Want to make sure right at the top that everybody knows tonight’s “Galactica” will start at the regular time but will run one hour and two minutes. I mentioned it in last week’s thread, but I figured it was worth repeating so VCRs can be set properly. Don’t want anybody missing that Battlestarry goodness, don’tcha know.
Spoilers will begin in the next post.
Spoiler policy: If it’s been aired, or if it’s simply speculative, no need to hide it in a box. If it’s something you know happens in a future episode, or if you’re speculating based on same, or if it’s a long, thick, greasy sausage, hide it in a box.
Tonight is the last episode to air in the U.S. until 2006. UK viewers will start seeing season two shortly (not sure when, but they appear to be re-airing the season one finale this week), and they’ll continue past this episode into new territory before we in the U.S. resume. We shouldn’t grumble, considering the leap we got on the beginning of the current season, but still… grumble grumble.
So where are we at:
Is the Blackbird significant?
Is everything really okay with Helo now?
How friendly is Tyrol really willing to get with Boomer?
Speaking of whom, now that we know she can jam an optical cable into her wrist, will we get to see her squat and produce a ream of folded hard copy?
Has something happened to Number Six? We didn’t see her at all last week and Baltar seemed much more competent in evaluating the virus threat.
Is Dualla really suddenly interested in Apollo? Or was that, y’know, just a momentary thing?
Did they keep any of the deactivated Cylon hardware or incinerate the lot?
ABC also has a program running overtime in premiere week.
NPR pointed out that viewers will not see the start of a program on another network, and an extra commercial can be squeezed in.
Interesting to see if the edited run time w/o commercials is an extra two minutes.
Did anyone else see Sebastian Spence on camera for 1 second just before the crew was talking about the ship they designed in the last episode?
He was Cade Foster in First Wave. Both my wife and I jumped when we saw him, but he still has had no lines. How could they cast someone from a Sci-Fi channel show and do nothing other than pan past him?
Oh my frakking gods, that was intense. I actually yelled, “Hell, yes!” when Adama got off the phone and stalked down the corridor.
They do such a good job on this show. Jeez, they have me now dismissing everything from casual baby-neck snapping to attempted genocide and crying over poor Six.
I can’t believe they took the rape scene that far. That really got to me.
The first season’s cliffhanger ending felt a bit stunt-y. I was intrigued about what would happen next but not left breathless.
This time … Wow. I’m dying for the next episode. I’m left hanging both on the adventure level (will the two viper squadrons open fire? what will happen on the photo recon mission?) and character level (what will Baltar do next? how far will Adama push this?).
My one quibble is that the episode was rushed. From gleeful reunion to armed rebellion in one hour. I’d have liked an episode devoted to the reunion and the adjustments, followed by an episode that raised the tension level and left us with the cliffhanger.
You know what wouls save the day? Cylons showing up. That would unite the Viper pilots quickfastinahurry and firce everyone to focus on the important stuff.
The parallel prisoner scenes were gut-wrenching. My stomach is still tied in knots over the immediate aftermath of rape scene, with Helo and Tyrol realizing that they had killed the man and Sharon sobbing while pulling the sheet over herself. What was done to the Number Six prisoner is appalling, cylon or not. The cylons are coming across as more human than a lot of the humans. It’s a common tactic in these sorts of stories, of course, but I still am moved by it.
Anyway… the Pegasus… No doubt this has already been brought up, but I was reminded of the Pegasus story:
“Bellerophon, who slayed the hideous beast Chimaera, became so headstrong that he ordered Pegasus to fly him up to Mount Olympus, the home of the gods. This impudence angered Zeus, who sent an insect to sting the winged horse, who bucked Bellerophon off its back. Needless to say, Bellerophon did not survive the fall to Earth.”
Will Kara and her camera footage be the little bug to knock Cain (interesting name!) off her high horse?
I have to wait three months to see what happens? Three months? I don’t think I have that kind of patience. Curse you Ron Moore, you frakin’ tease!
I can’t believe how much I hate Cain. It makes my hatred of Ellen Tigh seem like mild annoyance. I tell myself she (and her crew) have gone insane because they were (as far as they knew) the only ones left and had no hope of continuing the human race or hope of anything at all. Nothing but fighting till they died. But I still hate her. And those guys bragging about raping someone like they were discussing a football game? Hate them too! Oh yeah, I also hate the Pegasus CAG.
Yeah, the episode seemed rushed, but what can I say? I bought it. I never felt like anything was being forced. In truth, I couldn’t believe it was really over when the “to be continued” words flashed. A whole hour and two minutes gone already? Damn!
I thought it was a 2 hour ep, Frak Frakin Frakity Frak did that ending catch me off guard.
yeah I see Cain dying in the near future, her new XO looked pretty close there when she ordered the viper launch, and I have to give her (the actress some serious credit) for being so believable in so little screen time. the lady is nuts no doubt about it.
I wasn’t expecting the end there either, and I knew it was an hour and two minute episode. Why haven’t scientists invented a way to enter suspended animation for three months yet?
One thing that frustrated me a bit was that Roslin was so shut out. Granted, we don’t actually know much about the relationship between the Colonial military and the civilian government, but I took it as strongly implied that Roslin originally agreed to stay out of military decisions as a concesion to Adama’s power, not because she lacked legal authority. It would make sense that the president would have the authority to structure top-level command however she wants, and it would be foolish simply to presume that she would put the admiral in charge over Adama (though she may). The highest ranking officer is not always the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Also, if her powers resemble those of an American executive as they have mostly appeared to, she would have the power of pardon. I would have liked to have seen Adama go to her when Tirol and Helo were convicted. I have no idea how Cain would have reacted to that!
These aren’t mistakes, since as I said, we don’t actually know what Roslin’s constitutional powers are. But having been led to think of her as analogous to an American president (her title, her former cabinet position, the Johnsonesque swearing in ceremony, etc., all echo American conventions) I naturally expect her to have these powers, and it would have been nice to see that dealt with. OTOH, it would have taken time, and the episode was long already. Another vote for a two episode set up to the cliffhanger!
Oh, and now that it’s been mentioned, I hope the Cylons don’t show up and blow up Cain and the Pegasus: it’ll seem way too contrived.
