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Except that the song came from Earth, if not earlier, long before the colony was built. Even if the Cylons did use it as a road map, Cavil moved the colony right before the civil war, so the song would have been pointing at the wrong place now.

I might be mistaken, but I thought Adama received the current location of the colony by asking The Oracle of Anders his question. This is never directly stated, but is the rumor we see going around the ship. As far as I can tell, both Starbuck and Adama believed the mathematical formulae to be gibberish, and were not relying on them to guide them.

Well the guy's name was Sean Allison and Narcho, the head pilot from the Pegasus is named Noel Allison, so maybe they just felt like dropping that last name for the heck of it. Nothing all that important, really.

Well, I don't know if it means anything, but the name of the male officer that came to break the news to Roslin was "Officer Sean". The other was "Officer Stephanie."

Regards,

my assumption was taking the old girl up for one last trip before being decommissioned as a museum?

and bsg has gone all lost on me with the flashbacks

Waste?

I agree they didn't move the plot forward and time is short. But this is, and had always been, a series about characters and the themes which unite us all. In that sense the flashbacks were outstanding scenes, and I only wish the whole episode had been more of: Laura with her despair and resolve. Kara with her love and her creativity. Gaius with his need to be satiated and need to be worthy. Lee with his drunkenness, and his clarity. Sam, dear Sam, with his desire to feel the cosmic truth, and the crippling reality of being plugged into it.....

It was never the story. It was always the journey.

Actually my favorite scene in the whole episode was probably the Anders flashback. It was pretty said seeing as he's gone from being a star athlete to a babbling machine. He wanted to be connected to life, now they only way he can stay alive is by being hooked up to a dying ship.

This was just about the only thing I liked about this episode.

I liked Anders soaking in a hottub talking to reporters about wanting to be connected to perfection, juxtaposed against being a hybrid in a tub literally connected to Galactica (imperfection). Plus, his speech to the reporter is probably the most identifiable and appreciable sentiment in this show. If I could make as much sense of all the flashbacks as you could from this one, then I might be convinced to appreciate them more.

The other thing I liked was Baltar's dance in front of God and his favorite Six and the thin red line. Just for a moment, I thought he might cross over and make that selfless act--but he couldn't.

Anyone have time for what I HATED about this episode?

I'm not sure it was about retiring Galactica, because at the beginning of the series, when he he was walking through the ship working on his retirement speech, people kept coming up to him saying it was a pleasure serving with him the previous "x" number of years. I seriously doubt that they'd allow a Commander who was only there to retire a ship the ability to bring his crew from another ship with him.

I agree. It was clearly the speech he would have to give on Museum Galactica. The bigger "what the frak was that about" moment was drunken Apollo and the pigeon. I've heard of superstitions that go both ways: a bird (usually a hummimgbird) in the house brings good/bad luck. Obviously, everyone is headed for bad luck, but I just didn't get it. I invite any explanation that makes sense.

The big question to me is, "What is the time frame of flashbacks?" 6 months? 3 months?

I think the time of the flashbacks depends on who is being flashed backed to. For Roslin, it was before Adar was president and before he had started his campaign (she received the phone call about it), so how long was he president for before the mini-series? 2 years? a year? 6 years? We don't really know. Apollo was at some point after he became a viper pilot but before Zach died, but it must have been a while because he obviously built up a best-friendship with Starbuck well before Zach died.

Maybe it'll all be explained next week.

That scene had nothing to do with the decommissioning ceremony. That makes no sense. Why would Adama be in a suit, not his uniform, talking to another guy in a suit about a decommissioning ceremony? That conversation was outside of the Military, that was not a Military conversation, it sounds almost like Adama was retired. Maybe he took an extended leave after the armistice fiasco. The flashbacks seem to be years before the fall and around the same time period, at least the ones with out Adama. Why would the other flashbacks be so long before the fall Adama’s be so soon to it? They would not be discussing the decommissioning ceremony years before it happens. The election campaign is just starting, so we can assume what? 4 years? The fall was about one year before the next election meaning the term was 3 years in. If it is like American elections the campaign will be 1 - 2 years, although the secretaries don’t campaign with the presidential candidates in the U.S. The time from when Zak and Kara were dating to his death to the fall has to cover a few years. I don't follow the timeline a lot but I seem to remember Kara serving with Adama for 2 years, and they did not meet until after Zaks death. Also I think it was about 2 years from when Caprica Six met Baltar, which was just before the flashback, till the Fall. RDM is not a sticker for timelines but based on all that and the fact that two guys in suits would not be talking about a Military issue whatever Adama was discussing in the flashback was not the decommissioning ceremony.