Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 Epi. 19: Daybreak, Part I

As usual, the episode recap will begin after the second blue header.

Questions Going Into Tonight’s Episode

1. What’s up with Tyrol? Is he cooling his heels in the brig?

2. How far will Boomer’s tears from last week go? How much longer will she continue to assist John?

3. How much longer does President Roslin have?

4. Will Anders be Anders again?

5. Will we get any answers to Starbucks origin? Gaius’ ability to project and see Head Six? How ’bout the Opera House? What up wit dat?

What questions do you have?

Tonight’s episode is THOs inducing!

Daybreak – Part One

Previously on Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck finds her dead body on Earth and Gaius snitches that to everyone. Anders is shot in the neck and now hooked up to Galactica’s main power grid. Hera wrote the notes to the song that led the fleet to Earth and switched on The Four. Boomer took Hera to Cavil. Galactica is falling apart and Adama orders that it be stripped down.

And now…

Wait. What’s this? We have credits with no episode teaser? And we get the episode without the five second quick preview accompanied by the drums that Jack likes to dance to? AND no commercial? Woohoo!

Caprica City before the fall looks a lot like a Sim City.

Adama is being ordered to do something he doesn’t want to. It’s just one hour out of his life. Suck it up.

Gaius and Caprica Six are riding in the back of a limo. He has on Dr. Seuss socks. This is soon after they’ve just met… they start to make out, and he doesn’t remember her name. Classy. Gaius gets a call and freaks out. He wants someone to “wait there” or he’ll sue them for abandonment. I thought, for a second, they were going to tell us Gaius has a child.

Laura Roslin just threw a baby shower for one of her sisters. She and the other sister drink champange. She looks really happy and young.

Starbuck is… cooking? Starbuck cooks? Anyway, someone rings the bell. It’s Lee! He has flowers. This can’t be a date. Ah, Zach is alive and cuter than I remember him from the season 1 flashback. This is the first time Lee meets Starbuck.

Gaius’ elderly Dad’s nurse is quitting because the Dad stabbed her with a steak knife. Gaius is mean to his Daddy. His Dad calls him out for putting on a fake, posh, accent. Gaius grew up on a farm. He smacks his Dad about with a newspaper. In Gaius’ defense, his father is a lippy old bastard.

Roslin gets a visit from the police. Her father and two sisters were killed in a car accident the night before by a drunk driver. DAYUM. She can’t catch a break. She starts to gather up stuff from the baby shower when she sees a pic of her with her father and sisters. She leaves the house in her nightgown and robe  and walks to a fountain. Some people have their feet in the water, but that’s not good enough for Roslin. She walks in and lets the fountain spray all over her.

Presently, Roslin is unconcious in the sick bay.

Lee is overseeing the stripping of Galactica. He assures a specialist (which would probably be Chief if anyone knew where he was) that the thruster-thingies that help launch the Vipers will be one of the last things to go.

Adama is packing up his quarters and according to the boxes, they will be moved to the Admiral Quarters aboard the rebel Cylon base ship. Oh, this I gotta see.

Paula is trying to convince Gaius that their group is larger than most left in the fleet and that they could have considerable political power. Head Six tells him that humanity’s last chpater is about to be written and he’ll be the author.

Back on Caprica, before the fall, Gaius arrives home with a little hoochie mama and finds Caprica Six in his living room. She has made herself at home with a drink. He’s about to call the cops when she tells him that she found his father a place to live. A really nice assisted living facility. She’s taken care of all the arrangements and his father seems really happy. She shares this news and leaves.

So, that’s how she hooked him.

On Galactica, Starbuck is watching Anders and pondering the notes to the song and some algebraic equations.

In the CIC, Tigh explains that Adama wants to fly the last Viper off of Galactica and a launch tube should be left intact for that. Hoshi wipes up coffee the whole time he talks. He needs a Shamwow!

Tyrol is in the brig! Helo meets with him and for some reason they’re arguing over whether or not all model 8s are like Boomer or different like Athena. Tyrol is just salty ’cause he got puh-layed and not laid.

At the Cylon colony, Hera is still drawing music notes, but no one knows that’s what they are. John, Boomer, a Simon, and a Doral dicuss the fact that Hera won’t eat and she’ll need her energy before they begin testing. Boomer says the girl just wants her Mommy, and John is all, “That’s too bad. We need to crack this nut and figure out what’s what.”

Simon fires up the drill as Hera has a, “Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” look on her face.

Adama runs into Hot Dog with Nicky in the halls of Galactica. He has pictures of pilots from the memorial wall. They don’t want to leave those pictures there with the unclaimed pictures. Adama goes to the wall and sees a picture of Athena and Hera before walking away. I guess someone assumes Hera is dead.

Adama stops a few feet away and goes back for the picture.

On the flight deck, Gaius is trying to convince Lee that his people deserve a voice in the government. Lee wants to know what Gaius was thinking when he outed Starbuck’s secret. Oh Jesus, Lee is such a pussy. Focus, fool. Focus. Not everything is about your precious Starbuck. Gaius tells him as much and he agrees to give Gaius five minutes of his precious time.

Meanwhile, Adama meets with Starbuck where Anders is being kept. Anders is going to have some serious raisin skin when this is all over. Just sayin’. Adama wants to know if Starbuck really came back from the dead. She admits that she found her body and burned it on Earth. Adama doesn’t looked phased. I suppose he has seen it all at this point. Adama wants to ask Anders some questions and asks Starbuck to plug him in. Before she can, he tells her that she’s his daughter.

No, she’s not. She’s Dreidle’s daughter and as soon as we learn who Dreidle is, it’s going to be awesome.

Back on Caprica, Anders is in a tub at a gym being interviewed. I’m sure he’s talking about Pyramid Ball, but he’s shirtless so all I hear is, “Blah, blah, blah, I’m hot!”

On Galactica, Anders is doing the hybrid mumbo-jumbo thing and Starbuck tells Adama to ask his question. Adama is all, “Nuh-uh, you ask him.”

Gaius meets with Lee and tells him that once Galactica is gone, a new way of life will begin and it requires a new way of thinking. Gaius thinks the thousands of people he represents deserve to be heard within the government. Lee says Gaius has never done one selfless thing and therefore, no. Gaius is all, “Fine, be like that.”

On Caprica, Lee comes home drunk and chases a pigeon. Yeah, I don’t know what that’s about either.

On Galactica’s flight deck, Adama and Starbuck place a line of red tape down the middle of the room. Adama tells those around that he knows they’ve heard a child was abducted from the ship.He thought a rescue mission was impractical, but he was wrong.

Elsewhere, Hot Dog tells some pilots that Adama didn’t tell him where he got the info, but since Starbuck was there, he assumes it came from Anders.

