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On Galactica, Adama is having a last minute conference of his own. After a little bit of time staring at the scar from his surgery, he decides to talk to Sharon - alone. Now, I know they wanted to show he still thinks about his scars and everything like that, but couldn't we just get him replaying the shooting in his mind? Not that Edward James Olmos is in bad shape for a guy his age, but I would rather have my topless crew member memories consist of Sharon and Six, and I am sure the ladies would much rather see the younger Adama and Helo, so this really doesn't do anybody any good.

Anyway, he asks Sharon why the Cylon hate us so much, like she's taking the written portion of her SAT exam. It is a tough question, and it takes Valeri a moment to come up with the answer. I am sure we have all thought about the question ourselves, but does it matter? The Cylons aren't interested in much beyond extermination of all humans. They don't want land, they don't want resources, they just can't stand the way humans live their lives, from the polytheism to the constant fighting. The Cylons haven't been sending peace envoys; they've been sending assault teams. Sharon can't explain the exact reason why the Cylons hate the humans, but she can give an example. After the first attacks, when Adama was still trying to keep morale high, he gave a speech. In it, he said that "humanity never asked itself why it deserved to survive", so what happens if they don't deserve to survive? Hmm, I wonder if Adama is going to take the words from a machine and learn a little bit about humanity? Oh, imagine the irony if it happened only moments later in the episode.

Until all of that happens, we have a nice little battle scene to get us through. I would talk more about the explosions and everything else, and although there were great special effects, it was a little "bleh" to me to be completely honest. I mean, it was a complete slaughter for the Colonial side. I guess they had a good plan and Galactica and Pegasus make a great combination, but it didn't seem like any of the colonial fighters were shot down, and although the original series had a habit of the pilots always coming back, this was ridiculous. Considering Lee was piloting the Blackbird (he flew in to destroy the engines on the Resurrection ship before it could jump out of the system) and it looked like the only stealth ship in the fleet was the only one damaged in any way, I mean, what were they thinking?

Feel free to disagree with me, but I think the whole Apollo lost in space thing was a very distracting element. The dream sequence was nice, and I thought it did a good job as a metaphor for being out is space. There is nothing there, just a void. You float around, and soon your senses are numb, and the only thing you notice is your breath. Speaking of breath, Apollo's suit had a hole in it and WAS LEAKING AIR. I wrote that in caps to try and make it sound exciting, but it was actually not that tense. Apollo is rescued by a Raptor that was able to track his signal. They did have to defibrillate him to get him back alive, which counts for something, but again, it left me with not much more than an "eh", and happiness it was over.

So, with the battle out of the way, next come the assassinations. For some reason, I thought this scene would have been great with a "Flight of the Bumble Bee" montage, but alas, I had to go with the normal Galactica score. BTW, is anybody a little disappointed with the new opening music? I like Ang Lee and all, but he's not directing Galactica, and the score shouldn't pretend that he is. Without Apollo, Kara had to do her mission alone, and after she came back from the battle, she went straight to the command center of Pegasus, ready to put a hole in Cain's head at Adama's signal. On Galactica, Fisk was waiting to give the signal to his marines to take down Adama as soon as Cain gave him her signal.

Now this is what I'm talking about. I said last week that I didn't think Starbuck would kill Cain, mainly because I wondered how the hell she was going to get off of Pegasus. She would be as good as dead, and her shot would have to be pretty good. Adama asks to talk to Starbuck, but he doesn't give his signal. Cain asks to talk to Fisk, and she too passes on giving the kill signal. We aren't quite sure what stopped either of them, and it's the first time we have seen Cain show any sort of mercy and it might have been the first time she flinched on one of her decisions. As for Adama, he said that it wasn't enough to survive; you must be worthy of surviving. You know, it's too bad Sharon's people want to kill all of us, because she has been really helpful overall.

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Posted by J-Unit on January 17, 2006 7:29 PM