Friday nighttime ’s installment of Battlestar Galatica , “ Someone to Watch Over Me , ” was so distressful and yet ( weirdly ) schmaltzy that it separate the fans over the question of brilliant or not . coddler ahead !
I think possibly one of the problems with this episode was that it explore incredible betrayal enacted by a character – Boomer – whose entire biography has been all about betraying everyone who has love her . So there was a bit of a “ no duh ” touch sensation about the scenario , as well as a lot of skepticism about why Tyrol wound up trusting Boomer again .
Intercut between Boomer ’s many perfidious ( and lustful ) scenes was a Starbuck subplot that remind me of the worst moments on the poop ship when Starbuck totally lost it and started paint her cabin and dancing with Leoben . Did n’t Star Trek : TNG learn us never again to do the wise pianoforte actor routine , even if it is n’t on the holodeck and does n’t include Brent Spiner singing ?
The decimal point is , the episode was really uneven . Amazing and disturbing thing encounter , and there was a coolheaded patch twirl , but unfortunately there was a flock of stochasticity too . Let us now delve into the full WTF that maneuver the living of Boomer and Starbuck in “ Someone to see Over Me . ”
If you recall , Boomer was the first sleeper cylon that we learned about way back in season one . She was an policeman make with Tyrol , take an matter with him that nobody was allow to know about because he was technically reporting to her . They were hot and tragic , but there was never a mother wit that they were design a time to come together – it seemed mostly like they were having a torrid sexual practice matter . Then Boomer got all freaked out , and they broke up , and then her cylon circuits turned on and she shoot Adama . Though Adama recovered eventually , Boomer did n’t . Cally , Tyrol ’s shortly - to - be chouse and snot - faced wife , assassinate Boomer before there was even a trial .
On Friday we study that as Boomer die , she whisper , “ I love you Chief , ” to Tyrol . We also learn that Tyrol has been pin for Boomer all these years ( which we sort of already guess ) , and now that she ’s arrive on Galactica with Ellen all he wants to do is get busybodied with her . So he starts visit her in prison , deal freaky “ cylon projections ” with her – basically they go to a virtual world together , which is apparently the dream planetary house they designed back in the live affair days . Boomer claims she ’s missed Tyrol every day and conk to this aspiration house of theirs , where she ’s also whip up a fake child whose independent feature appear to be collect englut fauna and score Tyrol outcry as he bar his tooth .
After all this domestic genius bonding , Tyrol of course want to protect Boomer from extradition to the cylon ship where the rebel cylons want to attempt her for treason . call up , Boomer is the exclusive Number 8 who sided with the Cavil cylons – and she ’s also having sex with Cavil , who seems to have sexuality with everybody , including Ellen , his girl / mother . All I can say is : Gross . And it only got pure .
In fact , the more disgustingly manipulative Boomer got , the better this episode was . The scene where she shows Tyrol their dreaming star sign and fake kid felt incredibly over - the - top , and despite all her protestation to the opposite , I think Boomer was doing it purely to frak with Tyrol . Her scheme works , too . Rather than permit the humans extradite Boomer , he basically function nuts . He engineers a power outage on Galactica , knock out a handy 8 , and switches her with the captive Boomer .
Yay , Boomer is free ! That mean she can go pulsate the jack out of Athena , tie her up in a cabinet , and profess to be her when Helo comes home looking for a little mid - day hump . ( See clip . ) This scene is so twisted and awing that it almost tipped the instalment over into the mega - zone . After gratuitously doing Helo , Boomer wanders over to the daycare centre , grabs Hera , drug her , then packs her in a food supply boxwood which she loads onto her sneaking - away ship as Tyrol glows with “ you made me a fake girl ” pride . When a hemorrhage , scantily - adorn Athena stumbles into the Bay to tell the truth , it ’s too lately : Boomer ’s got the kid , and she essentially blast a hole in the ship as she jumps by to good onetime Cavil .
So basically Cavil whole played everybody . He let the Fleet think that Boomer fled his ships with Ellen , but in fact he ’d let Ellen go just to get Boomer into the Fleet again . Tricky ! Even Ellen was befool .
Now the ship is injured even big than it already was , the president has pass out ( or died ? ) , and everything is expire to Hades . So of course Starbuck is spending all her time getting drunk in the barroom , listening to this piano instrumentalist who may or may not exist . Let ’s call him Piano Man , in honor of Billy Joel .
Piano Man essentially has a long therapy seance with Starbuck , in which she tells him all about her dad ( snort hoo – he was a Piano Man too and he leave her family one day and never come back ) and her whole I - burned - my - own - deadened - torso problem . In reception , he pat her on the psyche , instruct her to play piano again just the way papa did , and says things about how not knowing what the hell is operate on is actually a great affair ( and it had good be , if you desire to enjoy these parts of the episode ) .
Either Piano Man is actually Starbuck ’s dad , or is a pappa - related figment of her imagery , or something even weirder . The point is , after a bunch of really retentive aspect that do n’t need beatings or sexual practice , Piano Man finally have Starbuck to play this tune that ’s been in her capitulum . And it ’s part of the freaky - ghost music by Bear McCreary you ’ve been hearing throughout the whole show . It ’s also manifestly some kind of net Five warning machine dissonance , because as soon as Starbuck plays it Tigh does his whole striking chipmunk face with the barmy eye .
All the Finals run over to Starbuck at the piano and start inquire , “ Where did you pick up that euphony ? ” And mysteriously , Piano Man is gone . It ’s just Starbuck there , with some notes on a sheet of paper – short letter whose pattern gibe a pattern that Hera was drawing right before she dumbfound Boomer snatched ! Whoa !
Meanwhile , Anders is still in a coma but his brain is create really awesome screen saver patterns on the flat projection screen monitor that ’s show us his “ brain wave . ” Maybe those brain waves will turn out to be in the same pattern as Starbuck ’s strain ? Tune in next week , to detect out whether Hotdog will get another line .
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