I remember some of the buzz about the upcoming third season episode “Unfinished Business” was apprehensive. It was considered filler written from writer Michael Taylor. Fans feared it would be another “Black Market.”How wrong we all thankfully were. “Unfinished Business” remain one of the high points of the series.
The episode deals with the lasting scars of the colonists time on New Caprica. Some of the tensio is obvious--there were people who collaborated with the Cylons and those who fought against them. Other rifts were more personal, such as the one between Apollo and Starbuck.
The premise is the colonists have set up a series of boxing matches in accordance with military tradition in which rank is irrelevant. Anyone can get in the rig with anyone else ad settle their differences. Starbuck and Apollo fight because she broke his heart on New Caprica. He professed love for her one night. She got a quickie marriage to Anders in the morning in response. So Apollo rushed out and got married to Dee, even though he does not love her.
Te two look like they are going to kill each other as they fight to an exhausted standstill leaning on each other in the center of the ring in an inadvertent embrace, they whisper that they missed each other. Anders and Dee both realize the two are still in love. So do we.
It is a touching moment in a bittersweet way
