3.11 The Eye Of Jupiter

So I had been a little previous with the last episode and assumed that the mission to get algae had been done and dusted and now the fleet had got food for themselves. I was wrong. This episode started with the information that the harvest of the algae had been going on for two weeks and was in full flow. So whilst I didn’t understand how the ‘radioactive passage of light’ incident from the previous episode had been necessary nor traversed, I quickly got to grips with the current situation.

It was a situation that was going to get massively intense. And it started with Tyrol getting a hunch about something in the mountains so he went for a wander and inadvertently stumbled upon some massive temple – potentially the temple of the five from the 13th colony.

Right. OK. So here we bring in the Cylons, who also appeared four base ships strong at the planet on their own quest to find ‘the eye of Jupiter’ that apparently pointed the way to Earth and would be found in this temple. So all that business from the previous episode, again that I had mistaken and/or got confused by, with Baltar and Deanna going on about shadows in light had also brought them to this point.

I have to say they could have done a better job of making that a little clearer. I mean, maybe I was a bit sleepy when I watched the previous episode but I don’t think I totally missed the signpost on this thing.

So what’s the deal with the Cylons and the humans then? Because there are the Cylons going on about these five weird Cylon moulds that exist in the point between life and death. And now there’s this temple of ‘the five’. . . It seems to me that the history between the two races may have more common ancestry, or roots, than has been outlined so far. Or maybe it’s to do with the statement from the ancient book about how all of this has happened before and will happen again.

It’s intriguing stuff, but I am going down the line of thinking that there’s a serious link between humans and Cylons that is yet to be introduced. Perhaps they were once all like Hera, and then there was a split? Who knows?

In the meantime it was time for a whopper of a cliffhanger to end this episode on a ‘to be continued’ note. We had Baltar and Deanna journeying to the planet. Adama was priming nuclear weapons with a poker faced intent on whether he was going to use them or not. Starbuck had been shot down by Centurions already on the planet and set to wage war with the makeshift army of civilians down there. Apollo and Anders were facing off over whether to rescue Starbuck, with Anders held at gunpoint. And there was Tyrol, alone, trying to unlock the mystery of the temple. To cap it all, there’s only a bloody great supernova due to go off at any moment.

It’s a heck of set of plot strands all left in the balance! I can’t wait to see how they pick up the threads and move on from this!