Bill Adama to Laura Roslin: “Get your fat, lazy ass out of that rack, Roslin!”
There are spoilers:
I can see the end of Battlestar Galactica hanging perilously above me. I didn’t watch Razor mostly because I was on Comcast and didn’t have SciFi, but also because that plot was dark, even for me. However BSG has a darkness I can deal with. DVR it on Friday, watch it Saturday late or Sunday before my Degrassi-thon.
That said, I love the show. The dark days of ‘New Caprica’ are behind us, the future of Starbuck being a batshit prophet of the gods (or god or … whatever) is in front of us. Gaius Baltar is a neo-preppy Jesus wannabe (does that mean he dies in the end?) with the return of ChipSix (the best of the Sixes). Lee’s a whiney-pants but is out of the military — my bet is he’ll be the new VP, and after the evil cancer claims Roslin, he’ll be prez Adama.
Cancer, ah. There’s always been something exceptionally painful about the president in the future, with 40,000 people left (give or take, 600 or something died last week, so we’re possibly in the high 30s now), in outerspace, with cancer. It was so mundane and yet there’s still no cure. And we all loved Roslin so much, we begged for a magic gun to shoot away the cancer (tm Jacob on TWoP). And now the cancer’s back, and we want the gun back. But the gun is a baby named Hera. Who’s half-Cylon.
All the cylons and cylon-relations, including Hera and Roslin (she has Cylon Baby Blood in her) are having visions, and dipping into the XenaCylon’s well of wacky.
I just … I can’t even explain the layers and layers going on here. Continuity is consistent, acting is phenomenal. And the part of love the best is the old fart love story with Adama and Roslin.
Hands down, if you stripped the show of everyone else and just had Adama and Roslin bantering for an hour every week, you’d have the highest rated show known to man. I know, you’re thinking ‘Who wants to see a pair of 50+ers (she’s 55, he’s 60), get it on. But ask anyone if they adore the couple and we’ll all say yes.
Their relationship is doomed. BSG is not a happy ending show, and while I know they’ll find Earth in the end, it reminds me of the book of Exodus. You wanna know why the Jews spent 40 years wandering? One interpretation will tell you that it was so that the old guard was dead before hitting the promised land. Harsh. But with that in mind, Roslin and Adama won’t see Earth. And in all likelihood, they won’t ever consummate their love either.
In my mind, though, Roslin and Adama will retire to a little cabin by a river, where he can fish and garden and take care of his cancer-ridden beloved, and live out their life in quiet happiness.
A girl can dream