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Battlestar Galactica 2x13 "Epiphanies" | Full Episode Reaction (Patreon)

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2023-08-08 16:00:08
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2023-11
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So where do your sympathies lie? They've once again added a new element to the show that  adds a layer of political intrigue. Not to mention the controversial decision President Roslin made. The medical repercussions oh and the NUKE. Lots of stuff to pay off later.

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Ryan

This is one of the weaker episodes to me. From the way everything’s presented, it seems like we’re supposed to think the peace movement have some good points in how the government is jeopardizing the fleet…which is ruined by how literally everything they do also jeopardizes the fleet. They also just blithely ignore how President Adar offered the Cylons an unconditional surrender and they nuked the Colonies anyway, which I get the sense the writers themselves had forgotten about with how even the people trying to talk them down never bring it up. And then there’s the whole thing about Cylon hybrids having magic cancer-curing blood. Apparently the show’s crew actually did come up with a sensible scientific explanation for this, but Ron Moore had grown so wary of writing that had any resemblance to the kind of technobabble that Star Trek had become notorious for that he decided to boil it down to “some blood cells are shaped like octagons.” And the fans were quite upset that such a long-running plotline was abruptly resolved with barely any explanation.

casualnerdreactions
>>114769045

This show definitely operates from a "everyone is the hero of their story" and mostly seems to let the audience decide who is in the right.

Charity Konusser (the chonus)
>>114769045

Back in the day on the Television Without Pity website, Jacob's review for Resurrection Ship Part II ended with this: "Next week: I don't give a fuck what happens as long as Laura gets fixed. I mean it. They could fully meet magical beings from the future with googly eyes and eldritch potions, I wouldn't care, she and Lee could bond over having beat the Reaper and become weird kamikaze freaks with Starbuck and just do intentionally dangerous adrenaline-rush stuff all the time, she can find some kind of nanotech bracelet in the hallway that kills cancer as long as she wears it and then have a farce episode where Ellen Tigh gets drunk and runs off with it and they get it back at the last second, she can run into Gina in the hallway and GET SHOT ONLY IN THE CANCER, she can turn out a Cylon, she can download into another body that looks like Laura, harvest Boomer's fetal stem cells, whatever it takes, I don't care, I don't care. She can just wake up and be like, "The cancer was only a dream!" and Bill can be taking a shower. Fuck story logic. I need Laura Roslin." Then, in his review for Epiphanies, he wrote: "Then there are a million painstaking, distracting, environment-ruining minutes of pointless explanation about how human blood is this one way (he draws a hexagon, and not an octagon like I originally typed, even though that would be funnier), and Cylon blood is this other way (seemingly identical hexagon), and so probably the Cybrid baby would be carrying (hexagon) blood, but if you go to Cottle's "damned odd" blood tests, you see that it's MAGIC hexagons, because it contains "no antigens" and has "no blood type." Adama glares, but at least he has the class to not turn directly toward the screen and say, "Jacob. This is what all that magic bullshit bracelet only-in-the-cancer talk will get you." "

casualnerdreactions
>>114769045

haha what in the world! Coming off the high of resurrection ship versus the cold reality of epiphanies. Meh, I didn't have any real issue with it. 🤣

Charity Konusser (the chonus)
>>114769045

If nothing else it gave the fandom the word "Cybrid" for the baby, which I enjoy. (I also find "shoot her in the cancer" hilarious.) And I always identified with Jacob since we were both Ride or Die for Laura Roslin.

Ryan
>>114769045

Just don't read his Doctor Who recaps, where he said some shockingly racist stuff about Martha Jones.