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Water

Season 1, Episode 2, Aired Jan 14, 2005

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Boomer wakes up in a storage locker soaking wet and carrying a bag with a bomb in it. Moments later, several explosions rip through the Galactica, bleeding her of 60% of her water. Now the crew struggles to find another source of water before riots threaten to destroy the convoy.moreless

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Tricia Helfer

Number Six
Mary McDonnell

Laura Roslin
Katee Sackhoff

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
Jamie Bamber

Lee "Apollo" Adama
James Callis

Gaius Baltar
Grace Park

Sharon "Boomer" Valerii

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By TrueTvWatcher, Jan 11, 2012

Water was another stellar episode of Battlestar Galactica and I really enjoyed watching this episode as it opened with Boomer waking up from a black out to realize she may have planted bombs and could be a Cylon. This episode had drama, suspense, and a lot of character and plot development. I really like the style of this series and how intense the character scenes can be, but in an awesome way. Meanwhile the other Sharon on Caprica plays a game with Halo to make him believe she is there to help him. I look forward to watching the next episode!!!!!!!!!moreless
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The one where: There's hardly a drop to drink. (Or bathe in.)

6.5

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By MovieMark, Sep 20, 2011

Any episode that begins with Grace Park – dripping wet – is fine by me.
This particularly moisty, hot Asian-Cylon has no idea that she's a sleeper agent. Drenched from head to toe after looking like she just snapped out of a daydream, she finds a rucksack with a towel and some other essential trinkets. Like, ya know, some explosives. Bummer. She is definitely a hot Asian-cylon, no doubt about it. Boomer soon discovers that even more explosions are missing from the small arms locker, but where are the rest of them?
Spoilerish Title Sequence: 4 mins and 28 secs into the episode.
It's an admitedly slow-paced hour, exploring the different dyanamics between the military and the presidential side of things. The urgency to find water isn't as nail-biting as last week's genuine stakes to evade Cylon attacks, although Boomer's inner conflict is handled nicely enough. (Though she does seem a bit peewee for such an authoritarian figure. I guess size doesn't really matter.) The character work between Adama and Roslyn is easily the best thing going right now (outside of awesome robots, which we see very little of here). I genuinely bought their budding respect for one another's tough positions as respective leaders, as well as the hinted flirty exchanges between them.
The visual effect as the water leaked into the black was quite the spectacle. Less awesome, especially if you have vertigo (I don't, but I sympathise with those who do), is this show and its relentless camera shakiness. I felt it took away from the drama of certain scenes, particularly when juxtaposed with Baltar's cerebral get-away with Six.
Frak-O-Meter: Only 2 fraks this week. This show is still so young.
Cylon Sex: Nada! Although we did get a nice shot of Six in a hot tub.
Spot the Six: Just Head Six this week. Once again, looking like she just stepped out of a Special K advert.
Injuries: This was a fairly tame episode, wasn't it? Does Starbuck's pride count for injury?..
Boomer or Sharon?: Boomer and Sharon both get drenched in this episode. Possibly a tie, me thinks.
Ships Lost: Nothing this week. It's just The Olympic Carrier as of now. But just yoooou wait.
Battlestar Bleakness: I can't believe Dee was so cold towards Billy. Like, ok, her hair was far from good looking. He knew it, she knew that, heck we all did. But a compliment is a compliment, lady! Geesh. (Again, such a tame episode, amiright?)
Boasting solid performances and some great FX work, as of right now, the show is still finding its feet and an adequet pace to work at. It's glacial at the moment, but soon things will run smooth like water. (OK, that was effin' lame.I know it, you know it, but I'm tired, so shut up.)moreless
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"It was really a Boomer episode, very serialized." SPOILERS.

8.5

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By tiewashere, Feb 26, 2011

So, the episode opens with Boomer being soaking wet and realizing that 6 or so mini explosives have been left throughout the ship. It was interesting how they did this right after the scene with Boomer in the rain on Caprica with Helo because I actually thought she didn't remember that she TRANSPORTED from Caprica. Only an hour after watching the episode I said, "Oh! It's because the bombs were in the water tank!"

