I’m aware that she’s a genocidal freak, but I still feel like Cain was not, not entirely, a bad person, nor was she entirely within the wrong side of the good/bad survivalist divide. Looking at how royally frakked up the folks attached to Galactica are and how magnificently they screw the pooch every two seconds, Cain seems, in comparison, a paragon of steadiness and reliability. Her characterization, at least, has been consistent. True, she cannot see (as the late XO attempted to point out) how she jumps the fence for crazier pastures, but she doesn’t spend her time doubting herself or wondering “Why me?” I appreciate the strength she had, and, like Starbuck said, they’re less safe without her than they were with her (even when it put her and Adama at lethal loggerheads).

And one nitpick: Gina is NOT Caprica Six. Gina is A Six, yes, but Caprica Six is a very specific model–she is the one who seduced and then fell in love with Gaius Baltar. She has retained her name among the Cylon because of her herculean efforts in their campaign. Gina, on the other hand, has come to have a name because she’s been so utterly cut off from the Cylons to the point that she committed permanent suicide (when she detonated the nuclear warhead, there were no resurrection ships nearby with bodies into which she would download). This is a degree of personalization that is, like Caprica Six, worthy of a permanent, unique name. The humbler moniker is an allusion to the means that brought her to such a sad end and the way she went out–like a human.