I thought it was one of those troop transports that delivered all those toasters to the ship way back in the 2nd episode of the season.
It looked like boomer was doing that of her own accord, probably to engender trust.
I didn’t catch whether the resistance team knew CapBoomer was a cylon or not. When she first appeared, Helo said something like “she’s with us.” At one point, it seemed she was pretty careful to say “they” in reference to the cylons when the resistance guys were around, but I couldn’t tell if she was consistent with that pronoun usage or not. I never saw whether they mentioned she was a cylon (I may have missed it–darn dogs had a barking fit in the middle of the show).
I was shocked at the EJO scene with the Boomer corpse. However, looking back on it, the guy has to be feeling a world of betrayal. First Starbuck runs off with the raider, then GalBoomer shoots him, then Lee speaks out against him, and a third of the fleet jumps off to follow the president.
I had mixed feelings about this episode. Some parts I liked (the Galactica scenes). I didn’t like the Starbuck as abused child part. It didn’t add anything to the character to me. I’m not really a fan of the “tough and talented but hot headed” character type, but I dislike the “tough and talented but hot headed and emotionally wounded” type more.
The farm scene was cheesy. I have a hard time thinking of women who have been in a radiation bath for weeks as being good breeding candidates. Sure, that may have been all the cylons had before Starbuck, but it still seemed a bit futile.
This episode went a long way toward explaining why the Cylons haven’t wiped out the fleet yet.
It does sound a little ridiculous that they would bomb everything with radioactive material, then use the survivors for genetic experiments- unless mutation is what they want…
No one has mentioned specifically that we know the fifth Cylon model now. Talk about actor job security! I like how they worked in killing a character, one of the show’s stars, but the actor goes on in almost the same role. No reset button here!
It’s definitely clever, but they’d better have a really good plan for plotting this character, or the actor’s work is going to become extremely repetitive due to the necessarily limited role Boomer will be allowed to play by the humans. Unless some brilliant development is in the offing, Boomer will no doubt be kept in a locked room under guard and let out for brief periods for some mission or other, over and over, which (speaking as an actor myself) will become frustrating and unfulfilling for Grace Park before too long. The preview for next week gives us a glimpse of the character’s direction. I’ll admit, I’m really looking forward to it, because so far the show has managed to (mostly) steer clear of cliche and seems to be as focused on giving the actors interesting things to do as anything else, which is a good formula for success (see Whedon, Joss). Still, a pretty big trap looms ahead; we’ll see if they recognize and avoid it.
By the way, speaking of interesting things to do: Anybody struck by the gradual shift in Roslin’s character? She is “playing the religion card,” which is an awfully cynical way to put it, and at the end of the scene, approaching the tape machine, she snaps, “How does this thing work?” …Just something else that makes me go Hmmm.
Well, now we know. Starbuck has the best ovaries in the fleet.
I was kinda relieved, actually. Maybe that brief withdrawal period in jail helped bring a bit of her sanity back, and the kabala root hasn’t fully saturated her system yet. Did anyone else think when she said “how does this thing work?” it was a blooper that Ron Moore liked, and decided to keep?
My distrust and dislike of the priestess is slowly turning to hate. She strikes me as sneaky & manipulative, like she’s using Roslin to increase her own power. The scene when Roslin didn’t want her “disciples” bowing before her and the priestess pushing her to accept her role - didn’t like that. And the fact that most of the people in that room were wearing scarlet colored clothes, they looked like Roslin’s personal, fanatical group of suicide bomber cardinals or something. Actually, hiding out in the fleet and sending out messages struck me as disturbingly Bin Laden-like.
I do believe that was a point Moore was trying to make. They have already set up the monotheistic/pantheistic battle…now they are placing a few more spins on it. I agree that the priestess (Elosha?) is getting a bit ga-ga. But then, that is to be expected. You see, Elosha believes. I mean really believes. That makes her fanatical and dangerous. Gonna be interesting to see her and Zarek bump heads on Kobol.
He’s been sick. :rolleyes:
I liked the bit where Starbuck was sneaking through the hallways of the hospital, looking to escape. It was my wife’s favorite scene (she’s hooked! Yes!!) - as suspenseful, in her opinion, as anything from an episode of “24.” I liked the bit where she got even with #6 by knocking her silly with the fire extinguisher. After that butt-whoopin’ Six gave her at the end of last season, Kara needed a good, free shot. So what if it was a different copy!
Boomer is definitely my favorite character now, just ahead of Chief Tyrol and the Adama boys. She’s just so conflicted, and we as an audience aren’t sure exactly what to think (where did the Cylon raider go?) about her, either. Ms. Park’s acting is getting to the point where I don’t even think about her being an actress playing a role - it’s Boomer! I’m thinking that somewhere down the line, Sharon will be the central character in some sort of revelation.
My weekly tearing-up scene: when Adama broke down over Sharon’s corpse. After all he’s been through lately, Adama had every reason to feel his emotion. He loved Sharon as much as everyone else did, and to realize who (not WHAT) she was, and to realize that the Cylons might be sort of human after all, must have been too much.
