Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Six of One
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 04.11.2008
What's happening here is that there's a woman saying something divine is speaking to her, telling her that the Fleet, her people, are going the wrong way. And once somebody gets a message like that, it behooves the person in power to lock them away, in a little room. It happened to Laura, it happened to Three. If you're right, you get a Boomer: somebody who doesn't even know they're a bomb tossed over the line. But if you're wrong, you get a person with a mission, driven, pushed into a place they never needed to be pushed. And you can go on with your life, we do it all the time, we walk away out of the light and into the darkness, like Cavil. But what we have to remember is that there's a little room, in the dark, with a girl inside, and that girl is right. I mentioned Joan of Arc last week, and now here it is again. That Antigone thing: a girl in a cage who is right. And if that girl happens to be Kara Thrace -- or a pissed-off Six on a Hermione mercy mission, as we'll see -- you best watch your hot Presidential ass.
Or as the Chorus Leader in Antigone puts it: "The maid shows herself passionate child of passionate sire, and knows not how to bend before troubles." (Antigone means "unbending.") And since we're talking about Kara, the Chorus of Theban Elders later says: "Still the same tempest of the soul vexes this maiden with the same fierce gusts." There are a lot of creepy old men in this episode doing creepy old things. Some -- most -- justified, but creepy nonetheless. I like Antigone because what it amounts to, basically, is one girl, just a normal girl, standing up to a chorus (and a series) of creepy old men, and telling them to fuck off. Because she knows what's right.
"Then for this shall her guards have cause to rue their slowness," says Creon, and he's right about it this time. She screams like a beast, as Tigh and her man Helo come closer and closer.
"I saw Earth," she spits at Laura, who's turned from one-time Antigone to Creon in her time. ("Maybe last time you were the prisoner," Leoben said, "And I was the interrogator.") "I saw it with my own eyes. And it's calling me back. We're going the wrong way. Why can't you trust me?" Kara uncocks the gun and hands it over, handle first.
"Not through dread of any human pride could I answer to the Gods for breaking these. Die I must -- I knew that well, how should I not -- even without thy edicts. But if I am to die before my time, I count that a gain: for when anyone lives as I do, compassed about with evils, can such an one find aught but gain in death?" Antigone again. Pyxis means "compass," and the Pyxis was lost, captained by Tarney. One of the tribunal that set Gaius free. Just as Kara was returning and Gaius was going forth, the compass was lost. Or maybe it was lost already, and this is how we return: in silence.
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