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Boy oh, boy the Season Four Finale of LOST has kicked my butt time-wise.
This is the last–I promise–installment of screen shot-based photos as well as studio promo photo releases–a number of those came out and they are of higher resolution (of course) than the teevee grabs so I am trying to switch them up when I come across them./EDIT Gah! I forgot I have the whole Penny rescue and fake rescue to do./end edit
This is the Flash forward and science-fiction like scenes in the episode.
Jack leaned back in the rubber boat and sighed with relief, “It’s OK…It’s OK…we’re alive.” Kate and Sun, despite being alive themselves, had brilliant expressions that read something like, “Speak for yourself, dumbass!” Can’t wait for those two grieving widows to discover their lovers (and friends) are alive (uh, right?!) and need a ride back home from purgatory.
from E! Kristin
There was an Octagon Global Recruiting commercial.
Jeremy Bentham was Locke was in the coffin. The scuttlebutt for some time has been that Locke would turn out to be Jeremy Bentham.
Sayid shot that guy in the Santa Rosa Mental Health Facility parking lot at 8:15 ( the numbers).
QUOTES:“Boom.”
—Jin-Soo Kwon“Lie to them, Jack. If you do it half as well as you lie to yourself, they’ll believe you.”
—John Locke“If you mean time-travelling bunnies? Yes.”
—Benjamin Linus"Dude. I've been having regular conversations with dead people. The last thing I need now is paranoia."
—Hugo Reyes"Checkmate, Mr. Eko."
—Hugo Reyes"You can go now, Michael."
—Christian Shepherd"I hope you're happy now, Jacob."
—Benjamin Linus"Don't bring him back, Kate. Don't you dare bring him back!"
—Claire Littleton"I love you, Penny, and I'm never gonna leave you again."
—Desmond David Hume"I'm here to tell you that the Island won't let you come alone...You have to do it together. All of you."
—Benjamin Linus
Now for stills/promos photos~
The Orchid Station: Ben~
Aww. More later today.
Battlestar Galactica May 30 preview video: S4, E8/E10 Sine Qua Non~
Episode Name: Guess What's Coming To Dinner
Episode Number: 407
Written by: Michael Angeli
Directed by: Wayne Rose
Original Air Date: 5/16/08 on SciFi Channel
The Galactica crew teams up with Cylon rebels in a plot to destroy the enemy's vital Resurrection Hub and liberate the Number Three known as D'Anna.
Anyone else happy to see the Space Park repaired?
Other than the Galactica, it's the most distinctive ship in the fleet. A passenger ship, it has not yet been given an "official" name.
The repair of the
This episode was very unusual in that it was framed by a song sung a capella by former university opera student, Alessandro Juliani who appears in BSG as Lt. Felix Gaeta. Previously, during a mutiny attempt aboard the Demetrius, a vessel upon which he was a crew member, Gaeta was shot from behind through the knee by Sam Anders as Gaeta attempted to jump the ship back to the Galactica.
Due to the extended time that Felix had to wait to get back to
the Galactica for medical attention, it became all but certain that he would lose his leg.The song Gaeta sings throughout the episode is called "Gaeta's Lament." The lyrics were written by the episode's writer Michael Angeli and the music is by the series's composer Bear McCreary. Actor Alessandro Juliani, who studied opera and performed the song live on set, also greatly influenced it. McCreary discusses the song in his blog.
And he does in fact,
lose the leg to Doc Cottle's saw blade.
On Galactica, Kara Thrace visits Roslin in sickbay. The President with a somewhat derisive tone, compliments Thrace on her plan to unite the rebels and the Fleet. When Thrace asks if Roslin is having visions, the president is quiet. Thrace repeats what the rebel baseship's Hybird told her some time before: "This shall it come to pass: the dying leader shall know the truth of the Opera House." Shocked at Thrace's knowledge of the dream's specific content, Roslin asks how the Hybrid would know about her dreams, but Thrace does not know. Roslin pleads with Thrace to help her determine the meaning of the dreams. Thrace accepts without hesitation and Roslin asks her to find Karl Agathon.
