The Monday Morning Galactica Report - The All You Need Is Love Edition

As usual, SPOILERS!

So, if they keep to their theme (as I see it so far) with a Whedonesque rigidity, this will be a harrowing season. Or at least a handful of eps.
BTW, IMHO (um, WT- er, nevermind...) my show is back. No, that's not true, MY show is still canceled, but the movie was pretty spiffy. And I can't believe he killed WASH!

*cough* BSG is back. This weeks ep had a much lighter touch and didn't hurt itself trying for the real-world parallels. Rather that go for the one to one correspondence they just told the story. And if you feel like assigning further (inappropriate, to my mind) symbolism, that's yer own lookout.

As usual, my favorite characters are the most conflicted. I'm just having a heck of a time watching the Tighs. Both of them want so much and have NO idea how to get it and manage to screw things up without trying. Dana "Three" Biers (the press are toasters! Never forget!) suddenly jumped up a bunch of notches. And we're both (SWIMW and I) holding our breath waiting to see what terrible terrible consequences come of the whole Boomer / Hera thing.

Are Boomer / Sharon ever going to meet? I mean, check it out. Boomer shoots the old man, gets killed by Cally, and along with Caprica Six "reforms" the Cylons. Meanwhile, Sharon hooks up with Helo as part of a Cylon plot, makes her way back to Galactica, has a baby, and manages to get back into the fleet! She's a Raptor pilot again! So the one Sharon has essentially taken over the other Sharon's life! The "original" Galactica Sharon (the one who shot Adama) may get to compete with Tyrol for the "Boy Does My Life Suck Beyond the Telling" award. I mean, Tyrol's looking almost content in the middle of war and occupation. And he got to show up out of NOWHERE and save his wife from a whithering hail of gunfire. He gets Husband of the Year award and then some!

(Hey, has anyone seen Hot Dog? You know, Adama's REAL son? Is he on New Cap? Still in the fleet? Did I miss that he got killed last season?)

Anyway-- The Theme. It's not Occupation. It's Love. As I see it there are at least Three characters that have done / are about to do terrible, irrevocable actions for Love and don't have a moment's regret over it. We started the season with Three asking Six if it was worth it (bringing the Cylons to New Cap) over the love of a man. And Six said if Three had ever known Love that she wouldn't have to ask that. Ellen Tigh is still a conniving backstabbing witch. But now she's conniving and backstabbing because she can't stand to lose Saul. And short of putting a round in her eye, I don't think she's going to stop anytime soon. And now Dana (Three) has got a serious Jones on. She's going to turn the worlds upside down to find that baby. Not because of any import to one side of the other, but because the Oracle prommised her Love. (Gotta love the characters that have their very own agenda completely separate from ANYBODY else. Used to be Gaius.) I'm sure Starbuck will find her way into this theme soon enough. As will Sharon. It's gonna be a scary year.

Oh, and it's nice to see that Amanda (The Oracle) Plumber is still playing crazy just fine. "Any of you ------ even MOVE and I'll execute every last one of you!"

My only disappointment so far is the lack of Baltar and Six. (Boy, I never thought I'd write THOSE words!) I mean, after the setup in Downloaded and the payoff with Lay Down Your Burdens, with the "real" Six, the one that actually had a relationship with Baltar (and has a GB living in HER head!) they haven't givin us a lot of screen time. Always leave them wanting more, I know. But give us SOME. Even Whedon gives us a few scenes of Happiness Finally Attained before he plunges both characters into a figurative or literal hell, never to be the same.

Tune in next week. Boom boom boom.

p.s. I'm not watching the previews. So there.