Sunday, February 6, 2005

Kara Goes Home Again (Spoilers)

This week's episode of Battlestar Galactica, "You Can't Go Home Again", has a few small touches that I wanted to point out. After Apollo recognizes Starbuck's raider, there's a moment where they greet each other by rolling their vipers from side to side. The original Galactica has an episode in it where Apollo and Starbuck fly a captured Cylon raider back from a mission on a Basestar. They signal to the fleet's vipers that they are not cylons by "waggling their wings".

Another moment that I wanted to point out is a line from the deck chief to Apollo. He says, "You can push a man a lot further than you can push a machine." That's a very interesting line if you think about it. Does that line explain the course of evolution that the cylons are following in becoming indistinguishable from humans? An interesting question...

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