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Date Posted: 15:39:55 04/08/08 Tue
Author: anyasbuttmonkey
Subject: I'll just copy and paste my journal entry on the subject...
In reply to: anyasbuttmonkey 's message, "Like sparkle, I need to gather my thoughts..." on 00:55:50 04/06/08 Sun

Two things before we get into this - 1) It's become clear to me that I'm somewhat of an Anders apologist, I frakkin' love the man (I'll hold my hand up and say that 65% of that is because Michael Trucco is a fine piece of ass) and you'll rarely hear me say a bad word against him, unless we're talking about his brainpower (his real brain, not his man-brain. I'm sure that works perfectly). 2) In stark contrast, I cannot stand Apollo. I realise this puts me in a minority here, but sometimes I just want to smack his self-righteous, judgemental face in. This wasn't an episode where he was staggeringly obnoxious or anything, I just wanted y'all to know :)

So! Overall, I was left somewhat underwhelmed by "He That Believeth In Me", but not because - as I mistakenly stated before - nothing really happened. Indeed, a lot of shit went down, just not stuff I personally care about. After the Giant Space Battle Of It's Our Last Season So Let's Blow This Budget (I could make a comment about how Anders saved the entire fleet from certain doom, but I won't. Yet ;D), we were left with two storylines - Kara and Baltar. I'm certainly intrigued by Kara's storyline, but aside from a few surface details (her ship's brand new, she has photos but no telemetry), nothing really was learnt in this episode. I'm wondering, though, if the eye of Jupiter (not the mandala in the show - the actual eye of Jupiter, the planet) will turn out to be important in terms of how Kara got into our solar system. It certainly bears a striking resemblance to the mandala pattern from Season 3, and she made special mention of remembering "a gas giant with rings" (which, of course, could be any of the four, but I'd lay claim on Jupiter if I were a betting man). The cliffhanger was lame, though - we all know Kara won't shoot the President (at least not to kill), although I will tip my hat to them if she actually does. That truly would be a twist. But on the whole, there was nothing I wasn't expecting to happen in regards to Kara's return. Nice that it brought the Adamas back together somewhat, even if Lee wants to stick it to the old man just a little bit longer in search of a better storyline (If Romo Lampkin's not involved, I 100% don't care about Lee's seventy-thousandth existential crisis).

As for the Baltar storyline... The tone didn't gel with the rest of the episode, for me anyway. I wish we had some more background info on how this cult started, but hopefully that will be rectified down the line. Nice to see Connor back, even if it amounted to his pretty face getting ten shits beaten out of it. On the whole, I found the whole storyline uneven, although it did give us one tasty morsal - we've now got a whole movement within the fleet of people who have (knowingly or not) accepted the Cylon God as the One True God. Surely a cause for concern, no? Oh, and I was talking with esmerelda last night, and while there are plenty of easy wanks to come up with to explain it away, I'm still not buying the fact that there's a whole unused compartment - big enough to fit a cult in - on the Galactica. And even if there is, I have a hard time thinking Adama would let it slide so easily (especially as it seems to have been amassing for a few weeks at least - wouldn't it have been mentioned last season?). I'm gonna need an answer to that soon, show!

On to the random notes... Roslin's staying in Adama's quarters? Genius. Can we please have another family-meal scene a la Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down?

Tory Update: She still hasn't found that elusive hairbrush, but at least she's had some sleep.

Anders was quite smooth in trying to talk some answers out of Kara (before she went batshit and beat up the guards, anyway) by the memory wall, it almost makes up for the fact that he nearly blew his cover over the Viper comms by holding the on button while he repeated a Tigh-style mantra. Still, he's hot, so he gets a pass. And I'm definitely coming down on the side of the fence that his inability to shoot the Cylon Raider was programming rather than sheer ineptitude. But then you knew that already ;)

I love that Tigh is an absolute grouch when it comes to being a Cylon - knowing that Michael Hogan was extremely grouchy about it too makes it all the funnier.

There's been some discussion elsewhere about the changed opening (no "They Have A Plan" this season), but I'm agreeing with some of the clever sparks at Television Without Pity - with two different factions of Cylons, saying "They have A Plan" only opens questions as to who's plan it is. I reckon once we find out who the remaining Cylon is, we'll get back to that plan of theirs :)

Helo, Athena and Caprica really need a storyline already. And can we clear up, once and for all, just who the frak is the XO and the hell is the CAG? Even Gaeta's exasperated.

I still miss the Cylon basestar storylines, but I'm hoping that next week's episode - titled Six Of One, so I think we can guess who'll feature prominently - will rectify that. Goddamn I miss Cavil and Leoben!

Speaking of, I read an interesting spec about the Final Five... What if there are six of them? As in, we're assuming the split in the Cylons went 7 - 5, but what if it was an even 6 - 6? And one of our Super Seven is an undercover Fiver? Naturally, I'm thinking Cavil, but who knows...

Anyhoo, a strong episode, but not enough kick for me to make it a total winner. I would say that Six Of One should be a good one, but it's written by Michael Angeli, so who knows what could happen?

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