April 16, 2025 • 35 mins
Welcome to Spacing Out With BB and Jason! We’re covering the 2004 reboot of Battlestar Galactica, and this week we’re discussing season 3 episode 15, “A Day In The Life”. Thanks for joining us!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Spacing Out with BB and Jason this week
covering Battlestar Galactica Season three episode fifteen, A Day in
the Life.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm BB and I'm Jason, and this is spacing out
where we discuss a piece of film or television, in
this case Battlestar Galactica. And if you are new to
the show, we're going to have a spoiler section at
the end of the podcast. Otherwise we won't be spoiling
anything past this episode, which is Battlestar Galactica Season three,
episode fifteen, A Day in the Life. This aired on
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February eighteenth, two thousand and seven. Written by Mark Verheiden,
directed by Rod Hardy. The survivor count is forty one,
three hundred and ninety eight people, just three down from
last week, and this episode, on his wedding anniversary, Admiral
Adama reflects on the memory of his ex wife. Land
(01:00):
Chief terryl and Kelli are trapped in a depressurizing airlock
and have to be rescued by being ejected in the
space and Leadama gets into law school or something.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Vibe check did we like the episode overall? How does
it stand? The test of time.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Did we love this episode?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Love is a strong word.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It does not apply.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah. I don't have a lot of strong feelings about
this episode at all, not even like dislike, it's not
that strong to the point where I'm like, oh, this
is the worst episode. This episode was just mediocre.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's not like offensively bad. No, it's just there and
not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, it's just not good.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Which probably makes it my least favorite episode. Like, there's
a lot I would probably watch Black Market over this episode.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, that one at least had a little bit of
drama and intensity to it that was random and weird.
This one's just random and weird for a lot of
reasons that aren't good.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I mean it's weird.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
There are some choices that they made with this episode
that I want to talk about later that really were
not working for me. But we'll get to it later.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Like I think the like the b story with Chief
and Calli is kind of interesting and intense for a
while in the middle of there, but like the beginning
of that is kind of just Cali being annoying and
been just like a dama wandering through the hallways having
conversations with himself. Is not that interesting, and there's like
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basically no chemistry between him and the actress playing his
ex wife. What I would have liked to have seen
more of if we're doing this like day in the
Life type of episode, is like more of what just
like a Dama does throughout the day.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, the old The only part about the day in
the life that was vaguely interesting was him trying to
remember that guy. Yeah, and he didn't interact with any
other people besides Tie that day, like that were military
on purpose, Like it wasn't. It was not a slice
of life typical day for Dama. It was a different
type of day because he had something on his mind
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and I want to talk about it later because this
is not the portion of the episode where we talk
about this, so I would rather just wait. But no,
I didn't like it. It's not my favorite episode and
I don't think it passes the vibe.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Check trivia time. What bacs could we uncover for a
Day in the life?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
All right? In the original aired version of the episode,
there is an added scene at the end that was
continued on sci fi dot Com because they were doing
that weird thing trying to drive people to the website.
In that scene, Data and d comment on how much
time the Admiral and the President's been together, and then
they'd break into laughter and they're interrupted by Colonel Tye,
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and then they continue laughing after he leaves.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh, they like the gossip together. I like their relationships.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Everybody knows. So in reality, humans have been exposed to
near vacuum conditions for up to thirty seconds without permanent injury.
Some sources state that survival is possible for up to
two minutes, but the injury the body sustains becomes severe
after approximately one minute of exposure, which is basically what
Admiral Dama said in the episode.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So that's like scientifically accurate.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Overall, the depiction of the vacuum exposure is very realistic.
The tyials get colder, but they don't freeze immediately. The
two survive the evacuation from the airlock with relatively light injuries.
The Chief suffers from joint pain afterwards and he moves
kind of slowly, and his wife has to be treated
for decompression sickness.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Which can also happen to diverse Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
In a close up, you can see that one of
Kelly's eyes is bloodshot, showing that some of the blood
vessels ruptured.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, that accuracy.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
The original script for this episode leaked online and it
featured flashbacks to the Adama's family life, in one of
which Lee points out to his father that he had
been born four months after their wedding, implaying that Adama
and Carolyn rushed in the marriage because of pregnancy. And
then Ronald D. Moore mentioned the idea of doing a
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day in a life style episode as early as season two.
It was somewhere in the commentary. I remember back in
season two he was talking about wanting to do an
episode like this, So it seems like a lot of
thought went into this that didn't execute very well. There's
a similar style of episode in Star Trek Next Generation
called Data's Day, which is where you follow the character
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Data around throughout his day and all the little things he.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Does, which was way more interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It was and now a part of trivia we call
Okay boomer.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Okay Boomer, let's look at any connection to the original
Battlestar Galactica series, updates on upcoming productions in any other news.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
One of the pieces of debris that's ejected from the
airlock is a robotic Daggate. So Daggetts in the original
series were a dog like animal and none of those
animals survived the destruction of the colonies. However, the character Boxy,
who was the child character, had a robotic version of
a Daggate throughout the series, so just a weird reference
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to that. That robotic Daggett got a lot of screen
time in that series. Then Apollo mentions his grandfather being
a lawyer and receives his law books. In the prequel
series Kaprica, Joseph Adama, his grandfather is the lead character
and a criminal defense lawyer, so that does get explored
in the prequel show.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
All right, Deep Space Dive, let's break down some of
our thoughts on the episode. You can share your thoughts
with us through email, Facebook, or Twitter. We may use
your comments on an upcoming episode.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Deep Dive in Space.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I just want to mention that I think that the
use of Adama talking to a blonde woman who's not
there is very reminiscent of what they did with Baltar
in a way, but it doesn't work with a Dama
because a Dama is not like weird spacey intellectual who
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has the opportunity to look foolish in public. And I
think that's where I this concept of him having this
memory speak to him falls really short, because he's not
this type of like I'm going to sit in the
middle of the room and pretend to hold a ball
now kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, he's also very aware that like as opposed to
like Baltar, who like can't seem to help having these visions,
and it just is like I can't can't understand like
what's real and what's not, like a doma nosa, like
he's manufacturing these reliving these memories.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's why they're hard to swallow. They're not They don't
feel genuine in that way because it's like, oh, once
a year, I have hallucinations just like clockwork. It doesn't
feel realistic or authentic in any way for this character
to have this happen to him. If if it would
have been a dream sequence, I would have probably had
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a better time with it, where he had this elaborate
dream of him like being with his wife and hanging
out with his children, and then it gets ripped apart
and it's like turns into a nightmare, and then he
wakes up and then he has the memories of her
dogging him. Then it would have been a little more clear,
it would have been a little oh, okay, this is different.
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But they I don't think they set it up in
a way that was good. It was nice to see
him in a natural setting, like on that pond, Like
the visual effects were really nice. But it's just that
I don't believe it. This character, this character is supposed
to be strong, stable and safe, and the things that
are going through his mind right now are not stable.
