it wasn't the best (I actually enjoyed the above eps more). But hey, now that its done for, I'm halfway to being fine with the end of the world. As I said when certain people thought it was gonna be Armageddon last month, I would be pissed if the world ended before seeing how Lost and BSG turned out. Some people loved it, some like the usual suspects totally hated it. Honestly, I thought it was okay until the second half. So, Baltar ends up leaving his cult to Paulla to join the assault, and they make Romo president and Hoshi admiral. Really?! Ah'm skeptical!
So they storm the Colony to rescue Hera. Trick one is to actually ram Galactica into the Colony, so they can literally walk on with marines and red striped centurions (to tell the difference). Also, they had the Raptors in the museum pod jump from out of there to within the asteroid field to attack and cut in from another angle. Argh, Racetrack's raptor is struck but an asteroid, taking her and Skulls out. Boomer snaps a Simon's neck and rescues Hera, taking them to the rescue team. Athena is thankful, but kills Boomer, though Boomer is fine with it.
Caprica and Baltar hang out, and they figure out they can both see Chip Six and Chip Baltar. They hook up with the rescue team, and they end up playing out the opera scene, with Hera running away from Athena, and Rosalin ending up wandering out of Sick Bay in a drug induced haze spotting her and the two of them separately going after her. She runs into Baltar and Caprica, who don't see Rosalin and Athena, so they take her to safety, locking them out. They end up in the CIC, where Anders had been stationed to send out orgasmic waves to take out the Colony's hybrids. So the final 5 are standing on the second floor balcony of the CIC, so they're above Caprica and Baltar just like the final 5 were in the dream.
Anyhoo, Cavil shows up, Baltar gives an impassioned speech on how god loves everyone and Tigh offers Cavil resurrection. So he agrees, and the final 5 link up to send over Resurrection technology to the Colony. But, during the link up, Tyrol find out Tory killed Callie, so he strangles her, and the 145s think they're double-crossing them. So everyone shoots at each other, and Cavil kills himself for some reason, and the Colony/Galactica starts crashing into the black hole. So Starbuck uses the music and blind jumps them to our Earth, way in the past to cavemen times. So the bombed out Earth was their version of Earth, but Adama is all, Earth was a dream, and this is the dream, so this is new Earth.
And that's when everything starts to fall apart. Its like frickin Return of the King where everyone babbles on for the next hour. Caprica and Baltar's ending was fine, he decides to become a farmer, crying because he fought so hard to not be a farmer, and its those skills which will serve him best in this new world. I thought the Tighs' ending was fine as well. Blah, blah, blah, they're this timeless forever love, even after several millenia they're still all they want. Heh, this is shown through Saul taking Bill and Ellen to a strip club, where Saul hilariously drunkenly yells "Yeah!" a whole bunch.
(Oh, the other Caprica: before the fall stuff? Adama decides not to take a desk job, Rosalin fraks a former student and finally decides to join the presidential campaign, and Starbuck and Apollo are total dicks who get drunk and almost do it while Zak is passed out in ther room! What a bunch of frakkin' a-holes!)
The weird? Tyrol basically moves to Scotland. Is there some reference there? Its just a little odd. "Oh, I'm just moving off to live as a hermit in Scotland!" Helo, Athena, and Hera live happily ever after. Oh, and Starbuck was a ghost! Its like 5th season Angel with Cordelia, where Starbuck served her purpose and is all she's going away, and Lee's talking to her and then when he turns around she's gone! Oh, and Adama hangs out with Rosalin for a bit, and then she finally dies, and he buries her corpse on the hill they'll build their cabin on.
In the end, its our time and Chip Six and Baltar are all, "look at man now!" and how maybe they've broken the cycle, but they've started to built robots again, so mebbe not. And they talk about how they represent god and the devil who are the same thing but he doesn't like to be called god or some such crap, and its all a bunch of hippie luddite shit. And the whole show the weird robots while "All Along the Watchtower" played was kinda corny. I mean, it was like the end of a corny sci-fi action movie.
Oh, interesting to see them break out some new weapons. I mean, the pistols they've been using were FN 5-7s and Vektor CP1s (since they both look very futuristic), and they've been using HK MP-7s as submachine guns and Beretta Storms as their assault rifles, even though the Storm is really a 9mm carbine, not a rifle caliber weapon. But this is the first time I've seen the Marines carrying really heavy stuff (unless I wasn't paying attention on New Caprica), like M-60E3 machine guns.
