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« Matter, Energy, and Enlightened Self-Interest | Main | Someone Else Who Needs a Life Outside Politics » March 03, 2006Galactica Blogging: Lay Down Your Burdens, Pt. 1Ah, the end of another season, meaning two consecutive episodes (at least) with cliffhanger endings. Note to the producers: I like the show. I don't need a cliffhanger to leave me on the edge of my seat for four to six months. I'm not a big fan of the intercutting between multiple plot lines at the start, but the show manages to pull it off pretty well. The interplay between Roslyn and Adama is particularly entertaining, and the slow revelation that Baltar and Roslyn are about to hold their first debate is a nice touch. Six's religious mania is really getting old, though. Bottom line: I think the show has overcome it's earlier problems of the new year and I hope to see them continue that into the third season. A few more comments below the fold. The raid back to Caprica seems highly illogical. Human, perhaps, but given Roslyn's devotion to logic in deciding to outlaw abortion several weeks ago, the decision to risk the lives of some 60-100 trained soldiers and pilots and the difficult to replace Raptors for the possibility of rescuing a few more humans is a high-risk gamble with little hope of real payoff. What do they hope to gain? Those Raptors can't hold many people, so at most they're going to bring back another 100 humans. Is that potential gain woth the possible loss of critical military personnel? The political debate remains one of the more entertaining aspects of Galactica. I have to wonder what the writers were thinking when they had Baltar accuse Roslyn of using fear to remain in power? That is, after all, an accusation often made about President Bush, but we know that in Roslyn's case, she is correct to be afraid, as the Cylons remain in hot pursuit of the remnants of humanity. It's an interesting question, and a cynical (but probably accurate) commentary on modern politics to suggest that Baltar would probably win the election by convincing humanity to commit mass suicide by parking on a planet that, even if the Cylons don't know it exists now, will be able to find because there are still Cylons in the fleet. Chief's dialogue with the priest (played wonderfully by Dean Stockwell) was fun, but rather odd and I'm not sure that it really adds anything to the plot. On the other hand, the rest of the episode was so good that I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they'll tie it in later. And I do look forward to seeing how. Posted at March 3, 2006 08:25 PM
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