![]() The possibilities put forth by what's shown here are tantalizing. And I never use more than one (because it's bad form). What does this mean? That's right - three question marks. They came to this planet and called it Earth. Yes, the Pythian-prophesied 13th Tribe of Kobol were Cylons. And in the biggest twist yet, analysis of skeletal remains reveals that the people who lived here were all Cylons. The metallic head of an ancient Centurion is found - and it's a model not known to the Cylons. Surveys show that the planet was nuked about 2,000 years ago. It's here that we get the most intriguing new facts about Earth and how it fits into the mythos. On the planet surface, investigations continue. ![]() There's nothing she can say to express this kind of crushing disappointment, and no way to spin it into anything remotely positive. When Roslin gets back to Galactica, words completely fail. "Let's get outta here," Adama eventually grumbles. ![]() Dee finds a child's game of jacks, and she just loses it. They sift helplessly through rubble, ruins, and dirt. The episode opens with a series of simple, powerful shots that stretch out the emotions of the final minute of "Revelations" - characters wordlessly looking at the landscape of a destroyed Manhattan-like city on the opposite side of a riverfront. Hope that the journey had a destination and that their unremitting daily hell would one day end. ![]() Indeed, quite the contrary: From the evidence here, it might hasten their demise, because finding it as a barren, uninhabitable wasteland has now stripped away the one thing that has kept many people in this fleet going: hope. "Revelations" provided the big reveal, and "Notion" compellingly, vividly, devastatingly documents the consequences.Īs I said before, Earth is not going to save these people. This is a character piece, marked by stellar performances, that takes the final shot of "Revelations" and depicts its fallout for the hour's duration. "Sometimes a Great Notion" is a true companion episode to the final shot of " Revelations." There is a great deal of information supplied by this story, with several more secrets revealed about Earth - enough to really get the speculative juices flowing - but there is no plot in the conventional sense. Written by Bradley Thompson & David Weddle Battlestar Galactica "Sometimes a Great Notion" ![]()
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