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And it's just it's hard to believe that he's having
inner monologue that's also a white woman talking to him
like that. It's just it's weird, like he's hearing voices,
what's going on, Like it's it doesn't make any fucking sense,
and it's out of nowhere. And it would have been
cool if he did have different voices, like more variety,
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or if she did seem more unhinged in the beginning too,
like where she's really sweet and kind and then all
of a sudden she's like, you're just a fucking worthless
piece of shit and a deadbeat dad and all this shit,
and she really should have laid it on him, like
it would have been better if they did that sooner,
so that when they started talking about her mood swings
it wasn't like news because that felt like a cop
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out too, like, well she had mood swings, Dad, you
know it wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, I mean there's something interesting there. I just feel like,
cut cut her out of it. Let a dama like
talk to someone about like how he has these good
memories of his wife, and then let Lee come in
and be like more realistic about it, like, you know,
it wasn't all good. Things got really bad.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And I would have rather heard his voice a dama
in his head talking. I could. It would have been
fine if we had her there, but instead of her
talking to him and being the voice inside his head,
it would have been better if it was his own
voice saying, you know, I miss you, I love you.
We could have had something better, but I'm a bad man.
It would have maybe that would have been the part
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that like his inner monologue being himself more, that's more
impactful to me, and that's more realistic, and the voice
inside your head being yourself self saboteur of like and
then saying like if that was the wrong choice, would
that all of my other choices have been the same,
and all of those words would have been more impactful
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if they came from him. I think it was just
a weak choice to pick another person to be his voice,
and I hate it, I really did. Every time she spoke,
I'm like, this should have been his voice. It should
have been coming from him, because self talk is so
fucking real, like that shit is real, Like a lot
of people suffer from negative self talk, and it would
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have been so important to see this like high, powerful,
like person who has these negative thoughts about themselves and
how he combats that, especially on a day where he
feels the most weak and vulnerable. It could have been
way more special if it would have been him saying, oh, man, Adama,
you really screwed the pooch. You could have had a
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good life, a good wife and a good children. And
then like when he was witnessing Cali and Chief Tyrrell
almost dying, like hugging each other and all that he could,
there could have been more that would have been more ground,
saying like, oh man, you know this this family, I'm
tearing them apart, you know, because we're in this ship.
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I don't know it was I was just trashy. I
hated it, like they were trying to do something that
they've been doing again, but they executed it so poorly.
Because the character of a Dama doesn't feel as unstable
to have these like delusions. It works with Baltar because
he feels unstable as a character. Yeah, so it's just
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really hard to believe that Adama has this inner monologue
with this woman, especially how hyper masculine he is. It's
just it's so hard to believe that he has no offence.
But it doesn't seem like he cares about what women
have to say in a way that it's in his head.
If it was, it might be Laura talking to him
to reassure him. Or but I don't know this woman too.
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I've never seen her before. We barely talked about her,
so there's no build up for him to just feel
bad about her all of a sudden. It's weird, like
he doesn't make reference to her, he never talks about
her with anybody, and then all of a sudden he's like.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh, yeah, she's barely been mentioned on this show, like
they show us in the previously on like the one
time he asked about her when he first encounters Lee
in the mini series, and then I believe he mentioned
her on Kat's deathbed about how he wanted a daughter.
But yeah, like it's hard to like just shove her
in there and make me care about this relationship that
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we've kind of grown used to like just being something
in his past that's not that relevant in his life anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Right, And how many years have we been on Galactica
so far?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I mean they spent I think it was about a
year to get to New Caprica, and then they spent
about a year on New Caprica, so it's probably been
like two and a half years or something.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So why didn't we get this episode sooner? In terms
of like like we could have had this episode twice
where there's progress, Like why is this happening now? Like
it feels like, damn, it's been a long year. If
you're finally getting to this anniversary.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well because we skipped the year on the show, Well I.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Still do and appreciate it just coming out of nowhere,
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I don't like it. And what I would have liked
to like follow Adama through his day and.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Like see how he takes his coffee?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, where does he eat lunch. What's he was he talking?
Was he talked to every day? Who's like we got
to see like that one guy bringing his coffee and like,
how does how does all this work?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And I didn't know it was one guy's job to
have that fancy ass tray of coffee. Where'd they get
that tray of coffee? Why doesn't it look like everybody
else's coffee. Laura Roslin wasn't drinking out of a fancy
tea set when she was drinking coffee. It was a
gray ass, boring ass mug. But Leah fucking Adama has
this like beautiful tea set. I don't know, it's weird,
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so I don't know. It would have been interesting to see,
like him not get woken up by Saul, but him
waking up on his own, doing his morning routine, getting
his coffee and then meeting with his generals, going to
his job, talking to the guys, checking on recruits and
all that, and then maybe like reading a book doing
what he does progress.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Reports, and even like the Chief and Cali storyline instead
of like setting that up with them, like you know,
getting ready in the morning, arguing about the baby and
going to work and stuff. Like if that just like
came up in the midst of a Dama's day, like
suddenly there's this emergency in the airlock he needs to
go to and we kind of get filled in on
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what's happened. Oh, I feel like there was potential in
this episode to do something different and interesting for this show.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Like it would have been like I feel like I've
seen a slice of life kind of episode in a
lot of shows, but this show has never done it
right and it still doesn't feel like they've done it.
This day in the Life sucked. I don't know, it
would have been really cool if they just stuck with
a Dama and not had this weird inner monologue with
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this weird character that we don't know. It was just
off putting and it felt inappropriate for this situation.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, and the I always listened to the commentary on
these episodes before we record about them, and that's something
that came up. Ronald Y Moore talks about how, like
the whole the concept just wasn't working, and so they
started to lean more and more on the BT story
with Chief and Kelly because that part was kind of working,
and so it just creates this messy episode.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, I don't know why they didn't cut out all
the bullshit with the wife. Literally, if they would have
just cut that and written a fucking boring ass day
for an administrator, it would have been more exciting. It
would have been for us as people who don't know
what the day to day on Galactica looks like. He
signed some papers and then what he walks around the
promenade pretending to hold his fucking ball. It was weird.
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That's not what a normal day for Dama is. This
is not a normal day.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
So anyway, well, we start this episode and it's been
well over a month since they encountered any cylon, so
they're spending time working on repairs and maintenance and stuff.
Doama's dreaming about his wife? Talked about her enough. She
comments a lot on his activities and his relationship with
his son and with Laura Roslin, And later in the episode,
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a Paulo reminisces with his father, he kind of tells
him about how the relationship wasn't perfect and how she
was kind of terrible, And I think I think they're
kind of implying that she had some sort of like
bipolar issue.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Don't they all fellas I mean, really, women are so
emotional with those fucking mood swings. They're all fucking crazy.
She could have just been an alcoholic true mood swings,
could just be drunk, you know what I mean? Maybe
she's an angry drunk because the way that they showed her,
like he was imagining her drinking and then smashing things,
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that's a mood swing.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Possibly. I mean, they don't outright say it, So who
am I to diagnosed? Then President Roslin is hanging out
on Galactica.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
She apparently hits the gym, Yeah, which made her embarrassed.
