The Eye of Jupiter
I have no fun story for The Eye of Jupiter like I had for the The Passage but I'd be willing to bet I watched both on the same day.
What a great introduction, right? I'm losing my touch.
I hope you'll jump the cut anyway.
1) The Eye of Jupiter begins with 41,402 survivors, eighteen less than in The Passage. That makes pretty good sense. Two ships were lost in The Passage but they only contained skeleton crews. So, those crews plus Kat could definitely account for all eighteen losses, but there could have been some deaths-by-starvation, too, I guess.
2) We have a good time line signpost: It's the fourteenth day of the resupply mission on the algae planet. The fleet has food!
3) One of the sloppier aspects of this episode and season three in general is the idea of the love quadrangle, mostly because, as I said in my review for Unfinished Business, this whole business between Kara and Lee comes pretty from from nowhere. And, to my amazement, I figured their little bitch fest in that episode was finished after their fight. Originally when I was watching the show, I never really thought that their relationship would go beyond what we'd already learned. I took their fight in Unfinished Business to be the denouement of their affair but, sadly, I was not right.
Lee's heading up the mission down on the algae planet and Starbuck comes down for "visits" (that's what the kids are calling it nowadays, I hear) and they have sex and then Starbuck leaves. And just so the two could be even more repellent to the audience than this basic story line already makes them, guess who else is down on the planet? Why, if it isn't Anastasia Dualla Adama and Samuel T. Anders (the "T" stands for "Terrific"), the spouses of our cheating louses of a couple.
4) So, I guess that Starbuck and Lee have been engaging in this affair since Unfinished Business, but Lee decides he can't stand the guilt he feels when he's around his wife and so he suggests that he and Kara get a divorce so they can sleep together forever! Kara, though, with this weird kind of moral line in the sand, says she won't get a divorce because marriage is a sacrament and she's unwilling to break a bond she made before the gods.
Apparently, having an extra-marital affair is just "bending the rules". I'm so confused. Did Ron Moore and the writers want Starbuck to evolve into this completely horrible person? I'm so over this story and this is only the second episode we've seen of it. I mean, I just really hate how selfish they both are. Lee pretends he feels bad for Dee but he really only feels bad that he feels bad. If he cared about Dee at all, he'd just divorce her anyway.
Now, to be sure, I have some issues with Dee and her marriage to Lee that I think comes up in a later episode, so it's not like she's a complete innocent, but, at this point, I don't think the writers could have made Kara and Lee more unlikeable if they tried.
5) I really could go forever without ever having to see Baltar's chest hair again.
6) But aside from Baltar's evil chest hair (that gives him all his powers), this venture to the basestar finally shows us Hera, who we haven't seen since D'Anna carried her off in Exodus Part II. Sadly, little Hera is sick but the cylons don't understand how to deal with it. Interestingly, Boomer seems to be Hera's primary care giver but she doesn't really have much patience when it comes to dealing with a screaming baby.
7) Down on the algae planet, Tyrol is "lead" to some kind of temple. Based on what we learn about his past, it's kind of interesting that he's the guy that finds it. Apparently, as a child, he was rather rebellioius when it came to religion, likely because his father was a priest and his mother was an oracle and it's likely it was rammed down his throat on a daily basis which would be enough to make most people dance naked in their religious parents' studies with pornography. I mean, who hasn't done that?
But it might be his religious resistance that summons him as the person to find the temple and it's certainly very helpful that he has the religious background knowledge to understand the incredibly importance of their find. I mean, it's just any old temple they found on this planet that is barren of intelligent life. It's the Temple of Five. And, when it comes to his religious resistance, in a lot of ways, it reminds me of Laura back when Elosha first told her about the Pythian Prophecy. At that point, Laura was not religious at all. I mean, she'd never even heard of Pythia, even though it was a book in the Sacred Scrolls. And think of Baltar. According to Head!Six, he's being used as an instrument but he was as atheistic as you get in the early parts of the show.
Obviously, it isn't really a rule in BSG that the non-religious are the people who make the most important religious discoveries or play out the important religious roles, but it doesn't seem to hurt.
