Tuesday, April 05, 2005

BSG: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 2

[I’m so lazy, I just don’t have the energy to do a full-blown review of the finale. Anyway, here goes.]

Commander Adama gets mad at President Roslin for ordering Kara to jump to Caprica. He demands Roslin’s resignation. She stands firm and he sends Tigh, Lee and some marines to board Colonial One and arrest her. Lee turns on Tigh and puts a gun to his head. Roslin tells everyone to put away their weapons and she agrees to go quietly to the Galactica. Lee is arrested and cuffed.

On Caprica, Kara goes to a museum and retrieves the Arrow of Apollo, which the scriptures say will lead mankind to Earth. She is attacked by Number Six, who beats her ass mercilessly. Helo and Sharon arrive just in time to see Kara and Six plunge through a hole in the floor. Six is killed. Kara is happy to see Helo until she spies Sharon. She pulls out her pistol to shoot Sharon, but Helo says, “You can’t kill her, she’s pregnant!”

Kara literally howls in disbelief.

Adama sends Galactica-Boomer and some other chick in a Raptor to try Gaeda’s plan to use a Cylon transponder to get close enough to plant a nuke on the basestar orbiting Kobol. The Raptor is forced to land on the basestar. Sharon gets out, goes around a corner, and is surrounded by a bunch of naked Sharons that express their love for her.

[WTF?]

Galactica-Boomer and the other girl get away and the bomb destroys the basestar.

On Kobol, the crew of the downed Raptor don’t know what the hell to do. Crashdown provides no leadership and Baltar wanders off with Six and has a fantasy about being in an opera house and looking at something emitting light from a crib. Tyrol has to take control of the enlisted crew when Crashdown makes the dumbass suggestion that they camp on a hill out in the open so that “a rescue party can see us.”

Galactica-Boomer returns to the Galactica where she and the other girl are praised by Adama for doing a great job, despite whatever misgivings they may have had. Adama looks meaningfully at his handcuffed son when he makes the last comment.

Galactica-Boomer shows appreciation for Adama’s praise by whipping out her pistol and pumping three rounds in the Commander’s abdomen and chest at point-blank range.

[Note: Looks like Col. “Tight” is in charge of the military and Tom Zarek is in charge of the government. We’ll find out what happens when season two starts in July!]

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