Battlestar Galactica Recap 4-6
Faith
We are at 39,675. You know maybe humanity should start a few more of those love cults like Gaius Baltar has going.
Hey, a Nana Visitor sighting! Good to see you, girl. I don’t know whether to be sadder that her character is dying of cancer or that she’s drinking the Baltar Kool-Aid. Roslin tries to shut off the patient’s radio and she freaks out.
SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal
Baltar talks about a “river” that separates this world from the next, interesting because both Roslin and her friend dream about the river. Roslin sees her dead mother on the other side and tells mom she’s not ready yet.
On board the Demetrius a mutiny is underway. A melee ensues ending with Anders shooting Gaeta in the leg. After the gunplay they reach a compromise. Demetrius will head back for the rendezvous with Galactica while Starbuck and Leoben go talk to the Hybrid. Helo decides they’ll wait on Starbuck for 15 hours. Gaeta may lose his leg though, and he asks Helo to make sure Doc Cottle doesn’t take it. I don’t think Helo’s orders override gangrene but that’s the kind of macho stuff guys say.
Starbuck takes Anders, Athena and Leoben to the Cylon baseship. Other Eight models want Athena to lead them, because they’re tired of the Sixes’ leadership. Athena tells them she’s disgusted by them, because once you pick a side you stick with it.
The Cylons aren’t happy about helping humans but Athena will fix their ship if they share the Hybrid’s wisdom, such as it is. Athena communicates with the ship and Anders thinks about it but doesn’t want to call attention to his Cylon-ness. They took a nondescript crew member with them and she had killed a Six on New Caprica. She and one of the Sixes get into an argument and the crew member threatens to kill the Six again. What’d she do that for? The Six beats her to death.
This busts the uneasy truce and Anders wants to shoot the Six in retaliation. After Starbuck talks him down, Natalie Six kills her sister. There’s no resurrection ship near, so she’s really gone.
At long last, the message from the Hybrid.
“Thus will it come to pass. A dying leader who will know the truth of the opera house. The missing three will give you the five who have come from the home of the 13th. You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace. You will lead them all to their end. End of line.”
Believe it or not, that is the least confusing thing the Hybrid said. Translated by the cast, the dying leader is President Laura Roslin. The missing three is D’Anna Biers, who you’ll remember saw the Final Five before Cavil had her boxed. The Five supposedly come from the 13th colony, or Earth. Thus they should know where to find it. Well gee, just ask Anders! Oh wait, they don’t know yet. Leoben seemed to, though. The plot thickens.
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2 opinions for Battlestar Galactica Recap 4-6
Brian Layman
May 14, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Awk! I knew I knew that voice… The nearest I could get was Jackie, Roseannne Bar’s thin sister, but I knew that wasn’t right… Kudos to Nana
john
May 20, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Nana Vistior was looking rough i hope that was just makeup not reality. Love it the women fight each other and when a Cylon kills themselves.
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