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.