Galactica: A Disquiet Follows My Soul - Things Continue to Get Ugly
I suppose we all knew that things were going to go completely to hell in the last handful of episodes of Galactica. At this point, things are turning so ugly so fast that it makes you almost not even want to turn it on next week, not because the show isn’t still maintaining a high level of quality, but because you just know how painful it’s going to be watching the pathetic remains of the human race pretty much destroy itself over the next 8 or 9 episodes. And is anyone starting to wish that they had gone ahead and tossed Felix Gaeta’s ass out of that airlock a couple of seasons ago?
Thus begins my one of small beefs with A Disquiet Follows My Soul. Gaeta’s turn for the ugly just seems wrong. His apprehension and dissent of the proposed Human/Cylon alliance was understandable and part of the continued development of his character. However, the journey from the Gaeta we knew to the Gaeta that would smirkingly enter in an alliance with convicted terrorist Tom Zarek in a plot that he knows is going to cause countless deaths of innocent people is a little too far of a fall for me to swallow.
In addition to the somewhat inexplicable turning of Gaeta to the dark side, they’ve finally gotten around to at least acknowledging that Tigh retaining his military position on the Galactica is at least a “controversial” move. We could feel the outrage of a colonial fleet on the vergue anti-Cylon mutiny with a single throwaway question at Adama’s press conference. For those keeping score at home, yes that was sarcasm.
I actually like the fact that Tigh remains in his position and still I consider him a compelling character, but on the flip side of this it just seems like a pretty major plot point being glossed over. Of course we could come to learn that it’s more of a sticking point than is being portrayed yet as the impending mutiny against Adama boils to the surface next week. Thanks for that info courtesy of the preview of next week’s episode at the end of the current one.
Now, in the interests of making my review of one episode taking less time to read than actually watching the episode, let’s just hit my bullet point summary.
This time, I’ll just hit on the things that I’m hoping to see in the upcoming few episodes:
• Starbuck needs to pound the crap out of Gaeta. This is a must. After Gaeta’s flippant rude remarks and threats in the galley we just need to give her about 5 minutes locked in a cell sometime with gimpy Gaeta and teach that one legged sonuvabith a lesson in who wears the two-legged pants on that ship.
• Let’s just get the full Roslin Sex Scene ON the screen next time. I understand what you’re thinking. If you were to head down to you local adult video store, the last porn you’re probably going to take home involves Edward James Olmos and a bald Mary McDonnell. However, after four years of utter misery it would be nice to actually see her caught in the act of actually enjoying herself. Let’s see a liquored up Adama lay the wood to her right there on screen.
• Zarek needs to have a slow painful death scene. I am a pacifist at heart. In the real world I abhor violence, war and basically anything that unnecessarily leads to human suffering. However, within the 52 inch rectangle of my lovely Toshiba HD television set, Tom Zarek needs to a have slow, painful, deadly lesson given to him. I vote to let one of the Sharons have at him at some point, though the smart money would probably be on Adama shooting him in the head within the next 2-4 episodes.
• Lee Adama just needs to grow some testicles and learn to manipulate the Quorum the way Zarek does. Geez what a complete wuss.
• Baltar is a drag. Okay, a handful of episodes left, give our beloved masturbating scientist turned religious freak something interesting to do in this final stretch.
• My awesome spin-off idea this week- Doc Cottle M.D.G.D. (Medical Doctor Gods Damnit!). If there’s one thing that I believe I can gather a 100% world-wide consensus on it’s that there is nowhere near enough chain smoking doctors on TV. Any television program we can get started with Cottle counseling patients with a cig hanging from his lips each week is going to be huge. The pilot episode will deal with Cottle defending himself from a lawsuit from one of his patients claiming second hand smoke gave them cancer.
Actor Mark Sheppard reprises his role as lawyer Romo Lamplin to defend him!
My recommendation for BSG fans after this episode is to stop watching immediately. Stop your DVR series recordings, go to a movie on Friday nights for the next couple of months or whatever you have to do. I just don’t see a lot of happy joyous times ahead for our travelers, so I think we’d all be better off spending Friday nights doing something that has a slightly better chance of bringing some happiness. You could take up smoking, for instance!
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January 25th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I have to say I very much agree about Gaeta but at the same time I wonder if we are going to see any type of “reasoning” in relating exactly to Caprica with him being so close to Cylons for so long.
I think I’m more curious about what his ultimate ending will be. My guess is almost certain death but I’m not totally sure on that either.
Also, are the Chief and the pilot going to be co-Dad’s now? Is that what it seemed to otehr people?
January 25th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Ron Moore admitted that they didn’t determine Tyrol was going to be one of the final Cylon’s until after Cally had her baby and it was important that Hera be the only Cylon/Human hybrid, so this whole plot with him not being the kid’s dad was a patch job. I would expect that it won’t be explored much.
January 26th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Ah, okay, I remember thinking about that before. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more of an issue of “Hey, we need more cancer stick smokin doctors!”
January 28th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
The REAL question is four years after the colonies have been nuked…how many damned years of cigarettes were stockpiled on the surviving ships and freighters? If I was one of the colonials that’s where I’d be…the liquor and cigarettes ship.