Talk:Dirty Hands/Archive 1

Episode Title Change?

The SciFi Schedule as Our Enemies, Ourselves as the episode after A Day in the Life on 2/25/07. --FrankieG 16:48, 7 January 2007 (CST)

Our Enemies, Ourselves was the original title before it was changed. See the BW:OC page for explanation by Bradley --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 09:01, 20 February 2007 (CST)

Locked Reason

Please read the blog here. Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 23:00, 18 February 2007 (CST)

Predictions!

Sorry these are so late in the week. I came down with something pretty horrible and, for a few days, was barely able to sit up, much less contribute to a Wiki. Anyway, I'm going to try to be a bit more serious with this one than I have in the last couple of weeks. I just don't have as much time to gaze into the crystal ball like I did between TEOJ and Rapture - not that that's a complaint in any way! As always, you can place your bets (in cubits; your Earth money is of no value to us) at my or BB's Talk pages.

• Somebody of middling importance is gonna die this episode. The crystal ball is telling me it'll be Seelix, but my gut tells me it'll be Gaeta. I'd rather it was Seelix, but I feel they've been setting up Gaeta to take a bullet this whole season. I desperately hope they don't kill off Cally. Nicki Clyne is cuteness incarnate.
• Galen Tyrol bucks authority in a big way and doesn't get away with it, thus breaking the Battlestar trend of getting away with stuff because Bill Adama needs you.
• We find out why the Cylons have been so quiet: Boxing the Threes wasn't easy. The Threes didn't want to go and they caused a lot of damage on their way out. The entire Cylon expeditionary fleet (the Earth-bound fleet) is currently dead in space as a result, with no way to contact other Cylon ships. (They're out of range.)
• The Colonials find abandoned spaceship repair facilities constructed and then abandoned by the 13th Tribe. They begin the long, slow process of repairing the damage to their own ships using equipment that's been floating in space for thousands of years and thus isn't in the best of shape, nor is it 100% safe to use. The round-the-clock, hazardous labor required to repair, adapt, and then use the equipment is what leads to Tyrol's strike.
• Frustrated by his people's inability to repair their own base stars, Galvatron contacts the Colonial fleet, turning to his most hated enemies for help. The Colonials respond by sending the SuicideGirls in with nukes to wipe out the Cylons, but those pierced punkette pixie pilots pooch the plan and miss the Resurrection Ship.
• Hot Dog finally sees Cottle about his rash. Cottle berates him and issues him some of his most closely-guarded medical supplies: A box of rubbers.

Should be an intense episode, overall. Some of these predictions are more in line with rest-of-season possibilities than single episode speculation, but they're from my gut. --Slander 13:56, 22 February 2007 (CST)

I've been mulling over how the Fleet might get some more aid to fix what they have, short of yet another escaped battlestar or some other deus ex machina device. The idea of finding old Thirteenth Tribe stuff makes sense; unlike the Colonials, the 13th Tribe PLANNED to leave, it seems, and had taken lots of materials to help them do so. A portable shipdock? Maybe. Sounds fun, anyhow.

On Gaeta: You're right; I thought it was Cally in this last episode, but was happily wrong. It's still up in the air. The problem with the lack of all Threes makes very good sense; the Cylons aren't good as individuals, and plucking the Threes away makes for a lot of disorientation. The last two "predictions" are on the mark, as usual. But wait--isn't the season 3 cliffhanger going to be a big battle between the insane intellects of Galvatron and Gaius Baltar and a new villain that knows both weaknesses in humanity and Cylon? What if the Colonials and Cylon get into a big fight above a planet that changes into a very perturbed Unicron!? --Spencerian 14:10, 22 February 2007 (CST)

I like the repair thing, Tigh's comment of "we'd need 3 months in dry dock just to fix the dents" got me thinking about repairing Galactica, but I imagined some kind of agreement with the Cylons (the Colonials using Cylon repair facilities in return for some other favor). I don't think someone's gonna die this episode (reason see spoiler box), but if someone does die, it'll be a deckhand, which will be the cause for Tyrols strike.

Spoiler follows, highlight to read.
RDM confirmed someone major will die in Maelstrom, and two deaths in two episodes time seems a little over the top to me

--Catrope 14:19, 22 February 2007 (CST)

Doing Time

One of these days they need to throw Edward James Olmos in jail. When they do that every major character will have been in jail at some point. Whalepelt 23:23, 25 February 2007 (CST)

Re-imagined Series definition: visual indicator used in a battlestar's Instrument Landing System during a hands-on approach ^{(TRS: "Miniseries", "Act of Contrition", "Final Cut", "Black Market")}

Original Series definition: a form of coined currency (see: cubit)