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Sacrifice

2006-02-11T20:55:19Z

BingBingBing: /* Questions */

{{Episode Data|
Image = [[Image:Sacrifice3.jpg|300px]]
| Title= Sacrifice
| Series= [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|The Re-imagined Series]]
| Season= [[Season 2 (2005-06)|2]]
| Episode= 16
| Guests= [[IMDB:nm0001127|Dana Delany]] as [[Sesha Abinell]]
| Writer=
| Story= [[IMDB: nm1093194|Anne Cofell Saunders]]
| Director=Rey Villalobos
| Production=
| Rating=
| US Airdate=February 10 2006
| UK Airdate=
| DVD=
| Population=49,590
| Prev= [[Scar]]
| Next= [[The Captain's Hand]]
}}

== Overview ==

: ''The'' [[Cloud 9]]'s ''lounge is under attack by terrorists who are convinced that [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]] is playing the military. The leader of this quartet, [[Sesha Abinell]], demands that the invaluable Valerii be brought to her -- otherwise [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Anastasia Dualla]], [[Lee Adama]], [[Billy Keikeya]] and others will be executed.''

== Summary ==

*[[Lee Adama]], [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Anastasia Dualla]] find themselves in a hostage situation aboard ''[[Cloud 9]]''.

*Three men and a woman named [[Sesha Abinell]] have taken them hostage. Sesha's husband was killed aboard the [[Greenleaf]] when the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] attacked it ten weeks ago, and she decided to exact vengeance.

*Sesha demands that Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] turn over Cylon [[Sharon Valerii]] to her, seeking Valerii's life in compensation for her husband's.

*The Marines, with the help of [[Kara Thrace]], make an incursion to try and regain control of the situation by force, but it does not go well. Two are killed, along with one of the hostage-takers. Lee is wounded badly, and the event only exacerbates the already tense situation.

*Sesha is infuriated that Adama and Roslin continue to allow one of their greatest enemies to live in their midst, even caged. She believes that Sharon is compromising the security of the fleet, and that the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] was due to similar Cylon infiltration of the military.

*The situation prompts Adama to once again consider the value of the Cylon Sharon to him. He talks to Sharon, who reminds Adama that she saved the fleet five or six times. Adama asks if she would reveal the identities of other Cylon agents in the fleet, and she says no.

*Adama agrees to give the terrorists the dead body of Sharon Valerii in return for the hostages. However, he gives them the dead copy of Galactica-Sharon. By the time the terrorists realize the ploy, they fall under attack by Marines. In the chaos, [[Billy Keikeya]] joins in the assault, protecting [[Anastasia Dualla]] and the injured [[Lee Adama]]. However, he is quickly shot to death.

*As Dualla stays with Lee in the infirmary, promising to stay with him until he recovers, Laura Roslin grieves the death of Billy, who had become "the closest thing [she] had to family".

== Questions ==

* Who leaked out the information that Valerii was on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''?
* Are members of [[Demand Peace]] still on ''Galactica''? Are they part of Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]]'s crew?
* Who will become Roslin's new assistant? Was there a replacement groomed for the position at all previous to the events in this episode?
* What will happen to Billy's cadaver? Will he be buried in space or stored in the morgue?
* Why was the character of Billy killed off? Did the actor have something else to do? Or is it to make room for the relationship between Dualla and Lee (and give Lee someone to live for (http://www.battlestarblog.com/2006/02/thoughts_on_sca.html)
* Where did Abinell and her people get the weapons? Were they purchased from the [[Black market (organization)|Black Market]]?
* Now that Lee Adama's been shot, will it only worsen his depression?
* What was Ellen Tigh playing at? (She practically gives away Thrace's cover and announces that she is the wife of ''Galactica'''s XO.) What was the purpose? Was there one at all?
* Is the relationship between Apollo and Dee against military protocol in the same way that Tyrol and Valerii's relationship was, or have the rules on colonial officers dating now been relaxed ?

