I care follow aphrodisiac ladies excruciate sweaty men as much as the next person , but Friday night ’s Battlestar Galactica took that scenario right smart too far . Called “ Escape Velocity , ” the episode delved deep into Baltar ’s religious beliefs and Tyrol ’s post - Cally bitterness , but was also packed with enough willy-nilly - generated sadomasochism to fill a base of holding . Is there a elbow room to wash your eyes out with grievous bodily harm ? You ’ll want to know after enduring several scene with furrow like , “ painfulness is pleasance , ” and “ I require the painful sensation . ” Spoilers in advance , if you could bear it .
Right away , you could tell this was going to be an episode about getting religion because we commence with a fair long religious ritual from Cally ’s funeral , consummate with Tyrol speechify in a stripey shirt I remember he got at Banana Republic . There are statue of gods and goddess , talk about death , and a priestess being all mystical . Roslin is in the interview looking completely blissed out , and she tells Adama it ’s the kind of funeral she likes . Adama is n’t so crazy about it , which is reason number one why I wish this episode had been about him or the atheist Cavils instead of the deity - muddled of the fleet .
After the funeral , Tyrol immediately take off getting the crazy centre . He stares capriciously at Foster during the funeral , and later starts pester out in a coming together with Foster and Tigh . He has no cue that Foster actually killed Cally , and observe point out that she killed herself because she opine Foster was having an affair with him . Foster afford him a whole trip about how they are Cylons and therefore can just shut their guilt off , and embrace their strength . “ opine of all we can do , ” she pronounce . “ We ’re not human — we ’re strong . ”
Meanwhile , Tigh is having “ I kill my married woman ” flashbacks and keeps unhelpfully excuse to Tyrol that it ’s “ innate for a man to feel this way , ” and that it ’s extremist - mega - manly to go batshit over your dead married woman . Oh , and just to make Tyrol feel superfluous - considerably , he adds that Tyrol will be watch Cally “ every day ” for the rest period of his life . Thanks for helping , pop . Seems like both the “ kill your guilt trip ” Cylon result and the “ embrace your pain ” human root middling much go down on ass .
No surprise that Tyrol in the end loses it whole . But before we go there , have ’s talk about all the what - the - hell on earth action going down between Foster and Baltar , and Tigh and Caprica Six .
Foster goes to visit Baltar with her unexampled Creepy Cylon Powers in full outcome , finding him lying in his silky bed among the folk rock lady ninjas . ( Roslin later refers to them as the “ girly groupie sex whatever they are , ” bless her cancer - ride heart . ) Foster snuggles up next to the gross out - out Baltar and go on to give a whole bizarro voice communication about how good is evil , evil is just , and everybody is perfect . To present , she starts yank haircloth out of Baltar ’s head while stroking his nether regions . She babbles something about how pain and pleasance can intermix , make believe the two things identical . Somehow this all adds up to more hair - force , and more nether - neighborhood - stroke , and Baltar stammer something about sure he ’s kind of horny but that does n’t mean everybody is perfect .
Are you suffer all that ? annoyance - plus - pleasure adds up to “ we ’re all consummate ” and that ’s presuppose to mean something bad — or skilful ? fortuitously you wo n’t have to think about it for very long because just when thing are stimulate too nauseate for word there ’s a maraud on the folk music rock ninja ladies ’ palace . A bunch of militia guys throw tear gasolene into the hold , then tick the shit out of the nice ma’am and spoil them while Baltar obliterate in the raftsman and Foster stares accusingly at him . Kinda weird that the militia guys keep attack when they understand the President ’s closest adviser is hanging out right there , but whatever .
And now thing go to serious yuck . In the aftermath of the militia attack , the Six in Baltar ’s head eggs him on with delusion of grandeur , recount him it ’s time to “ take a stand . ” By take a stand , plain she means that Baltar should take a bunch of his follower , melt down inside the churchy place where the reserves guy wire are taking in a spiritual ritual , and part scream about how they are all serial rapists and dickwads . He throws around a clump of incense and pretty much straight off gets drag away by some handy guards .
While he ’s in prison house , Roslin takes away the right of assemblage . As she tells the Quorum , she thinks Baltar ’s people are just provoking onrush by getting together in that shipment hold with all the silky blankets and crystals and the hippie - Buddhist - pagan shrine to Baltar which I opine is covered in spicy pepper lights and photo from Rush album covers but in all likelihood really is n’t . Lee and everybody else agitate back against Roslin , demanding right field of assembly back again .
