I didn’t think to do this after I had finished season one, and truthfully, I’ve come to enjoy making these sort of posts. I know that I am not watching this show in real time, so I don’t get the (agonizing) experience of having to wait a full week for a new episode or the MANY-MONTHS-LONG WAIT between seasons, either. However, I generally do take a few days between seasons/books to gather some ~thoughts~ and ~theories~ about where things are headed. That’s half the fun in this experience, isn’t it? So, ONWARD TO THEORIZING.
Now, I know there are a lot of new faces around here. That’s generally what happens when I move from one fandom to another, so allow me to explain a bit about the process of these kinds of posts. I know that it will be quite painful to follow the rules, but I must insist that you do not, in any way, hint at spoilers for what is to come. I realize that by posting my thoughts this way, I am inherently being an asshole, but this is merely for entertainment. It’s funny to see what I think because I’m generally hopelessly wrong or eerily right about things. Please do not tell me what I got right or wrong in any way. Don’t tell me which ones make you laugh or cringe. Just enjoy, okay? When I finish season three, I’ll revisit these in the season four predictions post! Shall we?
Mark’s Bodacious Predictions for season four of Battlestar Galactica
- I truly feel that the season two finale uprooted basically any running theory I had, so this is a lot harder than I expected. So I’ll start with the easy stuff, and move on to the “bigger” predictions. Here’s my first one: We will get flashback scenes dealing with the time spent on New Caprica from these characters specifically in terms of focus, meaning that the bulk of the flashback is about them. They cannot just appear in the background. And I have to get them all right, or it doesn’t count. So: Cally, Tyrol, Starbuck, Anders, Roslin, Adama, Lee, Dualla, and Baltar. Extra points (I’m self-assigning points FUCK YOU) if this all happens in ONE episode.
- Cally is pregnant with a girl.
- Tyrol shaves his beard by the end of the season.
- I won’t like two episodes.
- By the end of season three, Baltar will not be president. Roslin will be re-elected. (I feel this is kind of logical at this point? BUT BY GODS I COULD BE SO WRONG.)
- Adama will not shave off his mustache all season. (HE BETTER NOT.)
- This is like my free bingo card because I kind of feel like I’m going to get 90% of these wrong, but: Bear McReary’s music will be awesome.
- All right, let’s get to some real shit. Anders dies by the end of the season. As much as I like seeing Starbuck happy, and as amazing as their dynamic is, I think the show is going to move towards putting Lee and Starbuck together in the final season.
- So, the Cylon plan! I think that Caprica Six and Boomer will reveal in the opening episode that the Cylons have a new moral system that will allow the humans and the Cylons to co-exist.
- Running off that (and sort of its own prediction), the humans and Cylons will try to co-exist for at least one full episode.
- I predict that New Caprica will be abandoned by the end of the season.
- Roslin will find new information about the location of Earth that will put her against Baltar and REKINDLE OLD HATREDS. Basically, I just want to see them battle again.
- The fleet/New Caprica colony (I’m not sure what to call them anymore???) will learn that Baltar colluded with the Cylons back on Caprica.
- So, Adama ordered the fleet that was orbiting New Caprica away, but we never learned where they went. I imagine he must have had a destination in mind, right? So we’ll find out that the location he had the ships jump to is one we’ve seen before.
- Kat dies in season three. I only say this because someone has to die, and what story does she have left to tell?
- I say we learn what two more models of the humanoid Cylons look like, and one of them is a face we’ve seen before.
- Sharon finds out what happens to Hera and kills someone in response.
- Gaeta betrays Baltar in order to help President Roslin or Admiral Adama. I know I’m cheating by listing both. I DON’T CARE.
- Helo and Sharon get married by the end of the season.
- And the big reveal at the end of season three? The humans find Earth.
WELL. HERE’S TO BEING WRONG. And tomorrow, I start season three! Well…sort of? I’ll post my review of the webisodes that aired prior to the season three premiere, and then Friday, we’ll start season three. GOOD GOD I AM EXCITED.
