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“Sine Qua Non” - Recap

Posted by battlestar

May 31, 2008 |

I was going to do the normal recap for this episode, but then one of my friends on LiveJournal posted this amazing picspam of the episode tying the dialogue to previous episodes in a way that is nothing short of amazing and beautiful; thus, crazyvictoria will be doing the recap for this week. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did:

Sine qua non: without which not. On the surface, this episode is about men and women dealing with their feelings about each other. A man searching for the woman he loves; another trying to come to terms with a woman he hates, one he loved, and perhaps one that he didn’t plan on; a child ascending to adulthood with a gun to his head. If you look deeper, though, there’s a whole other story being told: that of the past. As the pictures opened and spun their tale, whispers of a time past filled my conscience. Do you love me, Gauis? You’ve lost perspective. I’m not giving up on you. Sine Qua Non’s brilliance lies its second story. It brings us back to the early days: Starbuck’s disappearance, a broken fleet, occupation, deaths. Sin Qua Non is You Can’t Go Home Again, and The Hand of God, and Kobol’s Last Gleaming, and Home, and Epiphanies, and Lay Down Your Burdens, and Maelstrom, and Crossroads. Every scene, every line crafted to mirror those that have come before them. Sine Qua Non is, quite simply, Battlestar Galactica.

 

Sine Qua Non: A Story in Pictures


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