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3.12: "Rapture (2 of 2)"

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"Am I a Cylon? Frak!"

Some *SPOILERY* rambling on the Sunday night BATTLESTAR GALACTICA return episode...

I was hoping that launching the nukes would be part of the Eye of Jupiter prophecy/marker action, y'know? Like Adama doesn't do bluffs and D'Anna won't relent, so the Galactica nukes the continent, but the temple somehow protects everyone who's within it, y'know? Like the flying saucer at the end of HANGAR 18? Of course, that's not the way it went down...

Really excellent opener with Athena and Helo. Helo's steppin up to the President was grand to see. Athena's visit to and escape from the base ship seemed a wee bit convenient, but I suppose that the other skin jobs had a lot on their hands.

It's nice to see Caprica Six still sticking by her "live in harmony" guns, despite Baltar's opportunistic weaselly nature.

Which I love, heh. He totally makes this show fun.

Okay, so "seeing the face of god" is sort of the experience of meeting the five, right? And D'Anna is consistently referring to one god again and again this episode. So, for this week, I'll buy that the Cylon default setting is for monotheism.

Man, I wanted for just ONE of those charges to still be wired when Apollo pressed the button. Then maybe we could see a Cavil get blown to pieces, and a Cavil torso try to prevent D'Anna from meeting her destiny.

Damn. Boxed. But who's to say they got every last one of her, right? Wishful thinking? Yeah, I suppose her "special guest star" or whatever days may really be over... Was great seeing the other six (except for the Doc—where's he at?) discussing her behavior and the need for extreme measures, behind her back. I would've liked some comment about "too much time with Baltar," or "she's even starting to smell human," or something sort of backhandedly complimentary or admiring about how she gambled correctly on human nature, y'know?

I was a little annoyed at Brother Cavil changing his mind about caring whether or not Adama was bluffing about using the nukes. Interesting how D'Anna says, "Never over just one ship." Like it's a lesson she's learned somewhere.

Baltar's got quite an effect on the Cylon ladies. Evidence of some Cylon blood in his heritage? He's part of the cause of a revolution in Cylon culture, and then connected to the boxing of a whole model.

Is Caprica Six now a two-time Cylon murderer? Skull crushing rock for D'Anna on Caprica and neck snapping whiplash for Boomer on the base ship.

Kinda sad seeing that Boomer's backslid into traditional Cylon form. Well, "go our separate ways" detente seems to be her thing, really. She did love the Chief, after all.

I had this random thought when the Chief and Callie were on screen for somethin or other... Is it weird that Callie killed Sharon and then married the Chief? Anyone think the Chief still hits her?

How bout the Chief being somehow "in tune" with the temple? Cylon? Or perhaps just sex with a Cylon? Cylon nanite cooties?

I kinda think that part of Boomer's impetuous behavior—threatening to kill Hera—was some weird transferred/sympathtic post partem depression issue. Exacerbated at just that moment by Caprica Six's pretty pointed rub-it-in-her-face remark about how despite Athena and Boomer being biologically identical in every way, Hera still recognized Athena has her true mother.

Which is also a little sad for Boomer.

So, hey. Pretty good bit of continuity work on Starbuck's supernova painting, eh? Did Starbuck's crazy boyfriend Cylon ever get all "destiny" with her when they were living together? Cuz that's who she's referring to at the end of this episode, right? I couldn't make it out in the audio clearly, but she says SOMEone told her, "My destiny is already written," or something... and I figured it was stalker Cylon when she was interrogating him, right?

So what up with stalker Cylon since the exodus from New Caprica? He hasn't gone rogue looking for her, and he wasn't boxed for his Starbuck fetish. Was that, like, sanctioned by all seven Cylons?

Starbuck. A prophet. So, what do I think of that? Definitely possibly could be a Cylon. =)

I thought that Duala's approach to Starbuck in the downed Raptor would get half the fans thinking that she's a Cylon. She manages to somehow get PAST the sniper and advancing tin men to get to Starbuck's position, and approaches in complete silence.

Or maybe she was just considering offing her?

