2.4 Resistance

Well well well, four episodes in and this second series delivers up another cracker. This time the developments concerned more political radicalisation agendas, which aren’t usually the more engaging plot points, but this one was enjoyable because it very much dealt with the human element concerned in the divergent aspects.

Tigh was losing control of the reins of his command following his Marshall Law introduction. A couple of civilian deaths later and President Laura decided enough was enough and she needed to break free to do. . . well. . . that remains to be seen. Because break free she did, and she took Apollo with her, and now they’ve joined up with Tom Zerrick. God knows what will happen next – whether the fleet really will splinter into two factions or otherwise.

Now that Commander Adama has woken up and is eager to get back in control, probably such drastic measures will be avoided. But he does have some serious pieces to pick up, no question about that! Still, the sit-down chat he had with Tigh, with no blame and just a resolve to get things fixed, was a great reminder of why he’s a good man to have around and have in charge. It’ll be reassuring to have him back!

Apart from the ending, an interesting aspect back on Caprica was Starbuck and Helo running into a resistance group – the first of whom they encountered were a sports team. I liked this a lot. A sports team turned military, it felt refreshing. And Starbuck and one of the members she played Pyramid Ball with have a bond going on. . .

As far as I am concerned, they could have spent a lot longer on Caprica with those guys rather than on Galactica, and potentially the only misgiving I have (which is going to be a weird complaint) is that there’s so many big plot threads and so little time devoted to all of them to do justice.

As I said, it’s a weird complaint, and not exactly a bad problem for a show to find itself in.

Callie went all assassin at the end of the episode to kill Cylon Boomer – probably this will land her a spell in the brig, but given the previous action with a captive Cylon had been to flush him out of the airlock I can’t imagine the repercussions could be serious. Not to little cute Callie, surely!

Tyrell let me down this episode, though. Don’t hug the dying Cylon, man! Not whilst everyone is watching. People will still think you’re a Cylon! (Mind you, if what Cylon Boomer said is true, and there are eight agents in the fleet, then he might just turn out to be one. . .)