Prediction 1: The Cylons were created by man
Prediction 2: They evolved
Prediction 3: They rebelled
Prediction 4: There are many copies
Prediction 5: They have a plan
Oh Mark, you are so not even close to prepared. Enjoy it.
Prediction 6: *ting ti-ting ting ting ting ti-ting ting ting ti-ting ting ting*
This comment wins ALL THE THINGS
oh god. I am reading this in class instead of paying attention, and I literally had to bite my lip to stop laughing.
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Wow… I can type in rot13 without using the site! Thanks to markwatches/reads I have a new and completely useless skill 🙂
BLESS YOU. That's amazing!!!
🙂
It's not all from these sites – at one point a few years back I had the wacky theory to code a program to turn *everything* on my screen into rot13 for privacy. Which worked quite well except that I couldn't read it either. But I did learn a lot of the letter pairings – things like I/V, T/G, K/X etc. There are some I still struggle with remembering, but I can pretty much figure them all out now with a bit of thought. So typing in rot13 is basically a matter of figuring out the matching letter for each letter I want to type. There's only 13 pairings to learn so it's not as impressive as it sounds…
I'm starting to learn how to read it, but I can't write it yet. 😛 I think it's gonna be one of those things, like touch-typing, that one day I realise I'm doing it without even knowing!
Come the revolution, a shared secret language will certainly come in handy.
I think I type it easier than I read it, oddly enough.
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*snerk*
I made a rot13'd reply here and it doesn't seem to have appeared… moderation queue'd?
Yay! I love prediction posts best of all the things!
It's hard to know what to say in the comments though, since we can't discuss anything about the next season. I have to admit, I do miss watching something for the first time and being able to speculate as we go!
I am bursting with spoilers but I think we can all agree that mark is forever unprepared for season 3.
I say we all just cackle evilly!
Agreed.
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ha ha. Hooooo.
Carry on.
I'm going for an evil anime girl laugh myself.
OHHOHOHhohohohohohohoho!
Wait, what is this witchcraft? My username, highlighted in blue? Heed it well my friends for it is the PALE BLUE TASTE OF YOUR DOOM. FOR NOW I AM A MODERATOR. BOW DOWN BEFORE ME IN ENDLESS SUBJUGATION WORTHLESS EARTHLINGS, FOR I AM YOUR GOD.
Yes in the space of one post I have, in fact, gone mad with power.
Hi! I’m one of the new moderators! I promise to be…er…moderate?
YOUR BLUE BANNER STRIKES FEAR INTO MY HEART.
All glory to the hypno-toad!
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That just came on my screen and I lost all hearing in my right and not-right ears. And also momentarily forgot the thing that is the opposite of right.
I've scrolled down now, and everything's back to normalish.
Oh snap!
I, for one, welcome our new pale blue overlord.
As do I!
By the way, I just watched the X-files episode where Scully is called the "enigmatic Agent Scully" and I now understand your username! Woot!
YAY E.B.E.!!!
Totally didn't even have to look that up. 😛
It's weird, but I form kind of mental images of people based off their usernames. Even if I don't exactly know where they're from.
You are a little fish with Harry Potter glasses on, in case you were wondering. Wait, hang on, I'll draw it…
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That's what I imagine when I read your comments. Er…sorry. 😛
That is fabulous! My username is a combination of a nickname I had in high-school (fish) because I was on the swim team and swam 20 hours a week, and my intense love for Harry Potter. My favorite is that I can tell if people like HP by whether they get it or not. Someone once thought that the HP stood for Hewlett Packard.
In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!
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I bow to you, Blue/Green Galadriel!
In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!
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I bow to you, Blue/Green Galadriel!
Best announcement ever.
PS…I was actually under the (apparently wholly incorrect) assumption that you were already a moderator. Good luck in all your endeavors to moderate.
May death come quickly to your enemies!
(Hi back!)
Best mod intro post.
Also, look, I have a blue username header thingy too! I promise to do all things in moderation, including moderation.
