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3rd Season Battlestar Galactica - Exodus 2 - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !
21 Oct 2006 07:35:35 -0700
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"Exodus 2"
10-20-06 BSG
dm...
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4.5 stars
The good:
Ellen's last moments.
Juxtaposing Tigh and Kara's grief to offset what otherwise could
have been a standard after the victory scene.
Galactica jumping into the planet's atmosphere!
The less good:
Obvious Lee to the rescue scene.
Could have been near-perfect. Just felt a bit rushed. As has the
whole arc so far.
Excellent episode.
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5 stars (10 commandments)
0-1 stars (golden calf)
stocksami...
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5.0
The best episode yet.
You knew that the escape had to work and somehow the Pegasus would come
to the rescue, but it was still great. You don't know who's going to
live and you could feel what the characters were going through. The
battle tactics were great and really "out of the box".
I didn't think it was necessary to get rid of Ellen because the escape
attempt was about to begin and they would either succeed or all was
lost. Punishment for her could have waited.
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cloud dreamer...
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5 (The Criminal Code of Canada)
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Joetheone...
Alane...
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4.8
I liked this one a lot. It reminded me of an old WWII movie where not
everyone made it back.
One thing -- I listened to Ron Moore's podcast, and he was boasting a
bit over fooling viewers over Kacy being Kara's daughter. I'm sure I'm
not the only one who figured it couldn't be as easy as mixing Cylon
sperm and human egg in a petrie dish to produce a child. Otherwise, the
baby Hera wouldn't be so valued.
Beowulf Bolt...
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Besides which, Kacey was visibly significantly older than Hera
(considering that Helo's Sharon was preggers long before Starbuck ended
up in that medical facility). While I hadn't specifically twigged to
the deception, I knew that something was wrong in that department since
Kacey was wa-a-ay older than both Hera and the timeline permitted.
(For that matter, Hera looks rather too young for her supposed age -
Mark Nobles...
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That might work for a while, but they would have to find a source of
tylium and build a refinery to process it into fuel. I think that it
would be a remarkable coincidence that the world they happened to find
that was shielded from cylon detection also has tylium. From what we've
seen, tylium is a rare and valuable resource - otherwise there wouldn't
have been the refinery they raided before that was so far from the
Colonies.
On the other hand, if they are using only native materials as their
energy source, it seems like burning wood in 55-gal drums is about as
low-efficiency a process as you can come up with.
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about 15 or so months. Mind you, and to diminish my own argument about
Kacey, I've pretty much come to grips that the Cyclons are going to use
some sort of force-growing tech to mature her to a more useful age. As
a baby she is practically useless to the series.)
David B...
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Hera was born premature. Wouldn't that retard her growth a bit?
Beowulf Bolt...
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She might well be small for her size, but at approx. 15 months she
should yet be capable of walking, and learning her first words. What
we've been seeing, however, still looks to be a babe-in-arms of about 6
months age.
Biff
/has two kids
//wife runs a dayhome
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stocksami...
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I agree, Hera looks way too young. My grandson was talking at that
age. He's now 6 and hasn't stopped talking since.
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massello...
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The relative ages of Hera and Kacey never made sense to me. Kacey was
obviously much older than Hera, but Sharon A got pregnant before Kara's
stay at the farm. I suppose you could explain the discrepancy with some
kind of accelerated gestation, but that seems unlikely given Leoben's
statement that Kara's fertilized egg had been implanted in a human
woman. And as others have pointed out, human-cylon hybrids are
apparently very hard to create, so why let one enter a household in
which mommy stabs daddy every weekend? The most logical conclusion was
always that Leoben had exploited Kara's vulnerable psychological state
to stain her mind with another one of his multitudinous lies.
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Kara's and Tigh's return to Galactica seemed the most bittersweet, and
both actors were good in their moments.
I've read some criticisms that the reset button has been pushed, but I don't
see that at all. One thing that Moore has emphasized since the beginning of
BreadWithSpam...