Tigh, Tory, Tyrol and Anders again meet secretly and talk about the unboxing of the Threes. Tyrol muses that they'll at least discover the last member of the Five, but Tigh comments with unintentional humour that finding the fifth will only "crowd the airlock a little more."
Tory Foster meets with Laura Roslin in a temporary office on the Galactica while the President is recovering from another diloxin treatment, staying close to sickbay for further treatment. Roslin first offhandedly comments on Tory's great mood anytime she is aboard Galactica. Roslin then asks Foster to find out who was sharing the rumors of the president's shared visions with Gaius Baltar, than startles Tory, telling her that she is very aware that Tory is sleeping with Baltar. Before Tory can say a word, Roslin tells her that there are enough reports of her visitations to "make her a charter member of his nymph squad.”* Tory admits to believing in Baltar's spiritual message, but Roslin, unforgiving, turns her back, returning to other work and orders Tory away but before doing so gets in a dig saying, “I don’t care if you have to spend the night on your knees praying or just on your knees, you have a job to do.”
*"Nymph"
When Adama asks Natalie of the seventh model, she says that the Number Threes were punitively boxed, explaining the process and why the D'Annas were boxed because they saw then-forbidden faces of the Five. She says that unboxing the Threes could give them information that could lead them all to Earth, since the Final Five are believed to have come from there. Kara Thrace, in uniform and standing with Sharon Agathon, confirms Natalie's comment. Natalie notes that the baseship can heal itself of its damage, but most of their Raiders were destroyed in the ambush by the enemy models.
Roslin pointedly asks why the Fleet should trust these Cylons.
Admiral Adama insists that Natalie reveal the coordinates of the Hub, but the rebel leader says she will only take them to the Hub, not give the coordinates. Adama response is to order the marines to escort her away. Natalie changes her mind, promising to give the coordinates if Adama gives his word that D'Anna will be unboxed and the Cylons will be allowed to leave with the Five once the Threes identify them. Adama gives his word.
Tigh suggests destroying the Hub outright without resurrecting the Threes, reneging on Adama's word. Adama believes the Five could lead the Fleet to Earth but Roslin thinks the Five will be uncooperative after the Hub's destruction.
Adama believes that the Five are like the rebel Cylons, but Roslin disagrees.
Tigh, obviously anxious about the topic at hand again, suggests destruction, putting trust in Roslin's way to Earth, but sounding disingenuous as he suggests it.
Finally, Roslin suggests a compromise plan: Unbox the D'Annas, destroy the Hub, but hold on to the Five until they all get to Earth, then turn them over to the rebels, believing the rebels will be compelled to wait a bit longer.
The Hub
Finally:
Sharon Agathon returns to her quarters at the end of her shift to find daughter Hera colouring. Sharon picks up the drawings and sees the number “6” scrawled again and again as well as crude drawings of a blond figure and finally, the last, a rendering of the blond figure and a smiling Hera holding hands.
This sends Sharon over the top only to realize that somehow Hera has opened the door and gone from her quarters. She frantically chases after her, remembering visions of the Opera House as she runs, calling out Hera’s name repeatedly.
Natalie arrives by Raptor on Galactica, obviously very uneasy.
Hera finds herself at a stop in front of Natalie, being escorted by Tigh and a squad of Marines. But Agathon is there immediately and draws her sidearm, warning Natalie away. Tigh keeps the Marines at bay, standing them down.
Agathon asks Tyrol to take Hera away, which he does. However, Agathon's visions of the Opera House and a Six's kidnapping of Hera are too strong in her mind. "You are never going to take my child," she says as she shoots Natalie.
At the moment that the Hybrid awakes, she cries out "Jump!" The baseship disappears from the Fleet with the president and her entourage aboard.
This episode left me wondering:
-Does Natalie survive her gun-shot wounds?
-What will Adama do about Sharon "Athena" Agathon's shooting of the rebel leader?
-Will anyone be held accountable for the mutiny on the Demetrius?
-Will Anders be held accountable for shooting Felix, resulting in Gaeta losing his leg?
-How will the rebel Cylons react when they discover that their leader has been shot by a Colonial?
-Where does the rebel baseship end up after it's sudden jump? It seemed like a blind jump.
-Do Hera's drawings accurately depict a future event?
