Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Nurture Girl
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.20.2007
As Chief notifies Apollo that he's wiring the last detonator, down the bluff, Three and Gaius enter the Temple of Five... with a sudden Cavil. Why? He's wearing a very nice hat, but why? And also: you couldn't have had him on the outer edge of the earlier scene, so we'd at least know he was there? Three sees the explosives; Cavil yells that they have to disconnect the charges like immediately. (Would it get on your very last nerve if I pointed out that Cally and Chief put bombs in the Temple-as-political-keystone, and Three and Cavil are the ones to take them out again, because it's a sacred place? Yes? Never mind, then.)
Although Chief does balk, outside with Apollo screaming in his ear to blow it. He stalls and can't do it. Chief's relationship with religion is the most fascinating thing. What he can and can't do. I feel like if he sat down with Kara they would have the whole subject figured out in like five seconds. Three orders Gaius to come help with the de-explosiving of the Temple; outside, Apollo grabs the detonator control. For some reason it's less offensive that Lee would do this: it's in his character completely, and I like him a whole lot, and he's not really betraying anything by doing it. What does he care? Three pulls the last charge as Apollo spins up the detonator and presses the button: nothing. He starts to throttle the Chief, which is comedic to watch, but just then God shows up.
"Major, look," says Tyrol, pointing over the ridge at the strange lights in the sky. It looks like the sun going nova. Also, it is.
Chip Six appears, pointing at the huge EYE ON THE FLOOR that you might remember spotting when it took up permanent residence onscreen last episode. "There it is, Gaius. It has the answers to all of your questions." He stares: "That's the Eye?" Three asks what he means, and he covers: "Something the hybrid said, uh...sapphire blue, shining like unto a star... " Nicely done, Doctor. Smooth. Cavil puts his chin up, standing between them. "D'Anna... you didn't come here looking for Earth. You came here looking for something else."
The sun explodes.
Kelly and Gaeta run around on CIC about how the sun is exploding and the nova is going to take out the whole planet in an hour. Tigh and Roslin stare, Adama is grim.
"Major, look. It's the mandala from the Temple. This is supposed to be happening. That's it. I was staring at it the whole time. The sun is going nova. The nova is the Eye of Jupiter." That was all one chunk of dialogue courtesy of my man the Chief. Anders stares up at the Eye and thinks about how his girlfriend has a destiny, and how if the world were ending right now, which it technically is, who would you want by your side, and how funny it is that suddenly, it's okay that that person is Lee Adama. Chief stares up at the Eye and thinks about his parents, how they died in the holocaust, and about suicide and what happened after Boomer, and about the question of faith: how can you profess faith when the natural world supplies you with physical proof of miracles? Apollo stares up at the Eye and realizes he still gets to blow up a church.
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