Season 3, Episodes 9 & 10

Episode 9: Unfinished Business

• Seeing Apollo and Starbuck so hot for each other in such an aggressive way was kind of gross.
• The music that they dance to at the breaking ground party on New Caprica in flashback would be right at home in an episode of Firefly!
• Laura knows her stuff about boxing!
• Cally brought her baby to "the dance"?
• Wow - Kara is so messed up, marrying Sam right after she says she loves Lee. That woman has serious issues.
• Their fight turning in to a hug was really cute in a tragic kind of way.
• I'm undecided about whether I liked this episode or not. It was certainly very different in feel and style from a "regular" episode, but I found the whole boxing a little boring, but the flashbacks were really nice and gave us some really solid character development.

Episode 10: The Passage

• I loved the music upon Kat's return to the Galactica after losing the Carina. Is this going to be her theme?
• No eating paper due to a paper shortage. Oh dear. And Tight and Adama giggling like schoolboys!
• Three sees the Final Five - ooh!
• Coud Gaius be more self-involved thinking that being a Cylon would make him a hero?
• Gaius must be really good at doing cryptic crosswords, as evidenced by him being able to decipher the Hybrid's seemingly meaningless ramblings.
• Seeing Starbuck place Kat's picture on the wall of photos was sadder than her actual (or eventual since it's not shown on screen) death.

Quote

Gaius: "Did you know you have some dry goo in your hair? That can happen when you resurrect."

Season 3, Episodes 7 & 8

Episode 7: A Measure of Salvation

• Athena having an emotional reaction to seeing all the Cylons on the baseship and being called a traitor by another Eight.
• Gaius kissing up to both Three and Six. He's such a bumbling buffoon sometimes!
• Showing us Head Six while Gaius was being tortured was interesting. Him then saying to Caprica Six that he loved her seemed very genuine for Gaius.
• Helo & Athena are indeed married. (Apollo referred to her as "Karl's wife" and Helo himself said "I'm married to a Cylon"). That's nice.
• Does Three think Gaius loves her?
• Seeing Athena cry about the potential genocide of the Cylons broke my heart a little. (I'm starting to like her more this season.)
• Laura and Bill on first name terms always makes me happy!

Quotes (so many good ones!)

Helo: "Genocide? So that's what we're about now?"

Gaius: "I believe if God exists, our knowledge of him is imperfect. Why? Because the stories and myths we have are the product of men, the passage of time. The religion you practice is based on a theory, impossible to prove, yet you bestow it with absolutes like 'there is no such thing as coincidence'."

Laura: "You're making an assumption that posterity will define this as genocide. If they do, at least there'll be someone alive to hate us for it."

Starbuck: "Hey, let's see if we can't frak up some toasters on this joyride, people." [Classic Starbuck!]

Episode 8: Hero

• Laura deciding to put Gaius' portrait over the toilet was genius!
• Bulldog's emergence from the Cylon raider was very much like a birth. Symbolism?
• Adama's flashbacks look even more like a documentary than the rest of the show.
• Oh dear - Three, Gaius and Six in a threesome. Gross!
• Adama started the war with the Cylons? Or was he set up?
• Three is addicted to dying?
• Laura telling Adama off like he was a student who had been misbehaving! Ha!

Quote

Adama (on medals): "They give them out for anything these days. Good behaviour, attendance, playing well with others." This nicely referenced the way Laura spoke to him previously.

Season 3, Episodes 5 & 6

Episode 5: Collaborators

• They really killed Jammer? How was that helpful?
• Gaius' dream was cool! Great callback to Litmus (season 1, episode 6), with Adama saying "you wouldn't like her when she's angry".
• I'm really excited for what we're going to see of the Cylons now that Gaius is with them.
• Never thought we'd see Tom Zarek as the vice president.

Quote

Gaius: "And you need me! I probably should've started with that." 

Episode 6: Torn

• Seeing Apollo (no longer fat) and Starbuck back in the vipers was nice.
• The piano music we hear with Gaius on the Cylon base ship is new.
• Sharon gets a new callsign! It now seems as though she's been accepted by Galactica's crew.
• Gaius is a Cylon? No way. Much too obvious.
• The Cylons never talk about the other five models. Hmm.
• Tigh sounds more and more Canadian the drunker he gets.

