Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Girl Who Fell To Earth
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.20.2009
After the attack Saul and Caprica rush to Cottle, who laughs and tells them their son's heart is like a kettledrum. Just like his father's. She's relieved and Cottle is crotchety and caring: "Go on, get out of here! Make room for some sick people." Saul and Caprica smile at each other as her tears dry; he wants her to stay in sickbay for the night. "I don't trust that machine," he grumbles, and this expression of love lifts her higher. She grins at him, and he notices the irony. "The baby's fine. Liam is fine. You know I sleep better at home with you." He sighs and she nods to him, telling him it's okay; maybe you noticed the name and what it means, the first time it was spoken. Caprica only knows half the story, even now.
Hoshi spots Boomer's Raptor on dradis: "Squawks Colonial, but it's not on the roster. It's one of ours, but we logged it as lost over a year ago, sir." So did we. I honestly thought we'd never see Boomer again, after Caprica killed her the last time. Since then I haven't wanted to. She's approached by four Vipers, flying CAP, her wireless request to come aboard Galactica garbled and weak. "If you can hear me," Starbuck asks, "Give me a flash?" She does, and a Six speaks over the wireless. "Red Leader, Red Turkey."
(Well, I teared up. If you hopped in a time machine to 2003 and said that one day a Cylon Heavy Raider would get to fly CAP, I might believe you. Hell, that was so long ago I might have been grossed out. And it's incredibly rough to know that this happened not out of some jump-skipping openmindedness but out of desperation; to know that it's because Seelix and Racetrack and Narcho are living on the Astral Queen and there aren't enough pilots even for a full CAP complement anymore. Forgiveness is a privilege, and a challenge, but more often than not we're pushed to it by even worse shit. It's a small step we're jumping, from Cylons in the brig to Heavy Raiders on CAP and Centurion Marine patrols and ugly living goo covering her steel skin, but a big one too.
The mutiny seemed obligatory, in a way, like "of course this had to happen at some point and FRAK EARTH is definitely the right place for it in the story"; but it's a wicked irony, and genius, that it led to so many more and worse outrages than simply upgrading the FTL drives. Gaius only mentions it once, at the end of the episode, but you should know right now that the administration is actually considering using Centurions to police the dirt towns and lower decks of Galactica, now that there's nobody left to watch them. And if this is even happening on Galactica, these autonomous little pockets of hell, the Ares turf wars and that stuff, imagine what the rest of the Fleet is like. I bet Lee's got more girlfriends than he can deal with! But mostly: the self-indicting, exhausted humor in giving this Heavy Raider the callsign "Turkey"? That's some Galen Tyrol shit right there.)
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