Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Stupidly Tilting Planet
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.02.2006
"Tell me about your dream, Chief" is our welcome back from commercial. We flash to Chief walking, slowly, climbing a ladder up the wall, very damn slowly, in an orange safety suit. He finally reaches the top, walks along a catwalk in the hangar, the light blinding, shining up from the floor. He stands against the railing, and then one foot touches the railing wires, and he maneuvers himself very gracefully up over the railing, face set with purpose. Arms outstretched, he drops, down on to the hangar floor below. "Every night -- every night, it's the same," he tells Cavill. It's been happening for a couple of weeks. "And you were having the same dream when Cally woke you up, weren't you?" Cavill asks him. Chief says he doesn't remember -- twice, maybe once -- and gets all the way to "it doesn't really matter" before jumping to the post-trauma: "All I remember is Cally on the ground, and the blood." Cavill offers a somewhat spurious explanation for what happened next: "By waking you up, she prevented you from carrying out your secret desire to kill yourself." Tyrol gets all WTF: "I don't have a secret desire to kill myself." And Cavill almost laughs at him: "Well, actually, you're right. It's not a secret....The question is, why?" Tyrol makes a "huh" face, not exactly buying it just yet.
Skull's telling Racetrack that there was "some kind of glitch in the navcon firmware," okay, and that the "bottom line" is that they're "to hell and gone" from where they're supposed to be, "Skipper." That's a lot of different kinds of dialogue for one line, but I like the last parts a lot. Racetrack thinks: "Any chance that we can still catch up with them?" Nope, plus the mission rules say to go home. Racetrack gets kind of pissed, aghast at how, even now, she doesn't get the B-story, while fucking Kat got a whole episode. So unfair. "It was the first jump!" Skull's like, "You're the one that gave me the coordinates," so maybe there's no Sharon fear here, and Racetrack resigns herself to returning to "the barn." Skull suddenly notes a random "large planetary body." Maybe it's Roslin's self-imposed sense of total rightness. They talk about how it's due to dradis interference that it just showed up like that, but meanwhile, Racetrack's checking out the specs on her screen. Nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere. Organic molecular spectra. Fresh water: "Hey, you know what this is? It's habitable." The Marines aren't sure if they believe it, but they're grinning anyway. "We may have just found a world that can support human life," says Racetrack. "Maybe we're not just a bunch of frack-ups after all." Skull looks at her like, "That was the problem?" How funny would it be if, next week, there was a whole deal with Racetrack going after Kat, all, "You're just not the pilot you used to be!" and smacking her around, and then all the lesbian fanfic would be about Racetrack stealing Case from Kat, and then next season some Nugget could knock Racetrack off her pedestal, and eventually it would loop back around to Tigh.
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