NO EXIT - TEASER

At last, some science fiction to go along with all the action-adventure and war movie stuff.

We see Ellen's POV as she emerges through the light symbols of the Cylons into a goo tank where she wakes up (a Centurion takes note) and a blurry POV shot (probably Anders as he wakes up in sickbay) of Tigh and a bug-eyed Kara.

We're going to get answers finally I guess. She draws Tigh's picture, we see the other Final Fivers and the rebel Hybrid. And we see a Cylon fleet complete with Resurrection Ship.

Later in the clip Ellen stands over something (unseen) that sparks or flares [perhaps the barrel-fire in the underground bunker on New Caprica - after she had been poisoned and wakes up], and the very end of the clip may allude to the Ship of Lights.
As usual the Canadian Space promo is much more interesting than the US SciFi promo:

We see Sam looking all Man Who Fell to Earth from a flashback or before brain surgery; Ellen saying "I'd do it all again"; the sea where Saul and Ellen died when it was a bank; Kobol ruins; supernova on the algae planet; Sam during the resistance on Caprica; the Centurion walking Ellen(?) down the hall (some woman, wearing a knee-length black dress or robe) of a Base Ship (or perhaps it's Roslin to the room with Ellen if the awakening happened on the rebel Base Ship); Adama and Tyrol noticing the Galactica is falling apart; a rectangular doorway with light spilling out; Sam telling Kara to get the other Fivers because he remembers "everything." [Unless PC guest-star-brain-specialist provides yet another countdown clock device - he has to go into surgery now! and the tell-all is aborted] Overall, No Exit looks terrific.

BLOOD ON THE SCALES - REVIEW

Oh dear. First, the good: the episode was well-made. It moved well, the pacing was better than in The Oath. The Base Ship command deck has never been shot more beautifully. Alessandro Juliani was simply superb in this and the last episode.

Now for the not-so-good:

This was a waste of an episode. The direction was uneven, the background players were simply lousy in some scenes, and the writing was stilted, the dialog crude, and the overall tone inartful. It made sense that the fleet would have a civil war among the humans by the end of the journey but this was a very lame way to do it. Once again other than a few scratchy comlink voices we have no idea how the rest of the human population is coping and what their desires are. All the action takes place on Galactica, the Base Ship and in space. The story is about Adama maintaining his command and the larger questions set up in The Oath are simply tossed aside to serve the visceral drama. The nuance and complexity of Gaeta's actions and motivations in The Oath were torn asunder and made pathetic in this ep. They trotted out old faces (Romo and Kelly) and it felt like watching stunt casting on The Love Boat. They weren't necessary to the story.

Richard Hatch was given his swan song and they pulled the rug out from under his character - making him ridiculous when up to now he had been slyly charming and oliagenous. This was the moment when his true colors would come out and Moore and the writers went with gimmicks. At such a momentous time (after the long exodus and the crushing disappointment of cinder "Earth") even a self-serving sleazeball like Zarek would have more on his mind than simply acquiring power for himself for the sake of power. Zarek was a revolutionary - a man-of-the-people in the stripe of a Castro ... so he would always have his eye on how things play to his base among the population. If he were to launch an outright coup, he would have made short work of the executions of the important leadership (Adama, Roslin, etc.) and not let Gaeta take the lead. The whole subplot with Zarek having the Quorum assassinated was just lame. The day-players were in their same suits doing their same fake "deliberating" and the bad acting bug bit all around in this scene and their death poses were frankly laughable - a good director allowed that? The writers thought they were so clever with Zarek trying to blood Gaeta with the Quorum deaths but it was forced and fake, and the Quorum has been basically irrelevent to the story and the leadership so it was a side-journey to nowhere [but I guess the writers consider it a loose end tied up].

[Addendum: The entire subplot with Lee going civilian and transitioning into the new President's role has dragged on endlessly and is unsatisfying. Who cares? There are far bigger issues than who's going to push paper for the "government"]

The "debate" on the Base Ship was fake too - other than their fear of Cavil there is no reason why the rebel Cylons still wish to ally with the humans now that their joint quest for Earth proved a bust (so far as they know at present). It has never been explained why the Cylons decided they wanted to find Earth at all unless they want to finish their genocide of the humans but at New Caprica they said they're done trying to wipe out the humans ... [sigh]

Remember Lance Henrickson's android in Aliens on his belly scurrying through that tunnel? Well, they have Tyrol do it through the half the episode to avoid being seen and we get yet another fake moment where he and Kelly bond and Kelly has a change of heart and switches sides from the coup plotters to Adama's team, including Tyrol. Tyrol eventually gets to the FTL drives and rips out components with his bare hands to stop Galactica from jumping away and effectively ending the coup. And he notices the first visible tears in the ship.

