Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Eye of Jupiter

Kara feels that marriage is sacred, but has no problem with sleeping around. I hate people who have these kinds of flexible morality. And why is it that on television, characters only ever talk about the morality of what they are doing after they've hooked up three or four times?

Things aren't so happy on the base star either; the happy Cylon threesome is becoming a two-some and Caprica ain't happy about it. I suspect neither is Baltar. The episode shows us that three-legged relationships don't work (the mess of Anders/Apollo/Starbuck/Dualla illustrates this as well). Curious that the original series had some shades of Mormonism, and here BSG is sort of denouncing polygamy. (Not that polygamy is exclusively Mormon, or endorsed by many in the LDS church; that's just my brain making connections.)

So Sharon finally found out about Hera. Is she going to get to see her? Why is she sick?

I don't really have much to say about this episode. For the most part it is all set-up for the next one. Will Baltar end up being "the chosen one"? They certainly hinted at that with his growing of that Jesus beard, and meeting with Hera in his glowing white robe. Are they intentionally making him look like a "messiah"? I like the intercutting at the end of the episode.  And I think it's pretty clear that the Eye of Jupiter is involved with that purple sphere glowing in the sky. I don't really buy that Adama will fire the nukes, though. Something will interfere. It does give them a very "Mr Worf, fire" moment to end the episode on.

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