8) The cylons, likely working from the hybrid's riddle to Baltar, manage to find the fleet at that algae planet and suddenly things to start to happen and I turn into a very happy episode watcher because I no longer have to pretend to care about what Kara and Lee are doing in that surprisingly spacious raptor.
Baltar, Boomer, D'Anna, and Cavill come to Galactica for negotiations. The cylons know the the Eye of Jupiter is down on that planet and they can't be sure the humans don't already know about it and its location, so while they try to be aggressive, they also realize that they need to employ some gentleness because while they may have the fire power, they don't quite have the upper hand.
9) First, though, Athena identifies Boomer to Tigh and Boomer is refused access to the meeting room. So what does she do? She tells Athena that Hera is still alive, that she had been hidden in Laura Roslin's school and they found her alone on New Caprica's surface during the last stages of the evacuation.
This scene is good for a couple reasons. First, it's obviously important in terms of the way it advances this particular plot line. I mean, I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for Helo and Sharon to find out about Hera since her death was faked way back Downloaded. I look forward to seeing what they do about seeing her and getting her back.
On another level, I find the switched positions of Boomer and Athena really fascinating. They started the series on opposite ends then where they've ended up. Even when you consider where Boomer was just a few months ago (in terms of the time line). I mean, it was her idea (with Caprica!Six) to make peace with the humans (by occupation, yeah, but still). It was her background as a sleeper agent that this deep relationship with humans and only really knew herself as human that gave her the ability to feel the compassion necessary to try to end the conflict.
But New Caprica must have seriously embittered her towards humans. Because she tells Athena that all she is to the humans is a thing and not a person. I wonder if much of her bitterness actually doesn't stem so much from the conflict on New Caprica but just by the fact that Athena is currently living the life Boomer wishes she had. I mean, they know Athena is a cylon but they like and respect and trust her anyway. She's an officer in the colonial fleet. She has a husband who loves her and a baby, even if that baby was lost to her for a time. Athena has the life Boomer thinks she should have had. So, while a part of her is trying to be helpful by telling Athena about her child, I think a lot of her hopes that it's going to screw up Athena's "perfect" life on Galactica because Boomer likely knows Athena won't be able to resist Hera and she knows that it will lead to a difficult rescue attempt which would likely end badly for Athena or it means that Athena goes after the people who took Hera from her which will create rifts of mistrust.
10) I have to say that my favorite scene in the entire episode is Baltar's "reconciliation" with Laura and Adama. Baltar wants so much to come home but realizes it's just not possible because as little as the cylons seem to want to deal with him, he recognizes that the humans wants to deal with him even less.
When Laura comes into the room, she won't even look at him. She almost looks like she's physically incapable of glancing his way. Baltar, though, specifically starts talking to her, rather than to Adama or Tigh or anyone else. He tells her that it's good to see her and he's very apologetic in tone because all Baltar wants in life is for Laura Roslin to respect him, to understand that he's not a bad person. He needs her approval.
She won't give it to him, though. She leaves in the middle of the meeting because she's a total hardcore badass.
11) The cylons try to negotiate with Adama. If the humans turn over the Eye of Jupiter, the cylons will let them live. If they refuse, the cylons will blow them out of the sky. Adama's not in the mood to play. He tells the cylons that if they move down towards the surface, he'll fire all his nukes at them and at the planet, effectively destroying the entire continent and, yes, the Eye of Jupiter.
You go, Bill.
12) Down on the surface, Sam is looking so incredibly handsome. Seriously, I can barely stand it, he's so good looking. He's all dirty and oily and probably stinks of algae and I just want to jump him.
Even better, he's going to be the leader of a civilian contingent against any potential cylon invasion/attack. Holy Gods, I'd follow Samuel Terrific Anders into battle any day of the week so long as he keeps wearing those tanks.
13) But whatever happens down on the surface needs to happen quickly because Gaeta has figured out that the planetary star is very unstable and is likely going to go supernova. When dealing with things that live millions of year, it's kind of hard to get a good prediction of when something like that will occur. In universal time, a day and a year are so short they're probably nearly the same. So, the moral of the story is that they need to get out of there quickly.
