Battlestar Galactica

Airdate: June 6, 2008

Logline:

Viper pilots and Cylon rebels forge a strategy against the Resurrection Hub. (TV Guide) Lucy Lawless returns as Number Three/D’anna

So this week’s episode takes place at the same time as the previous week’s episode. It’s not as confusing as it first sounds. After the rather unpleasant experience of “Sine Qua Non,” this week’s “The Hub” was going have to have it’s A game going.

Then again, I’m speaking from pure bias perhaps on this—being that I’m a Lucy Lawless fan. But even if she wasn’t in the episode, it still would have been a decent episode. So I guess there’s that.

The clock is ticking for Laura Roslin. Each time the ship jumps she gets “Head Elosha” who’s perhaps, I think, is to show Laura that unless she starts loving people, her death is going to be cold and lonely thing she envisioned. (Elosha echoes what Bill Adama said a few weeks earlier.)

The Hybrid knows what is going on and she leads the Human-Cylon Contingent to resurrection hub so they can retrieve D’anna and the secrets she holds and destroy the hub, effectively making the cylons “mortal.”

Roslin tells Helo that she wants to speak to D’anna first which goes against the agreement of a mutual “discussion” between the two allies. Oh well. It’s not like that shouldn’t surprise anyone.

Aboard the resurrection hub, D’anna is “unboxed” by Cavil and the Boomer Benedict Arnold. Cavil hopes that D’anna can restore “unity” and stop this nonsense of a cylon civil. (Remember, all this has happened before and will happen again.)

D’anna ain’t to pleased.

One of the best lines is D’anna to the Boomer Benedict Arnold—“Until she sees something shiney.”

D’anna kills Cavil. It’s not clear if the Cavils are all gone. I guess we’ll find out because I think an all out war (remember, all this has happened before and will happen again) is on the horizon.

During the battle, Balter is seriously wounded (but not before he talks to a toaster and showing him the light so to speak). Roslin starts to care for him, but stops because he admits that he cave he nuke codes to Six. She eventually comes around and goes back to treating Balter’s wound.
Aboard the base star, the Athena like clone isn’t happy about the change in plans. D’anna is like “figures.”

D’anna totally fraks with Rolsin and tells her she’s the fifth—as a joke, of course. But D’anna ain’t talking until she knows she’s safe. Can’t say I blame her—she really trusts no one at this point. The cylons box her, Laura changes the deal—D’anna’s going to play it safe.

The episode ends with the baseship jumping back to where the fleet is supposed to be at. Adama is there waiting for them.

All you Adama-Roslin shippers can rejoice. The unrequited love between the two is now out in the open. Roslin tells Bill she loves him… aww… how sweet.

Next week’s episode is the mid-season finale. It’ll be the last BSG episode for a while.

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