-How will Adama react to the rebel basestar's unexplained jump? Will he assume it was a trap for Roslin, who just went aboard the basestar with Baltar, Karl "Helo" Agathon, and others?
-The Hybrid's prophecy that Kara Thrace is the "harbinger of death" takes on a new significance during Natalie's speech to the Quorum...in that it may be referring to the potential loss of immortality among the Cylons--or will the "dying leader" turn out to be someone other than President Roslin--Natalie perhaps?
Survivors: 39,673
- Main Characters That Appear: Admiral Adama, Colonel Tigh, President Roslin, Lee Adama, Kara Thrace, Gaius Baltar, Athena
- Michael Hogan as Colonel Saul Tigh
- Aaron Douglas as Specialist Galen Tyrol
- Tahmoh Penikett as Captain Karl Agathon
- Michael Trucco as Ensign Samuel Anders
- Alessandro Juliani as Lieutenant Felix Gaeta
- Kandyse McClure as Anastasia Dualla
- Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek
- Callum Keith Rennie as Number Two / Leoben Conoy
- Donnelly Rhodes as Doctor Cottle
- Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
- Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza
- Tiffany Lyndall-Knight as Hybrid
- Brad Dryborough as Lieutenant Hoshi
- Leah Cairns as Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson
- Colin Lawrence as Lieutenant Hamish "Skulls" McCall
- Jennifer Halley as Ensign Diana "Hardball" Seelix
- Colin Corrigan as Marine Nowart
- Alexandra Thomas as Hera Agathon
- Donna Soares as Gemenon Delegate
- Andrew McIlroy as Jacob Cantrell
- Judith Maxie as Picon Delegate
- Iris Paluly as Speaking Delegate #2
- Marilyn Norry as Reza Chronides
Recurring Characters That Appear: Tyrol, Tory, Anders, Helo, Racetrack, Skulls, Natalie, Leoben, Seelix, Gaeta, Cottle, Dee, Hera, Caprica Six
Cylons That Appear: Anders, Tigh, Tory, Tyrol, Athena, Natalie, Leoben, Eight, Caprica Six, Hybrid, Centurions
Alessandro Juliani summed up the experience (of being the first singer on BSG), saying
“It was a challenge to make this bold idea truly believable. To go to that place of mourning and solitude that the song evoked and to convey that the song was a manifestation of a real sea change in Gaeta? – well, let’s just say that as an actor it was a welcome change from dradis contacts and star charts. Being the first character to ’sing’ on the show is exciting but a bit nervy. But, BSG has never played it safe. Why should they start now?” from Bear's Battlestar Blog
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Episode Name: Faith (Battlestar Wiki)
Episode Number: 406/408
Written by: Seamus Kevin Fahey
Directed by: Michael Nankin
Original Air Date: 5/9/08 on SciFi Channel
Episode Summary:
The mutiny that began in E5/E7, "Escape Velocity," continues after Helo refuses to follow Kara Thrace's order to jump to the Cylon Basestar so Kara can learn more about the path to Earth via the Hybrid. In the commotion that follows, Kara attempts to jump the ship herself and Anders shoots Gaeta who was following the counter order to jump the ship back to Galactica. Chaos continues only a few more moments as they, with Kara most prominent, move to help Lt. Felix Gaeta, the writhing, swearing guy with a literal "blown out" kneecap. Everyone agrees to stand down and help him. Kara admits that she was "wrong," that she never should have considered risking the lives of the crew. She says instead she and Leoben will fly only a Raptor to the baseship with Athena and Anders as crew. They have but 15 hours to complete the mission before the Demetrius must jump to rendezvous with the Fleet or be left behind.
On this, day 58 of their mission, the crew prepares the Raptor. Despite the mutiny, Athena promises to work with Kara, as does Jean Barolay, a former Resistance fighter. The Raptor makes the jump and finds a endless graveyard of Cylon baseships and Raiders, lifelessly floating in space.
Kara seems relieved and in awe. They are near a large gas giant in a trinary star system, just as her visions foretold.
Bear McCreary, BSG's composer has this to say about it: (SPOILER-ish)
"I also have to mention that the entire visual effects team are outdoing themselves this season. The debris field left in the wake of the basestar battle, and the ringed gas giant are some of the most compelling images they've ever produced. And they’ve got even more impressive visuals coming in the next four episodes."
