Well, the time has come for me to finish Battlestar Galactica. I’d like to hold the first of two liveblog parties on the site over the course of the next two weekends. The first of these will be for the FULL “Daybreak” episode (that’s all three parts) that makes up the series finale of Battlestar Galactica.
So, if this is your first liveblog, the rules are pretty easy, though we will have a revised schedule this time around.
Because there are at least two (and possibly three) versions of the three-part finale in existence, it is inevitable that, based on what people have access to, we will not all be in sync. It’s just the reality of this. To accomodate this and to schedule in two intermissions for necessary breaks, we will split this liveblog up into three segments. The schedule is as follows:
The liveblog will be on Saturday, November 26th at 9am PST. Please consult a world clock to determine what time this will be where you live.
9:00am: Begin “Daybreak, Part I”
10:00am: Pause wherever you are for a 15-minute intermission. If you have one file or one episode, you might need to pause. If you are watching them split-up from Netflix, iTunes, or Hulu, your “episode” has ended. DO NOT GO TO THE NEXT ONE UNTIL AFTER THE INTERMISSION.
10:15am: Unpause or, in the case of  a streaming site/iTunes, start Part II.
11:15am: Pause if needed for second intermission.
11:30am: Unpause or start Part III of “Daybreak.”
If this is your first time watching this episode like it is for me, I advise staying on the first page of comments and leaving your liveblogging there. This is what I do to avoid spoilers if someone gets ahead of me. Simply use the comments as a space for you to flail, flip out, sob, post many GIFs, and console others.
I am excited to have this party with you! Next weekend, we’ll liveblog The Plan.
I swear to gods, Bear McCreary is responsible for half the tears I cry for this show.
So the plan is to watch The Plan next week? Cool. We'll break wordpress comments again!
I think it's fair to say that we're all sending you hugs on the astral plane.
Correction! Galactica was the "A" ship! Obviously. Sorry, it's been so looong since HHG!
my final thoughts: In the end they hit so many of my emotional notes that the stupid stuff just can't kill it for me. I loved it even more on the rewatch. I just go blah blah blah over the silly bits and become an emotional mess over the character relationships. (which were always the point of the show for me anyway)
All I ever wanted in this show, on a high level, was for the cycle to end, Cylons & humans to join together, and they to find some planet to settle on in peace — to stop running. And you know, that's what I got. The fact that I got shippy endings for Adama/Roslin, Helo/Athena, and Gaius/Caprica and then Starbuck's death being real & with consequences just made it even sweeter (for me personally).
I was about to upload a hug gif until I realised it was Roslin/Adama and would probably make you cry more.
*hugs*
I'm not even joking. I sobbed, I mean the gasping kind of sobbing. Even today…all over again.
I also think I was weeping for the end of the show in and of itself.
I don't think I want to stop crying. Because when I stop crying then it means it's all over….all over again. 🙁
I just ignore the coda and it's about the most perfect finale ever.
I keep rewatching the last 5 minutes excluding the last minute
Perfection. Just… perfection.
Yeah. I agree. She was a messenger from beyond the whole time she was with them. It wouldn't make thematic sense.
And I never thought it was a trivial "poof". It was goosebump-raising. Bear McCreary's oh-so-appropriate music helps.
So which do you consider the best line, then?
Yeah I did not weep. I UGLY SOBBED.
And they arrived with a guy in a bathtub on the bridge!!! *major geek-out*
Is Mark watching that season or so of Caprica? Or is he leaving the BSG universe after The Plan and just going into Buffy?
I think it's going to be Angels in America. Which was confusing as hell, so will fit right in here 🙂
OH MY GOSH I WILL FLIP
COS I'VE READ THE PLAY FOR CLASS BUT NEVER SEEN THE MOVIE SO IT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.
For a moment, I was going to say Hex, but then I remembered it's only the first season that's that short.
We understand. I sobbed at the very end of LOST, you know like the last 5 minutes. But good gods I sobbed for the last 30 minutes of BSG.
It's hard to explain how much this show affects me. It's like you get it or you don't. And that's not a judgment. It's just how it strikes you. I know someone who gave up right after the time jump on New Caprica, and he REFUSES to watch the rest. I cannot convince him no matter how hard I try to carry on. I can't explain to anyone how much this show affected me and still does…it's weird.
Mark has a short ~surprise~ project planned between BSG and Buffy. As far as I know he hasn't given a date for Caprica. It's just on the general 'to watch' list.
From what I understand, Mark's starting Buffy next (with some sort of short thing in the middle, like he does). But Caprica is on the 'confirmed' list for watching at some point in the future.
