Faith
I'm just going to put it out there so that I have witnesses, but I intend to finish reviewing season 4.0 within the next five days. If I skip a day, please feel free to virtually flog me because I have fifteen episodes left and twenty-three or so days to finish this little project of mine and I will be successful, dammit! I've been kind of blah about season four so far but I'm hoping writing about Faith will galvanize me and give me the kick in the ass I need. So here goes nothing!
Jumpin' Jack Flash is not behind the cut.
1) Faith begins with 39,675 survivors, one less than in The Road Less Traveled.
2) Faith picks up right where where The Road Less Traveled left off, so we open with the crew on the Demetrius pretty much rebelling against Kara's command. Helo gets Gaeta to put in the jump coordinates to go back to Galactica but Sam goes super Clint Eastwood on everyone, whips out his gun, and shoots Gaeta in the leg before he can execute the jump order.
3) Gaeta's shooting seems to kind of startle everyone out of their stupor (and also leaves Gaeta writhing in pain) and Kara comes to her senses and decides that she was wrong to jump the Demetrius into what could have been a cylon trap. Instead, she decides to take a raptor with Leoben to the basestar in order to minimize potential casualties. Sam volunteers because he's a super loyal husband and, frankly, staying on board a ship with the guy you just shot who is probably going to lose his leg is super awkward. Kara needs Athena to come with her so that she has a more-trust-worthy-than-Leoben inside person and Barolay volunteers because she goes wherever Sam goes she thinks Kara's been kicking ass since she got back and she's looking forward to seeing what she's going to do next.
4) Helo sets a timer on the Demetrius so Starbuck knows how long she has before the Demetrius has to jump back to Galactica so that Galactica won't jump without them. So, Faith takes place over the time span of fifteen hours.
5) Faith is also the introduction of bald!Laura. Oh, man. Bald!Laura. Kind of startling but I'm glad they decided to show her without her wig because it's kind of very real reminder of her sickness and how it's slowly ravaging her body. I mean, Laura without hair? Who would have thought, right? It's uncomfortable, I think, but exactly what the audience needed to see.
6) I can't state enough how much I love Laura and Tory's relationship. Even now that she's a super murderous Baltar loving cylon, Tory still remains loyal to Laura. I mean, she's still feeding Laura inside information about Baltar and his harem and she seems genuinely concerned about Laura's well being and sincerely moved by Laura's declaration of faith in her abilities as aide. No matter what happens in Tory's life (and I admit I'm taking some later episodic events into account as I write this), I maintain that Laura is always first in her mind and it's such a strange thing to say about someone who has changed so quickly.
7) Who else wants to attack Kara, grab a comb, and brush her hair out and away from her face? Maybe put it back in a pony tail. Jesus, woman. It's so gross.
8) Interestingly, the damaged basestar that Starbuck's raptor comes across is the comet she saw in her original Earth vision. It's hovering near a giant red gas planet, too, which was also a part of her original vision. Guess it was a good idea for her to go with Leoben.
9) I love the Eights. Not in the same way I love the Sixes, the Twos, and the Threes, but I love them because they're so flaky as a model overall. They're just so squirrelly and quick to move positions and I love them because they love Athena and she's so not cool with that. When she exits the raptor on board the basestar, a whole entourage of Eights shows up and tell her how much they admire her because she was the one who showed all of them that they didn't have to be slaves to their upbringing.
Naturally, they want her to lead a mutiny against the Sixes because they're afraid that the Sixes, lead by Natalie, are leading them down the wrong path. Athena can't believe it. She may be an Eight but she somehow must be the only model without some kind of weird genetic mutation. She's mad at them and tells them that they can't just keep switching sides. They have to pick one and stick with it. I wish I could remember the episode where she says something like this to Helo, where she mentions that she chose her side and was standing by her decision even if it meant going against her people because that's just what you did.
10) I have to admit: I really hate watching the scene where Laura firsts meets Emily because she tries to turn off Emily's radio and Emily yells at her. It just makes me uncomfortable. I can't help it. I usually turn the volume to mute so I can pretend it doesn't happen.
11) Back on the basestar, Natalie wants to just take the raptor's FTL and jump information and run to safety but Leoben's not having it. He believes that Starbuck needs to see the hybrid because it will allow her to start completing her destiny and Kara tells her that there's no way they'd be able to figure out the information from their jump drives without human help, anyway, so Natalie reluctantly agrees to the truce that Leoben had set forth to Kara in the last episode.
