Battlestar Galactica: Season 2 Part 9; NSCR/9.16.2005

[Truth Seeker]

"Flight of the Phoenix" Episode #209 *Next to last in the Mid-Season Ending*

(From TV Guide)It's not easy getting friends to accept that you're in love with an android, especially if she hails from the same race of machines that annihilated your civilization. Just ask Helo, whose relationship with the pregnant Cylon Boomer has left him ostracized by his Galactica shipmates. Coincidentally, Boomer's old boyfriend, Tyrol, struggles with a mechanical problem of his own when he is ordered to create a Viper fighter from scratch.

From SCI FI Channel:The Season Two summer finale episode, "Pegasus", airing on Friday, Sept. 23, at 10/9C, will run two minutes longer than its scheduled time. If you plan to record this episode, set your recording device to continue until five minutes after the scheduled end time of the episode.

Cast: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park.

Quote: Are you a Cylon?

Today, today, marks the cresting of the wave, now comes the downpour. Pegasus will either appear at the near end or the next esp. Either way, after sneek reading the future for next year. I can only say this...FrAACCKIN' DAMN!!!!

 

[griff_goodbeard]

I've never seen BSG before, but have heard good things about it. I was thinking I'd start trying to catch some eps. but I have a question. Would someone who has never seen it before, be totally lost? Some shows it seems each ep stands on it's own (Star Trek), but others you really want to get in on the "ground floor" (Lost). Where would you put BSG? And also is Season one available on DVD yet?

 

[Dagger75]

I've never seen BSG before, but have heard good things about it. I was thinking I'd start trying to catch some eps. but I have a question. Would someone who has never seen it before, be totally lost? Some shows it seems each ep stands on it's own (Star Trek), but others you really want to get in on the "ground floor" (Lost). Where would you put BSG? And also is Season one available on DVD yet?

More Babylon 5 is regards to story arc. It helps to see them all.

I'll run it down for you.

Cylons Attack, humans run, throw in a shot of the hot cylon chick, repeat.

The DVD should be out shortly, sometime this month.

 

[fett527]

Just watched the beginning and had to post.

Best BSG beginning evar. The chief running his hands over the trashed Viper juxtaposed with his memories of Sharon- awesome!

 

[Truth Seeker]

Just watched the beginning and had to post.

Best BSG beginning evar. The chief running his hands over the trashed Viper juxtaposed with his memories of Sharon- awesome!

Wait to next week...

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Very cool. Can't wait for next week and the return of the Pegasus! Where'd they get so many Vipers, though? They were down to 12 at Kobol ... and it looked like they had about 40.

 

[Steve Jung]

The CAG roster on the Sci-Fi website has 12 active Vipers and 23 down for repair. But that was last updated last season.

 

[wingsandsword]

My thoughts on the episode.

1. Cylons aren't immune to their own viruses, I guess they never expected to have to deal with that, or not from the humans at least?

2. Humano-Cylons can apparently physically interface with computers via fiber-optic cables, although it's clear they aren't meant to do it under normal circumstances. Since they appear identical to humans except under the closest possible analysis, they probably have some kind of organic cells that are light sensitive/bioluminescent that can interface with the hardware.

3. The Colonials now have a stealth fighter, I wonder how it will play out. It's built for speed, very hard to spot on dradis, and apparently quite hard to handle. Not a dogfighter, but an excellent recon/scout ship. With the apparent success of the prototype we may be seeing a small number of others built.

4. Roslin has less than a month to live now, on the order of a few weeks, she'll probably be functional right up to the end, unless the cancer spreads to her brain. Barring a true miracle, she won't live to the end of the season. We better get used to the idea of Baltar as President of the Twelve Colonies.

5. Destroying a cylon armada and building the first of a new class of fighter seems to have given the fleet a real morale boost, something they haven't had since this really began. This is one of the few BSG episodes to really end on an unblemished "up" moment.

6. Boomer sabotaging their fleet means that the Cylons are willing to go to truly herculean lengths to convince the Colonials of Boomers sincerity (sacrificing hundreds of fighters, and letting their virus get completely purged when they had the Fleet really on the ropes), or there really are multiple factions within the Cylons who have different, possibly conflicting, plans. If it is a ruse, they pretty clearly want the fleet (or Galactica at least) alive, possibly to find Earth for them (my personal theory is that the Cylons want to find Earth too, and are trying to make the Prophecy come true, but not to destroy Earth, but in the hopes they find humans who share their religious beliefs).

7. Notice that Tigh took a jar of "solvent" (i.e. moonshine alcohol from Tyrol's still) for himself?

8. Tigh also seems to make every wrong decision (stop the fighter production, take the moonshine, try to shoot Boomer as she's shutting down the Cylon fleet), if they ever make a BSG d20 game, he better have a Wisdom penalty, he seems to be a textbook case of a low wisdom.

9. While I do miss the "Cylon Occupied Caprica" interludes, this episode, like the rest of BSG, just seemed to exude quality. The good acting, good writing, and just generally fine drama and sci-fi there is like always a breath of fresh air on TV.

 

[Truth Seeker]

In other words...where is my kneelex

EXCELLENT!!!!!

 

[aceofgames]

What this episode made me realize, is how long Galactica has been out of the 12 colonies...
This episode had a few references to the time frame... a few months. Its hard to believe, for me at least...
Also, I happen to always doubt every thing any cylon does on the show. It either is a lie, a half-truth, or is just part of a greater part of a greater part, etc.