Episode Report Card Jacob: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT The Truth About Reconciliation
By Jacob | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on October 26, 2006
Also: Never duplicate your act breaks. (Hey, Espenson.) You can't cut to commercial with the poundy drums going "oh girl what about Gaeta" the whole time, because A) it's already clear he's going to be fine, because this character is necessary to the spectrum of response to occupation in the ongoing story, but B) it just underlines that fact if you keep screaming at me about it. Not that the scintillating conversation about jump-roping would really work for an act out, but it would have been more balanced, in terms of the show moving forward, to have this next scene before the break, and then lead from Seelix in the mess to the next meeting of the Circle, to see what she was thinking. If you put a Baltar scene for the act out, it tells you we're going to spend a lot of time on the basestar, and if it's a Baltar/Six breakup scene, it lends weight to his entire story, which he kind of needs at this point.