Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT What Kind Of Father
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.23.2009
Helo, for some reason, wonders aloud if they're talking to the President, and Bill just barely, I'd imagine, restraints himself from getting a stepladder and smacking him in the head. Really, Helo? That's the first person you think of at this time? Not the guy who set this whole thing up in broad daylight throughout the episode, no. Laura Roslin. Gotcha. On the wireless, the Hitei Kan fool is screaming about the Raptor and Vipers on his dradis, and then Tom Zarek is like, "They have no right to board your ship without your permission!"
Tigh gives a very eloquent "son of a bitch," but still. This is terrorism, and I'll tell you why: rights don't mean anything when it's actually happening. That's so Tom Zarek: "You don't have the right to punch me!" And yet, here I am punching you. Do you get it yet? "This is totally unfair!" Yeah, and yet. "I'm telling mommy!" The only reason he can even play this out at all is because it's the refinery, so he can afford to be like, "This is the hill we die on!" because there is no hill, nobody's going to die, they're just going to keep killing Marines until the Marines kill enough of them so they settle down, the end. It proves nothing, it means nothing, and the rights of the Hitei Kan to refuse Cylons onboard are not at issue in any way. The big splashy PR of how Roslin/Adama endangered the Fleet's fuel supply is the only aim here, and it's going down just perfectly. But it's inauthentic, because Tom Zarek is a fake corrupt bastard, and most importantly he's using Danny Noon as cannon fodder. And for that he must be destroyed. You had me and then you lost me, fucker.
"What should we do, Mr. Vice President?" Because he can't say the actual answer -- "Just keep doing what you're doing, until you're all dead" -- he tosses them some motherfucking platitudes: "Every citizen has the right to protect themselves from oppression." Felix stares and the darkness behind that bright rhetoric takes root, takes wing, takes hold on him: Hitei Kan is Tom's Kara Thrace. It doesn't matter what happens to it, as long as everybody sees. "Take whatever measures you think necessary." Of course, just as the Raptor's landing on top of it, it jumps away, and there's a cool shot of all three ships just drifting for a moment. Tigh's like, "So that's... All our fuel, then." And Bill goes, "You know, there are days that I really hate this job." Then he "scrambles" some more things or something, and tells Athena -- in a really cool, pretty angle inside the Raptor cockpit -- to board Colonial One and arrest the Vice President. And maybe fuck him up, and ... yep, go ahead and kill him if you feel like it. Feel like it, Athena. Feel great about it.
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