Yeah, but Athena had to be best catch in the fleet, dang it.
Anyway, the characters at least seemed pretty much in character this week, so that was good.
Not looking forward to next week. Tyrol’s going to stage a strike? For what? Better wages?
How big of a screw up do you have to be to still be the private who brings Adama his coffee after all this time and everything the fleet’s been through? Man, that’s gotta suck.
Maybe Tyrol’s arranging a strike to get some of these poor schleps a measly promotion.
How would we tell the difference?
The whole episode seemed contrived. Like there must have been a million ways to deal with that pinhole leak issue other than blowing the airlock.
What was the deal with the photo? In the flashback scenes it had square corners, but in the “real time” scenes it had the standard BSG cut off corners. Is the cut off corner thing a military thing? It’s sad that that was my biggest question coming out of this ep. Hope it gets better soon.
Safer working conditions throughout the fleet, according to what I read on scifi.com. I guess that sorta makes sense. Maybe.
I’m not as unhappy as most of you about the recent stand-alone episodes, as I consider sub-par BSG to still be good TV, but I really wish they’d get back to advancing the plot (which would be great TV). They’ve got Baltar and Caprica Six languishing in prison cells, but we didn’t see them at all this week.
I wanna see Baltar’s trial, ASAP. Also, viper fights, gratuitous (albeit artfully concealed) nudity, and cylon centurions blowing people up. Furthermore, I think we’re about due for another character to be killed off (my money’s on Hotdog).
It wasn’t as sucky as last week’s episode. And… no, that’s about it.
At least this week we learned a few things we didn’t know previously, mostly about Adama’s boring dead wife. Mostly, we didn’t care. God, I was so droad during this episode.
My only point of actual interest was in berating Tyrol for who he chose to take care of Fat Baby. Uh, your drinking buddy and his almost-estranged wife, Chief? That’s who you want taking care of your kid? One of the few couples who’re more busy than you and your schlubby wife? Them? Why not just go with Sam and Kara and be done with it?
Come to think, why are Apollo and the Chief buddies, now? NCOs and ranking officers wouldn’t normally fraternize. Even though they’re stuck on that ship all the time, isn’t there an officers mess or officer’s club or something other than that stupid Ten Forward wannabe?
Best part of the episode was the cut scene. Even so, the cut scenes are really frakkin’ annoying.
Since shark-jumping is traditionally done on motorcycle, I’m guessing that Ron Moore is planning to move on to “re-imaging” Galactica '80, and so bring back the flying motorbikes. Cameos by Wolfman Jack are surely just around the corner.
I did like how prickish Helo was to Hotdog after he complained about his rash. I mean, Helo rescued, fell in love with and knocked up a frakking toaster. His rep was damaged, blah blah blah, all Hotdog got was a rash
I didn’t think the episode sucked. And no, I’m not on the side of the soap-opera lovers. Of course, I was knitting a new and interesting pattern while the show was on, and that might have affected my opinion of it.
Well, I did like this one better than last week’s Evil Doctor story.
I like getting to know more about the characters and I think this one did a pretty good job. I thought it was a nice touch when the Admiral sent Grandpa Adama’s law books to Lee.
And even though I really don’t care that much about whether the Chief or Callie live, I was holding my breath when they were getting ready to blow the hatch. Yikes that was a close call!!!
I really do like the interplay between Roslyn and Adama.
What can I say? Even when it’s not great it’s still pretty damn good.
Heh. Actually, it means I was re-reading some Tanith Lee and still haven’t shake the jang lingo from that book. But you’ve pretty much nailed the sentiment.
BSG just really wasn’t holding my interest. But I was reading, not knitting.
last time I checked (which I admit was never) they could have stuffed the chiefs rather large ass up against that hole to form a temporary seal that would have worked just fine in the short term. hell damn near anything would have slowed down the leak considerably. I like the show but damnit I hate false drama.
I hate to say it but I’m with you on Callie. She’s the worst actor on the show by far. I didn’t just dislike this episode, I flat out hated it. It was like a bad episode of All My Children.
Adama dragging the stupid picture around and talking to it. And they really need to stop with the extreme close-ups with Olmos. He’s one of my favorite characters, but it’s not a pretty sight.
Starbuck making her snarky faces at Lee.
Callie & Chief dragging that poor baby in and out of the crib. I hope that while she’s in the iron lung someone pulls the plug.
The main characters have really gotten stale. The last good episode was the one about the Sagittarons.
I forgot to mention it earlier, but did anyone else notice the return to the classic BSG adventure format. Why would you send your two best Viper pilots, Starbuck and Apollo, to perform a rescue op? Don’t you have S&R techs, or Marine Commandos, or whatever?
The last few episodes are starting to remind me of the last season of ST:TNG, where each major character gets to be the focal point of an episode.
The Raptor rescue scene was cool, but I dunno how realistic it was. Looked like a large chunk of metal blew out, coulda/shoulda done damage to the Raptor…and all that air blowing away from the ship…yeah, I know Athena is a good stick, but could she really hold the position like that?
Rosilyn did everything she could to put some loving on Adama, and he just wasn’t having any. Silly man. Forget dead wife-bitch. It is his duty to rock that Presidential booty!
Of all the possible stories on the Battlestar, why tell this one? Nobody frakkin cares about routine maintenance.
Of all the things to salvage from one’s former life, Adama chooses to lug frakkin law books around the galaxy? They ain’t light. They ain’t what I’d pick. But hey, it gives us a cutesy moment bordering on glurge. Whoopee.
As noted above, I see Lee going all Atticus Finch and becoming lead defense counsel for Baltar. Helo would have been the obvious choice personality wise.
when/if they crank things up and get interesting for the end of the season, I bet they’ll be cramming tons of stuff into single episodes again–and I will curse them loudly for wasting so much screen time with drivel.
A good BSG episode lasts about 15 minutes subjective time. At the final credits, I usually like damn…over already? It just started! Last night, the show seemed to run about 3 hours subjective time. Each segment just dragged on and on.
Looks like yet another consecutive dud next week, then finally we see the much ballhooed “Maelstrom” the following week, with the rumored “major change” for Starbuck.
The final words of composer Riichard Wagner were, “The Doctor…and my Wife.” One must have one’s priorities straight.
However, were I being blasted out of an airlock A’la 2001: A Space Oddysey I’d like Starbuck there for the same reason I’d like her in a barfight with me. Just generally usefull folks to have around.
It was a way to show that the Galactica is still suffering the consequnces of Adama’s bellyflop onto New Caprica. They’ve been criticized in the past for dropping factoids such as that.
However, it could’ve been served by a throwaway reference in a better episode (as way back when Adama was annoyed by the failing hall lights when Galactica was all-but-mothballed above New Caprica).
And it’s particularly galling since in the same episode they dropped Helo’s duty with the refugees and his stint as an exective officer, since he’s back as a pilot in the ready room with nary a comment.
Nah. He’s the guy who forced Laura to listen to Zarek and hold elections in the first place, because the law said she should. The writing on his character has been so erratic, though, that his characterization is all a muddle.
Helo would be more likely to commit murder so that the Colonials don’t have to do something immoral. Or something. He’s Mr. Do-the-right-thing, but he’s not Mr. By-the-book. Apollo follows the rules; Helo gets angry at the rules, then does something stupid that causes us all no end of eyerolling while watching.
Eyerolling with Apollo comes mostly from the Love Rhombus.
I dunno–I have a feeling that the trial is gonna work out where they don’t execute Baltar somehow. If he’s not a Cylon, he’s too good of an actor to kill off. Then again, an episode featuring his execution told in the classic “Owl Creek Bridge” style might rock hardcore…