Ughhhh I cannot WAIT until Thursday night so I can start Season 3, I cannot even stand it lol. I don't know HOW people survived waiting months after that finale. O.O
I didn’t think to do this after I had finished season one
Yes you did Mark: http://markwatches.net/reviews/2011/08/mark-watch…
Or am I being stupid and misinterpreting what you meant by that? *sits down and shuts up just in case*
Oh and LOL you have no idea how unprepared you are.
Good catch. I think what Mark meant to say is that he forgot to do them between the miniseries and season 1.
That is what I meant. So I'l give y'all an extra post next week to make fun of my predictions. I forgot I'd done those!
The Miniseries is part of Season 1, really, so I wouldn't worry.
Mark – we need to see your reaction to revisiting your season 2 predictions please k thanks.
"Cally will hook up with Tyrol because it'd be hilarious"… yeah… not so much with the hilarity.
Also, "God, I want a Roslin flashback SO BADLY."
Wish granted! It was a doozy!
Oooooh I hope he reviews those predictions! Because from my count, he could hardly have been any less prepared (considering the first prediction is a gimme)!
Good predictions! I'm so excited for you to start season 3. :'D
What webisodes, though? I guess I fail as a fan because I never saw them lol. /o\
These: http://www.hulu.com/playlist/13966
Noybusiness and Mauve Avenger helpfully linked to them yesterday! (hope you're in the US)
Oh awesome, thank you!
I like that you predicted the sex of Cally's baby. I guess it's one of the easier ones since it's 50/50. Way to play it safe, Mark.
I'm excited for the webisodes. I haven't actually seen any of them, so I will need to track them down and watch them. I hope they're somewhere in that massive DVD collection I paid for.
I like that two predictions straight up deal with facial hair.
It's possible he's still recovering from his Clash of Kings predictions. Then again, anything involving GRRM pretty much ensures any predictions will be completely wrong.
Well it is clearly one of the most important and divisive issues on the show. Mark needs to take a stand!
They're on the second Season 3 disc in Special Features.
thanks!
Ah, I hate myself for forgetting about your prediction posts AGAIN, so now I've seen 3×01 and I have to wait until tomorrow to watch 3×02 or I'll be ahead of your reviews. DAMN ME.
That said, I was unprepared, you are unprepared, we are all in a constant state of unpreparedness because even if we think we are prepared, we are not.
Sadly, you'll have to wait even longer. The webisodes are getting reviewed tomorrow and the review 3×01 will go up on Friday.
That's actually okay, then! I can watch the webisodes to sate me tonight so that I still get a daily dose of BSG. Thanks for the tip!
LOOK AT ME SITTING ON MY HANDS AND SAYING NOTHING
(I am typing this with my nose. I am assured it looks utterly ridiculous.)
I watched the first season 3 DVD yesterday and these predictions are already making me EL-OH-EL!
My prediction
1. YOU ARE NOT PREPARED! (because I certainly wasn't, sweet Jesus!)
also totally jumping on prediction 20 as well.
Yes, I am just enjoying your predictions, OKAY?
Season 3, Season 3! You cannot fathom the FRAKS, good lord.
Lol, I thought you titled your list “Mark’s BOOTYLICIOUS Predictions…”
I never realized how hard making prediction posts were! Or maybe they’re easy for you, but I tried last night and I got this :
1.Tyrol will be reunited with the downloaded version of Boomer and SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN. I don’t want to say he leaves Cally because she’s adorable and that’s evil but alkjdf;asdjf I don’t know
2.People will drink
3.Shit will blow up
I also think that Baltar won’t be president by the end of Season 3, but I feel like someone other than Roslin will get the position, just to change things up. And I agree with your predication that we’ll be introduced to the final 2 Cylon copies and they’ll be familiar faces. I have a terrible terrible feeling, though, that Fat!Lee and Pornstache!Adama are no more. RIP 🙁 (ETA: I should mention I didn't mean the characters themselves, just the weight gain and the glorious moustache)
I am excite!
Oh god, I hope Fat!Lee doesn't disappear over the course of one episode, like how Sharon was visibly pregnant for a week. There should be a gradual de-fat-padification, mostly so that we're guaranteed chubby Lee for a few episodes.
