Battlestar Galactica 4-11 Recap

4-2 “Six of One”

Airdate: April 11, 2008  Recap and Discussion

Spoilers after the jump.

SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal

Discussion Questions:

• Did Roslin really miss Starbuck by accident?
• Was her shooting a picture of Adama foreshadowing?
• What will become of Lee in the Colonial government?
• Are we seeing the last kiss between Lee and Kara?
• Does Baltar really trust Tory, or did he just take advantage of the situation to seduce her?
• If he did, can we really blame him? Tory is gorgeous.
• Is Baltar starting to buy into the “one God” theology?
• What will become of the Cylons now that Cy-Vil War has broken out?

The human population is now at 39,976. Starbuck has Roslin at gunpoint. She seems to have enough sense to know that shooting the president is not the best way to make her point. Rather, she asks Roslin to shoot her if the pres thinks she’s a Cylon. She misses and Starbuck gets taken to the brig.

The Final Four Cylons meet and like everyone else, want to know who the fifth one is. Like everyone else (in fandom anyway), Tigh has discounted Starbuck because she’s out of her gourd. Tigh suggests Baltar knows the most about Cylons because of his “close” relationship with Number Six. Tigh suggests Tory “interrogate” him. Uh huh, yeah. Baltar’s luck never runs out.

Imaginary Baltar shows up and tells the real Baltar that Tory could be useful. Play on, player. Play on. The Hybrid is rattling off some metaphysical babble. Six, Leoben and Eight go to Cavil and talk about the Final Five, the Raiders’ evolution and the problems facing the Cylons. Cavil reminds them they’re not supposed to talk about the Five. Moreover, he wants to “fix” the Raiders so they don’t continue their independent functions.

The vote is tied at 3-3 (thanks to D’Anna being in a box.) Note to self: Where can I get one of those boxes? One of the Eights splits the vote, meaning the fixing will proceed. But Six has other ideas. She removes the inhibitor chips and the Raiders begin blowing their oppressors away. Maybe people should stop using that model – it doesn’t seem very reliable.

Lee’s going away and goes to share one last kiss with his true love, Kara. He gets a final salute from the crew (man his popularity is pretty high considering his last major act was getting Baltar out of prison) and then he shares a last moment with Dee. No kiss there though.

Bill goes and talks to Kara who taunts him about being “the president’s wet nurse.” He throws her to the ground. In today’s military, that would so get him sued. After having an embittered discussion with Roslin, whose hair is coming out, Bill reveals his big idea.

He gives Kara a sewage ship and a skeleton crew to go try and find Earth. Gee, that plan would have saved a lot of heartache about two hours ago in real time. But then we wouldn’t have another great story from one of the best dramas on television.