Battlestar Galactica 2.01: "Scattered"
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annathepiperWell, THAT was a good strong start right out of the gate for the new season, now WASN'T IT?
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13th_colony, and bsg_women)
When last we left our intrepid survivors of the annihilation of the human race, the Galactica was in the grip of mutiny, armed conflict, battered crash survivors stranded on the surface of Kobol and the skies crawling with Cylons, and Bill Adama bleeding to death because G-BOOMER HAD EFFING SHOT HIM. And Starbuck had made it all the way back to Caprica to try to pick up the Arrow of Apollo for our increasingly religious President Laura, only to get her ass kicked by an extremely vengeful Six, only then to discover that holy crap, SINCE WHEN WAS BOOMER A CYLON, AND WAIT CYLONS GET PREGNANT?! And speaking of 'pregnant', Gaius Baltar, humanity's resident doctor with a degree in going looney tunes, was dreaming all about being shown a super future Cylon baby in an amazingly restored opera house, complete with full orchestral accompaniment. (Ain't it grand what Cylon mental manipulation can pull off?)
And now we're back, and they didn't drop a single beat. So, so much to cover here that it's hard to know where to begin!
Starting on Kobol, then--yep, we're totally setting up to see Crashdown, well, crash down hard as a commander in a crisis situation. I almost feel sorry for the poor schmoo, being written into a situation where he cannot help but self-destruct. I'm really rather hoping that he'll realize in time that he is not suited to lead the landing party and will just suck it up and turn over command to the Chief. If this were a lesser show, I'd expect him to have to be bullied into it. Given that this is Battlestar, I'm rather more expecting him to get tragically and bloodily slain so that the Chief will have to take over anyway.
Baltar and Six--now hang on, so Gaius is now having visions that he's going to have a baby with his imaginary robot girlfriend? This would at least lead one to presume that at some point he will be having actual sex with Six, unless she somehow managed to swipe some DNA before he fled Caprica. But I like this concept as foreshadowing better. And there's also, I suppose, the possible angle that this may still be some sort of weird overlap with C-Boomer being actually pregnant--about which Baltar could go looney tunes. Er, uh, even more looney tunes than he already is.
Back on Caprica, with C-Boomer and Helo and Starbuck--definitely liking that Starbuck, after getting the shit kicked out of her, does in fact LOOK like she's gotten the shit kicked out of her. And liking that she's not about to make all nice with C-Boomer just because Helo tells her to. The standoff is expected--but not so much C-Boomer swiping the raider! Only question is, is she coming back? Bailing on Starbuck I could totally see, but it doesn't seem in character for her to run off on Helo without any warning at all...
Assuming, of course, that C-Boomer actually took the raider. Did we see any sign that she actually did it? All I saw was Helo and Starbuck going 'Wait, she's gone' and then the ship taking off.
And last, but not least, on the Galactica. HOO BOY.
The President locked up. Apollo locked up. A very confused and distressed G-Boomer locked up. It's luminary day in the Galactica brig! One wonders how many empty cells they've still got down there.
We're clearly seeing that even now, G-Boomer remains a sleeper agent--she didn't seem to realize at first what she'd done, and only after Tigh comes in later to confront her has she clued in. It'll be interesting to see what reasons they find to keep her alive--especially now that Cylon raiders have infiltrated the ship.
Not terribly surprising to see Lee and the President exchanging a few words of accord, and oh, the bitter resignation with Lee as he says he'd taken a stand for nothing. He at least gets to come out to fulfill his duties as the CAG, which is also not terribly surprising--I mean, they need every ship they've got flying, and he is the head pilot. Grounding him would be beyond stupid, and it's good to see Tigh knowing that. But also handling it in a way that makes it clear he's still in deep shit.
Nice little touches all throughout with Tigh's flashbacks to his history with Bill. Especially the part where he's about to set his uniform ON FIRE just before they come to tell him he's been reinstated into the Fleet. I also very much liked that he made a huge point of telling not only his wife but also the entire CIC crew that it was still very much Bill Adama's command--leaving no doubt whatsoever about his loyalties. Tigh may be a crufty recovering-alcoholic bastard, but he's clearly a solid, loyal, competent officer deep down. We got glimmers of this all throughout the first season and now it's starting to come out more clearly. Let's see if he can keep it up.