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That'll only be the case if next week, and the week after,
nobody's changed. Take a look. *Everything* has changed.
Sure, it's the rag-tag fleet again, with Adama the military
commander, and most of his original crew back on the ship.
But every one of them is a vastly different person now, and
this show has, more than anything else, been about those
people, their conflicts and how they evolve.
We've already been hinted in, based on previews for next
week shown at the end of the episode, that the actions of
collaborators on New Caprica are going to come back to
haunt folks. We have lots of bit of plot and development
which were started and have a long ways to go.
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the show is that he didn't want to be like the 'Star Trek' universe where
everything was hunky-dory the next week. There are consequences.
He even said in last night's podcast that the battle damage inside the ship
would remain visible for weeks to come. Cleaning up scorch marks won't be
the first priority.
Wildcat3...
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Galactica *still* has the burn marks she got from being hit by the nuke
in the miniseries. When you're job is protecting the entire Human race,
polishing the brass isn't that important.
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Christopher Basken...
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5 stars. More if I could.
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Gio...
Stephen Adams...
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4.97
Almost perfect! But I hope they can get even better, so I reserve
.03 for that purpose!
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jay...
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4.8 stars.
One of BSG's greatest strengths is its merciless
defiance of cliche, so when a major part of the plot
Ian Galbraith...
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Merciless defiance of cliche? So the cliffhangers at every break in the
program are not cliches?
jay...
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No. Except, of course, when they are.
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revolves around such an agonizingly tired,
groan-worthy one like Lee unexpectedly showing up
with the Pegasus at the last minute, the episode in
question is precluded from a perfect score. Still, the
rest was strong enough not to knock off an entire
star.
Like at least one other recent episode, I had the
impression that time considerations meant this one
losing a lot of footage.
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Victor Velazquez...
kenm47...
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2.5
I thought it a serviceable part 2 bridge episode. Otherwise, not so
great.
I have to admit, the whole baby/kid stuff is just not grabbing me; if
anything the chosen one baby stuff is alienating me.
I expect like "The 4400," the "special one" will have an accelerated
growth spurt and be someone's seductress soon enough.
Since Pegasus was the more modern ship, the wrong Battlestar bit the
dust.
Brian Thorn...
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That's why Pegasus was supposed to stay with the fleet and not go on
the rescue mission... leave the better battlestar to protect the
fleet.
kenm47...
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OK. I get it.
Ken (Brooklyn)
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Joetheone...
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Of course. A father protecting the life of his son had nothing to do with
it.
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Christopher Basken...
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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
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Mike Jacoubowsky...
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Technology doesn't seem to be the key to getting ahead in this series.
That's been the case from the very beginning of this series.
Mark Nobles...
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"Love. You can know all the math in the 'Verse, but take a boat in the
air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of
cloud dreamer...
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And I see this NC arc as answering the question as to why they just
don't find a rock and settle. They know now that that isn't a question
easily settled and not one to be settled until they are a hundred
percent certain that the cylons are no longer a threat.
Mark Nobles...
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It also explains why the cylons have to keep pursuing the RTF and can't
just say "Good riddance to bad rubbish" and get on with their
rebuilding. As long as there are any human survivors, there is always
the certainty that someday they shall return for vengeance.
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worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya
she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her home." - Malcolm Reynolds
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Yes, the atmospheric deployment and FTL leap was nicely done.
Araxen...
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That's why the tried to initially do but it didn't end up that way as
Lee did come back and help.
They needed more time and the Pegasus could give that more time. BSG
couldn't take anymore damage than it already has.
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Can't say I get why the Cylons turned tail and ran on New Caprica and
above.
Ken (Brooklyn)
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David B...
Ken from Chicago...
Victor Velazquez...
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Isn't that why the Cylons fear the humans? For whatever reason (violent
natures, adaptability, etc.), humans kick ass (making the Cylons relatively
fragile and slow-witted).
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Zombie Elvis...
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