Tuesday, November 07, 2006
BattleStar Galactica -Torn
Torn was one of the more stronger episodes for me. Baltar might think he's a Cylon, the Cylons are now searching for earth, we know know there are 5 models of Cylons they don't like to talk about - more on that later - we see a Cylon that controls the spaceship with her mind. Didn't the scene of her laying in the liquid pod all connected kinda remind you of a cross between the Matrix pods and the Minority Report pre-cog?
We have a morale issue between the fighter pilots and the survivors from New Caprica. Commander Adama handles it quite well. The two big shit disturbers are Starbuck and Commander Tigh. Adama walks in, asks for Starbucks sidearm, makes sure there is a round chambered and tells them to shoot him. He basically called them out either shut up and get your head out of your asses or just end it. Starbuck decides to get back into the game whereas Tigh finds comfort in his bottle.
Back to the 5 other models of Cylons we don't know anything about. Time for some theories here. My first theory has to do with Alien Resurrection. Remember Sigourney Weaver and all of the botched attempts in cloning her? I think the Cylons don't like to talk about the other 5 models as they are probably failed attempts of flesh bots. Or, at Big T added, maybe the 5 other 5 models are not self aware that they are Cylons so, they haven't been able to show themselves. Remember how the first Sharon didn't know she was a Cylon until a program kicked off in her head?
Again, this is a very strong show with great parallels to what's happening today around us politically and socially. Can't wait until next week when they deal with ethic (Cylon) cleansing.
We have a morale issue between the fighter pilots and the survivors from New Caprica. Commander Adama handles it quite well. The two big shit disturbers are Starbuck and Commander Tigh. Adama walks in, asks for Starbucks sidearm, makes sure there is a round chambered and tells them to shoot him. He basically called them out either shut up and get your head out of your asses or just end it. Starbuck decides to get back into the game whereas Tigh finds comfort in his bottle.
Back to the 5 other models of Cylons we don't know anything about. Time for some theories here. My first theory has to do with Alien Resurrection. Remember Sigourney Weaver and all of the botched attempts in cloning her? I think the Cylons don't like to talk about the other 5 models as they are probably failed attempts of flesh bots. Or, at Big T added, maybe the 5 other 5 models are not self aware that they are Cylons so, they haven't been able to show themselves. Remember how the first Sharon didn't know she was a Cylon until a program kicked off in her head?
Again, this is a very strong show with great parallels to what's happening today around us politically and socially. Can't wait until next week when they deal with ethic (Cylon) cleansing.
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As a whole, BSG is some of the best stuff on TV.
That said, I felt, good as the last episode was (I am enjoying the classical surrealness of life aboard the Basestar), as far as life on Galactica was concerned, we moved from point A last week to point E this week and totally skipped B-D.
We realize time has passed because Apollo is fit and
trim again, but that means its been multiple weeks,
months even and none of that is addressed or
mentioned. We just went from fat Lee to skinny Lee,
good Starbuck to bad Starbuck--and all this time, the Colonel still hasn't got a decent eye patch. Come
on.
Still good, even great TV but, though it had high
points, this episode suffered badly from terrible
chronological writing.
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That said, I felt, good as the last episode was (I am enjoying the classical surrealness of life aboard the Basestar), as far as life on Galactica was concerned, we moved from point A last week to point E this week and totally skipped B-D.
We realize time has passed because Apollo is fit and
trim again, but that means its been multiple weeks,
months even and none of that is addressed or
mentioned. We just went from fat Lee to skinny Lee,
good Starbuck to bad Starbuck--and all this time, the Colonel still hasn't got a decent eye patch. Come
on.
Still good, even great TV but, though it had high
points, this episode suffered badly from terrible
chronological writing.
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