The Farm

Mark here... this episode was way better than the last. And it actually moved the plot forward.

On Caprica, Starbuck gets captured in an ambush by the Cylons, while planning a way back to Galactica.  She wakes up in a hospital, but something seems suspicious about this hospital.  The hospital is very quiet.  As it turns out its a Cylon hospital interested in human women.  Specifically, the reproductive organs of human women.  Starbuck slowly realizes the creepiness of this place and also we get to know a fifth cylon model, Simon.  In the end she makes a nice break from the hospital and is rescued by the resistance movement. As she's escaping, she stumbles into a room of women hooked up to...breeding machines?  Anyway, she destroys them and it's a creepy sight, and a nice reference to Alien Resurrection...

Back in the fleet Roslin has sent out a message to the fleet that she will be going back to Kobol on a religious mission to find Earth. Adama, who is now back in charge is convinced no one will follow her, but yet half the fleet ends up jumping away.

One point from last episode we didn't address was Cally shooting Galactica's Sharon, so now the only   Sharon is the one on Caprica, who is pregnant with Helo's child.  She ends up helping with the rescue of Starbuck by stealing a ship to go back to Galactica.  Starbuck basically tells Anders,  "I'll be back" while he handles the Caprica resistance, but it's a bit shady.  I mean, yes they couldn't for everyone on the ship, but the odds of them coming back?

Hi Laurel here...are you guys confused about who is good Cylon and who is bad Cylon and who resistance etc?  Me too.  I'm like an alzhiemers sufferer asking poor Mark wtf is going on every 10 minutes.

Here's what I do know...the show takes an interesting turn culturally when Starbuck ends up in the Cylon baby farm.  Until now she has been doing everything she can do to deny that she is even a woman, acting unbearably masculine all the time, because that is what solders do? Now that she has been a victim of a crime that was specifically designed towards women, how is the show going to treat women moving forward?  Until now the show has not dealt with gender equality as an issue because it is the "future"and they are supposed to be so evolved.  But they just made it an issue by turning women in to a biological commodity.  It will be interesting to see how the show handles this issue moving forward, and how Starbuck handles it as a character.