Boy, that Ronald Moore is a sly motherf’er. Last episode ended with Callie running through the brush and gunfire in the background. This week, the show opens with the same scene and then jumps back an hour in time to show how Chief caught wind of the execution and hatched a plan to free the prisoners. I like the misdirection, but technically, Callie wasn’t running when the gunfire started. Chief ran out and knocked her to the ground before the resistance started shooting. Also, she wasn’t really in the brush…All right, I’ll stop nitpicking, but it would be a lot easier if there weren’t nits to pick.
I wasn’t sure what Boomer was going to do when she was confronted with the news that her baby (Hera) is still alive. For now, she’s still a colonial officer, but the decision to take Hera away from her mother might come back to bite the humans in the proverbial ass. Anyway, she retrieved the launch keys for the colonial ships so the table is set for a prison break…wait, that’s another show.
Is it just me, or is Doral (the younger, male Cylon) becoming the most annoying character on the show? As Brother Cavil was relating the story of the rescue, and how the humans left him there to die, Doral had this smarmy comment to say to Baltar: “Aren’t you a noble race.” Excuse me, but weren’t you about to execute a group of prisoners? Then he has the audacity to say, “Worse comes to worst, we can just nuke the city and be done with it.” Noble, indeed.
Last week, I said that Ellen wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. She stole the map of the resistance rendezvous with the Galactica crew and gave it to the Cylons. She should have rewritten the map (although Tigh would have probably recognized her handwriting), but instead she just handed it over. When Starbuck’s boyfriend/husband discovered the map on one of the skinjobs, the betrayal led back to her. Did you see the look in Tigh’s one good eye when he learned the news? Ellen is in some serious trouble.
The episode ended with Admiral Adama learning that Boomer successfully retrieved the launch keys, and with the fleet readying for the rescue. By the way, how cool is it when Adama punches his desk?
“Exodus, Part 2” should be a good one.
