Monday, December 18, 2006
BattleStar Galactica - The Eye of Jupiter
It's been a long time since I've actually spoke to my television screen, but Friday night, right after this episode, I said NO! My wife and daughter both turned and looked at me wanting to know what was wrong, I told them that I just saw the last episode of BattleStar until next January, and there's one hell of a cliff hanger! They both laughed at me.
Brief synopsis: The crew is on algae planet harvesting as much food supplies as possible, when the chief senses something in the mountain. He just walks away to go check it out. When he gets to the top of the mountain, he stumbles across a temple with 5 rather large stone edifices pointing upwards. Now this number 5 seems to be very significant not only to the humans but also to the Cylons. There are 5 models we do not know about and the Lucy Lawless character keeps killing herself just to download and "see the faces" of the 5.
Inside this temple, there's an artifact, the eye of Jupiter, which points the way to Earth. Now, it gets really interesting as 4 Cylon base ships show up in search of the eye. Both Baltar and Lucy Lawless have guided the Clylons to this planet as some sort of divine or spiritual quest. As the Cylon's show up, the rest of the fleet jumps out of space, but the Galactica remains. The Cylons do not launch their fighters but rather want to meet with Admiral and President. In one of those moments you knew it was going to happen, bad Sharon tells good Sharon her kid is alive on the base ship, showing that the President lied to her.
The Admiral cuts the negotiation's short by threating to unleash the nuclear weapons destroying the planet. Now a real nice point was made by Dean Stockwell from Quantum Leap fame, wanting to call the humans on their bluff. He basically said, so what, let them blow up the planet, we are machines, we can look forever.
There are so many cliffhangers left open in this episode
- Is Starbuck ok?
- Will Lee and Starbuck finally leave their spouses for each other?
- What is the eye of Jupiter?
- Is it that round object on one of the stone edifices?
- Is Baltar a Cylon?
- Will Athena go balastic and revert to her Cylon ways now that she knows her baby is alive?
- Will Baltar and D'Anna make it to the planet?
- Is the Chief a priest?
- What about the nuclear weapons?
- Will the sun go supernova and vaporize the entire solar system?
Now my only complaint deals with the return of the show - Sunday evenings starting at 10:00pm. Don't these people know I need my sleep?
Labels: Battlestar Gallactica, tv
