Baltar and Six are really on the rocks now, in terms of their relationship. I thought she still cared about him, but now she’s having doubts. Still, the doubts aren’t enough for the Cylons to shove him out the airlock or anything. I can’t wait to see the rest of the base ship interior.
Did anyone happen to catch if Zarek is still going to be Vice-President? You wouldn’t think so after Rosslyn found out about the Circle, but they really didn’t say one way or another.
I wonder what made Six turn, if it was entirely because of the other Cylons or if the others played upon existing reservations. Maybe if I watch the episode again, it will be clear.
(Spoilers!) Baltar and Six are really on the rocks now, in terms of their relationship. I thought she still cared about him, but now she’s having doubts. Still, the doubts aren’t enough for the Cylons to shove him out the airlock or anything. I can’t wait to see the rest of the base ship interior. I did kind of like how even the Centurion was like, “Dude. It’s over.” It sounds as though Three might have mystical designs on his loins; she’s taken over the Godbaybeee story from Six.
It sounds as though Three might have mystical designs on his loins For a long moment, I thought that Caprica Six had been redownloaded into Xenabot’s body.
Well, there’s the prophecy: she’ll know true love. Maybe it wasn’t the baby after all (for Three). But the magicbaby plot was with HeadSix, not Caprica Six. We’ll find out how far she’s turned, because she did deliver him a fresh set of clothes. According to the SciFi.com interviews, Galactica Sharon (as in Boomer) isn’t going to be featured much over the next season, which is strange because how she has managed to assimilate into Cylonity is an interesting subject.
I have been wondering about Boomer. She seemed pretty lost and hesistant the few times we saw her. They did manage to make me feel bad for Anders briefly, but I went right back to hating him when I realized he was the one who told Tigh in a total jerk-voice that he had to kill Ellen. Oh, now I don’t *want* to kill traitors who are responsible for people’s deaths any more, I take it back, waah. Jerk. Presidential pardon? Sorry, Tigh. Tigh is creeping me out. Starbuck, too. When she slid her tray over to Gaeta I briefly allowed myself to hope that she wasn’t going to tear into him, but oh, how naive. And what she said to Anders – makes perfect sense for her character, still sad as hell. I’m just glad she didn’t end up killing Gaeta herself. All over, much more interesting breakdown than last season’s breakdown. Poor Gaeta. He was like the uncool kid in a high school movie, walking out of the cafeteria with his head down. I was really, really surprised that Tyrol was even part of the jury. It just didn’t seem right. The fact that the man who’d lost his son started crying right after they shot out Jammer was a very nice way of showing that they were already driven more by vengeance than by justice, if they’d ever really thought it was about justice, and that it wasn’t going to bring anyone back. sniffle. Who was the non-Seelix woman on the council? I didn’t recognize her. Am I a total dork for thinking that the vulnerable position they put Gaius in was a conventionally feminine one, or at least something that would generally only be done to female characters: waking up naked in a totally strange prison, allowed to only wear the clothes given to him, no possibility of fighting his way out, etc? That was interesting. LOVED his dream, though: his desire for self-preservation is stronger than anything else, but he does still want forgiveness. I wonder if he actually has a thing for Roslin. And loved his pathetic attempt at re-seducing Caprica Six: “…I need you!” Ah, it’s been a while since we’ve had goofy Gaius. Yes, so, did you know that the President can’t just hold people captive and find them guilty of vaguely defined crimes without a trial? I heard that somewhere before.
Great, great episode. I figured that Anders was upset with Ellen in a more direct way because she stole his map and it almost resulted in his death so he was quite pissed at her. Killing people that somewhat indirectly effected him and actually being there to watch them die (he was not present when Ellen died) might have caused him to change his mind. I don’t know about Kara, she went from being this unstable badass to being a total wuss (i.e. the Kat storyline) and now I’m starting to not like her. *spoiler alert* What’s more, is that I know the writers/audience wants her with Lee and they’re supposed to hook up this season (could be subject to change though) so it just feels to be like, “we’ve got to get Anders out of the picture”, like when the actor who played Billy left the show and they cobbled together a relationship between Dualla and Lee. But I still love the show and look forward to every episode.
