Season 2 Episode 6: Home: Part 1

In which the fleet begins to splinter, as well as several walnuts in Adama’s fist.

• The fleet is splitting up between military and governmental factions. “I don’t count those that follow a religious fanatic and a terrorist.” Well, Adama, when you put it that way...
• The splitting representatives, Apollo, and the Pres discuss what should happen next as they wait for Starbuck’s return with the Arrow of Apollo. Zarek wants to weaponize all of their ships, which Lee assures is suicide. If the Galactica wants to destroy them, it will.
• Now they have to go down to Kobol, but the scriptures say that whoever goes will go with a price.
• Starbuck returns! Lee kisses her. She seems hesitant. Anders on her mind?
• Boomer is back. Lee isn’t having it. Now everyone’s pointing guns at each other.

Can't we all just get along?

• Out the airlock?! Madam President doesn’t play games. Sharon better watch herself.
  

• Adama is having stress issues. Tigh is starting to seem like the sane one, which is bad.
• Who is this new CAG? George? What?
• So saying that Earth is a myth is now considered slander. Adama, don’t lose it.
• Haven’t seen Gaius in awhile. Look at him, lounging against wall, cigarette in hand. He seems much calmer than usual.

• Aboard the Astral Queen…watching Sharon and the President interact is a real treat. Pregnant-Sharon seems to be much tougher than her now-dead counterpart.

• Looks like training the new recruits is harder when Starbuck isn’t in charge.

• Lee is being a dick. Starbuck should show him the scars from her friggin’ ovaries. Maybe that’ll shut him up.

• Zarek says he does not believe the President is a prophet, but he does believe in the power of myth, and so she has to be kept alive. But now him and…whoever that guy with him is…get the bright idea of using the situation to advance their own ideologies. To do that, they need a place of power, which means a “particular man” has to die on Kobol. Do they mean Apollo?

• Tigh sounds so Canadian. I need to look up that actor.

• Don’t mess with Starbuck’s ball.
• “Must’ve been hard being on Caprica.” You have no idea, Lee. Is he being sincere or sarcastic? It's hard to tell with him sometimes.
  

• The Kobol journey begins. The priest is the first to die when she steps on a landmine.

• Is…is Adama making a model ship?
• Dee has officially gained my respect. It takes guts to tell the Admiral when he’s wrong, especially when he’s in such an angry state of mind.

Thoughts/Questions: No new ones for now!

Season 2 Episode 5: The Farm

In which the Admiral goes after the now-prophet President, and Starbuck has a little surgery done.

• Okay, Adama. LET’S FIX STUFF.
• Yep, Starbuck and new guy hit it off. Can’t blame her. Just look at that face.
• The Caprica Co. is ambushed…but by who/what? Cylons? Another surviving group of humans?
• STARBUCK IS SHOT. Hang in there, girl!

• Seeing Zarek and the Pres on the same side strikes me as hilarious for some reason.
• When Apollo finds out his dad is alive…his facial expressions are priceless. Warm fuzzies.
• Aaand then Zarek & co. tell him to denounce the Admiral’s actions against the President. Poor kid.
• “I love my father.” So many warm fuzzies!
• “How does this thing work?!” Old people and technology. I love it.

• Starbuck is alive, which is great, but where is she?
• Wait, the hot guy died?! Damn.
• Wow, Starbuck is really affected by his death for having known him for like a day. I guess I’m just not used to seeing her cry.

• Cally is in the brig now. I’m starting to think half the force is in the brig now.

• I like the doctor that is taking care of Starbuck. He's really nice.
  
  
  He seems like such a sweetheart.

• “You have a cyst on one of your ovaries.” That’s totally going to come back later.
• Apparently Starbuck was abused a kid. I guess I should have guess that her toughness is a self-defense mechanism for whatever trauma she's suffered, but I suppose I just assumed she is a natural badass.

• Adama isn’t buying the religious card the President has played. I don’t know if the President actually believes in it herself, or if she’s just looking for a way to assume control again.
• “Nobody is going to follow her.” Adama, you didn’t see the 12 representatives fall on their faces two seconds after the President stated she was a prophet.

• Pregnant-Sharon is back for a couple seconds. She wants to stick with Helo. Why is it she is the only cylon that seems to have multiple copies running around at the same time?

