4x20 Daybreak (Part 2)

Episode Quotes

Mistakes/Goofs

• Goof (errors in geography): They're supposed to be in Africa, yet near the end when Admiral Adama and the President get in the Raptor they're situated in front of a stand of paper birch. These are trees found only in North America.
• Goof (anachronisms): As they plan out the deployment their population on the map of earth, the map shown is of Earth today, not as it would have been at a time pre-language humans. A visible example is of Tasmania's disconnection from Australia which occurred only 10,000 years ago.
• Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): Admiral Adama states that "they are a million light years away from the colonies". Yet, at a distance of one million light years from Earth in any direction there are no stars or galaxies. The next galaxy (Andromeda) would be 2.5 million light years away and the Milky Way itself is only 100,000 light years in diameter. That being said, Adama could have simply been using an inexact phrase to illustrate that they were far from home.
• Goof (errors in geography): The final scene is stated to take place on the streets of modern day New York City but in the final shot, the Canadian-style "do not enter" sign and the transit bus in TransLink livery reveals it was actually Vancouver BC.
• Goof (revealing mistake): As the camera pans up over Adama sitting by Laura's grave a small, low to the ground fence can be seen behind him. The area is supposed to be undeveloped and uninhabited.

Trivia

• Late in the writing process, it was realized that the "opera house" sequence could be shown to parallel the ongoing battle on Galatica. Anders' hybrid tank was set up on the CIC balcony, and it was arranged that the other four Cylons be near him, so that the "final five" could be posed in a manner similar to that shown in the opera house dream. In order for the actors to be visible at the appropriate angle, however, a safety railing had to be removed from the CIC balcony.
• CAMEO(Ronald D. Moore): man at the New York City newsstand reading about the discovery of Hera Agathon's skeleton while 'Six' and 'Baltar' comment about it behind him.
• SPOILER: Ronald D. Moore decided all the ships from the Colonial fleet would be destroyed into the Sun after watching a documentary about the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who burned his ships after his men reached Mexico, so they wouldn't be tempted to move back.
• In the extended DVD cut of this episode, the scene where Cally interrupts Tyrol and Boomer in the workroom, then warns Tyrol to "be careful", is a deleted scene that was filmed for the original miniseries. Because of this scene, Nicki Clyne (Cally) gets screen credit for the extended cut, even though she didn't film any new material.
• SPOILER: Events are mirrored that happened in the early moments of the Battlestar Mini-series. The final shot of the series is of Caprica Six walking away from camera into a crowd of people. In the first minute of the mini-series Caprica Six is seen walking towards the camera. Also the first and last exchanges we see between Adama and Starbuck are exactly the same. Adama: "What do you hear Starbuck?" Starbuck: "Nothing, but the rain". Adama: "Grab your gun and bring in the cat" (although in the miniseries Adama actually says "Grab your gun and bring the cat in").