For the second episode of the final season of Battlestar Galatica, Six of One, which concerned all those fickle space characters and their all important life goals, was pretty up ending. Not a whole lot of people died. In fact, only Cylons died, which doesn't exactly count. Considering that the producers have promised to kill off a great deal many people, I guess they're just storing up backpayments for the grand finale, which will be all madness and mayhem, plus just an inkling of hope.
No, as could have been guessed, Kara did not shoot Roslin, because that would have stopped about half the wheels in the story machine. Instead, Roslin tried to shoot Kara, and ending up shooting a picture of her and the admiral. Heavy handed foreshadowing? Okay, so it is. But at least they're going somewhere. Adama and Roslin haven't been at odds since the first season of the show, and have been lovey dovey since, making out like an old married couple. Well, now they are having drunken fights like an old married couple. I was almost afraid that Adama was to backhand Roslin, but it didn't come to blows. It just ended in Adama saying, "You can stay in my room, but stay out of my head." Ouch. I guess we won't be healing that wound in the next couple of episodes.
Yes, Adama's having a hard time. Roslin, his lady love, is dying and he is not the person to talk about such things. Plus, his psuedo daughter may be a Cylon and is on the fast track to execution, like Texas except in a space craft. Finally, his son is leaving the service after three seasons.
Yes, Lee leaves his job as CAG, which gets readily associated with JAG in my mind for some obvious connections, both in plot and name, in a move precipitated by last season, when he adruptly quit in yet another father son arguement. This time it stuck, however, and he went through a montage carbon copied from those times that soap operas waved goodbye to their departing stars. Lee will not be leaving the show, though, because he is yet another wheel in the story machine. He still has work to do. It was nice, though, to have that moment of happiness, to see he and his father in the happy moments in between, and all our favorite pilots (Hot Dog? Where have you been?).
In the Cylon fleet, everything went to bedlam, which, as we all know, was a famous English mental hospital. Three of the models wanted to lobotomize the raiders, the TIE fighter doohickeys: these are led by Cavil, who seems to be trying to keep the Cylons functioning as they are meant to, keep them honest. The three remaining, of course, oppose this. So the solution is to uninhibit the Centurions (read Storm Troopers) and let them off the offending parties. Mirror image of what happened to the humans to start this whole thing? The next step, involving the victors who are so keen on finding the Final Five within the human fleet, will probably be to unbox D'Anna, who has seen their faces. The reason I guess this is because D'Anna's still on the cast list. I know, genius.
The Core Four, in the fleet, are still searching for the fifth, though, and send Tori to use her womanly ways on Baltar, now the leader of a woman cult. You'd think he'd be able to withstand a little seduction, but Baltar is Baltar, and now he's seeing visions of himself, which (or who) gives him advice on what he would do. What? Exactly. Although I don't understand it, it's darned funny to hear the Brothers Baltar talk through his thought process and compliment one another. And nothing was really accomplished; they may or may not have made a baby, but that's to be seen. No information was exchanged, minus numbers.
Finally, when everyone thought Kara was to be thrown out the airlock, Adama gives her a ship, and crew, and Helo, the Man Mountain, to go find Earth her way. His reason was simple: he was tired of Roslin being right. Score one for masculinity! Stick it to the woman! Though now that I think of it, it kind of hurts, knowing Adama and Roslin, the very cute gerry atrics, are now at odds, and fighting one another in very diplomatic ways. Sigh.
IN OTHER NEWS, Lee and Dee went through a very civil divorce which involved no ceremony at all, Lee and Kara still have emotional baggage to sort through, Tori may be falling for Baltar, Adama and Roslin are on the rocks, and this really is turning into a soap opera.
Since it has taken me this long to watch and write about Battlestar, my comfort is a new episode is standing in the wings. So hurrah and good luck to you, my friend.
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