Thursday, March 18, 2004
The Young Lords
This is an episode that many would write off as not being one of the series’ best. But it’s worth watching just to see the gorgeous Miri in a skimpy outfit. Starbuck is quite a lucky guy! Even Boomer commented on it at the end of the episode.
For those of you who may have forgotten, in "The Young Lords", Starbuck crash lands on a planet where there is a Cylon outpost, and where there are five children who are mounting a guerilla campaign against the Cylons while their father is held captive in a medieval castle.
Maybe I mean four children and Miri.
When Miri asks Starbuck “do you really think I’m beautiful”, I am thinking that it’s like the Pope asking someone “do you really think I’m Catholic?”
This episode also gives us some more insight into Cylon behavior, with outpost leader Spectre, an IL series model like Lucifer, outright lying to Baltar in order to impress him and make himself sound good. Lucifer points out that Spectre is an earlier, less sophisticated, version of the IL series.
We also are treated to a nice scene where Boxey visits Adama who is in bed because he’s sick. Boxey probably isn’t the most loved character in the show, but I believe that he plays an important role in the philosophy of the series. Glenn Larson desires to show the inherent goodness of humanity, and the familial relationship between father, son, and grandson, is an important element of that. This is in stark contrast to the new Battlestar Galactica miniseries that aired on the SciFi channel which focuses mostly on the bad in humanity.