Battlestar Galactica, Season 4.5, Episode 5(out of order, I realized I didn't post this)

Maybe I'm feeling more post-vacation exhaustion today than yesterday, but let me see if I have this straight:

So, the Final 5 are actually the manifestations of a Cylon research team (headed by Ellen Tigh) that created the other 7 models we are now aquainted with? And the 5 traveled at sub-light speed from Cylon Earth to the 12 colonies to end the first Cylon war, but then Cavil (patterned after Ellen's father* & possessing a reverse Pinnochio complex) decided to alter their programming to make them think they were human, to punish the 5 for programming the others to be so plagued with emotion?

I'll say one thing, I don't think too many people would've guessed that.

But I don't know how much I buy that crew as a bunch of research scientists. OK, I can see Tyrol and maybe Tori, but Anders? A scientist? The actress playing Ellen is doing a pretty good job of "having the switch flipped" and assuming a much different personality, so maybe all her flightiness/promiscuity was something the Cavil model** programmed in out of spite.

I guess we'll just have to see where this goes - I hope that there's an explanation for all the Cylon models, including the lesser-utilized models like Simon and Doral. Then there's the aborted-fetus model "Daniel", which maybe will play into the Kara mystery?

* - a model she slept with on New Caprica? Oh, barf BARF BARF. :-P
** - Is it just the one Cavil, or the whole line of Cavils that knew the Final 5 secret?Tags: sci-fi
Mood: confused

Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 episode 7

Seems that sci-fi.com is determined to release BSG episodes on an 8 day delay now. So, for the final 3 episodes, if I'm not squatting at a cable-equppied residence (like I did last night @ Chris' parents house), expect the reviews to come out on Sundays (when I'll have a recorded version to view).

I'm not sure what's the A story and what's the B story in Someone To Watch Over Me, so I'll just arbitrarily designate the Kara stuff as story A. Kara is haunted by the charred corpse they found on Earch, which bore "K. Thrace" dog tags, and has been dealing with it in her usual self-destructive fashion. Enter bar pianist, who Kara harrasses and works on her internal demons with. Lots of hand-wringing regarding Kara's history with her dad and growing up in a broken home. Kara remembers a song her dad used to make her play on piano, which Hera Agathon somehow is tapped into. The little girl draws a picture of the notes and Kara is able to play the tune, which the Final 5 Cylons instantly recognize as the "All along the watchtower" song that activated them. Then it turns out the pianist guy was just a figment of her imagination.

Ugh, it was a lot of hand-wringing to get from point A to point B in this story. There's a good chance that that guy is, or was supposed to represent Kara's absentee father, who is looking more like it's going to be the 13^th model "Daniel" than Leoben as I had theorized. Regardless, we still need an explanation as to why Leobens are so obsessed with Kara.

The A-story was too much of a snoozer for my tastes, but the B-story had a bit more appeal: Last episode, the Sharon model known as Boomer broke Ellen Tigh out of Cavil's base ship and spirited her off to Galactica. But Adama has a long memory when it comes to people who shoot him: upon discovering her identity, he threw her in the brig. In this episode, the newly minted Cylon representative Caprica Six (seeming relatively unaffected by last week's loss of her baby) petitions the President to have Boomer extradited to the rebel base ship. Not to free her, but to try her for treason for siding with Cavil. Chief Tyrol learns of this and flips out, since in the series' beginning, when he thought he was human, had a passionate relationship with her. The Chief and Boomer briefly reconcile, and when Laura grants extradition, the Chief breaks Boomer out and knocks out another 8 to swap into the brig. Confused yet? However, between breaking out of jail and escaping the ship, Boomer steals the identity of the 8 known as Athena, gets a good frack with Hilo, and spirits away Hera Agathon under the noses of everyone, including Chief Tyrol. Which just goes to show that 8's cannot ever be trusted. Or can they - with little time left in the series, Athena is still loyal. Anyway, the Chief is about to be in biiiiiig trouble, because by episode's end Galactica crew is aware of Boomer's escape, and it will be no mystery to figure out where her help came from.

But why did Boomer steal Hera - is it because Cavil has some investment in the half-breed (doesn't seem like he would) or as bait to lure all Final 5 back to Cavil?

Still no word on WTF's up with Baltar's cult getting guns or Adama's pill-popping or any of those other loose ends. Gotta wrap this up fast, there's only 3 episodes left.

Tags: sci-fi
Mood: busy