Battlestar Galactica: Episode 4.3 “The Ties that Bind”

/ Adam Nash

If you don’t like spoilers, stop reading now.  Seriously.  I don’t want any whiny complaints.  You are lucky I didn’t put more in my title.

There is a very good write-up on BuddyTV.  It’s worth reading.

Let’s summarize what was great about the third episode of this season:

  1. Cylon civil war heats up. This could be going in a couple directions.  Pretty obvious issue with giving the Centurion’s access to higher-level thinking.  Hello?  Rebellion against the humanoid cylons.  Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?  Like the rebellion 40 years ago against the human colonists?  Also having the Cylons self-destruct helps lead us towards some sort of human victory – there has to be some form of Cylon destruction – right now, the Cylons are too powerful and eventually they will crush the humans unless they either (1) find help or (2) self-destruct.  Not sure which it will be yet, but the current thread opens up (2) as an options.  Last note: are we going to see the emergence of true individual behavior in the Cylons, as a virus?  Happened with Baltar’s 6, now the Boomer 8.  Not good for the robots.  Not good at all.
  2. Some of the “final four” are definitely acting Cylon.  Tory is starting to act like the new Number 6, before she went soft.   Sex with Baltar, flirt with Tyrol, kill Callie?  Not bad for three episodes.
  3. Cally dies. Nice to see that Battlestar hasn’t lost its guts yet.  Of course, they could wuss out and make Callie the final cylon…  of course, they’d have to explain the Tyrol-Callie baby at that point, since it would be Cylon/Cylon.  Let’s hope they don’t.  Let’s hope they had the guts to kill an empathetic character, cruelly, and without remorse.   Battlestar has to stay dark to stay true to its roots.

Other cool stuff, of course, but had to comment.   Add yours below.  I’ve really been enjoying the comment stream on the previous fifth cylon posts here and here.  Check them out, I’m getting two or three new comments there every day.

Can’t wait until Friday…

8 thoughts on “Battlestar Galactica: Episode 4.3 “The Ties that Bind””

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  5. Not sure that Cally was empathetic…I always thought of her plight as sad, but of her character as pathetic.

    As my wife put it afterwards, “Good riddance!”

  6. Does anyone think Starbuck’s return may be a throw back to the original series and the “Beings of Light”? In the original series the “Beings of Light” brought Starbuck and Apollo onto their crystal ship and the whole time they were aboard, the Vipers were not only pure white but factory new. And when they left the crystal ship they couldn’t remember where they had been. I wonder if there isn’t some other higher beings or supernatural element at work trying to see the fleet arrive safely at Earth. I wonder if we aren’t seeing this original series story element reworked in a new way. Just my thoughts.

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