And now... Gaeta. Who all out there is wondering exactly whether Gaeta is another possible sleeper? Much speculation and Tivo-freeze-framing has happened amongst me and mine to try to figure out whether Mr. Gaeta was the one who handed G-Boomer her gun when she came onto the bridge... and now we've got all sorts of interested speculation going on about various and sundry of his actions all throughout the first season, too. Such as, oh, say, being Baltar's assistant on the development of the Cylon detector. Being the one who ever so conveniently found the evidence that proved that the incriminating pictures of Baltar infiltrating the Colonial defense mainframe were faked.
Now we have him being the one suggesting controversial things like networking computers together--oh sure, for a vital purpose, computing the position of the Fleet--but ain't it ever so interesting that the new coordinates somehow didn't get transmitted out to the rest of the ships before the Galactica jumped?
And any bets on whether all that business with the Cylons breaking through the firewalls was to distract the mainframe systems from detecting the CRAFT FULL OF CYLON ENFORCERS ABOUT TO BANG INTO THE SHIP?
Speaking of which, why the HELL didn't somebody get right down there to survey the damage and make sure that thing wasn't, like, y'know, FULL OF CYLON ENFORCERS OR SOMETHING?
Well, maybe we'll see that first thing next week. 'Cause, well, y'know we're all tuning in and stuff.
It's good to be back. So say we all.
(crossposted to my journal,
13th_colony, and bsg_women)When last we left our intrepid survivors of the annihilation of the human race, the Galactica was in the grip of mutiny, armed conflict, battered crash survivors stranded on the surface of Kobol and the skies crawling with Cylons, and Bill Adama bleeding to death because G-BOOMER HAD EFFING SHOT HIM. And Starbuck had made it all the way back to Caprica to try to pick up the Arrow of Apollo for our increasingly religious President Laura, only to get her ass kicked by an extremely vengeful Six, only then to discover that holy crap, SINCE WHEN WAS BOOMER A CYLON, AND WAIT CYLONS GET PREGNANT?! And speaking of 'pregnant', Gaius Baltar, humanity's resident doctor with a degree in going looney tunes, was dreaming all about being shown a super future Cylon baby in an amazingly restored opera house, complete with full orchestral accompaniment. (Ain't it grand what Cylon mental manipulation can pull off?)
And now we're back, and they didn't drop a single beat. So, so much to cover here that it's hard to know where to begin!
Starting on Kobol, then--yep, we're totally setting up to see Crashdown, well, crash down hard as a commander in a crisis situation. I almost feel sorry for the poor schmoo, being written into a situation where he cannot help but self-destruct. I'm really rather hoping that he'll realize in time that he is not suited to lead the landing party and will just suck it up and turn over command to the Chief. If this were a lesser show, I'd expect him to have to be bullied into it. Given that this is Battlestar, I'm rather more expecting him to get tragically and bloodily slain so that the Chief will have to take over anyway.
Baltar and Six--now hang on, so Gaius is now having visions that he's going to have a baby with his imaginary robot girlfriend? This would at least lead one to presume that at some point he will be having actual sex with Six, unless she somehow managed to swipe some DNA before he fled Caprica. But I like this concept as foreshadowing better. And there's also, I suppose, the possible angle that this may still be some sort of weird overlap with C-Boomer being actually pregnant--about which Baltar could go looney tunes. Er, uh, even more looney tunes than he already is.
Back on Caprica, with C-Boomer and Helo and Starbuck--definitely liking that Starbuck, after getting the shit kicked out of her, does in fact LOOK like she's gotten the shit kicked out of her. And liking that she's not about to make all nice with C-Boomer just because Helo tells her to. The standoff is expected--but not so much C-Boomer swiping the raider! Only question is, is she coming back? Bailing on Starbuck I could totally see, but it doesn't seem in character for her to run off on Helo without any warning at all...
Assuming, of course, that C-Boomer actually took the raider. Did we see any sign that she actually did it? All I saw was Helo and Starbuck going 'Wait, she's gone' and then the ship taking off.
And last, but not least, on the Galactica. HOO BOY.
The President locked up. Apollo locked up. A very confused and distressed G-Boomer locked up. It's luminary day in the Galactica brig! One wonders how many empty cells they've still got down there.