I didn't understand that. She's like, I'm embarrassed to say,
but I'm going to the gym, Like why there's probably
one of the only few gyms in the fucking fleet.
So why wouldn't you want to go to the gym?
What's wrong with that? Are you out of shape? Or
you do you feel fat?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Is that it? Like?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Are you saying you're taking advantage of the ship somehow?
I like what Adama said. He's like, prepare yourself smells
like the inside of a dirty shoe. That was really good.
I thought he was gonna say something else, prepare yourself
to sweat because the heat's on or something.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I think she goes in there and like gets in
the boxing ring and gets all bloody and disgustic, and
that's why she's embarrassing. This is what I do with my.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Could you imagine her getting all bloody and sweaty in
the rain, her hair all stringy, coughing up blood. Oh
that makes me happy. That would have been an episode
I would have watched.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
A part of the reason that she's on Galactica, other
than to see her main man Adama, as she wants
to get Apollo involved in the legal research for Baltart's trial. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
They don't even know how to fucking try him because
they're not any one nation.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, and this was interesting to me, like they haven't
had to deal with this yet, Like there's no lawsuits
going on in these years they've been aboard.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I mean, they have fucking prisoners. Yeah, so under what
law are these prisoners being held? That's what I'm wondering about.
I feel like they did release prisoners in one episode though.
They were like, you can work off your time or
something like that. Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Uh? Yeah, And they released all the prisoners in the
prison ship.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
So astral Queen.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So I'm wondering, like, I'm sure there's crime, yeah, in
a society, So like under what laws is the crime
being committed? And how are they trying and put persecuting
all of these people who are quote unquote like guilty
of crimes if they haven't done anything like that.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
They're like, I don't know, Like this the idea of
like we need access to the laws and to figure
out how to try, and like seems to catch them
off guard.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You have been doing this. Why haven't you been doing this?
You're the fucking president and you've been the president for
quite some time now and you're finally deciding I don't
know what to do. Or maybe the way that they
do it is every ship has their own set of
laws that they're agreed to, kind of like how every
country has their own set of laws, and so if
you're on the ship and you do break that law,
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you go to through their penal system and then you
end up in the Astral Queen that way, so like
you could be chewing bubble gum in one ship and
go to jail, or you could murder a man and
then go to jail, and they're on the same caliber
it's weird.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well, I don't think the Astral Queen is holding prisoners anymore,
Like they gave them that ship the run themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, So but.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, she's like, hey, how about that pilot son of yours.
He's got time to be a lawyer now, doesn't he.
And Rosin also talks about building that cabin that she
was talking about on New Kaprica.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh yeah, when she got silly. Yeah, I feel like
Adama was kind of forward when he was talking to her,
not as forward as he gets where he's like, you
were wearing that red dress and talkie, that's so forward
for him. She perked up at that because they were
really close to that episode. That's the closest we've seen them.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah. So, well, she wasn't the president then, she was
just civilian lady, a teacher, so he couldn't put up
this facade decorum. Later, Adama sends Lee all those law books,
basically tells them they get busy.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And then on the beer side, we have Chief having
a day in the life.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yep. Chief just wants to spend some time with his
wife without that child crying.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh my god, that fucking baby crying. Wait, we want
to just turn off the episode. I wanted to quit
watching right then. I do not like babies crying. I
really don't. I don't have children of my own. I
don't need to experience other people's babies crying. It's not
my responsibility to hear that. Keep them cool, calm and sedated.
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Whatever you need to do, just chill those babies out,
don't let them cry. Get him a pacifier. Why doesn't
that baby have a pacifier?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
He finally cooled him down, and she like put him
to bed, and then what the fuck does he do?
He gets him out of bed. I was like, what
is he doing? And apparently they were supposed to have
the day off, but other motherfuckers called off, and he's like, well,
I signed you and me up to go, you know,
cover for them. And I think that was very like
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rude of him to assume that Cally wanted to cover
for some asshole who called out. I would not let
anybody call me in without my permission, even if he's
the boss and my husband. I don't give a fuck.
I'm sick too, motherfucker, I ain't going, how dare you?
I felt, for once in my life, I was like,
I feel bad for CALLI how dare he do this
to her? She could have had a day off, it
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was her day off, and he calls her in. I'd
be like, fuck you, I'm not going. No no means
no no. I'm staying here with my crying ass baby,
and you can't make me go to work because it's
not my day to work. Call somebody else, Call anybody else.
Fucking be short a ban fuck it. I don't care.
I'm not going. It's my day off. I wish she
would have put up more of a fight, I really do.
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She should have said that shit, like, who the fuck
do you think you are putting me up to work?
I don't care. If you're the boss, I don't care.
If you're my husband, you're not telling me to go
to work. And then he'll and then maybe he'll bring up,
oh it's time and a half or something, you'll get
paid double, and then she'll be like, Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Well I'll go. I'm not sure how their economy works.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I don't know why anyone does any job, or if
everyone's required to have a job.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
She could just be a stay at home mom and
quit her job and still live there with them. She
could be a civilian.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That's what I'm wondering, Like, is everyone in the fleet
required to have some sort of job or because like
there's a bunch of people on Galactica that just seem
like they're held in that room. I don't think they're
doing any work. So yeah, I don't know why anyone
does anything if there's no incentive.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
She could work at the daycare and see her son
every day. Like, what are you doing, Cally? If you
want to see your son, see your son, you could
work at the daycare and I'm sure you'd get paid
the same fucking wage, which is probably nothing room on board,
and you get to see your son every day, teach
one of those bitches at the daycare how to strip
a jag or whatever they said.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
So anyway, they go to work on a damaged airlock
and Callie complains.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
A lot, and they do it in front of that
other worker.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, in front of celis so awkward.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I felt so bad for her because she had a
I don't you know, And there's like a couple and
like they argue a lot and you're just kind of
standing there.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, it's so awkward.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It's so awkward. When I worked at the home depot,
I had to de escalate some of those because they
were talking about things like they were arguing about things
that were like about home goods or like construction things,
and I had to be like, hello, good afternoon, how
can I help you. Actually, she's correct, If you do
it that way, it would be much better and more economic.
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And then the husband would get mad at me, but
listen to me, because I had an apron that said
the home Depot on it. But it was so awkward, like, yeah,
they were arguing like a couple at the home depot,
which is saying something. I was embarrassed. I don't know,
I was embarrassed. And then like they try to put
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a fucking piece of duct tape on a welded piece
of metal to fix it, and it makes it worse somehow.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, well I think because it's damage, like them getting
in there and messing around is like causing it to
rupture more. Okay, Yeah, so like des even that to
figure out what's wrong and repair it. And the air
locked door seals automatically.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
If there's a change in pressure in the room.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, the override is broken. So you know they're comment
first and trying to patch it, but they quickly realize that, like, oh,
this is really bad.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It was funny when Kelly said, we're going to pull
the work, the work report, and we're going to figure
out who welded this so we could tear them a
new one. I thought that was really good because I
would do the same thing. I want to fucking figure
out who did this shitty ass welding.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I hope she does that when she.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Gets out of that decompression chamber, file a report against them.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So this gets the attention of Adama and all the
higher ups and there and there trying to figure out
a rescue plan. The only thing that's viable is ejecting
them into the vacuum of space and catching them right.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And the scene is like has anyone ever done this before?
