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“Islanded in a Stream of Stars” Picspam/Recap

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March 9, 2009 |

It’s that time of the week-–picspam/recap time.  As usual, behind the cut you’ll find pictures and text showing you what happened last Friday night.  And as usual, it won’t be dial-up friendly.  Hope you enjoy these.  Here comes this week’s edition: stats for wordpress

During a verbal disagreement between a random Six and a random deckhand, we learn the repairs on the Galactica aren’t going so well.  Apparently the biological bonding material that is being used isn’t adhering as well as hoped to the hull.  This is evidenced when a giant beam behind them starts to split down the middle.

And now that I’m thinking about it, where was Chief for this episode?  And why did I not notice he wasn’t in it all until just now?  Ron Moore needs to upload his podcast for this episode and pronto.

Ellen explains to the Adamas and Saul that they need to go after Hera because she’s their future, and Starbuck agrees.  She tells them about the music Hera wrote down and all its connections to the Final Five.  Ellen says Cavil probably took her to The Colony, which is where the Final Five and the Centurions built the skinjob models.  Adama isn’t too happy to hear about all of it since he’s “had it up to here” with talk about fates and destiny.

Nothing too much happened in this scene.  I just wanted to make note of Grace Park and Tahmoh Penikett’s awesomeness.

The visions of the Opera House are back and are once again being shared by Athena, Caprica Six, and Laura.  Did they start again since Caprica is no longer pregnant?  Did they come back when Hera was taken?  We don’t really know.

Damage to the ship is getting worse.  There’s a hull rupture.  The Six from the first scene saves the life of the deckhand she was arguing with and manages to get a hatch shut sealing off the exposure to vacuum, and sacrificing herself in the process.

Cottle tells Saul that over sixty were injured, killed, or missing in the latest accident, and over a third of them were Cylons.  The deckhand then reports to Saul and Adama that the ship has five or left jumps left in her.  After that there’s a ninety percent chance the ship will collapse on herself.  The deckhand is dismissed and Saul tells Bill that the Cylons are ready and waiting for the Galactica crew to move everything over to the rebel baseship and have that become the new flagship of the fleet.  Bill goes over to Laura who apologizes to him since both of his women are dying on him.  Bill being Bill refuses, once again, that her statement is true.

We get to see our first meeting of the fleet captains, aka–Quorum 2.0.  The captains are worried about talks of military functions being transferred to the Cylon baseship.  Sonja, the Cylon rep, assures everyone that they forfeited control of the situation to Adama in order to have a seat on the Quorum (but not apparently in the Quorum meetings themselves).  The captain of the tyllium ship then becomes the first to call dibs on parts of Galactica, specifically the air and particle scrubbers.  Another captain wants the FTL drives.  The blond captain from Baltar’s trial says that an inventory will have to be put together and a lottery may have to happen.  Lee tells them all to sit down and shut up because no one is taking anything without his father’s say so.

Kara listens to Baltar’s address about angels, which he claims to see all the time (in the form of Head!Six).  Once he wraps up his talk with a cheesy signoff, Baltar catches sight of Caprica.  He catches up to her and stumbles through an apology about her miscarriage.  He lets her know that if she needs anything to let him now.  She lets him know that unlike her, he hasn’t changed one bit in the four or so years they’ve known each other.

Hera is crying for her mommy and Boomer is cursing the Raptor’s FTL drives for not getting them to Cavil sooner.  She threatens to drug Hera, but the three-year-old’s pouty bottom lip keeps the Eight from drastic measures.

Ellen once again reminds Saul that he’s a Cylon.  Saul once again reminds Ellen that he doesn’t give a frak and the only family he has is the crew of the Galactica.  Ellen doesn’t understand why he’s so devoted to Bill when they’ve been married for a couple of eons.   Same fight, different day.

Boomer tries to get Hera to eat a ration bar, but she refuses.  Boomer then starts to project herself into the house on Picon that she was going to build with Galen.  She’s surprised to learn that Hera can project, too, and appears beside her.  Being the smart, little girl she is, Hera then begins to eat because she’s projected the ration bar to look like a cupcake.  My kind of kid.

