Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Are All A Lost Generation
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.10.2007
Adama: Forget it. I need you as CAG.
Apollo: Why did you give me those books, huh? I mean, you gave me your father's law books.
Adama: I made a mistake.
Apollo: Why? Why is it a mistake? Are you afraid that I'll be like him?
Adama: You're a pilot.
Apollo: And with Zak gone, and Kara gone, you needed someone to carry the flag, is that it?
Adama: You're a pilot. You're a pilot and you're my son. And I will not look across that court and see you sitting on the other side.
Apollo: See me? Or see someone else.
Adama: Report for duty.
Apollo: Is that an order?
Adama: You're in way over your head. Report for duty.
Apollo: Is that an order?
Adama, taking his glasses off, making no sense: I'm through giving you orders.
Am I an idiot? How am I unable to make even basic sense of this shit? "You're not the CAG, you're the head of security. STOP ACTING LIKE ROMO LAMPKIN or so help me God I'll make you CAG again." Please, sir, do not give me my job back. "Then I'll hate your grandfather some more!" But sir, what about Zak and Kara? Can't I bring them up for no reason? They were both pilots and died in the air, just like you don't want me to do! "Go die in an airplane or I will be really mad!" But I have a calling to serve, which you and Roslin have now given to me and then taken away again sixteen times. "I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE LEGAL SYSTEM WORKS! IF YOU ARE SITTING AT THE DEFENSE TABLE AND I AM MAKING AN ETHICAL DECISION BASED ON THE FACTS, I WILL HAVE TO FIGHT YOU SOMEHOW!" No, you won't. "GO DIE IN AN AIRPLANE! BECAUSE I LOVE YOU! KARA THRACE IS DEAD! DEAD!" Is that an order? "NO! THE COMMANDER OF THE FLEET DOES NOT GIVE ORDERS TO HIS SUBORDINATES! GO BE A LAWYER LIKE I JUST TOLD YOU NOT TO! "
Adama goes into CIC and tells them to take Lee off the board and reinstate Helo as CAG. "My son has more important things to tend to," he says, and I can't tell if he's reached the Bitchy stage of grieving, or if he's continuing to be surreal for no goddamn reason.
Hall of Remembrance: Lee finally puts up Kara's picture. Sam comes crutching in, out of nowhere (Apollo Suit!) and sees the photo. Apollo asks about his broken leg, but doesn't ask what the hell Sam does all day, or where he lives, or why he was stumbling around drunk in a classified area earlier this episode, or any of the things I'd ask him before resorting to talking about the weather and drinking injuries. Starting with, "You wanna fool around, or... ?" Sam calls it his "lucky break," because being on crutches -- which he still is -- meant that he didn't have to come to the Hall of Remembrance and look at the photo of his dead wife and take part in a ritual that holds ZERO MEANING FOR HIM, because A) only the pilots seem to use it these days, and B) post-9/11 he wasn't lighting candles on Galactica, he was lighting bombs on Old Caprica, and C) Apollo Suit, whatever whatever. Sam calls him "Lee" again, with no laughter in it, and they nod. Lee leaves Sam alone with her picture, and he touches it.
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