And they're like, don't worry about it, baby, just do it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
You're just playing catch with a really big glove.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I'm surprised that there's not a way to get in
any equipment into that room, like at all, like a
little like you know how at the bank they have
that drawer. I'm surprised they don't have one of those,
so they could get better masks or suits in there
for them, like how do you get your lunch? I
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don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Well, they shouldn't ever be in this situation, like yeah,
like it seals automatically, but the override it like there's
Butsukadama says, like there's fail safes and backups, but just
happens to be like all of that is damaged because
of the damage the ship took.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, it's a shitty situation, but I still feel like
there should have been something where they're like, Okay, well
we're going to give you a spacesuit at least.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Nope, just throw them out the air lock.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah. Chief admits that he made Cali work with him
because he misses the life they used to have before.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
That's stupid ass, baby.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yep, they survived the rescue. They're in pretty rough shape.
Cali more than Chief.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, because she's littler. And we'll talk about spoilers later.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And then hot Dog has a rash and I Dick.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He Lo does a cool handshake with him, and then
after he tells him, he like wipes his hand up,
like that's gonna help. He's really scratching that dick though.
He's getting into that meat, like it's gonna be tenderized
for dinner. It's too much. I didn't understand it, and
they didn't do anything with it later. I hope this
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comes into play somehow later. Hot Dog's itchy dick, we'll see.
I don't know why they talked about it. I don't
understand this minor character has an itchy rash on his dick.
Maybe it's like jock rot or whatever it's called. You
know what I'm talking about, when you have like a
it's like a fungal infection. It's almost like a used
infection for men.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Jock it shock it.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah, yeah, maybe that's what it is. So it's not
like an STI or something like that, but I like
to pretend it might be. An still implies it is. Yeah,
he does, heavily implies, and then he moves a seat
over so that he's not sitting directly next to him,
because apparently sitting next to a guy is just like
fucking him.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Oh, he doesn't want to risk touching his hands again. Jeez.
So that was fun.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
That was the funniest part of this episode and the
most random, even if you had a dama pretending he
was talking to his dead ass wife. In the middle
of the ship. The itchy dick was more random than that.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
All right, anymore thoughts on this episode.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I just saw what the next episode's called. Maybe that's
why they had him scratching his dick so furiously. Okay, no,
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Astral Queen. Who was the standout character in the episode?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Astral Queen, did you have a standout character?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I don't want to pick anybody. Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I feel like you need to pick someone.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
No, I don't want to choose anybody. They should have
all stayed home. They should have just stayed in their
fucking houses and their little cubicles and stayed for the
fuck home, all of them. Fuck.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
No, I don't want to pick anybody, not even Athena
for catching them.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Maybe Athena for questioning too, being questioning queen. Okay, I'll
pick Athena.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Glad I talked to you.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Were you going to.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Pick maybe Apollo just for giving some good speeches.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
If it ain't broke, don't fix it? Or what did
he say, if you're going to steal, steal from the best,
because Kara told him he sounded like his dad.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, he gave that speech to the pilots, he gave
his dad a lecture.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
He wasn't flirting with Kara, and he kissed his wife.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, he proved he was the trustworthy guy that the
president thinks he is.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, not a cheating ass bastard.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
All right, Athena and Lee, you were in the main
part of this episode, but you saved saved it for us.
So that is the end of the main part of
our episodes episode. So if you don't want to be
in the spoilers, this is a time for you to
be ejected from that airlock. So Harsh, we will see
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you next time. For the episode Dirty Hands.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Featuring hot Dog. Now we know why they call them
hot Dog, Dick be Itchy.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
It's actually another episode that heavily features Chief and Cali,
Oh mostly Chief. Yeah, let's get our living stereo stylist
in this group.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Grace for impact spoilers ahead. If you haven't seen the
whole series, now is the time to say goodbye. Remember
you can contact us at spacingoucod at gmail dot com,
find us on Facebook and Twitter, share your thoughts and
be a part of the discussion. Spoilers. In five four
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three two.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
One, Chief survived because he's a fucking cylon.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, he doesn't have as severe of injuries.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, and I think Kelly gave hot Dog the itchy dick.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Maybe I was wondering, like, is that scene just there
to kind of set up that hot Dog sleeps around.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
A lot, he's a dirty boy, because.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
We do learn down the line that hot Dog is
the real father of Nicky.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Mickey is short for hot dog.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I should call him a little smoky.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Or corn doggie smoke because he's a little hot dog.
I can't, Okay, Beanie weenie, Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
So when we had all that talk about building the cabin,
which they the stuff on New Kaprica about building the cabin,
I believe was only in that extended cut that we watched,
although they did put it in the previously on of
this episode. But yeah, so, like they talk about building
that cabin a couple of times, and then in the
series finale when they're on Earth spoiler, Adama looks for
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a spot to build a cabin with Roslin despite her
almost being at the end of her life.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Also spoiler because we think she's out of the woods now,
but she's not. She is the prophesized one, and so
that means she's going to she's got to die. Yep,
that's what the prophecy says. But yeah, that's that's cute.
I like that he's, you know, always going to hold
a candle for her. All the women in his life die.
What's going on with that?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Well, his sex wife died because the planets were annihilated.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, and then his friend's wife died because she was murdered. Yeah,
and now this woman is dying because of a disease.
So he has he shouldn't be friends with women unless
you want to die. He survives, Thankfully, Kira doesn't do that.
He does not survive. I forget. I forget he does.
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Neither does see Adama is bad luck for women. Spoiler
all right, I'm done, Are we good?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah? I mean not much in this episode has any
meaning going forward. I guess, like, oh, well, I mean Apollo,
you know, he gets those law books and he goes
on the work on the trial with baltar So and
then that kind of becomes his career trajectory, like he's
not the cag anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah. I forgot to mention how good Adama looked in
his wedding photo. He looked Latino hispanic, couldn't hide it
in his youth. But yeah, his brown eyes make me
blue or no, his fake ass blue eyes make me Yeah,
that's what I meant. Brown eyes makes me Okay, never
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mind anyway.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Cool, Well, and that's the end. We're going to do
Dirty Hands next week, which is the episode. It's all
about the labor and workers' rights and the working conditions
on Galactica and Chief gets to be the union rep.
And it's a good episode, I think. So what I remember.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Compared to this one, I'm sure a lot of them are.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yeah, we'll see you next time, so say we all.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
So say we all, thank you for spacing out with
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will cover Battlestar Galacticas season three, episode sixteen, Dirty Hands.
We hope you will join us, So say we all.
