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!