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1.5 You Can't Go Home Again (2) Lee: "Boy. When you take a souvenir, you don't screw around." Definitely a two-hankie episode. I started getting mushy when Lee gave Hot Dog an instant field promotion for going after Starbuck. I started dripping when Adama told Lee, "If it were you, we'd never leave." And then I cried through that marvelous Adama/Starbuck scene at the end. Alone and seriously injured on a desolate moon, running out of oxygen, no obvious means of escape -- and Starbuck did it anyway. There was something so gritty and primal about the way she got down and dirty in the Cylon ship, cutting open the organic creature inside ("You bite me, and I'll bite you back"), figuring out how it breathed ("Even cockroaches have to breathe. How the hell do you?"), getting the ship in the air. She has such an amazing spirit. And she's even entertaining while talking to herself, and/or to God. Not to mention Adama. Tigh was the unpopular voice of reason; perhaps he really was hoping she was gone. So what if he (and the President, and Lt. Gaeta) were right? She wasn't just the last tie to Zak; I think that one more death, one more major loss, would have been just too much for Adama. They've lost so many people already. They've lost too many pilots already. And of course, it's so much harder to lose someone when you have serious, unresolved issues with them. Adama had to be thinking that Starbuck died believing he hated her. I knew she would think of something to keep them from shooting her down, but the taped letters on the hull were still a delightful surprise. And now they have an enemy ship to psyche out, which certainly can't hurt. Bits and pieces: -- During the opening shots of Starbuck on the moon, I thought something was dragging her to its den for dinner. -- MBOC (Meanwhile, back on Caprica), Helo was having a grand time in the fallout shelter until he was almost done in by a Pop-tart. Toaster, toaster? -- Speaking of which, the electricity is still on on Caprica? How likely is that? -- This week's wardrobe note: Six showed up in a new blue nothing and a transparent pair of heels. I'm not sure what kept that outfit from falling to the floor. -- Where on earth did they film that moon sequence? -- I just noticed that Hot Dog is played an actor named Bodie Olmos. It would be an unbelievable coincidence if they were not related. Quotes: Starbuck: (to the ship) "One of us needs a bath." Later, she flirted to Lee, "You wanna give me a bath?" Adama to the President: "Frak the odds. We're going to find her. (pause) Excuse me." Lee: "It's got to be her. This thing is flying with some serious attitude." While I was kvetching about them giving up the search, Dan said, "They have to. The needs of the many." And I countered, "But then again, there was the search for Spock." For the rest of season one, Dan and I referred to this episode and "Act of Contrition" as "that incredible two-parter about Starbuck." Four out of four stars, Billie |
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