thing are acquire awesomely ugly on Battlestar Galactica , with the humans squabbling over sex and the Department of Justice organization while their archway - enemies the Cylons march towards all - out bot - on - bot civil war . One of the more stylized , surreal episodes of BSG , last dark ’s “ The Ties that constipate ” was full of eldritch camera angle and blurred - out backgrounds that utterly capture the mental decomposition of several major characters . And one somebody ’s living take a in earnest unexpected turn in a conniption that had me cry “ HOLY CRAP ! ” at my monitor lizard . You guessed it : freebooter dwell forrader .
We begin with Cavil ’s Resurrection of Christ in the Cylon sludge chamber , where a caboodle of his buddies ( including the “ golf stroke balloting ” Sharon ) are toweling him off and getting seriously grumpy about how the Six model got the Centurions to savage the shit out of them . turn out “ swing music vote ” Sharon is doing the nasty with Cavil , and they come out make out even before he ’s scraped all the rebirth sludge off his face . decent .
Sharon calls the Six uprising a flesh of “ cultural cleansing ” because it annihilate all the Cavils and Simons from one of the Cylon ships . We know something bad is going to find when Cavil grins wickedly and replies , “ instruct me to entrust a democracy . ” I love the idea that Cylon society is based on democracy , but one that ’s being destroyed by the religious mania of the Sixes . afterward in the episode , that peak is driven home when Cavil and his buddies trick the Sixes and Sharons into an ambush . Out of range of the Resurrection Ship , they get down bombing the bullshit out of the Sixes , “ really killing them ” as a Sharon puts it .
“ They will have their god to look after their immortal souls , ” observes Cavil .
“ What about ours ? ” expect swing - vote Sharon .
“ We do n’t have souls — we ’re machines , remember ? ” he replies tartly .
Atheist robots against evangelical robots in deep space ! Now we ’re manipulate with gas .
Meanwhile , on Starbuck ’s occult mission to guide for Earth base on her visions , thing are n’t going so well . Starbuck is sweaty most of the sentence , wholly does n’t know where she ’s going , and keeps painting pictures of Earth ’s solar organization on the ceiling of her cabin . I like macho Starbuck , but uncanny art fille Starbuck not so much . Luckily , her angst explodes into some gravely rough , angry sex with Anders .
It may be all nookie and nontextual matter projects for Starbuck and Co. , but back on Galactica the press corps are begin to ask questions . Why are Starbuck and a bunch of the work party gone for three weeks on a classified mission ? In one of those oddly West Wing moments in this show , we are treated to a fairly prolonged meeting of the quorum — with Lee Adama sit in as the most third-year appendage — where the action gets volatile when Lee show out in front of the press that the prexy has a secret “ executive order 112 ” to create puppet courts whose judge are all appointed by her . BSG Maker Ron Moore and David Eick are not afraid to get wonky , you know what I mean ? This is practically an ACLU press release about the Patriot Act .
So Lee is standing up to Roslin , which is awesome . But he ’s being coached behind the scenes by Zarek , which is not so awful . On the bright side , Roslin is pop off and we get to see Admiral Adama reading to her in the infirmary from a Dashiell Hammett - sounding novel about a detective in Caprica City called Love and Bullets . I hope the author of said novel shows up in spinoff show Caprica . I ’ve always wanted to find out what it would be like to pen hard boiled fiction on another planet .
The right subplot by far in this episode , however , is Cally ’s discovery that hubby Tyrol is a skinjob . She ’s been snot - nosed and depressed as common , shout out at Tyrol about not spend enough time with her . In between popping space valiums , she decides to find Tyrol when he ’s latterly getting back to their cabin — and key him in the saloon with Foster , who is speak in her newfound Creepy Voice about how groovy it is to be “ open to modification ” as a Cylon . While inappropriately stroke Tyrol ’s articulatio cubiti .
It all looks very bad , so you’re able to empathize when Cally flips out and then succeed Tyrol on a different nighttime , only to discover the real reason he ’s been hang out with Foster . She eavesdrops on a meeting of the sleeper agents , figures out that there ’s a skinjob conspiracy , and goes completely batshit . After braining Tyrol with a wrench ( not fatally ) , she strain to suck herself and her hybrid babe out the airlock .
And here ’s the awesome STD of awesome : Foster fall into the air lock in the nick of clip and talks Cally down in a fuzzy scene of tearful bonding and “ yes we ’re Cylon but we ’re not evil ” PSA content . Just as Cally is coming around and deciding not to commit self-annihilation , Foster punch her in the face , steal her sister , and sets the air lock to “ kill Cally . ” Holy crap ! I am liking this new evil Foster a lot .
By the agency ? I am so beaming Cally is dead . She was a fretful cunt who never did anything but battle cry .
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