Season 3, Episodes 3 & 4

Episode 3: Exodus, Part 1

• Tyrol is beardless again!
• The idea of Tigh and Ellen stepping up as foster parents for Cally and Tyrol's baby took me by surprise. Are they God parents or something?
• Galactica = home.
• Why does Number Three sleep on Colonial One?
• Gaius reporting that Number Five told him that toilet paper was the way to win the Humans' trust!
• I really hate this story line with Kara and Casey. I find it to offensive that Kara would change so much. The way she's acting just seems completely out of character. Not all women like or want children, and I feel that this idea is what they're playing on here. Perhaps it's all a trick.
• The Adama family theme chokes me up.
• Three is so creepy.
• Listening to Number One explain how he kill himself so he coulee download made me feel queasy.
• Loved the hint of Sharon's theme at Three spotting baby Hera.
• How did Three recognise Galactica Sharon?
• I was so proud of Sharon for not letting Three persuade her!
• Adama's speech at the end was cheesy, but also kind of awesome!

Quote

Crazy lady: "Wish I had some chocolate caramel." Such good timing with this line right after she conveyed her message from God to Number Three!

Episode 4: Exodus, Part 2

• Tigh actually killed Ellen. Wow.
• Galactica's entrance and exit were amazing. Inter-atmosphere jump = awesome!
• Just when I thought the Galactica was going to be destroyed, the Pegasus arrived, and I was blown away, despite it being kind of predictable since they would never kill of Adama.
• The Pegasus going down and wiping out two base stars!
• Leoben asking Kara to say she loved him was beyond creepy and right in to psychotic. And the kissing, oh god - I was so relieved when she finally stabbed him and made it stop!
• I'm glad we got another glimpse of Head Six. I was starting to wonder if she'd vanished now that Gaius and Caprica Six have been reunited.
• I was so glad Casey wasn't really Kara's daughter in the end. And my prediction about her being a trick was right.
• The scene in which Adama goes directly from realising that his best friend has lost his wife to having his name cheered was kind of heart-breaking.
• It was nice to see Tori finally show some emotion.
• The ending felt like it was season 1 all over again, with Adama moustache-less and all!

Quote

Dee: "We have to survive. We have to find Earth. If we don't, there'll be no one to remember a man named William or a Battlestar named Galactica."

Season 3, Episodes 1 & 2 (plus "The Resistance" webisodes)

Hooray for season 3! But before that, I almost forgot about "The Resistance" webisodes, so I sat down and watched them all in 25 minutes. I liked how they focused on minor characters, most of whom we hadn't seen for a long time. Before I dive in to the first two episodes of season 3, here's what I have to say about the total 10 webisodes:

• Tigh: "We need more people or this resistance movement is going to die in its crib." (In the presence of Cally and Tyrol's baby, no less)
  Celery is not worth dieing for, Nora.
• Number Five's position on peace was interesting.
• Tyrol referred to Sharon as "Boomer" (she told him that Jammer was in the detention centre and that he would be let out). We haven't heard her called by her call-sign for a long time.
• New Caprica looks fracking depressing.

Episode 1: Occupation

• The opening music was awesome.
• Death by chopsticks! (Followed by Kara managing to eat straight after killing Leoben - gross.)
• Number Three calling Caprica-Six simply "Caprica".
• Lee looks kind of ridiculous in that fat suit.
• Sam and Kara have matching tattoos
• Adama and Sharon as BFF!
• I'm glad I watched the webisodes before starting this season, so as to properly understand Duck's part in the story.
• What an ending!

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Adama: "I don't do guilt."

Episode 2: Precipice

• The buzzing of the light in Laura's cell at the detention centre was almost unbearable.
• It made my stomach turn when Leoben brought in Casey. So wrong.
• I love the development of Adama and Sharon's relationship, and how much he trusts her.
• Laura slapping Tigh!
• Did Leoben orchestrate the accident with Casey so as to make Kara fall in to his trap? I found it kind of offensive that she suddenly cared about Casey after that.
• Number One describing the other Cylons asking Gaius to sign the death warrant as them "covering their existential asses".
• I thought the Cylons respected life? Number Five shooting Six when she said that forcing Gaius to sign the death warrant was crazy, was pretty crazy.
• Sharon being made an officer on the Galactica. It was nice to see her in uniform again - it felt right. Also, are she and Helo now married, since she has the same surname (Agathon) as him?
• Poor Ellen whoring herself out to Number One. I didn't think I would've been able to feel sorry for her.
• Tom wishing that Laura had gone through with stealing the election a year ago!

Quote
 
Tigh: "Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the garden of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. Surprised you didn't know that."