We should be used to it by now. We’ve still got zero answers on other similar questions, such as why entire fleet lost power simultaneously at the end of season 3.
Ok, back when Boomer and Caprica Six were first becoming friends - Cavil told Caprica Six that if Boomer didn’t get it, they were going to box her. That’s when we first found out about the idea of boxing and that there was one complete line that had already been boxed. That was the 7s. They never boxed boomer because Caprica and she pulled the revolutions.
Then later, when they talked about boxing again - it was for D’Anna and they followed through.
Does anyone else remember that? Or am I just fanfic-ing my own memories?
You’re right, except it was D’Anna who told Caprica Six they would box Sharon outside of her apartment. Caprica Six went in and convinced her they were on the same side, then the bomb went off in the basement set by Anders, Caprica Six killed D’Anna, etc.
That was a stupid, stupid episode. I completely agree with the Fark headline: “With just 5 episodes to go, Galactica wastes one of them frakking around with a lot of nonsense and the return of the show’s most annoying, unsympathetic character to the ship.”
Bah.
Cally is back?
-Joe
Agreed, this ep was the “Black Market” or “The Woman King” of the final season, it doesn’t even merit a halfhearted “meh…”
Lets hope they did this because it was cheap, and they’re saving up for the Final Four™ episodes which will be jam-packed with action, intrigue and stuff gettin’ all 'splodey…
the last thing we need is more Navel-Gazing episodes…
…unless, of course that it’s Kara’s, Athena/Boomer’s, Six’s or Tori’s navels that we’re gazing at 
Rowr!
…heck, if we have the Final Four™ episodes have at least one BBB BaseStar I can die a happy man… MMMM…BBB
I’ve had about enough of Tigh & Adama’s fighting, making up and crying about something every week. I get that they’re excellent actors and give great scenes, but there’s too much left that needs to be told. Time’s a wasting. Next week Roslin will probably croak and we’ll have to watch five more minutes of those two hugging and crying again.
The boxing of the 3s was the first time an entire line had ever been boxed. There was no mention of a model #7 until “No Exit”. And the 7s weren’t boxed, anyway.
The more I think about it, the less I’m buying Adama getting all maudlin’ and sloppy drunk over Cylon Sooper Gloo holding The Bucket together.
Unless that’s just the most recent manifestation of the big emotional let-down from Earth being a waste of time, and the uncertainty of the future. I mean, for four or five years, it was all, “Earth will fix everything.” “Earth will be our new beginning.” “The 13th tribe will save us.”
There’s serious “What the frak now!?” going around.
No, they got rid of her and the baby because they were inconvenient to the story of Galen being a Cylon. Another lame move, if you ask me.
Thanks!
As others have already commented, the Cylons seem to believe that love is actually biologically needed for reproduction, since the only Cylon pregnancy that worked so far was Athena’s. But likely, this was largely a justification for Ellen’s jealousy issues mixed with her failure to procreate with Tigh in either life.
That would be the obvious answer.
I really liked the Ellen from last episode and was hoping that would carry over here. But I guess her personality is largely contextual - when around cylons she acts more like her cylon self. And back in the fleet her old patterns come out. I actually thought this was done rather well. When she first gets back, she’s still acting somewhat cylon, and even says, as if to convince them, “I’m still the Ellen you know”. It’s not til she finds out about the 6 and the pregnancy that her insecurities and old patterns start to reemerge. And then towards the end of the episode she starts to swing back the other way a little bit after all the drama.
She rezzed right away. The issue of opening up her brain wouldn’t have come up until the Hub was destroyed. Before that there was no reason for John to ask her about the resurrection technology. There’s been barely any time since the hub was destroyed and the current episode.
Agree! Totally contrived.
Why the hell was she there anyway?
The last scene in that episode was Tigh on Earth, so there was no jumping away in that episode. We haven’t seen them jump since then and not come back.
He wouldn’t have needed to open her skull until the hub was destroyed which was only like a week ago. And yes, he kept her sequestered away from the rest of the cylons except for Boomer for the same reason he wiped all of the cylons memories of her to begin with. It’s not clear that it was the same Cavil that woke up Deanna.
As she explained to Laura, when you are the last five surviving member of an entire race, you develop an extreme closeness.
Bill said only human crews before he agreed to the goo. Obviously only cylons are going to know how to properly use the goo.
Nope, only the five got to vote.
They thought that 6’s baby meant that they could ‘proof of concept’ reproduce. Everything after that is engineering 
Of course, even if Ellen hadn’t changed her vote to stay, likely the miscarriage would have made the cylons reconsider.
Agree - I don’t think it’s significant other than in a literary juxtaposition way.
The scene before that was Adama ordering Gaeta to find any nearby stars that could have habitable planets, and Hoshi to invite their new allies to come along.
Nine days later, “Face of the Enemy” occurs with the fleet in space. Not around a planet.
Did Ellen actually die in the Cylon attack on the 12 Colonies? If she did and Cavil resurrected her (sans FF memories) that would explain how she ended up the Rising Star with amnesia.
How about this? Gaeta is ordered to find promising stars. While they’re working on that, Adama orders the fleet to leave orbit and take up a leisurely cruising speed through the system while they perform maintenance, and whatever else they do when they’re not in a big hurry. It would be depressing for the fleet to remain in orbit staring at their broken dreams.
So, the fleet is still in our system, just between planets. Then trouble starts and they’re kinda stuck for now.
I think Adama’s quote “She won’t know what she is anymore” to be a good summary of the situation. Like, “we just finished fighting off the Cylon attackers to find Earth, but now here we are allied with the Cylons and nowhere to go.” His identity is wrapped up in the ship, and the ship’s identity is slipping away.
We already know that Cavil arranged for her to be placed into the fleet. What would the story gain by having had her killed, first?
(also: nice callback this episode, to Ellen’s original arrival on Galactica, too.)
So, they were all depressed about Earth being a radioactive wasteland that they… decided to go sightseeing?
There is, literally, nothing left for them in the Earth system. And it was the place that Cavil knew they were headed. There was no reason for them to hang around there, and Adama had decided to move on.
They moved on.
This show does not always show or tell some things – they expect the viewers to pick up on, for example, when Adama tells Gaeta to find them a new star to go to, that means, they’ve gone to a new star.
It has been weeks in the story, even before Tyrol told them not to jump Galactica. All that time, every establishing shot of the fleet has been in deep space. Not around a Earth, not cruising by random planets in the solar system. In space.
In recent episodes, there’s been at least 2 FX shots with “close-ups” of a Heavy Raider, showing a big old-style Centurion face on the front right side of it. Not necessarily 100% evidence of it being “living”, but sure looks that way to me.
Galactica Sitrep has news about a Battlestar Galactica movie…
Yes, it will be based on the original TV series! Which I avoided watching back in the day. The thought of Paw Cartwright in Space even kept me from watching the re-imagined show for far too long. Of course, I’ve come to love it.
Does anybody think this movie is a good idea?
(This item might be worth a thread, but was unsure whether one had been opened yet.)
The movie probably needs its own thread, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to base it on the original series. Seems likely to create confusion in the audience expecting to see something related to the current series.