This week, we got the answer to a question that I believe almost nobody cared about: "Why did Lee Adama want to die?" Hey, we're not denying that it is tough having to deal with the responsibility of having to protect nearly 50,000 people from a possible death from the Cylons every day, but if you wanted to die that badly, there are ways to do it. Maybe with a little initiative Apollo could finish the job and save us his entire "I'm not like my father" attitude that all of us have to suffer through each week.

Anyway, as the episode opens, lee is pointing his gun at some random black guy. Now, not to get off on a rant, but I caught some episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica series this morning, and about half way through my grapefruit, I realized that this Battlestar Galactica has fewer regular black characters than the original. In the original, Boomer was a black guy, and now Boomer is a hot Asian Cylon (as an aside, while driving Sunset this past weekend, I saw Grace Park eating at a restaurant. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to pull over and stalk, but you know I wanted to). I'm not really complaining about that change, but in the first series, Colonel Tigh was black. Now he's white, and while I don't think it matters that much, couldn't they have found a black guy to do everything this current guy is? You can't tell me that Danny Glover or Yaphet Kotto would have turned it down. I guess we have added Dualla, who is also hot, and that one religious lady that got blowed up, but you think they could have fit another one in there somewhere.

Where was I? Oh yes. Apollo. He had a gun to some black guy, and looked like he wanted to shoot him, but before we get to see what happens, we get to go back...ANOTHER 48 HOURS. What the hell is up with that? I did not sign up for this. What is so important about the Apollo story lines that we have to pull this stunt every time? What happened 48 hours ago that was so important? Well, apparently Apollo has a girlfriend, Shavon that we don’t know about and she really enjoys his company, at least in the bedroom. Lee seems happy to play the part of horny boyfriend, but the part he is having trouble with is being a father figure to the woman's daughter, Paya. He admits that he is not good with kids, and the gift he brings for Paya makes her cry. I don't have kids of my own (or have even been accused of slipping one by the goalie), but I did spend time volunteering in the nursery at my church, and I know that if you give kids dolls, you usually try to make sure that they have both eyes intact. That would be the dolls, not the kids.

Other than Apollo's cockistry and parenting skills, the other big story we are following is the President's recovery. Word hasn't yet made it to the masses that she was fixed by Cylon-human blood, so people are really amazed at her recovery. She has called a meeting between Admiral Adama, Commander Fisk (leader of the Pegasus in Cain's absence), and her Vice President, and starts talking about the black market. The colonial fleet is self-sustaining, but with no industry, commerce and supplies are handled by the fleet. This leaves a wide-open black market for the trade of goods. The problem is that some of the items in the black market, such as antibiotics, are in such a short supply that it is putting a strain on the fleet. The President wants to regulate trade so the government can decide who is more deserving for some things than others.

Posted by J-Unit on February 1, 2006 10:47 AM