Battlestar Galactica – S04E17 – Daybreak

Tonight’s episode – Daybreak

As the crew gears up for next week’s two hour series finale, it looks like some drastic action is about to be taken.

“No one should feel obligated to join this mission…. this is likely to be a one way trip!”

Yipes!

With only three episodes of show left, my dreams of seeing a return of Adama’s Lt. Castillo mustache are dimming.

Speculation, theories, reactions, live blogs, you know the drill.

Comments

  1. seriously, I can’t believe its almost all over

  2. I have a feeling we’re going to be left with dangling plotlines like a mofo ala Claremont on Uncanny X-Men.

  3. Re:  Moonlight

    I always wondered what happened to Scott Stapp.

  4. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    here we go!

  5. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    All I know is, major stuff is going down these next two weeks. 

  6. Where my toasters at!

  7. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Wow… you know it’s a jam packed episode when the credits aren’t 10 minutes into the show!

  8. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    WHOA! No preview either!?

  9. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    new intro song?

  10. and here we go

  11. I don’t really care about that Caprica series.

  12. wow…the caprica looks like TO

  13. oooh, its sleazy Baltar…I missed him

  14. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    Baltar + white suit = pimp

  15. Tricia Helfer could stand to eat a sandwich but she’s easy on the eyes!

  16. rosselin looks pregnant

  17. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    What an odd start to the episode. Interesting though.

  18. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Domestic Staruck!?

  19. hello starbuck!

  20. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Haha! Baltar’s father is awesome!

  21. "his be the new one you be bangin’" awesome

  22. Aw come on guys we only have two episodes left!  Let’s get going!

  23. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    crazy pappa baltar …thats awesome

  24. "Look at your shirt that I bought you!"

    Bwahahahaha!!!!! 

  25. forgot how much of a jackass Balter is

  26. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Gotta agree with Horatio. This is fun, but Gods dammit, let’s get on with it.

  27. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    Money says he kills Pop

  28. Dude, who care about plot threads?  I just want a fun episode.  And that’s what this is.  

  29. oh crap…cops at the door…not a good sign

  30. "mommy, who is the crazy lady walking around in her pajamas?"

  31. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    channeling Margot Kidder?

  32. Boooo geek entitlement issues!  

    This episode rocks and it can take as long as it wants to get to the "point".

  33. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Psst. Mary, this isn’t "Hair."

  34. Thank gods we’re back on Galactica!

  35. I’m guessing those launch tubes are gonna come in handy

  36. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    @paul It’s not entitlement. The show’s been building to something, and great as these flashbacks are, they are not what we’ve been building too. Hell, I could even stand if the "big battle" is just a war of words. But give a dog a bone here! There’s a threshold on consecutive episodes dealing only with character development, and I’m at it.

  37. Devastron Devastron says:

    I hope Galactica at least gets to go out fighting. There is something kind of undignified about her going out like this, gutted and set adrift.

  38. Hey Nic Cage, we didn’t like this movie the first time when it was called "23".

  39. Sorry, it sounds like entitlement to me.  

  40. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    @devastron I hope she has a better farewell then Babylon 5. Talk about undignified.

  41. Oh Direct TV just reminded me that I need to put Milk on my Netflix.

  42. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Titanic Theme!

  43. its like Adama is moving off to college

  44. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    @Primate That’s awesome.

    The Red Dress is back! 

  45. hey…a helpful stalker!

  46. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Wow… Kara is apparently better at math then I am.

  47. @Primate

    I need one of those.  My stalkers only do irritating things like send long emails and multiple text messages.

  48. oh…its bitter Chief….he’s back

  49. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    hahaha. "Your wife is a blow-up doll, Karl." Best. Line. Ever!

  50. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    Chief is and will always be my favorite

  51. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Can I just say… Dean Stockwell is the man.

  52. valo valo says:

    Man, I don’t like bitter Chief

  53. Dean Stockwell does a great job of making me want to lace up my ass kicking boots

  54. I’ve had about enough of Quantum Leap guy.  Time for Just Desserts!

  55. Why do I not care about this Wolverine movie?

  56. valo valo says:

    Wolviern Trailer!  Wait… was that Cyke! YAY!

