Taking a Break from All Your Worries
- Episode aired Jan 28, 2007
- TV-14
- 44m
Baltar plays a game of cat and mouse with Adama and the President, thinking they will kill him once they've gotten out of him what they want to know. Lee deals with his feelings for Kara, wh... Read allBaltar plays a game of cat and mouse with Adama and the President, thinking they will kill him once they've gotten out of him what they want to know. Lee deals with his feelings for Kara, while struggling to hang on to his marriage.Baltar plays a game of cat and mouse with Adama and the President, thinking they will kill him once they've gotten out of him what they want to know. Lee deals with his feelings for Kara, while struggling to hang on to his marriage.
- Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe episode title comes from the lyrics to the theme from Cheers (1982).
- GoofsAfter Baltar receives a cigarillo from President Roslin at 11:25, he says "touché" in acceptance. This is a French word meaning "touch"; to acknowledge a hit in fencing [literal] and to acknowledge one is beaten in the vernacular.
edit: This is not a goof at all, this is a continuation of the "fencing" match between laura and gauis that has gone on since the start. When gauis is accused and imprisoned near the start for being a collaborator laura hands him his glasses. Then when laura is imprisoned on new caprica gauis hands her her glasses. Touche is completely appropriate here continuing the fencing match.
the only anachronism here is that space peoples are speaking modern earth languages before they found ancient earth. But you can't fault that now on one word, you'd have to go back to the start of the series and flag every word ever uttered.
- Quotes
President Laura Roslin: Doctor, did you conspire with her to subvert our defense system?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Conspiracy requires intent. I never intended... though she said deep down I'd always suspected. But I didn't know. How could I know? Did I conspire? Did I? No. No. I don't know. No. It wasn't my fault. It wasn't my fault! I am not responsible!
- ConnectionsReferences Cheers (1982)
Many episodes this season have been going at a snail pace. The past two episodes (The season 3.5 premiere and now this) are the best two episodes this season since Exodus, pt 2. Like the excellent episodes of the first season, many surprises and plot lines are packed into these episodes. Hopefully this will be a continuing trend, as Galactica has been going down in a spiral of poorly made self contained episodes since season 2.5. A prime example in season three is the Passage, where fans are suddenly sprung with the idea that 'yeah, we're out of rations!'. No warnings in previous episodes, no discussion that maybe this was coming. Nada. Just sprung like that. I know serials are tough, and expensive, but seriously, that's what we watch Galactica for: the writing. And sadly its been more and more inconsistent since season 2.5.
Anyway, to the episode at hand. Excellent. Nice plot twists, questions of morality, awesome directing by Olmos, and actors finally given a chance to really play their roles. This is easily the most important episode in a long time for Baltar, in that it again puts him in a position of true insecurity as we saw in season one.
The cinematography is beautiful and absolutely stunning, with depth which we have not truly seen since early episodes and the mini series. The beautiful blue CIC of the mini series has become a cramped, incandescent dump this season, and finally (albeit briefly) we have a nice shot of it from above.
The episode also makes you question Baltar's sanity. Is it all a dream? Are Roslin and Adama really subjecting him to this torture? This is what we have expected from Galactica for some time and not been given. Oh, it's wonderful! Lastly, we get to see the long corridor with pictures of the dead. That room bore so much importance in the first season and mini series, and we have scarcely seen it in the past two years.
Galactica fans, if this has not convinced you to 'stay the course' and bear the bad episodes and proclaim Galactica's producers and writers completely over the deep end, then I don't know what will.
So say we all!
- bengad
- Jan 29, 2007
Details
- Runtime44 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1