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2.3 Fragged Cally: "I just joined to pay for dental school." Things continued on their downward spiral. There was an interesting parallel here, with Crashdown completely screwing things up on Kobol while Tigh continued to completely screw things up on Galactica. Tigh has started to channel Captain Queeg. He thinks now is a good time for a bender, and he actually forgot about Kobol. Declaring martial law was almost an anticlimax. If Adama doesn't recover soon, there may not be much to salvage. Interesting that Lee functioned as the voice of reason here, just as the Chief did on Kobol. (I like Lee more with every episode.) The whole Crashdown suicide mission thing was sort of fascinating and upsetting at the same time. Crashdown was right. An attack in order to protect the rescue party was absolutely the right thing to do. But why didn't he listen to Chief Tyrol, the most experienced soldier in the landing party? Why didn't he even consider the capabilities of his "troops"? Was it just inexperience? I think Crashdown was just so determined to prove he could command that he lost sight of reason. Gaius' incredibly long list of major transgressions is growing; he just shot a commanding officer in the back. ("Nobody tells me to shut up. I'm the vice president!") Which made me wonder. I really don't know much about military vs. civilian protocol, and hey, these aren't earthlings anyway, but wouldn't Gaius actually be in charge? Not that that excuses what he did... except someone had to do something. The big question is, will the others -- especially Chief -- keep the secret? And what will happen to Gaius when it comes out, as it inevitably will? The religious carrying-on continued in its usual confusing way. Laura played her ace, fulfilling the "scrolls of Pythia" or whatever and her illness is out in the open: now she's the Pope, as well as the President. And Six, in black, at the funeral, basically said that the people who died on Kobol won't go to heaven; they're going to oblivion. I'm usually well attuned to symbolism and allegory, but I'm still clueless about where they're going with the Cylon monotheism and the Colonial polytheism. Although I'm sure they do have a destination in mind. We didn't get to see Starbuck and Helo tooling around Caprica in her pick-up this week. Maybe next week? Bits and pieces: -- 47,862 survivors! I must have missed it last week, but the number of survivors in the opening credits changed. How very cool. Well, it wasn't cool that characters died, but it's cool that they're going to update that number. -- After Crashdown's death, I thought for a minute we were going to lose Chief Tyrol, too, and I started getting very upset. He's a favorite of mine. -- I absolutely loved that final scene where Tyrol was firing wildly at the Cylons, they blew up, and he looked down at his gun. -- And I loved Doc Cottle in the airlock with a lit cigarette. :) -- Why did Ellen Tigh visit Laura? It just seemed weird. Of course, I still think Ellen is a good candidate for Cylon number five; I'm wondering why she isn't making covert visits to Adama and fooling with his ventilator. -- "I'm from Geminon. We believe in the literal truth of the scriptures." So Geminons are like Jehovah's witnesses? -- In one scene, Tigh was looking at old photos of Adama through a half-full bottle of whiskey. Symbolism, ho. -- Adama hates martial law, huh? I cannot wait for his reaction to what's been going on while he was down. -- I'm told that "fragged" is a term that means killing your superior officer. -- No Starbuck, Sharon, or Helo in this episode. Quotes: Tigh: "Why aren't you in the brig?" Billy: "Because... no one put me in there?" Six: "One of you will turn against the others." "Now, you're a man." "I'll be your conscience." Huh? Tigh: "I really frakked things up for you, Bill." You think? Another excellent episode. Three out of four stars, Billie |
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