Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! It only took a couple of months, but we finally had an episode of Battlestar Galactica that was original, exciting, and left us wanting more. Ever since the series has started, it threw us a lot of questions and most of the time gave us some interesting answers to those questions. Recently, the answers we have received are for questions that we really could care less about. All right, maybe there were some of you who really cared who Apollo was sleeping with each week, and were dying to know which one of Starbuck's demons was going to force her to question authority, but I still kind of give a shit about Cylons. You may have heard of them, they are trying to make the human race extinct. We've been told that they have a plan, and this week we learned a little bit more about what they were doing.
We all know that when a Cylon dies, its mind is transferred into another body. If they are too far away from the Cylon home world, they must use a resurrection ship or they will just die like anybody else. The Colonial Fleet was able to destroy the resurrection ship, and it has really changed the nature of the battle with the Cylons. As important as resurrection is, we have no idea how this happens. The Six that travels through Dr. Baltar's mind has told us some things, and Sharon has told us a few things, but for the most part, it is still a mystery. While Cylon culture is still mostly a mystery to us, at least we have some idea about what goes on with the resurrection.
It's hard to describe Cylon society. We have no idea what they want to do, but we know that human beings for the most part weren't part of the plan. Therefore, they needed a way to kill most of the human population. What better way than to seduce somebody that could give them access to the defense systems of the Fleet and use that knowledge against them. That person is Dr. Baltar, and the woman who seduced him, Six, is a Cylon. The Six that Gaius knows only appears in his imagination, and he fell so very deeply in love with her, the fact that she isn't human and her race wants to destroy his has no effect on the ways she can influence him.
But what about Six? How did she handle it? The last we saw of her, she was shielding Baltar from the blast, but when she wakes up she is in a tub of goo. I am not sure why it is but resurrection always requires some sort of liquid. I'm not complaining because it also requires nudity, but the Cylons shackle the newly resurrected bodies down until they figure out what happened. Waking up in a new body is a shock. Six knew her mission, but when she sees all the people around her, including a copy of herself staring down at her, it is enough to make you get up and scream. This is exactly what happens to Six, but as she is looking around, a very familiar face comforts her. Gaius Baltar!
HOLY.
SHIT.
Baltar is a Cylon?! Wow, that explains a lot doesn't it? Well, it would explain a lot if it were true. Gaius does appear to her, but he is not a Cylon. Six is the only one who can see him, so we see that she is having hallucinations about HIM. And he's giving out the advice to her just like she would do for him back on Galactica. Baltar tells her that the people around her would not like knowing that she cares about him so much. Even though practically the first words out of her mouth were to ask about Baltar, she pretends she just wanted to know if he was alive because he would be a good source of information.
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Comments (11)
I literally screamed when Gaius came out of the darkness. Great ep. Great. Just what we've been waiting for!
1 of 11 | Posted by Leah3t
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Posted on March 2, 2006 5:35 AM
J-Unit. I keep hearing so many great things about this show. Reviewers call it the best sci-fi show of the past decade. Not to mention your bang-up posts.
I want to watch it from the beginning. Is this the first season? If not are the previous seasons available on DVD? Thanks much for your wisdom.
2 of 11 | Posted by America's Next Top Fan
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Posted on March 2, 2006 6:12 AM
P.S.
WHERE'S THE FREAKIN' AMAZING RACE POST??? It's Thursday already for Christ-mas sakes.
3 of 11 | Posted by America's Next Top Fan
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Posted on March 2, 2006 6:15 AM
This was indeed the episode we have been waiting for since the show came back--so much juicy goodness!
and there was tons of stuff with Gaius and Six--my favorite traitors!!
i was growing exceedingly tired of the Lee/Starbuck angst--and the whole slutty Dualla thing was getting on my last nerve. the actress who plays her ruined Jeremiah for me too!
so this episode "renewed my faith"--and i can't wait to see if Caprica-Six and Galactica-Sharon can pull off some sort of coup before Xena-Three wakes up---
4 of 11 | Posted by ennis teal
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Posted on March 2, 2006 6:27 AM
America's Next Top Fan- I caught up late on the show too (as I did with "Lost"). The show is in the second season so I got the first season on netflix (be sure to watch the minimovie thingie first) and then I downloaded the eps I missed of season 2 on itunes.
5 of 11 | Posted by Leah3t
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Posted on March 2, 2006 6:29 AM
No way is this the best Scifi show in the last ten years. Second best after "Farscape."
I thought Baltar was a Cylon too! Nearly had a heart attack. Overall this was fairly interesting stuff. Another good thing about sending the baby away is of course the aging. They couldn't keep Walt from growing on "Lost" so he had to go. Only "Charmed" has managed to keep the same child year after year.
It will interesting to see Six and Sharon take the cross for the redemption of all Cylons.
6 of 11 | Posted by Lady J
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Posted on March 2, 2006 7:03 AM
ANTF,
Technically, we are in the second half of the second season, but I have been calling it season three. Previous seasons are available on DVD, downloadable from the iTunes Music Store, and available to download on certain media networks of questionable moral character.
One thing I fogot to mention, and it's a big thing when you think about it, was how Six and Sharon realized that they were celebrities in a culture that emphasizes and depends on everybody being equal, and having people more famous than the other becomes problematic. It will definitely be interesting to see how the Cylons deal with that.
7 of 11 | Posted by J Unit
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Posted on March 2, 2006 10:01 AM
J-Unit & Leah3t
Thanks for the info.
8 of 11 | Posted by America's Next Top Fan
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Posted on March 2, 2006 11:31 AM
If Three wanted Six to talk to Eight to help with Eight's problems, Three had to know that Eight would tell Six that Six's beloved had survived, but if Three sent Six to help Eight, but Eight ended up messing with Six's head, what was Three up to?
My head asplode.
9 of 11 | Posted by iamafatguy
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Posted on March 5, 2006 10:43 AM
PS: "Skin jobs" is what Bryant referred to replicants as. Interesting choice.
10 of 11 | Posted by iamafatguy
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Posted on March 5, 2006 10:46 AM
I noticed that too iamafatguy. "skin jobs" is the name given to replicants in the movie Blade Runner.
11 of 11 | Posted by picarso
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Posted on March 6, 2006 5:12 AM