Well my fellow Colonials tonight is the last new episode of season two until JANUARY! Unfortunatley if I give you so much as the episode title I will be giving you a spoiler, not that fans of the show, no matter how hard they try to avoid spoilers, don't know what the big surprise is. Okay, here's the deal. I am going to talk about tonight's episode and I am going to reveal a few things that are common knowledge among the regular viewers. I promise not to give away specific details that have fallen upon mine eye. So, and without further adiue we move on to discussing tonight's episode...
MINOR SPOLIERS AHEAD! Read no furhter if you don't want to know anything.
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Tonight's episode is PEGASUS
What does TV Guide say?
The series’ summer voyage ends with the startling discovery of a second battlestar, flying under the command of Adm. Cain (Michelle Forbes). Inspired by “The Living Legend” episode of the original Galactica (featuring Lloyd Bridges as Cain), this tale chronicles the crew’s surprise encounter with the Pegasus, a battlestar originally thought to have been a casualty of the Cylon attack. Unfortunately, the joyous reunion quickly turns into a bitter rivalry when Cain takes control of the fleet away from Adama and takes Col Tigh's still back to the Pegasus.
Star Trek fans will remember Michelle Forbes played Ensign Ro Laren. She joined the crew of the U.S.S Enterprise in the fifth season of the series as a troubled young Bajoran officer who had been court-martialled for disobeying orders on an away mission that led to eight deaths. In Ensign Ro, she is given her freedom and a pardon in exchange for going on a secret mission to help stop dissident raids to protect a treaty with Cardasia. Her character was intoduced in the Next Generation series and designed to help help launch the new Deep Space Nine series. Tonight you will see her as the legendary Admiral Cain and she's sporting a mullet to boot!
From the original series The Living Legend two parter was hailed by fans as the best. Lloyd Bridges played the legendary Commander Cain and he was all fight. With two battlestars Cain feels that the Colonials can bloody the nose of the Cylons by taking out some Cylon Base Stars. Adama feels that the plan is much too risky and that they should just capture Cylon fuel ships to refukle the fleet and keep running. Cain feels that Adama is a big pussy and instead of capturing the fuel ships Cain blows them up. Now they have to attack and Cain charges three Base Stars to buy the fleet the time they need. Cain launches his missles and in the resulting explosions the Pegasus is assumed lost... or is it. If you see any of the original series episodes The Living Legend two parter is a must see. That and the episode with the Cylon that thinks he's a cowboy. That episode ruled!
From the spoilers that I have blundered into the new Pegasus storyline is going to have some similarities, but also major differences. The story arc will also run for more that two episodes. I am really looking forward to tonight, but it's going to be bitter sweet because this is a cliff hanger with part two over three months away! The three words I hate the most are "TO BE CONTINUED!"
So say we all.
Good god the crew of the Pegasus is a bunch of fucking assholes. I don't quite know how the cliffhanger is going to resolve itself, but I'm ready for January to get here ... now!
(I'm also dreading the cliffhanger that they're going to end this season with!)
Posted by: Malnurtured Snay on September 23, 2005 11:13 PMBunch of assholes is right!
GREAT episode, how could I ever doubt?
It's going to be a looong winter...
Posted by: mm on September 23, 2005 11:39 PMI know you hard-core fans are bummed about the long wait until new episodes, but this will give me a chance to catch up. I have been watching my tapes (ok, dvds now, recorded off the air, ok, cable).
Things I like about the new Battlestar Galactica:
1. "All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again." Interesting philosophy, especially for characters in a remake of an older tv show. It works on many levels.
2. Every scrap of paper is octagonal.
3. Bodie Olmos is hot.
4. Ditto Jamie Bamber.
5. I'll watch anything with Michelle Forbes in it.
6. Oh, yeah, and the scene on Kobol when they found the "map" to Earth. That was a neat idea.
Posted by: Thomas G. Atkinson on September 24, 2005 01:55 AMOMG! Okay, for just a few minutes I was thinking that having another Battlestar in the fleet was going to be a great idea. BUT, that was until the Pegasus crew turned out to be the biggest bunch of jar-head ass-hats to ever crew a spaceship. To say that Admiral Cain is a major league beeeee-OTCH is an understatement and I so want her DEE EEE EH DEEE DEAD! Somebody please pop a cap in her head and give command of the Pegasus to Starbuck, but not, under any circumstance give her to Col. Tigh. This episode had me very tense and the Cylon Sharon interogation/rape scene had me in a ball on the couch holding a pillow pressed to my chest. When the show went to commercial after that scene I was rocking back and forth and muttering, "please can I just have a space battle with Vipers and Raiders in a big dogfight? Please... just a space battle please. That's all I'm asking." Steve-o was laughing hysterically at me, but I can say in all honesty that I was very serious. Tense, tense, tense. Talk about meeting the enemy and they are us! And that cliffhanger ending!! Waiting three and a half months is going to be aytch eeee double toothpick. So say we all.
PS, I think I will have much more to say after I watch this episode again and can stop my head from spinning.
BSG continues to surprise me each and every week
Posted by: Will Burnham on September 24, 2005 02:13 AMI don't think Pegasus will be with the fleet after the concluding episode -- I think some of the characters (notably the CAG and the other pilot who had a speaking line, didn't get his name) will become semi-regulars.
Posted by: Malnurtured Snay on September 24, 2005 02:16 AMI think this episode points up Adama's question from earlier in the series, along the lines of "Is humanity worth saving?" -- the Pegasus crew seem to represent humans at our worst.
The power struggle between the two crews recalls Apollo's observation that if they don't follow their own laws, then "You're not a Commander, I'm not a Captain..."
Cain's "broad discretionary powers in wartime" are arguably within her rights, and maybe even understandable given the circumstances (the virtual Number Six's "oh, god, look what they've done to me" rang a little hollow when thinking of what she'd done to the Colonies) -- but there's no question that Cain is a bad leader.
It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Posted by: Thomas G. Atkinson on September 25, 2005 03:39 AM