12) While the cylons are communicating through the liquid hand thing, Sam almost sticks his hand in there, too. I kind of wish he had because I'd love to know what would have happened. The hyrbid may have spontaneously combusted or something.
13) One of the best scenes of Faith comes out of the confrontation between a Six and Barolay. This Six was down on New Caprica and Barolay, a character we really don't know much about other than that she was part of the original resistance back on Caprica and basically went wherever Sam went, killed her in a somewhat inhumane way (if any kind of killing could ever be called humane) and the Six has never really been able to get over it.
So, they exchange some words and Barolay is not contrite over the Sixes death so the Six slams Barolay's head against the raptor and kills her. Which makes Sam pull out his gun (again) to kill the Six.
Now, you all know I've been watching Xena. In fact, I watched the whole series (sans two episodes which weren't available on Netflix Instand Watch) in less than a month. I find that themes from Xena and BSG have been seriously overlapping and since I've been watching Xena I've been thinking a lot about the idea of vengeance and retribution and about the cycle of violence because it's something the character of Gabrielle, in particular, grapples with. And here it is again!
Barolay killed Six. So Six killed Barolay. So Sam wants to kill Six. Vengeance. These murders must be avenged. But the problem is that it creates this environment where everything much be avenged and if you avenge every murder, you soon will have no one left.
In a way, Natalie kind of breaks that cycle because she actually pulls the trigger against the Six and not Sam. She asks Kara, "Is that enough human justice for you? Blood for blood?" But the ridiculous thing is that it's a cylon justice thing, too. I mean, genocide, anybody? But what breaks the cycle is the fact that Natalie didn't really kill the Six to avenge the death of Barolay. Instead, she killed the Six because she realized that the Six was never going to move beyond what had happened to her down on New Caprica. It was a killing of mercy, not of vengeance. Had Sam shot the Six, I think the scene would have ended very differently.
But the idea of vengeance, or "blood for blood", while always a present theme in the show, is really going to take a new path in upcoming episodes and I was really struck by this scene and how it was like a small representation of what could follow if cylons and humans just give up their blood lust and work as a team.
14) Believe it or not, I consider Faith to be a Laura episode. Actually, it's my favorite Laura episode. It's kind of funny because she's not actually in this episode all that much, but I think the scenes she does have are riveting.
Emily calls to her while she's passing by and apologizes for yelling at her and Laura goes in and Emily offers her a handkerchief for her head and they talk. Emily tells her that she's not really a fan of Baltar and that she actually voted for Laura during the election, but that there's something about Baltar's sermons that resonate with her. One night she had had a near death experience and saw herself on a ferry crossing a river and on the bank stood her family, safe and well and waiting for her to join them.
I suppose it was the Elysium fields, right? The Baltar version?
Laura's skeptical because people in her and Emily's predicament often have dreams like that, but Emily's convinced Baltar's on to something because she often talks about the river that separates this world from the next.
I love this scene for a couple reasons. First, Mary and the woman who plays Emily (I want to say Nana Visitor?) are wonderful. Second, I find something just basically interesting about the idea of water and the afterlife. I don't really know why, but water brought life to the planet, right? Life began in the oceans. So there's something kind of compelling about it also leading the way to death.
15) So Kara goes to see the hyrbid and, as usual, she doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Or does she? I seriously love her quote, "The children of the one reborn shall find their own country." The one reborn? Kara? Is she the mother of humanity? Maybe . . . but we'll get to that later.
Starbuck's annoyed because she can't really parcel out anything from the near nonsense coming from the hybrid and Leoben tells her, with another line that I just love, "Don't expect the fate of two great races to be delivered quickly."
16) In order to reconfigure something and jump the basestar out, they need to unplug the hybrid but she flips out just as an Eight is about to disconnect her and a centurion morphs into action mode and shoots her (and is quickly taken out by Kara).
This galvanizes the hybrid into more understandable riddles and she tells Starbuck, "Thus will it come to pass: A dying leader will know the truth of the Opera House. The missing Three will give you the Five who have come from the home of the Thirteenth. You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace. You will lead them all to their end. End of line."
Well, okay.
