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
Cut to Zarek saying, "You gotta keep hitting her on the religious thing. Every time we go there, you score points and we move the polls in our direction." And honestly, they should. That is bullshit, and most if not all of what is wrong with America at the moment. We're back in the morgue, by the way, and I'm not exactly on Gaius's side or anything. "Baltar Takes The Heat In The First Debate," blares a newspaper on the desk. Ron Moore loves this Baltar line, for some reason: "Yes. I'm not sure if you're aware, Tom, but the mob isn't usually in the habit of electing ungodly apostates who denigrate people of faith." Which, awesomely, manages to denigrate both candidates and the "mob" itself, all at the same time. Zarek murmurs hopeful nothing and Six appears, perching sexily behind Zarek: "He's right. Listen to him." The intuition-proxy is saying one thing, but the body language is hard to decode. If Six wants to get with Zarek, what's that say about Gaius? Gaius: "Of course. Of course, how blind I'm being. Thank you. Yes. Um, things are going to turn around, you'll see. What is that, advice? Well, thank you. Thank for your keen insight, your astounding political acumen." Somewhere in there, he remembers that Six isn't, you know, real. "You know, I'm so assured right now, Tom, I'm just going to sit right back and wait for the hand of God to reach down and change my political fortunes. How about that?" There's no reaction, beyond "confused much?" from the viewers, because we immediately cut to...
Oh, so many Raptors! Twenty! It's cool! Starbuck, Boomer, Helo, and a couple of Marines are in the lead Raptor, with the Cylon vivisected Heavy Raider brain all nasty and connected to the Raptor computers. Would it have really been more expensive to do this in the Heavy Raider itself? Moore says yes, because they would have had to construct a Heavy Raider. So a few seconds of technobabble in the teaser, and that's fine. This is really where you start to see the Starbuck Is A Woman Now stuff from earlier. Her every word is precise and heavy and commanding. It's awesome. She does all the checks and readiness prep and whatever, and Dualla clears the first of the <10 jumps. Kara rogers that, and then asks for Actual on Galactica. Adama duallas in, and Starbuck, so mature and beautiful, asks, "Did I ever say 'thank you'?" Bill manages not to laugh, and just Adamas right in there: "No. Then again, that would be a first, wouldn't it?" She laughs, like a woman, like a hero. "Thank you," she tells him. He asks her to come back in one piece, so we know this ain't going well, and says that will "be thank-you enough." Again, an Adama tells Starbuck "Good hunting," and he hangs up. Tigh looks at him, and doesn't speak. Nor at any time during this episode does Tigh speak, because right now we're snorting the coke of hope, not popping the barbiturates of nay-saying. It's nice to see him, though -- he's like the stand-in of Adama's completely missing sense of the concept of failure, just looking quietly and daring the universe, Boomer, Starbuck, to fuck this up.
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