14) There's a snag, though, because D'Anna was smart enough to send a heavy raider down to the surface of the algae planet right as they jumped in because she knew it would be less likely to be detected by Galactica's dradis.
Watch out, people on the surface!
15) Sam and Lee get into it a little because Lee obviously thinks that Sam is stupid and doesn't know that his wife is having an affair with him. Sam actually kind of shuts Lee up good when he tells Lee that Kara's slept around before. I like this for a few different reasons. First, it means that Lee might begin to wonder about his and Kara's "love" connection. Does she love him or is she just using him because he a more convenient frak than her husband? Also, how about speculation on who those people were that Kara's slept with? Recently hanging out in new corners of the BSG fandom, I maybe bought a pair of girlslash goggles and have a new secret OTP that is Laura/Starbuck. So, even if it's ridiculous, I'm going to go ahead and say outright that yes, Kara and Laura got their groove on back on New Caprica before the occupation.
16) But it's also nice because Sam understands Kara in a way that Lee doesn't. He knows that Kara will sleep around. He knew it before he married her and he married her anyway. It's not as though he likes it but he does accept it because he loves her and being with her is, I suppose for him, better than her ultimate fidelity. Lee, on the other hand, only knows the Kara he sees in his head.
17) In a parallel between the dissolving of relationships in the fleet, back on the basestar, D'Anna and Baltar kind of break up with Caprica. Their destiny, they believe, lies away from hers. Caprica has no connection to the Final Five like D'Anna and Baltar do.
Seriously, I love this scene because I get such a kick out of Lucy Lawless' performance as D'Anna. She's so good at keeping the audience off balance as to D'Anna's intentions. I've believed that her love for Caprica is genuine, but there's this weird kind of smirk on her face when they break up with Caprica, almost like she has to keep herself from smiling or laughing at leaving her out. And then this line slays me: "Pray for us, Caprica. We'll be praying for you." It's said in such a wonderfully insincere way, like she's gloating that she has the man and the epic destiny. Which may be the case since Caprica is kind of like cylon royalty because of her role in the initial attacks.
So does she love Caprica? Yeah, I think so, but I also think she loves herself way more. And, like Lee and Kara, is completely selfish in protecting and enabling her own wants and needs over the person/people she's supposed to love.
18) In a fly over mission trying to detect the enemy, Starbuck is hit by centurion missiles and her ship goes down (and her hands get caught in flames). Oh no!
19) Before going and dealing with the cylons (which, personally, I think should have been his first priority), Bill goes to confront Laura about the cylon baby. Laura comes clean (as she actually often does when people ask her things directly) and Bill gets super pissy.
Come on. Are you kidding me? I'm sorry, but had I been Laura I would have done exactly the same thing. The fact of the matter is that she could have killed Hera and she didin't. Was it mean to tell Helo and Sharon their baby had died? Yeah, it was. Was it the right decision at the time? Absolutely it was. Bill can think what he wants, but back then, Sharon's loyalty to the fleet was dubious at best. There was no way to think that her assistance had anything more behind it than keeping herself and her child alive. All the signs pointed to Hera being incredibly important and, on behalf of the human race, Laura couldn't take the chance that that baby would end up in cylon hands.
So, yeah. She kidnapped her. But she also gave her a loving mother (girlslash goggles also lead me to believe that Laura was Hera's second mommy on New Caprica) and an actual chance at growing up. Let's be real, again. Had Sharon and Helo kept Hera, what would have happened to her? Would she have been raised by Sharon in the brig? Yeah, that sounds like an excellent plan. And if Helo had had her, she would have been in extra danger of being killed by a bitter crew member.
Yes, I will argue that Laura actually gave Hera some kind of chance to live normally while, at the same time, protecting a very important asset in the fight against the cylons (though it's still unclear as to why Hera's is so important).
