BSG Webisodes: Plea to my American Comrades!

[beccatoria]

So, if anyone hasn't heard yet, Amazon has entertainingly released all the webisodes (for some reason minus the ninth, but including the tenth) on their site here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000128561

It's one of those hateful "You are not in America! You may not watch!" jobs, though. So I can't watch them.

Some kind soul has uploaded 6 - 8 onto YouTube, but no sign of the 10th (or 9th but that makes sense since I don't think 9 is up on Amazon either).

If anyone has seen the 10th webisode could you give me a summary or something? Pretty please?

(Obviously, fair warning, I am hoping for webisode spoilers in the comments!)

THANK YOU FAIR AMERICANS!

Comments

[asta77.livejournal.com]

My first thought is that if the ending is Gaeta going to warn Zarek that the cylons are like, crazy motherfrakkers and fucking with the truce or something, it might actually be a good thing we got these webisodes to explain why Gaeta made that choice.

Up until the last minute I thought the webisodes were pointless, but it seems it was all a way of establishing why Gaeta would go to Zarek and help to overthrow the government. I still have a couple problems with this though. Shouldn't this be addressed during the regular season? Will we have a scene where Gaeta explains why he's making this choice or were they relying on everyone watching the webisodes?

I also think this grand plan to take the fleet back is doomed to failure. Even a damaged basestar is one hell of a weapon and it's parked in the middle of the fleet. Can Zarek say "Go away" and the Sixs, Sharons, and Leobens are just going to do it? At least they've established Zarek has a history of acting without really thinking his plans through and Gaeta is acting on emotion so I can see them going ahead with their plan and ultimately have it blow up in their faces. I have a suspicion Zarek will not live until the end of the series...and Lee being Laura's VP would be my dream come true. ;)

I'm presuming - or hoping - that Webisode 9 is key to explaining why this Sharon model did what she did. Maybe we'll find out that Boomer was not the only one to split from her model line? And that the 'flaws' in the eights that Six has referred to are more profound then we thought.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll wait until I see how it plays in 4.5. The webisodes weren't written until the telemovie was being played, so I think that the episodes were at least written without the webisodes in mind.

If it plays like Jammer and Duck at the start of S3 I'll be okay with it. It was a plot point that benefitted from the webisodes but didn't need them. We'll have to see how well-grounded Gaeta's decision is within the context of the episodes themselves.

If, of course, Gaeta gives different or vaguer reasons for his decision in the series, and this was just retconned in later, it might also work kind of poorly.

Like, I'd be cool with it because my other fandom is Star Wars where we live for retcons. Like, the biggest speculation for each book release tends to concern whether they'll introduce new retcons for stuff that needs better justification. But I don't imagine it'll fly so well in BSG fandom. So...we'll see.

/cranky old woman.

I would LOVE IT if webisode 9 addressed more of the issues about the Eight line. I especially like your idea that maybe the "flaws" in the line aren't just Six talking smack. It seems a shame not to explore that since this is the first Eight to show any individuality not stemming from Boomer, and that's not something we've seen in any other model except Six. We can't even be sure D'anna counts since we didn't see any of the rest of her for comparison.

[asta77.livejournal.com]

We can't even be sure D'anna counts since we didn't see any of the rest of her for comparison.

I had a D'Anna revelation while watching 'Downloaded'! You recall in 'Rapture' where she's imagining/projecting the opera house and she apologizes to one of the cloaked figures? I'm thinking it's Anders. She was about to shoot the guy in 'Downloaded' until Caprica cracked her head with a block of cement. She had had contact with Tigh and Tyrol, not sure about Tory, but she hadn't almost killed them before.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yup! I actually already had that revelation I think while vidding Ladies' Choice because I had to rewatch that scene, and I totally meant to mention it here but forgot!

I remember at the time people speculated she was apologising to Tigh for the eye incident, but I think it being Anders' cus she was gonna kill him makes so much more sense.

YAY for continuity! XD

[asta77.livejournal.com]

This is why it's our duty to keep rewatching the series. We continue to pick up on new connections!