see end of the recap... oh, the suspense, I know, I know...brutal

The previous scenes are all about Chief. He's getting lots and lots of camera time lately... maybe he'll turn out to be one of the sleeper cylon models. There has to be some shocking cylon-revelations in episodes to come, and you know an important Galactica fixture has got to be one. Starbuck, you say? Perhaps, but I hope not. She's too good at being the disturbed bad-ass pilot, so bad, yet sooo good... I guess we'll just wait and see, it's anyone's guess.

BSG opens with all the knuckle-draggers hard at work, pumping Tylium and doing all the things that deckhands do. Seelix is back on duty and pissed because she got bounced from flight-training, thus infuriating all the other busy bees. They just can't get ahead -- no matter what. Am I sensing discord on Galactica? No... it can't be... Pamphlets! Strikes! Mutiny! It's all here on the latest BSG installment...

A Raptor takes off and soon tailspins through space towards... gulp... Colonial One! Is our fearless leader in jeopardy? Nah, she's probably doing Adama on Galactica... no, just kidding. It cuts to commercial and we are left wondering the fate of our President.

President Roslin was aboard Colonial One, but the collision didn't even merit a scene. Instead, we see Roslin and Adama moving loads of paperwork to another part of the ship and we're told that there were no casualties...phew. But we didn't even get to see the crash scene?? BSG, what is happening to you?? Where is the show full of space fights, explosions, phallic jets, and hot cylons? Yes, I know this show is much more than that, but I've missed those things in the past weeks. I've grown weary of the social messages and love triangles. Yes, I like that element of the show, especially when they're interwoven with the greater plot, but everything has seemed so packaged in tidy episodes lately.... Or maybe I'm just one picky bitch. Maybe that's it, ok, I know it's true, but you spoil me with a frackin awesome show and my standards sky-rocket...not my fault.

The fuel on the Raptor was contaminated, thus causing its malfunction in space. Uh, oh...someone's in big trouble. Let's head to the Tylium ship to find out whose ass is grass. The workers are complaining about their atrocious conditions: long hours, no respect, dirty workspace, no AC... damn, I thought my cube was bad.

Here, we are introduced to the Great Social Divide of the fleet. How do the vipers get fuel? We don't see the little guys working their butts off to refine the tylium. Where did all that algae go after it was hauled off of the Algae Planet? To all the minions on the Algae Ship who work day and night to send the bland substance to the people, horay! Finally, we are seeing the plight of the overworked civilians.

Adama and Roslin visit the workers' leader, Zenu. Through some failed diplomatic negotiations, he gets thrown in the clink for quoting, get this, Gauis Baltar's new book, "My Triumphs, My Mistakes" that's circulating. The little rascal is back! Though I think the book's title should have been, "Maybe one Triumph? Lots of Mistakes". Do the people already forget about his selfishness and tyranny on New Caprica? Yeah, so he said he had to comply with the cylons so humanity would survive, etc, etc, but we all remember him banging cylon after cylon, drinking the good stuff, and kissing cylon-leadership butt. Oh, how I love to hate Baltar.

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Last Comment: Jezrah on Mar 8, 2007 07:49 AM.

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CamJam :

great recap - I look forward to your recaps more than the show!

1 of 4 | Posted by CamJam | Posted on February 28, 2007 5:06 AM

willow :

I agree this season is weak compared to past. I would have given the award to Athena, just b/c Six seducing Baltar makes me a bit sick at times.....great recap though, makes the episode seem better than it actually was!

2 of 4 | Posted by willow | Posted on February 28, 2007 6:57 AM

Octavian :

I thought this episode was great. BSG is so good because they try so hard to make it plausible. Plus showing that human nature is the same under such circumstances, proves that we are our own worst enemy. After all humans created the cylons

3 of 4 | Posted by Octavian | Posted on March 1, 2007 11:16 AM

Jezrah :

I'm not sure what to make of the two episodes that focused around the chief. It's possible that they are just "filler" the way that Babylon 5 used to have episodes that didn't further the larger storyline. The thing with BSG, though, is that the episodes that seem like filler end up coming around and becoming meaningful later in the series.

I don't think they're prepping the chief to be a cylon, though. He's fathered a child. That would interfere with the whole specialness of Hera.

It makes me wonder about the identity of the mysterious cylon, though. The chief and his wife are ruled out. Helo obviously has to be human. It can't be Apollo (his father remembers him growing up). It can't be Adama because he fathered a child and because people remember him from a long time before the cylons looked human (we've got no evidence they copy people anyway). Can't be Tigh for the same reason--he's been around and visible for too long. That really narrows things down if it's going to be a meaningful character in the series. I suppose Starbuck is always a possiblity, but I don't think so for reasons I mention in my comments after the recap for "Get out of my head."

That leaves 3 people, and all would be really interesting. One is Dee. How would that play out to find out that Apollo is married to a cylon? The same goes for Anders, although since Starbuck is getting so mixed up with the cylons now, I think that waters down the effect of her being married to cylon. Still interesting, though, and he has the physical perfection to be believable as a cylon. The third, and most likely candidate is Gaeta. After all his indignation about Baltar on New Caprica, it would be interesting to see how he would react to actually being a cylon.

And remember this: In the episode on the planet where they were looking for the Eye of Jupiter, D'Anna saw the final five briefly, and she recognized one of them. That narrows down the list of possibilities very greatly. And she certainly had a lot of contact with Gaeta when he was working for Baltar on New Caprica. Hmmm.

4 of 4 | Posted by Jezrah | Posted on March 8, 2007 7:49 AM

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