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Date Posted: 13:47:10 02/28/09 Sat
Author: Chani
Subject: 3 episodes left !

Well, Someone to watch over Me" was better than "Deadlock".

Darn show!

First off, I must sayt hat this episode was well directed, beautifully filmed. The montage of the Starbuck opening scene, and above all, the Tyrol's last scene in the fake house were great. Aaron Douglas was terrific.

Also I see the episode as a tribute to Bear, the BSG composer whose music has been so important on the show and whose blog is always insightful. Music is a character just like the ship. Methinks that the gods of music are the mysterious powers behind the curtain, the ones pullingt he strings, the one Ellen and Saul wondered about. By the way, the Ellen/Saul scene in daycare was really a nice touch. I liked that apart� showing a childless married couple alone in a child room deserted by children. Feeling of loss indeed!

So the episode was all about loss and its consequences, how we deal with that feeling: illusion and payback. Illusion, through Kara's hallucination, the projection stuff Boomer shared with Galen, Helo thinking he was having sex with his wife, the box that hid Hera; payback through the extradition stuff, Boomer's revenge on the fleet that betrayed her, on Athena of course who stole her identity to seduce Helo and got what should have been her life. Payback is a bitch, payback is Boomer!

Some stuff was obvious: the drawing Hera gave Kara, loose Boomer , the piano player being an image of Kara's dad. As soon as Kara started telling the piano player about her finding her own corpse on Earth, I was sure he wasn't real and she had made herself an imaginary confidant, someone who could talk to her unlike Sam. I didn't see Dylan's piece coming out of the little tune though.

On the other hand, I should have. The episode points out the physical conections between Kara and Sam, how she stroked his arm at the beginning and how she rested on his chest in the end, so her playing the Watchtower song makes sense. He was the one playing it on Earth. Is ther a "play it again, Sam" joke hidden in there?

Maybe Kara Thrace's destiny was to marry Sam Anders after all!

The episode drew us into Boomer's head, like Tyrol, but what was happening in Sam's head? Was he the one projecting the piano player in Kara's head?

Nice Kara/Helo scene too. I noticed that the name of her a father was not Daniel but begin with a D. We'll see.

I wasn't surpised at all by Boomer's mission because I had thought before that her saving Ellen might have been a trick planned by Cavil since it took a lot of time to prepare the surgery, yet I had dismissed the hypothesis because I favoured the idea of forgiveness.

Who's more messed up, Starbuck or Boomer?

What an awful situation for Athena and Helo. The scene in which she screamed in his arms and beat him was powerful. They have lost Hera again, and Boomer might have also managed to tarnish their marriage, damage their relationship. What a vicious cruel little Boomer. It's obvious she was reluctant towards the overtures Helo made first, then you can see her making her mind and kissing him passionately knowing that Athena would watch it all!

So glad that Tahmoh is back (and what a back! ;- P)but so sad for my favourite 'ship.

I'm not surprised that Helo was fooled. After all he believed that Boomer was in the brig, Athena was the only Eight that should have been in the bathroom. By the way he must have been told that she was there and she was, before Boomer attacked her. However I don't get that Hera didn't recognize Boomer. She could tell Athena apart from the other Eights when she was a baby. But Hera is a scary little girl so maybe she did know it wasn't her mother but didn't protest, following her own agenda (remember her bye-bye scene!).

Now I'm torn between watching the preview for next week or remaining unpsoiled.

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[> Well said as always. -- sparkle, 14:49:42 02/28/09 Sat [1]

This was indeed a powerful episode. I really emjoyed the Kara moments which suprised me as well. Otherwise I believe you pretty much said it better than I could!

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[> Re: 3 episodes left ! -- toothy, 19:40:06 02/28/09 Sat [1]

I would have enjoyed the last three more if they were not three of the last six. Wasting a lot of time on nothing. Looks like it's going to come down to a last minute reveal. I don't like those. A game changer where every thing you thought was going on was wrong. I hope not. If this turns out to be all a dream, I will speak of BSG no more.

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