By Jacob
Well, that's proof that great direction and acting can redeem bad writing. Even terrible writing. Even writing from the WGA-nominated team that brought you Tomb Raider. And to be fair, the tone-deaf dialogue itself smoothed out about halfway through. But I have never been able to understand why it is that people on science fiction shows always talk like they're on science fiction shows. Or why this show, which is usually so much better than that, doesn't mind lowering the bar every now and again.
Anyway, fun episode, with as many twists and turns as we've come to expect. Olaf, Clarice and Nestor are like 24 hours away from their plan to blow up that stadium, which apparently was a serious plan. Since they're the only ones with Zoë's program currently, I guess it makes sense to move forward. Of course now that Jordan's got burnt by the Agency, he has nothing to lose, and sends Amanda in with a fake holoband.
Of course Amanda has no idea trading them will put her in possession of Apotheosis/Grace, but Jordan gets shot by a GDD sniper -- and she takes him to see DOC COTTLE -- she knows it's only a minute before they notice the traded bands it's about five seconds to realize that Amanda was the mole, Mar-Beth was innocent, and they are all wife-killers. Killers of wives. Of course Clarice and Amanda are both super conflicted about the fight they're about to have, but when crazy meets crazy only awesome can result.
An old terrorist buddy -- And one-time Joseph mistress! Named Fiddy Cent! -- reappears to comb the Graystone Ind. books for possible Cylon-skimming, confirming that the Guatrau is blatantly supporting the Playboy Dictator. Looking for other ways to help the cause (and remove the threat of Tamara-A and the very famous Avenging Angels to Joe's shaky sanity), Sam agrees to help Daniel and Amanda -- in their best shearling Brokeback gear -- get to Tower Avenging, where Tamara has just installed a possible dragon. (Also, the best McCreary since Amanda's Theme, recalling "Violence & Variations" and the Opera House variations.)
Meanwhile, over on Gemenon -- which appears to be closer to Caprica than our moon is to us -- Lacy interrupts materiel training to prove she's the Dragonlady of Pern apparently. All the robots are in love with her and would rather listen to her than even the people they're programmed to obey. Odin -- interrupted mid-climax during a Tantric session with pretend-Lacy, if you're not squicked enough yet -- goes with her to visit her new army of killer friends, smokes her out with his ingenious fake-pistol pipe, and then they make out and it's awesome. Too bad Pope Meg has decided that Lacy needs to die. On the other hand: Robot army. Maybe she'll get to see Heaven after all.
week: No idea, silly. I'm writing this last November.
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