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Holy frakkin’ smokes! After this mid-season finale, it’s like a whole new television show!

WARNING! MAJOR SPOILERS!

LAST CHANCE!

D’Anna doesn’t trust the humans, so she holds most of them hostage until the four secret Cylons have a chance to get over to the baseship. But the four don’t want anyone to know who they are, except for Tory, who makes an excuse about taking Roslin her medication, and goes full-blown Cylon in front of Roslin when she gets there. Tigh reveals himself to Adama after the first hostage is killed, and suggests Adama threaten to do the same thing to him, but Adama has a breakdown at the news. President Lee takes up the slack and, after punching Tigh in the face, prepares to blow him out the airlock. D’Anna thinks he’s bluffing, even after Tigh gives up Tyrol and Anders and they join him in the airlock. But before Lee can jettison Tigh into space, Starbuck (after a tip from Tyrol and Anders) finds the data on the way to earth in her Viper and stops Lee. The humans and Cylon rebels make a deal and go to earth together, but when they get there, they realize it’s nothing but radioactive ruins. 

When they called this episode “Revelations” I thought for sure they were going to tell us who the final Cylon is. It seemed like the perfect way to end the mid-season finale. I did not even REMOTELY expect that they were actually going to jump to EARTH in the mid-season finale. I always assumed that was going to happen in the series finale, and for some reason I never even considered that I might be wrong about that.

Not only did they not reveal the final Cylon, D’Anna even said at the beginning that only four of the five were in the fleet. That brings up the very important question of whether the Cylon was already on the baseship, or whether he/she is already dead. Or maybe she somehow knows something else that we don’t.

When Edward James Olmos found out that Tigh was a Cylon and went into a drunken stupor, it was one of the finest acting jobs I have ever seen. Not just by him. Not just on BSG. Not just on television. I’m telling you, it was one of the best jobs of acting I’ve seen period, including Oscar-winning performances on feature films. Yes, I felt like it was that good. If he doesn’t win an Emmy for that, the whole contest is rigged.

I was really impressed with Jamie Bamber’s performance as well, and this was the first time I really liked his character in a long time. Once he stopped living in his father’s shadow and knew he needed to step up, his character immediately started taking names and kicking ass.

I felt like it was a sure sign that Starbuck had changed, as well as human-Cylon relations in general, when Kara didn’t totally lose it upon discovering her husband was a Cylon. After semi-joking before that she would put a bullet between his eyes if he was, all she did was look concerned and then get to work searching her Viper.

I’m still holding out hope that Gaeta is the last Cylon, and that he was in contact with D’Anna, which is why she said there were only four in the fleet. (Just because I hate being wrong.)

So, as D’Anna said, where do they go from here? I really don’t know. Since I didn’t see this coming at all, I haven’t speculated on what would happen if they found earth halfway through the season.

I just have one more question: If we have to wait until 2009 to see the rest of the episodes, why should we even consider this the same season? Other than the fact that they’re calling this the “mid-season” finale, why should fans consider it the same season when we have to wait even longer than for most regular seasons to start up again.

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