BSG Faith Review
May 16, 2008 – 10:43 am by AndrewAs always, spoilers below
I enjoyed this episode muchly. Let’s see, what happened? Well basically the Stackbuck plot line was advanced a lot, and that’s about it.
Fist a few points on the Roslin story line. Ah, Nana Visitor, thank god you’re only a visitor on this show, yuk yuk. I remember her from DS9, she was always kind of a hammy actress in my opinion. And at this point in the series random new characters are a little weird. I guess there was no other cancer patient character to use, but still. I’m not saying the scenes between them were terrible, just not my favorite. I do like that Roslin is buying into Baltar’s religion. To me it says she’s not so blinded by hate towards him that she can’t agree with him when he’s right. It’s like “this guy might be a big douche bag but if he’s right about God, he’s right about God.”
Now to the Demitrius
Why did Anders have to shoot Gaeta in the knee? He’s an idiot, he should have just shot him in the calf or something.
They finally started remembering that Athena is in fact a Cylon, I like that.
Two Sixes kissing. Is that like incest? Seemed more like a kiss of death to me.
I like the “human justice” line a lot. Blood for blood, we’re a bunch of frakking idiots.
I wish Anders had touched the water thing on the baseship, who knows what would have happened. He also seems to be warming up to his Cylon buddies, being there for one of the dying Sharon’s when Athena turned away. He seems to be the nicest and most stable (because he’s too stupid to have an identity crisis?) of all the final 4. I wonder if he’ll stay that way.
The hybrid made some sweet predictions. The dying leader will know the secret of the opera house? That’s gotta be Roslin, probably. We got a reiteration of the Kara Thrace harbinger of death line, but now people who aren’t dead have heard it. So is she the harbinger of death? Maybe. Maybe she’ll bring them to their end in a metaphorical way. Two things to note: 1) Kara had to die to find Earth. Could Earth be heaven or some such mysticalness? 2) Way back in season 2 Six told Baltar that she was an angel there to guide him to “the end of the human race.” What does it all mean? Who knows. Maybe they “end” by fornicating with Cylons? so many possibilities, but even though I don’t know what it means it’s nice to see the consistency. And unlike a certain other mainstream “scifi” show, I actually believe the writers know where they’re going with this.
So this week are they finally going to bring D’ana back? And is she going to identify the 5? That leads to two tantalizing prospects, the final 4 will no longer be a secret, and the 5th will be revealed! It would be pretty sweet if that happened. Also if they reveal the 5th before the mid-season cliffhanger, does that mean they’ll find Earth in the mid-season cliffhanger? Possibly. Final fifth predictions: Romo Lampkin, Roslin, what’s-her-name from Razor, also Cain, edit: forgot Duala, and Zarek. Think that’s too many predictions? Too bad, I think it’s probably one of those people. Longshots: Billy, Ellen, Crashdown, Jammer, Cally. Pretty much anyone who died. We’ll see.
Final thought: the hybrid is totally hot.
Nice
I’m pretty sure the final 5th can’t be Cally, because I’m pretty sure Cylons can’t reproduce with each other.
Reply to JenThat’s a good point. She’s probably not. Who do you think? You’ve got to try and call it before it’s revealed if you want mad cred.
Reply to Andrewit would be hilarious if it was billy. also hilarious: hot dog.
i think its gaeta.
Reply to pfaffGaeta should be on my short list, which isn’t very short. But if it’s Gaeta, why didn’t he go to the room with the rest of them? Do you think the 5th is walking around knowing they’re a Cylon and not losing their minds? Thinking about it like that makes me think it’s likely one of the dead people or someone we haven’t seen, like Romo. No one else seems crazy like the 4.
Reply to AndrewI will be disappointed if it’s anyone else on the Galactica crew. Gaeta, sure, maybe? But I feel like if the season comes to this big climax and it’s like, “da…da da da IT’S GAETA!” we’ll all be sitting on our couches like, “Wow, that…is pretty lame.” Same goes for Kara and Baltar. They’d have to have pretty outlandish presentation to make either of those two not come off as stupid and over-hyped. It can’t be anyone who’s died, or else they would have resurrected or be dead-dead.
Prediction: the 5th is already on Earth, and Earth is… Earth. Otherwise that fancy pullback business at the end of season 3 was just eye-candy. Could be the architect-dude from Razor?
I do like that the hybrid bugs out on Kara. I think the “end” might be metaphorical, but we should also consider the hybrid’s scope of knowledge — she’s a ship-driving prophecy-machine. Say Earth is through a wormhole (yes, DS9!) — she can’t prophesy through it, and declares it “death”. Say the 5th is the architect, and the hybrid’s programming isn’t meant to understand the scale of things to come — again, “death” is the prophecy. In any case, I’m comfortable understanding Kara’s harbinger-of-death role to mean that she will bring humanity past where the Cylons have seen, regardless of physical actuality.
Reply to baehrMoooah- where is my comment?
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