“We gonna crash again?” - Zoe

By Rhea Dee

1. Tyrol shaved off all his pretty hair. This is indeed quite dire.

2. That one creepy cylon that held Starbuck captive and made her believe she had a child is back. Leoben, I believe his name his. He tells all of them that there’s a cylon civil war going on and proposes a truce between the rebellious cylons and the humans. The crew, is of course, dubious, but Starbuck is willing to believe anything, as long as it gets her closer to Earth. While I do feel for Starbuck, I think the real hero of this episode is Helo, the trustworthy right hand man who spent a whole episode conflicted on whether to rebel or stick by his crazy Captain.

3. Gaius continues to be one of the most interesting characters in the show. Cylon Tory is totally obsessed with Gaius and his one God religion and she goads Tyrol to listen to Baltar’s preaching. Tyrol does so, but ends up choking Gaius when he makes claims about Cally that Tyrol doesn’t like so much. And then just before I can be pissy at Gaius for being all Mr. Preachy-Pants, he goes and apologizes to Tyrol for making assumptions about his wife. Tyrol holds his hand. And another cylon moves over to Gaius’ side.

4. You know, for some reason I thought Sharon would be more for Starbuck than she is, simply because she knows what it’s like to be ostracized from the rest of the majority. I like to believe that if Helo weren’t involved she might be more inclined to feel for Starbuck.

5. I myself don’t know how to feel about Starbuck. This is probably because they haven’t really given us much of her character to work with besides the complete Earth obsession. That’s quite sad, as Starbuck is quite the interesting character as well. I felt like we were getting a little bit more of her when she started her speech about Mathias’s death, but it quickly reverted back to Earth obsession. The mutiny was expected, and I even think the outcome of the mutiny might be a bit predictable as well: who else thinks that Starbuck’s just gonna launch off on her own to Leoben’s Basestar?

6. The whole thing with the secret cylons has left me wondering if any of them are going to be revealed to the rest of the population. Will they all be revealed at once? Will one be revealed in front of the others? Will the other secret cylons be forced to assassinate one of their own to keep their cylon-ness secret? When the final cylon is revealed, will he/she just point a finger at the rest of the cylons? Will the secret cylons change into something truly evil, more evil than the original cylons? I guess the bottom line is that I want to know more about the cylons. A lot more than what we’re getting so far.

7. Continuing with my cylon fixation, I’d like to see more of the civil war that Leoben referred to. But then again, it is really happening? We know that cylons rebelled, but they were killed (no resurrection ship in close proximity killed). Are there more cylons rebelling?

8. Back to Gaius for a moment. They keep building up this religion of his, so it’s obviously going to play quite a large part in the series as a whole. Is the religion going to become so massive that it’ll spawn a religious war on Galactica? Is the show trying to make a point about Monotheistic religion? Or are they trying to make a point about religion in general? I haven’t quite figured it out yet, so I can’t really say for sure if I like it or not. My only concern is that it has an extreme possibility of being really pretentious.

9. I really wish BSG would stop teasing us about the final cylon. I have to close my eyes during the opening credits so that I won’t get annoyed. Yes, I know one is going to be revealed. Please stop reminding me, since you are going to take your time revealing him/her to me.

10. I really, really miss Tyrol’s hair. To the other men of BSG: do NOT do what he did. Please.

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Rhea Dee loves being a geek. She also loves female revenge flicks, campy horror, trashy novels and rock ‘n’ roll records. Rhea’s love for rock ‘n’ roll led her to be a regular contributor for the now defunct Now Wave webzine. She’s all about Edgar Wright. Important to know.