GALACTICA

PRE-EPISODE THOUGHTS

It seems to me that that point of this last half-season is “why can’t humans and Cylons just get along?” It's an obvious metaphor for relations between races here in the real world. Zarek is the bad guy, a racist, for approving the idea that ships can determine for themselves that they don’t want any Cylons to come aboard.

(As I recall, Zarek was a Nelson Mandela-like figure from Dualla's planet, a reverse-South Africa where white people were kept down by the blacks. Am I wrong on that?)

I can’t help but thinking that the Cylons wiped out the entire human race except for 50,000 survivors. When the survivors finally thought they got away from them and settled a new planet, the Cylons found them and enslaved them.

If I was in that situation, I wouldn’t want anything to do with Cylons either.

10:08 PM

In the first scene we see Roslin with Bill Adama and Tigh. Roslin is even more annoying this season than in previous seasons.

Then Gaeta frees Tom Zarek from prison. Somehow Gaeta has the backing of a large number of troops, and they are going to take over the Galactica. I'm rooting for Gaeta, but somehow, I think he's going to lose before the season ends. Perhaps even by the end of the episode.

10:23 PM

It looks like the mutiny/revolution is working, except that Starbuck is the wildcard. She freed Lee. How will that mess up their carefully laid plans?

In the last scene before the commercial break, Helo, who has routinely disobeyed orders in order the help Cylons, finally got what he deserved. (You all recall that he's a traitor to humanity for sabotaging the plan to infect the Cylons with a virus.)

10:32 PM

Gaeta took over the bridge. Adama said there would be no forgiveness for anyone involved.

I'm guessing that somehow, Lee/Apollo and Kara/Starbuck are going to defeat Gaeta.

10:47 PM

It looks like Gaeta made a huge mistake not killing Bill Adama. Zarek saw that immediately.

Roslin gave a whiny speech about how the only hope for humanity is to trust our new friends, the Cylons. Gaeta cut her off. Did she convince anyone who heard it?

10:58 PM

That grenade they threw into the storage bay looks like it should have killed Admiral Adama. But in the preview scenes from next week episodes, it seems that he was captured alive and tried for his crimes.

It also looked like Gaeta was going to destroy Roslin's ship, but the preview scenes show that she managed to safely get to the Cylon base ship.

I don't really understand why Admiral Adama stayed behind. All he did was get himself captured and almost killed.

Pre-episode thoughts

Last week it was determined that the old bones on the bombed out planet were Cylon. HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW THIS? I mean, they can't tell the difference between living Cylons and living humans, how can they identify Cylons from two-thousand-year-old bones?

Besides, they can't be Cylons, because the Cylons were created by the men living in the colonies.

10:08 PM

Yay! Richard Hatch, the original Apollo, is in tonight's episode.

10:21 PM

It's not the ex-Chief's baby. That Callie was a real slut, wasn't she?

10:30 PM

Gaeta has big cajones for a gay guy. Starbuck could have beaten the crap out of him before he became a cripple.

Gaeta was actually a lot more interesting before he was gay (or bisexual or whatever he is). I spent much time pondering his attraction to Gaius Baltar. It turns out that it was nothing but a homosexual man-crush.

10:47 PM

The fuel ship jumped away because Tom Zarek said they had the right not to allow Cylons on board.

10:57 PM

Tom Zarek gave Adama the coordinates of the fuel ship, because Adama had dirt on him. But now, he's cooking up a revolution with Gaeta.

I'm not sure whether or not I'm supposed to be rooting for Zarek. Maybe it's time for a change of leadership.

9:40 PM

In only 20 minutes we'll finally get to find out what planet they landed on!

9:49 PM

Just watched webisode 1. Gaeta is a homo. That's gross.

10:22 PM

So Starbuck finds her own dead body on the planet. How did that happen?

10:35 PM

Starbuck burns her dead body. Dualla commits suicide.

10:46 PM

Now Bill Adama gets drunk and tries to commit suicide by Cylon (Colonel Tigh).

11:01

Starbuck covers up her death. Ellen Tigh was the fifth Cylon!

FINAL THOUGHTS

It's rather pathetic that everyone wants to commit suicide because "Earth" didn't turn out the way they hoped. Lorne Green wouldn't have been like that.