On the Demetrius, Gaeta is heavily medicated with morpha for the pain. He asks Helo to promise to not let Doc Cottle amputate his leg, as he realizes that the longer they put off treatment the more likely he will lose the leg.
The Raptor carefully searches for the baseship amidst the exploding weapons of Cylon civil war. Kara hears music which Leoben mentions is a rare trait. She takes over control of the Raptor directing it towards the gas giant. She sees the "comet" that has been in her dreams/premonitions, but not in the form she thought she'd seen. Instead, Leoben's crippled baseship flies by, trailing gas that gives it a comet-like appearance. The Raptor cruises past a warhead, which explodes too close to them. Kara awakens from a knock to the head to find the Raptor safely landed within the baseship interior. When Athena disembarks from the Raptor she finds herself surrounded by an army of her twins--the Number Eights, who admire her for being unique because she was the first Cylon to rebel against her programming. They ask her to help mutiny against the oppressive Sixes who they once trusted but now fear. Athena, clearly disdainful, dismisses their pleas telling them to find their own individuality and help her or get out of her way.
Athena accesses the liquid datasteam interface in order to determine how to mate the Raptor's jump drive to the baseship. Doing so requires disconnecting the Hybrid. As the group preps, Anders considers touching the interface but stops himself.
A Six who appears to be suffering from PTSD, attacks and kills Jean Barolay (Alisen Down, below) in retaliation for killing her on New Caprica. Anders takes the Six down and is ready to kill her but Kara Thrace manages to distract him, talking him down. "PTSD" Six who killed Barolay speaks to Natalie, admitting that she thought she had put her (own) death on New Caprica at the hands of Barolay behind her but now it's obvious she "couldn't." After kissing the distraught Six, Natalie grabs Anders' hand and pulls the trigger on his gun, killing the Six permanently as there is no Resurrection Ship nearby, asking
the shocked Colonials if this "justice" is enough for them.
Kara arrives in the Hybrid's chamber. The Hybrid speaks continuously, rambling on, discussing ship functions, status reports, all the while repeating "prophetic babble." None of this makes sense to Kara who grows more tense as the clock ticks down. You probably noticed a weird camera movement/close up on Kara's face, in the Hybrid's chamber meant to evoke the Eye of Jupiter, with Kara's single blue eye in the center, "ringed" by her bloodied eyebrow and blonde hair.
Kara and Natalie continue to listen to the Hybrid's nonsensical ramblings though Leoben tries to aid Kara in listening by telling her that the Hybrid can't be rushed and that they have to absorb the Hybrid's words. He says that "the fate of two races can't be expected to come easily."
Athena appears, reporting that the modifications are complete and they must leave to make it back to the Demetrius in time. Kara listens to the Hybrid for a few more moments and then orders the Hybrid taken offline.
An Eight moves to disconnect the Hybrid, tugging sharply on it's the cable. As she does this the Hybrid begins screaming. A sentient Cylon Centurion reacts by shooting the Eight. Kara and Athena take down the Centurion and Anders moves into the room.
The Eight's body falls beside the Hybrid's tub and blood drips into the tub as the Hybrid continues to scream. Kara leans over the Hybrid and wants to know what it wants from her and then says, “please, I need you.” The Hybrid stops screaming and reaches towards Kara, touching her face and says, "The dying leader will discover the truth about the Opera House, the missing Three (D'anna Biers) will be used to find the (Final) Five, who come from the home of the Thirteenth Tribe (Earth?)," and that she, Kara Thrace, is "the harbinger of death that will take all to their end." Kara is understandibly totally freaked out by this news.
The group deciphers the Hybrid's message. All come to the conclusion that the final five Cylons came from the Thirteenth Tribe and so must also know the way to Earth. The Number Threes will lead them to the Final Five having gazed upon them in the Opera House before being boxed by "Brother" Cavil. Athena fully disconnects the Hybrid's cable, throwing the basestar into darkness. The group leaves to meet the Demetrius.
