Battlestar Galactica: Escape Velocity
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- April
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We were treated to quite a bit of the hidden Cylons tonight, excepting Anders, who’s still aboard the garbage scow Demetrius somewhere out in space.
Tory is happy she’s a Cylon. She’s perfect, she believes. And Baltar’s preaching at the end of the episode just confirmed it for her. She doesn’t know if Baltar’s a Cylon himself, but she knows that she’s perfect just how she is and that the One True God loves her.
Tigh is slowly trying to understand who and what he is. He insists he’s still a man, human, but the idea that he could turn off the pain caused by his murder of Ellen is too tempting. If there’s some way he can stop imagining her, remembering her, seeing her where she isn’t, he wants to take it, even if that means being a Cylon.
But did Caprica Six sense who he really was at the end, there? She realized that the pain was not, in fact, what he needed. She kisses him in apology. Is she apologizing for inflicting pain? Is she apologizing because he is like her and not human? Is she apologizing because she enjoyed (did you see that smile on her face as she wailed on him?) beating the crap outta him?
The Chief, well, he’s another story entirely.
If he’s not who he believed he was, then maybe he can just stop being that person. And that person was always one of the most reliable, dependable in the fleet. He never rocked the boat. He fought the Cylons. He kept the ships running.
But he’s not that person. So why be that person anymore?
We know he has unresolved feelings for Boomer, taken from him. By Cally, in fact.
We know he has unresolved anger at Adama. One boxing match wasn’t enough to make everything all right again.
We know he’s always been a bit ambivalent in his feelings for Cally. He always cared about her, but more as a little sister or cousin or somesuch. She was always jealous of Boomer and always carried a torch for the Chief. Even though circumstances brought them together and they had a little boy, it was never clear that the Chief loved her in the same way that she loved him.
Everything that the Chief said about her to Adama was, indeed, true. Remember when he beat the tar out of Cally? That was over Boomer, wasn’t it?
But what does all this actually mean?
I think the key was in what Caprica Six was telling Tigh.
The skin jobs were modeled after humans. Their brains were wired, so to speak, to imitate human’s brains. They have no wires and switches; they are veins and blood and flesh.
Despite everything that’s wrong with humans, it seems, the Cylons wish nothing more than to be like them.
I have a few other thoughts I need to ponder from tonight’s episode:
• Did Adama really carry Roslin’s purse from the infirmary to his quarters? Really? Her purse? Would someone else point that out to my husband? Thank you in advance.
• It is really cute how Adama and Roslin are in love and are so comfortable with one another. Awww.
• How can Lee, even when he’s completely right, be so completely annoying? The problem here is that both he and Roslin are right. But he’s more right. Once you start limiting the freedoms of one group, who’s to say you or someone else in the future won’t use that same law to limit the freedoms of another group. Or every group? If you purport to have a democracy and freedom, you can’t start curtailing freedoms for some and expect that everyone will just go along with it. But I still wanted to slap Lee and tell him to shut up. And he was just too perfectly coiffed, too.
• What did it mean that when Baltar’s Six was lifting him up and carrying him, to everyone else it looked as if some unseen force was doing it? He’s always had moments where he’s been caught talking to her, even having sex with her. But this time he was limp as a rag doll and she was moving him about, and everyone could see it. What does that mean?
All photos courtesy of NBC Universal.
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I wondered what that meant about Six carrying Baltar too. It was so bizarre!
My husband has carried my purse for me (and bought feminine hygiene products for me), I can have him chat with your hubby if you want
! Interesting episode and I need to watch it again…