Scott McLoud (mail):
Olmos: "We get to Earth but what year is it? It could be 10,000 BC..."

Er, no, then how do you get transmissions from the 1960s?

Unless Hendricks is the last Cylon.
2.27.2008 11:19pm
Kevin D (mail) (www):
Well, it wasn't Hendrick's version of that song they heard. It was a cover.

But you also forget "This has all happened before, and it will happen again..." If that is literally true there's no way to tell, if we're using that song as a point of reference, when the song they heard was recorded. It could be 10,000 BC when they get to Earth because the song four of the Final Five heard was recorded on a previous loop.

Of course you could also say that the lyrics for the song we all know and love was actually passed down to Bob Dylan in some form. Perhaps it was handed to Dylan by some Colonial descendant. A kind of folk song if you will.

That way, the song could have been known before Dylan penned it because the song was a Colonial song from the beginning.
2.28.2008 12:08am
Jerry Kindall (www):
The song they heard wasn't really "All Along the Watchtower" any more than the language they are all speaking is really English. It's been translated.
2.28.2008 12:58am
Scott McLoud (mail):
Fine, but Kara's still hot.
2.28.2008 1:35am
Jerry Kindall (www):
She is indeed a fine specimen.

(See what I did there?)
2.28.2008 1:40am
Archemedes (mail):
From what I remember about the song, the idea was that both Dylan and some unknown Colonial composer both pulled the song from some universal source common to both societies, at least according to Bear McCreary, who is the composer for the show. It's not intended to be radio waves from the 60's, but a connection on some fundamental level.

The writers actually admitted the general timeline they're in, but I'll not spoil that here - it's later then the 60's however. I imagine we're going to get an M. Night Shyamalan plot twist to straighten it all out.
2.28.2008 8:33am
Dean Esmay:
This, I'm looking forward to. I wonder if they're still gonna make us wait a year to see the second half of the season?

By the way, it's Hendrix, not Hendricks, and Bob Dylan recorded it first but he did say that Hendrix' version was the best.
2.28.2008 9:00am
Archemedes (mail):
In case anyone's interested, someone out there in the ether put together all of the recent spoiler clips together into one file. Fairly heavy reveals, not sure how long the link will last.

Link
2.28.2008 10:09am
Jack G (mail) (www):

I've heard this video has been around for awhile but I never heard of it so I want to show it to everyone here



That's a neat trick.
I wanna learn it...
2.28.2008 10:53am
Kevin D (mail) (www):

That's a neat trick.
I wanna learn it...

It's simple enough. Get someone to tell you about something then get them to tell you it's been known by many for some time now.

Then you'll know something that has been around for awhile but you never heard of it.

But, if you want to be a grammar-nazi, and I think you do, perhaps I could have said, "... I never heard of it prior to now..."

I should tell Dean about you. He hates grammar-nazis.
2.28.2008 11:26am
Jack G (mail) (www):

I should tell Dean about you.



Please don't. I hates gettin told on to da Man.
Specially da White Man.
He scares me.

Yet somehow I feels like I needs him for sumthin.


It's simple enough. Get someone to tell you about something then get them to tell you it's been known by many for some time now.

Then you'll know something that has been around for awhile but you never heard of it.



I'm trying to follow you Kev, I really ams.
I'll just ruminate on it awhile and if anything strikes me that neither one of us has ever heard of before then you'll be the first to not know. Exceptin for me of course. I'll wanna be the really first to not know before I tell you about it.
2.28.2008 11:37am
Kevin D (mail) (www):
Exactly.
2.28.2008 12:56pm
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