In the sick bay, the nurse tells Cottle that Adama knows where Hera is. Roslin overhears this and smiles.

Walking through the halls of Galactica, Ellen tells Tory that knowing where the Colony is doesn’t mean they know how they’re gonna get Hera out of it. Ellen tells Tory that all five of them will go with Adama. “Oh, so you’re making decisions for everyone now.” Ellen just smiles and tells Tory that she’ll go cause she never could be alone. Burn.

So, word spreads throughout the fleet that it’s a voluntary mission and you have to declare in person. Anyone over 15.

Helo tells Athena that they’re going after their baby, but Athena thinks that Hera is already been dissected like a fetal pig. She’s being a real Debbie Downer with puffy eyes.

On Caprica, Roslin eats sushi as she speaks on the phone. She says she’s not going to join Adar’s presidential campaign because she hates politics. She agrees to a blind date with someone called Sean Ellison. She says the name sounds familiar, and for some reason it sounds familiar to me too.

On the flight deck, Adama tells everyone that the mission is a one-way trip and if he doesn’t get enough people that can man Galactica, he’ll lead a Raptor assault with anyone that wants to roll.

Starbuck, Lee, Tigh, Ellen, Helo, and Hot Dog join him. Doc Cottle starts to, but Adama says the fleet cannot afford to lose their doctor so he gets a pass. His nurse goes. Caprica Six goes. Chief Tyrol (this show lets mofos out the brig like it ain’t no thang) grips up Tory and basically volunteers for her.

“You got something better to do?,” he asks. But his face said, “Girl, if you don’t bring your ass on…”

Gaius looks at Caprica Six and it seems he wants to go, he just can’t make his feet move. COME ON, Gaius!

Roslin hobbles across the line. Awww, I think I may cry. Ok, I’m not gonna front. I am crying!

Racetrack and Skulls go on a recon mission to the colony and discover it’s near a black hole which keeps the colony bound within it’s gravity well, while allowing it to maintain a stable orbit. There’s a lot of space debris surrounding it too. There’s one parking spot and it’s less than one click from the colony. The Cylons are bound to have every gun aimed at that one spot.

“Let’s get to work,” says Adama ’cause he’s the shit.

OK, my thoughts on tonight’s epi:

Loved it! Most people didn’t like Deadlock and Someone to Watch Over Me and I liked them. I’ve already seen tweeted complaints about this episode, and I think people are insane.

1. Even if the flashbacks don’t go anywhere, I think they lend a lot more to the origins, personalities, and characters of Roslin, Adama, Lee, Starbuck, and Caprica Six. People that may very well die in the final episode. Sure, this could have been done throughout the series, like Lost does, but I thought it worked in this episode. Who knows, maybe they’ll continue it next week. Lord knows they’ll have enough time.

2. No, there weren’t any revelations in this episode. And yes, that makes me a little nervous that they won’t get to all the questions next week, but that’s not a definite.

3. I thought it was a little too neat how Anders was able to communicate just well/long enough to tell them where the Colony was. How did he know?

4. I was disappointed that Gaius didn’t man up, but maybe he will next week.

Questions I’d Like To See Answered in Next Week’s Series Finale

1. Why did the 13th tribe of Cylons go to Earth when the other 12 tribes left and founded the colonies?

2. Who were the messengers that appeared to the Five when they were on Earth and warned them about the attacks?

3. Why did the Five model/name each of the 8 skinjobs the way they did?

4. Just to clarify then, after John decided to kill the Five and place them in the colonies, he “wiped” all the other Cylons so they wouldn’t remember them and think to ask about them? Also, if John had resurrection and the other models, then killed the five and put them with the colonies, why did it take so long for him to make his move?

5. Who set up the Temple to reveal the faces of the Five? Ellen says they used it as a road marker when making their way to the colonies to warn them.

6. Who is Starbuck’s Daddy and why did he teach her that song?

7. What is Starbuck? How was she able to come back from the dead?

8. What up with Daniel? Is he gone for good?

9. Who switched on The Four? What was going on with Ellen when they were switched on? Did she at least hear the music even though she was already aware of her Cylon nature?

10. Why does Roslin, Caprica, and Athena all have those Opera House visions?

11. Will Tory ever answer for killing annoying ass Cally?

12. Will Anders die a hybrid on Galactica? They better not do that!

13. What’s up with Gaius having a Head Six and Caprica Six having a Head Gaius?

14. Not really a question… but I sincerely hope that the series doesn’t end with the big battle that is gearing up. They cannot spend four episodes preparing us for this full human-Cylon integration aboard the rebel Cylon baseship, and not show us what life is going to be like with the military being run from the Cylon’s ship!

Also, I like to see reactions. I hope that once we get the answers, we’re allowed to see the characters deal with them, digest them, act on them, etc. Especially it’s a series finale and never coming back.

Ok, I’ll be back in the a.m. with more. Really sleepy now. Gonna watch the episode again till I fall out.

What did you think? What are your questions?

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Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 Epi. 18: Islanded in a Stream of Stars

As usual, tonight’s episode recap begins after the second blue header.

Questions Going Into Tonight’s Episode

1. How much of a beatdown will Tyrol get for his role in Boomer’s escape with Hera?

2. What’s up with Caprica Six? Is she still with Tigh?

3. Will we get anymore Starbuck revelations?

4. Just how damaged is Galactica after Boomer’s jump frakked her up?

5. Will Anders wake up? If so, will his Earth memories still be intact?

6. What’s John’s endgame?

7. Now that Hera is gone, will the shared visions of Athena, Roslin, and Caprica Six return? What do they mean?

8. Is Islanded a word?

Can you think of more questions? See you at the end of the hour…

Islanded in a Stream of Stars

Previously on Battlestar Galactica: Starbuck realizes that her father taught her the song that switched on the final four when she was a kid. Sam is shot and in a coma. Boomer returns to Galactica with Ellen, kidnaps Hera, and causes major damage to the already crumbling Galactica after she jumps away too close to the ship.

And now…

Hera is sitting on the strategy board pushing a model Galactica into a model of a Cylon base ship. Hmmm, sign of things to come?

A six argues with a human worker as they’re trying to repair the ship’s damage. An eight breaks it up.

There’s a close up of an eye blinking in a red room and the lights are flickering with each blink.

Ellen tells Adama, Lee, Starbuck, Tory, and Tigh that John Cavil probably took Hera to their colony. What colony? Oh, you know, the home planet they never bothered to mention till now. That one. Ellen thinks they need to go and find Hera. Lee doesn’t think it’s smart to jump Galactica’s broken down ass into the middle of a Cylon gangbang. With the miscarriage of Caprica Six’s baby, Hera is now more important than ever, Ellen counters. Starbuck agrees and tells Adama and Lee about the mysterious song and Hera’s part in it. Adama has had enough of destiny, fate, prophecies, etc. He even damns the Gods. He eventually agrees to send a Heavy Raider for a recon mission, but wants to keep Athena and Helo out of the loop.

