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\u201cSometimes I wonder what home is. Is it an actual place? Or is it some kind of longing for something, some kind of connection?\u201d
\n\u2014Laura Roslin<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of us here is living proof that there is life after death.\u201d
\n\u2014Gaius Baltar<\/p>\n
\u201cThis ship has never let us down. So we\u2019re gonna send her off in style.\u201d
\n\u2014Bill Adama<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn the mountains north of here, there\u2019s this little stream that comes down and through this lake. The water\u2019s so clear, it\u2019s like looking through glass. I\u2019m thinking of building a cabin…\u201d<\/p>\n
Go back now and watch that scene in \u201cUnfinished Business,\u201d go back and hear the music, and see the sunlight shining on Laura Roslin\u2019s long red hair, the smile on her beautiful face, the way she looks at Adama as she tells him this. The way he watches her tell it. The rest of us knowing already\u2014halfway through Season 3, long before they admit it to themselves\u2014that there\u2019s no way she\u2019s hanging a sign on any cabin that doesn\u2019t also have his name on it.<\/p>\n
Now watch her tell it to him again here, as she\u2019s lying in a hospital bed, bald, frail, dying. Having lost everything there is to lose, no cabin, no New Caprica, no Earth\u2014and yet, she says, Here you are. My home, at last. Both of them knowing it\u2019s true, because sine qua non<\/em> times two and all that. Then watch the way he smiles, ever so slightly, when she tells him that she knows he loves his ship more than he loves her\u2014which she accepts, because she\u2019s not stupid\u2014and that it\u2019s time for him to do the one thing he\u2019s never been able to do\u2014which is to nut up and let go. Because she\u2019s also the only one he\u2019ll listen to.<\/p>\n And then someone please throw a warm blanket over me, and toss me the Kleenex\u2014and maybe some Scotch or whiskey or whatever sad people drink to be sadder\u2014and turn out the light as you go because baby, I am done. Over, out, done. And we haven\u2019t even gotten to the end yet.<\/p>\n Mostly it was the callback that caught me off guard, because after so much time and so many other opportunities passed by\u2014Ronald D. Moore even mentioned that long-lost joint in the podcast for \u201cA Day in the Life\u201d\u2014it never came, and we all moved on. And eventually they let this relationship go where I wanted it to anyway, and made it that much more worthy for the waiting, because we all had to earn<\/em> it, them and us, or them and me, if you\u2019re one of those watchers who doesn\u2019t give a crap and just wants to get back to Baltar talking about religion or Lee pining for Kara or Cylons blowing shit up, which is fine, too, but I watch the show for this. And I do very much appreciate it when TV finally pays me back for my time and my patience and my faith with such a high frakkin\u2019 emotional ROI. Because that never, ever happens. Ever.<\/p>\n And all of this is about letting go. For Adama, Galactica<\/em> is Laura, and home, and family, and all the best things he knows about himself, the measure of who he is as a leader and a friend and a man, godsdammit, and talk about an awful lot of pressure for one rickety old bucket to take. Frankly I\u2019m surprised we made it this far. But she\u2019s going, all right, and hopefully with the kind of fireworks that spell out \u201cCAVIL HAS MOMMY ISSUES\u201d while she blasts straight through the heart of that creepy Colony and the music trumpets across the sky. At least that\u2019s what I assume \u201csending her off in style\u201d means.<\/p>\n But wait! It\u2019s not just the Bill and Laura show, is it? It\u2019s also Baltar coming face to face with Caprica Six again (someone will have to remind me the last time that happened: on the Baseship, back in Season 3?), and realizing he still loves her, then realizing she thinks he\u2019s as much of an asshole as Laura does. And she\u2019s not far wrong, as he\u2019s awfully quick to cough up Kara\u2019s secret and tag her as an angel in front of everybody in order to impress his old gal pal with just how different and deeply committed to God he really is. And I have to say, Baltar is the #1 reason I can think of not to mix science with religion, because he wields all those powers in some mighty scattershot ways. (I also strongly preferred his mad scientist to his mad prophet, because scientists are allowed to be oddball in ways that fundamentally scare me in preachers. But in order to stay on that track, I have to conveniently forget how he helped destroy most of humanity back when he was a scientist, and then handed over that nuke, and also how he sold them up the river as president. So mostly it\u2019s a nuance kind of thing, because obviously he sucks at all of it. But just to be reminded of his Cylon detector? Made me long for the good old days.)<\/p>\n Of course, Kara thinks he\u2019s an asshole, too, but she\u2019s not above seeking him out (or peeing right in front of him) in the hopes that he can give her the answers she\u2019s still not getting from Sam, who’s now lying neck-deep in one of those Cylon hybrid chambers in some locker room, and plugged right into the Cylon-covered bones of Galactica<\/em> herself. I can\u2019t even guess what that\u2019s going to mean, but currently it\u2019s shorting the circuits and causing him to recite the lyrics to a well-known children\u2019s song about buckets and holes, along with the now-familiar hybrid refrain that Kara Thrace is the harbinger of death and will lead them all to their end. Awkward! Also genuinely sad, as Kara finally realizes he\u2019s the one she really loves (I think). Which still isn’t enough to bring him out of his coma, but does makes her accept that maybe she\u2019ll never know what she is, and maybe it doesn\u2019t matter anyway, which seems to be where the whole point of the show is coming together. And all of this leads into one of the sweetest Lee and Kara scenes I can remember, out in the Memorial Hallway, where he tells her it doesn\u2019t matter either\u2014that he watched her die, that she might be a Cylon, or an angel, or whatever\u2014right before he caresses her face (and sort of propositions her?). And suddenly I am in love with Lee! And Kara gives him that lovely smile, and watches him stroll away, and then turns to hang her own photo back on the wall next to Kat\u2019s and Dee\u2019s. (Oh dear. More whiskey, please. I don’t like being reminded of the dead when there are so many people still left to die.)<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in other parts of the ship, Helo and Athena are going out of their collective gourds over Hera, with Helo begging his wife to hate him and then begging Adama to give him a recon Raptor to go search the stars, and all to no avail. (Here I\u2019ll even forgive Adama for telling Helo he doesn\u2019t condone suicide missions, since he himself is King of the Suicide Mission, but he\u2019s dealing with some pretty tough personal problems as we\u2019ve already discussed.) That bit about Athena hating him might be at least partly true, though, and I would now like to nominate Grace Park as the single best crier I have ever seen on TV. Seriously, she\u2019s amazing. No matter who she\u2019s playing, I\u2019m automatically crying right along with her, and then cursing us both.<\/p>\n Finally, in other parts of the galaxy, Boomer is slowly jumping her way back to Cavil and his evil Colony, and scaring the crap out of Hera as she goes. I mean, it\u2019s gotta be nice getting out of that crate and all, but I don\u2019t suppose being stuck in a Raptor with an angry lady who has your mother\u2019s exact face and none of her people skills is all that comforting to a four-year-old. Especially when she pulls out the needles. Luckily they are able to bond over their shared Cylon projection abilities, and we pop right back into last week\u2019s dream house, where Hera imagines cupcakes and Boomer imagines that maybe she had a daughter after all. Which leads to\u2014I don\u2019t know, will Boomer actually get to be a hero? I don\u2019t care what anybody says, I\u2019m keeping my hopes alive for that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cSometimes I wonder what home is. Is it an actual place? Or is it some kind of longing for something, some kind of connection?\u201d \u2014Laura Roslin \u201cOne of us here is living proof that there is life after death.\u201d \u2014Gaius Baltar \u201cThis ship has never let us down. 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