Starbuck confronts Baltar in the head.  She asks him if he really sees angels, and he says he does all the time.  Kara then fills him in on her finding her own body.  She gives him the dogtags she pulled off the corpse on Earth and tells him to run tests to discover what she really is.

Kara then goes to pay a visit to Sam, whose been given a hybrid setup on Galactica and is being watched over by an Eight at the moment.  Kara asks for some alone time and the Sharon leaves.  Kara then tells Sam that she once told Sam that if she found out he was a Cylon that she’d put a bullet in his head.  She pulls out her gun, and the comatose Sam snaps to life.  He wrenches the gun from Kara’s hand and begins doing hybrid-speak.

Bill is once again reading to Laura while she’s in a bed in sickbay.  She ha a big smile on her face and tells Bill to turn to page sixty-one.  There in between the pages she’s saved a joint from New Caprica.  She lights it up and tells Bill that Cottle won’t get mad because it’s “medicinal”.  I, on the other hand, think Cottle will get mad since she has an open flame near an oxygen line.  But since this is Battlestar Galactica and not Grey’s Anatomy nothing blows up.  The two share the herbal medication and reminisce about the time on New Caprica, specifically Laura’s plans to build a cabin.  She then tells Bill that he needs to get everyone off of Galactica before he loses both of his women in one fell swoop.

A Six and Eight explain to Kara and Saul that Sam has started to become Galactica’s very own hybrid.  This is possible because the resin they’ve been using to reinforce the hull is acting like nerve fibers and through that Sam can control the computer.  And since they’ve updated the FTL with Cylon technology, Sam could have the power to jump the ship on a whim.  Since there are only a few jumps the ship can make before breaking apart, Saul orders that Sam be unplugged.

Bill, Sonja and talk about the Heavy Raider they sent on a recon mission to The Colony came up empty.  Bill asks if they know of any alternative sites Cavil might be using to hide his faction, but neither of the ladies have any idea.

Helo comes up to Adama and asks for a Raptor for him and Athena to go look for their daughter.  Adama tells him about the recon mission that was a bust.  He says he won’t allow Helo and Athena to go on a “suicide mission”.  Adama tells him that he knows what it feels like to lose a kid and that Helo needs to move on.  Helo can’t believe the Old Man would tell him that when he’s futilely trying to repair a dead Galactica.

We watch a montage of the three funeral services being held for the crew killed when the hull ruptured during repairs.  They’re lead by Adama, Baltar, and Ellen.  Once they all wrap up, Baltar stars yelling that he was right about angels because he’s found proof of one.  He pulls out Kara’s dogtags and tells everyone that the blood left on them was blood from a dead body and the DNA matches Kara’s perfectly.  Starbuck, in a very un-Starbuck manner, walks up to him and slaps him across the face before leaving.  Adama orders everyone off the flight deck.

Lee finds Kara staring at the pictures of the dead on the memorial wall.  He tells her that he doesn’t care who or what she is.  She gives a little smile in return before he leaves, and then puts her picture back up on the wall where it was before.

Boomer finishes up Cavil’s plan and drops her off into his arms on The Colony.  He wishes he could see Ellen’s face when she realized what was going on.  He then takes Hera off and away.  Hera starts screaming for Boomer from behind the glass wall and Boomer shows a little emotion for the first time all episode.

Kara goes to Sam and acknowledges that they’re both not who they used to be.  She tells him that she needs help figuring out the whole “All Along the Watchtower” mess and plugs him back in.

Saul checks in on Bill, who surprises him by telling his XO that they’re going to abandon ship.  Bill starts making plans to get people, weapons, and supplies off the battlestar and transferred to the baseship.  Then the two share a toast to their beloved ship.


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  1. lutin on March 11, 2009 5:55 pm

    LOVE AS ALWAYS!!!!

    only tow left…………………….

    OLMOS is a GREAT actor director!!!

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