2.5 The Farm

This may have been the episode where this ‘plan’ of the Cylons was revealed a little more fully. When Starbuck was shot and awoke in a hospital bed the whole thing didn’t feel right at all, and so when it was eventually revealed that her doctor was a Cylon it didn’t come as much of a surprise.

Of course, seeing the various other women and how they had been hooked up to machines was a bit more shocking. And Cylon Boomer revealed that the plan was to try and reproduce, as this was one of the Commandments. Evidently, this fact explains her behaviour with Helo – and how it was that the requirement for love has been considered so instrumental for her and the likes of Six.

And if the Cylons’ agenda here is to fulfil one of the commandments, that figures that their whole agenda is to fulfil all of the commandments. To what end? To become human? Or to replace humans as God’s chosen race? Probably it’s something like that.

Anyway, in terms of enjoyment, the episode was a little weird in places – sometimes feeling a little X-Files – for me to fully embrace it. I couldn’t decide if I liked it or not, and it was only Starbuck’s cynicism that kept the thing moving from that plot’s point of view. And that they ended up leaving all those survivors also seemed a little weird to me. Could they not have gotten the majority of them onboard the ship and whisked them back to be with the fleet? Would they not have wanted that? I just didn’t buy that they would want to stay.

Where am I up to with Cylons now? Boomer. Six. PR man. Weapon-dealer man. Black Doctor. Are those the only moulds I have seen so far? To memory, they are. Five out of twelve. I don’t know how the Black Doctor knew about Starbuck so much, and the name of her recent lover – but then there’s still a lot about the Cylons I don’t get.

Meanwhile, Adama’s back in command but it’s not exactly a picnic, with a good third of the fleet choosing to jump to Kobol to be with President Laura. That kind of splitting of the fleet poses an interesting problem for Adama – I wonder how he’s going to deal with it. Potentially the return of Starbuck with the arrow will allow the way to be pointed to Earth and they’ll all agree to go there together in an uneasy alliance, that’s how I see it playing out.