Battlestar Galactica 2003 - 3x04 Exodus part 2

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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 Dee should be dating Adama. Their little discussion serves to build up tension and for exposition but I still find it a bit irritating. Give us back a Lee who makes sense!

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 Sharon isn’t going to get to see her any time soon and the focus of hatred can now be safely transferred away from Adama.

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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On another note: Collaboration!

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.