Perhaps since it’s a fleet, it is like unto a court martial of the Royal Navy
I’m over the whole throaty whisper motif.
Ditto.
You and me both. I kept wanting Lee to ask him if he needed a glass of water to clear that affectation out of his throat.
It would appear that the hour’s payoff was Lee signing on to help the defense, and the defense thinking it was a good idea. This was 40 minutes of set-up for the next 2 episodes. The only mildy interesting thing that wasn’t straight set-up was the Cally/Athena interaction. This was expanded a little in the a cut scene, which seemed to have some meat to it this time.
Was I the only one annoyed by the notion of Lampkin wearing sunglasses on spaceships?
This episode wasn’t very well written or directed. And stop me if I’m wrong, but I’m betting that a society fighting a running war for its own survivial, staring genocide in the face on a daily basis, has about zero tolerance for slimy assholes who wear sunglasses inside. It’s my office and I’m el presidente, so you’ll take your shades off when you speak to me, cupcake.
And am I the only one who doesn’t give a flying frak about the trial of Gaius Baltar?
It indicates that he is 1) An asshole, 2)A Cylon, 3) Opal. 
Capt. Kelly was in the CNC when Adama bellyflopped Galactica onto New Caprica. He seemed to be doing Gaeta’s old job. I think the actor’s lost some weight, but it’s the same guy. And I knew he was the bomber as soon as he showed up again without any explanation in a scene about the bombing.
I therefore know that the same crack writing team was working on this episode as was working on last week’s. Instead of telegraphing every plot point before it’s revealed, it would be easier on everyone if they just mailed out the damn script beforehand.
So, frack you, Moore, I kinda liked Kelly and you made him into a terrorist with an illogical motivation. He’s so upset that the Cylons have been blowing up the people he sends off as flight officer, that he’s going to blow them up to take out Baltar’s lawyer. The hell? I think it’s high time that Roslyn airlocks the writing team.
Along with Callie. She continues to be ever-more annoying. There’s something wrong with the world when I like Blanders more. And I don’t understand what the hell her motivation is – she hates the Cylons so much that… she’s supporting the guy who betrayed humanity to the Cylons. The hell?
(and I was totally thinking that Lee and Anders would make a more interesting couple than either Lee and Dee, or Apollo and Starbuck. 'specially since the latter is now a corpse, of course)
Not until she is stripped nekkid and forced to do jumping-jacks before they space her. 
Well, Kelly’s first bomb was designed to kill the raptor’s passenger and not destroy the craft. The second bomb was to take out the whole raptor with Sharon as it’s pilot. He claimed he wouldn’t have let it launch if Lee was aboard, so I can kind of buy this. Although, what’s with Kelly’s Baltar hate? Was he on New Caprica? I thought he stayed on Galactica during the occupation. He’s probably just pissed that Helo & Lee were both promoted ahead of him.
Count me as one who liked Cally this episode. Why wouldn’t folks believe that there’s a cylon attempting to sow a little fear among humanity? Don’t they remember how sneaky the Cylons can be? I’m annoyed that it’s left to knuckle-dragger Cally to point this stuff out. Why aren’t the big-wigs discussing the possibility of cylons, models they haven’t met, imbedded in the fleet?
As much as I like Athena being an officer, I’d like to see more people hating the idea. It makes sense that a bit of ‘racism’ would exist.
Sebastian Spence looked sad about Starbuck. I wanted to give him a hug…
(…of course I always want to give him a hug. Naked. For several hours.)
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Is anyone else having a tough time buying this sudden acceptance of the bourgeois pig by the proletariat?
It seemed to me to be over written and over produced. It felt like they knew it was all setup, all plot machination and no payoff, the which will, apparently, be delivered in the subsequent episode or episodes. So in an attempt to hold our attention through the narrative mechanics, they over-embroidered the plot, and they made the new character, Lampkin, extremely baroque. (For comparison, look at the colorless schlump who was the redshirt attorney at the beginning; he’s the more plausible lawyer, but he’d also be incredibly dull onscreen, so by waxing him, the show is tipping its hand about what they were trying to avoid.) In other words, out of a fear of being boring, they overshot the mark of entertaining and wound up becoming just plain overwrought.
On the upside, I did find Apollo’s arc here plausible. I thought the scene where he was quizzing Lampkin about strategy, becoming interested in the case in a sort of abstract sense almost in spite of himself, was subtle (in contrast to the rest of the show) and nicely handled.
It played out about as I expected. Lee will be the courageous criminal defense attorney.
Agree with the charge of poor writing, direction. Adding counts of poor acting and sound engineering. Several times, I could not understand the actors. Absolutely inexcusable. Yes, I know about Brando. Fuck Brando. Mush-mouthed actors don’t cut it in my book.
Also adding a count of poor editing. So many scenes seem to be saying “is this a cylon (zoom tight on face)?” on maybe it’s this other person (zoom tight on face). Almost expected half the frakin cast to form a conga line singing “I’m a toaster, he’s a toaster, we’re a toaster, wouldn’t you like to be a toaster too?” (Channeling old school Dr. Pepper commerical 4 teh win!)
All in all, I found it watchable, but disappointing. Starting to wonder if RDM shot his entire budgetary wad with Exodus, and everything else has just been filler. Looks like we won’t be getting any more 'plosion filled space fight goodness this season. At the very least we need naked Callie. Maybe Chief tapping it doggy style or something…think the exposition here could have been handled in about 20-25 minutes, with time left over for a B story.
Wow, I’m a bit surprised… by the people wanting to see Cally naked. Because while she’s not unpleasant or anything, but she’s just got no sex appeal IMO.
Dee or Athena or Six, doing naked calisthenics, that would have sex appeal. Or even Apollo and Helo and Anders doing naked jumpinjacks.
But the thought of Cally and the Chief, getting it on? Even now makes my finger twitch for the channel-changer. But I guess I’ll have to moderate my wishes to have Cally airlocked, for the greater good. Perhaps she could just stop talking, and instead parade around in the background, occasionally bouncing? Everybody wins!
I’ll pass on the Dee, thank you. But the other two would be nice, and my wife says she would enjoy the male version immensely.
But I think Oak is right here. Moore must have shot his whole CGI budget the first month, and now we get bottle shows until season’s end.
Lots of CGI in the Starbuck-in-the-clouds episode.
Lots of “hidden” CGI in the labor-unrest episode, expanding the interior of the refinery, plus the opening with the out-of-control raptor spiraling toward Colonial One. Not to mention the great expense of building the conveyer-belt set with the working machinery and the dozens and dozens of extras.
The only really cheap bottle episodes they’ve done recently were the Adama’s-anniversary show and the Baltar-in-darkness torture show.
$5 says the CGI work for “Maelstrom” was started the first month of shooting.
I could easily ber wrong here but that set was probably cheap as hell if not just an actual factory somewhere. they only showed the one room with the broken belt in any detail and it wasnt all that big.
Right, I meant that. Overwrought is the perfect term.
Glad it isn’t just me. And does anyone else have the problem where when they come back from a commercial break, everything sounds muffled? Then you crank the volume a few notches, then commercial again, so crank it some more. Show’s over, switch to Animal Planet and get deafened by an Anthony Hopkins narration on a wildebeast expose.
Having worked in a factory with a conveyor system, I can tell you that was VERY accurate. I can also tell you it was not in my job description to stick my hand under there when it was running!