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Let's face it, Battlestar Galactica is falling apart. The ship, that is. The series took another few baby steps toward resolving the story... but with only two episodes left, will baby steps be enough?
[These spoilers await your command.]
We get some bad news right away: The goop isn't repairing Galactica as expected, and Boomer has doubtless taken Hera to The Colony, a sort of roving Cylon homeworld. Adama is a bit too busy throwing a pity party to listen: "I've had it up to here with destiny, with prophecy, with God and the gods." You and me both, brother. I'm ready for some of these prophecies about destiny to pay off.
On Colonial One, Apollo tries to convince the new Quorum that Adama can command the fleet just as well from the Cylon basestar, considering Galactica's condition. The Quorum is a bit too enthusiastic about this: They immediately start calling dibs on various bits o' battlestar. Apollo is not happy at the thought of his dad's flagship being stripped for parts.
Starbuck, meanwhile, is listening to Baltar sermonize about angels. Uh-oh. She confronts him in the head, hilariously peeing while they talk. Baltar's newfound religion is genuine, he swears, and she gives him her corpse's dogtags since he's all science-y.
Anders, meanwhile, has been hooked up to a makeshift hybrid pool on Galactica in an attempt to reboot his brain. It didn't work, but he did use the goop to infiltrate the ship's electrical system, which is causing power surges. Starbuck asks for a moment alone, then has a really touching scene about just wanting "her Sam" back. Just as she's about to put a bullet in his brain, Sam grabs her hand and starts hybrid-babbling. Among his words are the familiar ones about Starbuck being the harbinger of death, and leading "them" to "their" doom.
She disconnects, but returns later. When she restores his link to the ship, I want to think he says "by your command," but on rewind it sounds more like "await command." Also according to Sam, "this has all happened before, and will all happen again." So we've heard.
In sickbay, Roslin (there for chemo) and Adama share a joint hidden in the pages of her book and muse about the meaning of home. For Roslin, home is anywhere Adama is... and while she knows he considers Galactica home, if he doesn't do something, he'll lose both of them. He looks thoughtful.
At a funeral for the various humans and Cylons killed by the damage from Boomer's jump, Baltar confronts Starbuck, saying the dog tags tested positive for her blood and necrotic flesh, which means she must have been literally reborn. Starbuck slaps him, and Adama clears the deck.
Apollo and Starbuck have a nice moment by the memorial wall where he tells her he doesn't care what she is: She's Kara Thrace to him, and always will be. Another amazing moment, great acting by both Jamie Bamber and Katee Sackhoff. After Apollo leaves, Starbuck puts a picture of her short-haired self on the wall.
After a minor breakdown, Adama calls Tigh to his quarters and makes his decision: It's time to abandon ship and let the rest of the fleet salvage what they can. Ach, that breaks my heart.
Boomer and Hera's Excellent Adventure
Turns out The Colony is at least 12 jumps away from Galactica, assuming Boomer wasn't exaggerating to a whining, crying Hera. Said whining and crying is getting on Boomer's nerves, but she can't bring herself to pump the girl full of horse tranquilizers. Instead, Boomer mentions her happy place, the fake mind-house she and Chief visited.
Hera, surprisingly, can reach right into Boomer's mind and project them both into the house; the comforting surroundings quiet Hera and cause Boomer to express remorse for leaving Chief again. It's a bonding moment between Cylon and hybrid.
Unfortunately, the house party's over when our girls arrive at The Colony. Cavill takes Hera, who begins crying out Boomer's name, and Boomer's waterworks start flowing. I see a triple-cross in her future.
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You forgot the part when Sam wakes up and starts spewing the Hybrid talk - "There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza". This song starts from a hole in the bucket, going through other objects, and finally ending back at the beginning with the hole in the bucket. "It's happened before and it will happen again", the unending cycle.
Also we now get Balter talking about 'angels', to Kara ousted as as 'angel'. We'll probably get groupies following Starback. I like to conversation between Caprica Six and Balter, "I've changed and you haven't, you're still the same." And there was no big reveals this episode!!! With 2 episodes left and I want answers!!
Loved, loved, loved the triple funeral. It was edited masterfully.
Since I still can't see the final endpoint, I have no idea if they can finish it in three hours. But I have hope they can.
I think I recall some mention of like 90% of the mysteries will be answered by the end of the finale, and then there will be a direct-to-DVD movie for the other 10%. The producers have said the ending will leave us mostly satisfied, so here's hoping /shrug.
Boomer's going to redeem herself finally, I have no doubt.
I think the finale is going to be very flashback-heavy; we'll get to see the Final Five at various points before they were wiped by Cavil and before the nuking of the 12 Colonies. Like, for example, I could forsee a scene where Helen meets with Dreilide Thrace (C'mon, we all know it's Daniel after last week's episode, right?) and she implores him to leave his family and return to the Cylon colony, and then watch Cavil get all jealous that she's with him and angry that he's impregnating humans.
I enjoyed the very direct, unambiguous lines they used this week in some spots: "I'm no Angel," Starbuck says. And when Baltar says "She's not a cylon - it's already been revealed who the cylons are." And still The_Watcher writes in the above comment that Starbuck's ousted as an angel. They specifically said she's not! She's something, but she ain't no stinkin' angel.
Andy,
The Quorum was not on Colonial one. They were on Galactica. Also, you forgot to mention the original Cylon fighters in the Cylon Colony. I was hoping to see original Centurians with Cavil.
I thought Tahmoh Penikett was stellar in the scene where Helo tells Adama he wants to go after Hera... He's always been a favorite, but he was especially good last night.
Overall, I have no idea where the show is going, but I couldn't be more excited for the final 3 hours.
I have no clue what is going
on with "Lost," "Battlestar,"
or "Heroes...," but for some
reason I can't stop watching!!
What's with that?
Am I the only one that caught the foreshadowing of what will become of the Battlestar Galactica??? In the beginning of the episode, Hera is shown playing with a miniature toy of the Battlestar Galactica and then rams in into a bayship.Then later in the show,Adama is having a conversation with saul and says the the ship "will go out in style"? Will the ship's fate be the same as the battlestar Pegasus'?Damn I can't wait for friday
I think Adama is going to take Galactica (with a skeleton crew) on a last ditch ***ault on the Cylon Colony to get Hera back. I think once our people are back in Cavil's neck of the woods, the endgame will unfold quickly. I agree that not a 'lot' happened in this episode, but what did happen was heartbreaking. Abandoning the Galactica? That was an emotional moment. :_(
Also, the return of the Virtual Kobol Opera House! Probably the most compelling mystery of the entire series.
Edgar, I was thinking the same thing when Adama tells Tigh to have the Galactica go out in style. They show the Cylon Colony ship and I was thinking that they are going to use the Galactica to take it out. Also, we haven't seen the original centurions (except for Razor) and we don't know where they are or what they're doing. In the original mini-series, Caprica-Six tells Baltar that they are still around, but Razor was the only time we have seen them.