As we continue down our massive BSG re-watch, it’s time to move on to the season three episode “The Son Also Rises.” So why not join us here for the GWC online frak party? There’s room for everyone, though you’ll have to bring your own snacks…
Feel free to jump in at any point with your comments on this week’s episode as the re-watch is by definition spoiler free. We’ll be in and out, but we’ll definitely take a look at your comments before we start next week’s podcast.
I love that Starbuck had more disciplinary reports in her file than pilot evaluations!
Well, it was mentioned in the podcast about the coin toss, but if you think about it, why wouldn’t the luck of a coin toss be affected by the same rules that seem to bind BSG logic. In Battlestar, it has been shown time after time, no matter who the non-believers are or how strong their logic is, religion is REAL. All their myths and scriptures have been coming true, so why wouldn’t Anders’ drunken bet with himself over a coin-toss where heads means Kara is alive and tails being that she’s dead be nudged by the reality of Battlestar? She IS alive (in some manner), thus the coin will remain landing on heads as another religious sign from the gods.
I know it’s just plot device, but what would Adama have been doing if he hadn’t been picked for the trial tribunal? Would he have been sitting with Roslyn in the peanut gallery?
It’s tough watching Lee melt down during the CAG briefing of the pilots, his mistakes in orders to Helo, then calling Racetrack, Starbuck, while chiding her for her remarks to Athena about checking under her raptor seat after the explosion that killed random Baltar lawyer. You could see the pain all over Lee’s face.
When the guards are escorting Baltar to see Lampkin, they dress him in a bullet proof vest, but they don’t put a helmet on him. One would assume they dressed him in the vest for fear of him getting fatally wounded via gunshot wound, but the way he was prepared for transport, if a shooter aimed at his head… job failed, am I right? Maybe it has to do with TV and the producers didn’t want to obscure Baltars face with a helmet and make it more difficult to distinguish who it was walking down the corridor.
When Lee is requesting the files for Lampkin be delivered, there’s a shot of Torre and she looks so startled, you wonder what she’s thinking, is she still rattled from when the viper crashed into Colonial One or has her “relationship” with Anders already begun? She certainly doesn’t seem of the right state of mind to be planning anything… interesting, like on election day.
When Caprica Six is describing how it should have been her that stabbed Baltar, we get a shot of Roslyn, surprisingly looking the happiest I can remember since her time alone with Bill Adama back during those New Caprica flashbacks!
So Kelly goes from being a righteously indignant bada$$ blowing up lawyers to this:
I guess it could be worse.
Wait! Is that “Captain Kelly?” I would not have recognized him, with the glasses and the new hair-do.
T_T
That prop is THE ultimate BSG fan necessity. I totally want to have a copy of that birthday card!
That scene made me cry more than any other in the series!
I’m guessing that the original is in EJO’s personal collection. 
Probably so, maybe we should try and get replicas of Adama’s broken miniature wooden battleship and place our birthday card replicas on the ship’s mast to remind us of two of the most powerful scenes in the entire series (which both happened to include Adama alone in his quarters).