With a couple of clever strokes, this show could go all INFERNAL AFFAIRS for a good little run. I mean, they could discover among the civilians of the fleet, Duala's long lost twin sister... Or a supernova painting by an accomplished Caprican artist who bears an uncanny resemblance to Starbuck...

I'd really love to see a twin thing used in a story thread at some point.

Who would D'Anna have cause to apologize to? Did she personally wax or torture any humans in the episodes we've seen? She walks up to one of the five in her vision and recognizes him or her and apologizes...

I think Starbuck would definitely be a candidate for an apology. Roslyn, certainly. Adama, definitely. Hunnybunny the oracle...? I don't think that D'Anna ever threatened her, and I think that when she went looking for her in her old tent-hovel on New Caprica, before finding Hera, she had disappeared. So, I don't think D'Anna would believe she owed her an apology.

Man, I was really annoyed and surprised that Baltar wasn't the chosen one. I thought all along that he had caught the hybrid Cylon's eyes on him when she was spouting her "chosen one... enter the temple... see the five" free verse, y'know? Baltar and D'Anna were standing at the foot of her kiddie pool and D'Anna had closed her eyes in some kind of reverent meditation or prayer, and the Hybrid is apparently staring right at Baltar when she speaks of the "chosen one." I really thought that the idea was that D'Anna believed the hybrid was referring to her, and that Baltar knew that she was actually talking about him. Jiminy Six even confirmed it, didn't she? When he was giving D'Anna the "put your faith in god" pep talk?

But no. No "destiny" for Baltar. And he couldn't even get sloppy seconds at the vision.

Some nice bitch slaps this episode. Duala to Starbuck in the Raptor, Caprica Six to Boomer on the base ship, and the Chief to the Ex-President in the temple. No cat fights, tho. Foo.

Well, DUH, the supernova is/reveals the Eye of Jupiter. Don't these humans have movies or television?

And, so many hundreds or thousands of light years away, the light from that nova would be witneesed on earth by three shepards as the brightest star in the eastern sky, a guide to the little town of Bethlehem. Gotta thank Arthur C. Clarke for that one. =)

With FTL drives, the Galactica fleet (and the Cylons) could get there before the light from the nova. Frack, haven't seen a significant Mary among the humans and no Mary model among the Cylons.

Nice to see Caprica Six hitch a ride with Athena. Man, I'd really like to hear her tell the story of the Cylon revolution, even if it's only to Baltar when they're sharing adjacent cells in the brig. And what might Jiminy Six have to say about Baltar being back with the humans?

Conjecture... Aren't the visions—experienced now by both humans and Cylon—at the holy sites of the thirteenth tribe similar to projection, as Baltar's experienced it and Caprica Six described it? Didn't Jiminy Six "take" Baltar to a similar "council" scenario while on Kobol? White sheets and high seats and columns? Maybe it was with the baby hybrid in the center or on an altar? Frack, I can't remember. When it was that planetarium/night sky vision experienced by a group of humans on Kobol, it seemed like it could be holographic, holodeck-ish and immersive, but in this episode we see that D'Anna steps into a beam and experiences the vision within her mind. If the technology is the same, projection may not be unique to Cylons. It could be latent in humans, in that 90 percent that we don't consciously draw on. And the tech of the thirteenth tribe is capable of plugging into it in both Cylons and humans to communicate and bestow information.

So, what did we see tonight? The thirteenth tribe leaves a "destiny" for a Cylon and a supernova of a signpost for the humans. What up with that?

In the scenes-from-next, how annoying is it to have Starbuck rethink her stance on "marriage is a sacrament" already? And after she's given a hint that she might be some kind of prophetess or hand of the gods?

Is anyone mass producing, custom one-offing, those resurrection pods as mods for hot tubs or bath tubs?

My friend Dan tells me fans are networking online to get together for "frak parties." Sounds like poor word choice to me. i'd expect people to be dropping the keys to their vipers or raptors into the fishbowl as they walk in.

Does anyone else see Apollo and want him to say, "Mallory...?"~

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Keep on keepin on~