TheBaxter wrote:now that's what i'm talking about. the last couple episodes have been disappointing, but this episode was solid.
the whole piano player is starbuck's-inhead-dad-daniel thing was predictable, but it worked. making AATW the song her dad taught her was an extra layer of awesome. it also raises the question a) if daniel was starbuck's dad, how did HE know AATW, since so far it's only been known to the final five, and b) how did hera also know it? i'm guessing the explanations for those (and starbuck's resurrection) will tie back in to what helen said, that it must have something to do with the god or higher power that is guiding things.
as for starbuck not getting weird looks from other people in the bar, i didnt' really see other people around her during her talking-to-herself scenes... and even those in earshot, if they were even paying attention, probably just figured she was drunk and talking to herself. it wasn't handled any worse than baltar's inhead six scenes.
the boomer storyline worked too. the only complaint i had was that tyrol's conversion back to falling in love with her was a bit too quick and convenient. it would have worked better if they had set it up a little bit in the previous episode. just one scene of him and boomer talking in the brig last episode, showing he still has feelings for her, would've been enough. but it wasn't enough to detract from the episode over all.
with this episdoe, now it really feels like they are moving full speed ahead towards the conclusion. no more filler, it's all momentum headed to the finale from here.
Yeah this was a pretty good episode. I love that they're finally revisiting the Boomer storyline because I always felt like there was more to tell there. It would have felt unfinished if they'd just left her with Cavil and said no more on the subject. Plus I always knew Callie was a total REBOUND. The Chief was always still in love with Boomer.
The Starbuck stuff was also pretty solid. It reminded me a bit of the character-heavy interludes they'd do in earlier seasons like "Scar" and that shit episode with Adama and his wife (except this ep wasn't terrible.) I kind of wish the ghost of Starbuck's dad would have played more Phillip Glass though like the song in the ep when she and Helo go back to her apartment on Caprica. That's much better than this jazz-icized All Along the Watchtower remix we're getting.
The only thing I have to say about this season is that whenever they show clips of earlier seasons like the one of Boomer shooting Adama...it kind of forces me to acknowledge that I think those seasons were better than this one. Maybe it's just me personally but they impacted me more and I always literally couldn't wait to see what they would do week to week. Maybe it's just because they've sort of lost that initial mystery and sense of urgency that came with having to escape the Cylons. Theoretically I like that they're not making things cut and dry with an "us against them" battle of the ages and I like that they're showing this sort of slow implosion with the aftermath of finding Earth was not the promised land and I like that they're trying to answer all their own questions....and yet sometimes it gets so wrapped up in its own mythology it gets a little dull.
Wow I should have just written that whole thing up in the "Losing your Geek Cred" thread. Sorry guys. I guess I'm just not worthy of BSG
