Episode Report Card Jacob: B- | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Can't Stop The Signal
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on January 19, 2006
So now it's just plot moving forward: Gaius pokes Boomer's stomach to draw some fetal blood, and it takes a whole porno's worth of time, because needles are your kryptonite and mine, and Helo's comforting Sharon, who's tied to the table, and then Cottle follows Gaius around the lab as the Official Voice Of Concerned People Against Stem-Cell Research and tells Gaius that he's doing something "unnatural and damned dangerous," and I love this thing where Cottle says everything plus "damned," and Gaius once more points out that her ass is dead either way, and we get a small shot of Laura looking hellish, and Cottle complains that maybe it's just her time, and Gaius says that "for once," then, maybe that makes him "the beacon of hope around here," and Cottle makes this face like, "I'm a doctor, too, and I know from God complexes, but dude," and then Helo's comforting Sharon some more and everything's moving very quickly.
Flash back to Roslin's meeting with Stans. "If you want to settle this, your people have to disengage. No more civil disobedience, no more acts of violence. I want our students back in school." They stare at each other, and Stans gives in. She gives that amazing smile of hers, like the sun breaking through, and they just look at each other respectfully for a second. "I'm glad you called, Madame Secretary." She nods and agrees, then sees Six and Baltar again. Back in sickbay, she starts seizing. Cottle jumps to attention as Gaius bumbles about, and Laura flatlines. For a second. Then she comes back to life.
Laura looks over at Sharon, both of them formidable women, both of them at the mercy for the moment of the dangerously messed-up Vice President, and there's a lot to unpack in this brief second. For reasons of my upbringing, I ping Goddess stuff the way most of my friends notice Christian imagery, which is to say, without thinking twice about it, so I'll tell you what I had going on in this second. You've got three people: an older woman, a young mother, and a daughter, okay, and they all share the same miraculous blood? That's not an accident, that's most of human religious history. I'll be very surprised if we don't see this particular trinity a few more times before all is said and done; I'm guessing Pythia wrote a truckload of stuff about these three. And let's not even get started on Starbuck -- there's a lot of Artemis stuff going on there and I was pretty much assuming she'd at least be present for Boomer's delivery, but this kind of confirms it for me. For such a masculine kind of show, they sure do get their Goddesses right, which is more than fucking Buffy could ever bother to do.