Dollhouse- I think this was one of the better eps so far. Lots of interesting developments and reveals. For one thing, we didn't have a "heavy-handed parallel to the Dollhouse" MotW. Patton Oswalt is this filthy rich internet mogul who hires a doll (did they say it was always Echo? It sounded like he had been doing it for a while, and I don't think Echo has been around for that amount of time) to play his wife to relive a tragic day in his life, but as a sort of redo. Its a really sad story, really. He finally got his big break, and wanted to surprise his wife with the new house he just bought. So he was all mysterious, asking her to meet him somewhere- and ends up dying on a car accident on the way there. All he wanted was to see that look of happiness in her face when he revealed it, but it was not to be. So he hires dolls so he can relive the day it was supposed to go.
But Ballard figures out he's involved (after doing a weird armlock nerve pinch thing on Romo Lampkin) and interrupts it, leading a funny gag where Echo as his wife thinks the FBI is after him because his internet thing is pr0n. But wow, Ballard is pretty bad-ass, totally schooling Patton Oswalt's bodyguards even though he's still recovering from that bullet wound. But they have a talk, where Patton Oswalt tells him his sob story, calls Ballard out on his White Knight saving the girl fantasy, and saying the Dollhouse is bigger than him and there's no way they'd believe him over the rich internet guy (I dunno what the hell Helo was saying when he was telling Mellie if it was someone other than Echo there, he would've taken them down?! How would things have ended any different?!)
Meanwhile, Sierra has a freak out when Victor touches her, and they think Victor had sex with her. But Langton figures out it was Sierra's handler, but not before making him think he got away with it by having Victor and his handler taken in to custody. And what the hell, the first thing he does when someone else is sent up for the rape he committed is to try it again?! Won't it be obvious it wasn't Victor or his handler when Sierra's still having problems. And is it me, or was the whole thing totally pedophilic? I mean, yeah, Sierra's all grown up, but she talks like she's a little girl, so his whole game thing was totally pedophile sex predatory! But lucky for her, Langton stops him.
Anyhoo, the Dollhouse sends Echo after Ballard, and they have a pretty cool, knock down, dragout fight. But apparently a mole inside the dollhouse added something to her imprint (the doctor? Topher's asian assistant?), who warns Ballard off, telling him to play it cool and that there's a mole in the dollhouse helping him. And there's a "we" trying to take the dollhouse. Or dollhouses, apparently, there's 20 or so in major cities around the world. And Ballard's no good to them dead, so he has to act like he's backing off. Because they want his help, because they think there's a more nefarious purpose to the dollhouse than the whole hooker/assassin/whatever thing.
Oh, he's also been getting closer to Mellie. When they first showed her, they made her seem like a crazy stalker lady, like Mel from Flight of the Conchords or something. But she's actually a sweet, cute girl. Particularly when she's being all self-depreciating, obvious that she has a thing for Ballard but trying and failing to play it cool (well, I guess she's kinda cool about it, but still closer to dorking out). Anyways, after Patton's comment that Ballard doesn't have anyone, he ends up banging Mellie, and they have a cute little conversation post coitus, when he leaves and gets in the aforementioned fight with Echo. Echo warns him that the Dollhouse will do everything they can to get to him, so he immediately worries about Mellie.
And the way things were going, the cute, "not drop dead gorgeous" "plain" girl (I actually thinks she's really pretty with nice sweater cows, I just mean she's set up as the "homely" girl.) getting the hunk, and them being all sweet on each other, I would've thought she was totally toast, if I hadn't looked her up previously and saw one of her credits on imdb for Dollhouse was not Mellie, but one of the NATO letter thingies, so I've known she was actually a doll for a while. Anyhoo, Adelle had told Sierra's handler he could make up for it by killing Mellie, so he breaks in and throws Mellie around a bit, until Adelle calls and says a code word on the answering machine that activates Mellie's hidden killer programming, where she kicks Sierra's handler's ass, finally offing him with this totally cool curb stomp manuever where he ended up landing chin first on the edge of the coffee table, and while he lay there, Mellie stomps that back of his head, breaking his neck. Awesome!
Anyways, Adelle turns her off with another phrase (and geez, its a good thing that brawl didn't end up destroying the answering machine, otherwise that would've blown up in her face!) and the cops think the handler was a Russian assassin, so Ballard's suspended over that and Echo shooting a cop and making it look like it was Ballard (how is he not arrested?!).
Oh, throughout the ep, pieces of a news documentary about the "dollhouse urban legend" are intercut. Some where pretty funny, like the totally closeted gay guy interview. It seems to be a whole pro-con debate, though all the pro arguments are kinda weak. Like the one girl being all, "getting to party with rich people, no consequences, where do I sign up?" thing. Ida know, yeah, she's being all not remembering what you did you don't have to drag that baggage around, but if you don't want to remember it, doesn't it mean that its not actually fun?!
