Episode Report Card Strega: A+ | 20 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Stress Test
By Strega | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2005.01.14
Baltar squirms in his seat and pulls his jacket tightly around him. Then he's unfastening Six's dress in the domicylon. On Colonial One, he nods to himself vigorously and closes his eyes as he goes back to undressing Six. Six says, "You know you're not safe." Baltar calmly agrees. He and Six start pulling the bed open as he says, "The Cylons will follow us again, as they have the last 237 times." Six says that eventually the humans will make a mistake, as she climbs onto the bed. Baltar unbuttons his shirt and says, "Yes, I know, but not for another thirty-three minutes." They kiss. On Colonial One, Baltar opens his eyes and looks around as a clock ticks loudly.
Credits. That was a long, long teaser. Nine minutes, counting the "previously"s. Which, if you assume the episode is the standard forty-two minutes long, means the rest of the episode is...they're cute bastards, aren't they?
A caption informs us: "Battlestar Galactica crew. 130.35 hours without sleep." Adama is shaving in his quarters as he says that he wants to try something new on the next jump. Tigh is sitting in the armchair, holding a drink, and has clearly zoned out. Adama starts to explain that they'll divide the fleet into six groups. Then he nicks himself with the razor, and his grunt of pain wakes Tigh up. Adama continues, "They jump two more times, and on the fourth jump we rendezvous at a common set of coordinates." Don't be common. Tigh notes that they'll have to plot twenty-four separate jumps for this scheme, and they can barely plot one out in thirty-three minutes. He munches on some noodles while Adama finishes shaving and pulls his jacket out from behind Tigh.
Ready Room. The pilots loll about in chairs, and lean on each other's shoulders, as Apollo tells them to check their ship's undercarriages since they'll be doing combat landings. He trails off and finally says, "You know what to do. No mistakes, and let's make it to 238. And good luck, and be careful out there." He exits, and Starbuck makes a grumpy "He's not doing this the way I would, and therefore he's doing it wrong" face. As the pilots clear out, they press their hands against a photo taped to the wall by the door. It looks like it's of a soldier kneeling on the tarmac as Caprica is nuked. I think that in one of the podcasts, Moore explains that this is meant to be the iconic image of the attack for them. As always with these kinds of photos, I worry about the photographer.