The Ties That Bind
Seriously, if my notes are any indication, season 4.0 is going to be seriously wordy. Because, once again, I filled up another gigantic sticky note for The Ties That Bind, just as I did for Six Of One. And I meant to write this yesterday but my day got a little condensed in the middle there. And now my dog is sitting on the opposite side of the couch, looking at me and sniffing, which always makes me a little paranoid that I should shower. Maybe tomorrow.
And with that awkward interlude, let's do it!
Oh, um, also? I thought this episode was Escape Velocity. Hence the unconnected language of the cut. And back when I talked about the "parallels" between Hero and Escape Velocity, I meant Hero and The Ties That Bind. My bad, people. My bad.
Jump? Please?
1) The Ties That Bind begins with 39,676 survivors, which mean no one died between this episode and Six Of One.
2) I suppose I would argue that The Ties That Bind tells the story of cylon conflict, internal and external. Externally, the cylons over on the basestar are having some serious trouble because, as we learn from Cavil, the Sixes (lead, naturally, by Natalie) have taken their own ship, along with the Twos and Eights with the centurions. They aren't at civil war yet, but the lines have certainly been drawn.
3) Internally, the cylons on Galactica are trying to figure out how they fit into the world with their newly discovered identities and, in this episode, that internal conflict is no better represented than in Tory. You see, Cally and the Chief are having some serious problems at home. Cally's having a lot of issues with her health. She can't sleep, for example, and she seems to be delving into paranoia, likely aided, I assume, by the pills she's been taking. Chief, under a lot of stress due to his job, his screaming child, his crazy wife, and the fact that he's now a cylon, has basically been running away from his familial responsibilities.
4) So where does Tory come in? Her very presence in the bar with Tyrol puts Cally over a whole new edge.
But, more importantly, it's all about the conversation Chief and Tory have in the bar. Tyrol admits that he doesn't know who he is anymore and it's obviously made him unsettled in an uncomfortable and awkward kind of way. Tory has the same unsettledness, but for her, instead of it making her uncomfortable, she's starting to thrive on it. She loves experiences of being flooded with new feelings and sensations. It's kind of like she's free to create the person she wants to be. Like when a high schooler goes to college and can completely change their identity because no one knows what they used to be like. Tory has a similar kind of freedom that's coming from within.
5) But there are other conflicts going on in the fleet. And now that I think about it, the themes with the cylons kind of mirros what's going on with the humans. Like, say, Laura and Lee have an external conflict while Cally is struggling through an internal conflict.
Also . . . remember that spat Laura and Bill had in Six Of One? It's resolved here. Laura goes in for another diloxin treatment and Bill comes to read to her Love and Bullets by Nick Taylo.
6) But while the two of them are back to themselves on a more personal level, President Roslin is still not pleased with Admiral Adama. At a press conference for Lee to talk about his improbable rise to junior delegate from Caprica, the press (naturally) directs all their questions to Laura and they ask her about the Demetrius.
Laura manages to deflect their questions, but in the privacy of her office after Tory and Lee have left, she kind of gives it to Adama hard. She says she's busy covering for his mistake and dismisses him. Harsh.
7) Time line! It's been a whole twenty-two days since Six Of One. So, I suppose it's unlikely that Bill went to read to Laura as some kind of apology because that's a long time to take to apologize for such hurtful words, but, at the same time, Laura's expression when he reads to her makes it seem like it's the first Adama's kind of reached on in that way for a bit. I mean, she does her best to not just sob, she seems so relieved to have him there. And then her non-cry turns into a soft smile.
Did I mention I think Mary McDonnell is amazing?
8) But the Demetrius crew is also not happy with Kara because she's the worst mission leader of all time. For the last twenty-two days, Helo, Athena, Anders, Seelix, Gaeta, Matthias, and some dude I've never seen before (but who has a disproportionately big mouth considering his previous lack of screen time) have been stuck on the garbage ship for more than three weeks while Starbuck continually changes her route to find Earth.
I thought her intuitive feeling was clearly telling her what direction she should be going. Guess it can't be that easy.
9) The child actor they have playing Nicky is too young for that part. Nicky, at this point, should be two years old or so. Now, I'm never around babies or kids, but the child they have playing that role can't even be a year yet. Right?
10) Back to the basestars. Natalie agrees for a reunion as long as the Cavils can guarantee that the cylons will stop lobotomizing the raiders and unbox D'Anna (great idea!). They also want to find the Final Five because their primary goal is to unite the twelve models in order to promote the greater unity of the cylons.