I will be so upset if Fat!Lee magically loses all his weight. Don't make me write Fat!Lee fanfic
You might have to if Mark's wrong and there aren't any flashbacks for him over the past year. But on that note, yay, more opportunities for Fat!Lee!.
lol skipping a season of predictions, are you? 😉
I like all of your predictions except #s 3 and 6. If Tyrol loses his awesome beard and glasses while Adama keeps the Stache, I will cry. I agree that Kat's ripe for death, but maybe she'll have a story as the best pilot in the fleet while Starbuck is down on New Caprica fomenting rebellion? Oo, oo, new prediction: Kat becomes CAG in her absence. Because who is left at this point?
I'm also all for Sharon killing people after finding out about what happened to Hera. I have no idea if it would make her more or less angry to find out that they had been lying to her about what happened.
I'm so excited to start season 3!
Oh Mark. You are my favorite.
You ain't frakkin' prepared, Mark. You ain't frakkin' prepared.
So jealous of the people who get to pop in a new disk or whatever and move right on to find out what happens next. Because those breaks between seasons were horrible horrible evil things. (HATE YOU FOREVER SCIFI)
Don't wish people dead, Mark! DON'T USE YOUR PSYCHIC POWERS TO MAKE ANYTHING BAD HAPPEN.
I'm sorry, but this is not a spoiler, it's a damn frakking fact. You're completely right about number 7.
I mean, you may always be entitled to your own opinion, but .. there is an opinion against Bear McCreary? Haha silly me.
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love your predictions but like someone above said: can we get reactions to your rightness or wrongness of season 2 predictions?
also, i think im gonna go watch season 3 again, just to brush up. =)
Yes! I'll make a post about them. I just forgot I wrote them.
Aww, I wanted to see you go over your Season 2 predictions.
Going back to look at my own (holy crap,was this really only afew weeks ago?):
1. Adama won’t die or be unconscious for very long (this is TV, after all), but he will be found physically unfit to lead the fleet for the first half of the season. ~ First part right, second part wrong. (Thank the gods, because half a season with Tigh in charge would have been a COMPLETE DISASTER.)
2. Tigh won’t agree to let Roslin out of the brig until people start to insist upon having a president and try to get Tom Zarek to take her place. ~ Nope. Soooo wrong.
3. They will send a rescue team for the survivors on Kobol, but once they find them, something will go horribly wrong and they will have to leave one person behind. Either Tyrol or Crashdown will elect to stay and sacrifice themselves. (For the record, I’d be perfectly happy if I was wrong here.) ~Well, Crashdown DID stay behind, but not exactly voluntarily.
4. Helo will come to accept that Caprica Sharon is different from the other cylons, and that she really does love him, but something tragic will happen and cause them to be separated. ~ Yes to first part, no to the second. Actually, they ARE separated most of the time by her cell, so… ¾ right?
5. In that same vein, we’ll start to see physical signs of her pregnancy, but the baby will not be born by the end of the season. ~ *Sigh* I really shouldn’t have done so many predictions with more than one piece of information in them.
6. Still in that same vein, we’ll learn what the cylons’ deal with babies is, but their plan will still be a mystery. ~ This one’s right… I think?
7. Kara and Lee will come close to confessing their feeling for each other, but they won’t go through with it or make any moves. ~ Oh, yeah! Nailed it! It feels good to be right!
8. Billy and Dee, and the other hand, will. AND THEY WILL BE SWEET AND ADORABLE AS EVER. ~….fuck.
9. We’ll find out ANOTHER character we know is actually a cylon. ~ Well, there’s D’anna and the priest, but they don’t really count, because I meant one of the main or recurring characters that we already “knew”.
10. Out on a limb here: the prophecy about the arrow of Apollo and the tomb of Athena will NOT come true, leading Roslin to have a crisis of faith and doubt her status as a prophet, but there will be something else found on Kobol that will lead the fleet to Earth. ~ Hahahaha… yeah, so unprepared.
