BSG Two in One

4.08 "Sine Qua Non"

Okay...so...what? What? What? and What?

This episode blew in a way that I was entirely unprepared for. Not only was it on the boring side, but it didn't make a speck of sense either. Adama finds out that Tigh has impregnated Six (I laughed maniacally at that revelation), Tigh doesn't give even a hint of an explanation for his actions, Adama and Tigh have a fist fight, then Adama gives Tigh control of the fleet. That kind of non-logic wouldn't even fly on Heroes where they stick their noses up at reasonable character motivation on a regular basis.

Then they devoted half the episode to Romo Lampkin and his make believe cat essentially reverse-engineering a reason for Lee to be President. (Btw, Lee's name is Leland?!? That pains me.) It's not like we couldn't already tell that that's where they were going with that. I'm feeling more and more this season like they have an end point in mind for each character, but they didn't really know how to get them there with the natural progression of the story so they're going to do a lot of this weird gimmicking to get them into place. Too bad.

Anyway...

4.09 "The Hub"

Now this was better. And by better I mean Awesome. Of course one great episode can never completely make up for sucky episodes that came before, but this season's been shoddy so I guess we should take what we can get.

Roslin and Baltar yelling at the Hybrid was great. Roslin going back and forth about whether or not to let Baltar die was also great (Derrick and I were yelling "Let him die!" at the TV). Helo being sufficiently creeped out by, but also vaguely attracted to the Sharon who's not his wife was great (and it brings up hilarious questions about what really constitutes infidelity). As much as I find Lucy Lawless to be kind of over-the-top campy in everything she does, I enjoyed having D'Anna back. It helped that she killed Cavill quite gleefully. And of course the Roslin/Adama reunion was perfect. They really are lovely and wonderful together. Maybe they won't both be dead by the time the fleet gets to Earth. They just won't be in power and they won't care anymore.

The only thing I found even remotely lacking about this episode was the fact that neither Lee or Kara was around to be involved in the attack on the Hub. Seelix, Redwing and Pike just weren't quite doing it for me. I can't imagine they'll end the series without at least putting one of the two of them back in a cockpit at least once. If fact I wouldn't doubt that Starbuck will die that way.

Oh! I just realized there's one on this week. I'd thought this one had been the last of the "season". Hooray! Hopefully it won't suck.