Is this what Alanis Morisette should have been singing in Ironic?
11) I have a serious bone to pick in this episode with Zarek. And probably the writers. Because they write Zarek's lines.
Zarek meets with Lee in a private kind of meeting and he kind of acts like Kelly Bensimmon (Real Housewives fans will get that obscure reference) and twists reality into some kind of bald faced lie. Case in point? He tells Lee that Laura made him vice president because she wanted to keep him on the sidelines.
Um . . . What? I can't help but wonder if Zarek remembers he was president and resigned his post so Laura could step in. Sure, he had military pressure, but he and Laura were friendly then. He made it conditional that she let him stay in the government and she offered the role of veep. He seemed super happy with it at the time, almost like he didn't expect her to give him that good of a position. And now he's saying she only did it to keep him sidelined? I know the veep does mostly nothing (tie breaker in the senate!), but the position is probably, ultimately, what you make of it.
Zarek also tells Lee that he's happy Lee stood up for Baltar and did it by putting Laura up on the stand, implying that Zarek was happy that Lee basically accused the president of being a big lying drug addict.
Um . . . huh? Zarek spent four months in a cell during the cylon occupation. He convened a secret jury of New Caprican survivors to get revenge on collaborators. He didn't even want a trial for Baltar. He wanted Laura to simply execute him. So . . . suddenly he likes people who stand up for Baltar? And, after a season of showing us otherwise, he suddenly hates Laura?
12) The only things he says that makes sense is by calling Laura a dictator. I mean, she kind of is at this point, especially if many of her decisions aren't democratically passed by just kind of implemented by her. And it's true that Laura is not a tyrant because she doesn't crave power. She truly does just want to save everybody and Zarek sees that that, at least, is genuine.
But . . . You know, I think Richard Hatch does a fine job in this role but I wish the writers would give it a little more consistency.
(And, now that I think about it (just as a random aside), why didn't Zarek take the stand at that trial? He would have made for a good witness.)
13) Kara's taken to painting again and she and Sam totally do it. (*Snickers*) Afterward they have an interesting conversation that kind of makes me more sympathetic to Kara in a way I haven't been in the last couple episodes, mainly due to her super loud histronics. But Kara says that her dilemma is kind of about how she's watching herself but she's not living her actions. Kind of like an out-of-body experience, I imagine, when you see what you're doing but you can't really make out how you're doing it or why you're doing it. You're reacting to things but you can't actually present. She says that her body is an alien thing she's attached to.
I think this kind of only intensifies the mystery of what Starbuck is. If she's not a cylon, what is she?
14) Cavil starts phase one of his evil plan for cylon domination. He comes back to Natalie and some of the others and says that the Fours and Fives voted okay on unboxing D'Anna but that they would need to jump out to another hub in order to . . . I don't know. Get the process going?
Except he gave in way to easy. I think we all know this isn't going to end well but apparently Natalie is an optimist. She agrees to his plan.
15) Diloxin treatment sucks. Partly because Laura's hair is already flat and thinning.
16) These quorum meetings are a hoot. I feel so bad for Laura knowing she has to deal with those things all the time. But this scene never fails to make me laugh because during one of the more loud yelling matches the quorum discussion devolves in to, one of the delegates tells another delegate to kiss her ass.
It doesn't take much to make me laugh.
17) One of the quorum members (Jacob) tries to get Laura to talk about the Demetrius but Laura shuts him down because the Demetrius mission has to do with fleet security and Laura's a bit of a dictator. Lee tries to be the badass and talks about his "experience" in the military showing him that they often ere on the side of caution and that Laura should just concede that they're exploring every possible way to Earth. And then he sits down with a smug smile on his face.
Laura's still pissed about that trial, though, and she is not happy to have to deal with Lee Adama's newbie antics on top of the already overdone quorum and she shuts him down, telling him she doesn't want a junior delegate to appoint himself as her spokesman.
Boom. Roasted.
But Lee fights back because he, like Baltar, has a fragile ego, and he starts talking about this directive Laura made, in secret, that Zarek gave him, where it basically says in trials Laura will choose the judges. I'm sure there's more and no, it doesn't make Laura look good and I'm not happy that Laura's basically trying to doctor trials, but Lee's kind of morphed from an ass to a Zarek henchman. Way to go, Lee! Because he thinks he's fighting for justice but he's really just doing Zarek's dirty work.