Welcome to Spacing Out with BB and Jason this week
covering Battlestar Galactica Season three episode fifteen, A Day in
the Life.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm BB and I'm Jason, and this is spacing out
where we discuss a piece of film or television, in
this case Battlestar Galactica. And if you are new to
the show, we're going to have a spoiler section at
the end of the podcast. Otherwise we won't be spoiling
anything past this episode, which is Battlestar Galactica Season three,
episode fifteen, A Day in the Life. This aired on
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February eighteenth, two thousand and seven. Written by Mark Verheiden,
directed by Rod Hardy. The survivor count is forty one,
three hundred and ninety eight people, just three down from
last week, and this episode, on his wedding anniversary, Admiral
Adama reflects on the memory of his ex wife. Land
(01:00):
Chief terryl and Kelli are trapped in a depressurizing airlock
and have to be rescued by being ejected in the
space and Leadama gets into law school or something.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Vibe check did we like the episode overall? How does
it stand? The test of time.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Did we love this episode?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Love is a strong word.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It does not apply.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah. I don't have a lot of strong feelings about
this episode at all, not even like dislike, it's not
that strong to the point where I'm like, oh, this
is the worst episode. This episode was just mediocre.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's not like offensively bad. No, it's just there and
not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, it's just not good.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Which probably makes it my least favorite episode. Like, there's
a lot I would probably watch Black Market over this episode.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, that one at least had a little bit of
drama and intensity to it that was random and weird.
This one's just random and weird for a lot of
reasons that aren't good.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, I mean it's weird.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
There are some choices that they made with this episode
that I want to talk about later that really were
not working for me. But we'll get to it later.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Like I think the like the b story with Chief
and Calli is kind of interesting and intense for a
while in the middle of there, but like the beginning
of that is kind of just Cali being annoying and
been just like a dama wandering through the hallways having
conversations with himself. Is not that interesting, and there's like
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basically no chemistry between him and the actress playing his
ex wife. What I would have liked to have seen
more of if we're doing this like day in the
Life type of episode, is like more of what just
like a Dama does throughout the day.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, the old The only part about the day in
the life that was vaguely interesting was him trying to
remember that guy. Yeah, and he didn't interact with any
other people besides Tie that day, like that were military
on purpose, Like it wasn't. It was not a slice
of life typical day for Dama. It was a different
type of day because he had something on his mind
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and I want to talk about it later because this
is not the portion of the episode where we talk
about this, so I would rather just wait. But no,
I didn't like it. It's not my favorite episode and
I don't think it passes the vibe.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Check trivia time. What bacs could we uncover for a
Day in the life?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
All right? In the original aired version of the episode,
there is an added scene at the end that was
continued on sci fi dot Com because they were doing
that weird thing trying to drive people to the website.
In that scene, Data and d comment on how much
time the Admiral and the President's been together, and then
they'd break into laughter and they're interrupted by Colonel Tye,
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and then they continue laughing after he leaves.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh, they like the gossip together. I like their relationships.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Everybody knows. So in reality, humans have been exposed to
near vacuum conditions for up to thirty seconds without permanent injury.
Some sources state that survival is possible for up to
two minutes, but the injury the body sustains becomes severe
after approximately one minute of exposure, which is basically what
Admiral Dama said in the episode.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So that's like scientifically accurate.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Overall, the depiction of the vacuum exposure is very realistic.
The tyials get colder, but they don't freeze immediately. The
two survive the evacuation from the airlock with relatively light injuries.
The Chief suffers from joint pain afterwards and he moves
kind of slowly, and his wife has to be treated
for decompression sickness.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Which can also happen to diverse Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
In a close up, you can see that one of
Kelly's eyes is bloodshot, showing that some of the blood
vessels ruptured.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, that accuracy.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
The original script for this episode leaked online and it
featured flashbacks to the Adama's family life, in one of
which Lee points out to his father that he had
been born four months after their wedding, implaying that Adama
and Carolyn rushed in the marriage because of pregnancy. And
then Ronald D. Moore mentioned the idea of doing a
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day in a life style episode as early as season two.
It was somewhere in the commentary. I remember back in
season two he was talking about wanting to do an
episode like this, So it seems like a lot of
thought went into this that didn't execute very well. There's
a similar style of episode in Star Trek Next Generation
called Data's Day, which is where you follow the character
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Data around throughout his day and all the little things he.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Does, which was way more interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It was and now a part of trivia we call
Okay boomer.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Okay Boomer, let's look at any connection to the original
Battlestar Galactica series, updates on upcoming productions in any other news.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
One of the pieces of debris that's ejected from the
airlock is a robotic Daggate. So Daggetts in the original
series were a dog like animal and none of those
animals survived the destruction of the colonies. However, the character Boxy,
who was the child character, had a robotic version of
a Daggate throughout the series, so just a weird reference
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to that. That robotic Daggett got a lot of screen
time in that series. Then Apollo mentions his grandfather being
a lawyer and receives his law books. In the prequel
series Kaprica, Joseph Adama, his grandfather is the lead character
and a criminal defense lawyer, so that does get explored
in the prequel show.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
All right, Deep Space Dive, let's break down some of
our thoughts on the episode. You can share your thoughts
with us through email, Facebook, or Twitter. We may use
your comments on an upcoming episode.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Deep Dive in Space.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I just want to mention that I think that the
use of Adama talking to a blonde woman who's not
there is very reminiscent of what they did with Baltar
in a way, but it doesn't work with a Dama
because a Dama is not like weird spacey intellectual who
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has the opportunity to look foolish in public. And I
think that's where I this concept of him having this
memory speak to him falls really short, because he's not
this type of like I'm going to sit in the
middle of the room and pretend to hold a ball
now kind of guy.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, he's also very aware that like as opposed to
like Baltar, who like can't seem to help having these visions,
and it just is like I can't can't understand like
what's real and what's not, like a doma nosa, like
he's manufacturing these reliving these memories.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's why they're hard to swallow. They're not They don't
feel genuine in that way because it's like, oh, once
a year, I have hallucinations just like clockwork. It doesn't
feel realistic or authentic in any way for this character
to have this happen to him. If if it would
have been a dream sequence, I would have probably had
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a better time with it, where he had this elaborate
dream of him like being with his wife and hanging
out with his children, and then it gets ripped apart
and it's like turns into a nightmare, and then he
wakes up and then he has the memories of her
dogging him. Then it would have been a little more clear,
it would have been a little oh, okay, this is different.
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But they I don't think they set it up in
a way that was good. It was nice to see
him in a natural setting, like on that pond, Like
the visual effects were really nice. But it's just that
I don't believe it. This character, this character is supposed
to be strong, stable and safe, and the things that
are going through his mind right now are not stable.
