Yay, no flashbacks this week! (other than the “previously on BSG” that is…)
I liked this ep. I am totally drawn into thestory again after feeling a bit wayward
mid-season. I was so absorbed that when the “To Be Continued…” scrolled across the screen, I was shocked! The hour just flew by.
From the preview for next week I was not totally convinced that Baltar was telling Adama “You have your orders”…whomever he was speaking to had their back to the camera, leaving it a bit ambiguous. And besides, since when does Adama take orders from the president? Hasn’t he circumvented the president’s “orders” before?
So I think it might be Baltar bossing around some Cylons from the resistance…maybe he’s telling them to use the nuke!
LOOOOOVED when Roslyn whispered to Baltar: “Go Frak Yourself!!!”
I think all you have to do is smack the pieces of plutonium together. As I recall it has to be do be done quickly and there are some details, but again, Balar shouldn’t have any problem.
There is a lot more to it than that. Plutonium makes it a fusion bomb, and those suckers are finicky. If it was Uranium235, I could whomp together a device in any decent machine shop. But what Baltar has is very different. If Adama just gave him the guts of a bomb, he hasn’t got jack.
next week on BSG, OG Boomer and Caprica 6 join forces to save the rescue team and get the surviviors to the raptors or capture some raiders and get them home alive.
something about an offer of a peace treaty from the cylons? Baltar is frakking bonkers but Roslyn says " Baltar is working for/with the cylons" hes either winning the election or hes in a position to make a big decision of some kind.
from somewhere I got the impression that while inhabitable the planets green belt is to small to support 50k peeps indefinitly. I would laugh if the pres beats Baltar with science while hes trying to spank her with religon.
poor Mama Boomer, post partum/death of child depression.
I liked this episode, but I was confused about a few things:
What was the Cylon brain thing, and was Sharon tied to interveinously? If so, what for?
Why did they need to take Boomer on the away mission from the raptors. Assuming there is a contingent guarding the raptors, wouldn’t it have made more sense to leave her with them?
Also, anyone else suspicious of how that one raptor “accidentally” jumped to a wonderful, Earth-like planet? What are the odds? Sounds like a bit of Toaster Trickery to me!
Grind up the material and pump it through Galactica’s ventilation making the ship uninhabitable. Not as sexy as a nuclear blast but effective in the end.
So what happened to the Rapter that jumped inside the mountain? Did the ship’s molecules get mingled together with the rock molecules, instantly obliterating the ship and crew? Or did a Rapter-shaped chunk of granite get displaced by the ship, causing the crew to effectively be buried alive? In that case, was their momentum conserved after the jump? Because coming to an abrubt stop like that would probably kill them pretty quickly too, unless the Rapters are built with some kind of magic “inertial dampening” technology. Something about being buried alive in solid rock freaks me out.
Well, the FTL jump would have to create some sort of displacement effect – that part is certain, or else the Rapter wouldn’t be able to jump into a planet’s atmosphere (what happens to the volume of air the ship suddenly occupies?).
I would guess it’s pushed out of the way, like throwing a rock into a pond. But then it doesn’t move into the atmosphere, or grow inside it like a balloon under water, it just sort of appears. I haven’t a clue.
IANAQP, but I always assumed the jump effect to be some sort of quantum exchange - i.e., the Raptor moves from Point A to Point B, and the Raptor-shaped chunk of granite is removed from Point B and takes its place at Point A. So we have a Raptor embedded in solid granite, a very confused chunk of granite floating around in the depths of space, and the laws of thermodynamics are left mostly intact.
Not really. Fat man was a fission bomb made with plutonium. You are right about what we saw in Gina’s room probably not being a gun style nuke. More info for the curious. Of course, if you click these links chances are the guys in the black suits will pay you a visit…
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Scupper, I can TOTALLY see Stockwell as a Cylon. Which would be cool with me, because I love that guy, and the fact that he can keep showing up will be quite awesome.
Sharon seems to have truly switched sides, but I do have to wonder if her “dark times” is actually “dark times” for the Cylons rather than the humans. You know, like a civil war brewing back on Caprica?
Re: Solid Rock Raptor - it couldn’t have fused with the rock…if so, its transponder wouldn’t have still been sending out signals. Has to be a displacement effect…which I don’t like. In such a case, what prevents people from using FTL ships as precision matter-destroyers? “Oh, look! A Raider-shaped hunk is missing from Galactica’s reactor core. That can’t be [BOOM]”.
-Joe