Terminator: SCC- I thought tonight's SCC was pretty good as well. So, in the future sub thing, the box contains a T-1000, which is let loose on the sub. The crew wants to hunt it down, but Queeg says to let it go. Jesse, being the loyal soldier, follows orders. This makes the crew all paranoid, leading to the crew rioting and beating her up. Queeg ends up killing the instigator, but now Jesse wants answers. Interesting though, if Queeg wasn't a Terminator, and that same thing went down and it was a human who saved her, would it be as big an issue? As Queeg said, the guy was mutinying, and the penalty is death. Yeah, he didn't get a trial, and I know a terminator is so strong its way easy for it to kill someone, but I can see a human possibly accidentally killing the guy to save Jesse. So really, would it be no harm, no foul if Queeg wasn't metal?
Anyhoo, Queeg's the typical robot/military soldier, following orders unquestioningly, not telling the crew because "they don't need to know". Again, if he was human, would they accept those orders just fine? I mean, military shows/movies, it happens all the time, the grunts reluctantly forced to do this or that even though they don't understand because the guys in charge say to. They can get pissed and give impassioned speeches, but they rarely mutiny over it! So, Jesse pops him, then scuttles the ship. But not before the T-1000 finds her and tells her to to tell John the answer is no. Future Cameron (or is that past Cameron?) debriefs her, and Jesse raises a stink about it and Cameron reveals the question is "Will you join us?" Interesting, now was it always gonna say no, and possibly kill John, so she did right? Or was it because of the crews' actions that it said no? Oh, and Jesse was preggers, but either when she was getting her ass kicked or when they had to rapidly ascend when they abandoned ship, she lost the baby.
In the present, John Henry reveals to Weaver he found "resignation letters" for everyone (including Ellison) on Weaver's team with no dates for use when they outlive their usefulness so she can disappear them. He's all, they shouldn't kill Ellison because he's their friend, while Weaver tells him they need to be ready for every contingency.
Even more importantly, John confronts Jesse, saying he figure out Riley was from the future a while ago, and has known about Jesse, but figured out just a little later than Riley that the plan was to make it look Like Cam killed her to turn him off machines. So he was too late to save her. Interesting, he tells Jesse even if Cameron did actually kill Riley, or Jesse did a better job of framing her, John still prolly wouldn't have destroyed Cameron. But, he also tells her the reason he does rely on machines so much is because they are expendable.
Anyways, he lets her go. But Derek confronts her in the parking lot, and its obvious he's there to kill her. He rationalizes it by saying she's a different Jesse, since the timeline was changed. But we don't actually see him kill her. Yeah, it cuts away right as he's about to pull the trigger, and it looks like he was kinda hesitating, so I think its open to interpretation. Its heavily implied her did, but I think the door is still open for her to come back.
Friday Night Lights- Lots of interesting developments on FNL. So Buddy's in financial trouble, so he ended up risking and losing Lyla's college fund. He beats the guy up at the Landing Strip, causing 30K worth of damage (bull, how the hell did he cause $30,000 worth of damage?!). So he ends up in lockup, so Coach sends Tami to get Lyla, while he goes to pick up Julie from Matt's. Only he arrives earlier than expected and catches them in bed together! Whoops.
So Lyla moves in with Tim after Buddy reveals he lost he college fund, and Tami and Julie have a heartfelt talk about sex. Lucky for Matt, Coach does not kill him.
Tyra is needing to make up the time she missed, and goes to Landry for help tutoring her for the SATs. Landry of course does, but then finally gets tired of her (and her family!) using him all the time, so he calls her on it, comparing it to "The Giving Tree". Julie basically confirms this for her, that she does kinda use Landry.
Anyways, Tyra tries to prove she's not selfish by getting Landry's band a gig at this bar. And wait, she tells the owner they're good and she'll bring over her friends, who she says look like Julie. Julie's pretty cute and all, but she's also jailbait. So the OWNER OF A BAR is cool with a bunch of obviously underage girls frequenting his establishment?! The gig seems to go well, and it looks like Tyra has eyes for him.
Meanwhile, JD meets this cute redhead Madison at a party. Wait, I just realized, was that a Scrubs reference when Madison asked him if he like Appletinis? Anyways, she comes over to his house in a ridiculously short skirt, and his dad is all, you can't let girls interfere with football. So he dumps her, but then Tim tells him how ridiculous he's being, and how he'll lose the respect of the team if he's dumping hotties who are into him like that because "his daddy told him to". So after they win the big game (even though the refs were obviously biased and the coach got so mad he was kicked out of the game) he sneaks out with her. His mom is cool with it, but his father might just tan his hide when he returns.
