Taking a Break from All Your Worries (28 Jan. 2007)

Baltar plays a game of cat and mouse with Adama and the President, thinking they will kill him once they've gotten out of him what they want to know. Lee deals with his feelings for Kara, while struggling to hang on to his marriage.

Director:

Edward James Olmos

Writers:

Ronald D. Moore (developed by), Michael Taylor,

Stars:

Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Edward James Olmos	...	Admiral William Adama
Mary McDonnell	...	President Laura Roslin
Katee Sackhoff	...	Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace
Jamie Bamber	...	Major Lee 'Apollo' Adama
James Callis	...	Dr. Gaius Baltar
Tricia Helfer	...	Number Six / Caprica
Grace Park	...	Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon (credit only)
Michael Hogan	...	Colonel Saul Tigh
Aaron Douglas	...	Chief Galen Tyrol
Alessandro Juliani	...	Lt. Felix Gaeta
Kandyse McClure	...	Lt. Anastasia Dualla
Michael Trucco	...	Samuel Anders
Donnelly Rhodes	...	Dr. Cottle
Kerry Norton	...	Medic Layne Ishay
Leah Cairns	...	Racetrack

Storyline

Gaius Baltar is in the brig on the Galactica and attempts suicide, but is unsuccessful. Unable to scare him into revealing his role in the Cylon invasion of the the Twelve Colonies or what he may have told them about Earth, the President authorizes the use of special drugs to get the information out of him. In the ensuing hallucinations, Baltar imagines himself in a body of water and he realizes he is not one of the Five . Starbuck and Apollo continue to agonize over their relationship but Dee tells Apollo that their marriage is over.

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Plot Keywords:

bar | drug | interrogation | psychotropic | suicide attempt | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Details

Release Date:

28 January 2007 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Vancouver Film Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

David Eick Productions, R&D TV

Did You Know?

Trivia

The episode title comes from the lyrics to the theme from Cheers.

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Quotes

Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Kara Thrace and her special destiny? That sounds like a bad cover band, Sam.

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Connections

References Cheers (1982)

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Soundtracks

"All That Remains"
(uncredited)
Words and Music by Bear McCreary
Performed by Raya Yarbrough

User Reviews

The Best Battlestar episode this season!

Ronald D Moore, take the hint. Edward James Olmos is a fantastic director. Comedy fans, however, don't expect another 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down'. Instead, prepare for a episode nearly as dark as Blade Runner.

Many episodes this season have been going at a snail pace. The past two episodes (The season 3.5 premiere and now this) are the best two episodes this season since Exodus, pt 2. Like the excellent episodes of the first season, many surprises and plot lines are packed into these episodes. Hopefully this will be a continuing trend, as Galactica has been going down in a spiral of poorly made self contained episodes since season 2.5. A prime example in season three is the Passage, where fans are suddenly sprung with the idea that 'yeah, we're out of rations!'. No warnings in previous episodes, no discussion that maybe this was coming. Nada. Just sprung like that. I know serials are tough, and expensive, but seriously, that's what we watch Galactica for: the writing. And sadly its been more and more inconsistent since season 2.5.

Anyway, to the episode at hand. Excellent. Nice plot twists, questions of morality, awesome directing by Olmos, and actors finally given a chance to really play their roles. This is easily the most important episode in a long time for Baltar, in that it again puts him in a position of true insecurity as we saw in season one.

The cinematography is beautiful and absolutely stunning, with depth which we have not truly seen since early episodes and the mini series. The beautiful blue CIC of the mini series has become a cramped, incandescent dump this season, and finally (albeit briefly) we have a nice shot of it from above.

The episode also makes you question Baltar's sanity. Is it all a dream? Are Roslin and Adama really subjecting him to this torture? This is what we have expected from Galactica for some time and not been given. Oh, it's wonderful! Lastly, we get to see the long corridor with pictures of the dead. That room bore so much importance in the first season and mini series, and we have scarcely seen it in the past two years.

Galactica fans, if this has not convinced you to 'stay the course' and bear the bad episodes and proclaim Galactica's producers and writers completely over the deep end, then I don't know what will.

So say we all!