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BSG 2x11 Resurrection Ship Pt. I $$$$
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] One word description: Hot <em>Damn</em>! Okay, two, bite me. Where we left off with September's "<em><a href="http://malnurturedsnay.net/?p=1216">Pegasus</a></em>": having rendezvoused with a second, surviving Battlestar, tensions between the two military crews quickly rise to a tension which snaps when <em>Galactica</em>'s Tyrol & Helo kill a <em>Pegasus</em> officer in the course of preventing the rape of the Cylon prisoner, Sharon II. The episode ends with Adama scrambling his Vipers to attack <em>Pegasus</em>, and <em>Pegasus</em>' Vipers scrambling in response. <em>Resurrection Ship Pt. 1</em> opens as both ships' fighters close on each other. <em>Galactica</em> has a handful of old, obsolete Viper Mark IIs. <em>Pegasus</em> has squadrons of the new, top-of-the-line Mark VIIs. When both Adama and Cain refuse to give their pilots the go-ahead to fire, the Mark IIs get a sound thrashing by the much more manuverable Mark VIIs, whose pilots seem to enjoy playing chicken with their opponents. Thankfully, a little bit of deception on the part of Starbuck & Apollo defuses tensions -- "Can't we all ... be <em>friendly</em>?!" -- although, of course, neither Adama or Cain are quite willing to "forgive and forget." I was actually reminded a bit of one of the last episodes of <em>Deep Space Nine</em>, where the Klingon Empire is all that stands between the Alpha Quadrant and the Dominion. The Klingon Chancellor, Gowron, more concerned with his own political future, is squandering the strained resources of the Empire, and it is Cmdr. Sisko who urges Worf to assassinate Gowron to preserve the future of the Quadrant. In an episode the prior season, Sisko wrestled with his inner-demons after being inadvertently involved in the assassination of a Romulan Senator -- an assassination which brough the Romulans into the war as an ally of the Federation. Over the course of a year I guess he recognized the benefits of assassination as a means to an end. Similarly, I think most folks who've been watching BSG for the last year knew with the introduction of Admiral Cain that she would have to go. The fleet isn't big enough for both her and Adama, and over the course of the last two episodes we've seen enough to come to the unavoidable conclusion that she is absolutely bat-shit insane. She's executed her own officers, ordered gang-rapes, and abandoned defenseless civilians when they could not meet her needs. Her judgement took a one-way trip to the toilet, and her beating heart needs to take a one-way trip out an airlock. Thankfully, both Roslin and Adama have come to the same conclusion by the end of "<em>Resurrection Ship Pt. 1</em>" ... <em>Cain has to die</em>. She's not interested in survival, she's interested in vengeance, and that will bring death to the 50,000 survivors of the fleet. Of course, Cain isn't exactly cool with leaving Adama in command of <em>Galactica</em> -- she knows that although her own ship is more powerful, an armed conflict would leave <em>Pegasus</em> badly hurt. Seriously, after the cliff-ending of the season break, I really didn't see how any ending could beat it -- turns out, having Cain plot Adama's assassination intercut with Adama planning Cain's works pretty well. The episode doesn't move all that quickly at times -- time is spent reintroducing the main and supporting characters -- Dualla and Billy are not-so-noticeably absent, not because they're unimportant characters, but because there's just <em>so much</em> going on. I get the feeling the concluding episode of this chapter is going to be just as busy and frenetic. <em>I. Can't. Frakking. Wait. </em> Baseless Speculation for Next Episode: *It's Gina who kills Cain (perhaps after she's already been relieved by <em>Pegasus</em> officers who are tired of her insanity). *Frisk is already plotting against Cain -- the Marines he handpicked are loyal to him, and won't act against Adama. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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