Kambo Kara is a little less testosterony this ep and Lee swings his balls a bit more and together they kill some mutinous Marines and free the Cylons held in the brig - but Ooop! Anders takes one to the head (or neck) and is about to bleed out and die. Here comes Romo, who very reluctantly helps her carry him to sick bay, after having used his pen trick to shiv a Marine to death so he can escape. Romo was so great during the trial they should have never brought him back. His subsequent appearances have been a let-down because they've taken away his mystery and just made him miserly. Earlier this ep Romo had been pressed into service by the writers, er, Zarek and Gaeta, as a representative for Adama in the kangaroo court prodeeding they held to try and convict him for treason and giving "aid and comfort to the enemy." Tedious and uneccesary. What a waste of time. Adama just kept cranking out vulgarities.

Meanwhile on the Base Ship a Natalie Six takes a liking to Baltar and beds him but he suddenly has pangs of consciense and declares he must go back to the Galactica and nurture his flock - he has a dream of a firing squad shooting Adama - why would he care? ... he's never really been allied with Adama. The same guy who rolled his eyes with contempt at his groupies now is a true believer? Oh please, the writers are just insulting our intelligence at this point. He gave a nuclear weapon to the tortured Six on Pegasus and she blew up two or three vessels and took all those lives and now he's redeemed? Yet again, more fakeness. A leopard doesn't change its spots and Baltar was safe on the Base Ship and had an interested beautiful Natalie wanting to please him. Bah.

Roslin is able to broadcast with the help of Leoben's old high-school band amp, and tells the fleet what is going on, but other than appreciating the information about the coup and why the Base Ship has moved among the fleet for protection from Gaeta's Galactica guns, why would they side with her - a leader who renounced her role and was wrong in her visions? I would think a lot of fleet listeners would say "frak you Roslin." And why are the Cylons on the Base Ship so passive? Tory is always trying to be a bossy-pants and she's much more annoying now than when she was Roslin's aide, but the rest of them seem to stand around a lot. And I thought the Base Ship could heal itself, why does it still have nubby glowing stubs yet Zephyr is good as new?

Kambo, Lee and now Tigh and the others freed from the brig run into Kelly who joins up and they rescue Adama from a firing squad. Adama turns some of the mutineers to his side and they storm C&C and take back the ship.

In a very rare occurance Mary McDonnell has a not-so-great acting moment in the scene where she sees Bill Adama again back on Galactica ... I guess even the most talented of us have off moments. We get the needless and tedious scene of Gaeta blathering about his boyhood dreams of becoming a cheeseburger-shaped-building architect to Baltar - who I guess has come to lend his spiritual support the newly condemned.

In the last really fake moment, Zarek and Gaeta are seated in an air-lock and Adama leads the firing squad because we were told "there will be a reckoning." Zarek and Gaeta look to each other - which they most certainly would not do - Gaeta had contempt for Zarek - and with sheepish schoolboy grin/grimaces to boot. What then was the point of that song?

What is Cavil doing? Where is Head-Six?

Again, entertaining and well-made but bogus choices and if they were going to do a civil war among the humans it should have erupted among the fleet and a whole lot of them should have died.

FAKE EARTH AND 13th CYLON

We haven't yet had the explanation as to why and how clone Kara appeared on the scene - what's the chain-of-custody on that missing ovary? (hopefully we won't have the Piano Player tell her that she's a "song" he wrote) but we're getting closer to that.

These images of "Earth" illustrate how the big fake-out has been set up for the this is the real Earth reveal. The one with the Florida peninsula clearly visible was shown to us several eps back and later, in Revelations, several fleet vessels screamed down to a planet surface obscured by clouds only to find a Cylon civilization in nuclear ruins (along with Brooklyn Bridge remains).

Many other blogs and scifi sites have already covered the whole star-pattern issue and this guy called the 13th Cylon early on. A brilliant post covers the 13th Cylon issue and has an interesting take on the plant Roslin found and took with her.


