All right, in the interest of full disclosure, I wasn’t a huge fan of this episode. It sort of dragged and not a whole lot happened with respect to the big picture. After last week’s cliffhanger, we didn’t get any new information about what happened to Roslin, but just like the rest of the fleet, they wanted to keep us in the dark.
Sandy Blonde Number Six died on the operating table, and Athena’s assault on her fueled all sorts of speculation about why the basestar jumped away. With the President gone, the quorum was all in a tizzy, and since Admiral Adama won’t recognize the VP’s authority, Lee decides to call on Romo Lampkin and his dead cat to sift through possible interim replacements for Roslin. I knew something was up with the cat when it got so much screen time; it’s strange how so many people in the fleet see friends, relatives and pets after they die.
Anyway, was anyone really surprised when Romo identified Lee as the only possible replacement for Roslin? We’ve been talking about that probability here for weeks.
However, I am intrigued by the whole Tigh-knocking-up-Platinum-Blonde-Number-Six storyline since both parties are Cylons and they are not supposed to be able to reproduce. Maybe the final five can reproduce… hmmm. Anyway, I find it quite disturbing when they switch between PB Number Six and Ellen. Tigh’s wife always bothered me, so when she pops up it gives me a bit of a jolt.
So Lee is the new President and his dad gives up his command so that he can… sit in a raptor in the middle of nowhere? I guess that the idea is that the fleet moves on while he waits for the basestar to return. I’ll admit that I’m touched by the affection that he has for Roslin, though I question the wisdom of this course of action. He usually makes good decisions, so I’m sure he’ll stumble upon the missing basestar somehow.
But where does the fleet have to go? Last I heard, the plan was to form a truce with the Cylons so that the final five could lead the fleet to Earth. So did the fleet just jump to some random coordinates to protect themselves in case the truce is off?
**POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT**
I typically don’t watch the “scenes from next week,” but I’ve started to lately since a reader generally comments on them. This week’s scenes contained a (possible) doozy of a spoiler, so stop reading now if you don’t want to ruin the surprise.
The Cylons will apparently revive D’Anna next week, and in a preview clip she tells Roslin, “You know about the five remaining Cylons. But do you know that you’re one of them?”
Now, truth be told, I don’t believe that Roslin is the fifth and even if she were, I don’t think the creators would drop that bomb in the “next week” preview. But the clip seemingly revealed the identity of the fifth, so I wanted to be very careful with that information so as to not ruin the surprise for anyone.
(By the way, I think the fact that they showed that clip – or edited that way – pretty much confirms that she is not the fifth. But, then again, they could be doing some super-devious reverse psychology on me.)
For starters, let’s address that silly spy report I linked to at the end of my last post. I had a feeling that Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof would film some decoy endings to keep people guessing, and my suspicions were confirmed on three separate occasions. The first occurred during Jack and Locke’s discussion about the island’s potential powers. As soon as Locke made a point of asking Jack to stay, it was pretty clear that the reason Jack is so upset over the death of Jeremy Bentham in the future is because he considered him his best chance to get back to the island. The second clue happened right after, during Walt’s visit to Hurley in the mental institution, when Walt mentioned that Bentham was the only person to visit him in New York. Finally, the third is probably the most obvious (ABC’s commercial about the alternate endings on tomorrow’s episode of “Good Morning America”), but if you hadn’t already figured out that Bentham was Locke by then, well, you’re just not paying close enough attention.