== Analysis ==
*[[Sesha Abinell]]'s husband, [[Ray Abinell|Ray]] was killed during a Cylon attack ten weeks prior to this episode. The only change in the [[survivor count]] which remains unaccounted for was between "Home, Part II" and "Final Cut". The attack which killed Ray may have been the "Cylon contact" which Saul Tigh alluded to in "Final Cut" as having taken place ten days prior to that episode.

== Notes ==

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

== Official Statements ==

== Statistics ==

=== Guest Stars ===

*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001127/ Dana Delany] as [[Sesha Abinell]]
*Unknown as [[Chu]]
*Unknown as [[Vinson]]
*Unknown as [[Page]]
*Michael Ryan as [[Ray Abinell]]
*Adrien Hughes as Lt. [[Terry Burrell]]
*Erica Carroll as Civilian
*James Upton as Environmental Specialist
*Georgia Hacche as Petty Officer [[Sion]]

=== Writing & Direction ===

*Written by [[Anne Cofell Saunders]]
*Directed by [[Rey Villalobos]]

=== Production Notes ===

*Series 2 (2005 / 2006)
*Production Number: 2.15
*Airdate Order: 15 (of 20)

=== First Run Air Dates & Releases ===

*UK Airdate: Date
*US Airdate: 10 February 2006
*DVD Release (UK): Date
*DVD Release (US): Date
*[[Wikipedia:Nielsen Rating|Nielsen Rating]]: X.X million households, XXX share

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Sacrifice

2006-02-11T20:52:59Z

BingBingBing: why was Billy killed off?

{{Episode Data|
Image = [[Image:Sacrifice3.jpg|300px]]
| Title= Sacrifice
| Series= [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|The Re-imagined Series]]
| Season= [[Season 2 (2005-06)|2]]
| Episode= 16
| Guests= [[IMDB:nm0001127|Dana Delany]] as [[Sesha Abinell]]
| Writer=
| Story= [[IMDB: nm1093194|Anne Cofell Saunders]]
| Director=Rey Villalobos
| Production=
| Rating=
| US Airdate=February 10 2006
| UK Airdate=
| DVD=
| Population=49,590
| Prev= [[Scar]]
| Next= [[The Captain's Hand]]
}}

== Overview ==

: ''The'' [[Cloud 9]]'s ''lounge is under attack by terrorists who are convinced that [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]] is playing the military. The leader of this quartet, [[Sesha Abinell]], demands that the invaluable Valerii be brought to her -- otherwise [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Anastasia Dualla]], [[Lee Adama]], [[Billy Keikeya]] and others will be executed.''

== Summary ==

*[[Lee Adama]], [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Anastasia Dualla]] find themselves in a hostage situation aboard ''[[Cloud 9]]''.

*Three men and a woman named [[Sesha Abinell]] have taken them hostage. Sesha's husband was killed aboard the [[Greenleaf]] when the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] attacked it ten weeks ago, and she decided to exact vengeance.

*Sesha demands that Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] turn over Cylon [[Sharon Valerii]] to her, seeking Valerii's life in compensation for her husband's.

*The Marines, with the help of [[Kara Thrace]], make an incursion to try and regain control of the situation by force, but it does not go well. Two are killed, along with one of the hostage-takers. Lee is wounded badly, and the event only exacerbates the already tense situation.

*Sesha is infuriated that Adama and Roslin continue to allow one of their greatest enemies to live in their midst, even caged. She believes that Sharon is compromising the security of the fleet, and that the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] was due to similar Cylon infiltration of the military.

*The situation prompts Adama to once again consider the value of the Cylon Sharon to him. He talks to Sharon, who reminds Adama that she saved the fleet five or six times. Adama asks if she would reveal the identities of other Cylon agents in the fleet, and she says no.

*Adama agrees to give the terrorists the dead body of Sharon Valerii in return for the hostages. However, he gives them the dead copy of Galactica-Sharon. By the time the terrorists realize the ploy, they fall under attack by Marines. In the chaos, [[Billy Keikeya]] joins in the assault, protecting [[Anastasia Dualla]] and the injured [[Lee Adama]]. However, he is quickly shot to death.

*As Dualla stays with Lee in the infirmary, promising to stay with him until he recovers, Laura Roslin grieves the death of Billy, who had become "the closest thing [she] had to family".

