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
Tigh smiles cruelly, almost giggling about how lame the dude is, and for a second I'm reminded of "Scattered," where we learned that even Colonel Saul Tigh was once a hottie. He momentarily gets back there. Adama looks the guy up and down: "You want us to surrender? They attacked us." Jahee shows his crazy cards a bit early, in my opinion, proceeding directly to hissing, spitting madness: "Only after we'd enslaved them!" Which is yeah, totally true, and the point…but only from a human perspective. The Cylons left that train of thought behind a long while ago, proceeding to the part where they wipe absolutely all humanity out due to a religious imperative. And I mean, that doesn't seem to be the whole story at this point, but it's an important chapter. Jahee asks another good question: as military men, he wonders whether Tigh and Adama can coherently explain "how our current course of attack and retreat leads to victory." Tigh gets more and more grossed out through this whole scene, because logic is his anti-drug. Adama calls Jahee on his "innocent bystander" lies, and says that either way he's a danger to the Fleet. "Admiral, arresting me isn't going to stop any of this," he protests, and Adama is awesome: "Maybe not. But it's a start. Take him away." I almost hate these people more because I ostensibly agree with them. When I said I was a Cylon sympathizer, I didn't mean that I was a jackass, no matter how many times you tried to tell me otherwise.
In the Galactica hangar, Apollo tells Starbuck to get her "rubber gloves on," and the fact that both of them proceed to not do that would seem to suggest that it was meant idiomatically, which means to me that procedural dramas are as virulent in the Fleet as they are here on Earth. Poor guys -- even after the end of the world, they still have to watch boring TV. Adama wants the twins to go through all of Asha's private belongings to see if they can get any Homeland Security info on the movement. Neither Apollo nor Starbuck is itching to do this, because it's stupid yet serves the plot, but they're grateful for the screen time this week. Starbuck floats maybe talking about Apollo's recent suicide attempt, but the Easiest Criminal Investigation In The History Of The Universe changes the subject for him immediately, producing a hand-held computer detailing the movement's next target: the Daru Mozu tylium refinery. My friend Ali and I have a deal about science fiction stuff, which is that I only read, watch, or recommend the good stuff, so she takes me at my word, but the only time weird sci-fi names like this are okay is if Mary Doria Russell is involved -- otherwise it's a deal-breaker. And I feel much the same way, and there are hella weird sci-fi names in this episode. Apollo gets really intense and runs to the phone, ordering up a tactical team.