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Doesn't that scene takes place before the real-life Six (the one that framed Baltar) is discovered.
Sorry, man, the one I’m thinking of doesn’t. I’m thinking of a scene in Kobol’s Last Gleaming atthe end of S1 - he’s telling her that he wants a break, and she’s telling him to get his arse into gear and to get off the ship and onto the planet surface. And I think that was non-corporeal Six in action - I’m pretty sure that we even get to see that he’s alone in the bathroom. Don’t know *how* she banged his head, but I don’t really think it matters - what matters is that she does her whole prophetic thing, making sure he’s *always* in the right place at the right time.
Another thing with the latest episode. Agree with Mister Disco that watching the battle through Apollo’s eyes as he floated in his chair and watched from afar was really rather good.
Some pretty imagery to his hallucination, too - I always love it when BSG sticks some natural world imagery/natural light in, just for the sheer contrast to the rest of the show. But, seeing himself in crucifixion pose while the resurrection ship is being destroyed, no less, and do my eyes deceive me, or was he floating in a river with the current never carrying him downstream? Oh, I have my Apollo is a Cylon theory, and I’m going to grasp at any straw that helps me with it, dammit.
(So, in that vein, and just to Totally Go Off On One for a second, Apollo says to Starbuck in their first scene this episode that being there for each other is necessary, otherwise ‘we really are no different from the Cylons’. Then some ambiguous behaviour while he’s floating around - I’m unsure as to what purpose that whole ‘Dee trying to make contact’ scene could serve, if not to point out that he’s in range and maybe *could* speak to Galactica if only he wanted to. Likewise, does he deliberately take his hand away from the hole in his spacesuit and start letting the air out again? He still appears to be at least semi-conscious at that point, and later admits that he didn’t want to come back and feels all guilty for having let Starbuck down in exactly the terms he outlined at the beginning of the episode. So, really, what *could* all that be about? Me, I’m kinda hoping for an extended period of doubt and ‘omg, could I be a Cylon? Am I really a danger to Galactica?’-torment, a la Galactica Boomer in series 1.)
But whether he’s a Cylon or not doesn’t really matter, maybe. I’d be equally over the moon if all the vaguest of clues + creeping sense of doom are there, and he duly convinces himself that he definitely is a Cylon, and then feels cut adrift again when turns out not to be. That’d be fun. But anyway. Mostly, I agree with Seth in hoping/thinking his experience in this episode will turn out to be very significant for him, whatever it’s about and wherever it goes. And, ooh, nothing like a near-death experience for stimulating a character’s interest in religion - maybe he’ll start researching the Cylon religion. Somebody on this show needs to start exploring it for us. |
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