BSG Episode Breakdown / Day 5 / Weirdest
🥇 1st Place: Sometimes a Great Notion
- 🔢 Mentions: 14
- 🔼 Total Upvotes (cumulative): 149
- 36 pts: “Dee humming a wistful tune...”
- 27 pts: “Dee's death winded me...”
- 23 pts: “Poetic and greatest TV ever...”
- 14 pts: “Adama broken, goading Tigh to kill him...”
- multiple smaller affirmations
- 💬 Themes:
- Dee’s suicide after a happy scene
- Adama’s emotional collapse
- Earth reveal as a dead world
- 🖤 Tone: Utter despair and emotional devastation
- 📌 Community sentiment: Hits like a truck. Bleak. Soul-crushing. "Too good" for the show to follow up.
🥈 2nd Place: Daybreak (Part 3)
- 🔢 Mentions: 18
- 🔼 Total Upvotes: 145
- 67 pts: “Laura dies during the flyover…”
- 50 pts: “Cried on every rewatch.”
- 32 pts: “Adama by her grave – stunning view.”
- several 1–10 point affirmations
- 💬 Themes:
- Roslin’s death
- Adama’s grief and farewell
- Kara vanishing
- “So much life” montage
- 💐 Tone: Bittersweet beauty, closure, grief
- 🗣️ Considered the emotional payoff and thematic end of the show.
Can't say I'm surprised about Sometimes a Great Notion taking first place - it really did hit so unexpectedly for many folks that it lingers in our collective memory for a long time. Daybreak will forever haunt me, but I get it.
Now for the weirdest - I'm really unsure on this one but "Taking a Break from All Your Worries" seems like a viable candidate. 🤔
🥇 1st Place: Sometimes a Great Notion
- 🔢 Mentions: 14
- 🔼 Total Upvotes (cumulative): 149
- 36 pts: “Dee humming a wistful tune...”
- 27 pts: “Dee's death winded me...”
- 23 pts: “Poetic and greatest TV ever...”
- 14 pts: “Adama broken, goading Tigh to kill him...”
- multiple smaller affirmations
- 💬 Themes:
- Dee’s suicide after a happy scene
- Adama’s emotional collapse
- Earth reveal as a dead world
- 🖤 Tone: Utter despair and emotional devastation
- 📌 Community sentiment: Hits like a truck. Bleak. Soul-crushing. "Too good" for the show to follow up.
🥈 2nd Place: Daybreak (Part 3)
- 🔢 Mentions: 18
- 🔼 Total Upvotes: 145
- 67 pts: “Laura dies during the flyover…”
- 50 pts: “Cried on every rewatch.”
- 32 pts: “Adama by her grave – stunning view.”
- several 1–10 point affirmations
- 💬 Themes:
- Roslin’s death
- Adama’s grief and farewell
- Kara vanishing
- “So much life” montage
- 💐 Tone: Bittersweet beauty, closure, grief
- 🗣️ Considered the emotional payoff and thematic end of the show.
Can't say I'm surprised about Sometimes a Great Notion taking first place - it really did hit so unexpectedly for many folks that it lingers in our collective memory for a long time. Daybreak will forever haunt me, but I get it.
Now for the weirdest - I'm really unsure on this one but "Taking a Break from All Your Worries" seems like a viable candidate. 🤔