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:Tory Foster (while washing her hands): '''I can't get no relief.''' | :Tory Foster (while washing her hands): '''I can't get no relief.''' | ||
Since their awakening was precipitated by hearing this music, Anders, Foster, Tigh, and Tyrol become sensitive to mentions of music by others, believing they may be clues to the identity of the then-unknown member of the Final Five. These include [[Gaius Baltar]] using music as a metaphor for spiritual awareness {{TRS|Six of One}}, an idea [[Virtual Six]] told Baltar of in his first vision of the [[Opera House]] {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II}}, [[Number Two]]'s description of a subtle music underscoring reality that only a few individuals, including [[Kara Thrace]] could hear {{TRS|Faith}} and [[Felix Gaeta]] singing to distract himself from the pain of his amputated leg | Since their awakening was precipitated by hearing this music, Anders, Foster, Tigh, and Tyrol become sensitive to mentions of music by others, believing they may be clues to the identity of the then-unknown member of the Final Five. These include [[Gaius Baltar]] using music as a metaphor for spiritual awareness {{TRS|Six of One}}, an idea [[Virtual Six]] told Baltar of in his first vision of the [[Opera House]] {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II}}, [[Number Two]]'s description of a subtle music underscoring reality that only a few individuals, including [[Kara Thrace]] could hear {{TRS|Faith}} and [[Felix Gaeta]] singing to distract himself from the pain of his amputated leg ([[Guess What's Coming To Dinner?]]). | ||
The music is heard again during a standoff between ''Galactica'' and the rebel [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]. It draws Tigh, Tyrol and Anders to [[Viper 8757|Kara Thrace's Viper]], which causes the three to believe there's something special about it. Thrace investigates their claim, and discovers a clue that ultimately leads the Fleet to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]: a Colonial emergency locator beacon signal. Upon the Fleet's arrival at Earth, they land and survey a radiated wasteland of crumbled skyscrapers and a collapsed bridge <ref>with which many viewers perceived a [http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/913/bsgbrooklynbridgeyx0.jpg similarity to real-world New York City], as viewed from near the east tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, [http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=watchtower&near=Brooklyn,+NY&fb=1&t=h&ll=40.702879,-73.994551&spn=0.003221,0.00559&z=17 specifically the site] of the [[w:Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witnesses]] office building known as "[http://www.kelebekler.com/cesnur/txt/sedewts.jpg The Watchtower]"</ref> {{TRS|Revelations}}. | The music is heard again during a standoff between ''Galactica'' and the rebel [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]. It draws Tigh, Tyrol and Anders to [[Viper 8757|Kara Thrace's Viper]], which causes the three to believe there's something special about it. Thrace investigates their claim, and discovers a clue that ultimately leads the Fleet to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]: a Colonial emergency locator beacon signal. Upon the Fleet's arrival at Earth, they land and survey a radiated wasteland of crumbled skyscrapers and a collapsed bridge <ref>with which many viewers perceived a [http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/913/bsgbrooklynbridgeyx0.jpg similarity to real-world New York City], as viewed from near the east tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, [http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=watchtower&near=Brooklyn,+NY&fb=1&t=h&ll=40.702879,-73.994551&spn=0.003221,0.00559&z=17 specifically the site] of the [[w:Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witnesses]] office building known as "[http://www.kelebekler.com/cesnur/txt/sedewts.jpg The Watchtower]"</ref> {{TRS|Revelations}}. | ||
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Later Kara starts playing a song with [[Slick|the composer]] at the piano in [[Joe's Bar]]. It was a song that when she was little made her happy and sad. [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] drew a picture of some dots and gave it to her. Thrace realizes that the dots represent notes. She and the composer play the notes and they turn out to be The Music. Ellen, Saul, and Tory hear it and are shocked especially at the fact that Hera was able to draw the notes to it. The significance of this is unknown, but the composer disappeared during the song and it is indicated that he was some kind of vision of [[Dreilide Thrace|Kara's father]]. Though she is present to hear the song, and has regained her memories of her former life, Final Five member [[Ellen Tigh]] seems not to understand fully the implications of the song either and if she knows when they last heard it and in what context, she does not say. | Later Kara starts playing a song with [[Slick|the composer]] at the piano in [[Joe's Bar]]. It was a song that when she was little made her happy and sad. [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] drew a picture of some dots and gave it to her. Thrace realizes that the dots represent notes. She and the composer play the notes and they turn out to be The Music. Ellen, Saul, and Tory hear it and are shocked especially at the fact that Hera was able to draw the notes to it. The significance of this is unknown, but the composer disappeared during the song and it is indicated that he was some kind of vision of [[Dreilide Thrace|Kara's father]]. Though she is present to hear the song, and has regained her memories of her former life, Final Five member [[Ellen Tigh]] seems not to understand fully the implications of the song either and if she knows when they last heard it and in what context, she does not say. | ||
