| Episode |
Airdate |
Rating |
Synopsis |
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| Season 2, part 1aaa |
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Scattered
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15 July 05
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Six informs Baltar that the Nightmare
on Kobol Street sprog is theirs (I can't wait to
see how they're going to explain that one). Tigh panics
and manages to get Galactica separated from
the fleet with a basestar between them. Adama doesn't
die.
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Valley
of Darkness
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22 July 05
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Baltar inches farther off the deep end.
Centurions board Galactica but manage not to blow
her up. The Makeup Department orders another tanker of
fake blood and 22 extras earn their SAG cards playing
Corpse In Corridor. Kara invites Helo up to her apartment
to listen to some classical music. No really. Adama doesn't
die.
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Fragged
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29 July 05
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Crashdown takes it like a man, or at least
like a man from Saving Private Ryan. The government
and the press fight the law, and the martial law wins.
Six -- the fundamentalist Cylon -- offers to be the conscience
for Baltar, which might almost be a marginal improvement.
Adama doesn't die.
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| Resistance |
5 Aug 05 |
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War makes strange bedfellows, and makes bedfellows strange.
Kara and Helo find a few survivors on Caprica, including
a Triad team. Tigh loses it, barely regains it, and is
finally figuring out how much of it is Lady MacTigh's
fault. Cally forces Baltar to help Chief, at a high price.
Lee, Roslin, and Elosha get by with a little help from
their friends... who now include Tom Zarek. Adama finally
wakes up.
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| The
Farm |
12 Aug 05 |
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Kara Scully and Helo Mulder discover the Cylons got impatient
waiting for primae
noctis and took matters into their own appendages.
Caprica Sharon returns, we meet Human Model #5, and Adama
continues persecuting Saint Roslin. Lee bends, unable to
bring himself to break. |
| Home,
Part 1 |
19 Aug 05 |
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Helo surprises Lee and Roslin with another Sharon. Roslin
surprises Helo by threatening to airlock Pregnant Sharon.
Sharon surprises Roslin by offering to take them to the
Tomb of Athena. Lee surprises Kara with a deflected declaration
of affection. Dee surprises Adama by speaking her mind,
and his conscience. Adama surprises Tigh with his choice
of Squadron Leader. Birch surprises Adama by screwing up
repeatedly and spectacularly. The Cylons surprise the Away
Team by shooting them up. Elosha surprises everyone by
getting herself killed. |
| Home,
Part 2 |
26 Aug 05 |
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Adama extends the olive branch to Roslin and followers.
The Tomb of Athena (to whom olive trees are sacred) turns
out to be full of stars. Olive, the other Sagittaron conspirator,
takes a bullet for sowing mutiny. Pregnant Sharon and Helo
both reaffirm "Olive you." Six stuffs Baltar
so full of psychobabble that his brain finally pickles. |
| Final
Cut |
9 Sep 05 |
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Xenanne Amanpour (later revealed to be Human Model #6)
roams Galactica filming a little more than a documentary,
a little less than a reality show. Someone finally gets
Lady MacTigh to shut up. |
| Flight
of the Phoenix |
16 Sep 05 |
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Galactica is revealed to be running Windows, because
Gaeta has to wipe the drives and restore from system disks
to remove the Cylon spyware. Chief takes up ship-building
as a hobby. |
| Pegasus |
23 Sep 05 |
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Ensign Ro has been busy since she left the Maquis, raising
Cain all the way up to Admiral, and managing to skim the
scum of humanity for her crew. (Hell, even Baltar shows
more compassion.) Adama stews while several key cast members
stage various forms of rebellion. |
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| Season 2, part 2 |
| Resurrection
Ship, Part 1 |
6 Jan 06 |
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A brief Viper standoff sends both Adama and Cain to
the principal's office. Cain promotes Kara, demotes Lee,
and is revealed to be a pirate and a murderer. Helo and
Chief don't die. Gina moves. The big spiky ship is a
Cylon xerox machine. Adama asks Kara if she's Abel.
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| Resurrection
Ship, Part 2 |
13 Jan 06 |
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Blindsides abound: both leaders call off their
assassinations, Lee finds himself longing for a lake in
the fjords, Baltar rolls a hard Six, Gina asks Cain if
she's feeling lucky, Adama gets a promotion, Roslin gets
a smooch, and Kara comes not to bury Cain but to praise
her. Many cool explosions. |
| Epiphanies |
20 Jan 06 |
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The writers crib a literal deus ex machina out
of VOY's playbook to
save Roslin. Gina joins the Passive Aggressive Resistance,
and Baltar (unsurprisingly) is a sympathizer. Roslin manages
to piss off both enemy-allies (Sharon and Baltar). |
| Black
Market |
27 Jan 06 |
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Murder, assault, slavery, child prostitution, bribery,
starvation, extortion, thievery -- Zarek's and Baltar's
political maneuverings are the least of the day's
evils. |
| Scar |
3 Feb 06 |
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Kara's past actions return to bite her in the ass in
various ways, and she learns that losing the post of Top
Gun can be a real pain in the Kat. |
| Sacrifice |
10 Feb 06 |
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Dee dumps Billy to take up with Lee, which is very
confusing because she previously dumped Lee to take up
with Billy. Adama tries to beat a dead corpse. Kara screws
up again. Billy dies. Lee doesn't.
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| The
Captain's Hand |
17 Feb 06 |
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Lee shows his sense and flexibility by managing to win
over the Pegasus bridge crew, the Pegasus's
flight instructor, and incidentally command of the Pegasus. Roslin
creates a booming problem. |
| Downloaded |
24 Feb 06 |
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Bad times comin' down for the original Boomer and
Six, who have been the enemy who are now us. The cybrid
baby is born and appears to die, but doesn't really.
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| Lay
Down Your Burdens, Part 1 |
3 Mar 06 |
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Roslin, Baltar, Ghost Six, and Zarek play "One state,
two state, red state, blue state." Chief is afraid
he's the Cylon in the pylon. Kara finds her boy toy does
2(x)ist after all. |
| Lay
Down Your Burdens, Part 2 |
10 Mar 06 |
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I'm giving this 5 for the first hour and another 5
for the last half hour, since that essentially became
a new show! The Cylons claim "oops, that whole genocide
thing was a mistake -- our bad." Roslin tries tactics,
guile, pleading, and finally cheating to keep Baltar
from the Octagon Office, and loses. President Baltar
(choke) drags the Fleet down to New Caprica, where he
proceeds to wallow in his own debauchery for a year.
Everyone else makes pairs and threes. The Cylons return,
and President Weaseltar surrenders as the Adamas flee
in whatever ships are left.
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