Episode Report Card Jacob: D | 1419 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT BattleNoir Redactica
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2006.01.27
Apollo's called to Cloud 9, where Siobhan has been supremely jacked up. She and Paya huddle and freak out on the bed. "They said they knew about you and me. They wanted to know what we'd been talking about. I don't understand why they'd care." Me neither, frankly. The only thing here is that Siobhan's being used to send a message to Apollo, to back off the black market, but that's a lot of words to say that. Maybe Siobhan's not smart enough to figure it out, except (a) she is in league with these people and knows who they are, and (b) she's smart enough to explain the entire episode at the end of it. Is she a femme fatale in this? She's just so scribbled in and unfinished that you could go ten ways on it. Apollo starts packing Siobhan's shit up and talking all superhero about taking her and the kid back to Galactica, and she protests for no reason other than to further the plot: "What are you going to tell them about us?" Um, that our completely legal financial relationship does not preclude my getting you and your child out of physical danger? Chill, girl, it's not like he sent you shopping down Rodeo Drive for the next polo match. (Yet.) "I'm not fooling myself. I know what this is." But apparently we, the viewers, do not, because I'm still stuck: does her line of work somehow exempt her from the right to not have her face bashed in? What was the point of turning Starbuck and Boomer into these strong, competent women, all haters be damned (not to mention Roslin and Six and even fucking Kat), if this kind of shit was waiting at the end of the tunnel? You could have had Dirk Benedict if you'd made the women like this from the beginning. It's not like he's doing anything besides chewing on bitterness and hating women.