BSG- saved this for last, even though it wasn't the best (I actually enjoyed the above eps more). But hey, now that its done for, I'm halfway to being fine with the end of the world. As I said when certain people thought it was gonna be Armageddon last month, I would be pissed if the world ended before seeing how Lost and BSG turned out. Some people loved it, some like the usual suspects totally hated it. Honestly, I thought it was okay until the second half. So, Baltar ends up leaving his cult to Paulla to join the assault, and they make Romo president and Hoshi admiral. Really?! Ah'm skeptical!
So they storm the Colony to rescue Hera. Trick one is to actually ram Galactica into the Colony, so they can literally walk on with marines and red striped centurions (to tell the difference). Also, they had the Raptors in the museum pod jump from out of there to within the asteroid field to attack and cut in from another angle. Argh, Racetrack's raptor is struck but an asteroid, taking her and Skulls out. Boomer snaps a Simon's neck and rescues Hera, taking them to the rescue team. Athena is thankful, but kills Boomer, though Boomer is fine with it.
Caprica and Baltar hang out, and they figure out they can both see Chip Six and Chip Baltar. They hook up with the rescue team, and they end up playing out the opera scene, with Hera running away from Athena, and Rosalin ending up wandering out of Sick Bay in a drug induced haze spotting her and the two of them separately going after her. She runs into Baltar and Caprica, who don't see Rosalin and Athena, so they take her to safety, locking them out. They end up in the CIC, where Anders had been stationed to send out orgasmic waves to take out the Colony's hybrids. So the final 5 are standing on the second floor balcony of the CIC, so they're above Caprica and Baltar just like the final 5 were in the dream.
Anyhoo, Cavil shows up, Baltar gives an impassioned speech on how god loves everyone and Tigh offers Cavil resurrection. So he agrees, and the final 5 link up to send over Resurrection technology to the Colony. But, during the link up, Tyrol find out Tory killed Callie, so he strangles her, and the 145s think they're double-crossing them. So everyone shoots at each other, and Cavil kills himself for some reason, and the Colony/Galactica starts crashing into the black hole. So Starbuck uses the music and blind jumps them to our Earth, way in the past to cavemen times. So the bombed out Earth was their version of Earth, but Adama is all, Earth was a dream, and this is the dream, so this is new Earth.
And that's when everything starts to fall apart. Its like frickin Return of the King where everyone babbles on for the next hour. Caprica and Baltar's ending was fine, he decides to become a farmer, crying because he fought so hard to not be a farmer, and its those skills which will serve him best in this new world. I thought the Tighs' ending was fine as well. Blah, blah, blah, they're this timeless forever love, even after several millenia they're still all they want. Heh, this is shown through Saul taking Bill and Ellen to a strip club, where Saul hilariously drunkenly yells "Yeah!" a whole bunch.
(Oh, the other Caprica: before the fall stuff? Adama decides not to take a desk job, Rosalin fraks a former student and finally decides to join the presidential campaign, and Starbuck and Apollo are total dicks who get drunk and almost do it while Zak is passed out in ther room! What a bunch of frakkin' a-holes!)
The weird? Tyrol basically moves to Scotland. Is there some reference there? Its just a little odd. "Oh, I'm just moving off to live as a hermit in Scotland!" Helo, Athena, and Hera live happily ever after. Oh, and Starbuck was a ghost! Its like 5th season Angel with Cordelia, where Starbuck served her purpose and is all she's going away, and Lee's talking to her and then when he turns around she's gone! Oh, and Adama hangs out with Rosalin for a bit, and then she finally dies, and he buries her corpse on the hill they'll build their cabin on.
In the end, its our time and Chip Six and Baltar are all, "look at man now!" and how maybe they've broken the cycle, but they've started to built robots again, so mebbe not. And they talk about how they represent god and the devil who are the same thing but he doesn't like to be called god or some such crap, and its all a bunch of hippie luddite shit. And the whole show the weird robots while "All Along the Watchtower" played was kinda corny. I mean, it was like the end of a corny sci-fi action movie.
Oh, interesting to see them break out some new weapons. I mean, the pistols they've been using were FN 5-7s and Vektor CP1s (since they both look very futuristic), and they've been using HK MP-7s as submachine guns and Beretta Storms as their assault rifles, even though the Storm is really a 9mm carbine, not a rifle caliber weapon. But this is the first time I've seen the Marines carrying really heavy stuff (unless I wasn't paying attention on New Caprica), like M-60E3 machine guns.