• Starbuck notices a new scar on her abdomen. Did they harvest her eggs? What sort of a facility is this…? This doctor is starting to seem too nice.
• Oh shi*. Six is in the hospital. GET OUT OF THERE, SB.
• Does this mean the doctor is a cylon? Is he one of the 12 models?
• Doesn't matter now. Stabby, stabby.
• Starbuck finds her new buddies hooked up to some sort of egg-harvesting/baby-making machines, and must cut the power on them all. It's an act of mercy. They are in much worse shape than she is.

I found this scene to be particularly disturbing.

• BAM. Starbuck smacks Six with a freakin’ fire extinguisher. NICE.
• …and she’s able to escape with the rest of the basketball team.

• Adama visits dead-Boomer in the morgue and gets really emotional. He really does care about his crew.

• Pregnant-Sharon tells Starbuck, Helo, & Co. that they – the cylons – have been unsuccessful at breeding, which is why they took Starbuck’s eggs. She tells her she (SB) is special, and that all the cylons know this. Yet she never says exactly why.
• She also points out that she has no idea what the second scar is for on SB’s abdomen. Can’t be good.
• So hot guy is not dead? Or is this someone else? I’m getting confused. Whatever the case, he’s hidden the arrow.
• Aw, Starbuck really likes this guy.

Thoughts/Questions: That hospital facility really creeps me out. How are they going to make babies with just eggs? Is the problem that the cylon women do not have any eggs at all, or are they infertile for other reasons? Isn’t Sharon a pregnant cylon, though? Hmm.

Adama is really pissed at the President. I can’t say I blame him. If I woke up to find that my rival was running around saying they are a prophet and taking away my supporters, I’d be angry too. Is she really a prophet, though? The President can be difficult to read. On the one hand, she seems to believe the Pithia scriptures, but on the other, she’s very ‘logical’ in how she does everything. Considering she called it ‘playing the religious card’, it seems that she doesn’t really believe it herself, but is so dedicated to keeping the colonies together that she is willing to compromise her identity. Also, I’ve never associated sci-fi shows with religion before. They’re usually focused solely on the science aspect, so this is new for me.

Does Adama know the President has cancer? I’m assuming that, since he knows that she thinks she’s this prophet, she is terminally ill in some way. If that’s the case, he doesn’t seem to care, which makes me sad.

I still want to see Tigh punished.

Season 2 Episode 4: Resistance

In which the fleet begins to splinter under martial law, and several previously annoying characters take a level in badass.

• It doesn’t matter how much fuzz you grow, Col. Tigh. You will always look like John McCain to me.
• I wish someone would smack him with his flask.
• Chief is locked in a cell with Boomer. She seems to be very apologetic for shooting the Admiral. Perhaps the cylons hijacked her body to do it? I don’t know. I still don’t really like her.
• There are more human survivors on Caprica, apparently.
• Starbuck, you’re a professional soldier. Everyone knows guns akimbo does not actually work. And don’t shoot a gun upside down and behind you. You’re just wasting bullets and you know it.

• Looks like the whole martial law thing isn’t working out so great. I hadn’t thought about the other ships in the fleet giving fuel to the Galactica. Hopefully oil (or whatever they call it) is a good enough incentive to get Tigh back in line.
• “Toaster.” Haha. I get it.
• While on his way back to the brig, Apollo holds little meet-ups with Dee to get updates on his dad. I have to agree with her: it would be much better if he (Apollo) was in charge.
• So, it’s actually Mrs. Tigh who’s in charge, huh? Seems we have a bit of a Macbeth situation on our hands. I was hoping he could at least come up with his own stupid ideas.

• I like how the music changes when different characters are on the screen. Or rather, the percussion changes. I had noticed it with Six, but now it seems Col. Tigh has his own rhythm, too.
• And now there are riots and civilians are dying. Great.
• “Four civilians dead. How the frak could this happen?” “What did you expect, genius? You put a pilot in charge of crowd control.” I love the doctor.
• Even in her drugged state, the President summarizes everything with total clarity. With a splintered fleet, the cylons could pick them off, one ship at a time.
• Possible prison break?

