Islands in the stream… Oh, not that one. Here’s the episode from last week, just in case you missed that one. “Daybreak” vid to show up this coming Saturday
I looked on Hulu for a clip of Deadpan Chick giving a recap of “Daybreak,” and it’s not up yet. Darn.
Anyhow, this lead-up to the finale has resorted to a Lost style of story telling where there are lots of flashbacks. Baltar wears a white outfit because he thinks he’s John Lennon or Jesus or both. However, he treats his father with the coarse Arelon brogue badly in front of his Cylon girlfriend. In keeping with some of her ironically humane touches (like killing an infant before the Cylons bombed Caprica), Six arranges for Old Man Baltar to be put in a retirement home where he’ll only have a few days, months, etc., to enjoy life before the end of civilization.
Roslin wears dresses that are too young for her and eats sushi. Where in the Colonies sushi comes from is a mystery. Before learning she has breast cancer, she gets the news that her family dies in an accident and takes a shower in the city square’s fountain.
Adama accepts the assigment of closing the Galactica in civilian clothing. Then, the flashback turns on the rest of the Adama family, as Lee first hangs out with his brother and Kara at her place. Lee then drunkenly tries to chase a pidgeon out of his apartment, a scene which I don’t understand at all.
In the present, Sam Anders is still a naked bald man in a bathtub, though there’s a flashback of him in the bathtub after a pyramid game. Kara Thrace tries to get him to decode “All on the Watchtower.” but she and Adama wind up learning the location of the Colony instead.
Tyrol, now in the brig, cynically sees all the Eights as blow-up dolls and tries to convince Helo the same. Only blow-up dolls don’t argue back, which is what Athena does when Helo tries to reassure her finding the Colony is good news as they’ll soon rescue Hera. Athena, knowing Cavil much better, is morbidly convinced that the One model is intent on cutting her daughter up to find the desperately needed secret for the survival of the Cylon race.
Hera’s photo is up on the Wall of Remembrance, and Adama looks at it in a grandfatherly way, which shows how he views Athena as his daughter. In the original series, Athena was Adama’s daughter. Rescue is part of his object, but also striking at the Cylon colony is a part of that too. Humans attacking the colony directly would mirror how the Cylons struck the Colonies in the beginning.
Baltar tries to seek representation for his cult, but fails to do so. He is right in a previous episode when he makes the comment that these people have no representation in the new Quorum. The Cylons do, but this group of representatives is ship-based. His interior Six tells him he’ll write the end of humanity, but we’ll have to see if she’s right.
As for humanity’s final battle against the Cylons, the line has been drawn on the deck with red masking tape. Gaeta definitely drew lines with his mutiny, as did Adama in taking his ship back. In assembling a crew for Galactica’s most dangerous mission yet, there are those who go to the port side of the tape, indicating they’re not joining the mission. Since Kara Thrace helped Adama make the red tape line, this must be one of the actions that makes her the Harbinger of Death, as if destroying the Resurrection Hub and leading them to a nuked out Earth weren’t enough. Stay tuned.