So, kids, we've still got another ride - Terra, or whatever they're gonna call 2nd Earth - and a thirteenth Cylon model to meet.

Who could it be?

WONDER ROSLIN

The extended teaser for Blood On the Scales (linked in a post below) has Roslin feeling good and kicking ass on the rebel Cylon Base Ship. I like, of course, but wasn't she just wallowing in self-pity and humiliation and detoxing from her meds? She now is out to save her man. Cue the theme song:


Ultimate 70s cheese - see and hear it >>>here<<<

WHERE DID IT GO WRONG?

We just can't ignore the obvious anymore.


When and how did it happen?


1. The prolonged Pegasus subplot / Razor
2. Baltar giving the tortured, bitter Six a nuclear weapon
3. Fast-forwarding the story over a year [at the end of Season 2] / Cylon explanation for ceasing of hostilities prior to Occupation
4. Lee getting fat / Lee-Kara-Anders-Dualla soap opera
5. The Woman King, Black Market and Sacrifice
[SciFi numbskulls demanded more stand-alones]
6. Kara and Anders' tattoos and marriage
7. Showing us planet Earth from space
8. All Along the Watchtower in Season 3 finale
9. Unboxing D'Anna then getting rid of her / the easy attack on the Resurrection Hub
10. Finding cinder Earth
11. Ellen as the 5th
12. Never (almost never) showing what's going on in the rest of the fleet
[for an explanation of the list see 3rd post on this Comments page]


Of course there are many many amazing moments from the run of the show, and here are some of the best:

NEW CLIP

io9 has a longish spoilery clip from Blood On the Scales here

WHITEBOARD

That whiteboard number will just keep going down ...

Sitrep found this death chart ... and I liked the idea so much, I made my own:

CLUE CLIMAX

These are the "clues" we're still waiting to have resolved, some of which obviously play into the Zarek/Gaeta coup subplot and others, well ... we'll see won't we?

2 - "And the Fifth, still in shadow, will claw toward the light" quote
5 - baby Cylon image
6 - Head-Six asks Baltar "If you were one of the Old Gods, which one will it be?" vid clip
7 - Last Supper without Roslin image
10 - Scene with Gaeta confronting Baltar before the coup goes south vid clip
11 - Twelve tolls of a bell audio clip snippet
14 - Adama, post coup, notices structural tears in Galactica vid clip
16 - Ethereal "Do you remember what we said on New Caprica?" audio clip
20 - Ellen returns [probably] (in the Raptor piloted by Base Ship Sharon)
28 - Kara sits and plays piano with an unknown man

BLIP-BOOPY-BIP

Get ready kids, the grand backstory of how a tart like Ellen is the 5th and Final Cylon is spooling up and probably at the end of the next ep, Blood On the Scales (or the one after that), we'll see that Raptor door open and there will be Ellen ... "Oh my god[s?z?]," Roslin reacts.

Love across time, piano-playing daddies, strip joints, Times Square ... I think I'm feeling nauseous.

- I'd sure like to "swirl" that

THE OATH - REVIEW

You know, I feel like I got roughed up and punched in the stomach (like Lee here) after this ep. Egads. The bad writing bug bit. I blame Moore and the entire writers' room. Of all the choices they could have made for where to take the story and how ... hmmm. Such gimmicks. Such uninspired storytelling.

Gaeta springs Zarek and has Marines and various others involved. He takes him to the flight deck and Racetrack creates a diversion to clear the area (the main Baltar groupie is there ?!!? and sees what's really happening). The nerd who is now the Chief (from Pegasus) follows the letter-of-protocol so Zarek brains him with a big 'ol crescent wrench (that's gotta sting) ... another red shirt dead (get that whiteboard handy - you'll be lowering the number all night).

Gaeta fools his boyfriend Hoshi in C&C (sort of) who spots Zarek's unauthorized departure from Galactica on draedus ... Adama, Tigh, et al buy Gaeta's subterfuge. Cut to Lee holding court with the Quorum on Colonial One ... DuhDaDuhDa - in walks Zarek to take over the meeting.