11. Finally, in the category of completely personal wish-fulfillment: at some point, Kara will punch Baltar in the face over something. I want SOMEONE to do it, and she’s shown how adept she is in that area. ~No, but I’d like to alter this for my season three predictions. I’ve expanded it from just Starbuck to include THE ENTIRE FLEET. Just… everyone get in line, form a queue, for your turn to PUNCH GAIUS BALTAR IN THE FACE.
Actually 4 is completely right. Tragedy – "Downloaded", Separation – "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II".
I'd join that queque, and I like the guy!
My guess: Lee is going to die. Something to push both Adama and Starbuck over the edge.
That or something really tragic is going to happen just before they reach Earth. Like just as they're touching down.
WAITWAITWAIT.
I bet they reach Earth, and find that the CYLONS ARE ALREADY THERE. And all the humans are dead and stuff. We know how much they love to pile on the angst. How much of a mindfuck would that be ('Here's your paradise! Wait lol no. Cylons rule')
That would be epic!
Season Three Predictions!
1. There will be flashbacks covering what happened in the past year in a little more detail.
2. Adama will have to trust Sharon (who I presume is still on the ship) to give him information about the cylon motivations and how to attack them.
3. There will be a resistance movement against the Cylons, led by Starbuck.
4. Anders will be taken hostage by the Leoben because the cylons want something from Kara. She won’t cooperate, and he will be killed.
5. People will quickly look to Roslin again as a leader in a political sense, and a source of hope. She will be forced to become a grittier, less compassionate leader, and to adopt new methods of Cylon killing, as throwing someone out of an airlock on the planet’s surface doesn’t do much of anything.
6. Eventually Helo and Sharon will learn that their daughter is, in fact, alive.
7. The baby’s adopted mother will die, and Tyrol and Cally (not knowing her actual identity) will adopt her.
8. Gaeta will renounce his loyalty/support/whatever to Baltar.
9. At some point, Lee will become incapacitated and/or have to leave the Pegasus, leaving Dualla as the acting commander. Through that experience she will get tons of character development.
10. One of the characters that has died so far (Billy, Crashdown, hell, even Cain) will show up again- as a cylon.
11. Speaking of Cylons- What’s going on with them? More specifically, why bother invading New Caprica when it would be much easier to just another bomb?
A. Caprica Six and Boomer were able to convince the others to leave the 12 colonies, as evidenced by them leaving Caprica. But shortly after that, public opinion turned against them, so they agreed to a compromise to maintain power- to let humans in the settlement live, but only under cylon rule.
A2. Alternately, The ending of the occupation of the colonies was a trick to encourage the humans to let their guard down. They never actually came around to what CapriSix and Boomer were suggesting, and those had to publicly renouce their opinions to keep from being boxed.
B. They intend to force the residents into slavery as revenge for their own enslavement at human hands.
C. Look, I don’t know.
12. And a fun one- one of the many romances to develop will be between Kat and Hot Dog, resulting in the second best portmanteau couple name ever: KatDog. (The best being KatPee from The Hunger Games.) 😉
lol KatDog.
Oh Mark, you are so adorable when you have no stinking clue what is about to be unleashed upon you. =D
Roslin can't be re-elected without being elected first. If she was elected this season, it would be for the first time. Just pointing that out.
Just one small thing…
"Mark’s Bodacious Predictions for season four of Battlestar Galactica" should be "Mark's Bodacious Predictions for season three of Battlestar Galactica."
Dear Mark: I love to bits how vague your first predictions are, also the one about Bear McCreary's music.
Also: You are not frakking prepared. 😀
No lotr spoilers!
oops! I assumed he saw the movies! I'm sorry m(_ _)m
Wait, wut? there's a headdesk emoticon now?!
It's more like bowing in apology/flopping over due to the intense sense of one's uselessness/failure/frustration. Or at least that's how it's used in Japan, when the emoticon comes (and where I live, and have it built into my phone!). Can't speak much to its uptake overseas.
