Faith….or the Mutiny Part 2

So the mutiny aboard the Demetrius continues. The only person standing alongside Starbuck is Anders, who thinks the mutiny is a bad thing. He has alternative motives as well. He wants to visit a cylon baseship to learn anything about his cylon self. To get his way, he shots Gaeta in the leg as he was trying to jump the ship back to the fleet. Anders gets his way then.

The crew does some calculations to find out that they have about 15 hours before they miss their window to catch the fleet. Helo agrees to send Starbuck and a crew on a raptor to the cylon baseship.

So on board the raptor are Starbuck, Leoben, Anders, Athena, and the anonymous extra crew member, who actually plays an important role later.

The raptor jumps to the coordinates and Starbuck realizes what she sees, she’s been painting it for the last three weeks. What she thought was a comet orbiting a gas planet, turns out to be the damaged baseship. The raptor docks and Athena is met by a group of Eights (her own model) who ask for her help to control the Sixes. (Yet another mutiny on the verge).

After convincing the Sixes that the humans are there to help (yes an alliance between cylons and humans), Athena begins to assess the situation by placing her hands in the cylon goo, something Anders wants to do very, very badly (as did every BSG fan). Athena then begins fixing the ship so that it can jump back to the Demetrius. While helping out Barolay (the anonymous crew member), works with one of the Sixes, who she apparently killed back on New Caprica. The Six holds a grudge and eventually lashes out and kills Barolay, which leads to an interesting scene.

Getting back to the reason why they are there. Starbuck finally meets the hybrid and she has this to say…

“Thus will they 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 bring them all to their end. End of line.”

The interesting line in there is “The missing three will give you the five, who have come from the home of the thirteenth.” Meaning = D’Anna knows who the Final Five are and they come from Earth, so they should get you there.

After getting over this, they finally jump the ship back to the Demetrius, who are still waiting despite the time running out.

On board Galactica, Roslyn’s dying. She shares some thoughts with another cancer patient and begins questioning her faith. That’s about it.

The Road Less Traveled

On board Galactica, not much really happens. Gaius has his own radio show where he talks about the cylon god and has basically become a priest. A newly bald Chief visits the “Church with Benefits” and eventually starts choking Gaius after he envokes the memory of Cally. Eventually the two men meet on calmer terms and shake hands.

Most of the exciting stuff in this episode takes place aboard the Demetrius, starting with the realization that Starbuck is gone crazy.

After painting the walls of her room, she decides to take a trip flying with the CAP, which causes problems with the crew as they have to sit around waiting for orders while she’s out flying. However, while out patrolling, a damaged heavy raider jumps into the area. Surprise, surprise, Leoben’s flying asking for Starbuck’s help, which she eventually gives.

The raider is docked to the ship and inspected. The inspection goes awry and the crew loses Mathias as the raider blows up.

Aboard the ship, outrage begins to surface with some of the crew as most feel uncomfortable letting another cylon (Athena being the first) on board. It would be interesting to see their reaction when they find out that Anders is one. Speaking of Anders, he had an interesting conversation with Leoben about “Kara’s Destiny.”

According to Leoben, Starbuck has to jump back to the cylon base to meet with everyone’s favorite character, the hybrid. With Starbuck being Starbuck, she wants to jump the entire ship. Helo says no and the mutiny begins. Starbuck relieves Helo from his post and turns to Gaeta, would joins Helo. In fact the only one to join Starbuck is…Anders (Shock). With the time running out on this mission the crew wants to jump back to the fleet. The episode ends with Helo taking control of the ship.

Escape Velocity

Okay, so there been a lot going on and I’ve failed to keep the post coming. So time to catch up, starting with Episode 4: Escape Velocity

After Cally’s death, the was a funeral services for her. Chief gave a wonderful speech about her and from that point on, he’s gone slightly crazy. He flipped at Adama, in Joe’s Bar, for making Cally out to be an angel when in his reality, she was cold. This lead to his demotion to Petty Office.

Col. Tigh had an interested few weeks. First, he kept visiting Caprica Six and asking questions about being a cylon. With each visit, he started see his wife, Ellen’s face on her body, which kinda drove him mad. At the end of the episode, Caprica beat him up in order to help him ignore the pain he was in, but that didn’t help him, so she kissed him. Meaning= Love, Don’t Hate.

Tory and Gaius are still getting it on, at an even more frequent pace. During one of their private meetings, a group known as “The Sons of Aries,” breaks into the brothel and caused a lot of damage. This leads to Roslyn to pass an executive order preventing group gatherings of more than 12 people. Lee and the rest of the Quorum have a huge problem with this and vote to restore the freedom of assembly, after Gaius gets the crap kicked out of him by two marines preventing him from having a gathering of 13.

No word on the Demetrius other than Starbuck has no frakking idea what the hell she is doing.