Episode Report Card Jacob: B- | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Can't Stop The Signal
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on January 19, 2006
Roslin continues to die an ugly death. Flashback to the Caprica City Garden, where she's meeting with Stans. (Again? Or was the whole "I'm planning to meet with them" thing a bluff? No, because of the parallel in the last scene. Man, I guess this means Baltar and Caprica Six used to make out non-stop. No wonder he's so intense about missing her.) Stans worries that, "considering the stakes," Roslin seems less than totally engaged. What she actually totally is, though, is gorgeous. Caprica was made for you. She explains that the stakes are movable, and that if Adar has to use troops to enforce the "back to work" order, people will get hurt and even die. "Some causes are worth dying for," says Stans stupidly. She steps closer, smiling sweetly: "Not this one." Her eye is drawn to something on the lawn -- obviously, it's Six and Baltar again, this time way off-balance in the composition -- that I couldn't figure out for an hour. I'm not exaggerating: an hour. Adar? There are several people with attaché cases meeting on the green -- maybe those are the nukes and we're getting a look at more Cylon models. No idea. Stans turns around and looks too, so you'd think there was something to look at, but…oh, there they are. Near the hedge. Gaius's girly hair threw me off. So they seriously, all they did was walk around the park all day, then go home and screw and glow and get blown up? I don't know why that would surprise anyone. Back on Galactica, various sound clips of memory echo over the soundtrack as Roslin calls Cottle to her and stares around, horrified and in pain.
Lots and lots of Marines enter Adama's quarters with Royan Jahee, the representative from the terrorists. He dispenses with the gravity that sedition normally incurs, noting somewhat sanguineously that Adama has a "unique way of welcoming visitors" to the Galactica. Tigh is so into this: "Visitor, my ass. We shoot people like you for treason." Jahee explains that he's only an "interested party" (lie) "trying to prevent more bloodshed" (also a lie) and that he "deplores" what happened with the Vipers (total lie). This is not the best way to make me feel sympathetic to your cause, which is one that I pretty much support, but I have a feeling it's going to get worse before it gets better. Moore has mentioned an interest in playing against type for such a progressive show, by setting the "peaceniks" up as antagonists to the military cast. It's interesting, but also plays against the progressive tone of the last few episodes, which were pretty much a brutal operetta about not being mean to Boomer. Just me? Fine, if even I would rather hang out with Cain than these idiots, maybe you've done your job too well. Adama asks how many sympathizers there are in the Fleet, and Jahee gets to the part that interests me most, personally: "If you're trying to crush an organization, you can stop now. The people in this movement are following an idea, not a leader." (Kind of a lie, unfortunately, as least as far as we'll see tonight.) Tigh asks, of course, what "the hell" they want, and Jahee explains again that it's peace with the Cylon.