Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

This episode is very funny, but without sacrificing the high stakes that have already been established for humanity. I thought the writing, editing and camera direction for this episode was the best so far in the season, so I'm a bit surprised to see the negative user reviews for this one. Anyway, it is a change of tone from what the audience has come to expect so far, so it's not too shocking to see it didn't really work for everyone. This episode is also Edward James Olmos's directorial debut for the series, and it's musically unique, featuring an operatic piece with some absurd lyrics (in Italian).

Ellen Tigh is loathsome. The story on Cylon-controlled Caprica is not advancing. The suspicion of Commander Adama from President Roslin is contrived. It appears that Gauis is supposed to be comic relief in this episode, but his character isn't funny and neither is the actor.

It took me four times as long to watch this episode as the previous two episodes, because I kept pausing it and doing other things. Watching this episode was torture. Do yourself a favor and skip it; it is not essential to the overall storyline.

This episode just continues my hatred for president Roslin. They know the Cylons can look human, but they also know that there are specific and have repetitive looks to the Cylons that look human. Yet, somehow she suspects Adama of being a Cylon based upon the word of a Cylon who was lying, causing chaos with fleet and desperate. Adama has a long, public history that includes having two adult children that were in the military as well. The whole concept is just poor writing. My next issue is that Gauis tests Boomer and gets an answer in minutes in the last episode, but in this episode suddenly it takes 11 hours to do a test. Again, very sketchy writing. There's so much potential in this series, but it just seems to always come up just a bit short of its potential.

This over the top drama scene that makes little sense when they are looking like us. Horrible lines, acting and let's face it nobody would tolerate this behavior in a highly volatile situation. I hated these emotional roller-coaster dumb scenes. It is what made me not watch this series when it was on. Never mind the horrible excuse for a Loren Green replacement set against an incompetent president and then there's the whole woman Boomer thing that just ruined the show period. Sorry, even now it is silly stupid and one of those really bad ideas out of Hollywood. Totally should have kept with the traditional story style.

Edward James Olmos directs this episode and gives it some unexpected humour.

It is all due to Adama finding Ellen. Colonel Saul Tigh's wife who was thought to be dead.

It also adds to the paranoia on BSG. President Roslin has suspicions about Adama based on the information given to her by the human Cylon.

She wants Adama to be tested by Gaius as to whether he is a Cylon or not. Pretty soon everyone wants Ellen tested after her outrageous behaviour.

Kate Vernon gives a larger than life performance as the boozy floozy Ellen Tigh. It gives a different dimension to Colonel Tigh who is trying to beat the booze but is now off the wagon.