18) So, the Sixes, the Eights, and the Twos go to the rendezvous to await the glorious D'Anna (yiyiyiyiyiyi!), but the resurrection ship doesn't show and there's no hub and the sensors indicate that Cavil's basestar is firing up the nukes. He's looking to actually kill the others. That means no more Sixes (with the exception of Caprica on Galactica), no more Twos, and no more Eights (other than Boomer and Athena).
Yikes.
19) Cally finds a note Tigh left in the Tyrols' drop box and goes to the location written on it because she likely suspects it's a rendezvous for Chief and Tory to get down and dirty. But she she sneaks through the vent and hear what's going on, she happens upon a meeting between Tory, Tyrol, and Tigh and hears, outright from Tigh, that the three of them are cylons.
Before Tigh's identity was revealed, I would have said the only person in the fleet more of a cylon hater than him was Cally. But now I think Cally has him beat. So hearing this news basically pushes her into a new plain of unhinged and she races back to her quarters.
20) Tyrol comes back and he tries to assure her that he's devoted only to her and to Nicky but she knocks him in the head a couple times with a wrench. She takes Nicky and goes with him to the nearest airlock.
21) The most intriguing part of this episode is Tory's murder of Cally. Because it almost comes out of nowhere, especially considering where the scene seemed to be going before that final moment.
Tory finds a frantic Cally and Nicky in the airlock and Cally flips out because she knows Tory's a cylon and she locks the three of them in. But Tory tries to calm her down. She tells Cally that Cally can't possibly know what Tory is because she doesn't even know what she is. She says, "All we know is that we're cylons, but in every other way, we're still the same people."
It's another example of how you are what you do. Yeah, Tory's a cylon. But she's always been a cylon and it never seemed to matter before, back when no one knew. Why should that change? Shouldn't she be the same person she was?
She manages to actually calm Cally down, probably because she makes Cally see what she's going to do with her son. She gives Nicky to Tory with the idea that they'll all leave the airlock, but Tory has other ideas. She smacks Cally back (with super cylon strength, I guess) and exits the airlock with Nicky, closing Cally in by herself. And then puts Cally out the airlock.
So . . . what do we make of this? Why does Tory kill Cally? I think it's easy to say that it was some kind of self preservation. Cally knew her identity and could have told others and Tory would have found herself going out the airlock instead of Cally. Also, Nicky's a hybrid now, right? And she'd want to protect him for sure. And probably would rather he not be raised by someone who hates the cylons as intensely as Cally.
But, ultimately, I think Tory is just struggling with her new identity. She tells Cally she's the same person she's always been, but she also tells Chief that she's experiencing new feelings and sensations, feelings and sensations that she is really enjoying experiencing. She's trying on new personas and I think, in a strange warped kind of way, she was just kind of trying murder out. Because Tory doesn't know who she is anymore and she doesn't know what it means to be a cylon. Her only experience with cylons is from a human point of view so it's almost like she's now playing the role of a cylon from that human point of view. So she does things human!Tory would never do.
I don't know. I really love Tory because I think her struggle with her identity is a really cool, fascinating one. She copes with it in such an unexpected way. I never get bored with her conflict.
22) A moment of typing to tell you how much I love Bear McCreary's Cally Descends. I love it so much. That is all.
23) Oh! I almost forgot! Like a chump! I mentioned in my review for Hero that there were some parallels between that episode and The Ties That Bind. "Parallels" may have been too strong of a word, but when I was watching Hero, how Chief and Cally are having problems but how they resolve them by being determined to band together as a family before being thrown out the airlock into the waiting raptor, which saves them, it reminded me of the final scene of The Ties That Bind. Because, once again, she and Chief are having issues and, once again, she finds herself in an airlock. The problems can't be resolved this time and there's not raptor outside waiting to rescue her.
I guess I found it interesting that the writers chose to have Cally go to the airlock after Hero and I wonder if it was a deliberate choice based on that scene.
So that's my review! I'm not happy with it. Blerg. I felt weird writing it. One of those days, I suppose. But I was happy there was no harem in this episode and, as I said, I'm really finding the stuff with Tory really interesting. I'm not, however, finding season four as satisfying as I want. At least not yet. I love elements of episodes, but not whole episodes. Might be a personality disorder. The Ties That Bind was a huge episode, you know? The cylons are beyond the brink of civil war, no one like Kara, and Tory murdered Cally. But there was something intangible missing. I just wish I knew what. So I'm going to give The Ties That Bind 3.5 out of 5 airlocks.
