Tensions mount when Zarak gets elected to the Council of the Twelve, and an assassin gets uncovered who may or may not be connected to the one-time terrorist leader.
Meanwhile, on Caprica, Helo and Boomer reach their goal, only to make a startling discovery. and it’s about bloody time, too
The Galactica finds much-needed fuel– but the Cylons already have a refinery there.
Update: if, like y42, you’ve been carefully avoiding a certain much-discussed spoiler, perhaps don’t read the yodapez18 posting.
The tests for human-seeming Cylons begins, just as Adama starts behaving suspiciously and Colonel Tigh’s troubled and troublesome wife surfaces.
Starbuck interrogates a Cylon; Baltar tests the Cylon detector.
Number Six appears on board the Galactica– and she’s not a hallucination (or implant, or whatever Baltar has been seeing).
The public learns that Cylons can look like them, and the result is a tense, suspenseful episode that raises a number of questions.
I think we had much of the discussion last week, owing to the fact that the Brits have already watched the first season, and the Americans are one week ahead of the Canucks– whose country, curiously, provides the show’s locations.
Anyway, the acting remains strong in Part 2, but the writing grows weaker.
What kind of offence is “Star-bucking?”*
–vaguely Irish female prisoner, 70s Galactica ep, “The Long Patrol.”
“Act of Contrition” (Part 1) juggles three timelines and provides us with small developments in two subplots, all while remaining coherent and maintaining a good pace. This ep also emphasizes character more than the series has previously. Specifically, this one’s about Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, and her guilt over a past act.
The series falters a little with the third episode, though it still surpasses anything Enterprise has shown us.
Battlestar Galactica maintains the tension through the second episode, and deepens the puzzle of Boomer.