Please let it be "Torchwood"…please oh please please
Mark already watched s1 and s2 of Torchwood himself and did reviews for CoE but I don't know if he's seen Miracle Day.
I'll be splitting my review into three parts to account for the million things I need to say. Then we will start my very brief mystery show, then live blog "The Plan," then MARK WATCHES BUFFY STARTS.
I've only ever seen bits of Buffy, myself. Maybe this is a good time to start from the beginning. Y/Y?
I should have taken my chance in university to take the DVD box sets out of the school library for free, but (unsurprisingly) there was a wait-list for those about a mile long.
"I know about farming."
THAT is what made me cry. THAT. Not any of the rest. It doesn't make any sense but THAT IS WHAT MADE ME CRY. I just can't. That after all this Gaius Baltar that's the moment we end with, and James Callis and just OH MY GOD IT'S RAINING ON MY FACE
The site died for me after half of part II. I was crushed 🙁
First liveblog complete!
you know, i watched all of BSG years ago but I've never seen the Plan. (Maybe because i just DIDNT WANT IT TO B E OVER). Now I'm very excited for the liveblog–the first BSG thing i can participate in in real-time! :333333
That's what I'm referring to …Miracle Day…
Whoaaaa.. so I was just watching some youtube fan reviews of the BSG finale and one guy thinks Adama is God…and he makes a very interesting argument………
I would believe that and pray to that god.
I can't listen to the track 'So Much Life' without bursting into tears.
Sounds like your mystery show will be too brief to be Torchwood: Miracle Day like I was hoping. Ah well.
Was it in the post-finale auction?
Thus the anthropological debate about paleolithic gender roles begins.
Thank you! Dad is from Bathgate (like David Tennant).
*cough* Multicolored Saviors *cough*
Difference is they actually intend to live with them, instead of using "teaching" as a justification for conquest.
Crapped out?
Which reminds me. He says he'll see Babylon 5, but he hasn't updated the Suggestions page to reflect this (he forgot in the first place).
The movie-style credits for the extended version are really cool.
Lbh zrna gurzngvpnyyl, V gnxr vg?
I just flicked through my PDF of the auction catalogue and it's not listed.
lol it's ok I pretend that part didn't happen. la la la la! That's the best way to deal with the finale imo. Pretend the "technology is evil" + "colonize the savages" + silly modern parts were imaginary.
Yes
It's not Miracle Day, BUT I will do that for the site!!
It's also not Caprica, but I would love to do that as well.
Literally no one has guessed it at all. It will take 6 days to do.
Is it Primeval?
Is that only six episodes long???
Well, the first season. But you've gotta start somewhere, right? (Seriously, though, the show is kind of awesome (which I wasn't honestly expecting), and the CGI is…interesting at times.)
Okay, then that's a good guess! But this is…um…complete? Or at least I think it is.
I shall ponder further…
LUTHER?
Hahaha, I did Luther!!!
wait… you already did Luther for Mark watches?! [goes to search this out] I LOVE THAT SHOW.
ME TOO IT IS THE GREATEST I LOVE IT SO MUCH
YAY for Miracle Day!!!
SHERLOCK??
He's already done Luther & Sherlock
darn…..hmmmmm
Why do I get the feeling this thread is about to get really long?
LOL
Oh! Walking Dead Season 1??
No, but a fantastic suggestion. I'm deeply in love with where season 2 is right now. A slow start, but now that Kirkman is bringing back on track….jesus sweet baby christ, y'all are so unprepared.
Oh, I am sorely disappointed in Season 2 to this point. Not to get too OT, but I hate Lori with the fire of 1000 suns. And that's all I will say about TWD. I've never read the comics so I can't compare.
OH GOD LET ME JUST SAY…oh god. I LOVE LORI SO MUCH. but….AW DAMN JUST HANG IN THERE. THAT IS ALL THAT I AM SAYING.
SOMEONE WHO HAS READ THE BOOKS PLEASE AGREE WITH ME THAT KIRKMAN IS BRINGING THIS SHOW BACK TO WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED LONG AGO WHICH MEANS AWESOME IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
I JUST WANT MICHONNE IN THE WALKING DEAD OKAY. I want her and Daryl to be zombie-killing pals. 🙁
I haven't seen the show, but my comic book club friends said bad things about it compared to the graphic novels, which was disappointing since Bear is doing the music. Good to hear something good about it!
I'm glad you'll eventually do Caprica to finish off the BSG universe!!
Oh my gods PEASE be Downton Abbey
But Downton Abbey has a second season. Also it's on his Suggestions list as a confirmed future project for Mark Watches and I think this is something not on the list.