And hey! Cally Descends!
And with that awkward interlude, let's do it!
Oh, um, also? I thought this episode was Escape Velocity. Hence the unconnected language of the cut. And back when I talked about the "parallels" between Hero and Escape Velocity, I meant Hero and The Ties That Bind. My bad, people. My bad.
Jump? Please?
1) The Ties That Bind begins with 39,676 survivors, which mean no one died between this episode and Six Of One.
2) I suppose I would argue that The Ties That Bind tells the story of cylon conflict, internal and external. Externally, the cylons over on the basestar are having some serious trouble because, as we learn from Cavil, the Sixes (lead, naturally, by Natalie) have taken their own ship, along with the Twos and Eights with the centurions. They aren't at civil war yet, but the lines have certainly been drawn.
3) Internally, the cylons on Galactica are trying to figure out how they fit into the world with their newly discovered identities and, in this episode, that internal conflict is no better represented than in Tory. You see, Cally and the Chief are having some serious problems at home. Cally's having a lot of issues with her health. She can't sleep, for example, and she seems to be delving into paranoia, likely aided, I assume, by the pills she's been taking. Chief, under a lot of stress due to his job, his screaming child, his crazy wife, and the fact that he's now a cylon, has basically been running away from his familial responsibilities.
4) So where does Tory come in? Her very presence in the bar with Tyrol puts Cally over a whole new edge.
But, more importantly, it's all about the conversation Chief and Tory have in the bar. Tyrol admits that he doesn't know who he is anymore and it's obviously made him unsettled in an uncomfortable and awkward kind of way. Tory has the same unsettledness, but for her, instead of it making her uncomfortable, she's starting to thrive on it. She loves experiences of being flooded with new feelings and sensations. It's kind of like she's free to create the person she wants to be. Like when a high schooler goes to college and can completely change their identity because no one knows what they used to be like. Tory has a similar kind of freedom that's coming from within.
5) But there are other conflicts going on in the fleet. And now that I think about it, the themes with the cylons kind of mirros what's going on with the humans. Like, say, Laura and Lee have an external conflict while Cally is struggling through an internal conflict.
Also . . . remember that spat Laura and Bill had in Six Of One? It's resolved here. Laura goes in for another diloxin treatment and Bill comes to read to her Love and Bullets by Nick Taylo.
6) But while the two of them are back to themselves on a more personal level, President Roslin is still not pleased with Admiral Adama. At a press conference for Lee to talk about his improbable rise to junior delegate from Caprica, the press (naturally) directs all their questions to Laura and they ask her about the Demetrius.
Laura manages to deflect their questions, but in the privacy of her office after Tory and Lee have left, she kind of gives it to Adama hard. She says she's busy covering for his mistake and dismisses him. Harsh.
7) Time line! It's been a whole twenty-two days since Six Of One. So, I suppose it's unlikely that Bill went to read to Laura as some kind of apology because that's a long time to take to apologize for such hurtful words, but, at the same time, Laura's expression when he reads to her makes it seem like it's the first Adama's kind of reached on in that way for a bit. I mean, she does her best to not just sob, she seems so relieved to have him there. And then her non-cry turns into a soft smile.
Did I mention I think Mary McDonnell is amazing?
8) But the Demetrius crew is also not happy with Kara because she's the worst mission leader of all time. For the last twenty-two days, Helo, Athena, Anders, Seelix, Gaeta, Matthias, and some dude I've never seen before (but who has a disproportionately big mouth considering his previous lack of screen time) have been stuck on the garbage ship for more than three weeks while Starbuck continually changes her route to find Earth.
I thought her intuitive feeling was clearly telling her what direction she should be going. Guess it can't be that easy.
9) The child actor they have playing Nicky is too young for that part. Nicky, at this point, should be two years old or so. Now, I'm never around babies or kids, but the child they have playing that role can't even be a year yet. Right?
10) Back to the basestars. Natalie agrees for a reunion as long as the Cavils can guarantee that the cylons will stop lobotomizing the raiders and unbox D'Anna (great idea!). They also want to find the Final Five because their primary goal is to unite the twelve models in order to promote the greater unity of the cylons.
Is this what Alanis Morisette should have been singing in Ironic?
