These two episodes mark the half-way point for Young Adama and his lovable sidekick Koker, so it’s only fitting that it comes with some of the most explosive and intense BSG action we’ve ever seen. We’re talking “Galactica-Atmo-Drop-on-New-Caprica†explosive. We’re still mysteriously in the dark about Dr. Kelly’s mission, but by the final shot of Episode 6, we’re starting to get some ideas!
If you haven’t already, you can see episodes 5 & 6 right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ytt0Fp3To or watch it below:
OMGs! The energy keeps on flowing!
WARNING- POTENTIAL SPOILERS MAY BLURT OUT!
(Alright – they WILL blurt out! ;-D )
I like the Orion-class pocket battlestar concept. With a compliment of only 150 plus pilots, the commander of the “Osiris” knew her crew well. It was clear that at least the officer at the helm had served with her a long time. Was that her XO? Still, there was no hesitation about what they needed to do so that the ground team would have a fighting chance.
Husker had his first real taste of reality in making the descent to the ice. He finally realized that he was not quite the hotshot he once believed. It was no longer fun and games in the simulator. It was real. Real people die and that concept was becoming very personal as he watched his escorts get blasted out of the sky. War is not a game – never has and never will be. War is a life and death struggle that is going to sober you up pretty fast.
Saying goodbye to the “Wild Weasel” was hard for Coker. I know that it is illogical to fall in love with a vehicle. Still, as a pilot myself, it is hard – especially when a machine keeps bringing you back home. (I so miss November 6704Lima! – but that’s another story…) You want her fate to be glorious. As Worf would say, the best fate a dying ship can have is to protect her crew, which the “Wild Weasel” did.
(BIG SPOILER!) I am curious as to why the Cylons choose ice-covered planets for their biological-cybernetic experiments. Is it the low temperatures that helps them, or is the temperature simply a way to help keep the base isolated? Easy to pick up human heat signatures crossing an ice field.
The bio/cybernetic viper/dragon that nicked Coker was damned fast. I suspect that this wound is going to keep Coker from making it out alive. Someone – maybe Adama? the tech sergeant? – may have to kill Coker to keep him from becoming an experiment himself. When Adama makes it back to the “Galactica,” he is going to keep the handle of HUSKER out of respect for Coker.
Im just throwing this out there, which no one as picked up from Caprica to Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the Cylons must be starting with early biological-cybernetic experiments, right. But in story Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome hasn’t brought up the first Colonial “Skin Jobs”, (or should I say the “Skin Jobs” in the corner) Zoe Graystone and if Cylons biological-cybernetic experiments have to experiment on her or leading the biological-cybernetic experiments to get to the point the hybrids experiments.
They series hasn’t answered yet is Zoe Graystone can age, like the other Skin Jobs. But as I said at the beginning Im just hrowing this out there so don’t shot me down on this because I don’t see Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome going to do “Luke I’m your farther moment”, but as a what if question. But what if Zoe Graystone is in fact Dr. Beka Kelly is there to get back to Cylons and help them to evolute to the point of proper biological-cybernetic experiments, than stop the war.
Once again I have got to say this Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is great as Battlestar Galactica and back and in the words BSG, “Lets jump the Robo-Snake Nebula.”
Interesting note: The actor who played Coker actually played a survivor on the surface of the ice planet on Razor.
Honestly, Blood and Chrome might’ve just started out (like first draft) as a re-do of the Razor shorts, which could be why the’re so similar.
Maybe the snow planet in B&C and the snow planet on Star Trek have something to do with Ronald D Moore being a writer for both shows. He knows what he likes
Matt/Nat: You mentioned that Adama is an awesome pilot and that is why he felt close to Starbuck. You also mentioned that Adama has trouble landing in these episodes. Perhaps, that is why he had a soft spot for Boomer in BSG when she kept messing up her landings.
If this show goes on to be a series, we really need an actor who could “carry” the show,
An Eric Stoltz, Edward James Olmos, John Noble, Alec Baldwin, kinda personality.
Or a James Callis type.
If they could manage to work Eric Stoltz into this, maybe make him insane with guilt. That would be great.
@SamWagner I am in TOTAL agreement with you. There is no one character that really seems to carry the show. The ridiculous engineer seems to be driving the story (in some background way) but no one has the kind of presence that EJO or Stolz, or yes even James Callis, had. I’d hate to say that it’s a result of the webisode medium, but that shouldn’t matter. Razor was a “made-for-TV-movie” to an extent and had it been chopped up into webisodes, I still think Cain or Kendra Shaw would’ve had a strong impact to the viewer.
@Daniel Haha entirely possible. But yes, overall, it seems logical that he would have a soft spot for her because he sees so much of his young self in her. She’s the son he never had (out of the two he DID have)
I love the series but one thing that got me is why don’t Cylons have heat sensors or 360 vision. Sure it will make them harder to kill but hey that’s part of the fun