Battlestar Galactica - Series Finale - Daybreak # 1 -Screen Caps, Video Recap, Finale Day Marathon Promo Video *Spoilers*

March 15, 2009

Battlestar Galactica - Series Finale - Daybreak # 1 -Screen Caps, Video Recap, Finale Day Marathon Promo Video Spoilers

I don't want to comment too much yet about last night's Battlestar Galactica "Part 1" of "Daybreak" as it was meant to be shown as a two-hour episode and the writer's strike and network shirts contributed to the timing of it's airing being fraked up. Just the same there were some very strong moments (above) along with the frustrating, seemingly nonsensical ones (Lee and the pigeon).

The show opens with a gorgeous zoom in from a galaxy to an Earth-like planet all the way down to "Caprica City: Before The Fall."

My heart immediately leapt into my throat.

Scene of William Adama with some official who tells him that a "desk job" interview will take but an hour of his time as Adama reluctantly complies while he ticks off where his real talents lie.

Cut to Laura Roslin, tipsy on champagne having just celebrated her "baby sister's" baby shower along with her other younger sister.

Cut to Kara nervously prepping dinner in her apartment that we recognize from Seasons previous. It turns out her guest is not Zak but Lee Adama who rings her doorbell. She invites him in and then Zak makes his appearance. it appears that Kara and Zak are living together.

Cut to Gaius Baltar in a stretch limo with Caprica Six. Apparently this is the day they first met. He has forgotten her name but it matters not as they begin to get intimate. A phone rings. He argues with the person on the line, telling them to stay where they are angrily telling them that he'll be right there.

"Right there" turns out to be a stereotypical old person house, cluttered and dog-eared. His father sits belligerently in a chair and argues with Gaius. Six stands behind Gaius and his father calls her out as a hooker. None of this seems to bother her, not even when Gaius tells her he told her to stay in the car. Gaius is in tears now. He cannot find a nurse who can tolerate his father's dangerous antics.

Cut to yet another scene of Roslin, the next day. She's awakened by her doorbell. Two police officers ask to come in. They quickly state their reason for being there: Last night on their way home both her sisters and her father(?) were killed in a bizarre car crash. In a monotone voice, Laura tells them that they can leave now. She appears to be in deep shock as she makes her way still clad in her nightgown and robe, to a public fountain and climbs into it, walking to the center where she allows the fountain to pour over her and her tears.

A scene three months later has her on the phone refusing to get involved with Adar's presidential campaign because she "hates politics" but very reluctantly agrees to a blind date (with Adar, apparently).

Cut to a drunken Lee Adama staggering in to his apartment, muttering about something. A pigeon has found it's way into his apartment and he takes a broom, attempting to shoo it out. He swears as he continues to fumble unsuccessfully.

Gaius brings a female guest to his home on the water--the one we've seen so many times. He is shocked to find Caprica Six already inside his home. He tells his lady friend to go upstairs, that he will be right there and then orders Six from his home.She seems completely nonplussed by his threats.He picks up the phone and tells her he's calling the police when she quietly discloses to him that she's taken care of his father. She's found a beautiful, upper-class old folks home where Gaius's father a former farmer, can even keep his own garden. She says when she took his father on a tour of the place he seemed happy. Gaius can only respond with his jaw hanging.

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