Gravedancing (19 Feb. 2010)

Daniel Graystone gives in to the demands of his company's public relations experts and decides to go on talk show to talk about what Zoe has done and atone somewhat for any responsibility ... See full summary »

Director:

Michael W. Watkins

Writers:

Remi Aubuchon (creator), Ronald D. Moore (creator),

Stars:

Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Eric Stoltz	...	Daniel Graystone
Esai Morales	...	Joseph Adama
Paula Malcomson	...	Amanda Graystone
Alessandra Torresani	...	Zoe Graystone
Magda Apanowicz	...	Lacy Rand
Sasha Roiz	...	Sam Adama
Brian Markinson	...	Jordan Durham
Polly Walker	...	Clarice Willow
Scott Porter	...	Nestor
Patton Oswalt	...	Baxter Sarno
Kendall Cross	...	Youngblood
Peter Wingfield	...	GDD Director Gara Singh
Luciana Carro	...	Priyah Magnus
Alex Arsenault	...	Philo
Karen Elizabeth Austin	...	Ruth (as Karen Austin)

Storyline

Daniel Graystone gives in to the demands of his company's public relations experts and decides to go on talk show to talk about what Zoe has done and atone somewhat for any responsibility he wears for the terrorist attack. The decision to do so doesn't sit well with wife Amanda who now feels she misspoke and that they shouldn't blame Zoe for what has happened. The public appearance doesn't start well but Daniel gets help from an unexpected source. The police continue to investigate the crime and manage to get a warrant to search Zoe's and other's lockers at her school. The agent also get a warrant to search the Graystones' house but find nothing there either. Joseph Adama meanwhile pursues his revenge and sends his brother Sam to balance the score before he has second thoughts.

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Plot Keywords:

public relations | team owner | episode starts with sex | group sex | foursome | 

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Details

Release Date:

19 February 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

David Eick Productions, Universal Cable Productions

Did You Know?

Trivia

When Philomon is choosing music (just before he dances with the Zoe cylon), a brief moment of the "Colonial Anthem" (the theme from Battlestar Galactica) is heard.

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Goofs

During the diagnostic/dance scene, Zoe is wearing a one-shouldered dress, hanging from the right shoulder. After the diagnostic is finished, a close-up of Zoe shows the strap is now on the left. As Zoe is actually a digital creation, the dress can appear on either shoulder at the will of the avatar, thereby allowing for this apparent discontinuity.

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Connections

References Battlestar Galactica (1978)

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Soundtracks

"I Am a Man"
(uncredited)
Written and Performed by Brendan McCreary

User Reviews

Weaker than the first two episodes.

The end of "The Reins of a Waterfall" seemed promisingly dark and intriguing, but how that is resolved in this episode seems to be a bit of a cop-out, in my humble opinion.

On the positive side, all the scenes between Daniel and Amanda Graystone are still brilliant. How often are human emotions written in such a way so that they actually appeal to ADULTS? The Graystone's are incredibly realistic grieving parents who's issues over their daughter's death ends to avoid clichés, which are so easy to fall into when dealing with such a subject. To the writers I say, bravo! Unfortunately, for me this episode is bogged down by a crazily overdrawn sequence in which the Graystone's appear on a late-night show with Patton Oswalt's host. If they had kept this scene short and to the plot essentials, it could have been a powerful, effective scene. But the turns this scene take stretch even the least skeptic's believability past the max, and some inevitable eye-rolling ensues. Eventually the sequence sets up Graystone's disowning of the holobands, which becomes important, but as for all the nonsense it takes to get there, I have no idea why the creators felt it was necessary.

The final scene is also disappointing, especially since the resolution doesn't seem to add anything to the characters or have a real reason. But we do get a sense of how Adama's grieving impulses and his perceived cultural obligations come into conflict with and eventually lose to his desire to be "Caprican," which I find interesting.

6 out of 10.