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And it's just it's hard to believe that he's having
inner monologue that's also a white woman talking to him
like that. It's just it's weird, like he's hearing voices,
what's going on, Like it's it doesn't make any fucking sense,
and it's out of nowhere. And it would have been
cool if he did have different voices, like more variety,
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or if she did seem more unhinged in the beginning too,
like where she's really sweet and kind and then all
of a sudden she's like, you're just a fucking worthless
piece of shit and a deadbeat dad and all this shit,
and she really should have laid it on him, like
it would have been better if they did that sooner,
so that when they started talking about her mood swings
it wasn't like news because that felt like a cop
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out too, like, well she had mood swings, Dad, you
know it wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, I mean there's something interesting there. I just feel like,
cut cut her out of it. Let a dama like
talk to someone about like how he has these good
memories of his wife, and then let Lee come in
and be like more realistic about it, like, you know,
it wasn't all good. Things got really bad.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And I would have rather heard his voice a dama
in his head talking. I could. It would have been
fine if we had her there, but instead of her
talking to him and being the voice inside his head,
it would have been better if it was his own
voice saying, you know, I miss you, I love you.
We could have had something better, but I'm a bad man.
It would have maybe that would have been the part
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that like his inner monologue being himself more, that's more
impactful to me, and that's more realistic, and the voice
inside your head being yourself self saboteur of like and
then saying like if that was the wrong choice, would
that all of my other choices have been the same,
and all of those words would have been more impactful
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if they came from him. I think it was just
a weak choice to pick another person to be his voice,
and I hate it, I really did. Every time she spoke,
I'm like, this should have been his voice. It should
have been coming from him, because self talk is so
fucking real, like that shit is real, Like a lot
of people suffer from negative self talk, and it would
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have been so important to see this like high, powerful,
like person who has these negative thoughts about themselves and
how he combats that, especially on a day where he
feels the most weak and vulnerable. It could have been
way more special if it would have been him saying, oh, man, Adama,
you really screwed the pooch. You could have had a
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good life, a good wife and a good children. And
then like when he was witnessing Cali and Chief Tyrrell
almost dying, like hugging each other and all that he could,
there could have been more that would have been more ground,
saying like, oh man, you know this this family, I'm
tearing them apart, you know, because we're in this ship.
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I don't know it was I was just trashy. I
hated it, like they were trying to do something that
they've been doing again, but they executed it so poorly.
Because the character of a Dama doesn't feel as unstable
to have these like delusions. It works with Baltar because
he feels unstable as a character. Yeah, so it's just
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really hard to believe that Adama has this inner monologue
with this woman, especially how hyper masculine he is. It's
just it's so hard to believe that he has no offence.
But it doesn't seem like he cares about what women
have to say in a way that it's in his head.
If it was, it might be Laura talking to him
to reassure him. Or but I don't know this woman too.
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I've never seen her before. We barely talked about her,
so there's no build up for him to just feel
bad about her all of a sudden. It's weird, like
he doesn't make reference to her, he never talks about
her with anybody, and then all of a sudden he's like.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Oh, yeah, she's barely been mentioned on this show, like
they show us in the previously on like the one
time he asked about her when he first encounters Lee
in the mini series, and then I believe he mentioned
her on Kat's deathbed about how he wanted a daughter.
But yeah, like it's hard to like just shove her
in there and make me care about this relationship that
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we've kind of grown used to like just being something
in his past that's not that relevant in his life anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Right, And how many years have we been on Galactica
so far?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I mean they spent I think it was about a
year to get to New Caprica, and then they spent
about a year on New Caprica, so it's probably been
like two and a half years or something.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So why didn't we get this episode sooner? In terms
of like like we could have had this episode twice
where there's progress, Like why is this happening now? Like
it feels like, damn, it's been a long year. If
you're finally getting to this anniversary.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well because we skipped the year on the show, Well I.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Still do and appreciate it just coming out of nowhere,
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I don't like it. And what I would have liked
to like follow Adama through his day and.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Like see how he takes his coffee?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah, where does he eat lunch. What's he was he talking?
Was he talked to every day? Who's like we got
to see like that one guy bringing his coffee and like,
how does how does all this work?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And I didn't know it was one guy's job to
have that fancy ass tray of coffee. Where'd they get
that tray of coffee? Why doesn't it look like everybody
else's coffee. Laura Roslin wasn't drinking out of a fancy
tea set when she was drinking coffee. It was a
gray ass, boring ass mug. But Leah fucking Adama has
this like beautiful tea set. I don't know, it's weird,
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so I don't know. It would have been interesting to see,
like him not get woken up by Saul, but him
waking up on his own, doing his morning routine, getting
his coffee and then meeting with his generals, going to
his job, talking to the guys, checking on recruits and
all that, and then maybe like reading a book doing
what he does progress.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Reports, and even like the Chief and Cali storyline instead
of like setting that up with them, like you know,
getting ready in the morning, arguing about the baby and
going to work and stuff. Like if that just like
came up in the midst of a Dama's day, like
suddenly there's this emergency in the airlock he needs to
go to and we kind of get filled in on
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what's happened. Oh, I feel like there was potential in
this episode to do something different and interesting for this show.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Like it would have been like I feel like I've
seen a slice of life kind of episode in a
lot of shows, but this show has never done it
right and it still doesn't feel like they've done it.
This day in the Life sucked. I don't know, it
would have been really cool if they just stuck with
a Dama and not had this weird inner monologue with
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this weird character that we don't know. It was just
off putting and it felt inappropriate for this situation.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, and the I always listened to the commentary on
these episodes before we record about them, and that's something
that came up. Ronald Y Moore talks about how, like
the whole the concept just wasn't working, and so they
started to lean more and more on the BT story
with Chief and Kelly because that part was kind of working,
and so it just creates this messy episode.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, I don't know why they didn't cut out all
the bullshit with the wife. Literally, if they would have
just cut that and written a fucking boring ass day
for an administrator, it would have been more exciting. It
would have been for us as people who don't know
what the day to day on Galactica looks like. He
signed some papers and then what he walks around the
promenade pretending to hold his fucking ball. It was weird.
(16:46):
That's not what a normal day for Dama is. This
is not a normal day.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
So anyway, well, we start this episode and it's been
well over a month since they encountered any cylon, so
they're spending time working on repairs and maintenance and stuff.
Doama's dreaming about his wife? Talked about her enough. She
comments a lot on his activities and his relationship with
his son and with Laura Roslin, And later in the episode,
(17:13):
a Paulo reminisces with his father, he kind of tells
him about how the relationship wasn't perfect and how she
was kind of terrible, And I think I think they're
kind of implying that she had some sort of like
bipolar issue.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Don't they all fellas I mean, really, women are so
emotional with those fucking mood swings. They're all fucking crazy.
She could have just been an alcoholic true mood swings,
could just be drunk, you know what I mean? Maybe
she's an angry drunk because the way that they showed her,
like he was imagining her drinking and then smashing things,
(17:49):
that's a mood swing.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Possibly. I mean, they don't outright say it, So who
am I to diagnosed? Then President Roslin is hanging out
on Galactica.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
She apparently hits the gym, Yeah, which made her embarrassed.
I didn't understand that. She's like, I'm embarrassed to say,
but I'm going to the gym, Like why there's probably
one of the only few gyms in the fucking fleet.