Cut to Seelix talking with Anders - we find out they have backstory but it's really about distraction so some of the Sons of Ares thugs can bag Anders and pummel him (including Nowart). Back to C&C - another diversion (a fake fire) - Cut to Kara and Hot Dog have a good little scene, then the fire alarm goes off and we see the interaction from one of the Clue clips where Kara deduces the ruse and follows soldiers as they loot an arms locker. Kara goes to her stash and arms herself to the nines - from now on for this review we'll call her Kambo. She calls up to C&C and Gaeta intercepts her call and hangs up on her - Kambo knows the whoozywhatzit already. Lee calls from Colonial One and Gaeta intercepts that call too (crafty little bugger!) ... back to Lee and now Zarek is playing him - toying with him like a cat with a mouse but a couple good lines of dialog in there. Building ... Gaeta lies to Adama, saying all communications are down - Eddie Olmos gives a great reaction shot (terse, in-the-moment and faraway all at the same time) ... somehow Lee lands on the flight deck [he got a Raptor ready and flew back that quick ???] - Sucker Punch by traitorous Marines (ooh, I taste lunch) ... KAMBO arrives - KaBlam! KaBlam! Two revolutionaries, er red shirts, down lickety-split. Corny "I died once," line and amazing aim - memories fuzzy but can Kambo aim a gun!

Athena and Helo are having Mommy-Daddy time with Hera, spoon-feeding her baby-algae when the din of a riot starts to filter into their hearing range and unsettles them. Hero Helo suits up for a looksee. Oop, too late, the thugs in uniform are there already and spirit Athena and Hera away before some macho talk about past perceived wrongs on Pegasus and double-thwack - a nice rifle-butt bloody concussion for Helo. That's what you get Cylon-lover

Lee and Kambo find a temporary safe-haven and she paces like a wild animal and aggressively kisses Lee and says, "I'm feelin' right for the first time in weeks" [er, shouldn't it be months? ... but I quibble] ... once again we are reminded that she's always had bigger balls than him. Meanwhile .... Gaeta still has them all fooled in C&C but Adama finally sends someone to go put eyes on what's really happening ... Sharon, Hera, and an unconscious Helo are put in the brig with Anders and Caprica Six - who goes on a rant about how "the humans" fear their children (oh the irony!). Adama's lookout returns huffing and puffing and finally spills the beans that it is a ruse - Gaeta puts the hammer down and his Marines pop out of the shadows and - oops! They're trigger-happy and red shirt runner gets wasted and bullets fly all around. Cue macho showdown and Eddie Olmos growl. We get a reference to the titular "oath" they all took when they put on the uniform and Adama tells Gaeta that he will die with nothing and tells those taking part in the mutiny that there will be no amnesty this time.

Lee and Kambo make it to Roslin in Adama's quarters and she is there and unmolested but her Marine guards are gone. Roslin has on her glasses [cue Wonder Woman theme song] and wig and puts on her jacket and is ready for her part of the battle, "I have an idea about the wireless" she offers ... obvious. Back in C&C Gaeta is the man in charge and barks orders and keeps his people in line. He may only have one leg but he's got two big balls.

Meanwhile down in the Baltar messiah subplot zone they are moving around silk pillows or something and Tyrol is there ??? [groan] Baltar explains to his main groupies that he must flee. Really, are they that stupid? It is just tedious and insulting to watch at this point his contempt for them as a wink to the audience while he shmoozes them - this is so played out. This subplot must die. Tyrol has a walkie-talky so he kinda knows what's going on. Back to the corridors where some people just cower, others seem dazed and not knowing what to do, Kambo and Lee lead Roslin down to the Baltarzone and Tyrol allows Roslin to get to Baltar's pirate radio and tells Lee that if he can get his father Adama to the heretofore unknown "secondary storage bay" within the hour "I can get him off the ship."

Only Marines Nowart and Moldonado escort Adama and Tigh somewhere and in a well-directed scene Adama confronts them verbally and then gets close enough to go for M's rifle and rat-tat-tat he's dead Jim ... Tigh is impressed. [Now, if Tory suddenly realized she had great strength while making love to Baltar way back when, why doesn't Tigh just use his Cylon superpowers and take out these two? But I quibble ... again]

Back down in Baltarland a stupid exchange between Roslin and Baltar takes place and dumb-bunny groupie number 2 gets in the mix wasting like 2 minutes we could be finding out what the hell is up with Cavil, or what Head-Six thinks about things, or if D'Anna went for a swim on radioactive cinder Earth and if she's eating that rattlesnake weed ... the exchange does end with two good lines, especially Roslin's "Maybe we're both frauds and we have one last chance to atone," or some such.

