Sunday, March 8, 2009

Battlestar Galactica - Recap & Review - Islanded in a Stream of Stars

Battlestar Galactica
Islanded in a Stream of Stars

Original Air Date: March 6, 2009

Brittany – Associate Staff Writer
Brittany@thetwocentscorp.com

The only thing I could think while I was trying to figure out where to start this recap was This ship is going down faster than Titanic. Maybe not literally, but with all the groans and light flickering it was an easy thought to have. Plus, have you ever listened closely to the soundtrack? Some of the songs have that Titanic feel to them. I don’t know; I hope this connection isn’t my brain’s way of coping with the end of the show. And it hasn’t even ended yet. We are on the final notes though, so let’s get to it.

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4 comments:

  1. The only thing I could think while I was trying to figure out where to start this recap was This ship is going down faster than Titanic. Maybe not literally, but with all the groans and light flickering it was an easy thought to have. Plus, have you ever listened closely to the soundtrack? Some of the songs have that Titanic feel to them. I don’t know; I hope this connection isn’t my brain’s way of coping with the end of the show. And it hasn’t even ended yet. We are on the final notes though, so let’s get to it.

    I’m starting with the two things that hit me emotionally in the gut first: Adama deciding that it was time to abandon ship and his realization that he couldn’t fix the ship any easier than he could fix Laura. When he was taking out his anger with the paint in his quarters and then finally broke down you could see it in his eyes: ‘There’s no hope for this ship. There’s no hope for Laura. What am I without these two things?’ Because his entire life has been that ship and his survival can be credited to Laura. Two ladies who intermingle and coincide deeply in his heart. It was a touching yet surprisingly amusing moment when Bill decided to take up reading to Laura once again and she directed him to the remains of a joint she’d stashed in her book. Their conversation weighed heavy on both of them as Bill realized that Laura’s idea of home had changed: even if she’d had a cabin, the cabin was nothing without Bill. Bill is her home.

    And now I’ll step off my emotional high horse and recap the rest of the show.

    Anders is now an actual hybrid. I’m unsure of the science behind plugging him up into the ship, but once he is, he starts talking cryptically. (Is it just me, or do you miss the female hybrid, too?) He again tells Kara that she’s the harbinger of death, says something about a hole being in the bucket (Galactica’s nickname is The Bucket) and is generally hybrid-ish. Tigh demands that he/it be unplugged due to the possibility that he’ll jump the ship which would blow it to pieces. Kara tries to kill him; to put him out of his misery but later sits with him so that they can try to figure everything out together.

    Meanwhile, while Kara isn’t holing herself up with her husband-turned-hybrid, she’s sitting in open stalls in the bathroom doing her business while Baltar shaves. Honestly, you have to see it to appreciate it, but it’s classic Starbuck. She gives him her dog tags; the ones identical to the pair she’s wearing and tells him to run some tests to prove whether or not she’s actually ‘a dead chick’. He does, and at a funeral for the men and women lost as Galactica ripped apart at the seams, he tells the crowd that she is the walking dead. Kara slaps him one, but not before Adama, Lee, and everyone else (Cylons and all) know that the (dead) cat is out of the bag. In private, Lee steps up to her, telling her that dead or alive, he’s with her.

    Boomer still has Hera in the Raptor and is taking her someplace called ‘the Colony’ (which reminded me of The X-Files, but I digress.) where Cavil is waiting. Hera is understandably confused and crying for her mother but she and Boomer finally bond via projection. When the little girl is finally given over to Cavil, she cries for Boomer while the Eight cries…because she knows Hera’s fate? Or because she genuinely cares now?

    That’s it, Galactica watchers. We have two episodes left. I think about that and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but it is safe to say that it will be hard letting the old girl go. How do you feel about the end being near? Are you glad that the show will get to end on its own terms? Are you happy with where the end is heading? I’m still convinced they’ll all end up on Kobol. That or everyone dies in a great blaze of glory. Where do you see it ending? Shoot me an email with all your theories or leave your Two Cents in the comments!

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  2. I'm so over this show. I wish the ship would just explode and kill everyone -- cylon, human, dagget EVERYONE.

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  3. Oh, Jeff... you silly, silly man!

    I am still LOVING the show and am also torn as to whether to laugh or cry because we're so close to the end. Two episodes... and a TON of questions to answer. Whew! I'm having heart palpitations!

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  4. You think they're really going to answer your questions? I bet you'll be more pissed off about this show than the stupid Soprano's ending.

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