Helo wants to know if Athena hates him. She doesn’t answer. You know she does!

Caprica Six and the President are both in the sick bay having that Opera House dream.

There’s a breach and several workers go flying out the airlock. A six saves a guy and gets spaced for her efforts. Could anyone tell if she was telling him to close the door, and then turning the wheel to lock it OR was she trying to get in? At first I thought she was asking for help, but after watching it two more times, I don’t know.

And we have credits…

61 people are dead, including 26 Cylons. Tigh and Adama discuss Sonya’s inquiry into Galactica’s transition to the Cylon base ship. “That’ll be the day,” Adama grumbles even as the ship farts and coughs around him.

At a fleet captains’ meeting, the captains are incredulous over the possibility of Adama and the military operating out of the Cylon base ship. Sonya tries to reassure them, but they ain’t having it. The captain of the Tylium ship reissues his complaints of the jacked up air on their ship. He wants dibs on Galactica’s CO2 and particulate scrubbers. Lee shoots him his best, “Have you bumped your head?,” look. Another captain wants the FTLs as his apparently are slow. Lee tells the vultures to settle down.

Starbuck sits in the bar listening to Gauis’ broadcast in which he claims to believe in angels because he sees them. Head Six looks on as Gauis speaks. Caprica Six is leaving with rations when Gaius rushes over to give his condolences. (Note: how odd to see Caprica Six is such a position. Such a reversal from the first episode when she snapped that baby’s neck.) He offers her a place to stay if she needs it and she tells Gaius she has no desire to join his harem. Oh, snap. He insists that isn’t what he meant. She tells him that he hasn’t changed, but she has. (I don’t know about the first part of that.)

In the sick bay, a dying eight wants to see Colonel Tigh. He holds her hand and she thanks him for the privlege of meeting her father before she dies. He just grumbles something about spending years trying to kill her kind. She says, “Too much confusion,” before dying. (Another line from the song.)

Boomer is jumping her way back to Cavil and Hera is showing her little ass. “I want my Mommy! I want my Mommy!” Even I want to see her spaced after awhile. Boomer threatens to dope her up again. Hera loses her shit. The Mom in me can barely watch. Boomer needs her ass kicked.

OK, where the hell is Tyrol?! Are we not even going to address his role in Boomer’s escape?

Tigh is searching his quarters for liquor and Ellen tells him they need to do more than send out a recon when their people’s existence is at stake. Tigh claims the people of Galactica are his people. She reminds him that he’s a Cylon even if he doesn’t remember it, and that he needs to remember what they were trying to achieve. She tells him that their children will die off one by one if they don’t act. He said he had a child and it died. Ellen tells him, “You’re wrong Saul. You had millions.”

Boomer tries to get Hera to eat, but she refuses. She doesn’t want to take food from the bad lady that kidnapped her and kept her in a trunk. ‘Magine that! Boomer projects herself into the house on Picon and Hera joins her. For some reason, Hera doesn’t mind eating the cupcake there. O-KAY.

Starbuck is on the toilet watching Gaius shave. She asks if he really believes in angels. He does. He sees them regularly.

“Regularity. Must be important when you’re full of it.”

Burn.

Starbuck gives Gaius her dog tags that she pulled off her dead body on Earth. She wants him to test them.

Note: I really didn’t like this episode, but it’s growing on me after more viewings.

Sam is hooked up to the data stream like a hybrid. Starbuck asks for time alone with him. (He’s the owner of the red blinking eye.) She remembers when she told him if she ever found out he was a Cylon, she’d put a bullet in his head. Turns out, she didn’t mean it. She only wants her Sam back.

Girl, your Sam is gone. The last time we saw him was when he was tossing a pyramid ball before the mutiny.

She goes to kill him… huh?!… and he grabs her arm and starts doing the hybrid mumbo-jumbo including, “You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace.”

Roslin and Adama chat while she’s in sick bay. She lights up a joint. And I wish I had one to dull the pain of this awful episode.

Gaius tests Starbuck’s dried blood on the dog tags.

After a bunch of techno-talk, an eight explains to Tigh that Sam could jump the ship if he wanted to, much like their hybrids. He orders Sam taken offline. The electricity stops flickering.

From the recon mission, Adama learns that Cavil moved the colony five months ago and they have no idea where he went. Lovely.

Boomer shows Hera the room her and Tyrol’s daughter lived in within the imaginary house. Hera jumps on the bed.

Seriously? This is how they use the time in the final episodes?

Helo talks to Adama who admits that they sent a Raider out to find the colony, but it was a bust. Helo wants to go alone and look for her. Adama tells him to let it go. Helo says Adama is the one that can’t let go ’cause he’s still trying to repair Galactica’s busted ass. Realizing he’s gone too far, Helo apologizes and asks for a Raptor again. Adama still ain’t havin’ it.

Funeral services are held for those that died in the latest explosion and breach. Ellen, Adama, and Gaius all speak before the bodies are put out the airlock. After the service, Gaius announces to everyone that death is not the end. He says there is one amongst them that has already crossed over and returned. He tells everyone about Starbuck finding her own deady body on Earth and the results of his test confirming that the blood on the dog tags came from dead flesh.

Starbuck slaps the taste out his mouth.

Why, exactly, is everyone so shocked? They know she blew up. They know she returned in a Viper whose signal lead them to Earth. THEY KNOW something ain’t right with her!

At the memory wall, Lee tells Starbuck he doesn’t care what she think she saw, he doesn’t care that he saw her Viper explode, he’s still her friend. Jesus, Lee is desperate. Starbuck returns her picture to the wall in between Kat and Dualla.

Boomer jumps to this kickass Cylon ship. It’s not a base ship, it’s like the thing that poops out a base ship.

She delivers Hera to John and Hera, once again, loses her shit, but this time ’cause she wants Boomer and not the creepy old man with caterpillar eyebrows. John tells Hera that soon she’ll have lots of new playmates. What’s THAT supposed to mean. Boomer cries. Don’t cry now, heifer!

Oh Lord, more shots of Adama staring at the walls of the ailing Galactica. He takes off his Admiral pins and marches to his jacked up bathroom. He starts smearing paint on the walls and has a bit of a breakdown.

You know, I defended the last two episodes when most people shat on them. I cannot defend this. This was worst than filler.

Starbuck sits with Sam and she says she’ll sit in the room with him until they figure out the pattern of the music notes. She plugs him back in.