• I didn’t know Tigh’s first name is Saul. This says wonders about his character. HISTORY/BIBLE LESSON: In the Old Testament, Saul was the first King of Israel, and he went from being a literal godsend to a blunderer to an insane megalomaniac. At one point, he ordered the military to go without food until they destroyed the enemy, and even tried to have his son, an officer who rebelled against the order, executed. David (from the story David & Goliath) was chosen by God to be the next king because Saul abused his power. Saul eventually fell on his sword in battle, whether by suicide or accident is still debated.
• Then there is Saul of Tarsus, aka Paul, from the New Testament. A Pharisee, Saul was a huge persecutor of early Christians. When on the road to Damascus to arrest other followers of Jesus, he had a vision of the Lord and spoke with Him. The experience blinded Saul temporarily. After that, Saul became an apostle of Jesus and did some crazy awesome stuff for his religion, like writing a lot of the New Testament.
• SO my point is, there’s a possibility Tigh will go the King Saul route – go crazy, get replaced by a much younger dude, and commit suicide – or the Saul Paul way – redeem himself in some epic way, get arrested, die a martyr. Or both. Whatever the case, I bet some big shiz is in store with his character.
• Then again, I could be reading into this WAY too much.

• Gaius comes into Chief and Boomer’s cell to do some cylon testing.
• SHI* Gaius, why are you killing Chief?? Sharon, do something!
• OH WAIT GAIUS IS ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING SMART OMGWHLKJFL:KDJSFFFF
• OK, there are 8 cylons onboard, according to Boomer. She’s one of them. Then there is Ellen Tigh. Maybe. That leaves…quite a few unknowns left.
• The Tigh’s have a really awkward relationship.
• So Madam President wants the doctor to do something illegal? Ma’am, do you see that cigarette in his mouth? I think it’s okay.
• DEE IS ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING SMART OMGWHLKJFL:KDJSFFFF
• To clarify: she gets Tigh to sign some documents while he's inebriated/not really paying attention.
  
• And I should note: she is not crying. At all. Awesome.
• Yeah, Cally! Throw those punches!
  
• This episode is great for so many characters.
• Lee is such a bad liar.

• Who is this chick blocking the President’s way out? Random.
• Billy tells the President he is not going with her and Apollo on the escape pod thingy because he fears starting a civil war amongst the fleet. No offense, Billy, but I’m not sure you’re that important.
• Tigh tells Hotdog to hold fire on the President’s ship as they escape. Phew. He still sort of has a heart.
  
• Oh shoot. I think Tigh knows Dee did something. She better start glassing up those eyes. Nobody can be mean to her then.
  
• Apollo reveals to the Pres. that Zarek is the only one who knew shady-enough people to hide them.
  
• Zarek totally wants to make out with the President. He wants her to call him Tom. D’awww.
• You better hope Adama stays unconscious...
• Back on Caprica.... I love fake basketball in space shows! It always looks way funner than its real counterpart.
• Aaaand Sharon is crying again. This time, though, I don’t blame her. Being the Galactica’s lab rat cannot be good.
  

I guess I'd be in a perpetual state of tears, too, if all the bad stuff always happened to me.

• ADAMA YOU’RE ALIVE!!!!
• “What’s happening on my ship?”
• “I’ve really fracked things up. I’ve made some bad calls.” At least Tigh is sort of honest.
• Honestly, though, if you’re second-in-command, shouldn’t you at least have an inkling as to what to do in case your superior is incapacitated?
• Whoa. Sharon is down. Shot by Cally, no less. I…I have nothing to say about this.
• I like this emphasis on the blood drop. Shows that the cylons are living beings, too.

• Thoughts/Questions: So the President has “escaped” and Adama is back on the scene. Is he going to punish Tigh’s awfulness at all? All he’s said so far is that he and the alcy can “pick up the pieces together.” Is Tigh’s wife really a cylon or is she just a psycho? Is Gaius becoming more competent as a hero? He really took control in the brig cell, without a shred of his usual squirming. How is he going to have this ‘baby’ that Six keeps talking about? What happened to Pregnant-Sharon back on Caprica? She seems to have just disappeared. Is Starbuck going to hook up with this hot new guy? Probably.

Well hello there, handsome.

Season 2 Episode 3: Fragged

In which John McCain Col. Tigh learns that being the Admiral is hard work.