Meanwhile , Tigh sustain unhingedly visiting Caprica Six in prison house . Every day , he comes and hollo something angry at her and hallucinate that she ’s turning into his wife . Six acts all holy and forgiving and keep require if she can do something for him or if he needs something . Finally they have the Ultra Meaningful Confrontation , where Six say , “ Hey , I ’m just like you — I feel things , I have venous blood vessel in my arms , ” and he says , “ No you ’re not like me , ” even though caustic remark OF IRONIES we know that he is .
And that ’s when thing get seriously fucking perverted . Tigh tells the guard to pass on so he can be with Six alone , and require her the query that ’s really on his mind . Can she help him get disembarrass of the pain in the ass he feels ? This is really a great import in an sequence of what the hell , because we ’re watching Tigh struggle with a pain that transcends human vs. Cylon . Plus , we ’re not certain if Six knows he ’s a fellow Cylon or not , and it ’s kind of like he ’s asking her whether she can give him a deterrent example in having a Cylon brain .
At that moment Six divulge some interesting stuff and nonsense , such as the fact that Cylon brains are based on human 1 and that by reverse - engineering human brain Cylons have learned a few thing about human psychological science that humans do n’t know . For instance , she arrogate that pain is what teaches people who they are , as well as teach them about morality . She tells the story of how falling in sexual love with Baltar and realise that she could lose him is what made her realize that what the Cylons had done to the humans was wrong — and that she wo n’t turn off her bother or guilt because she wants to remember that example .
It ’s a fairly interesting , moving scenery until Six touches Tigh ’s face sort of mind - meld - style , and says , “ I can give you clarity again . ” Then she punches him in the face . Over and over again . While say stuff like , “ pain sensation give you clarity . It tells you who you are . Do you sense the pellucidity ? ” I mean , she fall apart this sexy dress and frakkin straddle Tigh , pound up his bloody brass , and asking about clearness . And then Tigh moan , “ More . ”
“ Oh , ” says Six , “ I was amiss . I bang what you need . ” And then she get going making out with Tigh . WHAT THE HELL .
This would all have been middling more bearable if it were n’t for the fact that at the very same time , we are treated to a parallel scene where the Six in Baltar ’s head is make him beaten to a bally pulp too . It ’s like a sadomasochism sundae with two nip of Six and two tone of bed - up sweaty dude . When Baltar gets out of prison , a clump of guards refuse to let him rejoin to folk rock ninja central because rightfield of assembly has been revoked . So the Six in his head urges him to endeavor to get in , promising he wo n’t be pain . Of course he is suffer , and is being beat with rifle butts when Lee arrive in the nick of clip to say that right of fabrication has been restored .
So you ’ve got bloody Tigh lie there sucking boldness with Six , and you ’ve got blinking Baltar stumbling into his sex cult cave after the constabulary brutality orgy . I screw it ’s imagine to be this meaningful second of parallel experience and transcendence - through - painful sensation , but it just come up across as clumsy and wrong and gross .
The episode was part rescue by one disturbing scene towards the goal where Tyrol receive drunk off his ass and tells Adama — loudly , in the midsection of the barroom — that he never loved Cally . It ’s a raw and truthful bit in an episode that ’s mostly a bloody mess of distraught symbolism . Adama is trying to solace Tyrol over his loss , and Tyrol just busts out with a whole squall speech about how Cally was n’t an angel , and he did n’t love her — he just settled for her . And then he raises his articulation more , so everyone can hear , and call , “ How many of us settle because the people we really loved were dead or dying or Cylons ! ” At that moment , when those of us who have been tuning in for four seasons remember Tyrol ’s intense affair with the original Sharon Cylon , the scene is genuinely moving . Because the humans have been so reduced that even their sexual love lives are impoverished .
While it makes for good drama , Tyrol ’s outburst does n’t meliorate the misfortunate bozo ’s life . In fact , it gets him fired after he challenges Adama to send him off the ship . in all likelihood a good mind to give notice Tyrol anyway , since he ’s been so actuate out that he is form a clump of mistakes when he fix the Vipers in the engineering bay .
As the sequence concludes , we ’re in an incredibly awed , bleak place . Tyrol has just flushed his career down the commode , and Tigh has just had something path more intense than sex with Six . And Baltar is render yet another religious - maniac speech to the kinfolk rock ninja Lady , while Lee and the cops and Foster ticker . shroud in blood , leak his common tears , he declare that his true opinion is that we are all perfect . It ’s the same spoken communication Foster hold him sooner , and which he resisted .
I ’m still unclear on why the “ we ’re all pure ” thing is presuppose to be regretful , but clearly it is . So of row Baltar is all over it .
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