By the way, following the Aeneid storyline, the trailer for the season
finale looks like the fleet is going to find Carthage (a habitable planet) and
be tempted to stay. The real question is who will stay behind on Carthage, who
will go on to Rome (Earth), and who will be Dido (whom I predict will die in a
nuclear blast visible to the questors in space as they are leaving)?
The writers inverted the Aeneid story, with Dido (the Pegasus Six) burning herself on the pyre (suicide by nuke) as the refugees went to Carthage (New Caprica), and the pyre (radiation signature) being visible from the sea (past the ion field) by the Cylons, not the humans heading off to Earth.
So, frustrated that you're going to have to wait until fall for the new season? Channel those frustrations into reading Virgil's Aeneid, and get some clues as to where the writers are taking us.
I think I'm going to go insane waiting for October. It was just... wow. As someone on a message board said, "I don't know whether they just jumped the shark or catapulted into greatness." I think it's the latter, because I trust the talent-level of the actors and production people, but even if it's the former, I can't wait to find out!
ReplyDeleteAnd the inverted Aeneid thing is interesting. I've read the Aeneid, though, and... well, I think I'll wait a few more years to reread it.
Just remembered something else form the Aeneid: the Trojans set up a colony on Crete first. But then a big plague came from the gods because they were destined to found Rome. Pretty close to what happened in the finale; they settled on a planet and it totally sucked and now the Cylons have come because they didn't do as they were destined to and find Earth.
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ReplyDeleteThis turned out to be a horrible time to become a BSG fan. I taped the finale, but it stopped recording as the cylons walked into Baltar's office. Did I miss much?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the insights into the storyline. Six doesn't make a very sympathetic Dido.