I’m getting kind of tired of the plot:
Pa Cartwright decides to arrest/tar and feather/turn in/shoot the
escaped bank robber/horse thief/escaped murderer/Indian.
Little Joe/Hoss/Adam try to talk him out of it.
the bad guy stold the money for his ill Mother/took the horse to find help for his sick daughter/killed another bad guy/The Indian, I dunno, did some Important Native American Stuff
And all turns out well.
:rolleyes:
Wow, Sharon is willing to participate in the destruction of her entire race out of loyalty to the Colonials. I Helo’s term as XO is over; anyone else notice how Roslin addressed him as “captain”. Why did the leave the probe on the baseship? Of course doing so has the sideaffect of allowing RDM not to go into the nature of Earth in the series.
bleah. This one and the last one weren’t terribly interesting. I liked “Black Market” much better than these.
At least Helo’s getting some attention, again. Hope it doesn’t mean he’s going to be dead, soon.
Hereby nominating Helo for the meathead dipshit award of the Second Cylon War. Athena should have pulled a gun on him, or Adama should have tracked him down and executed him as a traitor. But Adama’s closing the book on his exo that sabotaged his attack plan and placed his ship and his entire fighter wing in mortal yet futile danger, and by extension, jeopardizing the survival of the last remaining humans in the galaxy.
Oooookay. We’ll let that just slide here on Galactica. Whatever. I hated this one. Oh, and OKAY, let’s put all our Cylon prisoners in a brig that has its fracking air supply accessible to any dude with a screwdriver. Nice design there, top notch, really plausible.
My least favorite episode of the entire series, by far. At least showing the Raptors packing rocket pods suggests that they’re exploring new tactics, so I got that. Bleh.
Interesting point. Moore said they intended to whack him when he stayed behind, but found him an intereting power and spared him with their god like powers.
Killing him would change the character of Sharon/Athena of course.
Suppose there are any rats on any of the ships with the virus? 
That battleplan sucked. No reason to risk the Galactica. Stick a couple of the prisoners on a Raptor with guards, jump in range, two in the head, jump out. If ya frak it up, you can try again.
Don’t like Athena/Boomer being magically immune after displaying symptoms on the infected basestar. Don’t like Helo turning heel on the Colonials. Don’t like the end of the bioweapon storyline.
If you have your lead babyfaces decide to commit genocide, then frakkin DO IT. The Cylons could have survived–they already have the magic baby–and now they’re REALLY pissed.
Looks like the story is moving in another direction next week…
Helo survived because he made what Adama wanted to happen all along, happen. And Adama thinks nothing of frakking up the President’s plans, if he doesn’t agree with them. Laura obviously suspected that Athena or Helo would be up to something, so it’s hard to understand how Adama somehow didn’t clue to that – yet, here’s Helo, roaming about the ship unwatched.
And Adama’s “closing the book” on it was basically his way of telling Laura that she should have listened to him in the first place.
I love their relationship; they’re like a long-married couple that never agrees on anything yet still gets along. Even when they’re sabotaging each other while seeming to support each other.
But, yeah. Not a stellar episode. Particularly loud boos and hisses must go out to whichever Star Trek refugee writer put that crappy technobabble into Simon’s mouth. Jeebus, just tell us that the Galactica’s going to reverse the polarity of their deflector dish and beam the bloody virus over to the Resurrection Ship. At least you’d make the Star Trek fans happy with the shout-out, 'cause we damn well knew that explanation was nothing but writers talking out their asses.
… well, writing out their asses, I guess. So I suppose I’m impressed by the manual dexterity of their sphincters. But it was still ass, as explanations go.
Why couldn’t they just have Cottle give Sharon the vaccine? And what the hell were they thinking leaving the prisoners alone with no guard watching them?
I like Helo. Sometimes he’s the only real not-drugged-out-on-chamalla-root moral sage this show has.
Besides, this virus thing turned out to be really stupid so we should all thank Helo for sparing us what would have been a reallllllly stupid way to maybe or maybe not kill lots of Cylons.
I’m glad Adama is closing the book on the whole thing and Roslyn can shut her trap about it already. She’s kinda gratin’ my nerves.
Please, let us never speak of the silly virus episodes again.
Unfortunately, we also have to never speak of the probe again, despite what enormously valuable information it may have contained about humans who passed that way 3000 fraking years ago.
Next week looks like an entirely miss-able episode.
Um, if they have antibodies against RNA, they’ve have an autoimmune disease. A really bad one.
So, I’m just gonna shut my brian off now…
“brian”
Just like I said…
Or just stick a couple of Cylons in a remore controlled viper, paint “STARBUCK RULES. SIX BITES THE BIG ONE” on it and ram it into the ressurection ship.
Good plan.
Obviously I vote on the side of “hell yes, kill all the bastards while we have the chance”.
I’d be searching the ship now for the above mentioned rats.
[Trek Babe]BRIAN, BRIAN, BRIAN, what is BRIAN?[/Trek Babe]
Hrm. Sciffy keeps showing Dawn of the Dead adverts during BSG. And now this:
Hrm. Zombies eat brains…
O.M.G! It’s all so clear! The zombies got Loopydude!
“Briiiiiiiaans… Briiiiiiaaaans…” slobber
Oh, and another thing. The Centurions were infected too? I thought they weren’t meat-puppets.
Hello? That would never happen.
Starbuck slept with Baltar. She knows better.
She’s paint “STARBUCK RULES. SIX BITES THE LITTLE ONE.”
Hey, I just want to piss them off enough to open up on their own guys.
I don’t care whether he needs to call Smilin’ Bob or not.
After his “I love you” stuff while D’Anna tortured him, and the Toaster’s wierd religion are the Cylons going to think Baltar is Jesus or something?
OK, so, ingoring the biobabble, I found Helo’s behavior to be, how shall we put it, highly questionable. Yes, genocide is an attrocity. What other options are the Cylons putting forward? What do the Colonial’s owe the people of Earth, who, one would assume, haven’t a clue what they’re in for? The Cylons are the aggressors here, and are quite simply 100% in the wrong. They broke the peace treaty, they ignored an offer of unconditional surrender, they got it into their fanatical heads that the human race had to be exterminated. The NC occupation wasn’t exactly the finest model of peaceful coexistence, either. It was humanity living as beaten pets ina wasteland. The Colonails are vastly outnumbered. There’s no way to beat the Cylons in a “fair fight”, and if Earth isn’t technologically advanced, Galactica can’t defend it for long. What Helo did strikes me as plain frakking wrong. Adama just sweeps it aside? And the crew, who will be well aware of the sabotage, would also surely know who to blame for this lost opportunity. So nobody’s going to throw Helo and Athena out an airlock? I mean, come on.
He definitely did a mind-job on D’Anna. There she is torturing him and he’s having an orgasm and proclaiming his love for her. “Don’t stop, don’t stop!”
That’d weird me out.