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Battlestar Galactica: Faith

May 10th, 2008

Season 4, Episode 6

Battlestar Galactica: Faith

Synopsis

The crew of the Demetrius revolts against Starbuck and decides to jump back to the Galactica. In the scuffle, Anders shoots Gaeta in the leg. Starbuck asks to take Leoben, Sharon, Barolay, and Anders via a raptor to Leoben’s damaged basestar. The Demetrius gives them fifteen hours.

The raptor jumps to find destroyed Cylon wreckage. Starbuck sees the gas planet and basestar from her painting.

The raptor is brought aboard a damaged cylon basestar. Sharon is greeted by other eight models. They decide to use the raptor’s jump drive to control the damaged basestar. A six model kills Barolay much to the anger of Anders. Another six model shoots the offending six, adding that in the absence of a resurrection ship, these Cylons are as mortal as humans.

Starbuck and Anders begin to unplug the hybrid, since the raptor will be used to navigate the basestar. Alarmed, a toaster Cylon shoots an eight model, whose blood leaks into the hybrid’s pool. The hybrid then tells Starbuck about the final five and that Starbuck is the harbinger of death that will lead the humans to their doom (repeating what another hybrid said in Razor). Starbuck interprets the hybrid’s final words to be: the Final Five Cylons will show them the way to earth, and the missing “Three” is the boxed model three (Diana Biers), who will reveal the Final Five.

Meanwhile, the Demetirus’ clock has run out and they prepare to jump back to the fleet. Just then the base ship jumps to their location.

In the hospital, Roslin, near death and bald (just like Chief!) meets another similarly ill patient, Emily, who finds comfort in Baltar’s preachings. Roslin dreams of Emily getting off a riverboat to be welcomed by dead relatives on the shore.

Thoughts

Gaeta being wounded adds some pressure to the Demetrius’ planned return to the Galactica.

I’m doubtful that the humans would be so willing to help the Cylons, knowing all that came before. The humans seemed way too nonchalant about being aboard a Cylon base star, some of them for the first time. The writers want us to believe that the hope of finding earth and the Cylon’s helpless situation would necessitate them working together, but I’m not totally buying it.

It was amusing to see how far Sharon (Athena) has gone to the human side, in the way she coldly rebuffs the dying eight model. In contrast, Anders had some glimmers of confusion, as he’s unsure where he fits in among anybody, anymore. He obviously has strong loyalties to the humans (note his reaction to Barolay’s death) yet is simultaneously curious about his Cylon purpose (he almost touches the basestar controls).

Jean Barolay was actually around since Season 2 – she was the red head who helped Anders place a bomb back in Downloaded, was involved in the New Caprica resistance, and was one of the covert executioners in Collaborators.

The hybrid’s revelation to Starbuck was actually not to us, as that information came forth in Razor. Still, the hybrid voices the necessity of unboxing Number Three, and implies that the final five “came from” the home of the thirteenth, meaning Earth. That may explain the origin of the Final Five, as some covert Cylons planted for some undetermined purpose a long, long time ago.

Meanwhile, Roslin looks like she’ll finally fulfill her prophetic role as the dying leader who will lead them to earth (I hope no dramatic cop-outs like hybrid Cylon baby blood arise to save her this time). Also a little annoyed that after all of Roslin’s annoyance against Baltar, again he may gain her sympathy because Roslin is near death and more receptive to his religious babblings.

All in all, a decent episode, but I’m still not totally on board with this Cylons helping humans find earth thing. Looking forward to seeing Adama’s reaction to all this. I don’t think he’ll like it, either.

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  • The babblings of the Hybrids regarding Kara's destiny is not that the human race will see their end but after the final episode of Season four, the hybrids are actually referring to the death of the Cylons. Now that the fleet has found Earth, wasted away to somekind of nucler halocaust and knowing that the cylons have a weakness to being exposed to radiation -

    The male hybrid we saw in Razor - that his children called him God. Could he be the originator of the cylons that revert to distruction of the human race? He is the only hybrid that references those who must not follow Kara, while the female hybrid shows acceptance that Kara will lead them to their their end just as she has jumped the bayship to the Hub so that it could be destroyed.

    There does seem to be two types of Cylons. Those that were originally set out to destroy the human race. The second type apparently to help see the human race survive by setting up tactics to lure the cylons into their destruction. Admirial Adama drowned the cyclon baby, his hatred remarks to Tyrol about the half-breed abomination, the beacon, planting the final cylons from the thirteen colony on the Galactica instead of on the Hub, the signal on Karas newly returned Viper......The Cylons have a plan but not the Cylons the fleet has been battling through the series. The Cylons from the thirteenth colony are the ones with the plan. A highly safisticated one, so well designed from past events that will lead the cylons originally designed for war and destruction to meet their end.

    Should a civilization design a tool that ends up destroying it's maker, what would you do? Design another tool to destroy it and hopelike hell you don't make the same mistake again. But what if all has been exhausted towards a new tool of weapon to fight with? This is where I believe we will all begin to see how an ingenius plan was formulated and shapes out in the second half of the season four.

    All the talent that has gone into the making of this show only proves that humans are capable of amazing things.
  • Hmmm. These are some interesting thoughts. So two things you are pointing at
    - the final five were created maybe as a safeguard - to protect the human
    race if the Cylon ever got out of control and turned against their creators
    (which is exactly what is happening now), kind of like Asimov's rules of
    robotics.

    Second, you imply that Admiral Adama is the last of the final five. If true,
    I will just say holy frak, that would be awesome.
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