[Movie] Battlestar Galactica

Sadly, for those who saw the preview that Sci-Fi showed of coming episodes:

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Fat-Suit Apollo goes back to normal weight and Adama shaves off his Adamustache at some point.

It was a good episode overall, although I don't care for Starbuck's kid. I'm betting the Cylon guy came back and pushed the kid down the stairs in order to force her maternal instincts to kick in. When she finds that out she'll have no problem ditching them both.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Majin yami

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Also, has anyone got a clue as to how this rumoured Cylon virus comes about? If not, I'm saying it's Baltar (I'm calling it dammit!) and he uses it to get back into the fleets good graces. He can't stay with the Cylons forever, afterall.

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I haven't heard anything about a Cylon virus, but it's quite possible that Baltar will stay with the Cylons. In the original series he commanded Cylon fleets from the deck of a Basestar, and I thought this was a good way to put him back into that position.

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Of course, gotta get everybody excited about The Dresden Files! Screw Galactica. Who even watches that?

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Nutty wouldn't have cared so much about the parable thing if they'd actually killed off Dee. The joy of being rid of her would have been too much.

The thing I found a little off about this episode was how Doc Roberts actually helped the half-Cylon baby. He said it himself at the end, "The only thing worse than a Cylon is a Sagittaron." You'd think a racist so willing to murder his patients would have no problem killing a half-Cylon child. After all, it would be consistent with how the treatments down there had already been going.

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Yeah, it was Col. Tigh's quote, but he was using it in a way that seemed like it was his own belief as well. I mean, it's kind of an understood that all the humans except for Helo hate the Cylons.

As for hiding his actions, if he was trying to do that then he really sucked at it. 90% mortality rate for Sagittaron patients back on Caprica? Injecting the people with a poison that could be easily found if an autopsy was performed? He wasn't really covering his tracks so much as depending on everyones' prejudices to keep him safe.

I agree that they should have chosen a different actor though. It was obvious he'd be shifty and evil the moment he was shown.

I was speaking idiomatically.

If your goal is to kill Sagittarons and be subtle about it, you keep the mortality rate at a believable number like 40-50%. That would've still been obscenely high considering the other races were 6-10%, but it could have been easily explained by the patients refusing medical treatment until the last possible moment.

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Originally Posted by nazpyro

But yeah, good episode. So with no more love triangles, hopefully they can kill off Dee... and Lee...

I like Dee. ;_;

We need Fat-Suit Apollo back. He was cool this season back when he had his glorious gut. I'd like to see Starbuck killed off, but sadly they've already foreshadowed that she's some kind of prophet.

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I can only hope that Starbuck will be cooler and less whiny as a Cylon and/or demi-god.

Like naz said, this episode seemed a little too random. With any luck the grief Lee will suffer over talking her into flying again drives him to gorge himself on Twinkies until he once again become Fat-Suit Apollo.

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That's the woman who begged Baltar to bless her baby in the previous episode, so any resemblance to Deanna wasn't intentional. They just wanted to show that Baltar's supporters were in the crowd too.

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I thought the battle against the Cylon base was pretty spiffy, though you'd think the humans would've been more prepared for a quick exit rather than a strategy of "get Hera quickly, then duke it out with every last Cylon before leaving." The only thing that really bugged me about that half was Dean Stockwell's suicide after the truce was broken. He was obsessed with survival, and then he shot himself rather than going out fighting like everyone else. What the hell?

Once they found Earth the episode became pretty crappy. Maybe it wouldn't have been quite as bad without SciFi interrupting for commercials every 5 minutes, but it was just so corny. Practically every loose end was resolved with "lol angels did it" which was absolute shit in regard to Starbuck since they ran every conceivable test on her after her return. She was biological and shouldn't have just vanished. Considering that the whiny civilian population has been a running theme since the beginning, it was a tremendous cop-out to say they were all fine with abandoning every bit of civilization they had for the hope of a clean slate. I think I would've preferred Galactica 1980, and that's saying something.

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The normal centurions didn't look too bad, but the old-style Cylons had terrible CG effects. Considering there was never more than one or two of them on the screen at the same time it would have been a lot cooler if they'd just used costumes like the old show.

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