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2.20 Lay Down Your Burdens (2) Brother Cavill: "So. Take me to your leader." During the election scenes, I kept thinking, yeah, go ahead. Elect Gaius Baltar president and settle on Planet Perfect, and you'll be sorry. I just never expected them to actually do it. They not only changed the whole series, they skipped ahead an entire year. (Someone's been watching "Alias.") I could just feel that final attack coming. What surprised me was that the colonials didn't even put up a fight. In fact, suicide was a general theme, since the episode began with Starbuck's suicide pact with Anders, and ended with the revelation that Real Six's suicide revealed the presence of the colonials on Planet Perfect. Even though it shook me up and surprised me, I found this episode oddly dissatisfying. Maybe it was seeing half the cast living in tents in the freezing cold. Or that Starbuck married a guy whose entire life consists of playing Pyramid. I think the big problem for me was that there wasn't a split. No one even discussed it. (Or we didn't see them discuss it.) Why didn't half or a third of the colonials decide to just keep going toward Earth? Plus, after so many years of vigilance after the first Cylon war, Adama allowed his guard to fall after only one year? No way. Moving right along. In other news, Brother Cavill is indeed Cylon number seven. They gave us a lot of hints in the previous episode, but I actually did a loud "woo-hoo" when he was revealed. Interesting that Brother Cavill, the religious Cylon, is an atheist. This puts paid to my theory about the Cylon god being a corporeal being, and about faith being built into their programming. I wonder where the faith comes from, then? Finally, the drunk scene with Anders, Starbuck, and Lee was disturbing. I've been trying to figure out why it bothered me so much. Maybe it was seeing Starbuck so wild and out of control -- again. Maybe it was that she was so rude to Lee. Now that I've finally seen them together, I noticed that Anders looks a lot like Lee. Was this casting intentional? In the space of one year... -- Gaius turned into a seriously bad president. The death of Real Six appears to have pushed Gaius into a lifestyle of sex and drugs and not caring very much. -- Adama grew a huge mustache. -- Starbuck married Anders, and grew hair halfway down to her butt. Anders has pneumonia, and there are no more antibiotics. Major hint that he may not be around for season three. Fine with me. -- Lee and Dualla stayed a couple, and she transferred to Pegasus. -- Gaeta now works for Gaius. -- Starbuck and Tigh buried the hatchet. -- Chief Tyrol and Cally became a couple. And now he's a bearded, glasses-wearing union president, and she's very pregnant. I don't think I'd marry a man that broke my jaw, extenuating Cylon nightmare circumstances or not. -- Roslin started teaching school. That felt right. -- Maya named her baby Isis. Another major goddess name. What are the odds? -- Leoben was looking for Starbuck. I wonder if it was because she tortured him (or another version of him) back in "Flesh and Bone." Bits and pieces: -- This week's survivor count at the beginning of the episode: 49,550. That's 29 deaths. Plus, I wonder how many were lost when Cloud Nine exploded? The population of New Caprica was given as 39,192. -- There was no teaser. And this episode was ninety minutes long. -- Maybe Roslin should have invested in hackable Diebold machines with no paper trail. I wonder if the nearly stolen election changed the relationship between Adama and Roslin. -- Caprica Six and Sharon One changed Cylon society. But not for long. -- Sharon Two didn't expose Brother Cavill, and couldn't say why. I wonder if there's some kind of programming that keeps them from exposing each other? -- What happened to Sharon Two? Is she still in the brig? Quotes: There were a couple of interesting sci-fi references. Harvey Six actually said, "Judgment Day." And Sharon came close to saying, "Resistance is futile." "I don't have to listen. I'm the president." and "How many Cylon attacks have there been since I took office?" Sounds familiar, doesn't it? I don't often bother with the end credits, but the cartoon closer was funny this week: "And now, a moment of zen as we reflect on season two." Cavill: "Cylon and Man will now go our separate ways. No harm done." Adama: "No harm? You completely annihilated our race and destroyed our civilization." Cavill: "Now, if you're going to start pointing fingers..." Laura: "Are people really going to be that stupid? Are they really going to be that short-sighted?" Well, yeah. Laura: "I know in my gut that settling on this planet is going to mean disaster for humanity, and I will not say otherwise just to win an election." Let's trust Laura's gut next time, shall we? Ellen Tigh, re: New Caprica: "Pretty exciting." Starbuck: "Yeah, that wears off." Chief: "What do you want to do now, Captain?" Starbuck: "Same thing we always do. Fight them until we can't." This was essentially the opening and the closing of this two part finale. This episode did not make me happy. But it certainly shook me up and I yelled at the television set. Ipso facto, it should probably get a four, Billie |
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