Ugh, I love this so much. So, suddenly things are making more sense. The dying leader will know the truth of the Opera House. Well, Laura's supposed to be the dying leader and she's been having visions of the Opera House so that's understandable. The missing Three must obviously be D'Anna and she's the one who will reveal the Final Five who come from the home of the Thirteenth. Well, the Thirteenth Tribe of Kobol was the tribe that went to Earth, so that must mean the Final Five know the way to Earth because it's where they come from.
So that leaves this whole deal about Kara being the "harbinger of death". Doesn't sound so good, right? But is she also the "one reborn" whose children "shall find their own country"? Perhaps she's both.
17) Back on Galactica, Emily is reminded Laura of her mother because neither women were particularly interested in metaphors. They wanted hard truths and answers and Laura's mother was, apparently, a bit of a literalist when it came to the Sacred Scrolls. She was convinced Aphrodite herself was going to sweep her away to the Elysium Fields but taking care of her mother only seemed to embitter Laura against the faith which is just so interesting, isn't it?
Because Laura talks about how her mother saw a dark, black abyss as she was about to die. There was no Aphrodite. There were not fields of Elysium. There was just darkness and her mother was terrified. Now, Emily was right to tell Laura that it's what Laura saw, not necessarily what her mother saw, but the fact that Laura saw it just strikes me as fascinating because this is the woman who is the dying leader! She's been basically proving the validity of the Scrolls since season one! And she seems to believe it all up to a point, but I think this scene proved that she wasn't sure of what lay beyond life and was terrified of a large all consuming oblivion.
Gods, I just love it. How wonderful that the religious idealist doesn't even believe in an afterlife? I just think it's so awesomely complex.
18) The Eight that the centurion killed is dying and she wants Athena to forgive her but Athena can't bring herself to reach out and comfort her fellow cylon. In another great character development moment, Sam actually steps up and comforts her instead. A few minutes before, he'd had a gun pinned to the head of that Six, ready to shoot, and now he's comforting a dying Eight because no one else will. Added depth, people. You have to love that.
19) Kara and Natalie and Leoben figure out the hybrid's riddle (as we did earlier in this review) and they talk about the need to unbox D'Anna and part of me just screamed because I can't wait to see D'Anna again and not just because I have a huge crush on Lucy Lawless at the moment.
20) Laura dreams of being on a ferry with Emily, just as Emily has described to her earlier that day. She sees her family and it's really lovely because Emily actually gets to go to the bank but Laura looks so relieved to see her mother and it's like a giant weight is lifted from her chest and she whispers that she's not ready yet to join them. It's kind of like knowing there's something on the other side has kind of made it easier for her to go back, resolved, to do her job.
But, um, could those extras have been dressed worse? All the women were in their Easter Sunday bests from the 1980s. Laura's mom looks an awful lot like a less scary version of Barbara Bush Sr. and there are random military dudes in the background. And this is a small crowd, so it makes you go, "Um, who are you guys that you get to stand next to her family like that?"
21) Laura goes to see Bill. Wow, can you believe it's the first scene Bill's been in since Escape Velocity? Damn.
Well, they have a great little late night discussion. She's kind of coming around to Baltar's message because she can't help but notice that there's some kind of pull of truth in it. Bill doesn't seem too comfortable with Laura's dream because he doesn't want her to be comfortable with the idea of actually dying and he mentions Starbuck, Lee, Gaeta, Helo, Athena . . . They're all separated from him in some way and will he ever see them again? He doesn't want to lose the people he loves and, of course, Laura also fits within that group.
But Laura, in such a great turn around from their fight in Six Of One which covered similar themes in very different ways, assures him that she's "right here" and that they'll find Earth together. Bill tells her that he used to think Earth was simply a pipedream, something to dangle in front of the fleet until something real came along instead. Laura asks him what made him change in mind and in probably the cutest Bill Adama moment ever, smiles kind of goofily at her and says, "You. You made me believe."
And that's how the episode ends and I'm sitting there going, "Why can't all of season four be like this episode? Argh!"
So, um, yeah. I loved everything there was in this episode. I absolutely loved the Kara story line which is such a change from earlier episode (though it helped that we got to see a lot of Sam, Barolay, Natalie, and Athena) and I really can't rave enough on how much I love the scenes between Laura and Emily and the scene between Laura and Adama. I mean, seriously. They're just so wonderful. Faith definitely goes down as one of my all time favorite episodes of the series so I'm obviously going to give it 5 out of 5 airlocks.
