If this episode represents what RDM has said will be bad times ahead, then we are doomed.
The fleet has fallen into total disarray, crushed by learning the planet Earth is dead, nuked 2,000 years ago. They care nothing for protocols, keeping the ship tight and clean, showing respect to each other or to the military. The people have lost hope, lost direction, lost faith, lost their leaders, particularly Roslin.
Adama is popping pills, looking terrible, listless, no longer certain of anything. Roslin trashes her medicines and takes a Ferris Bueller day off from worry on the office of the Presidency. Kara looks like she has lost her best friend. Chief discovers he is not the father of Nicky, that Callie was unfaithful to him. She carried Hot Dog’s child and pawned it off as the child of the Chief. Which, by the way, where is the evidence of this affair between Callie and Hot Dog in previous episodes. Comes across more like a plot device. Zarack strikes when it’s hot, causing dissension between the Quorum and the authority of Roslin/Adama. Gaeta is in a rage.
In the ensuing chaos, there were light moments.
Dr. Cottle, the old codger. Cylon or human doesn’t matter. He’ll offer you a cup of gritty sarcasm, laced with facts as he sees them. Take it or leave it, but please be amused. He’s a joy. He’s a comic relief of heart-wrenching situations.
Watching Tigh and Caprica watching the ultrasound of their child. Caprica’s happiness and yes, the realization that wow, cylons can procreate.
Roslin exercising or exorcizing the doom of cancer. Jogging through the halls of the ship. She’s taking control over her destiny, no longer the minion of Pythia.
Chief not knowing who he is: ours and ours; yours and ours. Am I cylon or am I human. How about you’re just Galen Tyrol, chief. A hundred times better than a lot of humans and cylons. You are you.
However, the gods of evil spirits are rising in the form of a terrible alliance of Gaeta and Zarack. What will befall the fleet with the start of a revolution, an anticipated civil war? The gods know. We will just have to wait for it.
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