The Demetrius, led by Athena's husband Helo, is prepping to leave as the seconds count down... Just as he is about to order the jump, the baseship arrives and broadcasts a Colonial identity. Both ships begin preparing to jump to the Galactica and the Fleet.
On Galactica, President Laura Roslin meets with Admiral William Adama in his quarters. She tells him that something may be truthful in Baltar's words, but Adama is reluctant. A sad and weary Adama talks of Starbuck's death and return, son Lee's quitting the military. He worries too, about all the crew he sent with Kara, wondering if he will see ever see "those kids again." Roslin is a comfort to him, telling him she is "right here."
Another tender moment is shared between the two--both smiling, tearing slightly--as Adama tells Roslin that she helped him to believe that they really will find Earth (in a a voice like only EJO could be the owner of).
Things that make me go "hmm" in this episode:
Why did director Michael Nankin not realize how ridiculous that skull cap made Mary McDonnell look?
It took me right out of the scene and into the land of WTF?
I understand the point was to "shock" the audience--the diloxin treatments have left Roslin bald but for one thing, it's really not at all shocking as we've seen the President pulling clumps of her hair out, weeping. What would've worked--and been so easy to do was to use the skull cap with a kerchief/scarf/bandanna tied over her head so one could see that she was "bald" but not that Mary still very much has a full head of hair under the skull cap. (See photo above for my suggestion in action.)
Anders' bizarre behaviour was distracting--there was too much ping-ponging about.
He's had many months to reconcile (as well as one would guess he could) that he is Cylon. He's spent the past two months living and working aboard the Demetrius with Sharon "Athena" Agathon, a Cylon who has adapted extremely well, living as part of the Fleet.
Instead, he is all over the map in a weird, just for the helluva it way and this is leaving aside shooting Gaeta through the kneecap--kind of an un-Fleet-like thing to do.
When first viewing the control area of the damaged Cylon baseship Anders surreptitiously contemplates dipping his hand into the liquid datasteam interface but before he can he is called away. So he's confident enough to be curious.
Then he goes completely off the rails when a Six kills Barolay in a hand-to-hand fight. It's possible that the killing was accidental as Barolay hit her head against the Raptor (granted, the Six hit her twice). Anders never made any time for assessment; he would have just blown the Six's head right off if Kara hadn't talked him down.
After that situation was more or less straightened out, Anders enters the Hybrid's chamber whilst Kara is trying to understand the Hybrid's monologue stream before the Hybrid must be taken offline for the ship to be able to jump with the Raptor back to the Galactica.
Husband and Wife: Sam Anders and Kara Thrace (Michael Trucco and Katee Sackhoff)
When the Hybrid screams out in shock/agony and the sentient Centurion shoots down the Eight who is trying to disengage the Hybrid, Anders tenderly holds the hand of the dying Eight and gently tells her he is "with" her.
I was left going huh? It was just too much in too short a time unless Anders is truly losing his mind.
Finally, It didn't sound right to me when Kara said that the Cylons don't know how to work an FTL drive and Battlestar Wiki confirms this saying, "Why should the Cylons have any trouble figuring out the Raptor's FTL system? They have previously used Raptors (Torn)."
Indeed.
Regardless, this was a fantastic episode. I couldn't wait to re-watch it (and in fact, I didn't).
While all that drama was happening with the Demetrius and the Cylons on the Galactica there was a bit of drama as well. I thought Mary McDonnell as the cancer-stricken President Laura Roslin was fantastic but the story itself--it's been on the Lifetime Channel, Movie of the Week, and many other places, many other times. I'll just recap it and be thankful that they gave Mary McDonnell some significant screen time on her own, mostly. (With help from the The Patriot Resource and Battlestar Wiki).
Laura Roslin is finishing the last two diloxin treatments, where she'll be on Galactica and indisposed during that time. Laura tries to encourage her trusted assistant (murdering Cylon) Tory to watch out for sudden moves by the Quorum of 12, nearly breaking down in tears while doing so.
In sickbay, amidst Gaius Baltar's voice on the wireless discussing his god, Laura encounters a woman, Emily Kowalski (Nana Visitor) who is dying--very soon--of cancer as well. Their first encounter does not go well as Laura offends Emily when she dismisses Gaius Baltar's speech on the wireless and Emily reacts by ordering her to leave.