Jumpin' Jack Flash is not behind the cut.
1) Faith begins with 39,675 survivors, one less than in The Road Less Traveled.
2) Faith picks up right where where The Road Less Traveled left off, so we open with the crew on the Demetrius pretty much rebelling against Kara's command. Helo gets Gaeta to put in the jump coordinates to go back to Galactica but Sam goes super Clint Eastwood on everyone, whips out his gun, and shoots Gaeta in the leg before he can execute the jump order.
3) Gaeta's shooting seems to kind of startle everyone out of their stupor (and also leaves Gaeta writhing in pain) and Kara comes to her senses and decides that she was wrong to jump the Demetrius into what could have been a cylon trap. Instead, she decides to take a raptor with Leoben to the basestar in order to minimize potential casualties. Sam volunteers because he's a super loyal husband and, frankly, staying on board a ship with the guy you just shot who is probably going to lose his leg is super awkward. Kara needs Athena to come with her so that she has a more-trust-worthy-than-Leoben inside person and Barolay volunteers because she goes wherever Sam goes she thinks Kara's been kicking ass since she got back and she's looking forward to seeing what she's going to do next.
4) Helo sets a timer on the Demetrius so Starbuck knows how long she has before the Demetrius has to jump back to Galactica so that Galactica won't jump without them. So, Faith takes place over the time span of fifteen hours.
5) Faith is also the introduction of bald!Laura. Oh, man. Bald!Laura. Kind of startling but I'm glad they decided to show her without her wig because it's kind of very real reminder of her sickness and how it's slowly ravaging her body. I mean, Laura without hair? Who would have thought, right? It's uncomfortable, I think, but exactly what the audience needed to see.
6) I can't state enough how much I love Laura and Tory's relationship. Even now that she's a super murderous Baltar loving cylon, Tory still remains loyal to Laura. I mean, she's still feeding Laura inside information about Baltar and his harem and she seems genuinely concerned about Laura's well being and sincerely moved by Laura's declaration of faith in her abilities as aide. No matter what happens in Tory's life (and I admit I'm taking some later episodic events into account as I write this), I maintain that Laura is always first in her mind and it's such a strange thing to say about someone who has changed so quickly.
7) Who else wants to attack Kara, grab a comb, and brush her hair out and away from her face? Maybe put it back in a pony tail. Jesus, woman. It's so gross.
8) Interestingly, the damaged basestar that Starbuck's raptor comes across is the comet she saw in her original Earth vision. It's hovering near a giant red gas planet, too, which was also a part of her original vision. Guess it was a good idea for her to go with Leoben.
9) I love the Eights. Not in the same way I love the Sixes, the Twos, and the Threes, but I love them because they're so flaky as a model overall. They're just so squirrelly and quick to move positions and I love them because they love Athena and she's so not cool with that. When she exits the raptor on board the basestar, a whole entourage of Eights shows up and tell her how much they admire her because she was the one who showed all of them that they didn't have to be slaves to their upbringing.
Naturally, they want her to lead a mutiny against the Sixes because they're afraid that the Sixes, lead by Natalie, are leading them down the wrong path. Athena can't believe it. She may be an Eight but she somehow must be the only model without some kind of weird genetic mutation. She's mad at them and tells them that they can't just keep switching sides. They have to pick one and stick with it. I wish I could remember the episode where she says something like this to Helo, where she mentions that she chose her side and was standing by her decision even if it meant going against her people because that's just what you did.
10) I have to admit: I really hate watching the scene where Laura firsts meets Emily because she tries to turn off Emily's radio and Emily yells at her. It just makes me uncomfortable. I can't help it. I usually turn the volume to mute so I can pretend it doesn't happen.
11) Back on the basestar, Natalie wants to just take the raptor's FTL and jump information and run to safety but Leoben's not having it. He believes that Starbuck needs to see the hybrid because it will allow her to start completing her destiny and Kara tells her that there's no way they'd be able to figure out the information from their jump drives without human help, anyway, so Natalie reluctantly agrees to the truce that Leoben had set forth to Kara in the last episode.
