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* This episode title (and production information) are derived from a call sheet posted by Wil McQueen.<ref name="flickr">{{cite_web|url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilmcqueen/2476722149/sizes/o/|title=Wil McQueen's Flickr photostream|date=8 May 2008|accessdate=30 May 2008|last=McQueen|first=Wil|format=|language=}}</ref> | * This episode title (and production information) are derived from a call sheet posted by Wil McQueen.<ref name="flickr">{{cite_web|url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilmcqueen/2476722149/sizes/o/|title=Wil McQueen's Flickr photostream|date=8 May 2008|accessdate=30 May 2008|last=McQueen|first=Wil|format=|language=}}</ref> | ||
* ''No Exit'' is the title of a [[w:No Exit|1944 existentialist play]] by [[w:Jean-Paul Sartre|Jean-Paul Sartre]]. The story references three people who are trapped in Hell, shown as a stately room with chairs and sofas. Each character in the play loathes the other two characters. The play contains the notable line, "Hell is other people!" | * ''No Exit'' is the title of a [[w:No Exit|1944 existentialist play]] by [[w:Jean-Paul Sartre|Jean-Paul Sartre]]. The story references three people who are trapped in Hell, shown as a stately room with chairs and sofas. Each character in the play loathes the other two characters. The play contains the notable line, "Hell is other people!" | ||
* | * Ellen Tigh remarks to [[Sharon Valerii]] when she comes to escort Ellen to surgery that she "...should have brought a tumbrel." On earth a thumbrel is a two wheel cart used to carry various loads, particularly on a farm. [http://pro.corbis.com/images/HU036695.jpg?size=67&uid=%7BDE6F5EAC-11A0-4608-B615-14298D8BE914%7D] On Earth during the French Revolution in the 1780's, many condemned prisoners were carried to the guillotine in a tumbrel. Ellen sardonically was referring to this in her remark to Valerii. Depending on the historical relationship of real life events and the Colonies in the show-if any-maybe she was referring directly to the French Revolution or a similar parallel event on Kobol and/or the Thirteen Colonies. | ||
== Analysis == | == Analysis == | ||
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| "No Exit" An episode of the Re-imagined Series | |||
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| Episode No. | Season 4, Episode 15 | ||
| Writer(s) | Ryan Mottesheard | ||
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| Director | Gwyneth Horder-Payton | ||
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| Production No. | 417 | ||
| Nielsen Rating | |||
| US airdate |  February 13, 2009 [1]
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| CAN airdate |  February 13, 2009
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| UK airdate |  February 17, 2009
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| DVD release | |||
| Population | 39,556 survivors ( 47)
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| Blood on the Scales | No Exit | Deadlock | |
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Overview
- Ellen Tigh is resurrected, and she knows all the answers. Anders' condition releases a flood of visions and crucial memories.
Summary
On Galactica
On a Basestar
- Set in the past.
Notes
- This episode title (and production information) are derived from a call sheet posted by Wil McQueen.[2]
- No Exit is the title of a 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The story references three people who are trapped in Hell, shown as a stately room with chairs and sofas. Each character in the play loathes the other two characters. The play contains the notable line, "Hell is other people!"
- Ellen Tigh remarks to Sharon Valerii when she comes to escort Ellen to surgery that she "...should have brought a tumbrel." On earth a thumbrel is a two wheel cart used to carry various loads, particularly on a farm. [1] On Earth during the French Revolution in the 1780's, many condemned prisoners were carried to the guillotine in a tumbrel. Ellen sardonically was referring to this in her remark to Valerii. Depending on the historical relationship of real life events and the Colonies in the show-if any-maybe she was referring directly to the French Revolution or a similar parallel event on Kobol and/or the Thirteen Colonies.
![[1]](http://pro.corbis.com/images/HU036695.jpg?size=67&uid=%7BDE6F5EAC-11A0-4608-B615-14298D8BE914%7D){kind=link}
Analysis
- In the preview for "No Exit", it is revealed that Ellen Tigh returns and she knows everything. It has also been seen that it has been 18 months since she died. The Canadian preview also reveals that Sam Anders regains his Cylon memories.
