Battlestar Galactica – Sometimes a Great Notion

Warning, if you aren’t up to date with your US BSG episodes, please be aware this post will contain MAJOR SPOILERS relating to the episode “Sometimes a Great Notion” which aired on US screens Jan 16 2009.

Well the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica kicked off this week in true BSG style and there were shocks aplenty and some great reveals. The thing with the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series is the way it’s woven together so that you sometimes get into this habit of questioning everything, even things that seem set in stone. It’s kind of the most annoying and yet cool thing about the series for me.

As I mentioned back in November it seems Ellen Tigh is the final cylon. This for me is cool as her miraculous reappearance on Galactica did suggest something funny was going on there (as well as other tells, that perhaps at the time weren’t even meant in that way). The thing is though a lot of folks are suggesting Ellen Tigh is just a red herring. You can never tell on this show until Ron D Moore sets thing straight, which he did here. Ellen IS the final cylon. I was coming around to my theory that Anastacia “Dee” Dualla was actually the fifth, so when she blew her brains out my jaw hit the floor.

Did Dee blow her brains out because she was just so at her end, so depressed with the way things had gone, so lost that she just thought frak it? Or did Dee find those jacks on ‘Earth’ and have a flashback, realize she was there at its nuclear end and couldn’t take the realization she is in fact a cylon? She was humming a tune people! Will she be back as another reveal? Nope, apparently not, another thing Ron D Moore clarified after the episode aired. Dee committed suicide because she was always the character that had most hope, always the positive character, ever hopeful. Having Dualla kill herself was to show the true devastation everyone on Galactica was feeling according to Moore and she was the most shocking choice to off herself. I’ll say, I never saw it coming!!

It’s fantastic – isn’t it – that a TV series can make us all think and throw about conjecture so much. Even though the next episode looks like a bit of a rehash of the ‘strike’ episode from ages back, I’m still looking forward to it. How about you?