12) While the cylons are communicating through the liquid hand thing, Sam almost sticks his hand in there, too. I kind of wish he had because I'd love to know what would have happened. The hyrbid may have spontaneously combusted or something.
13) One of the best scenes of Faith comes out of the confrontation between a Six and Barolay. This Six was down on New Caprica and Barolay, a character we really don't know much about other than that she was part of the original resistance back on Caprica and basically went wherever Sam went, killed her in a somewhat inhumane way (if any kind of killing could ever be called humane) and the Six has never really been able to get over it.
So, they exchange some words and Barolay is not contrite over the Sixes death so the Six slams Barolay's head against the raptor and kills her. Which makes Sam pull out his gun (again) to kill the Six.
Now, you all know I've been watching Xena. In fact, I watched the whole series (sans two episodes which weren't available on Netflix Instand Watch) in less than a month. I find that themes from Xena and BSG have been seriously overlapping and since I've been watching Xena I've been thinking a lot about the idea of vengeance and retribution and about the cycle of violence because it's something the character of Gabrielle, in particular, grapples with. And here it is again!
Barolay killed Six. So Six killed Barolay. So Sam wants to kill Six. Vengeance. These murders must be avenged. But the problem is that it creates this environment where everything much be avenged and if you avenge every murder, you soon will have no one left.
In a way, Natalie kind of breaks that cycle because she actually pulls the trigger against the Six and not Sam. She asks Kara, "Is that enough human justice for you? Blood for blood?" But the ridiculous thing is that it's a cylon justice thing, too. I mean, genocide, anybody? But what breaks the cycle is the fact that Natalie didn't really kill the Six to avenge the death of Barolay. Instead, she killed the Six because she realized that the Six was never going to move beyond what had happened to her down on New Caprica. It was a killing of mercy, not of vengeance. Had Sam shot the Six, I think the scene would have ended very differently.
But the idea of vengeance, or "blood for blood", while always a present theme in the show, is really going to take a new path in upcoming episodes and I was really struck by this scene and how it was like a small representation of what could follow if cylons and humans just give up their blood lust and work as a team.
14) Believe it or not, I consider Faith to be a Laura episode. Actually, it's my favorite Laura episode. It's kind of funny because she's not actually in this episode all that much, but I think the scenes she does have are riveting.
Emily calls to her while she's passing by and apologizes for yelling at her and Laura goes in and Emily offers her a handkerchief for her head and they talk. Emily tells her that she's not really a fan of Baltar and that she actually voted for Laura during the election, but that there's something about Baltar's sermons that resonate with her. One night she had had a near death experience and saw herself on a ferry crossing a river and on the bank stood her family, safe and well and waiting for her to join them.
I suppose it was the Elysium fields, right? The Baltar version?
Laura's skeptical because people in her and Emily's predicament often have dreams like that, but Emily's convinced Baltar's on to something because she often talks about the river that separates this world from the next.
I love this scene for a couple reasons. First, Mary and the woman who plays Emily (I want to say Nana Visitor?) are wonderful. Second, I find something just basically interesting about the idea of water and the afterlife. I don't really know why, but water brought life to the planet, right? Life began in the oceans. So there's something kind of compelling about it also leading the way to death.
15) So Kara goes to see the hyrbid and, as usual, she doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Or does she? I seriously love her quote, "The children of the one reborn shall find their own country." The one reborn? Kara? Is she the mother of humanity? Maybe . . . but we'll get to that later.
Starbuck's annoyed because she can't really parcel out anything from the near nonsense coming from the hybrid and Leoben tells her, with another line that I just love, "Don't expect the fate of two great races to be delivered quickly."
16) In order to reconfigure something and jump the basestar out, they need to unplug the hybrid but she flips out just as an Eight is about to disconnect her and a centurion morphs into action mode and shoots her (and is quickly taken out by Kara).
This galvanizes the hybrid into more understandable riddles and she tells Starbuck, "Thus will it come to pass: A dying leader will know the truth of the Opera House. The missing Three will give you the Five who have come from the home of the Thirteenth. You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace. You will lead them all to their end. End of line."
Well, okay.
