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Guess What’s Coming to Dinner?

Beautiful Athena, gun raised toward the viewer.  This bitch doesn't mess around.
U TUCH MY BABEEH!H!!!??
CUNTHEAD U GON DIE~~!

Baltar is right.  Roslin sucks.  She's off the deep end and Baltar, ex-president, one who spent time with Cylons, a center of a religion wonder: Gauis Baltar is speaking some truth.  Roslin's myopic vision of the future is remarkably un-democratic compared with where she started.  The forms of civilization they've held to so tightly are crumbling.  Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: she's changed. 

Adama once asked if they were worthy of survival. The measure of judgment was always how far they'd strayed from their original rules.  And how very far has Roslin strayed.  And if she turns out to be right, then how much will humanity have lowered itself?  What will the cost of salvation be?  If it comes.

It's worth repeating: Micheal Hogan, you are the man.  Tigh, this episode, proves himself loyal and willing to risk inquisition of Cyloninity - in order to trust his gut, the way he always has.  But not knowing what the result will be.  Tigh remains in command, but haunted by his nature, unsure of how it causes him to be a changed man.  And Hogan portrays all this with the look on his face.

Oh, and the finish of this episode!  They go to the Hybrid (who I thought was dead, but oh no, that's okay, feel free to just make up whatever the frak you please).  At the Hybrid, she's all like "JUMP MUTHA FRACKAS!" And we're all like "WHUUU????" then "Since that's totally obvious, why didn't I see it that coming?" Awesome.

The textures, the moods, music, heightened drama, personal drama, unexpected twists, singing Felix close-up at the end.  A crescendo of interweaving plots.  Galactica at its finest, doing what it does best: Big resonant plots, smaller counter drama of the mythic lives that produce a melody that is a privilege to enjoy.  Galactica: Proceed to Roxxor on With Coxx Out!

Who's next to join Kara and Baltar in the Opera House? Is mortality the key to evolution?  Will being a Final Five be a sought after thing?

2008 May 24 12:01 am; Filed under the arts and tagged Battlestar Galactica.
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  • Cliff

    Thing is, we still aren't all THAT sure Baltar is actually pushing for something bigger, or if he's just looking out for himself (and, seriously, when it gets out that he's been fucking yet ANOTHER Cylon, there's a fairly solid chance he's 'accidentally' shot about, oh, a thousand times. Of course...hmmm...they could be looking to set him up as a martyr of sorts...hmmm...).

    As for Roslin, she's just running on pure survival instinct. Sure, they ALL are, but hers is a little heightened by the fact her own personal mortality is VERY much out in the open, right now. That doesn't excuse a good chunk of her actions, but it explains to an extent why she's operating in full bore 'Protection is Everything, Fuck the Rest' mode.

    So, one thing I've been pondering...what exactly WILL the reactions be when the identitities of the four become known? MY own personal opinion is that it will be kept very hush hush by Adama, etc.. After all, he can't exactly afford to throw his XO and one of his best Engineers out of an airlock right now, and that's what the general publoic would probably be wont to do. Loyalty to Tigh is going to come in to some extent, as well, I think. Anders...well, really, he's more a fringe character, so who the Hell knows what they do there, though some sort of 'vengeance' for Gaeda's leg doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility. Maybe they go Old Testament, and we do the 'Tooth for a Tooth, Leg for a Leg' thing? And, well, Tory is already looked down upon by Roslin as pretty much a whore, so there's not much drop left, there.

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