Naked Xenabot is a good thing. Last week, Baltar gets electro-masochism, this week he gets threesomes with Xenabot and Six?
I guess it wasn’t a bad episode, but it wasn’t a great one, either. Not sure what the deal with the boxing preview is…
They said two weeks until a new episode. What are they showing next week?
That’s Thanksgiving weekend. Probably not going to fight football.
What the frak does it matter? What part of DNA fingerprinting and databases had anything to do with Dr. Baltar’s Cylon synthetic compound detector, with a plutonium-decay-driven carbon nanotube filtration system, or whatever the frak it was? Do these people watch their own show? Apparently not.
They only have military DNA records in the Galactica database.
Doc Cottle makes some comment about having Dr. — do something (give him a call?). So it seems that Bulldog is going to get his head fixed, because it’s so obviously frakked up, and they need to do something about the frakked-in-the-head pilot.
… which would be a first, in the history of the rag-tag fleed, methinks.
Oh, gods, it’s Sciffy. It’s probably “Mansquito”, or “Love Boat: Chupacabra” for frak’s sake.
Hell, Sciffy programming is probably the reason that the Cylons attacked. And I wouldn’t blame them.
I hate it when that happens.
So why were they checking out military people, like for instance, William Adama? Why would Baltar even have one of, say, Adama’s samples for his detector, if military people could be checked by Cottle?
OH, I’ve got it! Calibration! Yeah!
Hey, now, leave me some straws to clutch. After the last two episodes harshed my buzz after dropping heavily into the toilet water like the writers need more roughage in their diet, I’m looking for some excuse to not be annoyed with this episode.
If it were Baltar’s interface, at least there’d be some nod to continuity. Sort of. If you squint at it, sideways.
Oooh, naked D’Anna.
Does Galactica have military records for the entire Fleet? Bulldog never served on the Galactica.
It’s just a rut. Happens to all good shows. A rut. That’s all. Something big and hella good is coming…right after the…uh…after the boxing episode…
Now see, I’m actually looking forward to the next episode, no matter that everyone else seems to regard it with such dread. I’ve been looking forward to it ever since I saw it spoiled on the web.
Because I’m hoping it’ll be an opportunity to reset the Apollo - Starbuck relationship. Although I undestand the writers and actors wanting to explore something different with the characters, that relationship was one of the must fun and entertaining parts of Season 1. I miss it.
So if that’s the potential outcome, bring it on. (mind you, I liked “Black Market,” so I realize my opinion may be out of step with the cool fans. but: pthbbbt.)
Sorry, don’t remember the ep, but it was a flashback. Adama & Tigh met on some sort of cargo hauler or some other sort of grunt work type ship. Adama kept saying somehow, some way he was going to get back into the Colonial military and someday command his own Battlestar. I think his wife may have had connections or something. Anyway, he did get back in the military and once he had some rank & influence, he sent some military police guys to go inform Tigh he was being reinstated. That was right when it looked like Tigh was going to off himself. He and Ellen appeared to be living in a hotel room.
Ring any bells yet?
Riiiiight.
Yeah, but I don’t recall they met for the first time that way. Was it perhaps in the miniseries?
Yeah, it’s got holes in it, but that’s what my man Tighe thought. You reckon they tortured or Hip-no-tized Bulldog to find out? They waited until they found the fleet again to let him “escape”. Remember how D’Anna messed with him and got too close?
It’s from “Scattered”
Thanks. So the Bulldog mission was three years ago. The continuity problem is why Adama and Tigh were civilians when they met? This could be a downsizing the military, could it not?
Adama and Tigh were mustered out after the Cylon War. Most of the intervening flashbacks from “Scattered” were while they were civilians (some kind of merchant marine, maybe). Adama was recalled to duty, and pulled strings to get Tigh back, as well.
I don’t recall if we’re ever told exactly why Adama got recalled, although there was some implication that his wife (Apollo’s mother) had connections, and there’s speculation that there was strife between the Colonies (as the separatists mentioned this episode, and Zarek of course).
Even more complicated, the backstory appears to be: 12 Colonies war on each other and build Cylons to fight each other. Cylons rebel against their creators and cause the 12 Colonies to unify. The now-unified Colonial military has nothing to do now that they’re unified, and so decide to provoke the Cylons into a war.
Roslyn was right when she told Adama that nothing was that simple.
It’s not really a problem exactly. But it’s been 45 years since the date of his first commissioning? In that case they should subtract his break in service and then he’s not actually at the 45 year mark. Unless he was in the reserves or something and they count that.
Also, if he was commissioned at a minimum age of about 22, that makes him 67 plus however long he was inactive. Nothing wrong with him being that old, but I’m curious just how old he is.
I always assumed Tigh was even older than Adama. I wonder how many years of service he’s got, and how old he is.
While we’re on the subject, how long is a Colonial year? Is it based on a Caprican year which just happens to be the same as one of our years?
What do the other colonies consider a year? Do they sync with Caprican years for the sake of convenience? Please don’t tell me every fraking colony has the same orbital year. It’s bad enough there are 12 colonies in one solar system.
Well, there was precious little of it, but what made this episode something other than a complete waste of time was 3’s incipient madness. Apparently she’s turning into a bit of a death experience (no “near” about it!) junky of some sort. Was there something that prompted that? I seem to remember, on New Caprica, her saying she felt invigorated after being resurrected (contrast Cavill’s experience, which he described in much less enthusiastic terms). I wonder…if there’s a limit to resurrection, if the process somehow leads to corruption of the Cylon psyche somehow, could too many deaths in a model render the entire line unstable?
Bulldog was held captive for the last three years? Is this correct? If so and the fleet lived on New Caprica for a year, plus four months of occupation, plus how many months on the run before New Caprica? Six months? Nine months? I can’t remember, but if you subtract at least a year and a half from Bulldog’s three years of confinement, that only leaves a year and a half that Adama could have been in command of Galactica and I’m pretty certain he’s mentioned at least having served two or more years with many of the crew members on Galactica.
Well, Doc Cottle has records for the entire fleet. This is Cottle we’re talking about. He’s got records going back to when humans lived on Kobol 2000 years ago. I said it before and I’ll say it again. Put that guy in charge, 'cause he’s got the magic record database.