Ugh, I love this so much. So, suddenly things are making more sense. The dying leader will know the truth of the Opera House. Well, Laura's supposed to be the dying leader and she's been having visions of the Opera House so that's understandable. The missing Three must obviously be D'Anna and she's the one who will reveal the Final Five who come from the home of the Thirteenth. Well, the Thirteenth Tribe of Kobol was the tribe that went to Earth, so that must mean the Final Five know the way to Earth because it's where they come from.
So that leaves this whole deal about Kara being the "harbinger of death". Doesn't sound so good, right? But is she also the "one reborn" whose children "shall find their own country"? Perhaps she's both.
17) Back on Galactica, Emily is reminded Laura of her mother because neither women were particularly interested in metaphors. They wanted hard truths and answers and Laura's mother was, apparently, a bit of a literalist when it came to the Sacred Scrolls. She was convinced Aphrodite herself was going to sweep her away to the Elysium Fields but taking care of her mother only seemed to embitter Laura against the faith which is just so interesting, isn't it?
Because Laura talks about how her mother saw a dark, black abyss as she was about to die. There was no Aphrodite. There were not fields of Elysium. There was just darkness and her mother was terrified. Now, Emily was right to tell Laura that it's what Laura saw, not necessarily what her mother saw, but the fact that Laura saw it just strikes me as fascinating because this is the woman who is the dying leader! She's been basically proving the validity of the Scrolls since season one! And she seems to believe it all up to a point, but I think this scene proved that she wasn't sure of what lay beyond life and was terrified of a large all consuming oblivion.
Gods, I just love it. How wonderful that the religious idealist doesn't even believe in an afterlife? I just think it's so awesomely complex.
18) The Eight that the centurion killed is dying and she wants Athena to forgive her but Athena can't bring herself to reach out and comfort her fellow cylon. In another great character development moment, Sam actually steps up and comforts her instead. A few minutes before, he'd had a gun pinned to the head of that Six, ready to shoot, and now he's comforting a dying Eight because no one else will. Added depth, people. You have to love that.
19) Kara and Natalie and Leoben figure out the hybrid's riddle (as we did earlier in this review) and they talk about the need to unbox D'Anna and part of me just screamed because I can't wait to see D'Anna again and not just because I have a huge crush on Lucy Lawless at the moment.
20) Laura dreams of being on a ferry with Emily, just as Emily has described to her earlier that day. She sees her family and it's really lovely because Emily actually gets to go to the bank but Laura looks so relieved to see her mother and it's like a giant weight is lifted from her chest and she whispers that she's not ready yet to join them. It's kind of like knowing there's something on the other side has kind of made it easier for her to go back, resolved, to do her job.
But, um, could those extras have been dressed worse? All the women were in their Easter Sunday bests from the 1980s. Laura's mom looks an awful lot like a less scary version of Barbara Bush Sr. and there are random military dudes in the background. And this is a small crowd, so it makes you go, "Um, who are you guys that you get to stand next to her family like that?"
21) Laura goes to see Bill. Wow, can you believe it's the first scene Bill's been in since Escape Velocity? Damn.
Well, they have a great little late night discussion. She's kind of coming around to Baltar's message because she can't help but notice that there's some kind of pull of truth in it. Bill doesn't seem too comfortable with Laura's dream because he doesn't want her to be comfortable with the idea of actually dying and he mentions Starbuck, Lee, Gaeta, Helo, Athena . . . They're all separated from him in some way and will he ever see them again? He doesn't want to lose the people he loves and, of course, Laura also fits within that group.
But Laura, in such a great turn around from their fight in Six Of One which covered similar themes in very different ways, assures him that she's "right here" and that they'll find Earth together. Bill tells her that he used to think Earth was simply a pipedream, something to dangle in front of the fleet until something real came along instead. Laura asks him what made him change in mind and in probably the cutest Bill Adama moment ever, smiles kind of goofily at her and says, "You. You made me believe."
And that's how the episode ends and I'm sitting there going, "Why can't all of season four be like this episode? Argh!"
So, um, yeah. I loved everything there was in this episode. I absolutely loved the Kara story line which is such a change from earlier episode (though it helped that we got to see a lot of Sam, Barolay, Natalie, and Athena) and I really can't rave enough on how much I love the scenes between Laura and Emily and the scene between Laura and Adama. I mean, seriously. They're just so wonderful. Faith definitely goes down as one of my all time favorite episodes of the series so I'm obviously going to give it 5 out of 5 airlocks.