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4.11 Sometimes a Great Notion Starbuck: "If that's me lying there, then what am I? What am I?" Cheese and crackers. Can you say intense? This episode was like a string of one powerful negative emotion after another, as virtually everyone hit bottom. Confusion, bitter disappointment, intense grief, anger, despair. Dee's suicide was so powerful and unexpected that I actually shrieked out loud. The Adama-Tigh scene with the booze and the guns was sort of amazing. Even Roslin gave up. She burned the Pythian Prophecy, her Bible, and stopped getting her diloxin treatments. The foxes choosing to drown in the river because they were so tired. Ellen is the final Cylon? Or was? She used to be my favorite possible Cylon candidate, right up until she died. It explains why only four of them were activated. She's an older woman, too, which fits my more recent demographic theory (which is why I was sure it was Roslin). Tigh and Ellen were a matched pair in more ways than one. But if it really was Ellen, then what happened to Starbuck? When she found her own dead body on "Earth", still strapped into her old viper, I immediately concluded that Starbuck was the final Cylon. If she isn't, how was she duplicated? Wasn't she downloaded? And what planet did they actually land on? It wasn't our Earth, unless it was way far in the future. The Final Four remembered living on that planet, and Ellen, as she was dying in the past, told Tigh they would be born again together. But in Tyrol's vision, the people behind him in the crowd were unrecognizable. Other Cylon models? Cylon individuals created through sexual reproduction, like Hera and Nick? That planet and its secrets were fascinating. Like D'Anna, I rather wanted them to stay -- but not to just lie down and die. To keep touching the broken ruins and the ocean and digging for artifacts so that they could learn more about the thirteenth tribe. But Lee was right that it was time to move on and find a planet the colonials can actually live on. Hopefully before anyone else commits suicide. Bits and pieces: -- No credit sequence, but the cast was the same. The opening saga sell was nearly the same; they exchanged "seven are known, four live in secret" with "seven are known, four live in the fleet." "Eleven are known" probably lacked drama. What will it be next week? -- Were the ruins they were exploring the famous temple they keep talking about? I was totally creeped out by Tyrol recognizing his own blast shadow. -- Leoben just followed Starbuck around. His obsession with her used to be threatening, and now it's endearing. He looked completely freaked when she found her own body. Maybe he's not obsessed any more. -- Dee pretty much represented all of the colonials. She was a symbol of the depth of their despair. -- Hoshi got Dee's job. -- Graffiti: "Frak Earth." -- This week's survivor count: 39,651, with Dee's death making it 39,650. The last number we got was 39,665, and I only counted one death in "Revelations", the hostage that D'Anna tossed out the airlock. Who else died? What did I miss? I'm also wondering if the number includes Cylons. By this time, it should. -- Sometimes a Great Notion is the title of a brilliant book by Ken Kesey. My late sister was a fan of his; Kesey is probably best known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I was going to write about what it meant in relation to this episode, but Jess Lynde did it already and saved me a lot of work. -- Roslin: "Perfect. We traded one nuked civilization for another." Gripping episode, and really depressing. Yes, Battlestar Galactica is back, Billie View all comments or post a comment. |
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