Crossroads: Part 2
- Episode aired Mar 25, 2007
- TV-14
- 48m
Coincidences creates new alliances aboard Galactica.Coincidences creates new alliances aboard Galactica.Coincidences creates new alliances aboard Galactica.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe famous Bob Dylan song 'All Along the Watchtower' (also famously covered by Jimi Hendrix) was the source for the lines of some of the main characters near the end of the episode: "There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief / There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief." Also "No reason to get excited," as spoken by Anders.
- Quotes
Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama: [at Baltar's Trial] Did the defendant make mistakes? Sure. He did. Serious mistakes. But did he actually commit any crimes? Did he commit treason? No. I mean, it was an impossible situation. When the Cylons arrived, what could he possibly do? What could anyone have done?
[looks at the courtroom audience]
Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama: Ask yourself, what would you have done?
[looks at the judges]
Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama: What would you have done? If he had refused to surrender, the Cylons would have probably nuked the planet right then and there. So did he appear to cooperate with the Cylons? Sure. So did hundreds of others. What's the difference between him and them? The President issued a blanket pardon. They were all forgiven, no questions asked. Colonel Tigh. Colonel Tigh used suicide bombers, killed dozens of people. Forgiven. Lieutenant Agathon and Chief Tyrol. They murdered an officer on the Pegasus. Forgiven. The Admiral. The Admiral instigated a military coup d'état against the President. Forgiven. And me? Well, where do I begin? I shot down a civilian passenger ship, the Olympic Carrier. Over a thousand people on board. Forgiven. I raised my weapon to a superior officer, committed an act of mutiny. Forgiven. And then on the very day when Baltar surrendered to those Cylons, I as commander of Pegasus jumped away. I left everybody on that planet, alone, undefended, for months. I even tried to persuade the Admiral never to return, to abandon you all there for good. If I'd had my way nobody would have made it off that planet. I'm the coward. I'm the traitor. I'm forgiven. I'd say we are very forgiving of mistakes. We make our own laws now; our own justice. And we've been pretty creative in finding ways to let people off the hook for everything from theft to murder. And we've had to be, because... because we're not a civilization anymore. We are a gang, and we are on the run, and we have to fight to survive. We have to break rules. We have to bend laws. We have to improvise. But not this time, no. Not this time. Not for Gaius Baltar. No, you... you have to die, because, well, because we don't like you very much. Because you're arrogant. Because you're weak. Because you're a coward, and we, the mob, want to throw you out of the airlock, because you didn't stand up to the Cylons and get yourself killed in the process. That's justice now. You should have been killed back on New Caprica, but since you had the temerity to live, we're going to execute you now. That's justice. This case... this case is built on emotion, on anger, bitterness, vengeance. But most of all, it is built on shame. It's about the shame of what we did to ourselves back on that planet. It's about the guilt of those of us who ran away. Who ran away. And we're trying to dump all that guilt and all that shame on one man and then flush him out the airlock, and hope that just gets rid of it all. So that we could live with ourselves. But that won't work. That won't work. That's not justice; not to me. Not to me.
- SoundtracksAll Along The Watchtower
Written by Bob Dylan
Adapted, Arranged and Produced by Bear McCreary
Performed by Brendan McKian (as Bt4)
Best MUSIC Ever...
Best last scene and reveal EVER...
And finally, best Cinematography of any TV show or Movie EVER. Especially the last few seconds.
We got our arses KICKED during Baltar's trial. Then we got to find out what that MUSIC was about. And THEN... This ain't merely a "shark jump", this is a whole GAGGLE of Jumping and twisting and diving sharks. Flying sharks, Cylon sharks, hybrid sharks, guardian and sentinel sharks. Plus 5 unknown sharks.
The last 5 seconds of the ep make the previous 46 minutes of it seem like a hot-dog roast.
I had never even heard the name "Bear McCreary" until he showed up doing the music for that new Lord of the rings show, I paid attention to that, because I thought it was good music.
And even though I had watched parts of this series, when it was being originally broadcast, I never knew who actually was making the music.
This isn't just a rock song being played at the end, with a slightly different arrangement than one that we had been familiar with previously. There are all kinds of unorthodox musical instruments being played, not just electric guitars, basses and drums. There are electric sitars, and the drums that you hear are not exactly somebody sitting down on a drum kit, they are several tracks of one guy playing track after track of voluminous drums. Of various different sizes and shapes.
And although this song had been teased at us for two episodes, and we actually expected to hear something more familiar as far as arrangement, we were given something so unusual, this is not American music. This is not music from any country on our planet on our earth. This is Music from Kobol and from the first earth. This is the music of the 12 colonies, this is the music of the lost 13th colony.
That's why I had to stop comparing it to the previous rendition that I had heard all of my life practically. As much as I love that particular version.
But it is the cinematography of the last few seconds that just grabs you, and it basically tells the whole story of Battlestar Galactica, right in that couple of seconds.
And it all starts with a return of a beloved character. Ironically, that character's fate in the original BSG series was very similar to this. But in only two seasons, they never had enough time to tell that warriors story. But basically, every element of this rendition of BSG, was at least hinted at in that original Glen Larson version.
This episode set up the final season, but even then it did not go exactly as we expected, because there were all kinds of tangents. Because, "they were going the wrong way!"
And, Leoben was right about everything...
- XweAponX
- Jan 17, 2023
Details
- Runtime48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1