 I like this show as much as the next guy, but his episode was pretty tough to watch. It meandered from depressing storyline to depressing storyline with the speed of a drunk turtle. From the Chief’s badmouthing of his dead wife to Tigh’s fragile grip on reality to Baltar’s fairly lame speech about religion, it was pretty tedious throughout. In fact, it felt a lot like last week’s episode, only without the shocking ending. Hopefully this is a slow buildup and not a trend for the season. A couple of questions occurred to me: 1) Why doesn’t Roslin get another blood transfusion from Hera? That worked the first time, so it would be the first thing I’d try if I were in her situation. 2) What is the meaning of the Chief’s rant in the bar? Was he just trying to get himself reassigned so that he couldn’t do any more damage to the humans or was he seriously upset that he wasn’t able to be with the love of his life (presumably Boomer, who is also a Cylon)? I was never really a fan of the Tigh/Ellen relationship, so seeing her pop back up isn’t a good thing. It was interesting to see Six plant a kiss on Tigh; I thought for a moment that she was going to try to escape (which would have been a whole lot more exciting) but maybe she’s drawn to Tigh because he’s a skinjob. Anyway, we didn’t get any news from the Demetrius or the Cylon fleet, so this episode failed to move those storylines along. From the “next week” scenes, it looks like the Demetrius is heavily involved, so at least we have that to look forward to. Filed under: TV and TV Dramas and TV Action and External TV and Battlestar Galactica and TV Sci-Fi Comments:
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Cally’s dead and still causing trouble for the chief. What an idiot! Now he’s lost his job, rank, quarters, etc.
Roslin is definatley becoming a petty tyrant. What is the famous saying “nessecity is the creed of tyrants”.
Will Gaeta or Helo eat a bullet in the next episode.
did anyone else notice that when Baltar was getting beat up from the guard, his “Six” physically picked him up to receive more punishment? I thought she was just part of his mind.
His six is locked up in the brig making out with Tigh. Maybe the Six in his mind is so interwoven with his personality that she is real to to him.
Dr. Karuc, was thinking the same thing. I’ll lay money that that was shown like that for a reason.
I think that’s the first time that we’ve seen his vision physically move something, although I wrote it off that it took her goading him and picking him up to get him off the ground, so his body reacted like it wasn’t in control, when it was actually in control the whole time.
We’ll see if anything comes of it. My guess that it was just for visual shock value.