After all, next week is another episode.
We getting extra commercials this week? Frak.
Unless Tigh had an affair with Tory (or Galen or Anders) and excluding the time when they didn’t know their true nature this is the first time in 2,000 years she’s had a rival for his affections.
[Tigh]Granpa was a belt sander…
Heh, nice to know that Tigh seems to have a sense of humour about his Toasterhood…
Well Ellen sure did come back as “Ellen”. I had high hopes for her being a good person this time around, and as someone said in last week’s thread, I was hoping Cavil had implanted the alcoholism/evilness into her…guess I was wrong! Makes more sense this way though, everyone on the show has always been flawed in some way.
Back to my question: How did Boomer find the fleet? Can John Cavil follow?
Err, forgot about the time dilation; it’s not nearly that long form their perspective. :o
Ellen is the same conniving manipulative bitch she always was. I guess we can scratch the theory that Cavil inserted personality flaws along with the false memories.
Does she call herself Caprica? Didn’t she have a name beore, like 112 of 1056?
I thought Caprica was putting up a picture from the ultrasound.
“It’s not like Zack. I know it’s not like Zack.”
Someone give Michael Hogan an Emmy. That was a great brief scene between him and Olmos.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Adama gave Baltar’s nympho cult guns, but no ammo?
Me too, actually.
Well, last week I was wondering if that had been Ellen’s real personality, before, or a Cavil implant… and whether Ellen had then made Cavil in her own image.
Guess we know that now. Sheesh.
Tyrol actually took Starbuck’s advice. That can’t be good.
And Head-Six is back. Looks like that won’t be good, either. I’m beginning to think the last episode will simply be everyone shooting each other, leaving Lee with no one to whine to.
And thank frakkin’ god we won’t have another thread full of crazy-ass speculation on how Anders will resurrect.
Ah…
Uhm…
Er…
Hmmm…
Nope. I got nothin’.
Ok, the episode was entertaining, but I’m not sure I liked it.
Really not buying Ellen as any kind of mastermind of cylonicity. She’s still a manipulative bitch, seems too selfish and bubble headed to have been the architect of her race.
Whoever trained the actors in Baltar’s harem how to handle firearms needs fired. Now. That scene, short as it was, had me very uncomfortable. I fully expected and kept listening for the accidental discharge that killed somebody.
The use of the ship as metaphor for the fleet struck me as heavy handed, clumsy, and cheap.
Caprica’s miscarriage also seemed pointless. Just another “lets tug at the heartstrings for no apparent reason” deal, cuz it’s so dramatic.
Baltar’s haircut is bad. His makeup and the lighting for his scenes made him look way too thin since the last time we saw him. Yeah, I know they’re playing up the food shortage angle…but he wasn’t that thin last time we saw him, and not enough “show time” has passed for him to drop 20 pounds.
Think there was a continuity problem with Tigh’s beard. It was thicker in the beginning of the episode, and noticeably thinner when he’s leaning over Caprica in sickbay
I give this episode a C-.
Edit to add: Yeah, Boomer finding the fleet when there is no explanation for how she did it is a huge plot hole.
I think the question of how Boomer found the fleet went unanswered simply because they didn’t interrogate Boomer yet (that we’ve seen), and not only did they have other questions to ask of Ellen – she’s Ellen, still, and thus disruptive of sane thinking.
Precisely the intent, I think. Whomever trained them to handle the phony guns needs a raise; they elicited exactly the feeling they intended to.
This is one of the worst episodes in the series so far. Ellen Tigh is poisoning not just the lives of the cast, but my enjoyment of the show.
First they try to set her up as this Motherly character last episode only for us to be reminded of what an unholy cunt she really is. She’s disgusting, petty and selfish.
Then there are just the ridiculously stupid plot point.
- Why was she in the hospital with them?
- Why did Saul allow it?
- Why did Cottle allow it?
most importantly? - Why did Caprica allow it?
Caprica Six was instrumental in the destruction of the twelve colonies. When did she become such a wuss?
This whole episode had a neutered feel to it, which was the point, but it was just kind of blah.
Also, why are they feeding these people in a food shortage? Why aren’t those people BUILDING FUCKING GREENHOUSES IN THE EMPTY STORAGE UNITS AND WORKING IN THEM?!?! This show has spent too long with the civilians being useless mouths to feed, and has never, ever touched on the reality of manufacture and food growing except to create dramatic tension, which is cheap.
This show really has set me on edge for the rest of the season, like it’s not going to pay off. They just made some stupid hokey choices.
The bit with the harem thinking that just having guns made them safe was the highlight of the episode. That and the thirty seconds with Starbuck. Less Ellen, more Starbuck please!
Did I miss anything besides Baltar’s obvious ineptitude with the mag, chambering a round and sticking the pistol in her waistband, a marine pushing down the business end, and everyone generally pointing them at each other?
I disagree. Most people probably are not aware of gun safety issues the way I am…particularly in the target demographic for this show. Why do something that a majority of the audience isn’t going to notice?