{"id":606,"date":"2011-09-21T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=606"},"modified":"2011-09-18T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T07:06:44","slug":"mark-watches-battlestar-galactica-season-3-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2011\/09\/mark-watches-battlestar-galactica-season-3-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Battlestar Galactica’: Season 3 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0painful to follow the rules, but I must insist that you do not<\/strong>, 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<\/strong>. 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?<\/p>\n

Mark’s Bodacious Predictions for season four of Battlestar Galactica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. 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<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0in 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.<\/li>\n
  2. Cally is pregnant with a girl.<\/li>\n
  3. Tyrol shaves his beard by the end of the season.<\/li>\n
  4. I won’t like two episodes.<\/li>\n
  5. 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.)<\/li>\n
  6. Adama will not shave off his mustache all season. (HE BETTER NOT.)<\/li>\n
  7. 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<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  8. All right, let’s get to some real<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0shit. 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.<\/li>\n
  9. 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.<\/li>\n
  10. Running off that (and sort of its own prediction), the humans and Cylons will try<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0to co-exist for at least one full episode.<\/li>\n
  11. I predict that New Caprica will be abandoned by the end of the season.<\/li>\n
  12. 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.<\/li>\n
  13. 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.<\/li>\n
  14. So, Adama ordered the fleet that was orbiting New Caprica away, but we never learned where<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0they 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.<\/li>\n
  15. Kat dies in season three. I only say this because someone has to die, and what story does she have left to tell?<\/li>\n
  16. 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.<\/li>\n
  17. Sharon finds out what happens to Hera and kills someone in response.<\/li>\n
  18. Gaeta betrays Baltar in order to help President Roslin or<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Admiral Adama. I know I’m cheating by listing both. I DON’T CARE.<\/li>\n
  19. Helo and Sharon get married by the end of the season.<\/li>\n
  20. And the big reveal at the end of season three? The humans find Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    WELL. HERE’S TO BEING WRONG. And tomorrow, I start\u00c2\u00a0season 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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