Faith: Battlestar Galactica 4:6

May 10, 2008



In the sixth episode (seventh if you count Razor as an episode) of the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica things finally start to get interesting. I’ve really had quite enough of Chief Tyrol’s internal conflict since learning he was a cylon. Colonel Tigh’s um… affairs with the captured six are too disturbing to discuss. I think I speak for just about everyone who watches BSG when I say “we get it already, Tory is a stone cold cylon bitch.” Anders is by far the most interesting of the four.

Laura Roslin is Bald:
The bald cap is laughable, but we get to see that Mary Mcdonnel has a really pretty face. It’s amazing how distracting hair can be. During a treatment for her cancer, the president encounters another patient who is listening to a broadcast by Gaius Batlar. After a brief conflict when Laura suggests that the other woman turn off the Baltar Broadcast, the two women begin a dialogue. Nice guest appearance by Nana Visitor. After discussing the woman’s dreams about the afterlife and experiencing a similar vision, Laura begins to give some credibility the whole “one god” concept.

Starbuck’s crew aboard the Demetrius mutinies, Anders shoots Gaeta.
It’s about time Agathon grew some balls and relieved Starbuck of commend. At least he attempted to relieve her of command. After the drama Starbuck realizes she shouldn’t take her entire crew to locate the remnants of the cylon fleet Leoben is rambling about. Agathon sets the jump clock and agrees to give Starbuck a chance to find the base star and speak to the cylon hybrid.

Starbuck takes a raptor to rendezvous with a crippled cylon base star.
Starbuck actually finds the damaged base star. It would appear all her psycho hallucinations are actually starting to mean something. And um yeah, the Base Star is also organic. Yuk. Anyway it would appear that at least one of the sixes had some real emotional baggage after being drowned on New Caprica. After killing one of the Galactica raptor crew, she recounts her death and receives post traumatic stress disorder therapy at gunpoint. The best part of this scene is when Anders is about to place his hand in the cylon control panel.

The Hybrid cylon tells Starbuck that she is the harbinger of death.
We all knew that. Starbuck has become a crazy bitch. It’s ok, we still love her.

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