BattleStar Galactica:Season 3.0--12/08/06--Arc 9

[wingsandsword]

My major question is why does Kat have to die? A very small amount of Cylon blood was able to cure Laura's Terminal Cancer.

Couldn't regular transfusions to of Sharon's blood, help keep Kat alive.

Because ther is a world of difference between radiation poisoning and cancer?

Radiation poisoning is having many of the cells in your body, throughout your body, killed by powerful ionizing radiation. Before her final flight she was already losing her hair, meaning she had taken a dangerously high dose already, before her final flight.

Cancer is an irregular growth in the body that could be checked by the immune system. The treatment was also based on using cylon stem cells from the human/cylon hybrid fetus to augment the immune system to be able to fight cancer, not using mature blood from a humanoid cylon to repair the massive cell death from heavy doses of ionizing radiation, big difference there especially since they don't exactly have the best scientific facilities in the galaxy at their disposal.

A treatment for cancer is radically different than a treatment for massive radiation poisoning.

Cylon blood isn't some magical Heal Potion, if it was I think Athena would be regularly stopping by Doc Cottle to bank it for cure-all use, and even if it was, it was Baltar who figured out how to use it, and they don't exactly have access to him right now (and if they did they likely wouldn't trust him).

 

[Spatula]

My major question is why does Kat have to die? A very small amount of Cylon blood was able to cure Laura's Terminal Cancer.

Couldn't regular transfusions to of Sharon's blood, help keep Kat alive.

That wasn't cylon blood, that was human-cylon hybrid blood from the fetus.

 

[mmu1]

I thought this was one of the worst episodes. The only good thing was that they still advanced the plot on their search for Earth - at least a little bit.

However, everything else about it was a mess.

To begin with, this is the third episode in the series in which they're racing against time because they've run out of something - it was water and fuel before, now it was food. It's disappointing that the writers couldn't come up with anything better.

Second, if they were going to reuse an already tired plot device, you'd think they'd have tried to do a better job of selling it - I didn't find the need for the over-complicated trip through the "star cluster" convincing at all, and the amount of "Star Trek Science" it ended up introducing into the show certainly didn't help the episode any.

Third - considering everything else that's happened so far, the "revelation" that Kat used to be a drug runner hardly carried any emotional weight at all. Two or three episodes ago, we were dealing with genocide. Before that, we've had main characters lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, deserting, disobeying orders, losing loved ones and newborn children... We also had rape, torture, executions, secret tribunals and death squads in the night. So frankly, who gives a flying... frack... that Kat used to be a drug runner? The fact Starbuck the headcase ended up pushing Kat towards suicide was a lot more powerful, but that's not what the story centered on.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Alright, I know it was a computer game refrence, I just don't know which game...

Anyway, the RTF gets more rag tag all the time. I did not get to see this episode, as my schedule kept me away from the tube Friday. But from what I've read Hot Dog, Kat and a couple of ships all went down.

Jane Espenson wrote this one and she used to write for Buffy. I read somewhere that she compared writing for this show to being a follow-up performance to the Beetles.

Finally, the food issue was addressed.

 

[Joker]

Finally, the food issue was addressed.

Algea for everyone!!

 

[Jeremy]

Eating the same goop every day...

 

[D.Shaffer]

Eating the same goop every day...

Is still better then starving to death.
The bigger issue is how will they survive without paper? You cant run society without reams and reams of paper.

 

[Joker]

Eating the same goop every day...

Ah, you uncultured barbarian. Think of all the things you can do with algea.

-Algea with salt
-Algea with pepper
-Salt with pepper
-Salt with algea
-Pepper with algea
-Soaked algea (with salt and/or pepper)
-Fried algea
-Cooked algea
-Baked algea
-Algea soup
-Algea Gumbo
-Grilled Algea burgers
-Algea ice cream

etcetera, etcetera.

 

[IcyCool]

Alright, I know it was a computer game refrence, I just don't know which game...

Oops, sorry, I thought you were joking about not knowing. The game we were referencing is the old arcade Gauntlet game.

 

[atom crash]

To begin with, this is the third episode in the series in which they're racing against time because they've run out of something - it was water and fuel before, now it was food. It's disappointing that the writers couldn't come up with anything better.

Second, if they were going to reuse an already tired plot device, you'd think they'd have tried to do a better job of selling it - I didn't find the need for the over-complicated trip through the "star cluster" convincing at all, and the amount of "Star Trek Science" it ended up introducing into the show certainly didn't help the episode any.

The fleet burned a lot of resources in settling on New Caprica. When they escaped, they didn't take everything with them. They are constantly on the move again, and it is conceivable -- and highly probable -- that they'd continue to run out of supplies in their mad flight away from the Cylons as they follow a haphazard course toward a fabled destination called Earth.

Heck, it's conceivable as well as probable that they'd keep running out of the same thing.

I appreciate the fact that the writers keep reminding us that this fleet has some serious problems stacked against it. It's not enough to just flash the slowly dwindling head count at the opening title sequence of each episode. We get to see a few of those casualties each week. It helps drive the tone of the show home, again and again. YMMV.

My criticism of this episode is that finally Kat became a more interesting and detailed character to me, and I was finally given a reason to sympathize/empathize with her, only to watch her die in the end. I felt a bit cheated because of it, because now I care a little more about a character that won't be back.