BSG 3.02: "Exodus, Part 1" (Belated)
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annathepiperI kept meaning to get this posted all week, but this is what I get for being hardcore into editing mode and also not being able to post while I'm at work. So! I wanted to get this out, though, before tomorrow night's episode airs. This will be a bit scattered as I haven't watched the episode again, and not as complete as I'd like it to be, as I'm going by what I remember from last week.
Nice back-and-forth at the beginning, between Sharon and her team from the Galactica hooking up with the insurgents led by Anders, and the team being led by the Chief closing in on the detention convey. I was really half-expecting Cally to get shot at that point, and am relieved she didn't.
Some really nice bits with Baltar and Six, too, and Six sorrowfully observing how Baltar has sunk into despair. I was genuinely not sure whether she was a corporeal Six again, or whether she was still Hallucination!Six. It will be very interesting indeed to see what Six decides to do about it.
Very, very interesting that the primary Three has started having prophetic dreams, ain't it? I particularly liked that she wound up seeking a human Oracle for guidance on what exactly she was experiencing, and I loved that Oracle character as well. Especially her wistful asides about how she wished she had some candy--and oh my gosh, she's got kamala root. Continuity! Yay!
The followup later, when Sharon (I can't think of that Boomer as anything but Sharon now) shows up to break into the detention center and runs into that Three, was also very well done. Nice that the Three almost got to her by the temptation of offering her the chance to hold her child again, and I just couldn't help but wince as Sharon resolutely proclaimed, "Adama wouldn't lie to me." Because oh. My. God. Had to go back and find the plot summary of "Downloaded" from last season to try to figure out if Adama actually knows that little Hera is still alive. I know he was in on the discussion about what to do with the kid, at least according to the recap up on Television Without Pity. But it's not clear to me whether he knows that the President snatched the kid and handed her off in secret to an adoptive mother. I know the Doctor knows, but does Adama?
'Cause if he does, oh man, I am not looking forward to what happens when Sharon finds out. There's going to be hell to pay there.
Very, very interesting to learn that successive downloads get progressively more agonizing, thanks to those little throwaway remarks by the primary Cavil model. Makes me really wonder whether a Cylon has limitless regeneration capability, or is there a point at which it is so painful to download that death is actually preferable? I wonder if we'll find out.
That last look at Tigh as Ellen sorrowfully babbles out her confession about what she's done--damn. That was intense. I now have quite a bit more respect for his actor, because in that single expression, especially that intense, focused horror in his single visible eye, he stunningly conveyed exactly what this realization has done to him. Holy shit. And to think that these two characters were the source of much vexation and ridicule in Season One. They have grown immensely.
Best thing in the episode, hands down: Adama's pep speech at the end. That right there was a Thing of Beauty, and fit in wonderfully with the Chief's "We're going home!". With his every syllable, you could feel resolve sweeping through the crew of the Galactica. Dara and I both knew exactly what the last line of that speech would be, and we were only vaguely disappointed that it wound up being Helo who uttered the magic words:
"Set Condition One throughout the ship."
But gods, that was perfect. Those were exactly the right words to end that episode, and exactly the right words to get Season Three's feet under it and to let us know that why yes, we are bringing the Galactica back into business. And Dara laughingly told me after it was over that it really says something kind of fucked up about how the "normal" scenario we're all anxious to return to is "40,000-odd human survivors desperately fleeing the Cylons in a ragtag fugitive fleet", doesn't it? ;)
Bring on Part 2. I'm ready.
Nice back-and-forth at the beginning, between Sharon and her team from the Galactica hooking up with the insurgents led by Anders, and the team being led by the Chief closing in on the detention convey. I was really half-expecting Cally to get shot at that point, and am relieved she didn't.
Some really nice bits with Baltar and Six, too, and Six sorrowfully observing how Baltar has sunk into despair. I was genuinely not sure whether she was a corporeal Six again, or whether she was still Hallucination!Six. It will be very interesting indeed to see what Six decides to do about it.
Very, very interesting that the primary Three has started having prophetic dreams, ain't it? I particularly liked that she wound up seeking a human Oracle for guidance on what exactly she was experiencing, and I loved that Oracle character as well. Especially her wistful asides about how she wished she had some candy--and oh my gosh, she's got kamala root. Continuity! Yay!
The followup later, when Sharon (I can't think of that Boomer as anything but Sharon now) shows up to break into the detention center and runs into that Three, was also very well done. Nice that the Three almost got to her by the temptation of offering her the chance to hold her child again, and I just couldn't help but wince as Sharon resolutely proclaimed, "Adama wouldn't lie to me." Because oh. My. God. Had to go back and find the plot summary of "Downloaded" from last season to try to figure out if Adama actually knows that little Hera is still alive. I know he was in on the discussion about what to do with the kid, at least according to the recap up on Television Without Pity. But it's not clear to me whether he knows that the President snatched the kid and handed her off in secret to an adoptive mother. I know the Doctor knows, but does Adama?
'Cause if he does, oh man, I am not looking forward to what happens when Sharon finds out. There's going to be hell to pay there.
Very, very interesting to learn that successive downloads get progressively more agonizing, thanks to those little throwaway remarks by the primary Cavil model. Makes me really wonder whether a Cylon has limitless regeneration capability, or is there a point at which it is so painful to download that death is actually preferable? I wonder if we'll find out.
That last look at Tigh as Ellen sorrowfully babbles out her confession about what she's done--damn. That was intense. I now have quite a bit more respect for his actor, because in that single expression, especially that intense, focused horror in his single visible eye, he stunningly conveyed exactly what this realization has done to him. Holy shit. And to think that these two characters were the source of much vexation and ridicule in Season One. They have grown immensely.
Best thing in the episode, hands down: Adama's pep speech at the end. That right there was a Thing of Beauty, and fit in wonderfully with the Chief's "We're going home!". With his every syllable, you could feel resolve sweeping through the crew of the Galactica. Dara and I both knew exactly what the last line of that speech would be, and we were only vaguely disappointed that it wound up being Helo who uttered the magic words:
"Set Condition One throughout the ship."
But gods, that was perfect. Those were exactly the right words to end that episode, and exactly the right words to get Season Three's feet under it and to let us know that why yes, we are bringing the Galactica back into business. And Dara laughingly told me after it was over that it really says something kind of fucked up about how the "normal" scenario we're all anxious to return to is "40,000-odd human survivors desperately fleeing the Cylons in a ragtag fugitive fleet", doesn't it? ;)
Bring on Part 2. I'm ready.
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Date: 2006-10-20 04:03 pm (UTC)Also, what did you think of the Kara storyline? I really had hoped that what we had seen at the end of the previous episode was KAra playing Leoben to get the hell out of there. I don't trust the Cylons motives in regards to Kaycee and I thought Kara wouldn't fall for it.
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Date: 2006-10-20 11:39 pm (UTC)And how many times has Kara killed CKR!Cylon so far?
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