So, suck it Bill. I swear, he lives to cast others in judgment. Is it any wonder I'm on team Laura/Starbuck at the moment?
I still love him, though. But we've had a rough few episodes.
20) D'Anna and the Threes concoct a plan: D'Anna and Baltar board a heavy raider to go down the surface, but they go with a few other heavy raiders. Adama, seeing this all on dradis, warms up his nukes.
But this isn't just about the conflict between humans and cylons. This scene says a lot about the internal conflict going on in cylonia. None of the other models knew that D'Anna was going down the surface. The Threes are becoming much more independent of the others, making their own decisions and going against the others. What began in Downloaded with the Eights and Sixes has now kind of exploded. The cylons used to be a very homogeneous culture where everyone basically went the same way but, increasingly, deep internal fractures are dividing them all.
21) The humans aren't doing so well either, though. I mean, down on the planet, Sam and Lee are at odds because Sam is insistent about wanting to go rescue Kara from her raptor. Lee, good ol' by the book Lee, refuses to let him go and makes Matthias pull a gun on Sam to stop him.
I actually don't understand why Sam can't go. I understand that he's supposed to lead the civilians but Barolay would probably be a good replacement since she was with Sam during all those resistant missions on cylon occupied Caprica. She was also part of the inner circle of the insurgency of New Caprica. She has some chops. And even if she hadn't . . . If the cylons attack, it's seriously unlikely that the humans would have a chance. I mean, good leaders help but the civilians have no experience fighting. Some of them haven't even shot a gun. And you think they're going to beat the cylons back?
Just let Sam go and get his wife.
22) To Be Continued? Say what?!
And there you have my possibly somewhat nonsensical review for The Eye of Jupiter. In case you couldn't tell, I actually really liked it. I hated the Kara/Lee stuff and the quadrangle of doom is so ridiculous, but I absolutely love the Laura stuff, the Baltar stuff, the D'Anna stuff, the Caprica stuff, the Boomer stuff, the Athena stuff. It's like eating a delicious mega-thick, juicy and tart strawberry Twizzler. Sort of. So, I'm going to give The Eye of Jupiter 3.5 out of 5 airlocks.
What a great introduction, right? I'm losing my touch.
I hope you'll jump the cut anyway.
1) The Eye of Jupiter begins with 41,402 survivors, eighteen less than in The Passage. That makes pretty good sense. Two ships were lost in The Passage but they only contained skeleton crews. So, those crews plus Kat could definitely account for all eighteen losses, but there could have been some deaths-by-starvation, too, I guess.
2) We have a good time line signpost: It's the fourteenth day of the resupply mission on the algae planet. The fleet has food!
3) One of the sloppier aspects of this episode and season three in general is the idea of the love quadrangle, mostly because, as I said in my review for Unfinished Business, this whole business between Kara and Lee comes pretty from from nowhere. And, to my amazement, I figured their little bitch fest in that episode was finished after their fight. Originally when I was watching the show, I never really thought that their relationship would go beyond what we'd already learned. I took their fight in Unfinished Business to be the denouement of their affair but, sadly, I was not right.
Lee's heading up the mission down on the algae planet and Starbuck comes down for "visits" (that's what the kids are calling it nowadays, I hear) and they have sex and then Starbuck leaves. And just so the two could be even more repellent to the audience than this basic story line already makes them, guess who else is down on the planet? Why, if it isn't Anastasia Dualla Adama and Samuel T. Anders (the "T" stands for "Terrific"), the spouses of our cheating louses of a couple.
4) So, I guess that Starbuck and Lee have been engaging in this affair since Unfinished Business, but Lee decides he can't stand the guilt he feels when he's around his wife and so he suggests that he and Kara get a divorce so they can sleep together forever! Kara, though, with this weird kind of moral line in the sand, says she won't get a divorce because marriage is a sacrament and she's unwilling to break a bond she made before the gods.
Apparently, having an extra-marital affair is just "bending the rules". I'm so confused. Did Ron Moore and the writers want Starbuck to evolve into this completely horrible person? I'm so over this story and this is only the second episode we've seen of it. I mean, I just really hate how selfish they both are. Lee pretends he feels bad for Dee but he really only feels bad that he feels bad. If he cared about Dee at all, he'd just divorce her anyway.
