Back with the algae, a very chubby Chief is having a religious experience of his own, wandering toward a mysterious structure on the planet, which turns out to be the Temple of Five. Clearly the Chief has some daddy issues that he put to good use by finding this thing. The Temple contains the Eye of Jupiter, which is a marker left behind by the thirteenth tribe, and it points to Earth, or so the myth goes. You know we'll see Earth in the end, and I'm dying to see the condition it's in... Pangea? Globally warmed-over? Inhabited by speaking apes?
I was hoping for a Boomer/Athena rumble, with hair-pulling, trash-talking, and tittie-twisting, but no such luck. I guess it would be weird to punch someone that looked exactly like you in the face.
The cylons want Galactica to leave the Algae Planet and the Eye of Jupiter. For this, QL cylon would "sweeten the pot" by giving them Baltar as a little incentive. Ouch. Baltar's face was priceless - only made better if he had pissed his pants, and we got to see the slow, growing dark spot in his trousers. He is at his best when he is most pathetic. First he wakes up without his bread, and now this! How cylons turn so quickly. He is the odd man out. Humans hate him; cylons don't care about him. Poor, poor Baltar.
I like Scary Adama. He thinks by putting your face mere inches from the enemies' face, they will crumble. He employs this tactic often - I have to give it to him, it's probably about 98% effective. His face is pretty intense, combined with some raunchy breath, it would make the toughest enemy quiver. Adama doesn't give in to the cylons' demands, holding ground on Algae Planet, thanks all to the face scare.
Apollo is given orders to blow the temple if the cylons get too close. He decides he has to draft civilians in response to the threat and Starbuck has a great idea: have Sam lead the civilian troops! For some reason this idea seems flawed to me... we'll see.
Sam doesn't seem to like taking orders from the guy that's boning his wife... he's no dummy. Dualla may be playing dumb, but Sam isn't having it. He puts up a fight saying his specialty is guerilla warfare, not leading ground troops, but ultimately, he has to take the Major Asshole's orders.
Back on Galactica, Gaeta finds anomalies in the solar radiation belt - which means, dum..dum..dum... they're on the verge of a supernova. Now, I have no idea what that means, but it sounds serious. Gotta love wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova -- ok, i still don't know what it means. It lost me after "fusion energy". Damn you science. After all, I have a degree in journalism, and in one of my first classes the professor allegedly said, "Journalism is for people who aren't good at math or science." It went something like that, not exactly sure... dammit, I'm not even a good reporter.
At another very serious cylon meeting, the who's who of cylons are talking strategy. D'Anna has a trick up her sleeve that she kept from the others. We're starting to see a split in cylon leadership... I like it! They're becoming more human-like day by day. She already has raiders in place to take out the humans, get the Eye of Jupiter, and then blow Galactica out of space. Now we're talking! Here's the BSG I know and love... threats to humanity and all.
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Comments (4)
Maybe they are once bitten twice shy when it comes to living on planets other than earth. alge planet's general theme of grey does little more for the complexion than galactica though.
Oh starbuck, you are such a mess. but i definetly hooted when glee when you started making out with apollo.
the preview for the return of the show looks awesome.
oh i love this show.
1 of 4 | Posted by Leah3t
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Posted on January 4, 2007 1:09 PM
i guess it's a good thing they didn't decide to live on algae planet since the sun is going supernova--or maybe that's why they decided they can't stay?
i don't know--but i do like all the hot/sweaty action between Apollo and Starbuck. her no divorce policy doesn't make any sense. maybe Sam was referring to Leoben when he told Apollo he wasn't the first, although i would think there would have to be some kind of exception since she was his prisoner.
i'm bummed about the move too--i liked having my BSG viewing party on a night where i could drink a little more than i should.
2 of 4 | Posted by pq
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Posted on January 5, 2007 2:04 PM
Here comes my really geeky, Star Trek side...
They can't live on the algae planet because it offers no shielding from the Cylons. New Caprica had some sort of electrical interference that hid them ... the only reason the Cylons found them there was because the nuke that Six set off was detected.
3 of 4 | Posted by dumbanddumber
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Posted on January 5, 2007 4:26 PM
Fracking great recap. Thanks NikBot!
4 of 4 | Posted by BeSmirched
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Posted on January 14, 2007 3:08 PM