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Notes on BSG: “The Farm”
What, you don't watch Battlestar Gallactica? What's wrong with you? But that's ok; I watched, and here's what you missed:
Geez, Starbuck, are you hot for every guy who looks like Apollo?
Yay! EJO (Captain Adama) is back! But why is he being so stupid about wanting to be enemies w/the president? Come on, man, don't follow Tie's lead! Just because he screwed everything up doesn't mean you have to be stupid, too.
No. You can't kill Starbuck. EJO just got well and now you've shot Starbuck!? Quit screwing w/us, Mr. Moore!
Can you love a machine? I love my computer. Does that mean the Cylons are just machines?
Does Starbuck even have the Arrow of Apollo? That's why she was going back to Caprica in the first place, right? I haven't seen that damn thing in a while. I guess she's too busy getting jiggy w/Cylons like Anders, the Pyramid player who led her into the ambush that got her shot! Listen Starbuck, you're the reason I watch this stupid show. Quit screwing around and get back to the damned battlestar so we can have more witty repartee between you and Apollo and EJO and Tie!
OMG! Starbuck's being treated by Cylons!? Yikes! And they're doing sick fertility experiments to try to reproduce themselves!?
We learn about another one of the 12 Cylon people types (the doctor), so we now know 5, L says. But then Boomer/Sharon saves Starbuck, so does that mean the Cylons can actually be good?
And why is EJO crying over Boomer? Is he cracking, or what?
Ok. so now Starbuck's got the Arrow of Apollo. Anders gave it to her—he saved it special for her. How did he know to do that? Does that mean he is or isn't a Cylon? And why don't they just load everyone onto the heavy raider and jump back to the fleet?
Speaking of which, what is Starbuck going to do when she gets back to the fleet and finds that in order to give the president the arrow she has to join a mutiny against Adama? Big conflict coming down the pike, people! But at least Starbuck is alive and finally getting the heck off Caprica. I'm so tired of the Caprica plotline!
But we can't just get the fleet back together happily and safely, can we? No, of course not. That would just be too conventional or whatever, right? So now 1/3 of the fleet has headed off to Kobol and Starbuck is going to have to go searching for the president against Adama's orders and the only thing good about that is that then, finally, Starbuck and Apollo will be together as part of the “religious” rebellion and we can finally get the Starbuck/Apollo relationship/repartee we've been missing. Plus, I'm sure we'll get some good Adama/Starbuck give and take along the way, and maybe a few jabs with Tie, so really, there's a lot to look forward to here.
So there you go; that's it for this week. If you want to follow the action in more detail, be sure to check out the BSG podcast w/producer Ron Moore. Good stuff. I'm also told the TWOP forums are a great place for all the gos, but I really wouldn't (cough) know.
Posted August 12, 2005 11:16 PM | tv land
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Yay, BSG recap! I'm still really bugged by the inconsistency of Cylon policy towards Kara. They obviously feel she has a role to play, and yet they keep putting her in what appears to be mortal peril. And judging from her stay at the Farm, they now think she's dumb and incompetent, which doesn't match with how Leoben treated her or with reality -- unless they had already gotten what they wanted from her or implanted whatever they were going to implant in her and were planning for her escape.
Posted by: Janine at August 13, 2005 08:13 AM
Hmm. I hadn't thought so much about this. I don't know how Kara's treatment at the farm shows that the Cylon's think she's dumb and incompetent. (For those who don't watch, Kara is Starbuck.) The Cylon doctor ("Simon"?) went to pretty extensive lengths to detail the trauma that was supposedly occurring in the rest of the hospital and explain why Kara heard nothing of it and was quarantined. So they thought of a pretty detailed cover story to convince her to chill while they had thier way with her. I think that shows they took her seriously. I also don't think they were planning for her escape; they were planning for her to remain drugged. The Cylons are strong and smart technologically, but not always so smart in the ways of people.
Not to be a spoiler or anything, but in the podcast I think Ron Moore said that the Cylons took some of Kara's eggs. He also said she's going to be changed after the experience, but it's hard to tell whether that means they also implanted something, or if it's just that now she feels and thinks differently about the whole thing. We can see she thinks a little differently by the fact that once she escapes the Cylons her first priority is to go liberate all the other "farms"; it's kind of unlike the usual Starbuck to forget about her main mission that way.
One more thing I realized: Sharon/Boomer is on the heavy raider that's taking Starbuck back to the Battleship, so that means there's going to be a big confrontation there, too, now that everyone one the Battlestar knows she's a cylon. Yay! Conflict on the Battlestar! I just hope they stop teasing us about killing main characters. Not cool.
Posted by: ambimb at August 13, 2005 08:44 AM
I felt like Simon's explanation, paired with the lack of visits from Helo or any member of the resistance, was totally weak -- I found myself wishing the writers had come up with something more plausible (like, oh, having a member of the resistance come visit her, only to later reveal that s/he was a Cylon) so I didn't spend the episode begging Starbuck to get on with escaping. And for Simon to slip and call her Starbuck seemed to me to indicate an incredible sloppiness in his programming, a belief that she is slow or so doped she really shouldn't be able to carry on a conversation, or a desire for her to work things out and escape.
The preview for next week's episode shows a Caprica!Boomer showdown with Roslin that looks like it will be awesome (and I'm wondering if C!Boomer's help in "The Farm" might not tip Starbuck over to EJO's side in the Adama/Roslin fight-slash-custody-battle-for-Lee-and-Kara). It might be a bit before C!Boomer meets up with EJO and Tyrol, because Kara is going to be jumping back to Kobol first, where Galactica adamantly is not.
Posted by: Janine at August 13, 2005 09:23 AM
Also, re: teasing about killing main characters, I'm right with you. I'm doubly anxious with BSG because I have followed Moore's work from Star Trek...and I totally believe he has it in him to really pull the trigger at some point. And of course there's Roslin, but as has been pointed out elsewhere on the Internet, time moves so slowly on the show that she can live for seasons and seasons before her six months are up.
Posted by: Janin at August 13, 2005 09:29 AM
Is the first season on DVD yet?
Posted by: Scoplaw at August 13, 2005 06:36 PM
Yup. But I think right now it's a "Best Buy Exclusive," which means that's the only place you can get it, so I don't know if it's rentable yet. There's a more complete version w/more extras coming out in Sept., I think, so that will probably make it into video stores soon. If you want to check it out, the miniseries that started it all (basically the first 3 episodes of the first season) is definitely widely available.
Posted by: ambimb at August 13, 2005 06:54 PM
Oh, also, most of Season 1 is available online via BitTorrent. Or it was. I haven't checked in a long time. I heard the SciFi channel even released those episodes to the 'net for downloading -- as in legally -- but I can't verify that.
Posted by: ambimb at August 13, 2005 06:55 PM