So why wouldn't you want to go to the gym?
What's wrong with that? Are you out of shape? Or
you do you feel fat?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Is that it? Like?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Are you saying you're taking advantage of the ship somehow?
I like what Adama said. He's like, prepare yourself smells
like the inside of a dirty shoe. That was really good.
I thought he was gonna say something else, prepare yourself
to sweat because the heat's on or something.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I think she goes in there and like gets in
the boxing ring and gets all bloody and disgustic, and
that's why she's embarrassing. This is what I do with my.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Could you imagine her getting all bloody and sweaty in
the rain, her hair all stringy, coughing up blood. Oh
that makes me happy. That would have been an episode
I would have watched.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
A part of the reason that she's on Galactica, other
than to see her main man Adama, as she wants
to get Apollo involved in the legal research for Baltart's trial. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
They don't even know how to fucking try him because
they're not any one nation.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, and this was interesting to me, like they haven't
had to deal with this yet, Like there's no lawsuits
going on in these years they've been aboard.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I mean, they have fucking prisoners. Yeah, so under what
law are these prisoners being held? That's what I'm wondering about.
I feel like they did release prisoners in one episode though.
They were like, you can work off your time or
something like that. Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Uh? Yeah, And they released all the prisoners in the
prison ship.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
So astral Queen.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So I'm wondering, like, I'm sure there's crime, yeah, in
a society, So like under what laws is the crime
being committed? And how are they trying and put persecuting
all of these people who are quote unquote like guilty
of crimes if they haven't done anything like that.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
They're like, I don't know, Like this the idea of
like we need access to the laws and to figure
out how to try, and like seems to catch them
off guard.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You have been doing this. Why haven't you been doing this?
You're the fucking president and you've been the president for
quite some time now and you're finally deciding I don't
know what to do. Or maybe the way that they
do it is every ship has their own set of
laws that they're agreed to, kind of like how every
country has their own set of laws, and so if
you're on the ship and you do break that law,
(20:37):
you go to through their penal system and then you
end up in the Astral Queen that way, so like
you could be chewing bubble gum in one ship and
go to jail, or you could murder a man and
then go to jail, and they're on the same caliber
it's weird.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well, I don't think the Astral Queen is holding prisoners anymore,
Like they gave them that ship the run themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, So but.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, she's like, hey, how about that pilot son of yours.
He's got time to be a lawyer now, doesn't he.
And Rosin also talks about building that cabin that she
was talking about on New Kaprica.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Oh yeah, when she got silly. Yeah, I feel like
Adama was kind of forward when he was talking to her,
not as forward as he gets where he's like, you
were wearing that red dress and talkie, that's so forward
for him. She perked up at that because they were
really close to that episode. That's the closest we've seen them.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah. So, well, she wasn't the president then, she was
just civilian lady, a teacher, so he couldn't put up
this facade decorum. Later, Adama sends Lee all those law books,
basically tells them they get busy.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
And then on the beer side, we have Chief having
a day in the life.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yep. Chief just wants to spend some time with his
wife without that child crying.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh my god, that fucking baby crying. Wait, we want
to just turn off the episode. I wanted to quit
watching right then. I do not like babies crying. I
really don't. I don't have children of my own. I
don't need to experience other people's babies crying. It's not
my responsibility to hear that. Keep them cool, calm and sedated.
(22:13):
Whatever you need to do, just chill those babies out,
don't let them cry. Get him a pacifier. Why doesn't
that baby have a pacifier?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
He finally cooled him down, and she like put him
to bed, and then what the fuck does he do?
He gets him out of bed. I was like, what
is he doing? And apparently they were supposed to have
the day off, but other motherfuckers called off, and he's like, well,
I signed you and me up to go, you know,
cover for them. And I think that was very like
(22:41):
rude of him to assume that Cally wanted to cover
for some asshole who called out. I would not let
anybody call me in without my permission, even if he's
the boss and my husband. I don't give a fuck.
I'm sick too, motherfucker, I ain't going, how dare you?
I felt, for once in my life, I was like,
I feel bad for CALLI how dare he do this
to her? She could have had a day off, it
(23:03):
was her day off, and he calls her in. I'd
be like, fuck you, I'm not going. No no means
no no. I'm staying here with my crying ass baby,
and you can't make me go to work because it's
not my day to work. Call somebody else, Call anybody else.
Fucking be short a ban fuck it. I don't care.
I'm not going. It's my day off. I wish she
would have put up more of a fight, I really do.
(23:25):
She should have said that shit, like, who the fuck
do you think you are putting me up to work?
I don't care. If you're the boss, I don't care.
If you're my husband, you're not telling me to go
to work. And then he'll and then maybe he'll bring up,
oh it's time and a half or something, you'll get
paid double, and then she'll be like, Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Well I'll go. I'm not sure how their economy works.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I don't know why anyone does any job, or if
everyone's required to have a job.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
She could just be a stay at home mom and
quit her job and still live there with them. She
could be a civilian.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That's what I'm wondering, Like, is everyone in the fleet
required to have some sort of job or because like
there's a bunch of people on Galactica that just seem
like they're held in that room. I don't think they're
doing any work. So yeah, I don't know why anyone
does anything if there's no incentive.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
She could work at the daycare and see her son
every day. Like, what are you doing, Cally? If you
want to see your son, see your son, you could
work at the daycare and I'm sure you'd get paid
the same fucking wage, which is probably nothing room on board,
and you get to see your son every day, teach
one of those bitches at the daycare how to strip
a jag or whatever they said.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
So anyway, they go to work on a damaged airlock
and Callie complains.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
A lot, and they do it in front of that
other worker.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, in front of celis so awkward.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I felt so bad for her because she had a
I don't you know, And there's like a couple and
like they argue a lot and you're just kind of
standing there.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, it's so awkward.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It's so awkward. When I worked at the home depot,
I had to de escalate some of those because they
were talking about things like they were arguing about things
that were like about home goods or like construction things,
and I had to be like, hello, good afternoon, how
can I help you. Actually, she's correct, If you do
it that way, it would be much better and more economic.
(25:16):
And then the husband would get mad at me, but
listen to me, because I had an apron that said
the home Depot on it. But it was so awkward, like, yeah,
they were arguing like a couple at the home depot,
which is saying something. I was embarrassed. I don't know,
I was embarrassed. And then like they try to put
(25:37):
a fucking piece of duct tape on a welded piece
of metal to fix it, and it makes it worse somehow.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, well I think because it's damage, like them getting
in there and messing around is like causing it to
rupture more. Okay, Yeah, so like des even that to
figure out what's wrong and repair it. And the air
locked door seals automatically.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
If there's a change in pressure in the room.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, the override is broken. So you know they're comment
first and trying to patch it, but they quickly realize that, like, oh,
this is really bad.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It was funny when Kelly said, we're going to pull
the work, the work report, and we're going to figure
out who welded this so we could tear them a
new one. I thought that was really good because I
would do the same thing. I want to fucking figure
out who did this shitty ass welding.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I hope she does that when she.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Gets out of that decompression chamber, file a report against them.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
So this gets the attention of Adama and all the
higher ups and there and there trying to figure out
a rescue plan. The only thing that's viable is ejecting
them into the vacuum of space and catching them right.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And the scene is like has anyone ever done this before?