11) I have a serious bone to pick in this episode with Zarek. And probably the writers. Because they write Zarek's lines.
Zarek meets with Lee in a private kind of meeting and he kind of acts like Kelly Bensimmon (Real Housewives fans will get that obscure reference) and twists reality into some kind of bald faced lie. Case in point? He tells Lee that Laura made him vice president because she wanted to keep him on the sidelines.
Um . . . What? I can't help but wonder if Zarek remembers he was president and resigned his post so Laura could step in. Sure, he had military pressure, but he and Laura were friendly then. He made it conditional that she let him stay in the government and she offered the role of veep. He seemed super happy with it at the time, almost like he didn't expect her to give him that good of a position. And now he's saying she only did it to keep him sidelined? I know the veep does mostly nothing (tie breaker in the senate!), but the position is probably, ultimately, what you make of it.
Zarek also tells Lee that he's happy Lee stood up for Baltar and did it by putting Laura up on the stand, implying that Zarek was happy that Lee basically accused the president of being a big lying drug addict.
Um . . . huh? Zarek spent four months in a cell during the cylon occupation. He convened a secret jury of New Caprican survivors to get revenge on collaborators. He didn't even want a trial for Baltar. He wanted Laura to simply execute him. So . . . suddenly he likes people who stand up for Baltar? And, after a season of showing us otherwise, he suddenly hates Laura?
12) The only things he says that makes sense is by calling Laura a dictator. I mean, she kind of is at this point, especially if many of her decisions aren't democratically passed by just kind of implemented by her. And it's true that Laura is not a tyrant because she doesn't crave power. She truly does just want to save everybody and Zarek sees that that, at least, is genuine.
But . . . You know, I think Richard Hatch does a fine job in this role but I wish the writers would give it a little more consistency.
(And, now that I think about it (just as a random aside), why didn't Zarek take the stand at that trial? He would have made for a good witness.)
13) Kara's taken to painting again and she and Sam totally do it. (*Snickers*) Afterward they have an interesting conversation that kind of makes me more sympathetic to Kara in a way I haven't been in the last couple episodes, mainly due to her super loud histronics. But Kara says that her dilemma is kind of about how she's watching herself but she's not living her actions. Kind of like an out-of-body experience, I imagine, when you see what you're doing but you can't really make out how you're doing it or why you're doing it. You're reacting to things but you can't actually present. She says that her body is an alien thing she's attached to.
I think this kind of only intensifies the mystery of what Starbuck is. If she's not a cylon, what is she?
14) Cavil starts phase one of his evil plan for cylon domination. He comes back to Natalie and some of the others and says that the Fours and Fives voted okay on unboxing D'Anna but that they would need to jump out to another hub in order to . . . I don't know. Get the process going?
Except he gave in way to easy. I think we all know this isn't going to end well but apparently Natalie is an optimist. She agrees to his plan.
15) Diloxin treatment sucks. Partly because Laura's hair is already flat and thinning.
16) These quorum meetings are a hoot. I feel so bad for Laura knowing she has to deal with those things all the time. But this scene never fails to make me laugh because during one of the more loud yelling matches the quorum discussion devolves in to, one of the delegates tells another delegate to kiss her ass.
It doesn't take much to make me laugh.
17) One of the quorum members (Jacob) tries to get Laura to talk about the Demetrius but Laura shuts him down because the Demetrius mission has to do with fleet security and Laura's a bit of a dictator. Lee tries to be the badass and talks about his "experience" in the military showing him that they often ere on the side of caution and that Laura should just concede that they're exploring every possible way to Earth. And then he sits down with a smug smile on his face.
Laura's still pissed about that trial, though, and she is not happy to have to deal with Lee Adama's newbie antics on top of the already overdone quorum and she shuts him down, telling him she doesn't want a junior delegate to appoint himself as her spokesman.
Boom. Roasted.
But Lee fights back because he, like Baltar, has a fragile ego, and he starts talking about this directive Laura made, in secret, that Zarek gave him, where it basically says in trials Laura will choose the judges. I'm sure there's more and no, it doesn't make Laura look good and I'm not happy that Laura's basically trying to doctor trials, but Lee's kind of morphed from an ass to a Zarek henchman. Way to go, Lee! Because he thinks he's fighting for justice but he's really just doing Zarek's dirty work.
