Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Queen Me
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.13.2009
"A stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When? O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again..."
I mean, that's this show. I love Wolfe, but that particular passage is not only Jacob catnip but also this show. That's Cavil talking, and Kara talking, and the Hybrid, and Three at the moment of her crisis, and Gaius at his, but also Sam, right now, talking literally, saying these words. I'm not making it up, folks; it seemed obvious to me that I never was. And all this shit is implicit. Real but implicit, and for once I don't feel guilty about spending so much time on it, because for once I actually get to know for a fact that it's not entirely masturbatory. What interests me about this story is not the factual shit but what everyone's going to do about it. The intertwining relationship between Ellen and John, MILF/SILF/MILF, and Boomer getting queened; Kara and Sam playing Pyramid defense against the clock one last time; Laura and Lee, Chief and Bill. Those are the building blocks of this last act; this information is just what we need to go there. And I hope that I can meet the challenge and remind us of the eight to ten pages of chronology this recap started with, when it's time to toss that data into the moving parts of this show, because this engine is spinning up and it'll take a hand if you're not careful.
"Among bright stars, I'm lost. [The nova, bombs; meeting Kara on Caprica; kissing her saint to redeemer, watching her fly away again; getting shot in the mutiny; Sam's eye telling the Raiders to leave him be.] Kara assures him he's not lost; doesn't know he's quoting. "...There's a new tide. And all the forgotten faces, all the forgotten children... We seek the great forgotten language. [Our Hybrid; the war; brief happiness on New Caprica; the day he heard the song; Three looking up at the Final Five, seeing their faces.]" Kara tells him it'll be safe, they got through the mutiny, and Cottle reminds her he's got a fucking bullet in his head, pushing on important shit. "Then take out the bullet!" she says, not yet shouting. "The Colony never forgets," Sam says, as Cottle points out the massive hematoma-slash-bullet pressing on his brain:
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