By Lisa Fary
I’ve developed the habit of Twittering shows, and I’m not alone. I deliberately avoided too much Twitter on Friday night and Saturday morning because I was at NYCC, didn’t get to watch BSG, and didn’t want spoilage. After watching it on Sunday, I’m not sure what to think about all of this.
Actually, I do know what I think about this:
Humanity kinda sucks.
Seriously. There’s only about 39,000 people left and Zarek and Gaeta are just going to kill all the ones who don’t agree with them? Humanity can’t afford that!
Idiots.
Zarek murdering the Quorum of Twelve was a surprise. Adama’s dramatic escape and subsequent crushing of Gaeta’s coup attempt wasn’t.
Oddly, the most interesting moment in this ep belonged to Baltar. No, not his realization that he’s a sentient cockroach. We already knew that. Rather, his admission that he secretly hates his fan club members for their provincial mindsets. He managed to muster up the beginnings of a sense of responsibility for them (which, for him, is a huuuuge step), but not enough to act swiftly.
Is Baltar the only character who hasn’t changed a bit since the beginning? Despite everything, he’s still an opportunist. He still uses people to any advantage. He still doesn’t show remorse for anything he’s done. That either makes him uniquely suited to an apocalyptic lifestyle, or the most evil man in the galaxy.
Usually, there’s something to love or something to hate or both about BSG. “Blood on the Scales” left me feeling kind of indifferent.
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Lisa Fary’s early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl. She thinks diagramming sentences is a fun alternative to Sudoku.
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
My theory on Baltar is that his self-centeredness is a defense mechanism. He does know how awful his behavior has been, so he has let his id take control most of the time in order to avoid thinking about it. I've forgotten which episode it was in now, but during his trial at the end of season 3, he revealed how ashamed he was of his humble origins, and how that shame had motivated him to deliberately change his accent. It seems to me that his overwhelmingly selfish personality is akin to his cultured accent, a denial of any culpability comprised mostly of just ignoring his guilt. It catches up with him every now and then, but so far he's managed to outrun the bulk of him.
No matter what they say that show was MURDER. Like Lisa says there is only so many people maybe we do not deserve to survive!
I just watched last night and…I was surprised that they didn't spin Adama taking back power for longer, actually. Almost as surprised as I was at Baltar refusing physical comfort (heh – what a euphemism!). Yep. Humanity sucks. Most of the time.