Battlestar Galactica, Season 4.5 Episode 2
This story mainly seems to be following up on events from A Great Notion or establishing arcs for the rest of 4.5:
- We discover that Hot Dog (Bodie Olmos), not Cylon Tyrol, is the father of Cally's son Nikki. Um, WOT? This kid doesn't even look like Hot Dog. And I just can't see Cally having a sexual encounter during the timeframe this was supposed to be (i.e., New Caprica). She was too hung up on the Chief, why would she want to screw Hot Dog? I don't know, maybe they need to get Tyrol's "human" ties severed so that he can do something evil and Cylon-y later. Or maybe the writers want to put something salacious in every episode to keep people watching. This one didn't jibe, though.
- Baltar's changed his tune with respect to his religious ramblings. Now, after the discovery of the post-holocaust "Earth", he blames the "one true god" for their predicament, and demands that this "god" answer to him. Maybe he's coming full circle to being an atheist again? Maybe he's going to go totally megalomaniacal and have his own Jonestown? Baltar's arc has bored me this whole season, now is closest he's come to regaining my interest.
- Roslin and Adama are still not functioning at 100%. Adama is holding up a little better, or at least going through the motions, alebit popping some mysterious pills. But I don't think he's in the best state of mind for deciding the Cylon-citizenship issue (and no one else in the room - Tigh, Helo, Tyrol, Gaeta, or Lee - has the right stuff to make the call). Laura on the other hand, is totally putting her head in the sand, and going off her meds and cancer treatment. Then they both get naked in bed. Old people sex! But yeah, it seems like a very weak moment in leadership, and you know the fleet is only being held together by the strength of these two individuals. Once they let go, you will probably see:
- A mutinous partnership of Gaeta & Zarek: Poor Gaeta, he's been kicked around so much, from almost being thrown out an airlock for Baltar's misdeeds, to having his leg shot off by a man who would later be revealed as Cylon, to last week's suicide of his close friend Dualla. And where are all those who did him wrong (Baltar, Kara, Tigh, Anders, etc)? Living privileged or powerful lives while he suffers and decays. It's really hard to blame him for plotting against our heros, I'll give the writers credit for that - he's a completely sympathetic anti-hero. I think ultimately though, Gaeta is not going to live to the end of the final episode - his decision to mutiny with Zarek to me says he will meet a tragic end sometime in the next 8 stories.
- We discover that Hot Dog (Bodie Olmos), not Cylon Tyrol, is the father of Cally's son Nikki. Um, WOT? This kid doesn't even look like Hot Dog. And I just can't see Cally having a sexual encounter during the timeframe this was supposed to be (i.e., New Caprica). She was too hung up on the Chief, why would she want to screw Hot Dog? I don't know, maybe they need to get Tyrol's "human" ties severed so that he can do something evil and Cylon-y later. Or maybe the writers want to put something salacious in every episode to keep people watching. This one didn't jibe, though.
- Baltar's changed his tune with respect to his religious ramblings. Now, after the discovery of the post-holocaust "Earth", he blames the "one true god" for their predicament, and demands that this "god" answer to him. Maybe he's coming full circle to being an atheist again? Maybe he's going to go totally megalomaniacal and have his own Jonestown? Baltar's arc has bored me this whole season, now is closest he's come to regaining my interest.
- Roslin and Adama are still not functioning at 100%. Adama is holding up a little better, or at least going through the motions, alebit popping some mysterious pills. But I don't think he's in the best state of mind for deciding the Cylon-citizenship issue (and no one else in the room - Tigh, Helo, Tyrol, Gaeta, or Lee - has the right stuff to make the call). Laura on the other hand, is totally putting her head in the sand, and going off her meds and cancer treatment. Then they both get naked in bed. Old people sex! But yeah, it seems like a very weak moment in leadership, and you know the fleet is only being held together by the strength of these two individuals. Once they let go, you will probably see:
- A mutinous partnership of Gaeta & Zarek: Poor Gaeta, he's been kicked around so much, from almost being thrown out an airlock for Baltar's misdeeds, to having his leg shot off by a man who would later be revealed as Cylon, to last week's suicide of his close friend Dualla. And where are all those who did him wrong (Baltar, Kara, Tigh, Anders, etc)? Living privileged or powerful lives while he suffers and decays. It's really hard to blame him for plotting against our heros, I'll give the writers credit for that - he's a completely sympathetic anti-hero. I think ultimately though, Gaeta is not going to live to the end of the final episode - his decision to mutiny with Zarek to me says he will meet a tragic end sometime in the next 8 stories.
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