 |
|
After watching Six of One I feel like a Centurion is standing on my chest. It was an intensely heavy and deeply moving episode. Lines are being drawn, sides are being taken and there will be blood. And judging by this episode a lot of it is going to be of the Cylon type.
These skin-jobs just can't get along. The schism that has erupted between the models according to Cavil, is going to destroy them. They're toying with their survival and the good brother is not having it. He refuses to believe that the final five could be among the humans and who could blame him? Why would these apparently older, wiser, more experienced (and to answer your question Sharon; not nearly as attractive), super-Cylons want to hang around with a rag-tag bunch of human survivors? It would be beneath them and in Cavil's Number One brain, it isn't logical Captain. Wait 'til he finds out that everyone's favorite one-eyed drunk is his superior. And wait 'til Tigh gets to have his revenge on Cavil for boning his wife.
These skin-jobs just can't get along. The schism that has erupted between the models according to Cavil, is going to destroy them. They're toying with their survival and the good brother is not having it. He refuses to believe that the final five could be among the humans and who could blame him? Why would these apparently older, wiser, more experienced (and to answer your question Sharon; not nearly as attractive), super-Cylons want to hang around with a rag-tag bunch of human survivors? It would be beneath them and in Cavil's Number One brain, it isn't logical Captain. Wait 'til he finds out that everyone's favorite one-eyed drunk is his superior. And wait 'til Tigh gets to have his revenge on Cavil for boning his wife.
Ya gotta love Cavil. With one eye on the survival of his species and the other eye taking a hot lap around the room he is the dirty old man of the Cylons. "Millions of Sixes share that mouth and Eights share those breasts." I was laughing out loud on the plane at that line which was weird because the rest of the people were watching some piece of crap called P.S. I Love You with Leonidas from 300 dancing around in boxer shorts. Not funny.
Was that line a peek into the dark depraved mind of a Number One where Sapphic Cylons have pillow fights? Will this be his downfall? Why is Boomer voting against her model? Is she sleeping with Cavil? Her topless interpretative dance of the Hybrid's jibber-jabber for him was weird/hot?
Cavil has really amped up the rhetoric. Mussolini-like in his my way or the highway plan to lobotomize the raiders his hubris will be the death of him. A naturally coiffed Six (Tricia Helfer is so much hotter with her real hair) stands up to Cavil's Nurse Ratchet plan, pulls the PETA card and ups the ante by taking the ankle bracelets off the Centurions, who like their fellow warrior brothers the Raiders, are tired of being kept down by the man. You can only screw with robots with machine gun hands for so long.
Cylon on Cylon crime is awesome and I can only hope we see a lot more machine gunning and slo-mo Doral death. I also think Cavil is going to get boxed. Or stared to death by 'ol One Eye.
Starbuck's histrionics were how can I put it mildly, really annoying. I guess she knew what she was doing though because she got the old man on her side. I knew that was coming last week. I knew it after she verbally skewered him and he takes her down. He believes her. He has to believe her. He never really believed any of the president's hooey. He did become, like Starbuck said, "the president's wet-nurse." The scene between Adama and Roslin where they debate Starbuck is where their relationship should be, in conflict. Enough of the chummy sexual tension. Adama finally got his balls back in this episode. He's going to need them. And now are we going to have to wait 18 episodes for Starbuck to find earth? 18 episodes of her cruising around on some sewage recycling ship only to find the Planet Of The Apes? I hope so. That or she meets Captain Mal Reynolds and they fly off into the sunset. I didn't think I was going to like the 'Lee becomes a lawyer' story arc but so far I'm digging it. Jamie Bamber has really given Apollo much more depth this season and for the first time I'm really caring about his character. His scene with Starbuck in the cell was great. Beautifully acted by both of them and Lee and Kara's kiss had a real sense of finality to it. Are they finally over each other? There was a palpable sense of loss and of unfulfilled destinies. Lee's send off was one of those 'I can't believe I'm getting choked up watching BSG' moments. You know you have them. You know you got a little verklempt when he hugged the old man. It's OK, cry it out bitch.
Speaking of crying, Foster's post-coital tears with Baltar; real or crocodile? Is she setting him up? Seems like that's the plan but you never know with Gaius. And what's better than one Gaius? Two Gaius's. I hope we see a lot more of snappy-suited inviso-Gaius. And the not-so-fantastic-four old/new Cylons? More of the same this week. Clandestine meetings with more questions than answers. I'm itching to see these Cylons in action. I want to see Chief kick some ass!!
Fight'em 'til you can't,
Scott
Was that line a peek into the dark depraved mind of a Number One where Sapphic Cylons have pillow fights? Will this be his downfall? Why is Boomer voting against her model? Is she sleeping with Cavil? Her topless interpretative dance of the Hybrid's jibber-jabber for him was weird/hot?
Cavil has really amped up the rhetoric. Mussolini-like in his my way or the highway plan to lobotomize the raiders his hubris will be the death of him. A naturally coiffed Six (Tricia Helfer is so much hotter with her real hair) stands up to Cavil's Nurse Ratchet plan, pulls the PETA card and ups the ante by taking the ankle bracelets off the Centurions, who like their fellow warrior brothers the Raiders, are tired of being kept down by the man. You can only screw with robots with machine gun hands for so long.
Cylon on Cylon crime is awesome and I can only hope we see a lot more machine gunning and slo-mo Doral death. I also think Cavil is going to get boxed. Or stared to death by 'ol One Eye.
Starbuck's histrionics were how can I put it mildly, really annoying. I guess she knew what she was doing though because she got the old man on her side. I knew that was coming last week. I knew it after she verbally skewered him and he takes her down. He believes her. He has to believe her. He never really believed any of the president's hooey. He did become, like Starbuck said, "the president's wet-nurse." The scene between Adama and Roslin where they debate Starbuck is where their relationship should be, in conflict. Enough of the chummy sexual tension. Adama finally got his balls back in this episode. He's going to need them. And now are we going to have to wait 18 episodes for Starbuck to find earth? 18 episodes of her cruising around on some sewage recycling ship only to find the Planet Of The Apes? I hope so. That or she meets Captain Mal Reynolds and they fly off into the sunset. I didn't think I was going to like the 'Lee becomes a lawyer' story arc but so far I'm digging it. Jamie Bamber has really given Apollo much more depth this season and for the first time I'm really caring about his character. His scene with Starbuck in the cell was great. Beautifully acted by both of them and Lee and Kara's kiss had a real sense of finality to it. Are they finally over each other? There was a palpable sense of loss and of unfulfilled destinies. Lee's send off was one of those 'I can't believe I'm getting choked up watching BSG' moments. You know you have them. You know you got a little verklempt when he hugged the old man. It's OK, cry it out bitch.
Speaking of crying, Foster's post-coital tears with Baltar; real or crocodile? Is she setting him up? Seems like that's the plan but you never know with Gaius. And what's better than one Gaius? Two Gaius's. I hope we see a lot more of snappy-suited inviso-Gaius. And the not-so-fantastic-four old/new Cylons? More of the same this week. Clandestine meetings with more questions than answers. I'm itching to see these Cylons in action. I want to see Chief kick some ass!!
Fight'em 'til you can't,
Scott
