Battlestar Galactica: Taking A Break From All Your Worries

January 31st, 2007

Season 3, Episode 13

Battlestar Galactica: Taking A Break From All Your Worries

As with other installments this season, I enjoyed approximately half of this episode. The relationship stuff - Apollo, Starbuck, Dualla, and Sam I could care less about. I fail to see what’s so appealing about Kara Thrace on a romantic level as she pulls the normally respectable Apollo into her muck. I don’t get off on the soap-opera, melodramatic side of our Cylon-hating humans.

The other half contained exactly what I enjoy about Battlestar Galactica. Baltar being tortured, fed hallucinogenic substances, nearly murdered by a former friend, but they still feel obligated to keep him around - awesome stuff. The best part was realizing the Cylon torture method of sticking a USB cable in a bloody ear wasn’t the worst in store for Batlar. At least that form of sadism involved Lucy Lawless in a plunging neckline. This time around, torture means being strapped into a chair Hannibal Lecter style, force-fed drugs, while a soft-spoken Adama shines a flashlight in your eye as you drown in the dark.

The black pit of darkness is clear - however evil the Cylons are, at least they’re rational to some degree. The humans on the other hand, are flailing about in the water themselves, constantly fighting with each other and plunging their friends down into the cold waters below. At least that’s what I got from the parallel stories of the tiresome love quadrangle and Baltar being threatened with expulsion out of an airlock.

And now we now know that Batlar isn’t a Cylon.

Will Baltar’s trial involve waterboarding? What did Baltar whisper to Gaeta before he was stabbed with a pen? I can’t wait to find out.

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  • I have to admit that I was hoping that in the prior episode Dualla would sacrifice herself (as in DIE) rescuing Starbuck. At least that would kill one of the two lame-o marriages in the show outright and reduce the love rectangle into a love triangle.

    Lee Adama really shoulda stuck with that hooker he was hanging out with in season 2...
  • haha.... you're even more harsh that I am. If only Dualla had stuck with Billy.

    Starbuck might make a good match with Tigh... at least they could drink each other to death. But I'm hoping we never see Admiral Adama hooking up with Roslyn...
  • Not the best episode of the season that's for sure. Did you notice that EJ directed this one? I could have done without the constant Baltar-Torture/2 couples at the bar scene swapping.
  • I haven't been paying much attention to who's directing the episodes - I should look into that. I have been listening to the behind the scenes podcasts. what I thought was interesting in the podcast regarding this episode, was that it originally was much lighter and jokier (hence the title) focusing on Lee Adama trying to save the bar or something. The show ended up much darker, but even then the network was annoyed at the amount of darkness.

    As far as I'm concerned, if it weren't for the Baltar stuff I wouldn't have liked this one at all...
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