== Questions ==

* Who leaked out the information that Valerii was on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''?
* Are members of [[Demand Peace]] still on ''Galactica''? Are they part of Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]]'s crew?
* Who will become Roslin's new assistant? Was there a replacement groomed for the position at all previous to the events in this episode?
* What will happen to Billy's cadaver? Will he be buried in space or stored in the morgue?
* Why was the character of Billy killed off? Did the actor have something else to do?
* Where did Abinell and her people get the weapons? Were they purchased from the [[Black market (organization)|Black Market]]?
* Now that Lee Adama's been shot, will it only worsen his depression?
* What was Ellen Tigh playing at? (She practically gives away Thrace's cover and announces that she is the wife of ''Galactica'''s XO.) What was the purpose? Was there one at all?
* Is the relationship between Apollo and Dee against military protocol in the same way that Tyrol and Valerii's relationship was, or have the rules on colonial officers dating now been relaxed ?

== Analysis ==
*[[Sesha Abinell]]'s husband, [[Ray Abinell|Ray]] was killed during a Cylon attack ten weeks prior to this episode. The only change in the [[survivor count]] which remains unaccounted for was between "Home, Part II" and "Final Cut". The attack which killed Ray may have been the "Cylon contact" which Saul Tigh alluded to in "Final Cut" as having taken place ten days prior to that episode.

== Notes ==

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

== Official Statements ==

== Statistics ==

=== Guest Stars ===

*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001127/ Dana Delany] as [[Sesha Abinell]]
*Unknown as [[Chu]]
*Unknown as [[Vinson]]
*Unknown as [[Page]]
*Michael Ryan as [[Ray Abinell]]
*Adrien Hughes as Lt. [[Terry Burrell]]
*Erica Carroll as Civilian
*James Upton as Environmental Specialist
*Georgia Hacche as Petty Officer [[Sion]]

=== Writing & Direction ===

*Written by [[Anne Cofell Saunders]]
*Directed by [[Rey Villalobos]]

=== Production Notes ===

*Series 2 (2005 / 2006)
*Production Number: 2.15
*Airdate Order: 15 (of 20)

=== First Run Air Dates & Releases ===

*UK Airdate: Date
*US Airdate: 10 February 2006
*DVD Release (UK): Date
*DVD Release (US): Date
*[[Wikipedia:Nielsen Rating|Nielsen Rating]]: X.X million households, XXX share

{{Episode List}}

[[Category: A to Z]]
[[Category: RDM]]
[[Category:Episodes written by Anne Cofell Saunders]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Rey Villalobos]]

Epiphanies

2006-01-22T05:05:17Z

BingBingBing: why aren't pictures of Gina all around?

{{Episode Data|
Image = [[Image:2BATejC05.jpg|300px]]
| Title= Epiphanies
| Series= [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|The Re-imagined Series]]
| Season= [[Season 2 (2005-06)|2]]
| Episode= 13
| Guests=[http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Colm+Feore Colm Feore] ([[Adar (RDM)|President Adar]])
| Writer=[[David Weddle]] & [[Bradley Thompson]]
| Story=
| Director=[[Rod Hardy]]
| Production=2.13
| Rating=
| US Airdate=January 20 2006
| UK Airdate=
| DVD=
| Population=49,598
| Prev= [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]
| Next= [[Black Market]]
}}




== Overview ==

: ''Admiral [[William Adama]] questions whether or not [[Sharon Valerii]]'s pregnancy should be aborted. Meanwhile Roslin's health declines rapidly as a pro-Cylon peace group attempts to sow civil disobedience within the Fleet.''

