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3.4 Exodus (2)

Adama: "Then, that's it. It's been an honor."

Battlestar Galactica is often emotional for me, but it rarely packs a wallop this strong. I knew Lee would turn around and come for them; how could he not, when the stakes were that high? His decision to buck his father's authority saved thousands of lives, as well as the Galactica.

Several scenes gave me chills, or brought me to tears, or both. Like that heavy scene when Tigh killed poor, fatally misguided Ellen. When the Galactica was nearly destroyed, and Adama told his crew that it had been an honor. When Lee told the Pegasus, "Thank you." When the Pegasus rammed the base star, and exploded into pieces. When Roslin stole Colonial One back. When Adama welcomed the battered and widowed Tigh back on board the Galactica.

The effects were just outstanding, too. The launch of the decoys. Galactica falling into the atmosphere. Fighters launched right over the settlement on New Caprica. Galactica getting hit over and over by the Cylon base stars. The burning Pegasus ramming the base star. I've pretty much run out of superlatives here.

So the whole Leoben baby thing was just a deception after all. Leoben, that shithead, was using someone else's toddler to try and make Starbuck loving and compliant. Fortunately, Starbuck was still Starbuck. She killed him again, and even in front of Casey, who is probably now scarred for life. Starbuck telling Anders briefly, "I'll explain later," just made me laugh out loud.

Along with practically every other minute of this episode, I loved those last few moments where Adama shaved off his dashing moustache. Things are back to normal. Or as normal as it can be when you're a rag tag group of humans running for your lives from the Cylons. What sort of repercussions will there be? Will Cat and Helo have to give up their new jobs? Will Lee become XO? Will Tigh get a dashing new eye patch? Will all our new marrieds stay married? Will Starbuck cut her hair?

Bits and pieces:

-- Did Ellen know what she was drinking? The scene was ambiguous enough that it was hard to tell. Personally, I think that if Ellen knew, she would have done her best to manipulate Tigh into letting her go.

-- Gaius saved Sharon's baby, and stopped D'Anna from nuking the planet. And he left town with Caprica Six. Is Gaius going to live among the Cylons now?

-- D'Anna now has baby Hera, just as the oracle said she would.

-- I've been assuming that D'Anna was the Cylon in Charge, but according to Ellen Tigh, it was Brother Cavill. Maybe D'Anna was second in command, because Dean Stockwell wasn't in this episode.

-- Gaeta showed what he was made of. Pretty good stuff. Will he be considered a collaborator, though? Will Jammer?

-- Starbuck and Leoben have generated some pretty serious emotional baggage. Sort of the photographic negative of Gaius and Six. Fascinating.

-- Anders and Starbuck do indeed have matching tatts. I should have realized. Anders is growing on me. Never mind that a guest star spouse usually has a limited shelf life.

Quotes:

Zarek: "You're coming, right?"
Laura: (indicating Colonial One) "My ship's up there."
Zarek: "You sure have a sense of the dramatic."

Lee: "Am I that easy to read?"
Dualla: "Just to me."
Lee and Dee appear to have a good marriage. So why was he overeating? That's something people do when they're unhappy.

Gaius: "I just want to sit here and die."
Gaius has changed. This experience has changed him.

I loved it. It was a three hankie episode, and easily one of the best in the series. Five out of four battlestars,

Billie





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