Laura meets again with Emily--who apologizes and gives her a scarf as a present. The two make small talk of what they will do after they get well. She warns the President that her sickness will get worse and to be prepared.
Emily goes on to tell Laura why she listens to Gaius Baltar speak on the wireless. The night after Doc Cottle gave Emily the news of her impending death, she had a dream in which she saw people standing on the opposite side of a river: dead loved ones. She felt a presence, a warm loving presence that calmed her. Laura questions the dream but Emily notes that the dream is real.Emily and Laura continue to discuss the authenticity of the Lord's of Kobol and Baltar's God. Laura becomes upset when she talks of her mother's death from cancer and the striking lack of anything noble or calming at that moment. As Emily tries to comfort her, the woman suddenly has a violent seizure of pain. Doc Cottle arrives with medication, but tells Laura that Emily's end is near.
Emily's vision of a river comes to pass in a dream Laura experiences. The two stand on a boat, looking at a shore where human figures begin to appear, smiling and waving at Emily. Emily disappears to meet them, materializing on the shore. Laura feels joy, then sees her own mother, smiling and waiting for Laura to join her. She tells her she is not yet ready, stepping away from the boat's side, as the dream ends.
Awakening from her dream, Laura goes to see Emily but finds her bed empty. She died some time while she slept. Only her wireless receiver remains, still switched on.
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"Kara comes back from the dead. I let her go off chasing her vision of Earth. Well she's overdue. Lee turns in his wings. Helo. Athena. Gaeta. Will I ever see those kids again?" -- William Adama
Survivors: 39,675
Main Characters That Appear: Admiral Adama, President Roslin, Kara Thrace, Athena, Baltar (voice)
Recurring Characters That Appear: Tory, Gaeta, Anders, Helo, Seelix, Barolay, Leoben, Doc Cottle
Guest Characters: Emily
Cylons That Appear: Tory, Anders, Athena, Natalie, Leoben, Hybrid, Centurion, Eights, Sixes
Starring :
Edward James Olmos
Mary McDonnell
Katee Sackhoff
James Callis
Tricia Helfer
Grace Park
Co or Guest-starring:
Michael Trucco as Ensign Samuel Anders
- Tahmoh Penikett as Karl Agathon
- Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
- Alessandro Juliani as Lieutenant Felix Gaeta
- Callum Keith Rennie as Number Two / Leoben Conoy
- Donnelly Rhodes as Doctor Cottle
- Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza
- Alisen Down as Jean Barolay
- Tiffany Lyndall-Knight as Hybrid
- Jennifer Halley as Ensign Diana "Hardball" Seelix
- Nana Visitor as Emily Kowalski
- Alana Husband as Nurse Sashon
Bear McCreary's Awesome BSG Score-flavoured Recap of TRLT
As usual, I depend on of BSG's composer Bear McCreary's, awesome interpretation of each episode to jiggle my brainpan and help tremendously in a deeper understanding of each episode.
Also awesome are a couple of Battlestar Galactica sites which you should be checking in with: The Patriot Resource and the sublime Battlestar Wiki. There are many more good BSG sites out there but my site is simply the viewpoint of a fangirl. Hopefully, you'll find an interesting tidbit or two.
"Wiki" confirmed what or who actually, I thought was missing last night from Episode 405/407: The Road Less Travelled--both Commander Adama and President Roslin--for the first time ever were not featured in a BSG episode!
The episode title is derived from the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Almost the entire episode takes place on the waste recycling ship the Demetrius or in the space around it, which led by Kara Thrace, has now been on it's mission to find Earth for 58 frakkin' days.
The crew is completely exasperated, worried about the ever-closing window of time they have to rendezvous with Galactica. They are on the verge of mutiny as in their eyes, Kara has gone completely off the rails.
Helo, the Captain, is constantly running interference between Kara and the crew, no small job; good thing he's built for it.
(I know Tahmoh Penikett was originally meant to have a small but pivotal story arc in the miniseries, then left behind for dead on the nuked Caprica colony, but look at what we would have missed if they hadn't reconsidered and kept him for the duration(!). In my opinion, he and "Chief" Galen Tyrol are two of the most sympathetic and therefore likeable characters in that they both have a solid moral center and are generally kind, decent men.)