And they're like, don't worry about it, baby, just do it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
You're just playing catch with a really big glove.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I'm surprised that there's not a way to get in
any equipment into that room, like at all, like a
little like you know how at the bank they have
that drawer. I'm surprised they don't have one of those,
so they could get better masks or suits in there
for them, like how do you get your lunch? I
(27:13):
don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Well, they shouldn't ever be in this situation, like yeah,
like it seals automatically, but the override it like there's
Butsukadama says, like there's fail safes and backups, but just
happens to be like all of that is damaged because
of the damage the ship took.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, it's a shitty situation, but I still feel like
there should have been something where they're like, Okay, well
we're going to give you a spacesuit at least.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Nope, just throw them out the air lock.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah. Chief admits that he made Cali work with him
because he misses the life they used to have before.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
That's stupid ass, baby.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yep, they survived the rescue. They're in pretty rough shape.
Cali more than Chief.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, because she's littler. And we'll talk about spoilers later.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And then hot Dog has a rash and I Dick.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He Lo does a cool handshake with him, and then
after he tells him, he like wipes his hand up,
like that's gonna help. He's really scratching that dick though.
He's getting into that meat, like it's gonna be tenderized
for dinner. It's too much. I didn't understand it, and
they didn't do anything with it later. I hope this
(28:29):
comes into play somehow later. Hot Dog's itchy dick, we'll see.
I don't know why they talked about it. I don't
understand this minor character has an itchy rash on his dick.
Maybe it's like jock rot or whatever it's called. You
know what I'm talking about, when you have like a
it's like a fungal infection. It's almost like a used
infection for men.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Jock it shock it.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah, yeah, maybe that's what it is. So it's not
like an STI or something like that, but I like
to pretend it might be. An still implies it is. Yeah,
he does, heavily implies, and then he moves a seat
over so that he's not sitting directly next to him,
because apparently sitting next to a guy is just like
fucking him.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Oh, he doesn't want to risk touching his hands again. Jeez.
So that was fun.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
That was the funniest part of this episode and the
most random, even if you had a dama pretending he
was talking to his dead ass wife. In the middle
of the ship. The itchy dick was more random than that.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
All right, anymore thoughts on this episode.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I just saw what the next episode's called. Maybe that's
why they had him scratching his dick so furiously. Okay, no,
I'm done.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Astral Queen. Who was the standout character in the episode?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Astral Queen, did you have a standout character?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I don't want to pick anybody. Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I feel like you need to pick someone.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
No, I don't want to choose anybody. They should have
all stayed home. They should have just stayed in their
fucking houses and their little cubicles and stayed for the
fuck home, all of them. Fuck.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
No, I don't want to pick anybody, not even Athena
for catching them.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Maybe Athena for questioning too, being questioning queen. Okay, I'll
pick Athena.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Glad I talked to you.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Were you going to.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Pick maybe Apollo just for giving some good speeches.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
If it ain't broke, don't fix it? Or what did
he say, if you're going to steal, steal from the best,
because Kara told him he sounded like his dad.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, he gave that speech to the pilots, he gave
his dad a lecture.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
He wasn't flirting with Kara, and he kissed his wife.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, he proved he was the trustworthy guy that the
president thinks he is.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, not a cheating ass bastard.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
All right, Athena and Lee, you were in the main
part of this episode, but you saved saved it for us.
So that is the end of the main part of
our episodes episode. So if you don't want to be
in the spoilers, this is a time for you to
be ejected from that airlock. So Harsh, we will see
(31:18):
you next time. For the episode Dirty Hands.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Featuring hot Dog. Now we know why they call them
hot Dog, Dick be Itchy.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
It's actually another episode that heavily features Chief and Cali,
Oh mostly Chief. Yeah, let's get our living stereo stylist
in this group.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Grace for impact spoilers ahead. If you haven't seen the
whole series, now is the time to say goodbye. Remember
you can contact us at spacingoucod at gmail dot com,
find us on Facebook and Twitter, share your thoughts and
be a part of the discussion. Spoilers. In five four
(32:05):
three two.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
One, Chief survived because he's a fucking cylon.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, he doesn't have as severe of injuries.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, and I think Kelly gave hot Dog the itchy dick.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Maybe I was wondering, like, is that scene just there
to kind of set up that hot Dog sleeps around.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
A lot, he's a dirty boy, because.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
We do learn down the line that hot Dog is
the real father of Nicky.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Mickey is short for hot dog.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I should call him a little smoky.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Or corn doggie smoke because he's a little hot dog.
I can't, Okay, Beanie weenie, Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
So when we had all that talk about building the cabin,
which they the stuff on New Kaprica about building the cabin,
I believe was only in that extended cut that we watched,
although they did put it in the previously on of
this episode. But yeah, so, like they talk about building
that cabin a couple of times, and then in the
series finale when they're on Earth spoiler, Adama looks for
(33:27):
a spot to build a cabin with Roslin despite her
almost being at the end of her life.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Also spoiler because we think she's out of the woods now,
but she's not. She is the prophesized one, and so
that means she's going to she's got to die. Yep,
that's what the prophecy says. But yeah, that's that's cute.
I like that he's, you know, always going to hold
a candle for her. All the women in his life die.
What's going on with that?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Well, his sex wife died because the planets were annihilated.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, and then his friend's wife died because she was murdered. Yeah,
and now this woman is dying because of a disease.
So he has he shouldn't be friends with women unless
you want to die. He survives, Thankfully, Kira doesn't do that.
He does not survive. I forget. I forget he does.
(34:19):
Neither does see Adama is bad luck for women. Spoiler
all right, I'm done, Are we good?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yeah? I mean not much in this episode has any
meaning going forward. I guess, like, oh, well, I mean Apollo,
you know, he gets those law books and he goes
on the work on the trial with baltar So and
then that kind of becomes his career trajectory, like he's
not the cag anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah. I forgot to mention how good Adama looked in
his wedding photo. He looked Latino hispanic, couldn't hide it
in his youth. But yeah, his brown eyes make me
blue or no, his fake ass blue eyes make me Yeah,
that's what I meant. Brown eyes makes me Okay, never
(35:05):
mind anyway.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Cool, Well, and that's the end. We're going to do
Dirty Hands next week, which is the episode. It's all
about the labor and workers' rights and the working conditions
on Galactica and Chief gets to be the union rep.
And it's a good episode, I think. So what I remember.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Compared to this one, I'm sure a lot of them are.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yeah, we'll see you next time, so say we all.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
So say we all, thank you for spacing out with
Phoebe and Jason. You can help us out by subscribing
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will cover Battlestar Galacticas season three, episode sixteen, Dirty Hands.
We hope you will join us, So say we all.
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