Gaeta calls Zarek and they discuss the status of their coup when Roslin's voice - like a beacon in the night - gently rings out true across the cacophony of fleet hails trying to find out what's going on. We still never see any of the other ships or the people there - are they in support of the revolt? Roslin makes her plea - ridiculous staging as she is positioned to look like a beat poet in a speakeasy down in Baltarcafe ... we see reaction shots from the Quorum and elsewhere to her words - Gaeta has to "find the frequency" [what's the frequency Kenneth!?!] himself since the I-wanna-rape-you-Athena Pegasus knuckledragger can't do it to end the transmission.

With all the pandemonium somehow Kambo and Lee happen upon Adama and Tigh - cue showdown over killing Nowart "they are not your men anymore, they are the enemy" Adama let's Nowart flee - and Kambo's amazing clone aim fails her this time.

In special holding room 2 - or whatever Tyrol called it - Roslin and Baltar cool their heels and discuss how they both made bad choices in selecting their aides d'camp (remember it from the Clue site clip?) Baltar calls Gaeta in C&C [guess communications are working again] and pleads with him to stop "this madness" - Gaeta, fully committed, hangs up on this tedious fool. Back in unknown-room-introduced-in-Act-III a Raptor docks and out comes a Cylon Sharon and Kambo, Lee, Adama, and Tigh enter at the same time and Poppa and Momma kiss for all to see. Kambo and Lee leave up a ladder for more fighting on another deck in the next episode [did Tyrol go with them or the Raptor - don't remember, don't care], and Cylon base ship Sharon takes Baltar and Roslin on the Raptor and they skeedaddle. Butch and Sundance, er Adama and Tigh, hold the fort as the rebellious Marines approach. The Raptor takes off (for the Base Ship no doubt) and back in C&C Gaeta gets the first taste that things are going wrong ... but he orders that his Pegasus collaborator Nacho (oh, Narcho) to shoot it down.

We close with Butch and Sundance saying their macho goodbyes as they jump off the cliff into the river below - er, I mean shooting their automatic rifles into the small opening in the blast doors the traitorous Marines have opened - they respond with a flash grenade and we fade out.

Teaser for the next ep shows Leoben growing some facial hair and looking fatter - guess finding the dead Kara caused him to blow a fuse and I was really wrong about some earlier posts where I thought it was a guest actor (but the eyes are a different color - maybe a filter effect from how they shot the scene). Some political jockeying goes on at the Base Ship and the game of brinkmanship [X37] has it arming weapons and the Roslin line "I'm coming for all of you." She's going to beat them with her wig?

Yikes, where to begin ... This episode, The Oath, was a waste of John Dahl's talents. The story choices are just becoming terrible. It's pretty clear to me now that Ron Moore and David Eick just lost interest in this show around the middle of the 3rd season. They both got their big production deals and high art like Bionic Woman beckoned. Once Moore got his damn Dylan song in there he was basically satisfied I think and has since felt put-upon to wrap up the show. The lofty brilliance of this incarnation of Battlestar Galactica has never come close to the heights of the miniseries and first season and a half save for a few eps here and there. We're three episodes into the final ten (so seven eps or eight 42 minute installments sans commercials to go) and it is underwhelming thus far. I would gladly like to be proven wrong in the next few eps.

MISDIRECTION AND MEA CULPAS

[spoilery] I have this theory that this fellow is not Leoben but a pivotal character, perhaps the Xeno Fenner fella who shows up in the final episodes and/or is the mad-scientist-who-explains-it-all-to-you character since it sounds like most of the big questions the creators and writers have left dangling will be wrapped up in a single episode (other blogs and scifi websites have posited that it will be the Islanded In A Stream of Stars ep). Several visitors to this blog say that clearly it is Leoben, but if you look closely at the man's face it is broader, and he has golden-brown eyes (like the actor hired to play Xeno) not blue as Leoben actor Callum Keith Rennie does. This man is clearly standing in the Cylon base ship C&C and wearing the same color shirt as a Leoben, but I think this is misdirection - SciFi has finally learned how to tease future eps by juxtaposing images, dialog and sounds without being so literal and giving away the store to anyone with even rudimentary deductive ability. The still image of this man was pulled from one of the 4.5 short teasers. It is possible it is Leoben, shot with what is called "monster lighting" but I don't think so.

