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2.15 Scar Lee: "Bright, shiny futures are overrated, anyway." Any episode that features Starbuck is a Good Thing. Starbuck is exhausted, stressed out, and drinking too much. She believes that she and Lee and the other pilots will all die before they reach Earth, and she's not just being fatalistic; she may very well be right. They may have started replacing vipers, but the pilots are not replaceable. And her pilots have noticed that she's no longer on the ball, hence the whole protracted Starbuck/Kat pissing contest. Why is Starbuck so fixated on Anders? She knew him for, like, ten minutes, most of which they spent in bed or playing Pyramid. What made him unforgettable? I think it was just that she broke her promise to him. Anders is a stand-in for Caprica, for everyone and everything that Kara has lost. And then she turned around and used Lee as a stand-in for Anders, too. And Lee knew it. (Lee and Kara's violent, aborted sexual encounter was very interesting, the highlight of the episode for me.) If Anders represented Caprica, then Scar was pretty much an anthropomorphized personification of the Cylons. The raiders are mechanized non-entities; giving one of them a name and personality made them more real, and made Kat's victory over Scar more significant. I liked that Starbuck let Kat take Scar. That was a mature, intelligent thing for her to do. I actually got a little bored with the dogfights and Scar as the Red Baron. And let's face it, they already did some of this in "Act of Contrition," with Starbuck's ship spiraling down while we went back to see how it happened. But that final scene where Starbuck toasted the dead viper pilots was just exceptional, and made it all work. Bits and pieces: -- This week's survivor count: 49,593, which meant four dead. I may need help figuring this one out. There was Phelan, the nasty black market guy that Lee killed last week. Would the other three be pilots? I need to pay better attention to who died, but I kind of just get caught up in the story. Bad Billie, no biscuit. -- I liked the situation with the mining operation and the first new viper being built on Pegasus. -- More symbolism. The photograph of Reilly's girlfriend whose name Kat kept trying to remember was symbolic of all of the pilots who died, whose names they had forgotten. "BB. JoJo. Reilly. Beano. Dipper. Flattop. Chuckles. Jolly. Crashdown. Sheppard. Dash. Flyboy. Stepchild. Puppet. Fireball." Starbuck hadn't really forgotten them at all. -- Roslin explained the dogfight situation to us. "Why'd they stop coming at us en masse? Is it because we destroyed the resurrection ship?" Raiders reincarnate and use their deaths as learning experiences. Sort of makes sense. -- Starbuck: "This isn't duelling pistols at dawn. This is war. You never want to fight fair." In other words, all's fair in love and war. -- Lee: "You are fine with the dead guys. It's the living ones you can't deal with." He may have a point. Good, but not great. Three out of four stars, Billie |
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