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So the three newly-revealed Cylons still on the ship are having regular meetings, and Cally suspects Chief of having an affair. She listens in and, man, is it way worse than that—her husband’s a Cylon. Not only has she completely lost it, but now she’s ready to kill her own son because he’s half Cylon. But Tory finds out and shows her some compassion and reveals they’re not really evil—and as soon as she gets a hold of Cally’s son, BAM! she blows Cally out a launch tube into space!

I didn’t see that coming. And my line last week about Tory being a really good actress? I’m starting to think that’s the case.

I have to eat my words after seeing what happened with Lee this week. I was really unhappy with him moving over to politics, but I should have known better than to think the writers for this show didn’t know what they were doing. In the span of about two minutes, I went from hating this storyline to loving it. Lee standing up to Roslin was cool enough, but revealing the whole tribunal thing (which was previously done under Zarek when he was president, and run by three of the four recently-revealed Cylons) made it even better. Now I’m really interested to see where this goes.

I’m growing weary of the Adama-Roslin relationship, and I’m glad it seems to be falling apart. It was so much better watching them disagree before they became so cozy, and seeing that happen again over Starbuck’s claims of knowing Earth’s location is a good thing.

Iit’s great that Adama wanted to give Starbuck a chance to go and prove that she knows her way to Earth, but did he have to send ninety percent of the best crew members with her? Don’t Sharon and Helo have a kid to worry about? I find it hard to believe they’d leave her behind, but equally hard to believe they’d take her along on a dangerous mission like this. Not only that, but here we have Sharon, a known Cylon, Helo, who’s married to a Cylon, Anders, who we know is a Cylon even though nobody else does, and Starbuck, who everyone thinks is a Cylon, all on one ship.

Let me throw one other thing out there, since everyone else (that I’ve read anyway) seems to have forgotten: Shouldn’t Gaeta be on the top of the list to be the last of the Final Five? Remember when Baltar whispered something to him, and then Gaeta literally tried to murder him? Maybe it was, “You’re a Cylon.” How about his position in the CIC, especially in charge of the jumps that the Cylons always seem to follow? And when he was Baltar’s aide on New Caprica, who was he feeding information to in the human resistance? Tigh. Chief. Anders.

Speaking of Cylons, the battle between the two factions is heating up way faster than I expected. Some have questioned whether all the copies of Six, Leoben, and Sharon (other than Boomer) were killed when their baseship was destroyed with no resurrection ship nearby, but my understanding is that there are millions of copies of each model, including on their homeworld. Unless the Cavils had a simultaneous attack on all the rebel models throughout the galaxy, there should still be plenty to go around.

What, no Baltar this week? Yeah, it would’ve been difficult to fit anything else in, but he’s always missed when he’s not around.

This was another episode where BSG proved it’s still at the top of its game as it plows through its last season. Another character dead, a Cylon civil war, Adama, Lee, and Roslin all at odds with one another, half the cast aimlessly flying about in a sewage-recycling ship, and the secret Cylons starting to act like who they really are.

Who could ask for more?

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