Salty Watch: Part 2
I have an exam in eleven and a half hours, so obviously I'm doing this. The caps are from episodes 1 - 10 of season 3 - Eye of Jupiter, not Rapture. If you don't know who Salty is, read Salty Watch #1 here. Okay, to start I've got two new Salty sightings from season 2:
1. I was determined to find him in Pegasus, because even though he hates leaving the rec room, I didn't think he'd miss this. I was right! It took awhile to find him, but here it is:
He is, of course, less than ten feet away from Starbuck. I should have known.
Just ignore the girl who looks like she's about to eat Stinger's brains. That's just alarming.
Here he is recruiting new triad players, and being much more social than those crazy emo kids on the bottom left with an invisible buffer between them and the crowd. Seriously, you two do not play well with others.
2. I never noticed him in this one before, but I think that's just because of the helmet:
2.17: The Captain's Hand
He's the co-pilot of the really listless guy who announces that "both raptor crews are dead... repeat, uh... all dead" like he's not quite sure where he is or why those other dudes have ketchup in their helmets. Anyway the most important questions here are obviously: Why is Salty on Pegasus?! And how the hell did someone get him into a raptor?
I have the following possible explanations:
1) After transferring to Pegasus to follow Starbuck, Salty found himself lost. There was no rec room on the ship (rumour says that Cain knocked the wall out between her quarters and the rec room to give herself more room for her guns), and he ended up, in a fit of confusion and distress, taking refuge in an empty raptor. When this guy came in, he assumed Salty was his co-pilot, handed him a helmet, and they were off.
2) In an attempt to make new friends on Pegasus, he befriended this guy, mostly because of the amazing stock of pot he kept hidden in his locker. Salty's stash of cheetos and various pretzel-like snacks helped.
3) Cain scared the shit out of him so he decided to do some work to avoid her death glare. He may be brave, but he's not stupid.
At first I thought maybe he had been smart enough not to go on the search & rescue mission, possibly in support of Starbuck, but then I watched the scene again, and as a nuke heads towards them, it shows this:
"I knew I should've stayed home today."
And yet he survives. Because he is invincible. Which leads us to season 3. I've already covered Collaborators, in which Salty makes his return, so next is Torn, which he is in a lot.
First we have this scene, where he very skillfully stalks Starbuck:
I bet he's managed to secure a rack in those quarters, just for the times when Starbuck's not hanging out in the rec room, trash talking and being grumpy. Speaking of which...
Here is Salty... not playing, and instead just watching from the sideline. This is kind of worrying, but at least he's got a chair close to Starbuck.
Salty gets his first speaking role! If you pay close attention, you can see him yelling "Chromedome!".
And then he gets head pats.
And then he looks really sad and disappointed while Starbuck and Tigh have a cranky bitch session.
Still, the most traumatic thing happens when Adama tells everyone to clear the room. That's... that's just not right. You can't really blame Salty for being worried, I mean, two out of maybe four or five times he's left the rec room, he's seen Doral get blown to pieces, or he got a nuke fired at him. It's much safer to just stick to the rec room.
It's okay, Salty. Just follow the crowd. You'll be fine.
The Passage!
Salty heroically joins in the mission to reach the algae planet. Either he's very noble or he's very hungry.
I think he probably regrets it now.
After looking at the various made-up pilots and callsigns on the board in the ready room (Ricky Richardson? I can't fathom how we've gone three seasons without meeting Ricky Richardson), I noticed Salty!
Sadly because we don't all have Veronica Mars' amazing, magical sharpen tool that can turn any blurred object into a name, it's hard to tell who's on the left of the board, or if Salty could possibly be any of those names. Still, we all know who he is.
This leads me to my prediction of the final five, half of which was formed by lemontart: Kat, Hot Dog, Chuckles, Salty, and that girl who goes "CHUCKLES BOUGHT IT!!" and then dies in Hand of God. No one suspects the minor recurring characters.
Speaking of Chuckles, I don't really believe he's really, uh... boughten... it. Recent evidence has been uncovered that suggests that he actually has found Earth, where he's joined a kickboxing club in Hawaii and developed a severe hatred of snakes. And probably flying.
Here we have the Chuckles we know from season 1 (pre-"buying it"):
NEWLY UNCOVERED EVIDENCE:
He has developed arms that are larger than Lee's. And lost the baseball cap. Probably for the best.
He uses amazing kung fu skills to grab snakes, and then... whip them. And they die. It's very impressive, but hard to capture in a photo.