I really do like The President a lot and I want them to touch more on the one general that is an alcoholic more. I have a feeling him measuring how much alcohol he has left means something significant. This episode was definitely not as dark as 33 and I actually kinda liked that...even though I like dark. :P It was really a Boomer episode, very serialized. From my understanding, towards the end of the episode it seemed like Boomer was SUPPOSED to detonate the bomb that was on her ship and not tell the others that she found water, but she did. Is she fighting back against her cylon ways? This was truly interesting. I also really liked her smirk/serious face at the end of the episode. Does she know she's a Cylon? I personally don't think so but they seemed to hint at that at the end. Another thing I enjoyed was the flirtatiousness between Baltar and Starbuck after the game of cards. Also, is Helo's story going to move any faster? Seems like a waster of space. Kinda like how in the episode where Spike tells Buffy how he killed slayers there are random shots of Riley trying to kill a nest of vamps and it takes away from the story. That's where Helo is at right now. :P

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One big educational experience.

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"Good"

By kickdoor, Nov 07, 2010

Well Sharon's first act as a Cylon was full on, to say the least. It was a brilliant choice to start the episode with her dripping wet and the viewer wondering right along with her, "what the hell did she do?" Especially after the C4 was revealed in her bag. It was almost creepy how well thought out the plan was, planting a charge in her own Raptor in order to remove all suspicion from herself was good thinking. And I have to admit the final shots of her walking down the hallway gave me chills.

Adama gained even more respect in his scene with President Roslin(who I'm still lukewarm on), by not wanting the military to become a police force he showed the kind of restraint needed by someone in his position.

The stuff on Caprica had me a little confused. I'm just wondering if/when Helo is going to question who that woman(Six) was that was rolling with Cylons or why Sharon knew to shoot her, or why Sharon isn't questioning it? He wasn't on board Galactica when the rumors started about Cylons looking like humans and I can't imagine Sharon would want to risk arousing his suspicions by telling him.

Once again the card game was one of the high points, Baltar and Starbuck had great back and forth.moreless
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Continuing the theme of "we're frakked", a good but not exceptional second outing for the series

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By SebastianHaff, May 05, 2010

This episode continues the general theme of the fleet on the edge, but thankfully takes a different angle to the previous episode "33". Another fleet-on-the-run episode would have been repetitive, so this time the writers focus more on the enemy from within. How do you protect from a traitor within your midst? The fleet is still not accustomed to such suspiciousness, so not very well is the answer.

There are some contrivances to the plot, such as why isn't their security on the weapons lockers and why are the logs not kept very well? " Both are explained briefly in dialog, but are of course needed for Boomer to remain undiscovered. They also detract from the surprise of what Boomer has done, thanks to the credits showing Galactica losing water in the opening credits and the exposition-laden talk about how important water is before the explosions occurred. But these I can forgive, they are minor problems in an otherwise well-written episode.

I particularly like that the balance between Adama and Roslyn continues to be explored, and their similarities (such as hating pomp) start to come through. Also interesting is that Apollo continues to spend time with the president, and is turning into her confidant " a role that will lead him into exploring his political aspirations later in the series. It's also interesting to see how Roslyn gives Apollo some of the advice that his father won't, further creating a bond between Apollo and Roslyn and offering Apollo something he cant get from his father.

Overall, while the episode wasn't quite as tight as the previous episode it's still a very solid outing. It's also the first episode to focus on a particular character, and sets in motion Boomer's arc " the ramifications of which will be felt for a long time to come.moreless
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- Lee becomes the President's Military advisor.
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- Baltar says there are 45,265 civilians in the fleet. Given the stats of total fleet population in the last episode, that means there are 2,708 military personnel in the fleet.
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- Commander Adama: There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
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- Roslin: I don't think I'll ever get tired of this outfit, seeing as I only have three for the rest of my life. Billy: It looks fine. Roslin: "Fine"? Billy: It looks great. Roslin: You don't know anything about women, do you?
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- The actor Connor Widdows played Boxey in three scenes, all of which were cut from the aired version of the episode. The deleted scenes are available on the Season 1 DVD set.
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- This episode first aired on October 25, 2004, on Sky One in the United Kingdom. Sky One co-financed the first season of the show.
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- This episode originally aired back-to-back with the "33" episode.
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