Now, to be sure, I have some issues with Dee and her marriage to Lee that I think comes up in a later episode, so it's not like she's a complete innocent, but, at this point, I don't think the writers could have made Kara and Lee more unlikeable if they tried.
5) I really could go forever without ever having to see Baltar's chest hair again.
6) But aside from Baltar's evil chest hair (that gives him all his powers), this venture to the basestar finally shows us Hera, who we haven't seen since D'Anna carried her off in Exodus Part II. Sadly, little Hera is sick but the cylons don't understand how to deal with it. Interestingly, Boomer seems to be Hera's primary care giver but she doesn't really have much patience when it comes to dealing with a screaming baby.
7) Down on the algae planet, Tyrol is "lead" to some kind of temple. Based on what we learn about his past, it's kind of interesting that he's the guy that finds it. Apparently, as a child, he was rather rebellioius when it came to religion, likely because his father was a priest and his mother was an oracle and it's likely it was rammed down his throat on a daily basis which would be enough to make most people dance naked in their religious parents' studies with pornography. I mean, who hasn't done that?
But it might be his religious resistance that summons him as the person to find the temple and it's certainly very helpful that he has the religious background knowledge to understand the incredibly importance of their find. I mean, it's just any old temple they found on this planet that is barren of intelligent life. It's the Temple of Five. And, when it comes to his religious resistance, in a lot of ways, it reminds me of Laura back when Elosha first told her about the Pythian Prophecy. At that point, Laura was not religious at all. I mean, she'd never even heard of Pythia, even though it was a book in the Sacred Scrolls. And think of Baltar. According to Head!Six, he's being used as an instrument but he was as atheistic as you get in the early parts of the show.
Obviously, it isn't really a rule in BSG that the non-religious are the people who make the most important religious discoveries or play out the important religious roles, but it doesn't seem to hurt.
8) The cylons, likely working from the hybrid's riddle to Baltar, manage to find the fleet at that algae planet and suddenly things to start to happen and I turn into a very happy episode watcher because I no longer have to pretend to care about what Kara and Lee are doing in that surprisingly spacious raptor.
Baltar, Boomer, D'Anna, and Cavill come to Galactica for negotiations. The cylons know the the Eye of Jupiter is down on that planet and they can't be sure the humans don't already know about it and its location, so while they try to be aggressive, they also realize that they need to employ some gentleness because while they may have the fire power, they don't quite have the upper hand.
9) First, though, Athena identifies Boomer to Tigh and Boomer is refused access to the meeting room. So what does she do? She tells Athena that Hera is still alive, that she had been hidden in Laura Roslin's school and they found her alone on New Caprica's surface during the last stages of the evacuation.
This scene is good for a couple reasons. First, it's obviously important in terms of the way it advances this particular plot line. I mean, I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for Helo and Sharon to find out about Hera since her death was faked way back Downloaded. I look forward to seeing what they do about seeing her and getting her back.
On another level, I find the switched positions of Boomer and Athena really fascinating. They started the series on opposite ends then where they've ended up. Even when you consider where Boomer was just a few months ago (in terms of the time line). I mean, it was her idea (with Caprica!Six) to make peace with the humans (by occupation, yeah, but still). It was her background as a sleeper agent that this deep relationship with humans and only really knew herself as human that gave her the ability to feel the compassion necessary to try to end the conflict.
But New Caprica must have seriously embittered her towards humans. Because she tells Athena that all she is to the humans is a thing and not a person. I wonder if much of her bitterness actually doesn't stem so much from the conflict on New Caprica but just by the fact that Athena is currently living the life Boomer wishes she had. I mean, they know Athena is a cylon but they like and respect and trust her anyway. She's an officer in the colonial fleet. She has a husband who loves her and a baby, even if that baby was lost to her for a time. Athena has the life Boomer thinks she should have had. So, while a part of her is trying to be helpful by telling Athena about her child, I think a lot of her hopes that it's going to screw up Athena's "perfect" life on Galactica because Boomer likely knows Athena won't be able to resist Hera and she knows that it will lead to a difficult rescue attempt which would likely end badly for Athena or it means that Athena goes after the people who took Hera from her which will create rifts of mistrust.