After being fatally injured by a hull breach, a dying Eight's last words are "too much confusion" | After being fatally injured by a hull breach, a dying Eight's last words are "too much confusion". ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]) | ||
==Deriving Earth's Coordinates== | ==Deriving Earth's Coordinates== | ||
Later Kara tries to get answers from Anders, but fails and attempts to figure out some kind of meaning for it by assigning numbers to the notes, but that fails as well. Later, when she is ordered to jump ''Galactica'' away from the Colony and has no idea where the Fleet is, she gets an idea and uses the numbers from The Music (with The Music playing over the scene) as the coordinates to jump to, saying "there must be some kind of way out of here." She jumps ''Galactica'' there and they find a habitable planet for the Fleet to settle on that they name Earth.<blockquote>According to series composer [[Bear McCreary]], Kara derives the coordinates by assigning each note in the [[Final Four Theme]] a number based on the diatonic scale system, where each note corresponds to its scale degree (1 through 7). This approach was chosen as the most intuitive solution that someone with Kara's musical background would arrive at, as basic ear training exercises teach students to think of the tonic as '1', the second scale degree as '2', and so forth.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bearmccreary.com/bg4-daybreak-pt-2/ |title=BG4: "Daybreak, Parts I & II" |author=Bear McCreary |date=March 20, 2008 |access-date=July 26, 2025}}</ref></blockquote><blockquote>The melody generates the coordinates: 112 carom 365 dist 365321. McCreary worked closely with the series' science advisor [[Kevin Grazier]] to ensure the coordinates would be mathematically valid for stellar navigation, requiring two angular measurements and a distance value. The process became so complex that McCreary began to empathize with Kara as she struggled to crack the code in the music.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bearmccreary.com/bg4-daybreak-pt-2/ |title=BG4: "Daybreak, Parts I & II" |author=Bear McCreary |date=March 20, 2008 |access-date=July 26, 2025}}</ref></blockquote>150,000 years later, a new rendition of the song is heard on a radio on contemporary Earth. It is Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along The Watchtower" | Later Kara tries to get answers from Anders, but fails and attempts to figure out some kind of meaning for it by assigning numbers to the notes, but that fails as well. Later, when she is ordered to jump ''Galactica'' away from the Colony and has no idea where the Fleet is, she gets an idea and uses the numbers from The Music (with The Music playing over the scene) as the coordinates to jump to, saying "there must be some kind of way out of here." She jumps ''Galactica'' there and they find a habitable planet for the Fleet to settle on that they name Earth.<blockquote>According to series composer [[Bear McCreary]], Kara derives the coordinates by assigning each note in the [[Final Four Theme]] a number based on the diatonic scale system, where each note corresponds to its scale degree (1 through 7). This approach was chosen as the most intuitive solution that someone with Kara's musical background would arrive at, as basic ear training exercises teach students to think of the tonic as '1', the second scale degree as '2', and so forth.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bearmccreary.com/bg4-daybreak-pt-2/ |title=BG4: "Daybreak, Parts I & II" |author=Bear McCreary |date=March 20, 2008 |access-date=July 26, 2025}}</ref></blockquote><blockquote>The melody generates the coordinates: 112 carom 365 dist 365321. McCreary worked closely with the series' science advisor [[Kevin Grazier]] to ensure the coordinates would be mathematically valid for stellar navigation, requiring two angular measurements and a distance value. The process became so complex that McCreary began to empathize with Kara as she struggled to crack the code in the music.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bearmccreary.com/bg4-daybreak-pt-2/ |title=BG4: "Daybreak, Parts I & II" |author=Bear McCreary |date=March 20, 2008 |access-date=July 26, 2025}}</ref></blockquote>150,000 years later, a new rendition of the song is heard on a radio on contemporary Earth. It is Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along The Watchtower". | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||