Frangible bullets. After all, they are on a spaceship.
Here is a studio still of where they were sitting.
That is one precarious-looking airlock.
Hey, it gets a lot of wear and tear.
No ships jumped. Ten ships shut down their FTL, indicating they weren’t going to jump if the rest of the fleet jumped.
It looked like fewer ships in the basestar shots, because the fleet was spread out, so the basestar couldn’t use the fleet for cover as effectively.
Went back to hulu.com and found the scene - its at about 26 minutes into the episode -
Gaeta’s quote is “Give the jump coordinates to those ships that did not shut off the FTL drives and order them to jump immediately”.
So, at the end of the episode - we have 35 ships that jump, 10 that shut down their FTL drives, the Galactica and the Base Star.
Except that we’ve seen the fleet’s procedures for jumping, time and time again, since “33” in the first season. That procedure has Galactica start the jump count. The ships all jump on Galactica’s count.
Galactica never jumped. Their count never reached zero.
Furthermore, the episode never showed any ships jumping. We don’t know that any ships jumped, at all.
I don’t disagree - but
a) this wasn’t ‘normal’ procedures
b) He ordered the ships to jump “immediately” to the “rendevous” coordinates - makes sense that the Galactica would jump last ‘in case’ there was a battle.
c) what views we get of the fleet after that moment show significantly fewer ships.
d) another intersting comment when Galactica is about to jump is “we’re leaving them behind”, indicating that perhaps Gaeta was hoping the holdouts, upon seeing the other ships jumping, would change their mind.
I think it was left unclear deliberately
I suspect it is irrelevant, either way. If it was meant to be a plot point, they’d’ve shown some of the fleet jumping away.
Either that, or this week will start with their usual “as seen before never seen before” footage of ships jumping away. But I judge that unlikely.
I second the fact that it was mentioned by the Cylons that the fleet had scattered leaving them more unprotected, especially after the attack on them.
But what I want to know is - when is Cavil coming back?? Are we just trying to save salaries at this point? Talk about the threat of them, but never actually show them, thus saving revenue and plot time?
The 25 ships that jumped only jumped because Galactica told them too. They’ll follow whoever commands Galactica.
Could be. This season barely got approved, and the budget might have been trimmed to allow it. Lucy Lawless is probably gone for good, too (D’Anna stayed on Earth). Dean Stockwell might get a cameo just to wrap up that storyline, but I agree it won’t be more than that.
I took that to mean that he was referring to “The ship” as a whole, including its crew, and by putting it in the past tense he was expressing his own dismay at the mutiny, with the idea, “Boy, things surely have gone straight to shit, huh?”
Actually, they’d have to contrive a way for Cavil to find them in the first place. He knew they were heading for Earth. But now, they’ve gone completely off the grid. The galaxy is big, and Baltar is all out of nukes to give disaffected Cylons for to act as beacons for Cavil.
Additionally, he probably died – really died – in the Hub explosion. And he still had all their Raptors (and maybe Centurions) to lobotimize. There were a lot of other issues the Cavilcade had to deal with, before getting back on the Kill All Humans kick.
Yeah, typically when they jump it’s because the Cylons have shown up and Galactica holds off the Cylons until the rest of the fleet is safely away.
This time, I think Galactica would have jumped last because they sure would look stupid if they jumped first and no one followed. Oops!
Anyway, I vote no one jumped before Galactica was retaken, though.
They’re also gonna need a replacement Quorum.
I don’t know if the writers are going to keep exploring the fallout from this power struggle, but if they want to, there’s plenty of material to work with.
Not enough time, too many things to wrap up. But there’s still a lot of lingering bitterness over the pact, as evidenced by the Space Marine officer telling Adama that he couldn’t serve under someone who wouldn’t fight the Cylons. There’s going to have to be another major gesture of trust, probably on the part of all three species.
Is it Friday yet, dang it all?
Minor nitpick: Narcho isn’t a space marine officer, he’s a pilot. He was Pegasus CAG. I think he’s now one of the wing leaders (assuming Helo is still Galactica CAG?).