10) I have to say that my favorite scene in the entire episode is Baltar's "reconciliation" with Laura and Adama. Baltar wants so much to come home but realizes it's just not possible because as little as the cylons seem to want to deal with him, he recognizes that the humans wants to deal with him even less.
When Laura comes into the room, she won't even look at him. She almost looks like she's physically incapable of glancing his way. Baltar, though, specifically starts talking to her, rather than to Adama or Tigh or anyone else. He tells her that it's good to see her and he's very apologetic in tone because all Baltar wants in life is for Laura Roslin to respect him, to understand that he's not a bad person. He needs her approval.
She won't give it to him, though. She leaves in the middle of the meeting because she's a total hardcore badass.
11) The cylons try to negotiate with Adama. If the humans turn over the Eye of Jupiter, the cylons will let them live. If they refuse, the cylons will blow them out of the sky. Adama's not in the mood to play. He tells the cylons that if they move down towards the surface, he'll fire all his nukes at them and at the planet, effectively destroying the entire continent and, yes, the Eye of Jupiter.
You go, Bill.
12) Down on the surface, Sam is looking so incredibly handsome. Seriously, I can barely stand it, he's so good looking. He's all dirty and oily and probably stinks of algae and I just want to jump him.
Even better, he's going to be the leader of a civilian contingent against any potential cylon invasion/attack. Holy Gods, I'd follow Samuel Terrific Anders into battle any day of the week so long as he keeps wearing those tanks.
13) But whatever happens down on the surface needs to happen quickly because Gaeta has figured out that the planetary star is very unstable and is likely going to go supernova. When dealing with things that live millions of year, it's kind of hard to get a good prediction of when something like that will occur. In universal time, a day and a year are so short they're probably nearly the same. So, the moral of the story is that they need to get out of there quickly.
14) There's a snag, though, because D'Anna was smart enough to send a heavy raider down to the surface of the algae planet right as they jumped in because she knew it would be less likely to be detected by Galactica's dradis.
Watch out, people on the surface!
15) Sam and Lee get into it a little because Lee obviously thinks that Sam is stupid and doesn't know that his wife is having an affair with him. Sam actually kind of shuts Lee up good when he tells Lee that Kara's slept around before. I like this for a few different reasons. First, it means that Lee might begin to wonder about his and Kara's "love" connection. Does she love him or is she just using him because he a more convenient frak than her husband? Also, how about speculation on who those people were that Kara's slept with? Recently hanging out in new corners of the BSG fandom, I maybe bought a pair of girlslash goggles and have a new secret OTP that is Laura/Starbuck. So, even if it's ridiculous, I'm going to go ahead and say outright that yes, Kara and Laura got their groove on back on New Caprica before the occupation.
16) But it's also nice because Sam understands Kara in a way that Lee doesn't. He knows that Kara will sleep around. He knew it before he married her and he married her anyway. It's not as though he likes it but he does accept it because he loves her and being with her is, I suppose for him, better than her ultimate fidelity. Lee, on the other hand, only knows the Kara he sees in his head.
17) In a parallel between the dissolving of relationships in the fleet, back on the basestar, D'Anna and Baltar kind of break up with Caprica. Their destiny, they believe, lies away from hers. Caprica has no connection to the Final Five like D'Anna and Baltar do.
Seriously, I love this scene because I get such a kick out of Lucy Lawless' performance as D'Anna. She's so good at keeping the audience off balance as to D'Anna's intentions. I've believed that her love for Caprica is genuine, but there's this weird kind of smirk on her face when they break up with Caprica, almost like she has to keep herself from smiling or laughing at leaving her out. And then this line slays me: "Pray for us, Caprica. We'll be praying for you." It's said in such a wonderfully insincere way, like she's gloating that she has the man and the epic destiny. Which may be the case since Caprica is kind of like cylon royalty because of her role in the initial attacks.