• Apparently Adama won’t make it if his internal bleeding isn’t stopped. I thought the doctors said they “stopped the bleeding” at the end of the last episode, but I guess not.
• Whoo boy. Three minutes in and Tigh is already hitting the bottle. I guess seeing pieces of Adama all over a medical room full of arguing, inexperienced “doctors” is just a bit too much.
• I find it funny it takes just one swig to make Tigh spout off like an idiot.
• “Why aren’t you in the brig?!”
• “Because nobody put me in there...?”
• From the look in his eyes, it seems that every time Tigh opens his mouth, a little piece of Lee’s soul dies.
• You’d think being second in command would entail knowing what to do if your superior passed away.
• HOLY SHI- Madam President, don’t shout like that! I had the volume up really high…
• The guy guarding the brig really had no idea what he was signing up for.

• Now we’re back on Kobol, where the gang has stumbled upon a Cylon missile building site.
• Gaius is looking more and more like Jesus every day. Which I guess is the idea.
• “Your race invented murder. You invented killing for sport, greed, envy…” I won’t deny Six that humans invented murder. But I’m pretty sure humankind began killing because they needed food before they did it for greed or whatever.
• I just enjoy correcting her because she’s astronomically prettier than me.

• Still confused on the child messiah thing. I still don’t really know if the Six in Gaius’ head is real or not. If she’s just a memory, how can she have a baby? If she’s real, where is she? On Caprica? How is she going to have a baby?
• Every time Tigh calls Adama “old man” I can’t help but grin.
• Oh, look, Zarek is still around! I forgot he is still a representative of his colony.
• It’s remarkable how much he looks like Rick Perry at some angles. Which makes it even more hilarious when he talks, making it look like the guv is saying ridiculous things such as “democracy” and “human rights.”
• This is the most blustered I’ve seen the President, and frankly, it’s scaring me.
• And now she’s hearing a ringing sound.

• Meanwhile, on Kobol…
• Crashdown suggests the 5 of them attack the centurions that killed their buddies in order to destroy the antiaircraft gun. Did he not see what damage just one of them did on the Galactica?! …Oh, right, he wasn’t there.
• Yeah, Crashdown, let’s scream at people and then tell the Chief to keep his cool.
• OK, Crashdown is/has gone crazy. For the first time in this series, I am totally with Gaius. Take note.

• Meanwhile, on the Galactica… President’s drugs are working. I think? Billy and the guard say she needs her drugs, but didn’t the doctor give her that experimental extract stuff earlier?
• Tigh is still a-drinkin’. His wife is still a b*tch.
• Oh, wait. They’ve established she’s an undercover cylon. I had forgotten.

• Six’s hair is gorgeous. I mean, she’s so pretty, but her hair is really amazing. I think I want mine that length this spring… *goes to look up hairstyle on ze nets…*
• “One of you will turn on the others.” Uh, oh.

• Tigh is going, going, gone.

• The rescue ships are finally deployed. The gang of five checks out the cylons and finds out that there are more of them than they thought. Well, maybe there are more than they thought. Crap.
• I just have to say, Cally’s facial expressions through this whole episode are fantastic. She looks so completely scared, anxious, and unsure that she really conveys the mood. Nobody wants to defy orders, but everyone (besides Crashdown) clearly believes this plan is fubar.
• OH SHI- Crashdown pulls a gun on her. Come on Chief, take him down, take him down!
• Gaius?!
  
  
  …I thought he’d never handled a gun before…? (Is that the point?)
  
  
• “Now you’re a man.” Great message, Six.
• Big battle time.
• Chief blows up the dish. Even when shot in the side, the Chief still rocks.
• I really hope that lady survives.
• Chief takes out the remaining cylons. Did spraying bullets while yelling incoherently actually work? My respect for the Chief has grown exponentially during this episode.

• Oh, crap. Tigh takes the delegates to see the President. The Quorum is going to see how loopy she is. They’re going to think she’s gone crazy!
• I really, really hate Tigh.
• Oh dear. She’s talking. …but she sounds coherent.
• And now she’s told them about the cancer. What then, Tigh! Shut the hell up.
• Zarek looks on…pityingly?
• As touching as it all is, it’s still a bit odd how quickly all of the colonial representatives accept the President as a prophet.
• Martial law? Under Tigh?! BAD. VERY BAD.
  
• Wake up, Adama!