== Summary ==

* President [[Laura Roslin]] is brought on board ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She is near death and has, at best, days to live.
* Captain [[Kara Thrace]] and Lieutenant [[Louanne Katraine]] are conducting Viper tests. During a test of the Viper's projectile systems, Kat's port gun is destroyed and a piece of it impacts on Thrace's cockpit. Thrace requests priority landing; both Vipers land.
* [[Cally]] and CPO [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] discover that several rounds of ammunition from the damaged Viper are unusually light and fragile. A round of such ammunition would easily break as the cartridge loaded into the chamber and misfire, leaving the projectile lodged in the barrel. When the next round hit it, the overpressure destroyed the gun. Undoubtedly, someone is trying to sabotage the fleet's military readiness.
*The sabotage investigation quickly leads Lee Adama and Kara Thrace to Asha Janik, one of the recent civilian hirees in ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'''s armory. When they apprehend her, she declares her allegiance to a self-proclaimed pacifist organization that wants peace with the Cylons.
*Vice President Baltar is given the presidential tour by [[Billy Keikeya]] in preparation for his assumption of the Presidency. Billy gives Baltar a letter from Roslin to be opened after her death.
* The new peace movement, led by Royan Jahee, is gaining momentum in the civilian population as people begin to realize that victory against the Cylons is impossible as well as questioning the current military tactic of 'attack-and-retreat'.
* [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon's]] baby's blood was used to destroy the cancerous masses in Roslin's system. The procedure to abort Sharon's fetus was not performed.

===On Caprica Prior to the Cylon Attack===
*Roslin finds out she has cancer
*Roslin meets with President Adar to discuss a teacher's strike, and his response.
*Roslin meets with the leader of the educational alliance, Naylin Stans, and strikes an agreement.
*Adar disagrees with Roslin's methods and results, and asks for her resignation.
*Roslin then leaves for ''Galactica'''s decommisioning ceremony, telling Adar that "If you want my resignation when I get back, be prepared to fight for it."

== Questions ==

*Kara Thrace is flying Mk. II vipers with Galactica's pilots again. Is she still the CAG of ''Pegasus''?
*Now that Roslin recalls Baltar's involvment with a Cylon agent on Caprica, what will she do about it?
*Will there be any consequences for Helo's near-mutiny?
*Will Roslin's attitude toward the Cylon fetus change following her recovery?
**Ronald D. Moore's podcast implies that her urgency was only prompted by her lack of faith in Baltar's ability to handle the situation. Will she be content to let to Sharon carry to term now that her survival is no longer in question?
*Roslin's recent series of machiavellian orders (Cain's assasination in "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]", and the forced abortion here) appear to have been faciliated by her belief that, given her impending death, she wouldn't have to deal with the ethical ramifications. Will this alter her relationship with Admiral Adama in the long term?
*Is security really so lax that Baltar (whom Adama does not consider especially trustworthy) would be able to smuggle one of ''Galactica's'' very few nuclear warheads off-ship?
**Raptors are capable of detecting radiological devices. Why wasn't the bomb noticed in transit? If it's possible to effectively shield a nuclear device from detection, why don't the cylons do this to their own warheads?
**Alternately, is the nuclear device actually functional?
*Why aren't there posters of [[Gina]] scattered all over the fleet to inform everyone of her Cylon identity, making it difficult for her to hide, let alone lead a Cylon-sympathy movement?

== Analysis ==

* The survivor count this episode is 49,598, a net loss of six since [[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]. [[Helena Cain|Admiral Cain]] and the ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' marine killed by [[Gina]] account for two. Presumably the remaining were pilots or crew lost during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship|attack]] on the [[Resurrection Ship]].
** This seems to be extremely good fortune, as the two battlestars engaged in a major fleet action for an extended time.
* Roslin's affair with Adar was suggested by her comment in the [[miniseries]] that "he had a way about him... you just couldn't say 'no' to him."
*Naylin Stans implies that he believes the teacher's strike is a cause worth dying for. This claim is ridiculously hyperbolic.
**The fact that President Adar was willing to use the military to enforce a back-to-work order seems to indicate that the protest must've been more serious than simple wage issues.
*Roslin's medical chart showed her name and other information such as date of birth, but this information was too blurry for viewers to read.

===Serious Technical and Storyline Issues===

*Roslin's cancer cure was pure "deus ex machina." While many viewers may find Roslin's cure a necessary one as she has become a pivotal character in the show, the method of her cure leaves too many medical mistakes and is too easy of a cure.
*Cancer is not a viral disease, like AIDs or the common cold, but an invasive destruction of tissue by mutated cells, which usurp the function of healthy cells. For the cure to work the way it did would require it not only to destroy free-floating cells and metastasized tissue, but to ''repair'' any organs with healthy tissue.
*As cancer is not cureable here on Earth, for the show to invest a cure at the last minute may feel contrived by some.

