Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All Aboard The Battlestar Handbasket!
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2009
0922 and frantic on CIC; Jaffe comes running in yelling about how the array has been fucked with: there's no fire, no nothing. Just lies. Felix screams to Nowart, just like Natalie: "Sergeant of the Guards get your Marines in here! Nobody gets in or out!" Bill wonders aloud WTF is going on, and Felix crips on down toward them as somebody takes a shot and things go seriously Kent State. Jaffee shoves him out of the way and takes the bullet, and Felix almost starts crying with how fucked up everything is, and yells at his men to cease fire. Tigh tells him to eat a dick, and Felix stares around, freaking out and promising everybody he's in control of this. Even though it's obvious what's going on, which is an uprising by the forgotten trashy proletariat who haven't been besties with Athena or raised Hera on New Caprica or gone on a sweet dimensional roller-coaster jump ride in the arms of a Hybrid, and don't know what it's like to go more than a second without being hungry and angry and scared, Bill is more concerned about how Jaffee is dead.
That Gaeta song starts playing as Gaeta formally mutinies: "Admiral Adama, I am removing you from command of this ship. I am taking you into custody on the charge of treason." Adama stands right up from his knees about that, because what? "You swore an oath when you put that uniform on. You pledged to defend this ship and her crew." Felix is not interested in that oath, but he will be holding Bill to it anyway. "For seven years, I have done my frakking job and for what? To take orders from a Cylon? To let machines network our ship? No, you... you are not the leader that you were when we started. You're just a sad, old man that has let his heart and his affection for a Cylon cloud his judgment."
And then there's Felix, who believed in so much stuff, who sold out the Roslin administration to keep the elections pure. Whose heart, whose affection for a Cylon, clouded his judgment so much he became a mass murderer. Who less than two years later was willing to commit murder to keep that secret, both on and off the witness stand. "Always been a miserable little shit" is a poor description, I agree: the day that he lied on the witness stand, for petty vengeance, is when that started. Maybe that's when this started, too: the state wouldn't kill Gaius for him, erase all that shame and heartbreak and disappointment, so now he's going to kill the state. I very honestly don't believe anybody undertakes politics, either legitimate or crap like this, for good reasons. I don't think there are good reasons for wanting personally to effect change on this scale.
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