So this is pretty much how this Episode goes down:
Episode 405: The Road Less Travelled; Originally aired on May 2, 2008
Synopsis: A Cylon heavy raider docks with the Demetrius and it turns out to be Leoben.The prospect of a truce between humanity and the Cylons encourages Kara to trust a shipwrecked Leoben while her crew begins to openly doubt her competency for command. Conoy offers an alliance between the humans and his faction in the Cylon civil war and Kara wants to accompany him to his baseship in order to learn what the Cylons know about Earth. Kara orders a jump and Helo refuses to execute it. She then turns to Gaeta, who also refuses. Her crew refuses to carry out the order. Kara Thrace's entire crew (except for husband, Sam Anders) has mutinied.
Back on the Battlestar Galactica, Baltar's group of followers is growing and "Chief" Tyrol continues to struggle with Cally's so-called suicide.
Another scene has Tyrol, who has shaved his head, holding a gun to his own head as he screams." From SciFi Channel Promo
The context of the scene referenced above is that Chief quite literally has reached his breaking point.
Drawn to one of Gaius Baltar's "sermons," Gaius notices him in the crowd and beckons him to come forward because "Cally would have wanted that." Gaius notes that Cally was spiritual and again that she would have wanted Tyrol to move forward and to shake Gaius's hand.
Tyrol looks as if he's a human bomb about to go off. He spits out that Cally may have forgiven Baltar for all his heinous acts but he hasn't and as Gaius goes on and on about Cally's wishes the foreshadowing of what Chief will do when he reaches Baltar becomes clear as the audience feels the same way about Gaius: Who is he trying to fool? What does he want of Chief? And how dare he be such a pompous, presumptuous bastard? When he reaches Baltar, Chief attempts to throttle him but is restrained by Baltar's followers. Both men appear unhurt by the encounter.
However, Gaius just won't leave it alone and later is escorted undercover to Tyrol's quarters where Tyrol has been staring at family photos from their days on New Caprica before the situation on the planet went from bad to worse. The gun remains on his midsection as he lies stretched out on his bed when Gaius enters. Gaius wishes to apologize for being an ass earlier. Tyrol doesn't react though Gaius is fully aware that it is him, Chief, and Chief's gun alone in the room. It's notable that when surrounded by his followers Baltar referred correctly to "Chief" as Mr.Tyrol (as Admiral Adama has fired Chief Tyrol). However when alone, Gaius switched to calling Tyrol, "Chief," almost a term of endearment.
Gaius continues with his soliloquy about knowing that he committed heinous acts, that once he thought he knew who he was--a scientist but things change for reasons not understood and now he is seeking redemption.
Chief doesn't seem to react to anything Baltar says but when Gaius turns to leave Chief extends his hand to Baltar.
Big Questions:
As we know now/believe,Tyrol is Cylon. Tyrol's child Nicky is a cybrid. Baltar has a pivotal role to play with the humans and Cylons. Gaius almost always has a hidden agenda--even when he seems sincere. What does he want with Tyrol? Has Tory told Baltar during one of their intimate encounters that she is Cylon and so is Chief or does Baltar sense something, having had plenty very close contact with the Cylons? What role does little Nicky, who seems to have an affinity for Baltar's voice as it comes across the wireless, have?
Further questions:
Does Leoben sense that Anders is a fellow Cylon? He seems to be skating really close to the truth when he references Anders' knowing that he's always been destined for something greater than star Pyramid player. Anders is clearly shaken by this.
Leoben Conoy and Sam Anders: having a Cylon to Cylon chat~
When Saul Tigh tries to give chief a lecture about Chief's behaviour, Chief dismisses him saying the scuttlebutt is that Tigh and "the Six" have been spending a lot of time together, so who is judging whom? Has Tigh taken Caprica Six as a lover or is it the other way 'round? Or neither?
Next on BSG: FAITH 5/09/08: "The return of her cancer adds to Roslin's wariness of a potential truce between the Colonials and the Cylons. But she's not the only one struggling with her faith, for impulsive Kara Thrace is uneasy about those "toasters", too." "Unlikely alliances are forged." From TV Guide
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