3rd Season Battlestar Galactica - Exodus 1 - 5 star poll

"Exodus Part 1"
10-13-06 Battlestar Galactica

5 stars (Red Sea, east side)

pv+usenet...

3.0. How come the remote areas seem so much nicer than where they settled?

This whole setup is just weird. Why strand everyone on a planet, move the
whole story forward a year so people get blobby, just to scoop them up and
start the chase again? If they succeed, it's back to galactica as per usual

Ian Galbraith...

To put Baltar in with the Cylons just like the original series.

Ken from Chicago...

Just like Aaron, a SUSPECTED cylon collaborator was left behind on a weapons
depot in the mini-series.

Ian Galbraith...

Yep, this whole subplot has been designed to get Baltar in that position.

(absent Apollo getting in some nautilus time). If they fail, it's game over
because they'll never get another chance to use the civilian transports
again. Just what is going on here? *

0-1 stars (Red Sea, west side)

First-2-Die...

2.5

***The BAD***

Like I said last week, great writing is delivering a great story. Last
week's premiere was a two hour tour de force of self pity and self loathing.
Fine if you like that sort of thing. This week at least got things moving
again to the point we're actually rocking the tires back and forth out of
the rut. We at least know SOMETHING, good or bad, is going to happen to our
intrepid band of castaways next week and they're not just going to walk
around and stare at the mud on their shoes. So things are starting to look
up - but we're not there yet. Not even close.

I thought this week's most pointless and meandering scene was the latest
incarnation of the Baltar-Six stare at the ceiling tryst scene. If I were a
counting man I'd guess we're up to 200 viewings of that one in one form or
another. Dare I use the "b" word here that I got into hot water with
before - but haven't they milked that one about out? It's another one of
those GNDN scenes that threaten to gobble up BG alive if they don't punch
the originality button soon. It added precisely ZERO to the effort - and now
I hear that fluff scenes like that exist at the expense of more crucial
scenes relegated to webcast. Ugh.

So like...

When did the Chief get a haircut and a shave - and why? And why only him?
Battlestar Commanders don't cry. There's no crying in fleet command, Junior!
And why was Orcale Froot Loop licking her paw and spouting pearls of wisdom
begging for candy. Was that the Halloween episode?

***The GOOD***

Most promising plotline is inserting Sharon Agathon into New Abu Ghraib and
the ressurection of the dormant Baby H storyline. Curious to see how that
one explodes in Adama's lap - assuming they stick with it and flesh it out
to a conclusion.

I think Ellen Tigh is not long for this world - er, New Caprica.
At least not as a human.

I think they start putting the galactic battle back in Battlestar Galactica
soon.
Hoo-yah

Red Shirt

stocksami...

5

This is the first 5 I have given. You know they have to succeed, but
you don't know who will live.

stocksami...

Also, what really adds to the anxiety is getting into the story and
feeling what the characters are going through. The show does a good
job in that regard. We know they have to pull off a rescue of some
sort, but the characters don't know that and we can feel their pain.

Christopher Basken...

10 stars.

Gio...

3.5 stars. Please can we get of that mudpool?

muzicmakr...

4.5

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop with Sharon finding out they
lied about her child. Argh, why do we make friends with machines and
then lie to them? It never works out well! (I'm thinking about humans
screwing over Replicators in Stargate.)

Also, what did Six mean when she asked if Baltar knew how much she'd
given up for him? Is that something we're supposed to know and I
missed?

Obveeus...

She was in a position of being 'a star' to the other cylons. She was the
cult leader of sorts. Now, she just looks like some pathetic groupie of a
very unworthy human.

Ron...

I'm guessing that she is the one that got shot in the head for taking
up for Balter in the last episode and now she is an outcast among the
Cylons.

I give it a 5, btw. Can't wait till next week!

jay...

5 stars. Typically perfect episode.

(I suspect Olmos' Henry V speech was probably a bit
longer.)

Hobart Floyt...

Okay, I watched the later airing. I'm not changing my vote.

The first 10 or 15 minutes were a waste, merely
repeating last week's last 10 minutes or so. What
was the point? They should have gotten through it
in 2 minutes.

The rest of the episode was incredibly slow as
Moore & Co seem to mistake character development
with exposition. And it seems it was just repetitive
exposition at that. What's that writer's rule?
"Show, don't tell." And in a visual medium like TV,
the drag of exposition is just worse.

And it was all compounded by the insistence on
the "realistic" documentary camera nonsense which
just makes it hard for the viewer to process the
visual information.

All in all, there was about 10 minutes of new plot
and character development and about 50 minutes
of frittering away.

Obveeus...

4 stars.

The show lost a half star for the strange editing between last episodes view
of Cally running away and this episode's view of Cally running away. Last
episode it looked like she got pushed down an embankment before beginning to
run. This episode, we see her running right from the trucks and being in
the line of fire somehow. I'm sure someone will say that it didn't look
like any discontinuity to them, but it did to me.

urban...

It reminded me unpleasantly of 1940s kiddie movie serials, where the
cliffhanger ending from one episode isn't _quite_ what happens in
the resolution at the beginnning of the next. This is supposed to
be Serious Television Drama(tm), right?

Frank Swarbrick...

Also in the last episode (and the "previously on" part of this episode!)
they show Cally running when she hears the shooting start. But here
they show Tyrol tackling her before the shooting starts.

Kind of cheap way to get out of it, but the rest of the episode was good.

Obveeus...

...and there is always a chance that one Cally was pushed down a hill while
another Cally was sent running towards her hubby.

That is actually what annoyed me about the scene and cost the show half a
star in the ratings. At this point, we can't be 100% sure it was sloppy
editing rather than a subtle hint at multiple Cally existing.

raphfrk...

Also, the NCP guy who cut her hands free was not in the picture.

The show lost the other half star because everyone in the show suddenly was
playing 'gossip about the hybrid child'. Who does the ex-President think

Jack Bohn...

Speaking of whom, why does Starbuck's child look older than
Boomer's?

Jack Bohn...

I'm thinking the Chief's will soon pass them both.

Callie's minivan is the one with the
"My kid beat up your 'Future.'" bumper sticker.

she was fooling? Why is the religious nut (like any religious nut I

Obveeus...

I think the child is not really Starbuck's child. Maybe it is a cylon
model, but maybe it is simply a human that the cylons captured on one of the
original colonies. I'm hoping for a cylon model...that way it gets 'raised'
by Sharon or put in the brig or dumped out an airlock. If it is a real
human, it will need a real family...please, please, please, don't make it
Starbuck's responsibility to care for long term. One of the big problems
with the original BSG was kids.

suppose) not on the side of the human race?

Ctal...

4.5

Good episode that sets up next weeks rescue very well. They lost half
a point for the continuity break around Cally's escape.

Did we ever see what happened to Jammer? I saw him remove his ski mask
but can't recall if we saw him afterwards.

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In a couple of weeks once they are back in space we will see what
happens to Jammer and to other surviving collaborators when the
Colonials hold tribunals.

Obveeus...

They didn't show what happened to him. I'm guessing he just blended in with
the people being rescued. At some point, someone will notice his name isn't
on the list of people that were supposed to be taken out and shot.

raphfrk...

He took his mask off before running ... I wonder if that was so viewers
would know who he is or so there can be a witness.

Stephen Adams...

4.2 - missing some of the story (which is in the podcast).

3rd Season Battlestar Galactica - Exodus 1 - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !