So.. a 2-hour retcon. Awesome.
Screenshots from the game were revealed today.
While the above shot may be fan art, it's definitely the same design currently in the game. There may be a few changes, but they're trivial at best.
@Meredith Woerner:
Er.. wow. The misplace GI Joe trailer looked Oscar worthy compared to this.
I was expecting the acting to be... worse. I know it's just one clip but I'm somewhat impressed.
@rgspb: Mickey Rourke doesn't even look like Mickey Rourke.
@marko_ramius: I think referring to any fossil as THE missing link is misleading. The discovery of an intermediate fossil represents A missing link. "Missing links" will always exist given the nature of natural selection (creating a gradient of "intermediates" between species), the best we can hope for is to make these gaps in our knowledge smaller.
I'm not even sure Roland Kickinger has shoulders quite that big! I do think it's real though. It looks as though McG and the gang were trying to match the head to shoulder ratio with the T-800 model in the film, which is good, but ends up being a little off anatomically.
I doubt it's a coincidence that Blade Runner coined the word "Skinjob," starred Edward James Olmos, and was about machines infiltrating human society.
@winkingskunk:
I think you mean Ludo. Hoggle was the little gnomish looking guy.
@cash907:
Agreed. They should have saved the sob story for the episode that she got shot.
She's been captured and in "critical condition" for how long now? And only when she goes to a real hospital for a few days, she dies?
@oz.mendoza
You're right, if it's going to work anywhere, it's in sci-fi.
I guess the problem that I have with it being incorporated into BSG is that this is a series that has been ongoing for years. Viewers have become attached to the characters and their individual struggles. It's easier to watch an episode of The Twilight Zone and feel the impact of this type of ending without crossing the viewers over into angst.
@Winston Smith:
Right right, how could I have forgotten? And clearly this can't be Earth either! It's not nearly flat enough!
@twophrasebark:
That kind of bothered me too, since they were obviously just taking on the image that Baltar and Caprica Six needed them to.
Any other way of doing it would have probably been even more confusing though.
@MISS MERCY STREET:
What did she have to say about it? I haven't kept up with the interviews.
@guibom:
I'm with you on this as well. Aliens just don't FIT into the Battlestar theme. Battlestar is about humanity, which the Cylons can be considered an extension of. So perhaps the "angels" and "God" were the humans from the beginning of the cycle, however long ago that may have been. They've had sufficient time to advance far beyond their descendants.
@YanniDawh:
"a time loop that repeats this miserable story over and over again? i shudder to think on it."
I agree. It's a taboo in story development to not have something be fundamentally different by the story's end. Something needed to be special about this series, something that marked it as the END of the perpetual cycle of humans > machines > war > human > machines > war... While "Head Six" did infer in Times Square that in a complex enough system, repeating over and over, surprises eventually happen that iron out the kinks--I'm not sure it was enough to be considered "breaking the cycle."
@godspiel:
Super-evolved alien turtles, all the way down.
@HighNoon & @sega8800:
It's all very convoluted. Regardless, I like the mysterious direction they took with Kara. In the TV Guide article, RDM inferred something about her being a messiah of sorts. The more I think about it, the more that seems to be the most fitting description. It allows for her to be other worldly/angelic but also of flesh, much like Jesus is portrayed in the Bible. It's also all too fitting of the death and resurrection aspect of her story.
What are your thoughts on her being called the "harbinger of death" so many times? Am I missing something... or did that never really pan out?
@HighNoon:
My bad! You're right. I'm still trying to absorb a lot of information so I'm acting a little too quickly.
@HighNoon:
Um... looks like we're all reading into things differently here. Moore doesn't explicitly state in that article that Kara is not an angel. He leaves it to ambiguity, which is exactly what he should have done.
