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Gods, what an episode "Six Of One" was!
I hadn't really appreciated how much I've missed James Callis.
And now we have not only more Sixes but another Gaius Baltar!!!
I'll call the new "old Gaius" Head Gaius to distinguish which one I'm speaking of.
Head Gaius is the confident, cocky Gaius of old. Before the New Caprica fiasco, before his imprisonment by the Cylons, before the trial in which Apollo (Jamie Bamber) and Romo Lampkin (Mark Sheppard) got him set free.
The newest Six has entered the story and she, like the other Sixes seems genuinely different than the Six models we have gotten to know. I don't think she's yet been called by her name but she is "Natalie." (Tricia Helfer~ below)
What happened In E02, "Six of One": Kara Thrace/Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) blew a gasket and put a gun to President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell) who was suffering the side effects of a recent cancer treatment.
Kara turns the gun around and demands that if Roslin thinks she's a cylon, she should shoot her. Roslin does--at point blank range--and misses. "Diloxin fraks with your ("aim")," Roslin later explains to Adama.
The Group of Four Galactica Cylons meets. It's decided that they need to gather intel on who is the unknown 5th Cylon and they figure Baltar is their best bet due to what he might have seen while inthe temple. Tori infiltrates Baltar's harem er, haven. Baltar meets himself (Head Baltar) who guides himself in his convo with Tori who ultimately has sex with Baltar. The President and Admiral Adama have a serious discussion in re: Kara Thrace, the President's cancer which is no longer in remission, and Bill's inability to face his losses past, present, and future. Roslin must have never heard the old adage that you should never argue with a drunk and Bill is and has been drinking in part to send off his son Apollo to Quorum of 12 duties. Adama ends up being a real bastard, storming away leaving Roslin teary and literally pulling her hair out.
Adama reconsiders his position with Kara after previously storming her cell in the brig and nearly throttling her (to no avail as she responded in her typical cheeky/snarky fashion). This time he sends guards and Helo to retrieve her, hands her the key to a waste recycling ship and tells her to follow her bliss (go in search of Earth).
More Cylon revelations are made: The Cavils models are Number Ones, the Leoben Conoys are Number Twos and the Simons are Number Fours. Baseship Six's (Tricia Helfer), the Eights (Grace Park)and Twos (Callum Keith Rennie) believe the ship's hybrid is trying to tell them something about the Final Five -- that they are within the Colonial fleet -- and believe they need to take it seriously. Something has changed, the Six says. She and her allies believe that the Raiders recognized the Final Five were with the humans, and as such, called off the attack. The Cylons are bitterly divided over how to deal with the Cylon Raiders, who refuse to attack the Colonial Fleet because of the recent detection of the Final Five within the Fleet. Meanwhile, Admiral Adama and crew send Lee Adama off into his new life as a member of the Quarum of Twelve, and Adama must deal with the possibility that Kare Thrace may be right about her knowing how to get to Earth.
Photos from this episode, more, after the jump.
Tori, Head Gaius, Gaius (l to r) in Six Of One.
Bear McCready's Battlestar Blog~ the composer for BSG describes a "musical palindrome" he creates for this scene as well as the thought process put to music behind other major scenes including The Kiss.
The Cylon Baseship: Cavil orders the Centurions to leave. He's puzzled and alarmed when they don't obey. Six tells him that the Sixes, the Leobens and the Sharons have removed the inhibitors that restricted higher functioning in the Centurions, giving them the gift of reason only to be told of Cavil and Co. actions in ordering the Raiders to be lobotomized. Not happy about this, the Centurions open fire on the other models.
''They're not here to vote,'' Six says.
Natalie/Six tells Cavil, Simon (Four), and Doral (Five). "You, the Fours, and the Fives dumbed down the raiders, we the Sixes, the Sharons, and the Leobans have given the Centurions the gift of reasoning." Back with the humans, Galactica jumps again, and Adama watches as Kara writhes in the brig. Soon after, a few soldiers come in and escort her to a bay. She thinks Adama is airlocking her in deep space, but in reality, he's secretly giving her a sewage recycling ship, the Demetrius, to go find Earth. Adama says he's of tired Roslin being right about everything, tired of turning away from the things he believes in. And he believes Kara when she says she'll die before she stops trying.
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