18) So, the Sixes, the Eights, and the Twos go to the rendezvous to await the glorious D'Anna (yiyiyiyiyiyi!), but the resurrection ship doesn't show and there's no hub and the sensors indicate that Cavil's basestar is firing up the nukes. He's looking to actually kill the others. That means no more Sixes (with the exception of Caprica on Galactica), no more Twos, and no more Eights (other than Boomer and Athena).
Yikes.
19) Cally finds a note Tigh left in the Tyrols' drop box and goes to the location written on it because she likely suspects it's a rendezvous for Chief and Tory to get down and dirty. But she she sneaks through the vent and hear what's going on, she happens upon a meeting between Tory, Tyrol, and Tigh and hears, outright from Tigh, that the three of them are cylons.
Before Tigh's identity was revealed, I would have said the only person in the fleet more of a cylon hater than him was Cally. But now I think Cally has him beat. So hearing this news basically pushes her into a new plain of unhinged and she races back to her quarters.
20) Tyrol comes back and he tries to assure her that he's devoted only to her and to Nicky but she knocks him in the head a couple times with a wrench. She takes Nicky and goes with him to the nearest airlock.
21) The most intriguing part of this episode is Tory's murder of Cally. Because it almost comes out of nowhere, especially considering where the scene seemed to be going before that final moment.
Tory finds a frantic Cally and Nicky in the airlock and Cally flips out because she knows Tory's a cylon and she locks the three of them in. But Tory tries to calm her down. She tells Cally that Cally can't possibly know what Tory is because she doesn't even know what she is. She says, "All we know is that we're cylons, but in every other way, we're still the same people."
It's another example of how you are what you do. Yeah, Tory's a cylon. But she's always been a cylon and it never seemed to matter before, back when no one knew. Why should that change? Shouldn't she be the same person she was?
She manages to actually calm Cally down, probably because she makes Cally see what she's going to do with her son. She gives Nicky to Tory with the idea that they'll all leave the airlock, but Tory has other ideas. She smacks Cally back (with super cylon strength, I guess) and exits the airlock with Nicky, closing Cally in by herself. And then puts Cally out the airlock.
So . . . what do we make of this? Why does Tory kill Cally? I think it's easy to say that it was some kind of self preservation. Cally knew her identity and could have told others and Tory would have found herself going out the airlock instead of Cally. Also, Nicky's a hybrid now, right? And she'd want to protect him for sure. And probably would rather he not be raised by someone who hates the cylons as intensely as Cally.
But, ultimately, I think Tory is just struggling with her new identity. She tells Cally she's the same person she's always been, but she also tells Chief that she's experiencing new feelings and sensations, feelings and sensations that she is really enjoying experiencing. She's trying on new personas and I think, in a strange warped kind of way, she was just kind of trying murder out. Because Tory doesn't know who she is anymore and she doesn't know what it means to be a cylon. Her only experience with cylons is from a human point of view so it's almost like she's now playing the role of a cylon from that human point of view. So she does things human!Tory would never do.
I don't know. I really love Tory because I think her struggle with her identity is a really cool, fascinating one. She copes with it in such an unexpected way. I never get bored with her conflict.
22) A moment of typing to tell you how much I love Bear McCreary's Cally Descends. I love it so much. That is all.
23) Oh! I almost forgot! Like a chump! I mentioned in my review for Hero that there were some parallels between that episode and The Ties That Bind. "Parallels" may have been too strong of a word, but when I was watching Hero, how Chief and Cally are having problems but how they resolve them by being determined to band together as a family before being thrown out the airlock into the waiting raptor, which saves them, it reminded me of the final scene of The Ties That Bind. Because, once again, she and Chief are having issues and, once again, she finds herself in an airlock. The problems can't be resolved this time and there's not raptor outside waiting to rescue her.
I guess I found it interesting that the writers chose to have Cally go to the airlock after Hero and I wonder if it was a deliberate choice based on that scene.
So that's my review! I'm not happy with it. Blerg. I felt weird writing it. One of those days, I suppose. But I was happy there was no harem in this episode and, as I said, I'm really finding the stuff with Tory really interesting. I'm not, however, finding season four as satisfying as I want. At least not yet. I love elements of episodes, but not whole episodes. Might be a personality disorder. The Ties That Bind was a huge episode, you know? The cylons are beyond the brink of civil war, no one like Kara, and Tory murdered Cally. But there was something intangible missing. I just wish I knew what. So I'm going to give The Ties That Bind 3.5 out of 5 airlocks.
And hey! Cally Descends!
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