  57. Devastron Devastron says:

    So to feed her intravenously they need to drill?

  58. What are we going to replace BG with?  Stargate: Atlantis? 

    Did anyone actually watch Wyvern?

  59. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    @Devastron I think Simon is just a creep. 

  60. We’ll most likely be liveblogging Dollhouse after BSG ends.  

  61. "three card cylon?" what retard came up with that name

  62. gah…the kid belongs with the Chief, not with that wanker Hotdog

  63. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    No one can emotionally take a picture off the wall like EJO! 

  64. why is a pic of Athena and the kid up on the wall?  They aren’t dead

  65. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    The wall is for the "missing" and the dead.

  66. @Paul

    I think BG will last longer than Dollhouse.

  67. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Now Ander’s past? That I can sit through!

  68. Sam must have gotten mighty wrinley during this episode

  69. valo valo says:

    I think they’re getting us ready for Caprica with all these flash backs.

  70. ahhhh…a philosophical jock

  71. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Why don’t they just play the song for Anders!? I mean, just wheel the damn piano down the decks.

  72. @valo Caprica…meh

  73. If Caprica was a Frasier-esque sitcom with Baltar and his dad, I’d totally watch.  

  74. valo valo says:

    That people is why I watch stuff on Hulu… Fracking Nutrisystem comercial purpously setting it’s levels too loud.

  75. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    @paul If I invest in that… will you make it? :-p

  76. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    @ Paul – awesome

  77. I hope Galactica transforms into a giant robot and saves everybody.

  78. Yes. 

  79. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    @ultimatehoratio "The Galactica… she just went from suck to blow!"

  80. seriously, I just want to see Lee kick Baltar in the nuts

  81. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    I miss non-Political Lee. 

  82. hey, its drunky mcdrunky pants

  83. This is the funniest episode ever.  Baltar’s dad?  Drunk Apollo versus a pigeon?  LOVE it!

  84. here comes the speech

  85. Swatting birds with a broom while drunk = not recommended.

  86. it isn’t a line in the sand, its a line of ducktape on the deck

  87. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    I’m shocked that they still have a roll of Duct tape still around.

  88. holy crap…the final episodes are going to be an all out rescue/battle.  EPIC!

  89. oh yeah, Helo is gonna kill some toasters!

  90. Hera is the Fifth Element.

  91. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Helo needs to save the day here.

  92. I think it’s clear that Baltar is the hero of this story.  

  93. Baltar takes a bullet for Hera?

  94. more brutal?  how could it be *more* brutal?

  95. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    So how long before Adama starts quoting Dylan. "There must be… some kind of way out of here."

  96. SEA BEAST = arousing

  97. puttin’ the wig on…she’s going out on the town!

  98. It would be awesome if Chewbacca suddenly stepped forward.

  99. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Doc Cottle in uniform looks bad ass!

  100. Hot Dog should totally come along with the baby in a tiny helmet.  

  101. holy crap….they are taking the Galactica against the colony.  GET READY TO REUUUUUUMBLE

  102. valo valo says:

    I would follow EJO into hell it’s self.

  103. Folks is gonna be dyin’ next ep.

  104. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    Inspiring, I am such a sucker for these types of scenes

  105. Who’s going to be the red shirt on this mission?

  106. the Chief is AWESOME

  107. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    Chief – awesome

  108. valo valo says:

    I think you have something better to do "bow chica bow wow"

  109. I’m gonna cry.  This is like Braveheart.

  110. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    It is on!

  111. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Not to totally geek out… but wasn’t Grand Admiral Thrawn’s secret base hidden inside a Black Hole surrounded by an asteroid field?

  112. yes! Lee is back in his uniform

  113. Did this guy win some kind of raffle to get a guest spot on the show as an incredulous pilot?

  114. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    @paul I would play that role!

  115. holy crap…in the event horizon is where the colony is?  This is gonna get messy

  116. sweet zombie jesus, I’m giddy like a school girl with excitement for next week

  117. Is it next Friday yet?

  118. Devastron Devastron says:

    This finale is gonna be HUGE.

