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"The Oath" - Best Episode in a Long While?
Feb 1, 2009 7:12 PM Are you frakking kidding me?! Episode 3 entitled “The Oath” has been the best episode since at least Season 3 (my fiancé thinks Season 2). I was literally on the edge of my seat and shouted out a few times in excitement… and even got chills at one point. Thank you Ron Moore and David Eik for delivering once again. I absolutely cannot wait for the next episode!
Highlights:
• The cat’s out of the bag the Admiral and the President are shacking up. Tigh came by the Admiral’s quarters at 0620 to deliver paperwork with some fresh coffee…the aroma of which drew Laura out. Tigh gave Bill a fantastic look with his one good eye.
• Gaeta has masterminded the ultimate revolution with the help of sympathetic marines, viper jocks, knuckledraggers, and other enlisteds. Even Racetrack! Zarek pops the new deck chief with a wrench, killing him, and says to Gaeta “That won’t be the last.” That’s the point when we know Gaeta has really stepped over the edge. Luckily for the cylon-sympathizers, one of Baltar’s groupies witnesses the exchange from the shadows and is able to get them mobilized.
• Wow Gaeta – you really did manipulate every situation to your best advantage – false fires, “faulty” sensors, dropped calls.
• Zarek returns to Colonial One and the Quorum is happy to see a return to order. But, Apollo’s gut tells him the Admiral would never have released Zarek.
• Poor Sam! Not only has he lost his pyramid skills, but Seelix still holds a grudge from New Caprica. (She thought something was there, but he didn’t bite). She’s part of the hostile takeover and has the crap kicked out of him.
• Apollo returns to the Galactica and is greeted with a not-so-friendly punch to the stomach. Luckily Starbuck to the rescue.
• The return of kickass Starbuck! My favorite part of the episode was when she didn’t hesitate to shoot the viper pilot who antagonized her in the hangar deck. She said it best when she referred to herself as finally being alive again – she’s been moping for at least a season and it hasn’t been pretty.
• Hera is eating breakfast when Marines storm into Sharon and Helo’s quarters… Uh oh, it’s the guy from Pegasus that Helo beat up and he’s holding a grudge too. People are not to happy these days.
• Kara grabs Lee and kisses him hard! They have such great chemistry.
• We’re about halfway through the episode at this point and I’ve gotten uncomfortable with how easily Gaeta has been manipulating all the incoming information… finally Tigh and the Admiral ask for someone to check out the situation and haul ass back with his findings.
• Lee and Kara sneak their way through the Galactica's corridors – they encounter lots of wounded and sporadic gunfire.
• Crap! The news comes back that the sensors have been jury-rigged and Gaeta frantically orders the Sergeant of the Guard into the CIC… all hell breaks loose. He manages to take control and has the Admiral/Tigh and other senior staff sent to the Brig. On his way out, the Admiral gives a pretty good speech – he’s tells Gaeta he’ll die with nothing.
OK – too busy to finish the recap now – will have to finish it later.
My question to you – do you agree that this was one of the best episodes in a long while??
Katie Kat
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Jan 27, 2009 6:31 PM Hi! I'm Katie Kat and I'm addicted to BSG. There. I've admitted it. I've been blogging about it on my blog here at onsugar, so hop on by and read it and let me know what you think. Warning...there are spoilers there...:)
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Were you able to successfully predict who the fifth and final cylon is? [Spoiler Alert!!]
Jan 17, 2009 2:02 PM Wow. Last night’s season opener really delivered for a number of reasons. Perhaps least of which was the big reveal of the fifth and final cylon model*. I didn’t expect it to come so soon… which actually makes me wonder – was it really necessary to drag it out until this season? I rewatched some of the episodes from last season and it seems like there was quite a bit of filler – like they wanted to progress the storyline, but just didn’t quite have enough content.
Anyway, I digress – back to figuring out our fifth cylon model. Who if you remember correctly, Deanna said “was not in the colonial fleet”. Somehow I missed that detail because I was convinced that the final model had to be someone that we had seen on New Caprica and was probably an officer. If you recall, 4 of the final 5 were on New Caprica during the occupation – Anders, Tyrol, Tigh, and Tori. So, using that logic – I narrowed it down to Lt. Gaeta. Felix didn’t have much of a storyline last season, but he did get his leg amputated and showed off a pretty annoying singing voice. I thought surely the amputation was a short-term thing as he would be “reborn” into a new body sometime in the near future.
But, it was all so wrong! It turns out it certainly was someone on New Caprica, but not the person I thought it was. Ellen Tigh. Wow. The crazy lady who was accused of being a cylon when she made her mysterious reappearance in Season 1. I had totally discounted her, thinking that it had to be one of the central characters… Ellen hasn’t been around much since season 2 (correct me if I’m wrong there). BUT, she sure did play a part last season. Remember when Tigh’s hallucinations wavered between Six and his dead wife when he visited Six in the brig. Kinda makes sense now doesn’t it?? He was already having his flashbacks… but they were much more potent on Earth.
So, fellow BSGers – did you get it right? Did you know it was going to be frakkin’ Ellen Tigh?? Regardless of your answer – what do you think about it? I admit that I was pretty annoyed at the time, although I think it’s grown on me a bit. Plus, I may have just been angry about losing poor D after she and Lee seemed so happy! (Although I’m still a Lee and Starbuck fan).
*Well, at least we’ve been lead to think it’s the final cylon model. There are a lot of theories out there…
mandatedfun
Entertainment Weekly's Cylon "Bracket"
Jan 6, 2009 4:58 PM Are you as excited as I am for the return of Battlestar Galactica in a few short days?
Have some fun filling our your own Cylon bracket to determine who completes the Final Five.
http://www.voxpop.tv/play.html?g=xrta2230000
Share your results!
mandatedfun
Lee Adama - Credible quorum member or meddling in things he doesn't understand?
Apr 22, 2008 4:41 PM Now that Lee has left the military life behind, do you think he's performing a valuable civic duty by joining The Quorum of Twelve, or do you think he's once again meddling in affairs he shouldn't be (similar to his involvement in Baltar's trial)?
He certainly isn't doing himself any favors by continually getting on Roslin's bad side.
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