3rd Seaosn Battlestar Galactica - The Eye of Jupiter - 5 star poll

"The Eye of Jupiter"
12-15-06 BSG

pv+usenet...

3.0. I hear when you find the eye of jupiter you pop it in an available eye
socket and blow people up. *

Beth...

I thought the blinking red light was the detonator for the charges we
saw Callie ring around the pillars.

Dropping The Helicopter...

I love it when A Plan comes together.

Tony Calguire...

If the 12 colonies went one way out of Kobol, and the 13th tribe went a
different way, toward Earth, how come the Colonial scriptures have a record
of the 13th tribe's journey? Perhaps the 13ers sent one of those annoying
Christmas letters back to the other 12?

Clell Harmon...

The same question came to me as I was watching. Oh and do you suppose
that the 'eye of jupiter' might be that big honking circular think on
the main pillar? Sheesh.

dm...

3.5 stars

The good: moves the story arc forward

The not so good:
1) Soap Opera city. Triangles, quadrangles, jeez.

cloud dreamer...

I have to wonder if they focused on this cause Dee and Sam are gonna
bite the big one in the next episode...

CatPanDaddy...

I just want to say this about "soap opera" observations:

In a real soap opera, we get every detail of multiple plot lines without any
skipped days, thus the events of half a week fill up a month or so.

In BGS, the events of a year were summarized in a few eps.

I know which is less taxing on me, personally.

2) I wasn't one of the Kara naysayers, but by the end, I wanted her
to shut the frack up and didn't care whether she is rescued
3) Seems like Laura phoned this one in. Adama/Tigh: exposition,
exposition, exposition. Laura: "that *is* odd" Okay, they didn't
give her much to work with this episode.
4) Cavil: getting tired of his repetitive schtick: [in his preaching
pose] "...we're missing the big picture...".
5) Not much better from Helo and Sharon. Just totally flat. Also
thought the whole Baltar-D'anna-6 scenes felt flat.

At least Adama had a decent slow boil going on the Hera thing, but
wasn't he in the know?? Time to review S2.5.

On Tyrol seeking the temple: is he a Cylon? Or just part of
"God's Will"? Haven't seen such a chubby Cylon to date.

muzicmakr...

I figured Chief is the chosen one.

RT...

Well, he did find the temple...

5 stars (Zeus)

0-1 stars (Odin)

jewahe...

solid 3.0. Not a bad episode, for the most part. As I've said before,
they do better when they follow a multi-show story arc.

Jaime M. de Castellvi...

I'm still not entirely clear on why the Cylon raiders may not be
recalled. Also, the meeting with the Cylons at the beginning was
dealt rather perfunctorily. Nobody really tried very hard, which was
odd, given the stakes.

Zombie Elvis...

D'Anna won't let them be recalled because she's convinced that the
version of her which is sleeping with Baltar is the "chosen one."

kenm47...

1.0

For the contrails in atmosphere.

Pretentious claptrap. No direction home.

Ken (Brooklyn)

furious.2...

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cloud dreamer...

4.3

I have a feeling I'm going to like the second part.

Zombie Elvis...

As much as I keep saying I hate cliffhangers, I keep falling for good
ones like this one.

stocksami...

4.95

Great episode!, The best one of the season. Fascinating developments
on the ground and in the Cylon base ship plus Sharon finds out about
Hera. This is a real Mexican standoff. How do they get out of this?
I'm betting that Adam has some kind of plan, I just can't imagine what
it is.

My power was out on Friday as I lost power in the great Seattle
windstorm. I just watched this episode on Itunes. It looked great on
my PC. I do have the top of the line Gateway wide screen which is also
a HDTV.

Fred Ellis...

I give this episode 5 Stars. Beside being an excellent episode I found
the following lines quite very amusing.

There is the scene where Baltar has just said he misses being on

Obveeus...

You response makes zero sense. Next time, read the whole way through the
question instead of stopping half way and then trying to respond to
something other than what was being asked.

The 'what is wrong with this universe' question was directly tied to *where*
they are finding inhabitable planets. The odds of the only inhabitalbe
planets all being in really weird areas of space is the 'logic' problem that
was being addressed.

Adam Russell...

I think you are equating unlikely with illogical. If I read a story where
our hero flips a coin 1000 times and it comes up heads 999 that is not an
indication of an illogical storyline but of a fixed coin. It is only
illogical if you assume that the coin could not possibly be fixed. As
Baltar asserted: "Since the unlikelyhood of
humans, cylons, and a supernova finding this planet at almost the exact same
time borders on the impossible, we must examine the possibility that it was
fated to happen". Baltar was right. Their fate is directed, either by The
Gods, or by some other force.

Earl Greida...

Wasn't it Felix that made the pseudo-religious connection? He noticed the
pattern indicated the star was unstable. I don't think the Cylons know yet
that the star is soon going out. Maybe we will see Galactica jump out just
as the star goes nova and incinerates the Cylons.

Obveeus...

If you read upthread you will notice that I pointed out specifically that
'fate' was used as a plot device by the characters to explain away to the
audience the farcical nature of what went on in this episode.

It's the Principle!...

I think they're using fate as synonymous with prophecy, and it's not
right.

Citroen...

Why not? The original BSG had higher powers meddling with the
character's lives. If those higher powers exist outside the space-time
of the story then they would have the right perspective for prophecy.
Star Trek used Q like entities all the time and Star Wars had the
mystical Force which was (originally) religious in nature.

Joetheone...

Being as how the only inhabitable planet we know anything about, even the
existence of. Discussion of odds on where they'll be is or under what
conditions is completely pointless. Anything, litearally, is possible. Any
speculation is based on ignorance.

Galactica and Six says “You know you can’t return. They’d toss you out
the nearest airlock and then throw a party.”

I also found Brother Cavil’s words extremely hilarious when after he
offers to throw in Baltar for the Eye of Jupiter he says “And besides I
suspect that the Admiral and Madame President would enjoy some quiet
private time with their former leader.”

Fred Ellis

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