# Battlestar Galactica 4.18 - "Deadlock" (spoilers)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 20, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664 "2009-02-20T02:42:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/1 "2009-02-20T02:42:45Z")
**Spoiler policy:** If you want to discuss a plot point from an upcoming episode, something you know is going to happen because it’s been revealed in interviews or some other canon source, including the preview for the following week, put it in a spoiler box, and label the box so we can decide for ourselves whether or not it’s something we want to know ([example here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10733845&postcount=5)). If you’re simply speculating about what _might_ happen in an upcoming episode, or if you’re discussing something that has already aired in the episode (not including the preview), there’s no need for a spoiler box.
**This week’s episode title: “Deadlock.”** Written by Jane Espenson; directed by Robert Young. (Both vets of the show.)
Regarding episode numbering, [see comment here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10701777&postcount=1). Note also that on the scifi/battlestar site, this is officially episode 418, despite what’s found on other sites.
[Sci-Fi’s preview for the episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyT1GqBhiMg). Also, from Canada’s Space network, [a significantly different preview](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZQQ1FvNihs). Spoilers in both. Also, if you poke around YouTube a bit, you can find a couple of sneak-peek clips from this episode. I chose not to watch them, so I can’t address their contents. If you decide to hunt them down, please feel free to discuss (naturally using appropriately labeled spoiler boxes until the episode airs).
Links to previous threads, for anyone who wants to review:
[4.13 - “Sometimes a Great Notion”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=502093) (in which the discovery of the ruined Earth has serious repercussions for the fleet, and various people melt down and give up: Roslin burns her scriptures, Adama begs Tigh to kill him, and Dee shoots herself, among others; the Penultimate Four experience flashbacks while on Earth, and realize that they lived there two millennia ago; Starbuck finds her own corpse in the wreckage of her viper, and Leoben wigs out; and Ellen Tigh is revealed as the Final Cylon)
[4.14 - “A Disquiet Follows My Soul”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=503219) (in which Adama presses the fleet to tolerate the Cylons and adopt their technology, causing resentment to grow in the fleet, including among Colonial officers, chiefly Gaeta, who begins plotting resistance efforts with Zarek, while Baltar stokes negativity of his own; Tyrol discovers he’s not the father of his child; and Roslin finally joins Adama in his bunk)
[4.15 - “The Oath”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504321) (in which mutiny explodes, led by Zarek and Gaeta; all known Cylons on Galactica, except Tyrol, are confined in the brig; and Tyrol helps Roslin and Baltar flee the battlestar, with the assistance of Adama and Tigh, who have escaped their own captors, and who choose to stay behind to defend their ship)
[4.16 - “Blood on the Scales”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=505354) (in which the mutineers target Adama for execution; Roslin and Baltar escape to the basestar; Zarek has the Quorum liquidated; Adama, aided by Starbuck, Apollo, and Tyrol, retakes his ship, though Anders is badly injured; and Zarek and Gaeta eat a firing squad’s bullets for their crimes)
[4.17 - “No Exit”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=506397) (in which Cavil secretly resurrects final-Cylon Ellen Tigh, and Anders unexpectedly begins recovering final-five memories due to his brain injury, both of which storylines result in a [metric frakload of backstory](http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/episodes.php?seas=4&ep=417&act=1) being shoveled into the audience’s lap; in other developments: Roslin recruits Lee to help her hold together the remaining tatters of government; Boomer spirits Ellen off Cavil’s basestar; and Tyrol convinces Adm. Adama to allow a Cylon-tech fix to Galactica’s overstressed frame)
(I’m posting this early because I’ll be going out of the country tomorrow morning. With luck I’ll catch up with this episode no later than Monday.)
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/2 "2009-02-20T15:57:50Z")
How come the Canadian previews are different from the ones shown in the U.S.?
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/3 "2009-02-20T16:19:12Z")
Different network: Sci-Fi in the U.S., Space in Canada. Network marketing departments typically make their own promotional previews; they’re not commonly created by the show’s producers themselves.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/4 "2009-02-20T20:22:49Z")
Well, that makes sense. I didn’t realize that the show was on a different network up there.
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### Author:  [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/5 "2009-02-20T20:30:18Z")
Damn Canadians, getting all the good stuff. They probably don’t even know what a B-movie with a guy in a rubber mosquito suit and Dean Cain and giant snakes _looks like_. The bastards.
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/6 "2009-02-21T01:00:19Z")
Ha! The show hasn’t started yet, but the thread is here, so I’m jumping in! I have nothing to contribute, but at least I finally get to post on the first page of the thread instead of waiting until I’ve seen the download from Amazon and everyone else has already had their say!
Let me therefore be the first to say that tonight’s episode is simultaneously the best and worst episode of BSG so far. Anyone disagreeing with _either_ of those positions should address their arguments to me. Thread participation at last! Ha ha ha ha!
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/7 "2009-02-21T01:57:00Z")
> [@Lightray](#):
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> Damn Canadians, getting all the good stuff.
The Band was Canadian save for Arkansan Levon Helm. At least they shared them. 🙂
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/8 "2009-02-21T02:07:08Z")
Upon watching the Canadian spoiler…
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You say that like it was a bad thing.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/9 "2009-02-21T03:00:17Z")
Show starting…now.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/10 "2009-02-21T03:04:59Z")
How did Boomer find the fleet?
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/11 "2009-02-21T03:06:37Z")
Survivor count 39,556
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### Author:  [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/12 "2009-02-21T03:06:47Z")
Aawkwaard.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/13 "2009-02-21T03:15:45Z")
Head Six.
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/14 "2009-02-21T03:15:52Z")
Baltar’s Virtual Six!!! 😃
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/15 "2009-02-21T03:22:01Z")
Hmm, looks like Ellen’s a leeetle jealous of CapSix, just as I predicted, I just hope this doesn’t turn the remaining BSG eps into a reality show/Soap Opera In SPAAACCCE!
I highly doubt Tigh will abandon the ship, if it came down to choosing between Adama/the fleet or his new Toaster buddies, I’d bet he’d choose the Fleet
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/16 "2009-02-21T03:22:17Z")
Adama carries a flask on duty?
Rosilyn does not approve. Loved her…“You don’t have to worry…about Boomer.”
Also liked the swirling cameras for the obligatory glad you aren’t dead anymore frak…
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/17 "2009-02-21T03:24:55Z")
Selling hand made jewelry? They’re G-d damn hippies!
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/18 "2009-02-21T03:26:33Z")
As G-d is my witness, you’ll never be hungry again!
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/19 "2009-02-21T03:26:57Z")
Scarlett O’Baltar will never be hungry again!
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-4-18-deadlock-spoilers/486664/20 "2009-02-21T03:28:42Z")
Frak, I wanted to make the Gone with the Solar Wind reference, beaten to the punch 😉
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