He also carries typecasted former tv lead actresses on his back through aisles of snakes.
That is it for this half-season's Salty Watch. Let us all hope for many more Salty moments in the season to come.
1. I was determined to find him in Pegasus, because even though he hates leaving the rec room, I didn't think he'd miss this. I was right! It took awhile to find him, but here it is:
He is, of course, less than ten feet away from Starbuck. I should have known.
Just ignore the girl who looks like she's about to eat Stinger's brains. That's just alarming.
Here he is recruiting new triad players, and being much more social than those crazy emo kids on the bottom left with an invisible buffer between them and the crowd. Seriously, you two do not play well with others.
2. I never noticed him in this one before, but I think that's just because of the helmet:
2.17: The Captain's Hand
He's the co-pilot of the really listless guy who announces that "both raptor crews are dead... repeat, uh... all dead" like he's not quite sure where he is or why those other dudes have ketchup in their helmets. Anyway the most important questions here are obviously: Why is Salty on Pegasus?! And how the hell did someone get him into a raptor?
I have the following possible explanations:
1) After transferring to Pegasus to follow Starbuck, Salty found himself lost. There was no rec room on the ship (rumour says that Cain knocked the wall out between her quarters and the rec room to give herself more room for her guns), and he ended up, in a fit of confusion and distress, taking refuge in an empty raptor. When this guy came in, he assumed Salty was his co-pilot, handed him a helmet, and they were off.
2) In an attempt to make new friends on Pegasus, he befriended this guy, mostly because of the amazing stock of pot he kept hidden in his locker. Salty's stash of cheetos and various pretzel-like snacks helped.
3) Cain scared the shit out of him so he decided to do some work to avoid her death glare. He may be brave, but he's not stupid.
At first I thought maybe he had been smart enough not to go on the search & rescue mission, possibly in support of Starbuck, but then I watched the scene again, and as a nuke heads towards them, it shows this:
"I knew I should've stayed home today."
And yet he survives. Because he is invincible. Which leads us to season 3. I've already covered Collaborators, in which Salty makes his return, so next is Torn, which he is in a lot.
First we have this scene, where he very skillfully stalks Starbuck:
I bet he's managed to secure a rack in those quarters, just for the times when Starbuck's not hanging out in the rec room, trash talking and being grumpy. Speaking of which...
Here is Salty... not playing, and instead just watching from the sideline. This is kind of worrying, but at least he's got a chair close to Starbuck.
Salty gets his first speaking role! If you pay close attention, you can see him yelling "Chromedome!".
And then he gets head pats.
And then he looks really sad and disappointed while Starbuck and Tigh have a cranky bitch session.
Still, the most traumatic thing happens when Adama tells everyone to clear the room. That's... that's just not right. You can't really blame Salty for being worried, I mean, two out of maybe four or five times he's left the rec room, he's seen Doral get blown to pieces, or he got a nuke fired at him. It's much safer to just stick to the rec room.
It's okay, Salty. Just follow the crowd. You'll be fine.
The Passage!
Salty heroically joins in the mission to reach the algae planet. Either he's very noble or he's very hungry.
I think he probably regrets it now.
After looking at the various made-up pilots and callsigns on the board in the ready room (Ricky Richardson? I can't fathom how we've gone three seasons without meeting Ricky Richardson), I noticed Salty!
Sadly because we don't all have Veronica Mars' amazing, magical sharpen tool that can turn any blurred object into a name, it's hard to tell who's on the left of the board, or if Salty could possibly be any of those names. Still, we all know who he is.
This leads me to my prediction of the final five, half of which was formed by lemontart: Kat, Hot Dog, Chuckles, Salty, and that girl who goes "CHUCKLES BOUGHT IT!!" and then dies in Hand of God. No one suspects the minor recurring characters.
Speaking of Chuckles, I don't really believe he's really, uh... boughten... it. Recent evidence has been uncovered that suggests that he actually has found Earth, where he's joined a kickboxing club in Hawaii and developed a severe hatred of snakes. And probably flying.
Here we have the Chuckles we know from season 1 (pre-"buying it"):
NEWLY UNCOVERED EVIDENCE:
He has developed arms that are larger than Lee's. And lost the baseball cap. Probably for the best.
He uses amazing kung fu skills to grab snakes, and then... whip them. And they die. It's very impressive, but hard to capture in a photo.
He also carries typecasted former tv lead actresses on his back through aisles of snakes.
That is it for this half-season's Salty Watch. Let us all hope for many more Salty moments in the season to come.