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The short version: the best moment in the whole damn episode is when Chief tells Starbuck to "be nice."
The rest of the ep was a bit argy-bargy IMO. It would help if BSG could maintain a consistent tone: is Galactica a military ship or a hodge-podge of refugees and draftees with no sense of military discipline or order? One day it's the one, the next it's the other. I can see on that after three years on the run and a year and a bit on New Caprica in the middle, discipline can take a hit but RDM and co are making me, as a viewer, work too hard on the meta to make episodes like "Dirty Hands" and "The Woman, King" work. Plotlines about the strata of Colonial society should have been woven into the series seasons ago for these kinds of episodes to work. Suddenly dumping ideas like systemic racism and economic discrimination into the mix feels more like the writers pulling "Very Special Episodes" out of their ass than storylines organic to the show.
Like I said last week: less morality-wank, more space battles. And, RDM, you kill Starbuck and you're dead to me.
The rest of the ep was a bit argy-bargy IMO. It would help if BSG could maintain a consistent tone: is Galactica a military ship or a hodge-podge of refugees and draftees with no sense of military discipline or order? One day it's the one, the next it's the other. I can see on that after three years on the run and a year and a bit on New Caprica in the middle, discipline can take a hit but RDM and co are making me, as a viewer, work too hard on the meta to make episodes like "Dirty Hands" and "The Woman, King" work. Plotlines about the strata of Colonial society should have been woven into the series seasons ago for these kinds of episodes to work. Suddenly dumping ideas like systemic racism and economic discrimination into the mix feels more like the writers pulling "Very Special Episodes" out of their ass than storylines organic to the show.
Like I said last week: less morality-wank, more space battles. And, RDM, you kill Starbuck and you're dead to me.
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