BSG 1.9 Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

Crikey - was this Battlestar Galactica trying to tap into its funny side? Treading a fine line between open comedy and paranoid drama? Whether it was deliberate or not, the mix didn't work for me. The show doesn't have characters that can pull it off, beside Starbuck, and she wasn't really in this episode.

After the revelation that Adama might be a Cylon, the President decided she needed to be sure so wanted to insist that he be the first one to get tested on Gaius' new Cylon detection system. But what she didn't realise is that he had come to know of Ty's wife being alive and within the fleet, and he wanted to get her tested to see if she was a Cylon.

And so people were talking behind other people's backs, and lying and keeping secrets, and there was a lot of paranoid farce about the episode that, really, didn't hold any kind of drama whatsoever. The fact that Ty's wife was validated as not a Cylon (even though that might not be the case!) made my heart sink - she's so annoying and obtuse I'm really not keen on seeing any more of her.

And yes, it turns out that Gaius didn't tell anyone that Boomer is a Cylon because he has decided that he is going to pass everyone - so Ty's wife could indeed be a Cylon (the episode seemed heavily weighted towards selling that possibility) but apparently Gaius isn't telling. I knew I hated that guy! Never liked him from the start and now he's behaving like a complete lunatic.

Elsewhere Cylon Boomer and Helo ran through a sewer system for their small part of the episode. I've run out of interest with them. There's simply not enough of a hook to keep me entertained any longer. I keep waiting for the sub-plot to amount to something and so far, nothing. I have faith that it will, but I have no patience with my faith.

So, all in all, aside from the creepy end where Gaius revealed he's not in the business of revealing Cylons (WHY!?), this episode was a bit of a damp squib for me. The series is running into the finale now, though, so hopefully it will pick up the pace.