Battlestar Galactica Webisodes, "The Face of the Enemy"
BSG Season 4.5 starts this Friday night! I'd totally throw a viewing party, but I don't have cable and it's no fun to huddle 'round a computer. :-P
That's right, as the icon indicates, it's revealed in Face of the Enemy that in fact Gaeta is gay! Webisode 1 shows our one-legged hero smooching goodbye to Mr. Hoshi! Let me just say this was the most adorable yet unexpected (Hoshi is a bit player) pairing. It is just full of squee for me, unlike recent BSG pairings that leave me creeped out (Tigh/Caprica 6, Boomer/Cavil).
But by the middle of the webisodes we find he's actually bisexual, as he was previously in a creepy relationship with one of the 8's (Sharons) in his time on New Caprica. The writer commentary (which was in the "enhanced" webisode versions) indicated Gaeta had previously been "guessed" by fans as a gay character because he hadn't had any on-screen relationships. And rather than disappoint the fans with evidence to the contrary, they had him in the relationship with Hoshi as well as the 8. Personally, I had taken my clues from the D'Anna interview, that Gaeta was initially very career-focused and had forsworn relationships entirely while he focused on advancement. I had figured he would eventually end up with Dualla, as he seems a much better fit for her than Lee ever was (although I never have forgiven Dualla for cheating on Billy).
Anyway, enough about relationships/sexuality, there was a plot here, right? The webisode format necessarily makes the story kind of simplistic, and with a weird lurching rhythm; Unavoidable due to needing a "cliffhanger" every 3-4 minutes. The setup is that Gaeta is sent to another ship and the fleet makes an emergency jump when he's on route via raptor. Inside are the raptor pilots, several Galactica crew, and two Cylon 8's, one of which he had sexual history with on New Caprica. As they desperately try to find their way back to the fleet, one by one the raptor occupants get killed, starting with the other 8/Sharon.
It turns out that Gaeta's 8 is, and has always been, a sociopath, and she's the murderer. She had messed with Gaeta's mind on New Caprica - claiming she had saved people from extermination camps, when actually she hastened their demise. She kills the other occupants of the raptor so she and Gaeta can have more oxygen. Gaeta hears this and kills her in disgust, leaving himself the sole survivor of the raptor massacre. He almost kills himself with a lethal dose of Morpha (morphine), but chickens out. Gaeta is one damaged dude, and I don't mean physically. And these 8's are nothing but trouble - I just know that the writers will eventually break our hearts and have Athena-8 betray the Galactica, Adama, and her devoted husband Helo.
Finally, the lovesick & valiant Hoshi, along with functional* Racetrack, retrieve the almost-dead-anyway Gaeta. In return, Gaeta dumps Hoshi, "for your own good". BOOOOO! This was supposedly to clear way for developments in S4, which had better mean Dualla, kay? Anyway- upon his return to CIC, a seething Gaeta tells (superior officer) Cylon Tigh to frack off; he now has a plan in his head, and we're going to have to watch season 4.5 to find out what it is!
* Chris and I have a running joke about Racetrack being "functional", because they always put her in the position of discovering something or fulfilling some need that the other main characters cannot be involved in. But yet she never gets any storylines of depth - she's just the go-to-gal for when you need to advance the plot with a convincing extra with a familiar face.
That's right, as the icon indicates, it's revealed in Face of the Enemy that in fact Gaeta is gay! Webisode 1 shows our one-legged hero smooching goodbye to Mr. Hoshi! Let me just say this was the most adorable yet unexpected (Hoshi is a bit player) pairing. It is just full of squee for me, unlike recent BSG pairings that leave me creeped out (Tigh/Caprica 6, Boomer/Cavil).
But by the middle of the webisodes we find he's actually bisexual, as he was previously in a creepy relationship with one of the 8's (Sharons) in his time on New Caprica. The writer commentary (which was in the "enhanced" webisode versions) indicated Gaeta had previously been "guessed" by fans as a gay character because he hadn't had any on-screen relationships. And rather than disappoint the fans with evidence to the contrary, they had him in the relationship with Hoshi as well as the 8. Personally, I had taken my clues from the D'Anna interview, that Gaeta was initially very career-focused and had forsworn relationships entirely while he focused on advancement. I had figured he would eventually end up with Dualla, as he seems a much better fit for her than Lee ever was (although I never have forgiven Dualla for cheating on Billy).
Anyway, enough about relationships/sexuality, there was a plot here, right? The webisode format necessarily makes the story kind of simplistic, and with a weird lurching rhythm; Unavoidable due to needing a "cliffhanger" every 3-4 minutes. The setup is that Gaeta is sent to another ship and the fleet makes an emergency jump when he's on route via raptor. Inside are the raptor pilots, several Galactica crew, and two Cylon 8's, one of which he had sexual history with on New Caprica. As they desperately try to find their way back to the fleet, one by one the raptor occupants get killed, starting with the other 8/Sharon.
It turns out that Gaeta's 8 is, and has always been, a sociopath, and she's the murderer. She had messed with Gaeta's mind on New Caprica - claiming she had saved people from extermination camps, when actually she hastened their demise. She kills the other occupants of the raptor so she and Gaeta can have more oxygen. Gaeta hears this and kills her in disgust, leaving himself the sole survivor of the raptor massacre. He almost kills himself with a lethal dose of Morpha (morphine), but chickens out. Gaeta is one damaged dude, and I don't mean physically. And these 8's are nothing but trouble - I just know that the writers will eventually break our hearts and have Athena-8 betray the Galactica, Adama, and her devoted husband Helo.
Finally, the lovesick & valiant Hoshi, along with functional* Racetrack, retrieve the almost-dead-anyway Gaeta. In return, Gaeta dumps Hoshi, "for your own good". BOOOOO! This was supposedly to clear way for developments in S4, which had better mean Dualla, kay? Anyway- upon his return to CIC, a seething Gaeta tells (superior officer) Cylon Tigh to frack off; he now has a plan in his head, and we're going to have to watch season 4.5 to find out what it is!
* Chris and I have a running joke about Racetrack being "functional", because they always put her in the position of discovering something or fulfilling some need that the other main characters cannot be involved in. But yet she never gets any storylines of depth - she's just the go-to-gal for when you need to advance the plot with a convincing extra with a familiar face.
Tags: sci-fi
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Labels: battlestar galactica
posted by Skunque at
10:07 AM
1 Comments:
i am really excited about the new series.
too such a point i fear to look at anyones blog to much incase i find out the ending.
its start here on Sky1 Jan 20th, i cannot wait.
sad its ending, but its been the best thing out in years.
nice blog by the way!
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