The episode has the strangest combination of comedy, pathos and bathos (elevation of the commonplace to the absurd) that I have ever seen.
It is so strange it almost defies criticism.
When Boomer brings Ellen back, the above snippet of dialog -- "How many dead chicks are out there?" -- is a "throwaway" by a random crew member just as the hatch opens on the raider transporting the two.
I laughed so hard that I almost triggered my MedicAlert alarm.
Later in the sode, Laura Roslin approaches one of the Sixes and calls out "Caprica" then corrects herself "Thats funny I don't think I ever called you a name before.." and Tricia Helfer as the Six responds bashfully, "I ... I think you called me SOME names..." After that, I confess the writers had me at HELLO, it was hard to find major fault with an episode that contained some of the most ironic lines in TV history.
Yet the critics job is to call em as we see em. And against the backdrop of the entire series this episode is nuttier than a granola bar.
Adama spends the episode getting drunk because he is using Cylon Bondo to fix the ship. And feels guilty about it.
Gaius returns to his harem and is caught by a pretty face in the crowd. The next thing you know he is "speechifying" and having gun battles over food.
And another odd aspect of this episode (while we are here chatting with you) ... when did 50 year old Michael Hogan become a sex symbol? Somehow the writing team, when they were not busy earning 70 total award nominations for the series, found the time to re-imagine this grizzled old guy such that -- if you look closely -- he is simultaneously having relationships with (arguably) the two of the hottest women in the series... ? Nice work if you can get it.
(and if that is not confusing enough, in the scene where Ellen asks Saul who he has been seeing while she was away/dead, and he admits his new squeeze if one of the Sixes, Ellen reacts with the line "We made her" as if that the made relationship almost incestuous??) Much of the episode is Saul and Ellen fighting like an old married couple. Which they are. Literally.
And the conclusion -- the loss of the baby -- seems like it is desperately trying to say something, But, even as a die-hard fan, I have no idea what
It is so strange it almost defies criticism.
When Boomer brings Ellen back, the above snippet of dialog -- "How many dead chicks are out there?" -- is a "throwaway" by a random crew member just as the hatch opens on the raider transporting the two.
I laughed so hard that I almost triggered my MedicAlert alarm.
Later in the sode, Laura Roslin approaches one of the Sixes and calls out "Caprica" then corrects herself "Thats funny I don't think I ever called you a name before.." and Tricia Helfer as the Six responds bashfully, "I ... I think you called me SOME names..." After that, I confess the writers had me at HELLO, it was hard to find major fault with an episode that contained some of the most ironic lines in TV history.
Yet the critics job is to call em as we see em. And against the backdrop of the entire series this episode is nuttier than a granola bar.
Adama spends the episode getting drunk because he is using Cylon Bondo to fix the ship. And feels guilty about it.
Gaius returns to his harem and is caught by a pretty face in the crowd. The next thing you know he is "speechifying" and having gun battles over food.
And another odd aspect of this episode (while we are here chatting with you) ... when did 50 year old Michael Hogan become a sex symbol? Somehow the writing team, when they were not busy earning 70 total award nominations for the series, found the time to re-imagine this grizzled old guy such that -- if you look closely -- he is simultaneously having relationships with (arguably) the two of the hottest women in the series... ? Nice work if you can get it.
(and if that is not confusing enough, in the scene where Ellen asks Saul who he has been seeing while she was away/dead, and he admits his new squeeze if one of the Sixes, Ellen reacts with the line "We made her" as if that the made relationship almost incestuous??) Much of the episode is Saul and Ellen fighting like an old married couple. Which they are. Literally.
And the conclusion -- the loss of the baby -- seems like it is desperately trying to say something, But, even as a die-hard fan, I have no idea what