[General Battuta]

I really liked tonight. No major plot movement, but the character stuff was great. Tyrol's showdown with Adama was painful to watch, Balter seems to have a real angel watching over him, and goodness, Tory's gotten scary.

[Mars]

Tory's definitely creepy.

[jdjtcagle]

Tory? What about the Colonel? THAT is freaky...

[WMCoolmon]

I found the scene where Tyrol is getting counseling from Tory and Tigh grimly amusing. Yeah, I guess the guy who killed his wife and the woman who killed your wife might have a certain bond with the situation.

What I really liked about tonight's episode was that practically everybody was in a completely different position from where they started the show. The president's becoming the heartless ruler she accused Adama/Tigh of being in season 1/2; Baltar's putting his life on the line for a group of people; Lee's playing politician; Adama is touring bars; and the Chief is no longer actually the Chief. And Tigh is getting it on with a Cylon.

Question of the week: Who decides what the Cylon prisoners should wear, and what made them conclude that a low-cut evening gown with metal rings was proper attire for a dangerous, extremely able prisoner?

[Mefustae]

Some quality development of existing plot-lines, always makes for good watching. This season is fast getting weird, creepy and downright strange, all of which is totally awesome.

Question of the week: Who decides what the Cylon prisoners should wear, and what made them conclude that a low-cut evening gown with metal rings was proper attire for a dangerous, extremely able prisoner?

I don't have my HDD handy so I can't check, but i'm pretty sure that was what Caprica was wearing when she first arrived on Galactica. It must be getting pretty stinky by now, though.

The real [mundane] question is whether Tigh's right eye should not be blinking. Seriously. I know the eye is gone so there's no need for it to blink, but wouldn't it still happen by reflex? Or does the lack of a supporting eyeball prevent it from happening?

[The Spac]

I belive there is still some action to blinking even without an eyeball cause of muscle memory after blinking both eyes for 40+ years you'd have to make a real effort to actually blink one instead of going through the motions. You'd have to retrain yourself, but who'd bother unless blinking both eyes without having 2 eyes was painful.

[jdjtcagle]

*bump*

Spoiler:

Wow, how do you think the fleet is going to handle a big base ship following them around...

[Solatar]

Spoiler:

I dunno, the baseship hasn't reached the fleet yet and the fleet is overdo to leave. They might not get back. I thought it was interesting that the prophesy told was that Starbuck was the harbinger of death or whatnot.

[blowfish]

Spoiler:

That's what the proto-hybrid thing said in Razor.  No one lived to tell anyone though.

[Kosh]

*bump*

Spoiler:

Wow, how do you think the fleet is going to handle a big base ship following them around...

Instead of having just one crippled ship defending the fleet they now have two, although that baseship is in even worse shape than galactica.

[Solatar]

Although, are the centurions on that baseship going to start shooting now? They didn't seem to like the hybrid being unplugged...and one among their number was killed.

[General Battuta]

Worried about that. (Also, thank God this episode was so good -- after last week I was starting to worry!)

I just can't wait to see Adama's reaction when the base ship jumps in with Demetrius. Surely they won't just let it mix in with the rest of the fleet? It must still have loads of ordinance...

I'm guessing they'll find a way to sacrifice/lose the base ship (and perhaps some of the Cylon characters) during or after the midseason cliffhanger.

I think the most important thing that happened tonight was the revelation that

Spoiler:

the Final Five are from Earth and should know the way back. That ties together the Earth and Final Five storylines very neatly.

[NGTM-1R]

As long as they don't give Lee command of the baseship, he'll lose it.

[General Battuta]

Thank goodness, they can't -- he's a civilian now!

...I vote we give command of the base ship to Doc Cottle.

[Kosh]

Btw, that leads to another question: The hybrid on the baseship *may* be dead, if that is so then how will they be able to control it? Taking out the hybrid is like ripping the CPU out of your computer.

[blowfish]

Spoiler:

They wired the FTL drive to the Raptor's navigation system so they can jump but I wouldn't expect much else to work

[BrotherBryon]

Is it just me or are they killing off some old character who hasn't surfaced in a while in every episode now?

[Solatar]

They do it so suddenly too...just out of the blue BAM! ...dead character...

[Mefustae]

They do it so suddenly too...just out of the blue BAM! ...dead character...

I'm starting to get a bit worried. We might lose Racetrack this season!

Oh, and wow. Nana Visitor. Really wasn't expecting Major freaking Kira to be there when Roslin pulled back the curtain. That woman has some serious acting chops.

[General Battuta]

Frankly, I don't mind too much -- it's better than some random redshirt dying. I was really sad when Sergeant Hadrian died during the EVA last week, though. I think Gaeta's next on the chopping block.

Also, looks like we'll get to finally learn something about why Hera's special.