Tigh arrives at Adama’s quarters. Adama tells him that they’re stopping all the repairs on the ship. He’s gonna have the crew start stripping the ship and packing up. The’re gonna abandon the ship. Tigh doesn’t like it. Adama tells him (and I love this) that Tigh never let him down and he can’t blame Tigh for what he is especially since that includes being the finest XO and friend he’s ever known. Galactica has never let him down either, and he wants to send her off in style. They toast to Galactica.

Questions

1. What up with Tyrol? Is he in the brig?

That’s really all I got since I’m so disappointed.

But, I will say this, if the series goes out with Anders being a damn mumbling hybrid-like vegetable, I will NOT be happy.

Check your local listings for Battlestar Galactica: The Last Frakkin’ Special. It airs between this Frida’s episode and the three-hour finale night.

Also, as always, you can find more BSG blogging every Tuesday at The TV Tyrant.

So, what did you think of this episode?

Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 Epi. 17: Someone to Watch Over Me

Tonight’s Recap will start after the second blue header.

Thoughts – Theories – Questions  Going Into Tonight’s Episode

1. It seems the other 12 colonies did know that the 13th were Cylons, because Tory said they created them. The original Cylons had some resurrection technology, but it fell out of use when they started to procreate naturally. Why were they not able to procreate now? Obviously, we see now they can with humans, and Tigh could with Caprica Six.

2. We still don’t know the circumstances under which the 13th tribe left Kobol for Earth and under which the 12 tribes left Kobol for their new home.

3. So, Earth being nuked was another Cylon civil war with the Centurions turning on the skinjobs, just like they would later turn on the humans. What are these signs that were shown to the five that no one else could see? Anders said they were warnings that they eventually figured out and it lead them to put the plan in place to have a ship to resurrect on. Who were these warnings from? They backtracked the 13th tribes steps to find the 12 colonies, but who set up the temple as a shrine to them and orchestrated D’Anna seeing their faces?

4. We know that Ellen did know she was a Cylon before the other four, but we still don’t know who or what activated the others. It’s apparent that John was hiding their existence from the other models and it wouldn’t have been in his best interest to activate them. In the time that Ellen spent with Boomer did she convince her to do it? Show her how to do it? OR, is it that one true God that set up D’Anna seeing them?

Epi. 17: Someone to Watch Over Me

Previously on Battlestar Galactica: Galactica is falling apart. Tyrol uses an organic resin from the Cylon base ship to fix the damage. Boomer brings Ellen back to the fleet and is thrown in jail for her efforts. Starbuck finds her dead body on Earth. She asks Leoben, “What am I?,” but he’s too freaked out to answer.

And now…

As someone plays a piano, Starbuck wakes up to start her day. When she goes into her locker, she sees her dead face. She showers and starts her duties as CAG. There are humans, and Cylon sixes and eights flying with them. Their mission, says Starbuck, is the same as it has been week after week; try to find a habitable planet. The first pilot to find one gets the last tube of Turon toothpaste in the whole universe. I’d put that thing on eBay.

(Oddly enough, there’s a commerical offering up the prop at the Galactica auctions.)

Some interesting things of note during Starbuck’s speech: It’s been weeks since they discovered the nuked Earth, their numbers are thinned due to the mutiny so some Raptor pilots are flying solo.Which is important and comes into play later.

When she says that Six has the color assignments, one six in the front row raises her hand – I guess to separate herself from the others. They need names and … hair bows! Yes, they need different colored hair bows to tell them heifers apart. Same with the Eights, but maybe they should have like… scarves.

Anyway…

Tyrol is telling Adama, Lee, and the President that they don’t have that many jumps left withput causing hull damage. Adama isn’t ready to give up on her just yet.

Lee congratulates a Six, Sonya, on her quorum election. (See! That’s what I’m talking about. Names!) She says that when they reconvene, they plan on asking for Sharon (Boomer) in order to try her for treason and if she’s convicted, she’ll be put to death. Tyrol is all, “What you talkin’ ’bout, Willis?!”

And we have credits…

Various shots throughout Galactica show the ship shaking and the power flickering as the work is being done.

In the sick bay, Cottle doesn’t know what to make of Anders’ condition. He boots Ellen, Tory, and an Eight out of the room when they start offering up Cylon theories about his brain rebooting. I imagine his brain looks like this…

Cottle tells Starbuck that if there’s a change, she’ll be the first to know.

In the bar, Starbuck starts picking on a pianist who is composing a song.

While working on the Galactica, Tyrol has flashbacks to being with Boomer before things went to shit. He remembers kicking her to the curb when they were both in the brig. He wonders how many people end up with who they really wanted to be with and how many settled.

Starbuck arrives at Athena and Helo’s quarters. Hera is drawing circles. Helo managed to retrieve all of Starbuck’s stuff that was auctioned off amongst the other pilots when they thought she was dead. She picks up a cassette of someone playing live music at the Opera House. (And I think it said Thrace Opera House, but I can’t be sure.) The name is Dreilide Thrace. How many of you hit Google to see the meaning of Dreilide and if it’s a form of Daniel? LOL

You didn’t? Well, let me help you out:

The name ‘Dreilide’ is German for ‘third eyelid’ and refers to the inner eyelid, regarded as the gateway to the soul and realms of higher consciousness. The third eye is often associated with visions, clairvoyance, precognition, and out-of-body experiences, and people who have allegedly developed the capacity to use their third eyes are sometimes known as seers.

The analog for Dreilide Thrace in the Original Series is Chameleon. Chameleons have a third eye called a parietal eye.

Hera gives Starbuck her paper of circles and Starbuck leaves with the cassette.

Tyrol visits Boomer. She tells him she thought New Caprica was the way to make amends for what she had done. He says that you can’t force people to love you at the tip of a gun. She tells him she thought about him everyday since dying in his arms when pasty-faced Cally killed her. He says he thought of her as well. Cally is now rolling over in her galactic grave. Tyrol and Boomer touch hands through the bars and she projects the home they planned to build on Picon.

He freaks out and breaks the connection. She apologizes, but he runs off.

At the bar, Starbuck tells the pianist she likes the song he’s composing. It’s getting better. She says it reminds her of someone chasing a car and he says it’s supposed to make you think of loss.

Across the bar, Tyrol wants the other Final Cylons to step in on Boomer’s behalf. Tory’s selfish ass keeps her mouth shut, Ellen says they have to let the process play out, and Tigh just drinks. Tyrol sarcastically thanks Tigh for his input and Ellen reminds Tyrol that Tigh just lost his child so leave him be. She jabs a finger at him too. For some reason, I really like that.

In the brig, Boomer admits to Tyrol that she has been going to their home in her mind for awhile. He agrees to let her project him there again. It’s a beautiful house and it makes me want to get up and clean mine. For real. Like, I want to go to Pier 1 Imports and buy some plants and stuff. Apparently, in projection world, they have a daughter and she’s up in her room. OK, this is way too sad for me.

