Battlestar Galactica: Someone to Watch Over Me
By Bryan Osborn
Tonight’s Episode of Battlestar Galactica on Sci Fi channel “Someone to Watch Over Me
Could Kara be a Cylon? Perhaps. Maybe she’s a clone. After all, she was in the Cylon medical facility at Delphi for quite some time where they removed an ovary. Who knows what else they did with her when she was there. Some speculate that she is Pythia. The same Pythia, cloned or somehow reborn, who returned to Kobol thousands of years ago to chronicle the original journey to Earth.
There also seems to be some relationship between the Final Five and Starbuck’s father. He taught her the Watchtower song when she was a child. The Watchtower song is what brought the Five back to each other and triggered their memories. So, somehow he is connected to Earth. Could Starbuck’s father be a Cylon? Does Starbuck have a head Cylon just like Baltar does? Or, perhaps Kara’s father is Number 7/Daniel, the model that Cavil (Dean Stockwell) permanently retired.
And what’s up with Hera? Obviously she holds some sort of key. She holds something of the final wrapping up scenes, since she knows the very song that ties all three, seemingly unrelated groups together, the Thraces, the Five, and Hera. Does she point the way since she is a Cylon/human love child? And what does Cavil want with her?
Now on to Boomer (Grace Park). I was sucked right in to her deception alongside Chief Tyrol (Aaron Douglas). I thought it was such a shame that they were going to kill Sharon/Boomer. After all, she had just risked her life to bring Ellen back. I was somewhat happy to see that she was going to get away, although I did not approve the methods Tyrol used to free her. What was he thinking? Where was she going to go anyway? He wasn’t thinking, he was not only sucked in by Sharon’s manipulations, but was also acting purely on emotion.I soon came to realize just how evil Boomer was when she proceeded to get it on with Helo. Harsh for Athena, having to watch those two in action. I now find one of Sharon’s statements in Galactica’s brig very revealing, when she tells the Chief “The most important thing is that we both know who we are now.” I think she was really saying that she was on Brother Cavil’s side. One thing is for certain though; we now know that Brother Cavil must know where the fleet is, if Sharon is able to jump between the two at will. Uh oh.
I find it disappointing that we completely dropped Baltar (James Callus) and the crazy cult story line from this episode. It remains to be seen if that decision will be the right one.
There are so many questions left to answer and each episode seems to introduce new ones. I am left hoping that the final 3 episodes don’t turn into just a super long exposition fest, but BSG does not often disappoint.
posted by Bryan Osborn at 2/28/2009 02:13:00 AM
6 Comments:
Great write up Bryan, I have some thoughts too.
In the Episode, "No Exit" we learned that there was an eighth Cylon model created by the final five that they called Daniel. I believe they even referred to him as an artist. I believe that Kara's dad was that Cylon model and when he left her it was because he was removed by Cavil, not because he wanted to. This would make Kara the REAL first joining between a human and a Cylon, not Hera. This would also explain why both Hera and Kara are tuned into the "Watchtower" music and why Kara was seeing him in a vision.
Another thing that caught my attention was the "Cylon Projecting" that Boomer was doing with Chief Tyrol. Does anyone see that as being the same thing that's happened with Baltar and Caprica 6 throughout the whole series? What would that mean for Baltar? Can a human pick up on the projections? Is he actually a Cylon too or another product of a union between Cylon and human?
My biggest complaint about this series right now is that they are introducing some very interesting concepts, but they're doing it in such a meandering sort of way, that I'm worried that I won't be satisfied when it ends. I feel like I might be wanting to see the people of Galactia live in the universe they end up in at the end of the series for a little while before we say goodbye.
Just my 3¢.
By the way, this still doesn't answer the question about how Kara came back, though. If she's a human/Cylon, that doesn't necessarily follow that she is capable of resurrection. There has to be something else that we're missing. Leoben was surprised when Kara found her dead body on Earth, maybe Cavil has something to do with it?
Yes, I agree with you about Daniel and about and Kara. I mentioned both of those in my review. That's what I was trying to refer to with Kara's "Head Cylon."
You got me thinking about Baltar though. Perhaps you are right and he is a halfbreed too.
Cavil wants to disect Hera's brain for the very same reasons he told Ellen he was going to disect hers. Resurrection technology needs to be rebuilt and if he can't have the Final Five on his side to do it, the original reinventors of it, he will find the next best thing to help him, which is Hera. There's more to that little girl than meets the eye.
Nothing can destract me from the fact that after 4 years of watching battlestar and being enticed by its storylines, I'm feeling betrayed by the tedious sub plots that are being offered as revelations. At this stage why aren't we knee deep in the ancients on kobol, in the scrolls of pythia, in the arrival of cyclons to earth and what the indigenous people did about it, in find out more about the Cylon home world, or at least finding out more about the fallen lord kobol and the monothestic stories. Did I dream it or did Caprica Six' kill a baby in its pram in the miniseries and proceeded to wipe out humanity. The 'we must rely on each other and get along' is a pathetic direction.' When Bill Adama asked Saul if he had any more mythic revelations the answer was deafening - No, nothing to report Sir. I only hope that the Galactica's inability to jump means we are being lined up for a glorious destruction of the ship.
@Brian. What indigenous of earth? The 13th tribe landed at earth and populated it. There's no notion of indigenous people at all that's been mentioned on the show.
Btw, some interpretations of six killing the baby on Caprica, are that she was doing it to spare the baby the horror of the bombs falling.
Possible.
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