Battlestar Galactica, episode 7: "Six Degrees of Seperation"

Ask... and ye shall receive (hmm - appropriate given the religious slant this evening as well!!).

OK - lets get to it....I gave this an 'amazing' vote and felt good doing it, even though it had its flaws. I compare this to having recently watched 'the incredibles' - it has flaws, it aint perfect - but tis better than most things you will ever see in animation/comedy/family drama this year so go watch it. Its worth it!! OK - back to the review...and this week I'm adding a new category (see below).

The Good:-

The Setup - Great title, great setup. The idea of bringing another 6 onboard just yielded so many wonderful opportunities to play with Baltar and his ever increasing insanity. Any opportunity to see these two (three?) together is welcome.

You can see her? - Holy crap I laughed out loud at that one. That scene must have taken ages to plan, and it was played out perfectly. The conversation between Adama, Tigh and his reactions.. wonderful stuff.

No more Mr. nice Gaius - The script writers were on fire at this point. Another laugh out loud moment, and the setting (a toilet).. perfection.

Potty Whispers - And speaking of setting, that whole scene was great craic. It was possible to discern his desperation as his whispers got louder and louder, and of course 6 just had to walk in.

Lab Rat - I thought the idea of Baltar (the scientest, the genius, the technological wizard), standing in a lab panicked beyond reason, resorting to ever more futile efforts to kill the image on the screen was brilliant. He tried, and he tried - and he still couldn't blow the image down. Sheer panic, great viewing and a decent bit of acting there.

Hello?... Hello? - My favourite bit of the entire episode. He resorts to calling in favours from el presidento, and works up to the condemnation we all know is coming, to be greeted with... silence, because she has dropped into the arms of morpheus on the other end of the line. Again - great script. You watch, and you laugh, and you really feel for the poor sod as the noose tightens around his neck.

Zipper Religion - What a way to return things to the status quo, after all he has been through, even through the panicked and desperate prayers, throught the realisation that he was being played from the start, right back to the point where his dick rules his head, yet again, and he hops right too it, regardless of the consequences. Nice.

Unfortunately - this episode had its flaws, but I'm happy to say nothing too nasty.

The Bad:-

Cylon, and thanks for the memories - A dissappearing, tall, georgous blonde and no one notices? A week after the other lad tried to blow the place to hell and back? Please.

Twice is not a charm - So we had one cylon trying to blow the ship into little itty bits last week, and now we have another just wandering in to do her dirty work... which means... go on, you can guess the rest... that the big bad cylons know EXACTLY where the fleet is, and yet are not reducing them to little pieces. Anyone else think this is a bit odd?

Finding God - I'm not particularly religious, but that aside, it seems a bit pedantic at this point to keep pushing the GOD THING. It may pan out, but right now I'm loosing interest in the fixation and repetition.

The Sleeper Awakens? - So BSG Boomer gets all drippy over the cylon raider, and goes off into trance like semi-orgasmic meandering all just so that the chief can *suddenly* get his suspicions aroused even further? Please - another case of pushing the plot a bit tooooo hard I reckon.

The Ugly:-

Lonely Hearts Club - The scene between Adama and 6 was progressing nicely, and I was buying it right up until the point where she starts in on him, goes for the kiss etc. It was incongruent with her character, it was overkill simply so he can then begin to 'suspect' her motives and ask for her to be kept on a watch? Too much script kiddies. You should have left it with the tear and the weeping out of shot, with Adama in repose as usual. The kiss was a mistake. It just doesn't work.


The Incomprehensible:-

I'm adding this section in from now on when I come across something which only the more observant of you may be able to solve. A problem if you will, a continuity issue which I perceived that I simply cannot explain, but perhaps you can (Fen - are you listening? )....

Boom Boom Baby! - OK, so we have Helo and Bad-Boomer gettin' it on down planetside. This I can see coming, but I can accept in due course. What I cannot fathom is how Bad-Boomer has ANY KNOWLEDGE of the relationship between BSG-Boomer and the Chief, unless someone is going to tell me we are heading down the 'hive mind' or 'shared conciousness' route - which I really hope we dont :rolleyes: ... This strikes me as a continuity issue or just plainly a mistake, but I'm open to suggestions


So thats it. Hope you find it amusing. Feel free to post/challenge/debunk.. thats what we're here for!

c0y0te

Fenster wrote:

I know who did the grafitti. PM me if you want to know, but its a big spoiler.

Strange, so do I, in fact I have pretty much the details of the rest of the season.

I wonder if its the same details.

We really don't know when this relationship started. Certainly long before the Colonies were annihiliated and that would have allowed information to be exchanged between the copies. Such prior information and planning is guiding them now, not any recent communication. What do you think, c0y0te?

Re: Boomer & the Chief, this is exactly what I was gonna say. I mean, we've had Adama say before that he tolerated the relationship because Galactica was gonna be de-commissioned and it was peace-time etc. I don't think there's ever been a statement to say how long Boomer & the Chief were seeing each other, but I think it's fair to say that the Cylons know about it, because it was most certainly going on when the Cylons returned & attacked all the Colonies.
I don't think it's unreasonable to say that the Cylons knew up to that point everything that Galactica-Boomer knew.
The test will surely be if Caprica-Boomer displays any knowledge of Galactica-Boomer's break up with the Chief....

Edit: Just occurred to me-- Also, crew members have said before that many people on board Galactica knew about the Chief and Boomer...perhaps another Cylon agent on Galactica passed on the information.