At the bar, Starbuck helps the pianist compose more of his song. She talks about her father teaching her to play and this one song that made her feel happy and sad at the same time. We see her as a child, with her faceless Dad next to her on the piano bench. Is it Tigh? Daniel? Damn this show!!

Starbuck confesses to the pianist that she found her dead body on Earth.

Tyrol begs the President not to sign the extradition order, but she does anyway saying that Sharon is a danger in or out of the brig.  Tyrol leaves and he’s pissed.  In a very comical scene, Tyrol stages another black-out and knocks an Eight over the head with a wrench.

The pianist tells Starbuck that he left his family when the wife pressured him to stop playing music and get a real job.  Starbuck accuses him of being just like her father; abandoning a family with no thought of how it affected the kid.

Chief goes the brig to restore power and the guards leave to check the locks while he does. When he leaves, the knocked out Eight is in Boomer’s place, and Boomer is prancing around the halls of Galactica.

The pianist tries to convince Starbuck to play the song her father taught her after she admits she never played the piano again after he left.  She begins to play.

Athena is in the washroom when Boomer comes in and attacks her.

Helo comes into the washroom just as Boomer is washing the blood from her hands. He thinks it’s Athena!

At the bar, Tigh tells Tory and Ellen that he saw his baby’s body and that his eyes were open. He wasn’t ready for that. And I wasn’t either! Sad.

Helo has sex with Boomer, thinking it’s Athena, as the real Athena watches from the locker Boomer put her in. That’s just wrong.

Starbuck tries to play the song, but something is missing. The pianist starts to draw notes when she remembers the drawing Hera gave her. The circles line up on the music sheet and the pianist adds them. They begin to play.

Boomer, as Athena, takes Hera out of day care and makes her drink some water.

Starbuck and the pianist continue to play and Tigh, Tory, and Ellen take notice.

Tyrol helps Boomer load a crate onto a Raptor. She put that baby in a box?!

Starbuck and the pianist really get into the song. It’s “All Along the Watchtower” song that awakened the Four.

“What the frak?!,” says Tigh.

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!

Every week it gives me goosebumps!

The pianist smiles at Starbuck and touches her like her Daddy used to. Not in an inappropriate way, but you know.

Tigh wants to know who taught her to play the song and she says her Dad. The pianist is gone.

Boomer begs Tyrol to go with her, but he refuses saying they’ll meet again. He has no idea she got that baby gripped up in a crate.

Helo is instructing in the CAG when Athena comes stumbling in bloody and in her underwear. She tells him that it was Boomer in the locker room and asks about Hera. He orders Six to get a medic and alert everyone that Boomer is out and she has Hera. Athena hugs him, screams, and starts pounding on his back. YOU KNOW, she’s just thinking, “I don’t care if we look exactly alike, you should have known it wasn’t me!”

Boomer is wondering why her flight path hasn’t been cleared, and the CIC gives her some bogus excuse.  She doesn’t buy it and fires up the raptor. Adama tells her that she will be fired upon if she launches and she says, “Not with Hera on board you won’t.” Foiled again! Adama orders the flight pods retracted.

Meanwhile, President Roslin is all sweaty (she’s been a shaking hot ass mess all episode) in Adama’s office and can feel that something is wrong.

Boomer spools up the FTL drive and Tigh notes that if she jumps from within the ship, the spacial disruption can tear Galactica’s guts out. Nice. Adama orders the flight pods retracted any damn way. PIMP.

Boomer makes a rush to leave as the pods retract. She makes it through, but not without damage to her ship. Hot Dog is watching from his Viper and says, “Don’t do it. Don’t do it. Don’t do it.”

Boomer does it. She jumps away and it fraks Galactica up! President Roslin can feel Hera’s loss, says her name, and then falls to the floor unconcious. A soldier takes her pulse and calls for help.

On the flight deck, Tyrol is giving orders as everyone rushes to deal with the damage. Athena and Helo are above deck yelling at a flight crew member asking how Hera could have been snuck off the ship. A nearby crew member fills Tyrol in on what happened with Hera. He’s devastated.

In the day care center, Tigh and Ellen discuss what happened. Ellen realizes that her escape must have been a part of the plan to get Boomer there so she could steal Hera. Tigh wants to know how a 3-year old girl could have spontaneously written down the song and Ellen says she must be plugged into something that is manipulating all of them.

She plugged into Starbuck’s Daddy, Daniel! Or the One True God! AGGH! Questions!

Ellen wonders if Anders could help and Tigh says, “If he ever wakes up.”

Starbuck rests with Anders as her Dad’s music plays. His picture on the flier for the live performance shows him with long blond hair. And it doesn’t say Thrace Opera House, but Helice Opera House.

All I know is that her Dad looks like Jay from Jay and Silent Bob.

Tyrol projects himself into his home with Boomer and finds her and their daughter gone. He cries.

And it just might be the saddest shit I’ve ever seen.

Questions Answered and New Ones Posed

So, I was right in that “it will all happen again” also refers to the fact that there are once again 12 colonies of humans and 1 colony of Cylons. We know they have representation on the Quorum.

Cavil has been craftier and more deadly than I thought. He gave up Ellen to gain Hera. Now, Liam dying is not just sad, but critical.

Boomer has been a bad, bad, girl.

Tyrol is in big, big, trouble.

Will they try what the Eight suggested, and put Anders in the goo and hook him up the Cylon mainframe like a hybrid.

And I’m not gonna lie and say that I saw the double cross coming, but I did pause and wonder why the Centurion didn’t lose his shit when Boomer and Ellen got aboard that Raptor.

What did you guys think?

Remember, you can get more BSG blogging over at The TV Tryant every Tuesday.

Battlestar Galactica – Season 4.5 Epi 16: Deadlock

First off, a special shout out to Gus and his Tampa peeps who will hopefully be reading this tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for your kind e-mail the other day. It came during one of those self-doubting times us neurotic writers seem to have all too frequently.

Secondly, I’m so excited for tonight’s episode. I’m a sweaty, geeked-up and giddy mess. Don’t judge me!

As with last week, the recap starts after the second blue header.

Thoughts – Predictions – Questions – Theories Going Into Tonight’s Episode

1. Humans on Kobol created original skinjobs who went to Earth and eventually procreated like humans. Why can’t the skinjobs created by the Five (refuse to call them Final since they were first) reproduce with each other? Did the Five create them with that drawback? Did they just not evolve enough yet? We know the females can get pregnant by both humans (Helo, with his fine ass) and a Five Cylon (Tigh, with his gruff, sexy self), so what’s with the juice of the Dorals, Cavils, Simons, and Leobens? Was that nasty? Yeah, I think it was. Sorry.

