Sunday January 28, 2007
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Now onboard Galactica, Baltar faces charges of treason. He contemplates suicide with the help of Number Six. Questions remain about his true identity. Is he a Cylon or isn't he?
Apollo shows off the new drinking establishment on Galactica, Joe's Bar, to Tyrol. Apollo thinks about Kara and wonders whether his marriage to Dee is worth saving.
Great Drama not so much action this time. hide show
While the show's directors and producers have the line "This is a drama show set in space". This episode does have a lot more drama than action. The episode is based around Baltar's trail. While not really a flashback episode it does bring back a lot of events leading to this episodes, the focal point is the occupation of New Caprica. There are some scenes where it does show the anger and resentment towards Baltar. I like the addition of the Bar in one of the Hangers. It reminded me of 10-Forward on Star Trek The Next Generation. A place where officers and crew relax. A good episode but not the ending I was expecting.
Oh.. again - relationship problems hide show
So.. it is very similar to episode we had not long ago - it is again all about Sam,Kara,Lee and Dee and they are all messed up not sure what who wants and what who should do.
This time add drinking, avoiding and not thinking and you will end up a mess what is not great to watch.
The other part of this episode went to Baltar who is back and the command trying to get some answers and nothing is working - they use hard way, drug him and they see it won't work and go for other ideas - Gaeta.. and the only exciting moment of this episode was the end - with Gaeta.. he acting on reaction of whatever Baltar said.. and I started really wonder - will Gaeta be one of the Cylons.. or Baltar said it to him.. I hope we will learn that oneday.
This is starting to get out of hand... hide show
He loves her, she loves him, they cheat, the don't cheat, he doesn't love her, she doesn't love him... HAAAAAAA... enough with that!!!!!
Li loves Starbuck, and Starbuck loves li, okay? Okay.
So instead of being together they keep crying and being sad. I really can't see this love story anymore, it lost its point. I can't see Li cry to Starbuck, I can't see Starbuck cry to her husband, I can't see Li cry to his wife. So please.... stop this. The only way this episode can have any use is if Li will die soon.
And the all story with Guys was pointless.
You know what... you can skip this episode and you wont even notice you missed something.
Definitely ranking low on my list of fav episodes, even though Edward Olmos was directing. Personally, I think they overdid the relationships angle, going as far as to center the episode around it with some sideshots from Baltar. hide show
Dr. Baltar gets returned to the fleet, and is interrogated in a wide variety of methods, telling us most of what we do not already know, which makes it rather pointless. This episode explores the relationships of Starbuck, Apollo, and so on, another pointless circle.
Despite Mr. Olmos directing, this episode could and should be left alone. Nothing much happened that progressed the story line, rather quite a disappointment. We see the opening of the new 'Joe's Bar', and find out that Mr. Gaeta has been trying to kill Baltar. Again, interrogations, and Madam President enlists the help of Caprica Six. Hopefully the following episodes will be better.
References and more allusions... hide show
The writers of the show continue to integrate mythology, folk-tales, bedtime prayers and lullabies. The fusion of several produced the opening sequence for this episode:
Close your eyes, go to sleep
Baby's in the cradle counting sheep
Climb up to your house of dreams
Baby's in the cradle fast asleep...
Reminiscent of:
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
Which Baltar makes reference to, and quickly apologies "Sorry, improvising."
Also made me think of: Rock a bye baby on the treetop, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all. No one is really sure, but Wikipedia attributes a rumor that this lullaby was the first English poem to be written on the land that has come to be known as America, by a pilgrim aboard the Mayflower in the 1600s.
The destiny of birth, life, movement and death, all in the power of the Gods (i.e. the writers/producers of the show).
An interesting anecdote regarding Baltar's interrogation:
During the early 1940s, scientists at the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA's wartime predecessor, were trying to develop a chemical substance that could break down the psychological defenses of enemy spies and POWs, thereby making it easier to obtain information.
The first acceptable drug, known as Code Name "TD" (for Truth Drug?), was a potent extract of THC, the active psychoactive substance in marijuana. When mixed with the prisoner's food, tobacco or drink, it tended to relax all inhibitions and to deaden the areas of the brain which govern discretion and caution.
By 1947, the U.S. Navy deployed Project Chatter, which utilized the highly hallucinogenic drug mescaline (derived from the peyote cactus...any similarities to kamala extract?). It's also interesting to note that the U.S. Navy adopted this approach from Nazi doctors at the Dachau concentration camp.
By 1954, the CIA was again experimenting with interrogation drugs, this time, the odorless, tasteless, and colorless LSD (visit www.erowid.org for more info about LSD and other hallucinogens). With the proper dosages of LSD, a skillful interrogator could gain leverage over prisoners by threatening to keep them in a crazed, tripped-out state forever unless they agreed to talk. Hmmm, Admiral Adama utilizing CIA interrogation techniques...
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