Post by koenigrules on Mar 15, 2005 18:51:06 GMT -5
My review of Hand of God is up at the GS home page.
Here's a sample:
I love how RDM makes references to the original series, even by using the title of one of the Battlestar Galactica episodes & the plot of having the fleet launch a raid on a Cylon-defended fuel depot (similar to the fleet attacking a Cylon basestar in TOS). What is cool is that ‘The Hand of God’ here refers to Baltar being the instrument of the Cylons’ defeat on the asteroid; he somehow “knows” where the tanks housing the refined tylium are so that Apollo can destroy the enemy’s base of operations. ‘The Hand of God’ in the new series is very different from its meaning in TOS where it was in reference to an observation dome on the Galactica whereby one could enjoy the marvels of the heavens. Baltar would hardly call being the instrument of God a marvelous (let alone miraculous) event, but he does realize that the Cylon God is working through him—for whatever, as yet, unknown reason.
The 1.10 storyline is a pretty commonplace one to most sci-fi series. Running out of fuel, the Galactica needs to obtain the much needed tylium so that it can continue to make its intergalactic jumps away from the Cylons. When Boomer and Crashdown find an ample supply of the precious tylium on an asteroid, joy is experienced in the fleet. But it is short-lived as the Cylons are using the same material to power their ships. So a battle plan has to be devised to take the pure tylium while at the same time delivering a crushing blow to the Cylons. As Adama so eloquently puts it, “If you keep running away from a schoolyard bully, he keeps on chasing you. But the moment you stop and you turn around and you punch him really hard in a sensitive spot, he’ll think really hard about coming after you again.” Adama gives his officers little choice: they need to blow up the base using the refined tylium as the trigger and then come back to mine the pure ore in the surrounding region. “We can catch them with their pants down,” he remarks at another point (I didn’t know Cylons wore pants; if anything, they wear slinky red & blue dresses- ha!).
Adama’s plan sounds simple, right? Not really. This sounds like a kamikaze run, with little hope of success, unless the right strategy is adopted. Thereby hangs the tale. Adama wants Lieutenant Starbuck to be the one to “think outside the box” and come up with something that even the Cylons don’t expect. Of course, she is opposed to this order as she would rather be flying one of the Viper craft herself; but she still has not sufficiently recovered from her injuries (depicted in Episode 1.05). So now Starbuck has to be the leader for the group of Viper nuggets as well as Lee Adama, whom she tells, “Don’t frak it up by overthinking!”<br>
The night before the attack, Lee is in the viper bay deep in reflection. Naturally, his father enters and there is a touching moment between them. Adama gives Lee the ‘good luck’ lighter that his own father gave him. Lee says he will return it, and Adama replies that he’d better or his ass will be kicked pretty good. Besides, “it’s a good lighter.” This scene reminded me of the reunion between father and son in the miniseries. A lot of emotion is being experienced by both Lee and Adama, and one can see the love both have for each other. As Chicago Tribune staff reporter Maureen Ryan remarked in her review of this episode, “ Battlestar’s real strengths are in its meaty, character-driven plots,” and this episode maintains that strength— especially this scene between the Adamas.
Read more.
I command it! ;D
KR
Here's a sample:
I love how RDM makes references to the original series, even by using the title of one of the Battlestar Galactica episodes & the plot of having the fleet launch a raid on a Cylon-defended fuel depot (similar to the fleet attacking a Cylon basestar in TOS). What is cool is that ‘The Hand of God’ here refers to Baltar being the instrument of the Cylons’ defeat on the asteroid; he somehow “knows” where the tanks housing the refined tylium are so that Apollo can destroy the enemy’s base of operations. ‘The Hand of God’ in the new series is very different from its meaning in TOS where it was in reference to an observation dome on the Galactica whereby one could enjoy the marvels of the heavens. Baltar would hardly call being the instrument of God a marvelous (let alone miraculous) event, but he does realize that the Cylon God is working through him—for whatever, as yet, unknown reason.
The 1.10 storyline is a pretty commonplace one to most sci-fi series. Running out of fuel, the Galactica needs to obtain the much needed tylium so that it can continue to make its intergalactic jumps away from the Cylons. When Boomer and Crashdown find an ample supply of the precious tylium on an asteroid, joy is experienced in the fleet. But it is short-lived as the Cylons are using the same material to power their ships. So a battle plan has to be devised to take the pure tylium while at the same time delivering a crushing blow to the Cylons. As Adama so eloquently puts it, “If you keep running away from a schoolyard bully, he keeps on chasing you. But the moment you stop and you turn around and you punch him really hard in a sensitive spot, he’ll think really hard about coming after you again.” Adama gives his officers little choice: they need to blow up the base using the refined tylium as the trigger and then come back to mine the pure ore in the surrounding region. “We can catch them with their pants down,” he remarks at another point (I didn’t know Cylons wore pants; if anything, they wear slinky red & blue dresses- ha!).
Adama’s plan sounds simple, right? Not really. This sounds like a kamikaze run, with little hope of success, unless the right strategy is adopted. Thereby hangs the tale. Adama wants Lieutenant Starbuck to be the one to “think outside the box” and come up with something that even the Cylons don’t expect. Of course, she is opposed to this order as she would rather be flying one of the Viper craft herself; but she still has not sufficiently recovered from her injuries (depicted in Episode 1.05). So now Starbuck has to be the leader for the group of Viper nuggets as well as Lee Adama, whom she tells, “Don’t frak it up by overthinking!”<br>
The night before the attack, Lee is in the viper bay deep in reflection. Naturally, his father enters and there is a touching moment between them. Adama gives Lee the ‘good luck’ lighter that his own father gave him. Lee says he will return it, and Adama replies that he’d better or his ass will be kicked pretty good. Besides, “it’s a good lighter.” This scene reminded me of the reunion between father and son in the miniseries. A lot of emotion is being experienced by both Lee and Adama, and one can see the love both have for each other. As Chicago Tribune staff reporter Maureen Ryan remarked in her review of this episode, “ Battlestar’s real strengths are in its meaty, character-driven plots,” and this episode maintains that strength— especially this scene between the Adamas.
Read more.
I command it! ;D
KR