Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All Aboard The Battlestar Handbasket!
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2009
But here's my thing: why not try? Why not take the high road and consider your next move? I'm not interested in excuses: these are grown-ass fucking people, mob rule or no. FRAK EARTH or not. Just because it makes sense doesn't make it okay. A serial killer who got beat as a kid is still a serial killer. It comes back down to that relative morality clause that says because somebody slapped you, you're entitled to slap somebody else: that your victimhood is a virtue that excuses you from basic standards of behavior. And that's absolutely the trashiest thing I can think of. We are capable of better than that, at the very least. On the other hand, this really should have happened four years ago, and the only reason it didn't is because Roslin and Adama straight-up lied to everybody that there was something better.
So it's this like coalition of the unwilling and ignorant, people who have literally tried to kill each other in past coups, the Circle and the Pegasus and people who hated the trash from the Pegasus and the people who nearly got killed by the Circle, people who have tried to kill Gaius and people who have tried to fuck Gaius and people who both, all working together in this ... Beautiful white trash symphony of hate. You know who would have loved this more than even Seelix and Connor do? She died too soon, man. She could be the Madelyn Pryor Goblyn Queen of this bullshit.
Felix flips out about this first murder, and Jeanne runs off to tell Chief and Gaius what's going on, and Zarek just smirks at Felix about how this is just the first of many eggs that will get broken before they come to their senses, and Felix doesn't want to hear it, and just keeps yelling at Zarek to get on the Raptor they just bought with Laird's blood. "Success doesn't hinge on some grand operatic ideal or the will of the people," Zarek offers meaninglessly. "It hangs in the cumulative moments, each one building on the next, and it could be lost with the slightest hesitation." Felix is like, "I am aware of that. My intention is to die, and bring the entire world down with me, because I am a miserable little shit. Now go subvert the civilian government so I can continue to pretend I have any idea what's going on."
0704, heading into CIC. 39,643 souls in Fleet, now minus one Deck Chief, who made it past the enemy line and survived Shaw's initiation as a Razor and tried to pull his life back together, and got punished with murder for doing his job. Tigh and Adama go about their morning business, confirming that the CAP is out and there's no sign of Cavil's forces. More's the pity, because Cavil is exactly what these fuckers need right now. Felix takes his station on the bridge, and they discuss how Lee's hopefully going to talk the Quorum into acting human for once.
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