Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Six of One
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 04.11.2008
ODES IN THE FIFTH STASIMON
(In which Mommy and Daddy fight terribly, Brother and Sister do not, and the Major gets a three-hour Handjob in the Apollo Suit, which is at this time an actual Suit, for hopefully the last time.)
Adama's on a bender, pouring himself a drink and coughing on the bitterness of it, long after the rest of the party has gone home. Laura sits at the desk in this loittle home they've made, this little cabin in the wilderness, and snorts at him. "What do we do now? Put her on trial? Find Romo Lampkin?" The disgust in her voice there is awesome and hilarious. "Take a show of hands? Follow her into an ambush?" Adama replies, not really to anything in particular, that Kara's driven. Hoping, maybe, that Roslin will realize this makes them sisters and not enemies, but Laura's not interested in bagpipes right now. "Yeah. You gonna keep waltzing, or are you gonna sit down and talk? What's going on? Sit." It's harsh but still loving; there's an edge on it that still has love in it.
He takes a drink and goes there: "What if she's telling the truth? She was supposed to die out there. She didn't, I can't explain it. What if she was meant to help us? And this was a..." Laura can't believe it, she overbites her way into the concept slowly: "A what? A miracle? Is that what you want to call this? Go ahead, say it. Grab your piece of the Golden Arrow. I want to hear Admiral Atheist say that a miracle happened." I like that line an awful lot; her performance goes without saying. "You shot at her and missed, at close range." Like that's another miracle. Laura hedges: "Huh. Doloxan fraks with your aim." But so does doubt, he says softly. Ask Sam.
Roslin goes scary and unblinking, unbending, wanting to be very clear: "I pulled the trigger and I'd do it again. She put her life in front of a bullet as if it had no meaning. You drop an egg, you reach for another." This last, so much chillier and portentous than it looks on the page. But Adama, knowing Kara, suggests that it was just more important that she prove herself. That a girl in a cage who's been to the edge doesn't have much else to lose; that death is preferable to watching her people lose their way. Laura asks if that counts as a miracle, then begins the slow unwinding. Talky-talk takes over.
"You want to talk about miracles? The very same day that a very pale doctor informed me that I had terminal cancer, most of humanity was annihilated. And I survived, and by some mathematical absurdity, I became President. And then my cancer disappeared. Long enough for us to find a way to Earth. You can call it whatever you want. And now I'm dying." Somebody pointed out on the forums that Roslin stopped being the Dying Leader just long enough to settle on New Caprica, and took up that role again just as Kara, and the Nebula, were changing everything again.
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