2. So, we know that they stole the power of resurrection and creating life from the Kobol Gods and therefore got the boot. Why did the Cylons decide to go to Earth while the humans went another way? Again, how did they even know to call it Earth? It would seem that they had some contact with the 12 colonies because how would the humans even know they made it and called the place Earth!? I may be getting deeper than the show intends to go with that one.

3. Who are these messengers that appeared to the Five on Earth that no one else could see? Does this tie-in to the Head Six that only Gaius could see, and in turn, the Head Gaius that only Caprica Six could see?

4. The Five retraced their ancestors’ steps to find the 12 colonies. They stopped at the Temple of Hope, but Ellen claims they did not set up any “parlor trick” that would allow D’Anna to see their images there. So, who did?

5. We know that John was created first in Ellen’s father’s image and named after him. Will we find out why the other models were fashioned/named as they are? Does Six have a frakkin’ name?! What if it’s something really pedestrian like, Ethel? How funny would that be? She was named after Tigh’s grandmother! LOL OK, I’ll stop now.

6. I still defy anyone to tell me the show provided proof that Gaius’ Cylon-detector test didn’t work. Again, we’ve only seen evidence that it did (Boomer.) Maybe it doesn’t work on Fives because of their origins, but it worked at some point on the skinjobs we knew.

7. Who the hell set off the music that “woke up” Tigh, Tyrol, Anders and Tory? Did Ellen hear it too?

8. I know that the writers didn’t intend to make a big deal out of the Final Five until the point in season three where they realized they were going to have Gaius living aboard a Cylon base ship and only seeing the same 7 models, but how fortunate for them that they had already placed Cavil (John) in such strategic places! He was with Anders’ resistance group on Cylon-occupied Caprica, he counseled Tyrol when he suspected he might be a Cylon (which is extra frakked up since we know now that he planted Tyrol with memories of having a priest father and Oracle mother), he frakked Ellen and tortured Tigh on New Caprica.

9. I still think Starbuck is a Cylon-Human hybrid. Her Mom was military and could have easily encountered Tigh back in the day, or someone else. Her drawings as a kid? Same behavior as Hera. The apparent resurrection… but I have no answer for her brand spanking-new Viper when she returned.

10. What up with Roslin and her visions and the Opera House?

11. How did Boomer know where to find the fleet after escaping with Ellen and where the frak did she get a Raptor?

Do you have questions that I didn’t think of? Will any of these questions get answered tonight? We’re about to find out in about 24 minutes!

Deadlock

Previously on Battlestar Galactica: Galactica is falling apart at the seams, literally. Caprica Six is convinced love is what help conceived her and Saul Tigh’s baby. Before going into surgery, Anders warns Tigh to stay with the fleet. Ellen resurrected 18 months ago aboard a Cylon base ship and escapes with Boomer’s help.

And now…

Various Sixes and Eights work on Galactica alongside humans. Adama shows up and asks Tyrol if he can touch the goo they’re using to fix the ship. Tyrol explains that it hardens like cartilage and becomes really strong and flexible. Adama sticks his hand in it, and then asks if it’s alive. I’m thinking that’s something you should have asked before you touched it!

In the bowels of Galactica, people are so desperate for food they’re eating rodent pellets. OK,  I’m sure that’s not what it is, but it sure looks like it!  Caprica Six is there with a hooded shawl-like thing on like that will disguise her tall, blonde, ass.

Some ruffians, yes I called them ruffians, approach her. “Hey, Cylon.” She tells them they don’t want none of this, but they don’t listen. They insist they do. And she gives them some in the form of smacks and kicks. Looky-loos are like, “You just got your ass beat by a pregnant Cylon, son.”

Doc Cottle is checking Caprica’s baby and insists he’s fine. Tigh wants Caprica to stay in the hospital for the night, but she says she’ll be fine at home. She and the baby, Liam, are fine.

At CIC,  unidentified Raptor is picked up on Dradis. It was reported missing a year ago. So, now we know how Boomer got it – she jacked their ride!  Vipers and a heavy Raider are deployed to investigate. The Cylons confirm that there’s an Eight on board. Adama orders it brought in.

Everyone rushes to see who their visitor is. I guess it’s a slow day on Galactica. It’s Ellen. “How many dead chicks are out there?,” Hot Dog wants to know.  Tyrol approaches Boomer and gets all up in her grill. They’re practically sniffing each other like animals. It’s kinda hot!

“Nice to see you again,” he says. Awwww. Is this the first time they’ve been face-to-face since his bloated, pale face wife, Cally killed her? I think it is. She was aboard Galactica before when she, D’Anna, and Cavil wanted to make a deal concerning the Eye of Jupiter, but Athena called her out and she had to wait in the hall. That’s when she told Athena that Hera was alive and aboard the Cylon base ship.

Anyway, Chief calls her out and Adama orders her taken to the brig. They will throw a mofo in the brig in a second. Adama does not play.

Tigh shows up and can’t believe his eye! He and Ellen hug and kiss hello.

And we have credits….

While we watch credits, can I just say that my Chinese food tonight arrived ten minutes before show time? How perfect was that? And for some reason, no matter how long it takes to arrive, the Chinese food always arrives pipin’ hot! How do they do it? Ancient Chinese secret, I suppose.

Ellen fills in Tigh, Lee, Roslin and Adama on John’s plan. She explains that John wants them to rebuild resurrection because he can’t be bothered with biological trial and error and evolution and all the rest. She can tell they’re all taken aback by her fancy talk. They’re not used to her not slurring her words and stuff. To make them feel at ease she asks for a drink and Adama produces a flask from his hip. Hey, don’t judge him! It’s been a rough few days!

Ellen wants to see the other Five. She asks them to imagine what it would be like if instead of 50,000 survivors, there were only five. Imagine how close they’d be, and then to have it all torn away by John’s evil ass. Tigh tells her not to worry, that it’s all over now. Um, no it ain’t! John is still out there!

She wants to know how much he remembers and he says not much, just flashes. Lee chooses THAT moment to jump in and tell her about Anders. Information cockblocker! I hate Lee. He’s so annoying. Why did he pick that moment when we could have gotten some more Five info? Ellen insists again that she wants to see the others. Adama tells her they’ll see.

Everyone leaves her and Tigh alone and they get busy on the table. He sees her as Caprica Six before they do the do. Classy.

Meanwhile, Caprica is having tummy pains in her quarters.

Gaius returns to his Nymph Squad of Crazy Ass Followers. (NSCAF) They’re all happy to see him except one girl I’ve never seen before. Her name is Pauls. She appears to have been the leader while he was gone. Paula explains that anytime they got supplies, men would come and take them away. Now they have weapons and can protect their food and themselves.  Gaius claims he stayed away just so they could discover how strong they are. Paula ain’t having it. Head Six appears and tells Gaius that Paula’s gonna be a problem.

