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  1. Guess What's Coming to Dinner? (292k) (flash plugin required) HTML Version. Whether you think genetically modified food is a panacea or a Pandora's box, one thing is clear: Biotech...

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    1. President Laura Roslin and Quorum delegate Lee Adama listen to a taped broadcast from cult leader Gaius Baltar, claiming Roslin is sharing of her hallucinogenic visions with Sharon Agathon (currently on the secret and overdue Demetrius mission) and a captured Cylon in a brig on Galactica. Adama brought the recording at the behest of the Quorum, who demand an explanation, as the Fleethas heard the broadcast as well. 2. When Adama presses Roslin for an answer, she asks him first how he think...

    Act 1

    1. Several Raptors filled with Marines launch from Galacticaand enter the baseship. Colonel Tigh is part of the team. Thrace tells him, "They're with me." "Which one of them shot Gaeta?" he asks. 2. Gaeta is rushed to sickbay in grave condition as Dr. Cottleyells out orders to his staff to bring a cut-down tray, suggesting an immediate amputation of Gaeta's leg. 3. In the wardroom, Natalie explains that the Number Two, Number Eight and Number Six models believe that seeking out the Final Five...

    Act 2

    1. The civilian Fleet returns to join Galactica. Adama, Tigh, Roslin and Karl Agathon discuss an attack strategy. With no Raiders and too few resources for Galactica to fight alone, Agathon suggests to use the baseship as a "trojan horse", entering the Hub's vicinity with half of Galactica'sVipers to blow the FTL drive on the Hub. Roslin ponders the idea that the Cylons will become mortal enemies. 2. Tigh suggests destroying the Hub outright without resurrecting the Threes, reneging on Adama'...

    The episode title is probably a reference to the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, which dealt with race relations between Caucasian and African Americans in America.
    The survivor count at the beginning credits (39,673) accounts for the deaths of Emily Kowalski and Jean Barolay in the previous episode, "Faith".
    Although it is a common Hollywood convention, a gunshot does not cause a person to fly backwards a large distance as shown with Natalie. The effect is achieved by pulling back the actors with a cable.
    The song Gaeta sings throughout the episode is called "Gaeta's Lament". The lyrics and the music were written by the episode's writer Michael Angeli based on a song his wife, Karen Angeli, composed...
    There is no overt on-screen reaction to the death of Cally Tyrol by the Demetriuscrew nor any reaction to Galen Tyrol's demotion. However, they have certainly been told off-screen about both.
    Natalie's philosophy concerning the Cylons' need for mortality in order to value life parallels Zoe-A's statements to Clarice Willow when destroying the latter's apotheosis heaven decades earlier i...

    Answered Questions

    1. Where does the rebel baseship jump to? (Answer) 2. How many pilots are stationed on the baseship (Partial answer) 3. How will the Quorum and Tom Zarek react to the loss of Laura Roslin? What about Admiral Adama? (Answer) 4. Does Natalie survive her gun-shot wounds? (Answer) 5. What will Adama do about Agathon? (Answer) 6. Will Colonel Tigh face any consequences for failing to protect Natalie? (Answer) 7. What will Adama and Tigh think happened to the baseship? Will they assume that the reb...

    Unanswered Questions

    1. Why does Sharon Agathon handle the communications from the basestar to the Fleet in the beginning? Another Eight could pretend to be her. 2. Might the dying leader be the now-mortal Natalie? 3. Will Sharon Agathon's shooting of Natalie further strain her relationship with the Cylons? 4. Do William Adama or Saul Tigh know of the complete story surrounding the mutiny on the Demetrius? 5. Why does Roslin ask Thrace to find Karl Agathon, specifically? 6. Why does the Hub make random jumps for...

    Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek
    Callum Keith Rennie as Number Two / Leoben Conoy
    Donnelly Rhodes as Doctor Cottle
    Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
  2. Guess What's Coming to Dinner? is an episode of the TV series, Battlestar Galactica, and aired during the show's fourth season. The title is a reference to the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming To Dinner starring Sidney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The episode begins moments after...

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  5. May 17, 2008 · After a string of relatively contemplative episodes, Battlestar Galactica’s seventh episode of its fourth season, “Guess What’s Coming to Dinner?,” zips along with verve, finding little time for the character moments the last few episodes have been filled with, and concluding with one of the show’s better cliffhangers. Written by ...

  6. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton. A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.

  7. May 16, 2008 · Directed by Wayne Rose. Review by Jamahl Epsicokhan. "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?" is an outstanding hour of tone and style, of quietly but implacably escalating foreboding, of characters having basic assumptions about their lives completely thrown into question, and has an ending that does not supply answers but only more questions.

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