[Movie] Battlestar Galactica

I enjoyed the episode overall, but I was annoyed at how thick the writers were laying on parallels to the current situation in Iraq:

-Suicide bombers
-Cylons believing that their invasion was to "help" the humans
-Recruiting humans into a Cylon police force, then the humans blowing them up

It's not the first time writers have tried to comment on current events, but could they make it a little less obvious?

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If they could just be done with the Starbuck/Anders/Apollo/Whatever Her Name Is love mess and get on with some real plot, the show would be much better. I don't need non-stop action, but that whole arc is annoying.

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Little known fact: Rosa Parks was a Sagittaron.

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It was ok, I guess, but I'm tired of the "episode as a parable for modern issues" concept. Give us something that advances the plot or is more science-fictiony, but don't shove life lessons down our throats. At least there wasn't much of the Apollo/Starbuck love thing.

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Originally Posted by Tritoch

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.

I don't mind Dee that much, it's just that her character has been pointless except as a love interest.

As for Doc Roberts, a) he said Col. Tigh said that quote, not himself, b) it would have been highly suspicious if the baby died under his care, and c) he gave Dee the medicine, and she was a Sagittaron. Doc Roberts was trying to hide his actions, and he couldn't very well kill high profile people.

It might have been better if they'd cast a different actor to play Doc Roberts. I don't know the guy's name, but he always plays seemingly shifty good guys who turn out to be evil.

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Originally Posted by Tritoch

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.

If your goal is to kill Sagittarons, there's no real way to mask the statistics unless you kill more of the other races too. The key is that no one is going to look at the statistics unless you start killing high-profile people (like Dee).

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So what did everyone think of last night's episode? All I can say is finally we have a good episode, with no trace of stupid love triangles or (Lee) Adama angst. The plot didn't feel as contrived as some of the other recent shows.

Spoiler:

The showdown between Adama and the Chief was possibly the best scene of this season. Seeing human society slowly being pushed further and further from their democratic base is fascinating, and being shown how far Adama is willing to go to maintain order is chilling.

Also, not sure why someone went and created another thread when we already had one.

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Originally Posted by nazpyro

And yes, that showdown scene was epic. I actually didn't expect it to work out like it did in the end. Good stuff.

Yes, that was somewhat confusing. Adama threatens to shoot people, then the Union forms anyway. What would have happened if Adama had followed through on his threat and executed some of the strikers, meanwhile the President wants to talk?

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There was an article from TVguide.com I read a few weeks ago saying that one major character would be killed off before the end of the season, and rumor has it that Starbuck will be revealed as a Cylon. I have my doubts, but I'd like to see the end of her one way or the other.

On a different note, what about that accent of Baltar's? I love the way they dubbed it in, so it sounded like he was channeling Satan.

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Yeah, too bad she's probably not dead. They made such a fuss about her hallucination and implying that she serves some sort of greater purpose, she's probably ascended to a higher plane or something. Since Leondre (or whatever his name was) wasn't really Leondre, maybe he's a higher being. MAYBE HE's FROM 1980!!

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Originally Posted by Tritoch

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.

A grief mustache from Admiral Adama is much more likely.

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I'm confused by the end of tonight's episode. Is Lempkin supposed to be Baltar's son or his father? The note would seem to indicate that he's Baltar's son, but the two of them look the same age.

Also, kudos to the Adamastache reference.

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So I guess Apollo's marriage is a Dee-saster at this point. (har har)

What was up with Lee resigning his commission? He and his dad had an argument, sure, but I find it hard to believe that there was enough anger to give up his military career over. There would have to be a pattern of disagreement, and other than the past couple of episodes, Lee and the Admiral have gotten along swimmingly. Maybe it's supposed to relate back to Starbuck's death, but it's really not a believable plot twist.

Guess he's just Mr. Fat Suit Apollo now.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Oh God, I hear disembodied Bob Dylan songs, so I must be a Cylon. Time to go emo.

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Originally Posted by Guest

What was the name of that song in the ending?

All Along the Watchtower; there's a link to the lyrics at the bottom of the entry.

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Originally Posted by Genthar

I wouldn't be surprised if they jumped another year or more to begin Season 4...

It would be worth it to see the Adamastache again.

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Scenario D has already been done (with the horrific Galactica 1980). Trust me, you don't want that scenario, nor do you want Starbuck to have had some superintelligent baby come back to annoy the hell out the Galatica crew.

I had forgotten about the ship of light and the advanced beings who helped the humans in the original series. They were ok there, because they represented one possible route for the humans to find Earth, but to introduce them in the new series in the 4th (and probably last) season seems like deus ex machina. Unfortunately, though, that does seem a very logical conclusion to the cliffhanger, since I highly doubt that Chief Tyrol, Tigh, etc. are Cylons.

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Seeing what happens to the characters is great, but spending an extra hour (or whatever it was without commercials) when most of the outcome was clear from the getgo was a bit much. That's not to say I didn't like it, I just thought it was drawn out too long.

I can live with the flaws (the way Cavel's group was wiped out/committed suicide, Starbuck not knowing she was an angel, ditching all of the technology) because I really liked the overall concept of "history repeats itself". And I might possess the genetic power to grow my very own Adama-stache.

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