So does she love Caprica? Yeah, I think so, but I also think she loves herself way more. And, like Lee and Kara, is completely selfish in protecting and enabling her own wants and needs over the person/people she's supposed to love.
18) In a fly over mission trying to detect the enemy, Starbuck is hit by centurion missiles and her ship goes down (and her hands get caught in flames). Oh no!
19) Before going and dealing with the cylons (which, personally, I think should have been his first priority), Bill goes to confront Laura about the cylon baby. Laura comes clean (as she actually often does when people ask her things directly) and Bill gets super pissy.
Come on. Are you kidding me? I'm sorry, but had I been Laura I would have done exactly the same thing. The fact of the matter is that she could have killed Hera and she didin't. Was it mean to tell Helo and Sharon their baby had died? Yeah, it was. Was it the right decision at the time? Absolutely it was. Bill can think what he wants, but back then, Sharon's loyalty to the fleet was dubious at best. There was no way to think that her assistance had anything more behind it than keeping herself and her child alive. All the signs pointed to Hera being incredibly important and, on behalf of the human race, Laura couldn't take the chance that that baby would end up in cylon hands.
So, yeah. She kidnapped her. But she also gave her a loving mother (girlslash goggles also lead me to believe that Laura was Hera's second mommy on New Caprica) and an actual chance at growing up. Let's be real, again. Had Sharon and Helo kept Hera, what would have happened to her? Would she have been raised by Sharon in the brig? Yeah, that sounds like an excellent plan. And if Helo had had her, she would have been in extra danger of being killed by a bitter crew member.
Yes, I will argue that Laura actually gave Hera some kind of chance to live normally while, at the same time, protecting a very important asset in the fight against the cylons (though it's still unclear as to why Hera's is so important).
So, suck it Bill. I swear, he lives to cast others in judgment. Is it any wonder I'm on team Laura/Starbuck at the moment?
I still love him, though. But we've had a rough few episodes.
20) D'Anna and the Threes concoct a plan: D'Anna and Baltar board a heavy raider to go down the surface, but they go with a few other heavy raiders. Adama, seeing this all on dradis, warms up his nukes.
But this isn't just about the conflict between humans and cylons. This scene says a lot about the internal conflict going on in cylonia. None of the other models knew that D'Anna was going down the surface. The Threes are becoming much more independent of the others, making their own decisions and going against the others. What began in Downloaded with the Eights and Sixes has now kind of exploded. The cylons used to be a very homogeneous culture where everyone basically went the same way but, increasingly, deep internal fractures are dividing them all.
21) The humans aren't doing so well either, though. I mean, down on the planet, Sam and Lee are at odds because Sam is insistent about wanting to go rescue Kara from her raptor. Lee, good ol' by the book Lee, refuses to let him go and makes Matthias pull a gun on Sam to stop him.
I actually don't understand why Sam can't go. I understand that he's supposed to lead the civilians but Barolay would probably be a good replacement since she was with Sam during all those resistant missions on cylon occupied Caprica. She was also part of the inner circle of the insurgency of New Caprica. She has some chops. And even if she hadn't . . . If the cylons attack, it's seriously unlikely that the humans would have a chance. I mean, good leaders help but the civilians have no experience fighting. Some of them haven't even shot a gun. And you think they're going to beat the cylons back?
Just let Sam go and get his wife.
22) To Be Continued? Say what?!
And there you have my possibly somewhat nonsensical review for The Eye of Jupiter. In case you couldn't tell, I actually really liked it. I hated the Kara/Lee stuff and the quadrangle of doom is so ridiculous, but I absolutely love the Laura stuff, the Baltar stuff, the D'Anna stuff, the Caprica stuff, the Boomer stuff, the Athena stuff. It's like eating a delicious mega-thick, juicy and tart strawberry Twizzler. Sort of. So, I'm going to give The Eye of Jupiter 3.5 out of 5 airlocks.