Battlestar Galactica“Six of One”
Original Air Date: April 11, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
So, remember when I was all full of contempt because last week’s episode was to be continued? I take it back. That was totally worth the wait. Maybe not as completely nail biting as last week, but it was still an amazing force of writing. I have questions for you guys, but I’ll try to keep from writing a novella, I promise. And I’m going to try something new instead of jumping from scene to scene. Here we go.
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Original Air Date: April 11, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
So, remember when I was all full of contempt because last week’s episode was to be continued? I take it back. That was totally worth the wait. Maybe not as completely nail biting as last week, but it was still an amazing force of writing. I have questions for you guys, but I’ll try to keep from writing a novella, I promise. And I’m going to try something new instead of jumping from scene to scene. Here we go.
We jump right back in with the hostage situation. Starbuck is holding Laura at gunpoint, as Tigh, Helo and the military make their way down do Adama’s quarters. Starbuck brings up the point that she did a favor for Laura based on nothing more than a vision when she went down to Caprica to get the Arrow of Apollo. She sort of has a point. Then she slams her gun on a table and demands that Laura shoot her. “If I’m a cylon, shoot me!” Laura looks way strung out on her Diloxin meds. Starbuck says that Laura knows “I’m no more a cylon than you are”. Laura says she’s not so sure about that. Starbuck keeps yelling and then Laura says “They made you perfect, didn’t they?” picks up the gun and fires. The military et al storms in and we see that Laura missed Starbuck. She shot a framed photo of Bill standing with Laura in the corridors of Galactica that looks suspiciously like a promotional shot from season two. Anyway, it’s supposed to be foreshadowing for ‘CAUTION: ROUGH TIMES AHEAD’. Adama comes in and his facial expressions make me giggle, but he’s clearly about to come unhinged and start killing people with his bare hands. Starbuck keeps screaming and yelling about Earth as the military drags her out. Starbuck gets in one more piece of hilarity directed at Laura: “You better work on your aim!” Heh.
Adama goes to see Starbuck in the brig. He’s looking at her with the face of doom, and asks her what she was thinking, because the President really could have been an ally. Bill and his super scary face of rage lean in and he asks Starbuck “who’s gonna help your now?” She snaps right back and pretty much tells Bill that he’s whipped by the President. Apparently that’s the wrong thing to say since he throws her on the ground and starts choking her. She cries and says it’s nice to see he still cares about her on some level, and as he leaves she screams about Earth some more. After he leaves, he goes and starts drinking. Because drinking after a fit of rage always leads to good things. In his quarters, he decides it’ll be fun to go at it with Laura, and not in the way that would make shippers unite.
Laura is writing in her journal and comments that Bill is totally getting hammered. He makes up a lame excuse, citing that he was drinking with Lee to celebrate his promotion to delegate for Sagittaron. Laura makes a face like ‘celebration ended four hours ago’, and actually snorts her disapproval. Being glib, she asks if they should put Starbuck on trial and find Romo Lampkin to defend her. Clearly she’s not over that whole trial of Gaius Baltar thing. They go back and forth for a while and Laura makes it clear that she does not and will not trust Starbuck with the fate of the fleet. Bill says that maybe Starbuck coming back was a miracle, and Laura calls him Admiral Atheist. Heh. She breaks it down for him, saying that Starbuck was ready to die which clearly means there are more copies of her on stand by. The real miracle she says, is that by some twist of fate, on the day of the attacks, she found out she had terminal cancer, she was elected President after humanity was wiped out, and her cancer disappeared just long enough for her to get the fleet on the path to Earth. Bill keeps denying that Laura is actually dying. “You can stay in the room, but get out of my head.” She tells him he’s just afraid of living alone. He tells her that she’s afraid of dying that way and maybe her life and death are meaningless. He leaves her alone and she manages to suppress her tears until she runs her fingers through her hair and parts of it fall out. Then she cries and it’s heart breaking because Laura Roslin hasn’t really cried since Billy died.
Bill heads down to the hanger deck with Helo and Starbuck in tow. He’s still not sure about Kara, and he’s still with the President on not endangering the fleet. So, he gives Starbuck the garbage dump ship (literally) and tells her to go find Earth. Poor Helo. He has to go by default because he’s like the XO when Tigh’s drunk and then the rest of the time he gets to ride in the garbage truck with crazy people.
Over on the cylon side of things the hybrid is spouting things like ‘please cut the line’ and ‘they will not harm their own’. Cavil and a Six model are arguing because the Raiders are suddenly cognizant of who the final Cylons are as evidenced by their hesitation to shoot in the battle last week against the Viper pilots. The Six model (Natalie) is against lobotomizing the Raiders but no decisions can be made without a vote. Cavils, Simons, and Doyles all say make the Raiders killing machines with no thoughts. Sharons, Capricas, and Leobans say nay, but then the Boomer version of Sharon swings the vote in the lobotomizing direction. Natalie won’t take this kind of crap so she removes the centurions block on free thinking, making them sentient. A massacre occurs and all the pro lobotomy Cylons are killed. Man, Natalie is B.A. She wants the chance to know the final five Cylons, and she’ll take you out if you don’t agree.
Gaius is being spied on by Tory because maybe he knows something about the final Cylon. She decides to sleep with him for the information and Gaius starts seeing his own Head Gaius which is one of the most comical things ever. It pretty much boils down to Head Gaius telling Plain Crazy Gaius that there is something special with Tory and to handle her with care.
My questions are as follows:
1. Why is Six the only Cylon that can change her hair color from platinum blonde to brunette?
2. What kind of wrath will incur once Laura finds out that Bill let Starbuck go on a mission?
3. Does Natalie want peace with the humans, and will she kill the other cylons to get it?
I guess we could call them 6.1 and 6.2. LOL. I personally think Six looks better as a brunette, but you make a good point. I would certainly like to know the answer to that too. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd, dear God, Laura is not going to get over that ANY time soon, I fear. I almost feel sorry for the Old Man right now. Family squabbles. How cute. ;)