Questions
- Will Anders recover following surgery? Will he retain his memories as a Cylon if he does?
- Will resurrection technology still be salvageable, now that Anders is mostly braindead?
- Will resurrection technology ever be salvaged?
- Will Anders be euthanized?
- How will Ellen react when she discovers that Saul is engaged in a relationship with and has impregnated Caprica-Six?
- Will Ellen's return result in an awkward love triangle between her, Tigh and Caprica Six?
- Will Tory and Tyrol rekindle their old relationship?
- How will Boomer react to the news that Cally is dead?
- How will Boomer react to Caprica Six, since she was killed by her at one point?
- Are the Number Fives also aware of the identity of the Final Five? When were any of the others, other than Boomer, told?
- The introduction to this episode stated that "One [Cylon Model] was sacrificed." Does this refer to Ellen or Daniel?
- Was Number Seven named after Daniel Graystone, creator of the Cylons on the Twelve Colonies?
- Did any active copies of Daniel survive One's wrath? If so, what became of them?
- Assuming they aren't the same as the ones used to infiltrate the Colonies, what names were given to the other Cylon models?
- Will Cavil ever achieve his goal of evolving beyond his primitive humanoid form?
- Will Cavil ever be able to appreciate the gift of free will?
- How will the Cylon Civil War resolve?
Character Development
- In the episode we see Sharon Valerii for the first time since "The Hub". She has been under the tutelage of John Cavil for thee years since at least after the occupation of Caprica. Before that, when she first downloaded after Cally Henderson (the future Cally Tyrol) shot her on Galactica she still thought of herself as a human with a human out look and hated her Cylon being. She wanted and desired love and felt bitterly that she had from her POV, betrayed her friends as she expressed in Downloaded:
- Sharon Valerii: What are you thinking? Do you think I care about your god?
- Caprica Six: Look, god loves you.
- Valerii: This is love. (Re: a picture of the Galactica crew) These people love me. I love them. I didn't pretend to feel something so I could screw people over. I loved them. And then I betrayed them. I shot a man I loved. Frakked over another man, ruined his life. And why? Because I'm a lying machine. I'm a frakking Cylon!
- Ten months ago as of this episode and approximately two years after she downloaded back into the Cylon and been under the guidance of John Cavil this was her attitude to love. It occurred in a discussion with Ellen Tigh after Cavil's passionate speech about how she foisted on him the limiting form of a human body:
- Valerii: Don't you feel the slightest bit of remorse for what you did to him? What you did to us?
- Ellen: No. [turns her head to look at her] Because he's wrong Boomer! There is no need for remorse or blame. We didn't limit you. We gave you something wonderful!! Free will! The ability to think creatively. To reach out to others with compassion. To love.
- Valerii: Love? Who? Humans? Why would I want to do that!?! Who would I want to love!?!?
Official Statements
Noteworthy Dialogue
- John Cavil had just shown a slide show-as Ellen Tigh cynically put it-of the destruction of the Algae planet the home of the Temple of Hope built by the travelers from Kobol on their way to colonize Earth and the Twelve Colonies, when its own star when nova. John Cavil was there to observe it. He relates his experience to Ellen and his disappointment over it and it revels his self-loathing and hatred of his form:
- John: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star Super Nova?
- Ellen: No.
- John [repeats] No. Well I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A Supernova! Creation itself! I was there I wanted to see it. And be part of the moment.
- John: And you know how I perceived on of the most glorious events in the universe? [sneering] With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs [gesturing to his eyes] in my skull! [disgusted] With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM Spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.
- Ellen: The five of us designed you to be as human as possible.
- John: I DON'T WANT TO BE HUMAN!! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to--I want to smell Dark Matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to--I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language!! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws!! [closes eyes] And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me!! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! [softly] I can experience so much more. BUT I'M TRAPPED IN THIS ABSURD BODY!! AND WHY!??! Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!!
- [Cavil walks out of the chamber]
Guest Stars
- Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
- Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh
- John Hodgman as Dr. Gerard
References
- ↑ http://tv.ign.com/articles/920/920164p1.html
- ↑ McQueen, Wil (8 May 2008). Wil McQueen's Flickr photostream (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 30 May 2008.