Battlestar Galactica (9/23/2005): "Pegasus" Anne Cofell Saunders (wr.), Michael Rymer (dir.)
The series continues to punctuate and showcase the area of Ron Moore's greatest writing strengths and interests: political theater. He and his writing staff manage to top themselves in that area from week to week.
With about 48,000+ humans left being chased and/or infiltrated by killer Cylons, however, getting into a shooting war doesn't make much sense. (Not that it's supposed to. Humans are often nonsensical creatures.)
Of note . . .
visuals:
---director Michael Rymer's camera twirling around the Adama and Kane separately as they exchange phone communications, the same technique he (over)used in the miniseries. I guess it beats the usual tv close-up. Still, I, for one, could live without it.
---the careful contrast between Kane's (modern, with cool blue light) and Adama's (warmly lit with red-yellow lighting, old-fashioned furnishings, antique books, etc.) quarters. Very interesting and very subtly done.
music:
---the rock guitar music at the introduction of the Pegasus and again later during the Baltar cell scenes (there punctuated by female vocalese). A step down from their usual, but it's not (yet) totally offtrack. (Could get there, though if it doesn't stay "spacy".)
drama:
---Baltar rambles on in the torture cell without concern for possible electronic eavesdropping and confesses his collaboration with the Cylon before the attack and his lasting attachment to it/her, as well as his intention to help the present version. Given where he is, it seems discretion might be a better tack to take. I would expect the cell to be monitored both visually and auditorily.