In the afterglow, Ellen wants to know who Tigh has frakked while she was gone. She insists she’s not mad because he thought she was dead. Dude, don’t answer it! It’s a classic woman trap! “Just tell the truth and I won’t be mad!”

He tells her he’s been frakking Caprica Six, but he thought of her every time. Ellen is not impressed to find she’s been his mental porn. She’s all on her high horse saying they made Caprica Six! Pot, meet kettle, thy name is Ellen Tigh. Conveniently, she’s forgotten that she was doing The Swirl with Cavil who looks like her Daddy, but she treats him like a son. Ick!

Adama looks at the repairs being done to Galactica.

A Six, an Eight, Tyrol, and Tory sit by Anders’ bedside. Doc Cottle is like, “It sure is crowded in here.” He is always so crotchety! Ellen shows up and strokes on Tory’s and Tyrol’s faces. She is sad to see Anders hurt. The Six tells her that they’ve been talking about taking the Cylon base ship and jumping away. They don’t feel safe in the fleet.

Ellen says it won’t work. That Hera is the hope of a blended future. (I guess John filled her in on Hera) Tory tells her that used to be true, but Caprica Six’s baby is pure Cylon and now, they can all go off and frak their hearts out to make more Cylon babies.

I see a problem with this. Unless I’m mistaken, the only male skinjobs on their side are Leobens. And according to Caprica, they’re shooting blanks. So, does Tory think that she, the Sixes, the Eights, and Ellen will be frakkin’ Anders, Tyrol, and Tigh to repopulate the race? I think that’s asking a lot of Tigh, Tyrol, and Anders. Just sayin’.

They think that they can live indefinitely on the Cylon base ship even if they don’t find a planet to colonize and they can take better care of Anders. I don’t think Ellen heard anything after, “Caprica Six’s unborn baby…”

“Caprica Six… is pregnant?”

And Tigh stares at Tory for a good five seconds before finally reacting to Ellen’s question. In those five seconds, you can totally read in his one good eye, “Thanks a lot, big mouth!”

Ellen is disgusted. “You are our children!” Tigh is stammering that he didn’t know, and that it was a surprise… as if that makes her any less pregnant or that he frakked her less. Men.

Tyrol is all, “Um, this is nice, but can we save this for Maury Povich? Are we up outta here or not?”

I loves me some Chief Tyrol!

Tigh says they are not going anywhere. They can’t abandon the fleet. They need to listen to what Anders said. Ellen is going on and on how even after her death, Tigh can’t stop poisoning her.
The Eight, Six, and Tyrol and Tory look on helplessly. “Mommy and Daddy please stop fighting!” Any minute I expect the Eight to go to her happy place.

Tigh says Ellen can go, but he’s staying. Six says they won’t leave without only some of the five. It’s all or nothing. Eight tells them to vote and majority rules. It’s the way Cylons roll and they got it from The Five.

Tyrol votes to go, which surprises the hell outta me. Tory votes to go ’cause she’s a bitch like that. Tyrol says they know Anders would want to stay and Tigh has already made known how he feels. It’s two against two. She looks to Ellen, but she’s going on about how all those years she and Tigh couldn’t get pregnant must mean that he didn’t really love her. I forgot, Cylons believe that conception is only possible with love. Those crazy kids! Ellen refuses to cast her deciding vote and storms out.

Down in the bowels of the ship, Gaius’ followers show him how they don’t need to hide themselves anymore. They’ve been trading the jewelry they make for food. Um, if people are starving why the frak would they trade their hamster pellets for some homemade bracelets? But, whatever. Gaius comes across a pretty girl with a cute son named Gaius. Little Gaius is starving and Gaius proclaims for all to hear that he’s gonna come back and feed everyone if it’s the last thing he does. Paula does not look pleased.

Roslin approaches Caprica in the hallway and congratulates her on the baby and apologizes to her for the attack in Dogsville (?) So, the bowels have a name! As they walk through the halls people stare like, “Well, ain’t that a bitch. Three years on the run from the bastards and now they’re all chummy chummy.”

Roslin and Caprica agree that they haven’t had visions since Caprica’s been pregnant. Roslin wants to know if that means Liam is important. And Caprica is all, “Heifer, he’s important no matter what! He’s my baby!” Roslin is properly put in her place.

Starbuck’s at the bar and wonders when the bartender got a piano in the joint. He doesn’t answer. Rude. Tyrol shows up for a drink and Starbuck asks if he’s gone to see Boomer yet. No. Well, she says, you should go watch her while she sleeps. It’s what I do with Anders and it’s not at all creepy. Tyrol takes the whole bottle and leaves. You know, I’m not sure I like a bar on Galactica. I miss the days of everyone drinking in their quarters to hide their dependency and depression. This all out in the open business is for the birds. Galactica is going to shit.

Speaking of which, we get yet another scene of Adama staring at the busted seams of Galactica and the Cylon goo doing its thing.

Ellen shows up at Tigh’s quarters to see Caprica. She wants to talk and she wants booze. Ah, this is the Ellen I remember. When I watched last week’s episode with commentary (podcast) from R. Moore, he said, “She’s still the same Ellen. She still likes to smoke, drink, and fuck.” He wasn’t lying! Anyway…

Ellen makes sure that Caprica knows she and Tigh had sex. She also tells her that when they were trying to have a baby, Tigh liked the name Liam. Damn, she plays dirty! Ellen tells Caprica that if Simon knew about the baby, he’d want it. And Caprica is all, “Let his ass try.”

Ellen insists she won’t make Tigh choose. He loves Caprica and there’s not much he loves more. For some reason, I can’t help but think Ellen is about to snap Caprica’s neck. But she doesn’t. She just leaves.

Gaius is in Dogsville (?) handing out food when some… more ruffians show up to take the food. They have big guns so they get their way.

Ok, where the frak is Adama?! How is this allowed aboard the ship?

Ah, there’s Adama. He’s getting to’ up from the flo’ up with Tigh in his quarters. They are drunk off their asses. Adama asks Tigh if he was born. Tigh says he was. Born on Earth, but he doesn’t remember it. And even if he did, he wouldn’t ’cause no one remembers being born. Duh.

Adama talks about the Galactica not being the same once the goo takes hold, but he know they need the Cylons’ help. Hey, I just thought of something. Last week, when Adama found out about the structural damage, Tyrol told him that the engineers cut corners; a nod to the fact that they were under a budget when making the mini-series and joked about cutting corners. This lead to them cutting the corners off all paper products in the show as an inside joke. OK, back to tonight… Adama says that Lee and Roslin don’t think he sees it, but he does. They are becoming integrated with the Cylons.

