Post by Hisham on Jul 17, 2005 17:07:59 GMT 8
FRAK! FRAK! FRAK!!!! FRAKKITY FRAK FRAK FRAK!!!
The characters never get a break. After the amazing cliffjumper we had last season finale in "Kobol's Last Gleaming", I was worried that they couldn't sustain the tension of the storylines. But boy, was I ever wrong.
When they titled this episode "Scattered" they weren't kidding. You have the Kobol landing party crash survivors (I'm thinking Crashdown'll change his callsign if he gets back in one piece), the Caprica people with the Arrow of Apollo, and the Galactica fleet, and even they don't stay together long because after the fiasco in CIC that caused Dualla to seemingly nibble on Adama's hands (admit it, you thought it looked like that, didn't it?), one Cylon Basestar appears disgorging oodles and oodles of Raiders.
Tigh is shoved into the CO position without him being absolutely ready, which meant he was commanding the only ship in the fleet that stood between surviving another day, and the total destruction of the entire human race. He orders an emergency FTL jump for the fleet as the wall of Cylon war machines close in on them. Galactica holds while all the civilian vessels jump. Finally Galactica jumps... and they discover that they're alone. Their emergency jump coordinates are different from the rest of the fleet. They've lost the civilian ships!
And all this before the opening credits.
Meanwhile, Crashdown's team isn't faring well either. The Lt's inexperience slows them down and Socinus is dying. All I'm going to say about these guys is: Tyrol and Callie are superb characters. I hope Socinus doesn't buy it. He reminds me a bit of me when I started worked as an aircraft mechanic once upon a time.
What's with Starbuck and Helo totally gone from the episode before the first 15 minutes? Kara has a great line in the scene though, "B**ch stole my ride!"
Tigh has flashbacks to when Adama & him served on a civilian freighter. If it weren't for the longer hair and no hat, I'd be expecting Adama to start folding origami.
Meanwhile, the paramedics working on Adama also has a few scenes for them to shine in. When I mean everyone gets to act, Everyone Gets To Act... it seemed like there were no background characters, although obviously there were.
And Boomer... poor, unknowing, suicidal Boomer.... if I were in her position, as desperate as her, I could understand why she thought she needed to die (even in last episode) without understanding why things are the way they are. Only that it's scary.
What about the missing fleet? Of course they could find them back. All they need to do is jump back to their last position, wait for an hour for the computers to recalculate the jump using the alternate coordinates that the fleet was provided with, then jump for the fleet. But of course they have to hold off a Basestar and its support ships that's waiting for them there.
So what do they do?
Well the solution is to re-network the Galactica's computers again to cut the one hour calc time to 10 minutes... but that would make them subceptible to the virus that led to the Holocaust in the 2003 BSG mini-series.
Without telling the outcome of this quandry, I'd like to highlight the point that the person who came up with this is Gaeta which puts the Galactica in danger from being hacked by and disabled by the Cylons. Just like Gaeta was the only guy around Baltar while he worked on the Cylon detector on Galactica. Just like Gaeta absolved Baltar from Shelley Godfrey's accusation thet he was the cause of the holocaust. Just like Gaeta was the one that forgot to transmit the new emergency coordinates to the rest of the fleet this episode. Just like Gaeta was the guy who shook Boomer's hand (transmitting something perhaps?) seconds before ... it... happened the previous episode.
My money is on Gaeta being a Cylon.
I give this episode 4 out of 5. 99% excellent, but having Starbuck & Helo drop out of the story is a minor quibble, but a quibble anyway. I hope that Arrow of Apollo was not a waste of Starbuck's time.
The characters never get a break. After the amazing cliffjumper we had last season finale in "Kobol's Last Gleaming", I was worried that they couldn't sustain the tension of the storylines. But boy, was I ever wrong.
When they titled this episode "Scattered" they weren't kidding. You have the Kobol landing party crash survivors (I'm thinking Crashdown'll change his callsign if he gets back in one piece), the Caprica people with the Arrow of Apollo, and the Galactica fleet, and even they don't stay together long because after the fiasco in CIC that caused Dualla to seemingly nibble on Adama's hands (admit it, you thought it looked like that, didn't it?), one Cylon Basestar appears disgorging oodles and oodles of Raiders.
Tigh is shoved into the CO position without him being absolutely ready, which meant he was commanding the only ship in the fleet that stood between surviving another day, and the total destruction of the entire human race. He orders an emergency FTL jump for the fleet as the wall of Cylon war machines close in on them. Galactica holds while all the civilian vessels jump. Finally Galactica jumps... and they discover that they're alone. Their emergency jump coordinates are different from the rest of the fleet. They've lost the civilian ships!
And all this before the opening credits.
Meanwhile, Crashdown's team isn't faring well either. The Lt's inexperience slows them down and Socinus is dying. All I'm going to say about these guys is: Tyrol and Callie are superb characters. I hope Socinus doesn't buy it. He reminds me a bit of me when I started worked as an aircraft mechanic once upon a time.
What's with Starbuck and Helo totally gone from the episode before the first 15 minutes? Kara has a great line in the scene though, "B**ch stole my ride!"
Tigh has flashbacks to when Adama & him served on a civilian freighter. If it weren't for the longer hair and no hat, I'd be expecting Adama to start folding origami.
Meanwhile, the paramedics working on Adama also has a few scenes for them to shine in. When I mean everyone gets to act, Everyone Gets To Act... it seemed like there were no background characters, although obviously there were.
And Boomer... poor, unknowing, suicidal Boomer.... if I were in her position, as desperate as her, I could understand why she thought she needed to die (even in last episode) without understanding why things are the way they are. Only that it's scary.
What about the missing fleet? Of course they could find them back. All they need to do is jump back to their last position, wait for an hour for the computers to recalculate the jump using the alternate coordinates that the fleet was provided with, then jump for the fleet. But of course they have to hold off a Basestar and its support ships that's waiting for them there.
So what do they do?
Well the solution is to re-network the Galactica's computers again to cut the one hour calc time to 10 minutes... but that would make them subceptible to the virus that led to the Holocaust in the 2003 BSG mini-series.
Without telling the outcome of this quandry, I'd like to highlight the point that the person who came up with this is Gaeta which puts the Galactica in danger from being hacked by and disabled by the Cylons. Just like Gaeta was the only guy around Baltar while he worked on the Cylon detector on Galactica. Just like Gaeta absolved Baltar from Shelley Godfrey's accusation thet he was the cause of the holocaust. Just like Gaeta was the one that forgot to transmit the new emergency coordinates to the rest of the fleet this episode. Just like Gaeta was the guy who shook Boomer's hand (transmitting something perhaps?) seconds before ... it... happened the previous episode.
My money is on Gaeta being a Cylon.
I give this episode 4 out of 5. 99% excellent, but having Starbuck & Helo drop out of the story is a minor quibble, but a quibble anyway. I hope that Arrow of Apollo was not a waste of Starbuck's time.
