This is an episode about loss. Kat and Starbuck confront each other about their piloting skills and each vow to kill Scar (a Cylon spaceship) before the other.This is an episode about loss. Kat and Starbuck confront each other about their piloting skills and each vow to kill Scar (a Cylon spaceship) before the other.This is an episode about loss. Kat and Starbuck confront each other about their piloting skills and each vow to kill Scar (a Cylon spaceship) before the other.
- Dr. Gaius Baltar
- (credit only)
- Number Six
- (credit only)
- Ensign Joseph 'JoJo' Clark
- (as Sean Dorry)
- Samuel Anders
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaStarbuck's use of her thumb to block the sun in order to see if Scar was coming had originally been done by Gregory H. 'Pappy' Boyington in World War Two, where he discovered that doing so would allow him to see incoming Zeroes.
- GoofsIn Starbuck and Kat's final encounter with Scar, they are both in Viper Mk VIIs. However, the Viper being shown launching from Galactica is the stock footage of an older Viper Mk II.
- Quotes
Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: [raising a toast] To Bee-bee. Jo-jo. Riley. Beano. Dipper. Flat Top. Chuckles. Jolly. Crashdown. Shepherd. Dash. Flyboy. Stepchild. Puppet. Fireball.
[pause]
Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama: To all of 'em.
Admiral William Adama: So say we all.
All: [in unison] So say we all.
Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: [quietly] So say we all.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Stargate: Atlantis: Miller's Crossing (2007)
- SoundtracksCavatina
(uncredited)
Written by Stanley Myers
Adapted and Arranged by Bear McCreary
Performed by Steve Bartek
The Cylon Raiders, like the humanoid models are re-born, as, it's through that, that their battle skills increase. As (good) Sharon says;
'It takes months to turn a 'nugget' into an effective Viper pilot - and then they get killed. then you lose their experience, their knowledge, their skill sets. It's gone forever. So, if you could bring them back, and put them in a new body, wouldn't you do it? Death, then becomes a learning experience.'
She closes, by telling Kara, that because of his many previous lives, the anger Scar has - especially for Kara - grows, just as hers has.
An enemy that, you cant stop, that learns from previous experiences.
It's in this episode,that we first learn that Raiders have 'basic consciousness and survival instincts - like an animal.' There's more to the mechanised killers. There's a sentience.
It's also here, that Kara looks into (good) Sharon's face, and reflects on how there are times when she looks at her, and remembers her, as the Viper pilot who was freaking the chief.
This Sharon - the 'good' Sharon recalls them to - but, it's not 'her' memories, they're 'bad Boomer,' another Eight's she's recalling.
I point that put, because the whole story is really a hall-of-mirrors of memories.
The 'real' memories, of Kara's, the 'memories' (good) Sharon has, that are someone else's, and, the memories of Scar.
What makes the memory 'yours,' and, what is a 'real memory?
Many people who've reviewed this, weren't that crazy about this episode, as I, but, this continuing battle, that Kara has, has stayed with me, since BSG's initial run.
The reality of memory, and the enemy that doesn't stay dead - that keeps coming back, has been the backbone of many a horror film, and, to me, these are what stick in my mind.
- UNOhwen
- Oct 8, 2011
Details
- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1