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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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Holy frakkin' shit. That's about all I can say at the moment.
One question: what's the significance of that stripe or gash in the wall that Tyrol found in his last scene?
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Pensive's Wetness
Member # 1203
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Possibly sabatage that already rendered the FTL inop (and possibly destructively inop. Clearly the damage was cylon in nature...)
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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Oh, or else it's related to the proposed (or already completed?) Cylon upgrades to the FTL drives.
Why do you say the damage was Cylon in nature? It looked more like natural stressing and damage to me... at first glance, anyway.
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Pensive's Wetness
Member # 1203
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cuts, jagged, like the claws of a centurian. Though it beingh stress cracks is also plausable. i'd assume they would blame the cylons after a fashion...
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Johnny
Member # 878
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I was a bit confused about that too, but I thought it was following up on what Kelly said about the ship being run down.
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Reverend
Member # 335
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Well I guess this makes Lee Vice President, given he's the only surviving member of the government other than Laura.
As for those stress fractures...somehow I get the feeling Galactica will be destroyed in the final episode. She was old before she spent the last several years taking beating after beating with no drydock time and only minimal repairs. Eventually it's just going to break down permanently.
Oh and btw: First ever look at a jump drive! And it spools!!!
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Mars Needs Women
Member # 1505
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Hmm...It stopped. {End Scene}
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Johnny
Member # 878
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Galactica is the dying leader.
Yeah, it was nifty to see the jump drive. They did a good job of redressing the hangar bay set. Also, seeing Tyrol crawling through those grubby old maintenance tubes reminded me of a certain other Chief.
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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quote: Originally posted by Johnny: Galactica is the dying leader.
HOLY FRAK. You just blew my mind. I can't believe I never saw that.
But on second thought... well, there were a bunch of prophecies about the gods sending visions to the dying leader (remember "The Hand of God" and those snakes on the podium?). How do you send visions to a battlestar?
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Krenim
Member # 22
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quote: Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: quote: Originally posted by Johnny: Galactica is the dying leader.
HOLY FRAK. You just blew my mind. I can't believe I never saw that.
I second that mind-blowing.
quote: Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: How do you send visions to a battlestar?
DRADIS, of course.
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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Okay, and the other one: how can a ship learn the secret of the Opera House?
As awesome as it would be, I'm not sure they can actually make Galactica be the dying leader.
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Johnny
Member # 878
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It would be a super cool twist, but it doesn't really hold any water. The only connections I can see are that Galactica's clearly falling apart, it's the leader of the fleet and it's had plenty of visions of Vipers. Nice idea though.
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Fabrux
Member # 71
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I took the gashes to be leaks in a radiation barrier... Tyrol's been exposed and is gonna die. *shrug*
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WizArtist II
Member # 1425
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When I saw them, I immediately thought 'stress fractures'. Then it made me wonder if the ol' Gal would have survived another jump at this point.
All this time out, with no SLEP, continuous action, band-aid repairs....yeah... it is only a matter of time before she becomes a memory
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HerbShrump
Member # 1230
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Is Galactica still in Sol system? (Assuming they found our Earth).
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Lee
Member # 393
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Potentially not, given they've done at least one jump (in the webisodes).
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Reverend
Member # 335
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Just listened to RDM's podcast and it seams as though those gashes are meant to be puzzling and ambiguous. So we're not just being simple.
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Harry
Member # 265
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Wasn't it awesome we finally got to see Engineering? And this isn't the kind of Engineering with a cheery Scotsman and neatly covered machinery. This is a frighteningly huge, fast moving piece of metal, with little reason to be anywhere close to it.
I wonder how long that damage has been there. I got the impression that the FTL engine room is not something regularly visited.. could it have been there from the start?
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Reverend
Member # 335
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I doubt it. Even if it's not a manned station there has to be some kind of periodic inspection.
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Mars Needs Women
Member # 1505
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So why wasn't the damage noticed before?
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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I think we'll find out in about 26 hours...
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Reverend
Member # 335
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Indeed. Though the key word in my previous post was periodic.
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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Yeah to me - that Engine room isn't one that is visited much. Fantastic episode. How amazing was Laura Roslin's yelling at Tom Zarek over the intercomm.
Also Laura using Baltar's transmission set up to speak to the fleet.
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