By Lisa Fary
Ladies of BSG, I’m glad to see that you’ve found your Badass.
Stabuck’s and President Roslin’s Badass got batted under the refrigerator for a while (you know, the one where Dualla now resides). Looks like someone did some spring cleaning, found the lost Badass, dusted off the cat hair and dust, and gave it back to it’s rightful owners.
Starbuck and President Roslin took up that Badass and were back to their season one selves in this ep, taking decisive action in the face of personal danger, not backing down, not quivering and crying and writhing on the floor.
It was like they attended a seminar with Gwen Cooper! Possibly “Sci-fi Chick Badassery: Intermediate Methods ” or “Reconnecting with Your Lost Badass: A Seminar for Disenfranchised Women Who’d Rather Not Kill Themselves”. Whichever seminar they attended, I hope this behavior keeps up for the remaining episodes.
Now that I’ve said something positive about BSG for the first time in forever, I’m about to get offensive.
I’m sick to death of redneck bigot douchebags.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cylons destroyed the Colonies. But, these redneck bigot douchebag captains who are refusing an equipment upgrade that would MAKE IT MORE LIKELY TO FIND A HABITABLE PLANET just because it has to be installed by Cylon engineers are basically saying that they’d rather their passengers die than receive assistance from a Cylon.
It’s kind of like watching the GOP vote “no” on economic recovery just to be ornery bitches.
Yes, in the face of every mutinous pigdog in this ep, I saw the face of a redneck bigot douchebag who ran to the gun store on November 5th, 2008. I saw the face of everyone who continues to send me racist, righ-wing nutjob email forwards that have no basis in reality.
And in Gaeta, I saw John Boehner’s oily, pissy face. Except Gaeta is a far better organizer and far more ballsy.
That said, before throwing Tigh out of the CIC, Gaeta should have commandeered his eyepatch. Gaeta already has a peg leg. The eye patch would have completed his pirate ensemble.
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Lisa Fary’s early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl. She thinks diagramming sentences is a fun alternative to Sudoku.
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
I have no idea what the secret is. Baltar mentioned something about a pen, so he could be talking about the death orders he signed on New Caprica. But, I thought those were common knowledge at this point.
And Lee! I'm still pissed at him for not shedding a single tear for dearly departed Dualla.
Yay for baddassness! Also, yay for Rosalin, Kara, & Adama being the kind of people who can change/accept new ideas, instead of blindly hating the "enemy" just because. And on that note, boo to Lee for sounding like the rednecks and forgetting the friendships he'd shared with people who turned out to be Cylons and who have still remained loyal to their human friends (3 of them, anyway) while struggling with this new aspect of their lives. He accepted Sharon readily enough; this feels like a character regression for him.
I was worried for a minute there that Baltar was about to do something snivelly again and regress as well, so I'm thrilled about what he actually did, trying to talk Gaeta out of it.
Since I misssed some eps, do we know what that secret he's talking about is?
I'm also bummed that the two guest stays I'd been waiting for (Ryan Robbins and Mike Dopud) turned out to be playing the rednecks. :/
Isn't the secret just the fact that Gaeta lied under oath at Baltar's trial?
Could be. I guess I expected something much more sordid.
In the Webisodes from last month, we find out that Gaeta had a relationship with one of the Eights while on New Caprica.