Major plot elements that form a resolution in the show's past were generally introduced and left "in the air" for suspense over several episodes while both viewers and characters learned their significance. These included:
**The search for the [[Arrow of Apollo]] and the search for the [[Tomb of Athena]]
**The Experiment with Helo on Caprica (Season 1)
**Adama's survival after his shooting

The "epiphany" of Baltar's cancer cure could have been worked over at least two or three episodes while he and Cottle studied Sharon Valerii's child, which is a logical way to work a cancer cure. Baltar is a tinkerer--the miracle working viewers saw in this episode would be best left to other characters in science fiction where such "magical" inventiveness might be expected. In "Battlestar Galactica", this sudden resolution of the second major plot element in the series (we hear of Roslin's terminal cancer diagnosis when we first see Roslin in the Miniseries) that has dire ramifications for the Fleet should not be resolved with the proverbial swipe of a writer's pen in a single episode.

Other technical issues abound in this episode.

*A nuclear warhead was smuggled from ''Galactica'' to ''Cloud Nine''. How would such a device possibly get past the various [[Radiological Alarm|radiological sensors]] throughout the Fleet? This was a plot complication used in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" as well when a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] claimed that a nuclear device was hidden in the Fleet. The writing element was difficult to believe in that episode, and it far less believable in this episode. Both the battlestar and the [[Raptor]] on which the freed "freedom movement" member left the ship are military vessels ''designed'' to sniff out hostile devices.
*The explosion of the bomb on the refinery ship is powerful enough to create a sizable hole on the ship. While space is a vacuum and so shock waves do not carry as they would in an atmosphere, the Raptor that flew close to the ship and was not very far from the explosion should probably be damaged from flying debris.

== Notes ==

* This episode begins 189 days after the Cylon attack on the colonies. There is a 48 hour gap between Roslin's deathbed treatment and her conversation with Jahee. The number of 189 days given in this episode, and "six months" given in the previous one, are inconsistent with the [[Timeline (RDM)|timeline]] which ''BattlestarWiki'' has developed that keeps track of dates. See ''Talk'' page on the Timeline for a full breakdown.
* [[Lee Adama]] is once again a Captain, and has been reinstated as ''Galactica'''s CAG.
* [[Gina]] has apparently become a member of the pro-Cylon resistance. The other members of the resistance are apparently unaware she is a [[Humano-Cylon]].
* Roslin was in an intimate relationship with President Adar.
*Roslin now recalls witnessing [[Gaius Baltar]]'s affair with a copy of [[Number Six]] on Caprica, prior to the attack.
* The radiation symbol used by the colonials is different from the one used in reality, but is still easily recognizable.
*Lee Adama has been reinstated as CAG, and his authority apparently extends to the Pegasus squadrons as well. This is consistent with Cole Taylor's authority over Galactica's air wing, when ''Pegasus'' was the flagship.
*Galactica has been recruiting civilians to handle "grunt work" on the hangar deck.
*Baltar was aware of the [[Demand Peace]] movement prior to this episode.
*At least three bodies can be seen being vented into space after the explosion onboard ''[[Daru Mozu]]''.
*The file photograph of [[humano-Cylon]] model [[Number Six|#6]] is of Shelly Godfrey, seen in the episode "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]".
* The nuclear device Dr. Baltar gives the resistance is the same one he was given to create his Cylon Detector in "[[Bastille Day]]".
* The ''Pegasus'' is barely featured in this episode, and none of its crew or interior locations were seen, except in the pre-episode recap.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

'''Secretary Roslin:''' "I'm on my way to the ''Galactica'' to represent this administration. If you want my resignation when I get back, be prepared to fight for it."

'''President Richard Adar:''' "One of the interesting things about being President, you don't have to explain yourself. To anyone."
*Roslin earlier attributed this saying to Adar in the episode "[[Flesh and Bone]]".

== Official Statements ==




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