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3.20 Crossroads (2) Tory: "This isn't happening. Please tell me this isn't happening." I'm sooo confused. Tigh, Tyrol, Tory and Anders (whose name should start with a T) got switched on by "All Along the Watchtower" and now they believe they are Cylons. This raises so many questions in itself that I could just present a list as the rest of my episode review. (But I won't.) (Okay, there will be some questions.) Are the so-called Four like the previous seven, models with many duplicates, or are they individuals? When were they "planted" as sleepers in human society, if indeed they were? In childhood? They said the music felt like it came from childhood. (Childhood on Earth?) And if you think about the odds, how did all of them survive the attack on the Colonies without knowing what they were? Tigh is a good bit older than the other three, a hard core military man who has been in the fleet for forty years. Forty years! How is it even frakking possible that he's a Cylon? He's almost the last cast member I'd believe was a Cylon, after Adama and Roslin. But maybe that was why Tigh was instructed to develop such a cover. It does make limited sense that these four sleepers were leaders in the resistance, with Tory the assistant to the President. (What if Billy hadn't died in that bar? Would she have killed him?) Of the four, Chief Tyrol was the most likely Cylon. He covered for Boomer's Cylon-ness back in season one and had those weird suicidal nightmares. But Tyrol also had parents. How could he have had parents? He's also a father. Is baby Nick a human/Cylon hybrid, then, just as important to the universe as Hera? We know the least about Anders and Tory. Anders was rescued by Caprica Six and Boomer, who may have been unknowingly programmed to do so. But Anders also had pneumonia on New Caprica, and I had the impression that Cylons don't get the same sorts of diseases that humans do. And why was Tory running to the toilet? Is she pregnant or something? With all of the Cylon stuff, the resolution of Gaius' court case and the return of the previously dead Starbuck were almost afterthoughts. I liked what Lee did on the witness stand. He spoke the absolute truth, that everyone else had been pardoned for outrageous, rebellious, and sometimes treasonous acts, and that Gaius was the exception, their scapegoat. Lee did it all without testifying against Adama, too. And I really liked that Adama changed his mind and voted to acquit Gaius. Adama needs to apologize to Lee, in a great big way. Possibly with groveling. Although his actions during the trial actually were sort of like an apology. But as a whole, the trial didn't have enough... something. Fireworks, perhaps. I wanted Lampkin to call Caprica Six to the stand, or something. I wanted a mob stampeding the courtroom and trying to string up Gaius. Maybe we should have had Adama on the stand yelling, "You can't handle the truth!" Maybe I'm just hard to please right now. Finally, how can Starbuck still be alive? Has Lee been hitting the chamalla extract? How did she get into viper three? How did she get to Earth and back, and bring an old rock song with her? Not that I'm exactly complaining that she's alive, because I absolutely hated the thought of her being permanently gone. But how can they explain this one? Is she a different Starbuck? Is she Cylon number five? They usually shock the crap out of us with the season enders, and yes, they did it again. But this one left a bad taste in my mouth. It was more of a WTF than a shocker. Dan says that people have been unhappy with BSG lately not because it's not good, but because it's making them uncomfortable. He may have a point. Bits and pieces: -- No credit sequence again, and no survivor number. Katee Sackhoff got a credit screen at the end. And no bonus scene. Thank the gods. -- Why an American song from Earth? Why that particular American song from Earth? It's sort of apocalyptic; go here for lyrics, and here for the Wikipedia entry on the song. -- The continuation of Roslin's visions in the Opera House was also confusing. I noticed that Gaius was in it this time, with he, Six, and Hera acting like a family. How is Roslin connected to Athena and Hera? Is Roslin the Fifth Cylon? -- When did Anders become a nugget? I must have missed that somehow. I usually pay pretty close attention, too. Seelix looked disappointed that Anders was with Tory. Seelix likes Anders. -- Gaius managed to land on his feet and escape the mob after the trial, and I'm glad. I love what James Callis has done with that character. -- Gaeta perjured himself. That surprised me. Quotes: Lee: "I'm the coward. I'm the traitor. I'm forgiven." Does this include the Cylons? Is that where this is going, to a unification of the two races? Gaius: "What a glorious moment in jurisprudence." I have no idea how to rate this episode. I'm just hoping it all makes sense sometime in 2008, and I'll look back on it and think it's brilliant, Billie |
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