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| Wednesday, March 11, 2009 02:52 PM |
| On the Viewer - Battlestar Galactica (Season 4.5, Episode 7 - "Someone to Watch Over Me") |
 by Fëanor |
The "previously on" clips include the thing about Starbuck finding her own body, and this episode seems to have a focus on her. I hope that means we're about to figure out what the deal is with her being dead and alive at the same time. I'm thinking maybe time travel. Hey, they did it on Lost!
I like the way they're intercutting Starbuck's preparation for the pilot briefing with the actual pilot briefing. They're really capturing the monotony. I also like that the prize for finding a habitable planet is a tube of toothpaste - the last in the universe.
The Cylons want to put Boomer on trial for treason and, if she's convicted, execute her.
The entire Galactica is shuddering, the lights blinking on and off. That doesn't seem like a good thing. Hold together, old girl! I'd be seriously depressed if they had to scuttle Galactica.
Love the way Cottle just sends the Cylons at Ander's bedside packing, telling them to take their quackery elsewhere.
It sounds like Helo really went to a lot of trouble collecting all of Starbuck's old stuff, and she just tells him to keep it? That's cold. Then again, she's never been the nicest person.
Chief to Boomer: "You can't force people to love you at the point of a gun."
Boomer to Chief: "I've thought about you every day since that moment I died in your arms." I love that this is a show where that line makes perfect sense.
Boomer to Chief: "The most important thing is that we both know who we are now." Do you? Do you really? Eights can never seem to decide, and the Chief is pretty damn confused at the moment himself.
Woah woah woah. Weird alternate reality flashback. Cylon projection? Is this finally the explanation for the imaginary Six Baltar's been seeing all this time?
The Final Five are meeting; Tigh says nothing, then blurts out, "We're all in hell," does a shot, and leaves. Chief: "Thanks for your input." Ha! Good old Tigh.
Okay, it's kind of creepy and stalkery that Boomer's been imagining a whole life for her and Chief for years now. Kind of romantic, too, sure, but...
All right, I'll admit it, seeing the Chief walk through the life Boomer constructed for them is actually really touching and beautiful.
Apparently Starbuck's having a father-figure thing with this pianist. (It's a lot more than that, as I'd realize later.)
Piano player to Starbuck: "It may feel like hell, but sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one."
Oh, Chief. Kidnapping? Really? That's messed up.
Did Boomer just beat the crap out of Athena? And does Helo think Boomer is Athena now? Aah, this is creepy! Oh, and Athena's still in the room! Jesus, this is twisted.
So Tigh just sits around talking about his dead baby all the time now? Greeaaat.
I knew those dots Hera was drawing weren't just stars. Wow. Maybe Starbuck's Dad was a Cylon? Maybe Starbuck's Dad was Daniel? All the Final Five can hear the music somehow... The piano player was her Dad? He was in her head all the time? Mind... exploding!
OH MY GOD. I could barely breathe throughout the brutal, intense ending sequence. Was Cavil's plan all along to get Hera? Holy crap. Just an incredible, incredible episode. Extremely moving, powerful, exciting, mind-blowing. I love this show. |
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