Gaius is railing against Paula for not telling him that the Sons of Aires were involved in the stealing of food. So, the ruffians have a name too! Now there are organized gangs running around Galactica? What the frak?

Head Six asks Gaius if he really wanted to feed those people, and he admits that he enjoyed it. The more he did it, the better he felt. She tells him he should tell his flock that because Paula sure isn’t being that inspirational.  He delivers an inspirational speech, with the help of Head Six, about how they can help the people and help themselves.

And yet another scene of Adama staring at the beams and pipes… blah blah blah.

Tigh meets with Ellen and asks her not to do this. Galactica needs the base ship. She should put aside her anger at him to do what’s right. All she wants to talk about is the fact that Caprica’s brush is where hers used to be and he threw out all of her dresses. It’s called Baby Mama Drama, and even Cylons aren’t immune.

Tyrol, Caprica, Tory, the Six, and the Eight show up because Ellen asked them to. Ellen votes to go. Which means that Caprica has to go too. Tigh says that an all Cylon nation doesn’t work and neither does all human. They need to stick together. Ellen accuses Tigh of not wanting to leave who he really loves. Adama.

“What is this?” Caprica wants to know.

“It’s petty and vile,” says Tigh. Love how he delivered that line. And he’s right.

Tigh’s not going. Tyrol says they agreed on majority rule.

“Well, frak apparently we invented majority rule, but I don’t remember it so frak that!”

Michael Hogan is awesome. I love me some Colonel Tigh! He drops more F-bombs than anybody.

Tigh says that Ellen doesn’t even want to go, but she’s doing this to hurt him. Ellen says how he loves the ship, the uniform, and Adama more than anything else. A quick shot of Tyrol’s face and I’m positive he has regressed to his happy place. He doesn’t like it when Mommy and Daddy fight either.

Caprica crumples to her knees in pain. Tyrol, Tigh, and the others rush to her side. Ellen looks all stupid.

Caprica’s baby is in distress and she accuses Ellen of wanting it to happen. Doc Cottle gives Caprica an oxygen mask to help the baby. Ellen insists that she knew humans and Cylons should be together, but that she was blinded by trying to hurt Tigh. She never meant to hurt Caprica or her baby. Tigh counters that she should have thought how it would hurt Caprica if he were forced to choose and let her go. He says it’s no wonder they had to invent a God for the skinjobs to worship; they sure couldn’t have them deify the Five. Ellen says the didn’t invent anything… and we are once again stopped from getting more info on the One True God because Caprica orders them both to shut the frak up.

Ellen says she shouldn’t be there and leaves. Tigh is so torn up over what’s going on. Ellen comes back and puts her hand on his shoulder. He grips it and cries out his one good eye.

And yet ANOTHER shot of Adama looking at the pipes and seams. Ok, seriously. We get it. He’s worried about his decision to let the Cylon goo run amok in Galactica’s veins. We get it!

All Edward James Olmos has done this episode is drink and stare at the walls.

Caprica is resting with Ellen and Tigh at her side. Ellen says Tigh has to tell her he loves her. He does.  But then…

“This is nonsense. She knows it. I don’t need to say it. I shouldn’t need to say it. To anyone. Isn’t it enough that I feel it? I feel it. For her, for you, for Liam. I shouldn’t need to spout the words. I feel it less with words. Just let me Gods damn feel it and I’ll fill the frakkin’ room.”

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what makes this show so great. To all the people complaining that this episode was too soap opera, they haven’t been paying attention for four seasons. This show has always been about humanity. Not every episode needs a dog fight. You care about what happens to the people (and Cylons) more during the dog fights when you’re invested. Scenes like this make you invested.

There have been some great moments of dialogue on this show; Adama’s “you can’t run from the things you’ve created” speech, Lee’s testimony as Gaius’ trial, Roslin’s “who are you going to be” speech to the Cylons during the mutiny, and now that from Tigh. Good stuff.

Doc Cottle says the baby is in distress and it doesn’t look good. Caprica wants the baby cut out even if it kills her. Doc Cottle refuses. The baby won’t survive. Ellen says that she will leave and they can be together. She says Tigh loves her and the baby is proof. Little Liam dies anyway. That’s some sad shit.

Gaius is in Adama’s quarters. He has something to say to Adama, Roslin, and Lee.

“The two of you can stay and listen to this,” Adama says. “I’m gonna go to head. Do something constructive. A little project I’ve been working on.”

Brilliant! That is so much better than, “going to drop the kids off at the pool.”

Lee convinces Adama to stay and listen.

Gaius tells Adama that everyone sees the Cylon workforce aboard the ship and the Cylon pilots. They know about the construction. When are the Centurions coming over for dinner? The moment it happens, the ship will be fully integrated and then all hell will break loose. He only has one option…

Next thing you know, Gaius and crew are given heavy weapons. Did I miss something? The solution to the hell breaking loose is to arm MORE civilians?! Paula looks a little too happy with her gun and I suspect someone’s gonna need to bust a cap in her ass before series’ end.

Tyrol watches Boomer sleep in the brig. And you know, it’s not… no, it is creepy. In the sick bay, Anders’ brain activity returns.

Tigh goes to see Adama and they hug it out, bitches. Adama expresses his condolences. He says Liam is a good name. Short for William. Sure, Adama, everything is about you.

Roslin and Adama walk through the halls of Galactica and watch as the Cylon Sixes and Eights walk around like they pay rent. A Six is looking lovingly at a wall and strokes it. Roslin pauses to see what she was looking at. For one second I thought she was lovingly stroking the wall because it had the Cylon goo in it. Adama would lose his shit. But, it turns out that the Cylons have been putting up photos of the Cylons that have died with them since the alliance.

“It’s already happened, hasn’t it?” Adama asks.

Questions Answered and New Ones Posed This Episode

Not many answered. We know that Ellen’s personality wasn’t totally made up by John, she has a touch of that bitchy manipulation in her.  Boomer jacked someone’s ride, and that’s how she got the Raptor. Maybe next week, in what looks to be a very Boomer-centric episode, she’ll explain how she knew where to find the fleet.

The One True God was danced around again this week, and I’m curious to see when Anders wakes up, will he still have his original Five memories like Ellen does. I suspect he will.

So, what are your thoughts, predictions, theories, and questions?

* After the series’ finale in a few weeks, look for Battlestar Galactica: The Plan to air on SciFi Network. It’s a two hour movie told from the Cylons’ perspective. You’ll see a lot of new stuff (and some old stuff), but it’s not a clip show. It’s directed by Edward James Olmos and written by Jane Espenson.

*Also, for more BSG blogging, check out The TV Tyrant on Tuesdays.