‘Battlestar Galactica’: ‘Sine’ and ‘Hub’
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Some people don’t like lawyers, especially gravelly voiced lawyers who double as psychologists. But in ‘Sine Qua Non,’ Mr. Lampkin returns to touch all the right buttons and come up with the philosophical questions everyone needed to ask to move on. Sometimes he sounds as crazy as pre-president Baltar, what with toting around dead cats and all, but most of the time he’s right on target.
The point of the episode was to make Lee president and show Adama’s vulnerabilities. Lawyer Lampkin helped shine a light on both. His words, plus a fist in Adama’s face (by Tigh) and a gun in Lee’s (by Lampkin), led both men on paths seemingly divergent from where they were headed but exactly where they wanted to be. Lee eventually wanted a presidency and Adama certainly wanted to be by Laura Roslin’s side. Lampkin even summed up Lee and Roslin, saying they were both ‘a study in repressed ambition.’ Good stuff.
So in the end, a Six is found to be impregnated by Saul Tigh, who is also named HCIC (Head Cylon In Charge) while Adama floats in space waiting on love/Roslin, Pike is dead (who?), Lee is sworn in as prexy and Romo Lampkin gets a dog. Grab a gun and bring in the cat, ‘cause it’s raining (you had to be there).
Three times as nice -- ‘The Hub’
Switching gears away from the Galactica, Roslin, Baltar, Helo and a squadron of Viper pilots have been Miyazakied (spirited away) by the JUMP! hybrid who keeps JUMP! zipping them closer and closer to JUMP! the resurrection hub, the central downloader for all Cylons.
As the group went about trying to destroy the hub, their actions struck a bit of a nerve in me and Helo. Yes, Cylons plotted to enslave the human race, but when you add humanity to the mix (literally, their DNA mix), it seemed wrong to essentially cut off their only reproductive organ -- so to speak -- in this genocidal manner. Oh, well. Nukes were loosed, deed is done.
The goofy Gaius returned, and he’s not as relaxed as the Battlestar Sonatica. His and Roslin’s attempts to interact with the Hybrid were comical, and his conversation with the Cylon droid was also pretty funny. Guess I’m glad Roslin didn’t let him die. Yet. He still needs to meet an open airlock one day, and Laura almost let it happen.
Xena, Warrior Cylon, also returned, as Three, or Deanna or Lucy Lawless, was brought back online only to kill a fellow Cylon and hold everyone at bay with the fact that only she knows who the final five Cylons are. And she’s not telling until this pesky thing called mortality can be assured. Kind of don’t blame her.
It’s all coming out next ... oh, and President Roslin had lots of visions throughout the episode. Visions of an empty Galactica, visions of her own death and visions that could have easily been cut out of the show. Just tell her she needs to love someone and move on!
Next week we talk to Tory the Cylon (Rekha Sharma).
-- Jevon Phillips