I'm not always right. I'm just a fan who created this blog for fellow fans for the fun of it. I was convinced that Roslin would be the 5th and Final Cylon. Really, she should have been - it would have given the story more heft then some smaller story about a couple (Tigh and Ellen) that wanted to stay together through time.

I keep hoping for a return to the lofty heights of the miniseries and first season-and-a-half - with its grand ideas, mysticism and high-style, but it seems I am hoping in vain. Moore and the writers, according to repeated statements by actor Eddie Olmos, are taking us on a very bleak and ironic journey to a bitter end - down the dark mineshaft of cynicism.

WHO IS HE?

JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE FUN

Kara heads ...

Oh, and the Thirteenth Tribe (of Cylons) may have had Centurions that looked like these ...

And I sure hope since they skipped Season 5 and are tying up all their loose ends they don't end up with a rush job that looks like this

A DISQUIET FOLLOWS MY SOUL - REVIEW

This was an interesting episode. Show creator Ron Moore wrote the episode and made his directorial debut and created quite a cohesive, textured window onto the lives of our beloved characters. His stated belief that the characters are what drives the show, not the plot, was demonstrated in A Disquiet Follow My Soul. He achieved what he set out to do.

The Zarek coup subplot spools up and Gaeta descends all the way to the dark side of bitterness. Adama starts to get it together and seems to have dispensed with the alcohol for the time being in favor of pills - and notices again what's going on around him - there seems to be less recklessness and insubordination and he's picking up trash. Roslin, on the other hand, trashes her pills and skips her cancer treatment and seems resigned to just let nature take its course and die. She is uncomfortable in her own skin since the finding of cinder Earth and is humiliated from the tip of her toes to her eyeballs and just doesn't know what to do - so she's at least going to take charge of her own life/death.


Doc Cottle breaks the bad news to Tyrol that the kid ain't his, and a nurse with an English accent reacts with disgust at the attention being paid to the Cylons, in particular Caprica Six and Tigh's baby (which we see on ultrasound) - this nurse will probably figure in the coming civil war and line up against the Adama-Cylon alliance. The late Callie's baby is a cocktail weenie not a Cylon half-breed. At one of Baltar's annoying religious rallies (now he's challenging and mocking god and the crowd goes with it ??? ... and where-o-where is Head-Six?) there is a dumb fight between Tyrol and Hot Dog - the kid's real dad.

The Cylon Final Four now seem to occupy this strange netherzone of belonging to both sides and Tyrol tells the meeting of the brain trust (minus Roslin who is still AWOL) that if the rebel Cylons and Final Fours are going to share their superior jump technology they want full rights ... and thus the ground is laid for the civil war to come. How and why the press corps still dresses in suits and is so formal about the process is a bit baffling after all they've been through. Lee, filling in for Roslin, tells the press that the Fifth and Final Cylon is dead, that "she" is dead ... which of course causes a frenzy that they run from. The meeting of the Quorum was the most effective yet - with a well-written and acted speech by Richard Hatch - doing a great job in the Zarek part (and he's getting his swan song).

A scene with Gaeta and Kara in the officer's mess is excellent, although the repeated denigration of Felix for being "cripple[d]" was a bit of odd dialog - Kara usually has more clever comebacks and one-ups ... perhaps her clone self isn't as witty as the original Kara? Overall though, it was a meaningful exchange - terrific work by the actors - and set the tone for the lines being drawn between sides very well.

My favorite part of Moore's direction was his choice of point-of-view ... he either responded to the fans or, more likely (since he has in the past shown contempt publicly for fan preferences) wanted the same thing - a feeling of what these peoples' lives are like in the small moments, in the in between times, what it's like to really be there and be living in that situation. I also really liked that he chose different camera angles and different perspectives on rooms and places we've seen many times - it felt fresh and much more lived-in. My great criticism of the Revelations episode is that the camera placement and points-of-view and static shots made it so visually dull when such momentous things were happening. In this episode, other than the coup subplot, smaller stories were being told yet there was much more visual interest to what was happening. Moore didn't go for high-style and kept a fairly muted color palette but did imbue his episode with just the right amount of movement and visceral energy.

Roslin starts to exercise and run and otherwise feel alive again, and Adama reminds her that her euphoria is partly due to her going off her meds ... she doesn't care and in a touching scene she tells Adama she wants a to "live a little before I die," and at the end of the ep they finally end up in a lovers embrace.