We're clearly seeing that even now, G-Boomer remains a sleeper agent--she didn't seem to realize at first what she'd done, and only after Tigh comes in later to confront her has she clued in. It'll be interesting to see what reasons they find to keep her alive--especially now that Cylon raiders have infiltrated the ship.
Not terribly surprising to see Lee and the President exchanging a few words of accord, and oh, the bitter resignation with Lee as he says he'd taken a stand for nothing. He at least gets to come out to fulfill his duties as the CAG, which is also not terribly surprising--I mean, they need every ship they've got flying, and he is the head pilot. Grounding him would be beyond stupid, and it's good to see Tigh knowing that. But also handling it in a way that makes it clear he's still in deep shit.
Nice little touches all throughout with Tigh's flashbacks to his history with Bill. Especially the part where he's about to set his uniform ON FIRE just before they come to tell him he's been reinstated into the Fleet. I also very much liked that he made a huge point of telling not only his wife but also the entire CIC crew that it was still very much Bill Adama's command--leaving no doubt whatsoever about his loyalties. Tigh may be a crufty recovering-alcoholic bastard, but he's clearly a solid, loyal, competent officer deep down. We got glimmers of this all throughout the first season and now it's starting to come out more clearly. Let's see if he can keep it up.
And now... Gaeta. Who all out there is wondering exactly whether Gaeta is another possible sleeper? Much speculation and Tivo-freeze-framing has happened amongst me and mine to try to figure out whether Mr. Gaeta was the one who handed G-Boomer her gun when she came onto the bridge... and now we've got all sorts of interested speculation going on about various and sundry of his actions all throughout the first season, too. Such as, oh, say, being Baltar's assistant on the development of the Cylon detector. Being the one who ever so conveniently found the evidence that proved that the incriminating pictures of Baltar infiltrating the Colonial defense mainframe were faked.
Now we have him being the one suggesting controversial things like networking computers together--oh sure, for a vital purpose, computing the position of the Fleet--but ain't it ever so interesting that the new coordinates somehow didn't get transmitted out to the rest of the ships before the Galactica jumped?
And any bets on whether all that business with the Cylons breaking through the firewalls was to distract the mainframe systems from detecting the CRAFT FULL OF CYLON ENFORCERS ABOUT TO BANG INTO THE SHIP?
Speaking of which, why the HELL didn't somebody get right down there to survey the damage and make sure that thing wasn't, like, y'know, FULL OF CYLON ENFORCERS OR SOMETHING?
Well, maybe we'll see that first thing next week. 'Cause, well, y'know we're all tuning in and stuff.
It's good to be back. So say we all.
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Date: 2005-07-16 08:01 am (UTC)BAD theory-stealer! BAD!
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Date: 2005-07-16 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-16 09:18 pm (UTC)I can buy your other points, though!
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Date: 2005-07-16 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-18 04:14 pm (UTC)Also, "oh, he's just bonkers" as an explanation for what's going on with him in my opinion weakens the story in "Six Degrees of Separation", back in season 1. The Six that showed up on the Galactica to try to frame him becomes way too big of a random coincidence, as does Gaeta's sudden fortuitous discovery of the evidence clearing him--right after he expresses what Six wants to hear out of him, i.e., repentance.
And if G-Boomer (or Gaeta, if we're going to start suspecting him of Cylonitude, now) is somehow conveying data back to whichever Six is running around Caprica or wherever, this would imply that they are capable of conveying spy-type data from Galactica back to the Cylons in the Colonial system. Which I totally buy. However, I also strongly suspect that the communication goes both ways. They must also be capable of getting information onto the Galactica--which is exactly why I think Six is actively manipulating Gaius from afar. Whether she's doing it via a chip in his head or through some means that takes advantage of G-Boomer or some other Cylon agent on board, I don't know, but I think she's definitely actively messing with him.
In addition to his going looney tunes, that is. It's really rather cyclical. ;)
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Date: 2005-07-16 07:40 pm (UTC)it did look a bit like they told the makeup crew "okay, give her a goatee of blood."
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Date: 2005-07-16 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-18 06:16 pm (UTC)Gaeta is *so* a Cylon! I suspected him from the mini, from that "Oh, I never saw the Cylon transponder in C&C," and the evidence just keeps mounting. I think he's a sleeper like Sharon...
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Date: 2005-07-18 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-19 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-19 01:33 am (UTC)