  119. holycrapholycrapholycrap

  120. PraxJarvin PraxJarvin says:

    Well, that’s my week.

  121. piscespaul piscespaul says:

    god damn….i can’t believe it…next friday now!

  122. well folks, it was fun…see ya’ll next week

  123. Cadgers Cadgers says:

    I can not wait till next Friday! On a side not anyone want to lend me some $ so I can get some of the sweet stuff up for auction?

  124. OddsBodkins OddsBodkins says:

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.  Another 50 minutes of filler.  The pre-bomb Caprica stuff was nothing more than a setup for that new show and the writers trying to prove how ‘creative’ they are.  The show limps homenext week.  The Sci-Fi version of Willie Mays.

  125. Patience.  You’ll get your bread and circus next week.  

  126. yamiangie yamiangie says:

    @ parxjarvin you have a point only Thawn’s was cooler because it was a whole bunch of blackholes. So sad I wasn’t able to liveblog last night.

  127. Paradiddle Paradiddle says:

    Looks like they’re going to cram all of the exciting stuff and remaining explanations/revelations into the last two hours. I hope they can pull it off, it just seems like there’s still many things left unexplained (e.g., what Kara is, why the original hybrid warned young Adama of her destroying the human race, how Leoben fits in with all of this, etc.).

  128. Brandino says:

    @OddsBodkin: Heard of this thing called pacing?  You can’t make every episode  a gee-wizz super battle, there has to be an ebb and flow. You cant shoot your wad in the penultimate episode, that’s where you have your grand rally call. Where you put the red tape on the flight deck and choose sides.

    Further more, your attempt to slander the writers doesnt even make sense. From all reports the new Caprica show is like 50 years before all of those scenes in this weeks episodes, in the middle of the first cylon war. 

  129. OddsBodkins OddsBodkins says:

    @Brandino – pacing is exactly what is wrong with this show nowadays.  I don’t need battles, gunfights, etc…  I need the plot to actually move forward… especially in the second to last ever episode.  What did those flashbacks actually have to do with anything?  They let us know that Baltar is a self-serving jag and that Laura is an independent and strong woman.  Boy, we all needed reminders about those character traits. Maybe it was about the bonds of family?  I don’t know… what I do know is that it wasn’t necessary. 

    It now looks like the "big payoff" is to save a kid the writers have spent zero time giving us any emotional attachment to.  Hera means as much to me as the lint in my pocket.  They have done zippo to get me familiar with her, like her, or even an ounce of a reason to root for her.

    This show is a faint light compared to where it was in the first two seasons.  I watch out of loyality, but there have only been a handful of episodes in the final seasons worth mentioning.  I’m praying for some sort of conclusion that will equal the show’s once dominant stature.

  130. Conor Kilpatrick conor says:

    Absolutely fantastic episode!  Great character stuff and the last 15 minutes had me on the edge of my seat.  Can’t wait for the finale next week!

  131. Troyce says:

    @Conor I share your grief over Adama.  I want the LT Castillo moustache back too.  How cool would it also have been if Don Johnson or Philip Michael Thomas had guest-starred in an episode ?

  132. Conor Kilpatrick conor says:

    @Troyce: Considering that Olmos hates Don Johnson with the power of a million suns, probably not cool.

  133. Troyce says:

    @ Conor:  I wasn’t aware of that.  Good to know.  Though, I can’t believe you just used a Sentry reference.

  134. ActualButt ActualButt says:

    In the voice of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons:

    Actually, the Sentry has the power of a million EXPLODING suns. Not just a million suns.

    Worst. Sentry reference. Ever.

  135. Conor Kilpatrick conor says:

    I wasn’t making a Sentry reference.

  136. Conor Kilpatrick conor says:

    Although that’s funny in retrospect.

  137. Jediaxle Jediaxle says:

    I kinna agree with OddsBoykins, the show is nowhere near as good as when it first started.  It’s not that the writing, acting, etc are bad, they aren’t it’s still good but the overall story has been blah.  I’m still holding out that they will pull it off and wrap up everything and leave us with a good ending but it’s hard to end a series well. 

    All that being said the last 20 minutes was just EPIC.

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