Episode Report Card Jacob: A | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Nature Girl
By Jacob | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on October 12, 2006
Ellen runs up yelling, with her arms behind her back, so I guess that concludes the briefing. Anders levels a very serious voice at Tigh: "We need to talk." Tigh stares and wonders what the hell she's done now. Poor guy.
Sharon walks through the city, and as has happened every other time they've ever let the poor woman out of her cage in the last WHATEVER, people immediately appear out of nowhere and start throwing shit at her and calling her a toaster. Which sucks, and did you know I really like her? But also: Galactica's all but abandoned. It's been -- far as we know -- basically just her, and Helo, and Adama for the last year and a half or so. After all that was done to her -- Pegasus and the abortion betrayal and losing Hera -- she got a year and a half with the two men that love her most. Alone, to heal. And now she's back among people again, and they're reminding her as hard as they can what it was like. It's not rage, it's sadness and shame. Remember how you never had the Sharon program in you, and how you were created to love? Your entire purpose was just to love, and be loved in return? And how they got ahold of you, and twisted that all the way around? Remember why the cage was easier? At least then it was just your own hate, and not everybody else's.
Anders takes it slow: "She sold us out." Tigh -- good form, old boy -- narrowly avoids the "What the hell," bending it in the last second like this: "Whatâ¦are you talking about?" Anders explains about how the Cylons knew exactly where the rendezvous was. Tigh protests that this doesn't mean anything in particular about Ellen, but Anders shows him the map: "Colonel! The map that I drew for you. I gave this to you in your tent. You were gonna burn it, but then your wife offered to do it for you. I got it off a dead skinjob at the ambush. Do the math!" Ellen tries to explain, but gets the Boomer treatment from the other insurgents, who are instructed by Tigh to shut up. "He said he'd kill you. One of the Brother Cavils. I did it for you. Saul, it was all for you, I had to. I didn't have any choice. Don't you see that?" Questions without answers: I already made fun of Chief for ignoring everybody in his stompy quest to see his wife, the mother of his child, home safely. So I can't turn around and fault Ellen for doing the same -- but I don't want to. It's like suicide bombs: Tigh is okay ordering them, I just hate whoever would go through with it. I don't fault Ellen or Chief for putting Tigh or Cally a centimeter above everybody else, because that's just how it works. But I wouldn't countenance Anders letting it go either. I'm just hoping she doesn't die, because I've always really liked her. I already have no idea how Tigh comes back from this, just with what's happened so far. I don't want to think about it right now. Things are, I think, often a lot easier, when you're Anders. Which is actually a lot of the attraction, I think.