It doesn't air in the US for a while, so I thought it might be a possibility. A girl can dream, right?
OMG WHAT IS THIS ARGUMENT. I WOULD LOVE TO READ IT.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9s_X7PvYI&fe…
Also, does this guy remind of David Tennant or what?
It's been like four hours and I'm still not okay.
I almost burst into tears over a late lunch not too long ago. WHAT HAS THIS SHOW DONE TO ME.
I feel your pain. I've seen this finale so many times, and I still ugly cry on every rewatch. I wasn't even able to liveblog it with you and got a little teary just READING THE COMMENTS.
It took me about a month to get over it when it aired real-time. No seriously.
I was fine after watching it until just now, when I was playing cards with friends and flashed back to that first scene with Starbuck playing cards and punching Tigh in the face. CUE ALL THE UGLY CRIES.
It's been years and I'm still not quite okay.
Ohgodsilaidoutthecabinithasaneasterlyview…
It's been two years, and I STILL tear up if I think too hard about my girl Laura and her story.
Thank gods for fic. Wonderful fic.
I told you! I TOLD YOU YOU WOULD NOT BE OKAY AFTER THIS.
(I don't know what to recommend to help. I was gutted the first time round, and am still not over it two years later. Don't think I'll ever be, either, or that I will ever feel this way about any show ever. I loved other shows, sure,, but the one Holy Grail Burning Passion of my life is BSG, nothing can ever compare).
Also, when the hole in your heart does not feel quite as raw anymore (which admittedly could take a very long time), GO ON LIVEJOURNAL and FIND YOURSELF SOME FIC.
I know you don't read fic, but the BSG fandom has a standard of writing that is unparalleled among any of the things I have ever been fannish about, and trust me they write WELL. A good place to start might be a shipper comm (esp. for Roslin/Adama, since that is your poison), those people are pretty friendly and happy to point you to the good stuff if you ask them in a comment.
Oh god like….the first time during the finale of LOST, I got misty-eyed, but I didn't fully understand what had happened, so it didn't hit me as hard. I cried a lot during the second viewing, but it was STILL nowhere near what happened to me earlier. I watched it with a friend and was sobbing out SHE WAS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER OH MY GOD and in hindsight that must have been the funniest thing ever.
Kara's farewell to Sam paired with all of the Adama/Roslin stuff made me UGLY CRY the first time I watched this.
Kara's farewell still makes me ugly cry
ALL THE INTERNET HUGS TO YOU.
Oh god y'all.
I'm at like 7,500 words for my "Daybreak" review
what.
I cannot tell you how excited I am for the review. I missed the liveblog, unfortunately.
OH GOD. It took me seven hours, but 9,327 words later, ALL THREE PARTS ARE DONE.
i may have cried even more
may
You were never prepared.
What? Only 673 words to a nice round 10000..
/disappoint
(I keed, I keed!)
PUMPED!
Thank you for your feelings.
I chipped in late to the liveblog because the site went down like a lead balloon, but Daybreak DEMANDS ALL THE WORDS. Don't hold back!
I guess it's safe to answer that question you had in "No Exit" now. Yes, there were Cylons made on Kobol, that was the Thirteenth Tribe. No humans on Earth 1.0 ever. They stated this stuff, but it was possible to miss.
Also the exodus of the Twelve Tribes from Kobol was 2000 years before the Cylon Attack, around the same time the Thirteenth Tribe destroyed itself, so the Thirteenth must have left significantly before the others. Elosha said the Book of Pythia was 3600 years old.
I have no problem with this at all.
CANNOT FUCKIN WAIT
SERIOUSLY WHAT. SHE SAID THAT TO LEE IN MAELSTROM, WHYYYYYYYYYYYY AM I SO SAD.
Multicoloured ALIEN Saviours.
*******SOBS FOREVER*********
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY DID THEY HAVE TO MAKE HER POOF?!!????!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU (YES I SAID FUCK YOU) RON MOORE. SHE DESERVED BETTER THAN THAT.
*********RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE****************
I just don't like the idea that there is nothing for her beyond her "task", and I never will.
To me, it lessens the power of Kara as a person with free will – the fact that her "special destiny" means she has to go mad and essentially commit suicide in the grip of a delusion, and then come back as an agent of a higher power with no role apart from that.
Or maybe I'm just reacting to the fact that she looks on the verge of tears at the impending poof – it's clearly BREAKING HER HEART, and this – this! – is her ultimate fate? Sorry, no me gusta.
I didn't notice Starbuck heartbreak in that scene. How negligent of me when character devastation is our natural food source.
Despite all the things I hate, on an emotional level it was perfect.
All of this has been watched before, all of this will be watched again.