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13thcolonySo what did everyone think?
I've been wondering: what did Starbuck use to kill Leoben (the first time)? It looked like an ice pick, but with 2 prongs.
Doesn't Leoben know that Starbuck is married? Wouldn't trying to seduce her mean he's trying to lead her to sin (adultery)?
D'anna calls Baltar's Six "Caprica" -- interesting touch.
Ellen may have some redeeming qualities after all. She obviously does not enjoy whoring herself out to the Cylons, but she does it to get her husband back. She is misguided into thinking that she can trust the Cylons to do anything, and it looked like she's going to betray them in order to save Tigh from being taken away.
Kat as CAG, Helo as XO - cool. It's weird that everyone is so out of their element though. The show has really gone in a strange direction. The writers and producers have taken a big chance on this. Now, I stay away from spoilerage, but I have heard that maybe they only stay on New Caprica for a few more episodes--by which time we would return everyone to their usual positions on Galactica (Starbuck in the cockpit, Chief on the deck, etc.), but the interpersonal relationships would still be all different.
It was nice to see the president's aide again. I like her.
Why does Baltar back out of the graduation ceremony? Did someone tip him off?
Isn't their whole "secret code" a little transparent? Wouldn't the Cylons be watching Gaeta's every move? Why couldn't they just check the drawer instead of watching for the upside-down food dish? Does anyone ever feed that poor dog? :)
If the Cylons really do think that the holocaust was a mistake, why don't they just leave the remaining humans alone? Why all the heavy-handed tactics (curfews, centuriouns)? Is it because they think they need to "convert" them to monotheism? Why the strong desire to "work together" and build some brave new world? They Cylons really are bizzare creatures--they are so religious and yet they killed billions of people, think it's ok to torture people, think it's ok to steal Starbuck's ovary, etc, etc. When you get down to it they're even more screwed up than the humans.
I've been wondering: what did Starbuck use to kill Leoben (the first time)? It looked like an ice pick, but with 2 prongs.
Doesn't Leoben know that Starbuck is married? Wouldn't trying to seduce her mean he's trying to lead her to sin (adultery)?
D'anna calls Baltar's Six "Caprica" -- interesting touch.
Ellen may have some redeeming qualities after all. She obviously does not enjoy whoring herself out to the Cylons, but she does it to get her husband back. She is misguided into thinking that she can trust the Cylons to do anything, and it looked like she's going to betray them in order to save Tigh from being taken away.
Kat as CAG, Helo as XO - cool. It's weird that everyone is so out of their element though. The show has really gone in a strange direction. The writers and producers have taken a big chance on this. Now, I stay away from spoilerage, but I have heard that maybe they only stay on New Caprica for a few more episodes--by which time we would return everyone to their usual positions on Galactica (Starbuck in the cockpit, Chief on the deck, etc.), but the interpersonal relationships would still be all different.
It was nice to see the president's aide again. I like her.
Why does Baltar back out of the graduation ceremony? Did someone tip him off?
Isn't their whole "secret code" a little transparent? Wouldn't the Cylons be watching Gaeta's every move? Why couldn't they just check the drawer instead of watching for the upside-down food dish? Does anyone ever feed that poor dog? :)
If the Cylons really do think that the holocaust was a mistake, why don't they just leave the remaining humans alone? Why all the heavy-handed tactics (curfews, centuriouns)? Is it because they think they need to "convert" them to monotheism? Why the strong desire to "work together" and build some brave new world? They Cylons really are bizzare creatures--they are so religious and yet they killed billions of people, think it's ok to torture people, think it's ok to steal Starbuck's ovary, etc, etc. When you get down to it they're even more screwed up than the humans.
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Date: 2006-10-09 04:02 am (UTC)I guess this means that Roslin, her aide and Hatch are all dead? I was hoping that they were going to set them free or transport them off world. That would have been an interesting spin. It almost seemed as if the centuriouns were going to kill the human police.
I see a lot of ties to the US wars in the middle east and the middle east conflict in general.
I also find the the treatment of humans as a contradiction. I know it will end the story faster, but the skins should just kill Tigh and then the suicide killings would stop.
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Date: 2006-10-09 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-09 12:48 pm (UTC)They're in the previews, so I assume they find some way of surviving. Zarek looked like he had a bit of a plan at the end there, they probably hide under the bodies or something, Jewish concentration camp style.
It's part of a more complex strategy. They know how Tigh works, so they are happy to let him be the one in charge. They are banking on the resistance tactics being percieved as more and more reprehensible and the whole movement being discredited - hence the "one day your people will treat you as heroes" comment. They can also use him as leverage with Ellen.