Agree with you until you got to the line about Starbuck being "a little older and less self-involved than previously"I don't know what else to call a ship's captain who is totally involved with excavating now lost feelings of mystical oneness with a planet, all the while, for all practical purposes ignoring the mutinous temper that has been festering for weeks under her so-called command, though she seems to have been allowing Helo to do all the work. Also, the fact that she can't tell that Helo is more positively disposed to her than Gaeta - who has been openly hostile to her since her mysterious return - makes her seem even more out to lunch. As far as the audience goes, all we've seen her do since she gained command is hang out, alone in her cabin, and paint. And be excessively rude to her staff and spend no time trying to deal with them and their issues. And also examine charts feverishly. Also alone
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I'm OK with depressing character studies but in this episode they seem to have hit the same problem as mid S6 Buffy - they're running on character rather than plot arcs but all their arcs have peaked. This episode only had Kara, Galen and Gaius in focus and none of them were doing much we hadn't already seen. On the other hand it could be first-half-of-a-twofer syndrome and everything will look better next week.
As for Kara, being less self-involved is rising from a low base but I took her calm acceptance of the mutiny to show that she had been quite aware it was brewing. Much as at the end of Scar she showed that she did remember all the dead pilots' names. She knew but she hadn't the leadership skills to win a skeptical crew over to trusting her blind intuition -but I think that pitch would be difficult even for a natural politician. I also don't see her obsession with re-finding earth as inherently self-centred, certainly not in the same way as her previous self-destructive streak. I get the sense of her wanting to find Earth as
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This episode only had Kara, Galen and Gaius in focus and none of them were doing much we hadn't already seen.Yeah - though I have to say I don't see why Chief suddenly decided, after New Caprica, that Baltar was not so bad after all. So Baltar first crosses the line with him, trying to exploit him, then makes a sincere apology - which is somewhat new territory for Baltar, except that in the interim Chief has gotten no less useful - and all of a sudden
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I never got the impression that Chief blames New Caprica on Baltar in the way Tigh or Roslin does. As far as I remember there was just one suicide bombing that Baltar was the target of. After all Baltar was a puppet, the real enemy were the Cylons. Chief also had the benefit of watching Gaius fall apart on Kobol. I think he despises him but doesn't hate him, he thinks he's a slippery two-faced wanker but basically more of a prat than an evil genius. Prat or not Gaius didn't just reach out to Tyrol with platitudes about Cally being a good woman - he admitted he didn't know her from Eve and left it to Tyrol to define her.
All that shrieking and hollering about going the wrong way, and now her internal compass has become demagnetized, so to speak. I wonder if it works more like chemosensitivity than magnetism - it can tell her if she's 'warmer' or 'colder' by trial and error but can't compute a direction from a single point. Also the target may not be Earth but her infamous Destiny- it lead her to Lebonen not to the Solar system.
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As for Kara, being less self-involved is rising from a low base but I took her calm acceptance of the mutiny to show that she had been quite aware it was brewing. Much as at the end of Scar she showed that she did remember all the dead pilots' names. She knew but she hadn't the leadership skills to win a skeptical crew over to trusting her blind intuition -but I think that pitch would be difficult even for a natural politician. I also don't see her obsession with re-finding earth as inherently self-centred, certainly not in the same way as her previous self-destructive streak. I get the sense of her wanting to find Earth as ( ... )
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All that shrieking and hollering about going the wrong way, and now her internal compass has become demagnetized, so to speak.
I wonder if it works more like chemosensitivity than magnetism - it can tell her if she's 'warmer' or 'colder' by trial and error but can't compute a direction from a single point. Also the target may not be Earth but her infamous Destiny- it lead her to Lebonen not to the Solar system.
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