More: Where’s Billy? Less cheesecake = good (Starbuck doesn’t count). The religious strand is of the utmost importance, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. It’s nice to go through an entire show without playing the “<insert name here> is a Cylon!” game. Finally, how is Chief Tyrol going to react when he sees Sharon again, especially if she’s carrying Helo’s baby?
I wonder why she didn’t hit her some more. It is rumored that I said, “Hit her again, she’s still wigglin’!”
Nice scene with the broken mirror missing a piece and killing Cylon Doc. Starbuck is not the best at escaping, though. After two kills she just puts her face in her hands and cries while the boys shoot the bad guys. Did I mention that killing Cylon Doc was nice?
Trying out for a WB part he didn’t get.
You get thirty days in the brig for whacking a Cylon crew member.
Yep. I am surprised that Kara didn’t do a little catch-up on Six. Besides, Cylons are tough…you don’t want to leave a functioning one behind you. Better to make guacamole out of her CPU than take a chance. 
Which is, given what we’ve seen up to this point, rather… Cylon-like. Of all the supporting characters floating around, she’d be the most interesting revelation, I think. Imagine how that would puncture the balloon of Roslin’s own self-imposed role as prophet.
Woof.
My girlfriend and I both commented on how he looked a lot younger…
Humorously enough, we also spent about 2 minutes trying to figure out how Starbuch would recognize Six…maybe it was the episode where she was on the Galactica?
Duh!
-Joe
Also, I wonder how many of the wolverines know she is a Cylon. Starbuck and Helo, obviously, and pyramid guy. Maybe they are the only one who knows. If they feel Boomer is working againest them, they could always tell the others and have her skewered pretty quickly.
The show is starting to get really irritating. You know, I love Sci-Fi and can suspend my disbelief pretty far… but when it comes down to common sense.
Hello? Boomer is a cylon. A machine. So maybe Helo because he’s thinking with his penis and not his brain thinks she’s somehow “not a bad cylon”… but she took off with the Raider with zero explanation. Then somehow showed up again with the Heavy Raider… so she can single-handedly steal cylon military hardware with no problem. This doesn’t ring alarm bells for anyone? Just let her traipse around the resistance camp because she’s in wuv? Starback really should have put a bullet in her brainpan the moment she saw her in camp.
Secondly, the cylons need to reproduce and be fruitful? Why? Presumably they can crank out as many centurions as raw materials require. As for the human ones? Why can’t they make more? These cylons are identical to humans in almost every possible way except for some as-yet-undisclosed mysterious element that only the “Doctor” can decipher. So these cylons are almost perfect human replicas but for some ridiculous reason they’re limited to making certain copies. So they need fresh human juice to reproduce.
And yet, Six and Boomer claim to be pregnant? So why the need for healthy human females? Apparently sperm is enough.
I really thought this show had a lot of promise, now I just feel like the writers/producers had zero expectation to be making a second season and are now just throwing feces against the wall and hoping it sticks.
It was the “I know where Starbuck is” that stayed their hands.
I think it’s a religious thing. Maybe not.
Boomer said “we weren’t having much success…they think you know love…we were hoodwinked” Which is indeed pretty campy. Bear in mind they could all be lying to each other and Our Heroes.
I’m not sure they want it to stick.
They aren’t really machines, we know that. They’re flesh & blood, right down to their cells, and probably right down to their molecular DNA level.They call them machines because that’s what they originally were, and it’s a derogatory way of referring to your enemy.
Of course she took off in the Raider w/out explanation. Starbuck wanted to shoot her. I’d have gotten the hell out of there too. Why wouldn’t Boomer be able to steal a Heavy Raider? Maybe it was only guarded by Centurians, and the Centurians are too stupid to recognize this Boomer as the naughty renegade Boomer. Or, maybe she didn’t single handedly steal it. The Buccaneers already had plans to steal a ship, maybe with Boomer’s help, they were able to steal a better ship.
I agree the resistance seemed to trust her a bit quickly, but I think that’s where Ron Moore wants to go with Boomer. He wants her to be the first human Cylon that humans can trust. Maybe a bit grudgingly, but trust anyway. Ron Moore just rushed a bit, in the resistance’s case. They planted this seed when Starbuck was torturing Leoben. She came to feel compassion for him, and prayed for his soul. Adama is now questioning how Boomer can be only a machine, and judging from his wetworks, I’d say he’s seriously reconsidering things.
Because God said “be fruitful.” Surely your next question isn’t going to be, “why do they believe what God tells them?”
Two Cylons can’t reproduce. A human and a Cylon can reproduce. Humans have a little something “special” the Cylons don’t have. I say “good!” It gives the Cylons a weakness, and gives us an explanation for why the Cylons just didn’t wipe us all out completely.
One of my fears is that Ron Moore hasn’t thought everything through yet too, but I also think he’s been doing a pretty good job of answering the audience’s questions. But you really don’t think he’s going to give you all the answers right away, do you? How many good dramas reveal all their secrets right up front? Has the show Lost explained everything to your satisfaction yet?
I can handle evrything except for the GSP™.
That makes me really worry about Moore.
Glowing Spine of Passion
Anybody else as happy as I was to see the little flash-forward “pre-cap” at the beginning?