![]() ![]() This is a brutal, brutal development on what wasn't the happiest show to begin with, and I'm glad team "Galactica" (led here by writers David Weddle and Bradley Thompson and director Michael Nankin) didn't flinch from that. How would you react if you had been living a horrific existence for years on end, and the only thing keeping you going is the hope of one day finding this wonderful place called Earth - and then that hope gets taken away when Earth turns out to be ruined? I like to think I can handle myself well in a crisis, but I could very easily see myself committing suicide like Dualla, or curling into a fetal position like Roslin, or getting drunk and trying for a suicide-by-Cylon-cop like Adama. all of that was just her attempt to have one last good moment before she died, for the last thought to go through her head before the bullet to be a happy one.Īs much as I love to speculate on the nature of the Cylons, the prophecies, the opera house and all the other stuff that Ron Moore promised he'd get back to, what really grabs me about the show (as I discussed in today's column) is its humanity, the way its characters react to situations the way you imagine real, contemporary people might. All that chipperness, all that banter with Lee, the kiss. ![]() It was something much more shocking, much more devastating, and much more real: Dualla was there as a worst-case scenario for how people in the fleet are reacting to the discovery of the ruined Earth. There's so much to talk about with "Sometimes a Great Notion" - so many new theories to analyze, so many mind-blowing possibilities, the revelation of the final Cylon model - but I want to start off with the part of the episode that, in the early going as I watched it, didn't seem to belong: Dualla's story.įor half the hour, as I watched Dualla and Lee grow closer together, go out on a date, flirt, etc., I kept asking myself, "Why are they spending so much time on this? Now is the right time to rekindle the Lee/Dualla romance that nobody cared about before?" Then I began to wonder if they were focusing on her so much because Dee was the final Cylon.īut, no. I just want to hang onto this feeling for as long as I can." -Dualla Spoilers for the return of "Battlestar Galactica" coming up just as soon as I jump in a river. ![]()
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