I don’t have much to say about this one, except it may be right next to 33 as my favorite episode from the entire run of the series. The last scene with Felix and Galen just sit and eat in silence was really amazing. There are just so many loose ends right now with the show, though. Thrace, Adama and Tigh, Baltar and Caprica. I just hope we don’t start a run of “single character” episodes. I always hate that.
Mandos says: According to the SciFi.com interviews, Galactica Sharon (as in Boomer) isn’t going to be featured much over the next season, which is strange because how she has managed to assimilate into Cylonity is an interesting subject. Does anyone happen to know why? Did they say if it was a creative decision on the part of the writers or a matter of availability on the part of the actress? Cooper says: I don’t have much to say about this one, except it may be right next to 33 as my favorite episode from the entire run of the series. The last scene with Felix and Galen just sit and eat in silence was really amazing. I absolutely agree with the assessment that this last episode was the equal of 33, which says a Hel of a lot. I have to admit, my favorite scene in this one wasn’t the closing scene (though that was incredibly powerful). It was the opening scene. But that has more to do with the way they developed Jammer’s conflict over joining the Human Police Force on New Caprica in the webisodes. It just intensified the tragedy of the situation he was in so much.
What’s more, is that I know the writers/audience wants her with Lee and they’re supposed to hook up this season (could be subject to change though) so it just feels to be like, “we’ve got to get Anders out of the picture”, like when the actor who played Billy left the show and they cobbled together a relationship between Dualla and Lee. But I still love the show and look forward to every episode. I don’t know that it was so much cobbled together. They kept trying to drop hints about Dualla and Lee for almost a year, but they just never really seemed good. Even now, those two just don’t seem to have any chemistry when they are on screen together. Add that with the fact that Billy was much more “likeable” than Lee, and you end up with something that just doesn’t work. I think we might see a revisit of the last Kara/Lee encounter — something that ends in an uncomfortable silence — but I don’t think seeing them “get together” is something anybody really “wants”. Not to completely go off topic here, but that would reak of the shark-jumping the X-Files took as soon as Mulder and Scully hooked up: it is both sad from a social perspective that we can’t seem to have men and women that work closely together in fictional media without them ending up together, and it also costs you a certain perpective on the relationship where they get to react to the other persons perpective in a way that is outside of a relationship. Kara and Lee work better as juxtaposition on screen than they ever would paired.
Aw man…even Kara/Lee drunken awkward hookups would work better than Kara and Lee as a couple. I don’t know about Kara, she went from being this unstable badass to being a total wuss (i.e. the Kat storyline) and now I’m starting to not like her. She’s always been my favourite character. I love Starbuck Angst, but this constant downward spiral is getting pretty depressing – it would be nice to have the hotshot pilot back. Hopefully with some reconciliation with Lee. And it’s too bad that we won’t see much of Boomer, because it would be really interesting to see how everyone else deals with having a Cylon on their team.
Nonono… “Does anyone happen to know why? Did they say if it was a creative decision on the part of the writers or a matter of availability on the part of the actress?” and “And it’s too bad that we won’t see much of Boomer, because it would be really interesting to see how everyone else deals with having a Cylon on their team. ” She said nothing about Caprica Sharon, ie, Sharon Agathon, ONLY about the Sharon that’s with the Cylons now. I’m expecting Mrs. Agathon to appear prominently. What Grace Park said was that the *Cylon* plotlines would largely focus on Three/Six, not Eight, but Eight would be there. However, Ms. Valerii is still the most interesting Cylon character to me.
I too love Starbuck Angst. And I want to see more story with President Stands With A Fist. And, seriously, are there NO gay people in space?
The producers say, “Yes, there are. But we don’t want to do The Obvious Obligatory Gay Plot Thread.” Like they did a don’t do drugs episode with Kat. Why does every show have to have an obligatory don’t do drugs episode? I say this as someone who doesn’t even drink alcohol. I think that don’t do drugs episodes may even be advertisements for doing drugs.
They have [a handful of] black people without doing an Obvious Obligatory Race Plot Thread. Surely they could write a couple of characters who happen to be gay without having their gayness be a major plot point.
Somewhere in the Colonial fleet is the ship where all the gay people are, and also the rest of the minorities, and also the rest of the Cylon models who aren’t white professionals.