BSG-Taking a Break From All Your Worries

Does this one take place in a Cheers bar?

Discuss the episode here!

I still think that Baltar will find some way to weasel out of his current situation. He's good at that.

Hmmmm... OK, the most notable thing I saw in that epi was: what did Baltar whisper to Gaita? That he's a Cylon?

It's his best quality!

Maybe he's gay and Baltar walked in on him jerking off to that painting of him.

Really good episode in my opinion.

I was a little disappointed they made Gaeta crack so easily. I don't think that reaction was consistent with his character thus far. I don't care what Baltar whisper...it should have take more for him to flip out like that.

Also, it must be a standard rule in film and TV...character must have a bushy beard to be interrogated and pushed into quivering submission.

Oh, and can the Apollo/Starbuck drama be put to rest finally please!? It's sooo stale!

I hate to say it, but I enjoyed this show a lot more at the beginning of the first season. They need to pick up the pace of the main plot before I lose interest. I absolutely do not give a shit about the Apollo/Starbuck B.S. I'm sick and fucking tired of all the focus on the tedious relationship crap. You can develop the characters without relentlessly focusing on their least interesting attributes. And events like this interrogation of Baltar are getting dragged out way too long. Maybe the problem is that the way they are going about this premise isn't very well suited to spreading out over an entire season. Could be that it'd work better as a series of 4-hour TV movies.

Yah! Every time they cut back to Apollo/Starbuck I wished they'd get the fuck back to the Baltar plotline.

And even HE calls her "Caprica Six!?" Didn't he know her name when he was living with her on Caprica?

Well, they already pardoned everyone who collaborated on New Caprica. Pinning much else on him is going to be difficult.

Presumably he did, but the Cylons that he just spent however many months with call her Caprica Six, and I believe at this point Caprica Six probably thinks of herself that way. So why shouldn't he?

I'm guessing that it was a general amnesty that didn't apply to him.

We have never seen Baltar use her name. The best theory I have seen is that when they first met Caprica Six introduced herself with a human name, but Baltar forgot it.

Then, after a few days he realised that he didn't know her name but by that point couldn't come out and ask.

As I understood it, the pardon was extended to everyone in the Fleet - and Baltar wasn't in the Fleet at that time.

I was just beginning to hope BSG had come to a close on the whole Apollo/Starbuck saga then they go and end it with the two making doe eyes at each other again.

I'm pretty sure a good lawyer would get him covered by the pardon quite easily, no matter how Roslyn, et al tried to play it.

IMHO--thoroughly unspoilered as I am--everything will be thrown out except the question of whether he colluded in the initial attack. Anything that happened after New Caprica either can't be proven, or can be put down to his being coerced by the Cylons.


On the topic of Apollo/Starbuck, I'm thoroughly pissed off. It looked as if the episode was actually going to move things forward, but it seemingly wound up back exactly where it started. If there's more A/S bullshit next week as if this week never happened, I may just start changing the channel during those scenes. What's the fucking point?

What the hell is up with Lee anyway? He spends all his time screwing Starbuck, treating Dee like crap, and otherwise completely trashing his marriage then at the eleventh hour, when Kara's ready to walk into his arms, he decides he wants his wife back?

I would have punched Kara right at the moment where she mentioned leaving Anders.

I liked it - the Baltar interrogation was well handled, though Gaeta seemed a bit forced. Still, I can see his reaction. But it will be just another case of a high level officer doing something that should end in court martial - but with only 42,000 humans left, he'll be left in his job. An episode of a psychiatric evaluation of all these battered and traumatized officers would be fitting.

And I liked the Kara/Lee thing - if for the primary reason that at last it appears to be over! Dee is a catch, and far better than Lee deserves. Hell, same with Anders. Kara is just a fucking nutjob.

Actually, this seemed like a resolving of the Apollo/Starbuck plot.

God, I hope so. Finally, when faced with the possibility that he could have this great love he's been endlessly, annoyingly, nauseatingly pining for, Lee didn't take the opportunity to be with Kara. Maybe....just maybe....he finally got a fucking clue and realized that Kara is no good for him. Dee had let him go. Kara was saying yes, but at long last the lightbulb came on in Lee's head and he realized, "she could do a 180 on me again and I'd have no one to blame but myself."

Sometimes the nice, comfortable choice is the catch. Now stick with it, Lee. Your wife is better than you deserve, but if you grow up then just maybe you could redeem yourself.

Please let that be the last we see of Lee/Kara

When was the last time we saw them kick some ass instead of whining endlessly?

Nine episodes ago.

Apollo has forever been ruined as a leading man/hero type. He's a fucking ninny. Anders is twice the man Apollo is, he just can't fly a Viper.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind if they killed off both Apollo and Starbuck. More screen time for Admiral Adama, Tigh, and Rosilyn.

Agree with Albert here...I'd rather have an episode that shows nothing but Tigh having dinner and getting drunk than all that Lee/Kara crapola.

And the "Best acting by a single eye" award goes to....

I want to see Anders take the oath.

I'm wondering if there's a point, but we just don't know what it is yet. RDM seems to be like that. He seems to be the kind of storyteller who might drive you crazy with some seemingly pointless bullshit, then down the road the point gets made and you say, "Holy frak! I didn't see that coming!"

I think alot of the fans are giving up way too soon.

NOBODY KILLS LEE!!

He's too hot to die!!

I would not be at all surprised if that situation were to change at some point.