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Battlestar Galactica 3x16 "Dirty Hands" | Full Episode Reaction (Patreon)

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2023-12-18 16:00:04
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This is what I'd expect from an episode Battlestar Galactica! This show weaves difficult issues into its story better than just about any other show. It’s always intriguing to see see this issues play out in such desperate situations. Although there was ONE moment that made me more angry than just about anything in the show so far.

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Ryan

Very neat to get this episode now, as just a few days ago Ron Moore's current show For All Mankind introduced its own strike story, so we'll get to see how much his views on the subject have or haven't changed. For now it was just introduced at the end of the last episode, but its being set up for a multi-episode story unlike this standalone means I have to imagine it'll dig deeper into the issues. And of course you also really have to wonder when exactly these episodes were being written in relation to the issues that led up to the Hollywood strikes that just ended. The ending here always felt rushed, like they were really desperate to not look like they were giving an anti-union message, and just makes you wonder why that rotating schedule wasn't being done in the first place if it apparently works so much better with no drawbacks.

Charity Konusser (the chonus)

I love this episode so much. I am always slightly biased toward Roslin and Adama, but I adore how this episode showed out the inherent privilege of their positions that we don't often stop to consider. We see them throughout the series in a near-constant state of mental/emotional stress, and feel for the decisions they have to make and the plans they have to create and execute, but we aren't usually shown the other side of the story. Just sitting in Adama's quarters--it's so quiet. Absent the roar of machinery. There's no physical labor. They were drinking out of wine glasses. And it's so *clean*. Meanwhile Chief gets grimier and grimier as the episode progresses. Sure, everybody is working hard, everybody is in a bad position. But some of them are in a bad position with a soft warm bed and a good book and a glass of something nice waiting for them at the end of their day, while others have more work and more dirt and more noise and physical pain and endless labor to look forward to. Just looking at the refinery team or even the flight deck crew really brings home the labor side of the argument, and it's a very good argument. Of course, Adama's and Roslin's arguments are equally strong! We love a complex story. How Roslin changed her tune about Chief and the union by the end of the episode -- Learning and Growing took place off-screen this time around (scenes cut for time etc.). Would Adama have executed Cally? I think so, yeah, and I think he would have been right to do it. As awful as it sounds, as awful as it IS, he's 100% right that they cannot have anyone in the fleet ever thinking that orders are optional. Orders are non-negotiable, and to refuse orders and encourage others to refuse orders *is* mutiny. Whatever is left of humanity rests on the conceit that people are going to do the job assigned to them, no matter what. You don't get to disobey direct orders from the chief military officer when the military is all that stands between you and oblivion. The problems arise (as they did in this episode) because the fleet is a blend of military and civilian, and the military has come to view the civilians as a sub-group of the military. Adama sees tylium refining as not just a necessity, but a military necessity. He's not wrong. But the people who work the refinery view it as a backbreaking dead-end job they never intended to perform for the rest of their lives, and they're not wrong either. We didn't even touch on Baltar and his Aerilon accent (very much like the north of England, which is the "working class" part of the country). It does add a fascinating layer to an already fascinating character. I'd always kind of wished they'd released a version of his book for BSG fans to buy (stranger merch has happened in TV fandoms). On an actor note - Aaron Douglas (Chief) had this to say about that last scene he shot with Mary McDonnell: "I spent the whole day working with Mary. I had never gotten the chance to work with Mary without a whole bunch of other people around and the last scene of that episode is her and I seated in a dark room across from each other just talking about the union stuff." "We shot that thing for about four or five hours and I have never worked with someone more engaged, engaging, looking through your eyes, deep into your soul, more prepared, more caring, loving...I just felt like I was in a mother's embrace all day long...it was the most spectacular moment in my acting career. She is an absolute angel on earth and I will take that memory from the show for the rest of my life."