| By Angel Cohn, community.tvguide.com,
on 02-12-2006
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This whole season has been so intense with the Cylon battles and the New Caprica escape that I was kind of hoping that this boxing episode would be a relief from the non-stop action. In some ways it was, as it was a more focused on the relationship between Starbuck and Apollo, but their relationship is almost as intense and fiery as an in-air battle, and their boxing bout interspersed with scenes from New Caprica, pre-Cylon occupation, was at times very hard to watch.
But before I spend all my time blathering on about the love life of the younger Adama, let me first give some credit to the best scene of the night. The brutal match-up between Admiral Adama and Chief Tyrol followed by Adama's much-needed speech. "I let this crew, this family, disband and we paid the price in lives. That can't happen again." Wow. I'm impressed that he owned up to his mistakes and was willing to take a beating in order to insure that it wouldn't happen again in the future. I just love him, and if I'm not mistaken, so does Madame President. They looked a little cozy down on New Caprica when she was telling him of her plans for a cabin by the lake.
But I digress, the Admiral was right in his initial instincts to keep Tyrol and Callie and their baby on board Galactica, and to keep Dualla on board and not with Lee and Saul on duty with him and not with Ellen, but because he can be a softie and wanted his Chief, his son and his friend to be happy, so he let them go and let his ship suffer. I'm not sure that it was entirely a mistake. Without Tyrol and Saul heading up the resistance on the ground and coordinating with Galactica they may never have been able to save the humans stuck on New Caprica. Safety in numbers is important, as is keeping your crew and instruments in fighting shape at all time. Because if the Cylon invasion showed anything it is that those robots will attack when you least expect it and when your guard is most certainly down.
Now on to Starbuck and Apollo, or Kara and Lee, I had no idea that she did what she did to Lee. But even still she was the one that picked a fight with him, "You have the guts to try and frak another man's woman, but not to fight one." I wouldn't have blamed him if he knocked her out cold for what she had done. The look on his face when he found out that she ran off and married Anders (and that it was her idea) after their night of lovemaking was a mixture of heartbreak and disgust. He practically spit out this line,"Congratulations Sam, and good luck, you're going to need it." Unbelieveable. There is such a thin line between love and hate though, which is something that Dualla recognized right away. I can't imagine that for Dualla or Sam it is ever going to be easy, knowing that you were the second choice.
I just still can't figure out why Kara didn't grab her chance at happiness with Lee when she had the chance. Was she too afraid of hurting Sam? Was she too scared of actually letting herself be happy? Or was she worried that Lee's proclamations – "My name is Lee Adama and I love Kara Thrace… I love Kara Thrace and I don't care who frakking knows." - were just drunken ramblings?
I'm not sure what caused her to snap, change her thoughts on marriage and run away. My guess is she's just scared of a relationship that isn't easy. Lee's question probably put too much pressure on her, so she took the easy way out. "What if this is the rest of your life Kara? Is this how you want to spend it? Is this who you want to spend it with?"
After that boxing match meltdown and their confessions that they missed each other, is their hope for these two as a couple, or even friends? And what of their significant others? Will they stick around? Personally I can't wait to find out.
On a more random note, I would like to thank the gods for the person who decided it was a smart idea to kick off the episode with Helo and Apollo sparring in the ring. That was truly a site to behold. Source Link: http://community.tvguide.com/forum.jspa?forumID=700009034 Submitted by Zipper Talk about this article on our forum: http://galacticabbs.com/index.php?showtopic=755
Last update : 02-12-2006
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