Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Girl Who Fell To Earth
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.20.2009
She apologizes to Caprica for the attack -- "on behalf of the Fleet" -- and Caprica's like, "Your ass is going to follow me down this corridor all the way to Saul's quarters, isn't it? WTF do you want so I can give it to you and this gross charade can be over because listen, I am having a motherfucker of a day and the last thing I need is some backslapping fake-ass Laura Bush tea and crumpets right now. Go make more spooky backroom deals with Lee Adama and leave me out of it."
Caprica worries now, all the time. Think about it. I've always thought the 268's sudden willingness to get the hell out of Dodge makes sense, because humans are unpredictable at best, but especially Caprica. She's got the only Cylon baby ever, and people just keep punching her in it or tying her up or stealing her babydaddy from beyond the grave or putting her in jail. No wonder she assumes it's all about her; it usually is, in some way. She thanks Laura for her kindness and tries to waddle quickly away, but Laura's not having it. She gets all conspiratorial and creepy, and Caprica settles in for the long haul. "Caprica, sometimes I think about the visions that we shared, and the ... talk we had." Caprica's like, "Yeah, I haven't had any of those, so I guess there's nothing for us to talk about. Gotta run." They talk about how Laura hasn't either, and Caprica notes that they went away around the same time she got pregnant.
(Which is very interesting, isn't it? If Nicky's the Shape Of Things Too Dumb, and Hera's got her whole thing going on, doesn't that make Liam pretty much the Anti-Hera? Like, a really bad idea? Is it possible that simply by existing, he's like some kind of chronal parasite that destroys the timeline that Hera symbolizes or something? Maybe it's too much X-Men comics as a child or something, but that makes total sense to me, and it means when he dies we'll see the Opera House again immediately. Which is a bummer because I love Caprica, but also because obviously he has to die at some point, given her neck-snapping activities four years ago, but this just piles up the reasons. Because the horrible truth is that Liam's death is her Galactica: he can't exist in this world any more than Cally could, and Caprica's buying into her own/Tory's whole thing about the Cylon nation even as it's going to obvious shit all around them. It would answer every question Caprica has, tie everything into a neat bow, give her redemption and salvation, wipe her slate clean. And I don't know if you've ever seen this show, but: not happening.)
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