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1.1 33 Chief: "We'll sleep when we're dead." If this episode told us anything, it was that Adama and Roslin can both make the tough decisions. It takes serious balls to condemn 1,300 people to die without being absolutely certain you're right. The theme of extreme sleep deprivation as the survivors ran for their lives emphasized human frailty: there are limits for us, even though there don't seem to be any for the Cylons. (Can you even enter REM sleep in only half an hour?) This episode was intended to give us the feeling that the humans could very well lose, and it totally worked. If Cylons don't need sleep (or food, or shelter, for that matter), how can we ever completely elude them? Chilling. The scenes with everyone exhausted and burned out were all so good. The conversations between Adama and Tigh almost made me like Tigh. My favorite was the Lee and Kara scene where she actually told him outright how to make her behave and take her pep pills. Very cute. The civilians certainly had it a lot easier here. Gaius could relax and doze in his chair between jumps, and canoodle with his invisible Number Six, who seemed to be obsessed with fulfilling "God's" commandments and having kids. It will be interesting to see how she's going to manage that without an actual body. The B plot about the Olympic Carrier and Dr. Amarak, who could quite possibly expose Gaius as a traitor, was sort of confusing. I wasn't really sure what happened there. It appeared that Dr. Amarak was a threat, and Number Six somehow neutralized his danger to Gaius by making it appear that the Olympic Carrier had Cylon agents on it. But how could she do that? If she didn't, then the Olympic Carrier really did have Cylon agents on it. And isn't that an amazing coincidence? Bits and pieces: -- Laura's whiteboard went from 50,298 to 49,998 to 47,972 to 47,973, with that last being the birth of a baby boy on the Rising Star. How New Testament of them. -- They haven't actually told us what FTL does to people: only Cally saying, "I hate this part" or something to that effect. But we really don't need the details, do we? This episode told us all we needed to know. -- Poor Helo. Running from Cylons in the rain, taking anti-radiation meds, and now at Sharon Two's mercy. I wonder what she's planning to do to him? -- The wall of photos was effective. It made the loss of so many people a lot more personal than explosions in the distance. -- The old, ticking clock counting down thirty-three minutes was my candidate for Most Obvious Symbolism: the clock is definitely ticking for the human race. It was also symbolic of human survival dependent on avoiding high tech. Quotes: Roslin: "Okay. Next crisis?" Lee: "But why you? Take a guess." Kara: "'Cause I'm on druuggs?" Tigh: "If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job." Well, they do hate him, that's for sure. I don't think that means he's doing his job, though. Number Six: "Do you want children, Gaius?" Gaius: "Let me think about that for a minute. No." Roslin: "Do you know him?" Number Six: (simultaneously) "Have you always been able to multitask like this?" Gaius: "Yes. Yes." Excellent, excellent, excellent. Four out of four stars, Billie |
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