nBSG - Black Market [Spoilerz]

[Ra]

Discuss this episode here.

[Ra]

A decent episode overall. 4 Vipers out of 5.

[Destructionator XV]

I liked it enough. The 48 hours eariler thing... again, sucked. There is no need for that.

I love how Apollo shot the mob boss. I was almost expecting him to point that gun at everyone's head in that place and start making demands about those poor kids. He made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Then the D / Apollo thing. Eh, could do without that.

But the Baltar vs Roslin dynamic, I like it.

[Ra]

I'm personally tired of the 48 hours thing and the D garbage as well. Apollo obviously just won't come out and say "Look, you, I'm your superior, you're my subordinate, cut it out", like he should, like I would do. Then it would be over. Fin. He's a fricking officer, it's his obligation to do just that. Seriously, the whole thing with D is just annoying. Billy's now looking like the galaxy's fool. Otherwise, the episode was great, and a big improvement over RS Part II and the last episode.

[Mayabird]

I'm getting more convinced that either D is a Cylon, or we're being made to think D is a Cylon because it's fun to frak with the audiences' minds. It's like how we were supposed to think Gaeta was a Cylon, and now where's that gone?

And I was wondering when they'd start getting into food shortages. There won't be a quick fix for getting food and medicine unlike with water and tyllium. Once they use the medicine, it's gone. Since the Tighs are getting fresh fruit, there must be some place where some food at least is being grown, but it's obviously not enough. Where is this food coming from? Who's controlling it? When people are reduced to hunting rats in the ships for food, will they be fighting over the tiny food production facilities (destroying the food in the process, no doubt)? 49,595 people need to eat, after all.


EDIT: On a very, very slightly related note, do you think there's enough interest for me to start an SG1/Atlantis thread? I don't want to be the only person going into Ba'al fangirlishness.

[Ra]

EDIT: On a very, very slightly related note, do you think there's enough interest for me to start an SG1/Atlantis thread? I don't want to be the only person going into Ba'al fangirlishness.

Sure, I don't know about the others, but I'd most certainly be interested in a 'Gate thread. I'm not called Ra for nothin'.

[Destructionator XV]

Please, by all means. I also love Ba'al!

[Ra]

BTW... I just remembered this, but where the frack was Starbuck in this episode? She didn't appear at all, save the "Last Time on BSG" recap.

[Mayabird]

BTW... I just remembered this, but where the frack was Starbuck in this episode? She didn't appear at all, save the "Last Time on BSG" recap.

In universe, she's probably busy training new pilots or being Pegasus CAG or something. All the main characters don't have to show up in every episode, to my thinking.

Anyway, it seems next week will be all about her, so maybe they wanted her to focus on lines for the next episode and not worry about a few throwaway moments. Where would they have fit her in, anyway?

[Ra]

That's a good point, but I honestly hadn't expected them to let Starbuck keep the position on the BSP, but that everything was going back to the pre-Cain arrangement.