There's also a sideways version! O∏_
Number 7: Firstly, it's spelled McCreary with 2 'c's. Secondly: Lbh ner va ab jnl cercnerq sbe gur njrfbzr. Gurer'f abg orra n jrrx va gur cnfg gjb lrnef gung guvf unfa'g orra ba zl zc3 cynlre.
Also, what do you call an mp3 player that you don't play mp3s on 'cause you're too much of an audio-snob for that low-end lossy stuff?
So I kept adding to my predictions then at some point I just started writing my own show in my head and I don't think I did this right:
Tyrol's beard will become even more elaborate. I'm inclined to believe that the priest was telling the truth about him being human, but I think the guy will go down a spiral that will either get him killed and/or kill someone else.
Cally I could see being a cylon, even though I wouldn't like this at all, but it makes sense in terms the cylon wanting them to get together. In any case she seems to be upto replace Sharon as the person we see suffering for no reason.
Starbuck won't get to confront blondie till midseason cause she'll be living underground as resistance leader and the Magneto to Roslin's Professor X.
Mr. Starbuck will be dead by the halfway point of the season to leave us open for yet another love triangle. At the start of the season the Cylons will hold him and use him as bait/bargaining chip with the resistance. Bonus points if his situation is used as an allegory for the american healthcare system.
Roslin will be captured and tortured in the form of being forced to talk to all the folks she had shoved out the airlock in the last 2 seasons. The Adamas will eventually rescue her at a crucial moment.
Gaeta and/or Kat will be revealed to be token gay character of the show (why not?)
Zarek will doublecross someone and die, because the writers can't be bothered to think of something for him to do.
The 6 and 8 that are bffs on Caprica are co-mommies of the 6/Baltar baby but keep it from the other cylons. When the Sharon that's on BSG with Adama finds out where her baby is, she will go on a rampage and eventually get to fight the Sharon that was bffs with 6 on Caprica (I'm just going to call this Sharon 8.) BSG Sharon will be forced to kill a human at some point.
[Actually I think it's way more likely that BSG Sharon will fight 6 and not herself, but damn that would've looked cool. Actually I could and should make a whole other post for things I WANT to see this season.]
BSG Sharon will also in some way get Cally killed, she won't pull the trigger herself but it'll basically be involved enough to make her feel hella guilty.
Speaking of which I think we will (and should) get to see a lot more of the civilian population and how they live.
What about the chrome terminator cylons? Do they not have names and feelings, just because they don't have skin? Do they ever have thoughts like 'why why was I programmed to feel pain?
Helo will become something more than a boring dad/boyfriend. Okay I actually doubt this will happen, but I think he'll back Sharon no matter what she does untill people start dying and then he'll have to separate himself from her. (ILU Penikett, but your character has totally plateaued and it's not your fault.)
I have no idea what Baltar will do besides more of the same but I figure there'll be at least 2 attempts on his life and he'll worm his way out of it.
All the living BSG crew and many civilians will be off the planet and back in space by the end of the season.
Number of love triangles in this season: 5
Number of cylons discovered: 3, with one of them being someone we've already met.
I dislike #3. Tyrol's scruff is made up of pure, unadulterated awesome.
#15, I thought Helo was going to die on Old Caprica for the same reason in the season finale. Imagine my surprise when he made it out alive.
Had fun assigning Houses to the characters (read: shouting at the screen and generally annoying my roommate today). Baltar is obviously a Slytherin. Totally consumed by ambition and self-interest. Could they have picked a worse president? I think he proves that pretty quickly. Tyrol and Gaeta are kickass Hufflepuffs. Loyalty, hard work, fair play. I want to hug them both. Starbuck … well, that one's obvious, too. Roslin, probably Ravenclaw. I want her in my House! Adama might be Ravenclaw, too, or maybe a 'Puff. Gryffindor is "more balls than brains" as they say; he's too even-keeled for that.
OK, now that I proved what an overtired geek I am, I'm gonna shut up and go to bed.
Tell that to Hermione.
“This is like my free bingo card because I kind of feel like I’m going to get 90% of these wrong, but: Bear McReary’s music will be awesome.”
Oh, Mark. You’re so unprepared, this show is going to hit you like a ton of bricks.