Battlestar Galactica – Summer DVD Review – The Hub

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Battlestar Galactica
The Hub

#7 (Top 10 Happiest Episodes)
Season 4, Episode 11

Brittany – Associate Staff Writer
Brittany@thetwocentscorp.com

If ever there were an episode that had fierce acting from Mary McDonnell, well, let’s just say this one is absolutely close to perfection. Laura Roslin runs the gamut in ‘The Hub’ from nearly letting a man she hates bleed to death to being reunited with the man who can’t live without out her. But, she does cry so you know this isn’t the happiest episode of the series. Let’s see those top moments, shall we?

Happiest moment number 1: Laura finally tells Bill she loves him. After she’s held hostage on the baseship, Bill Adama goes to find his woman and when he does, she admits to him how she feels. In the prior episode, Adama admitted that he couldn’t live without her.

Happiest moment number 2: D’anna tells Laura that she’s a cylon. I know, it doesn’t sound funny but it is, especially when D’anna tells Laura she’s only kidding and Laura gives her the ‘okay, you got me’ smirk. It was a definite laugh out loud moment.

Happiest moment number 3: The Laura Roslin and Gaius Baltar comedy hour. The Hybrid on the baseship was jumping it all over space, and the two of them tried desperately to get her to stop. “Stop yelling!” “I’M NOT YELLING!” Honestly, something that has to be witnessed for the arrows of acting James Callis and Mary McDonnell are throwing at each other.

Happiest moment number 4: The exact moment the basestar jumps into view of Adama in his raptor. He won’t even take his eyes off of it as he buckles himself back into his seat. I wish we could have heard what was actually going through his head.

Happiest moment number 5: Have I mentioned at all that Adama is in a flight suit this entire time? Because if not, trust me. That alone made me happy for a week. I do love a man in uniform.

But you know we can’t have the happy without the sad, right?

Soul eating moment number 1: In a series of visions, Laura views her own death and what it does to those around her. In the final scene of her visions, she dies and a crying Adama tells her that she ‘can rest now’, then slips his wedding ring on her finger. I’m about to cry just thinking about it – trust me, it’s soul eating.

Soul eating moment number 2: Laura nearly lets Gaius die. After being wounded in an explosion, she helps him first, but under the influence of morpha, he finally admits that he colluded with the cylons. She recoils in horror, then after her last vision (see soul eating moment number one), she begs him to live.

Soul eating moment number 3: Helo is seduced by an Eight. Well, I guess it really sucks that they all look like his wife. Fans everywhere wonder: is it cheating if she has his wife’s memories and looks just like her?

Soul eating moment number 4: One of the Eights (the one giving him massages and being a creeper) trusts Helo, only to have him go against the plan the cylons made to let D’anna meet with them first. By order of Laura, Helo goes against the plan and delivers D’anna to the President, and the Eight realizes she’s just been played.

Soul eating moment number 5: This is probably less soul eating than ‘awww’, but one of the Centurions is killed just as we were realizing these machines can have human conversations on an intellectual level. One day I will have one and we will hold hands and it will threaten everyone I hate.

Did you like this episode or did you think the exchange at the end was over the top? Personally, I thought the entire thing was extremely well played. The relationship between Roslin and Adama started unfolding back during season two, and I definitely appreciated watching it progress. It wasn’t rushed; it was simply two people finally coming full circle. Love it? Hate it? Have moments of your own? Leave your Two Cents in the comments!