1. Dee and Lee. I like their dynamic a bit more now and I’m scared by just how much Lee sounds like his father and how much
a. On an aesthetic note, Lee’s fatness looks really weird, he still has the chiselled planes – just in widescreen.
b. His final comment about Adama having crappy handwriting was good.
2. Tigh and Ellen. Oh Tigh; grim, despairing and full of love. I love you more than ever. Ellen’s speech, what she says about Cavil, how much she loves Tigh, how much he means to her is heartbreaking. They are so dignified about her dying and his final “I love you, you hear me?” before he breaks and cries is just awful. I think it hurt more than any other scene in this episode when Tigh came back to Galactica and Adama welcomed him back aboard. He was so battered by the last four months on New Caprica; he walked off like a tired, old man.
3. Baltar is really moving here, his grief and despair have finally led him to a state where he isn’t afraid anymore. I’m seeing him getting steadily more mystical, becoming someone who looks around with clear eyes and names the path of blood and fear they are walking. I notice they turn to him and ask where the Galactica is when they realise the drones are a decoy. It’s partly a rhetorical questions but it’s also a sign of the Cylons knowing he has knowledge of human-ness that they don’t have access to. 3 tells him there’s a place for him too – he was right and they were wrong. Baltar the Prophet? Baltar the Ambassador?
4. I really like that they hid the weapons under the pyramid ball court.
5. Loved Anders bolting in to find Starbuck unconscious, his fear and love all over him. Starbuck waking up in time to bolt back for the crouton and confronting Leoben. That played out so well, she paused so long I was genuinely worried she wasn’t going to stab him and then she did and twisted the knife.
a. Did Leoben *know* it was going to be so dark in his vision? Does he care? What is he getting out of this?
b. Starbuck shell-shocked giving Cayce to her real mother. This is so *clean* I love it to bitses. It fixes the age problem, it fixes how Starbuck is going to keep being Starbuck and it breaks her just that little bit more. I wonder though, Starbuck is afraid of being an abusive parent and of failure and in this case she saved Cayce and returned her to her mother. (albeit unintentionally) She was a good mother and she didn’t fail.
c. Starbuck (6 kills). Leoben (1 mindfuck and 1 smootch), Starbuck wins!
6. Roslin telling Zarek she’s getting on ‘her’ ship, making her way to Colonial One, placing her journals on her desk and taking her time was beautifully ritualistic.
7. The Galactica jumping directly into the atmosphere to drop the fighters was incredible. Loved it utterly. Adama you crazy, warrior man you. I love him saying “It’s been an honour” to the crew and of course the next second the Pegasus comes blazing in, with all guns firing.
8. The Pegasus suicide run. Oh Lee, do you really want to give up command that badly? Nice explosions too! Yay! We’re *so* resetting back to the beginning of season one except we have all these excuses to change the guard – who is going to be CAG? XO?
9. Hera in the hands of the Cylons. Poor
10. DC_6 and AC_6 in the same physical location! Yay! I get the impression that DC_6 has no idea who Hera is and that’s why she so cheerfully lets 3 take the baby when she asks. I could be utterly wrong, DC_6 knows she won’t set off the nuke after 3 takes Hera, but hey, room for speculation.
11. Thank god Adama shaved off that moustache.
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Absolutely.
And HotDog's comment as he's about to launch out through the atmospheric burn up flames "This ought to be interesting."
As much as I loved that whole jump in, fall, launch fighters, jump out sequence, it's really bugging me on a consistency level.
We had an episode a while back where they had to calculate jump coordinates based on being in a particular location, even if Cylons were present. Hence the whole network the computers to calculate the jump point and get the hell out.
Yet here we have them jump in near New Caprica (which is fine), jump into low orbit and begin to fall (they probably had enough time to caclulate that jump) but then jump away into high orbit again within a minute.
How the hell did they calculate that last jump so quickly? If they could do it before they jumped into low orbit, why couldn't they have done similar in the previous jump episode, instead of sitting around in the middle of the Cylons?
Then there's your objection to them getting the entire population off in the limited number of ships they had, but I still think that's viable.
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That doesn't bother me as much. They were in orbit around New Caprica for a year, they should know exactly where everything is and where they want to go. I think being familiar with the territory and having inside information is what allowed them to perform such hotdog flying.
I've got no numbers so I'll happily pay I don't know. I just think the logistics of lifting that many people off would have been really dodgy. then again, we don't know how many ships were grounded - maybe it was most of them?
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There have to be some very bitter people [*cough* Tigh] aboard the fleet now and I can feel some retribution coming on. Gaeta being first in line and you just *know* that Jammer is in deep, deep trouble.