battlestar galactica 4.9 "the hub"
So there was some cool stuff here. And I love the Threes. However, the sidelining of Starbuck and Sam, and to a lesser degree the other three Final Fivers, is really illogical and I think a major stumbling block for the wind-down (up?) of this season. Starbuck is the reason they found the baseship, the reason all of this is happening, and she's appeared for about two seconds in the last two eps. It doesn't make any sense. I honestly thought she was on the basestar when the hybrid made it jump, and the fact that she wasn't smacks of weak plotting wherein the writers didn't want her passionate self there and so decided she wasn't. And I was SO SURE Sam was among the pilots on that ship, but again, illogically, he's not. I so wanted the scene where the last D'Anna sees him.
(OK, speaking of the Threes, this bothers me; her consciousness is downloaded into this body; surely there are other Three bodies on other remaining baseships who could also be awoken? There is some seriously frakked up near-retcon plotting with the resurrection ships and the suddenly-introduced Hub and it seems to me that the resurrection ships must be capable of a certain amount of resurrection on their own given that are neither in constant contact with the Hub [unless they actually are through a special hybrid that's a little more logical than the others] or in constant range of the Hub. How often must they connect? How is it related? WTF?)
Anyway. I'm deeply frustrated that the show is pretending Starbuck is irrelevant to this storyline. I like some of the reveals - like that the Eights could access Athena's memories after she downloaded; I wondered about that - also, can the Eights on other ships do the same? How? - but I feel like there are a ton of stumbling moments. Also, if someone could explain why the fuck I care about Lamkin and his (poor kitty!) weird cat story, I'd appreciate it.
And for the record, if the final Cylon is not female, I'm going to be seriously annoyed. Also for the record, I still firmly believe there MUST be a 13th Cylon. There's a 13th colony, after all.
ETA: When is Gaius going to remember what Six said, way back when, about how they were having a baby, but Sharon was bearing it? And why, oh, why must Gaius' followers be mostly women? This really, really, really, really bothers me; it's like some weird old cliche of the weaker sex following a new leader out of ... weak-mindedness? It doesn't make sense with the way the show is generally so smart and balanced about gender.
ETA2: I really hope the Cylon god is simply the original programmer who somehow found the independent intelligence in the machines, who, to be literal in a Christian sort of way, made them in his human image. And also, I've been playing with the idea that Six is actually one of the final five - I think it'd be really interesting if she turned out to be a different kind of Cylon all along. I don't think it's how it works - and it'd be wildly complicated to explain how she could seem a regular Cylon but not be one (and I think the D'Annas would have had something to say about that - but oh, wouldn't it be fantastic if that's who D'Anna apologized to, instead of the oft-assumed Tigh?) - but when Tigh started seeing Ellen's face on Six, I started to think they did look awfully similar, and what if the Five age and die and then are reborn over and over again, as some have speculated, instead of just being fully-formed in the same body from birth to death?
(OK, speaking of the Threes, this bothers me; her consciousness is downloaded into this body; surely there are other Three bodies on other remaining baseships who could also be awoken? There is some seriously frakked up near-retcon plotting with the resurrection ships and the suddenly-introduced Hub and it seems to me that the resurrection ships must be capable of a certain amount of resurrection on their own given that are neither in constant contact with the Hub [unless they actually are through a special hybrid that's a little more logical than the others] or in constant range of the Hub. How often must they connect? How is it related? WTF?)
Anyway. I'm deeply frustrated that the show is pretending Starbuck is irrelevant to this storyline. I like some of the reveals - like that the Eights could access Athena's memories after she downloaded; I wondered about that - also, can the Eights on other ships do the same? How? - but I feel like there are a ton of stumbling moments. Also, if someone could explain why the fuck I care about Lamkin and his (poor kitty!) weird cat story, I'd appreciate it.
And for the record, if the final Cylon is not female, I'm going to be seriously annoyed. Also for the record, I still firmly believe there MUST be a 13th Cylon. There's a 13th colony, after all.
ETA: When is Gaius going to remember what Six said, way back when, about how they were having a baby, but Sharon was bearing it? And why, oh, why must Gaius' followers be mostly women? This really, really, really, really bothers me; it's like some weird old cliche of the weaker sex following a new leader out of ... weak-mindedness? It doesn't make sense with the way the show is generally so smart and balanced about gender.
ETA2: I really hope the Cylon god is simply the original programmer who somehow found the independent intelligence in the machines, who, to be literal in a Christian sort of way, made them in his human image. And also, I've been playing with the idea that Six is actually one of the final five - I think it'd be really interesting if she turned out to be a different kind of Cylon all along. I don't think it's how it works - and it'd be wildly complicated to explain how she could seem a regular Cylon but not be one (and I think the D'Annas would have had something to say about that - but oh, wouldn't it be fantastic if that's who D'Anna apologized to, instead of the oft-assumed Tigh?) - but when Tigh started seeing Ellen's face on Six, I started to think they did look awfully similar, and what if the Five age and die and then are reborn over and over again, as some have speculated, instead of just being fully-formed in the same body from birth to death?