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[akeyoftime]

Having watched Battlestar in the breakneck way I did, I'd forgotten how incrementally the plot tends to move forward. Seven episodes in a day and they all kind of blur together in a tangle of plot and character development.

That being said, I do not even know where to start squeeing about tonight's episode! Here is a bullet-form, but otherwise completely random list! Meatier comments below!

-head!Baltar in Baltar's head.
-The centurions now possess reason. And the raiders - the raiders - won't fight!
-Numbers for all the Cylon gang! Hooray!
-When are they going to unbox Three?
-Bad, bad things are going to continue happening to Boomer. (She's going to come back out from under the radar this season.)
-Dear Final Four, this is a boring plotline. Can we move on yet?
-Cylon meetings! Awesome!
-They kind of made me like Kara/Lee again?
-Lee had a lovely send-off! (But you just know Roslin's got mixed feelings about being there.)
-Good lord, Roslin and Adama throwing truths at each other!
-Hooray for Hot Dog and Racetrack!

I'd heard they were aiming to move back to a goofier Baltar and already, two episodes in, he more closely resembles his season one self than he has in a long time. As one friend put it, goodbye to intellectual Baltar, though I doubt we've seen the last of him. We're just going to see more of conceited, sex-obsessed Baltar for a while.

I think the most interesting thing about the Cylon plot was One, Four, and Five's treatment of the "lesser" Cylons. I kept wanting to yell at the screen - didn't they realise that this dismissive treatment of the Raiders was probably the kind of thing that sparked off the first war with the humans? It's been troubling me since "Downloaded" that the models that are almost identical to humans are the ones with all of the power. There's also got be some sort of significance to model seven - I'd wager that s/he is our final Cylon, somewhere out there in the fleet (likely perfectly aware of his/her own nature, right from the start). Someone had have to leave Adama that note at the end of the mini, after all.

Dee needs a plotline all her own, that has nothing to do with Lee or Kara. Let's bring her back to the levels of awesome she had early on.

I'm also curious to see where Kara's new plotline has her headed. I sincerely hope Karl goes with her! Their friendship makes me so very happy. If it involves Athena and Sam as well (and maybe Sam confiding in Athena...), then so much the better. If that blasted Last Supper picture actually is going anywhere, then it's likely that Sam's headed off with them.

If I was a little bit let down by last week's episode, this one made up for it in spades.

Comments

[theclevermonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm betting, with the centurions and raiders, that their inability to distinguish between different versions of the same model of skinjobs will come up this season, specifically with Boomer.

The scene where Natalie had the centurions gun down the Ones, Fours and Fives was mind-blowingly awesome. Enough so, in fact, that Amy and I watched it again when the scene finished.

Also, something Amy noticed - Go back and watch the scene where Tory first is eyeing Baltar. Right at the beginning of the scene, we are quite deliberately shown the swish of a blue dress leaving the bar. Amy is putting forth the idea that Tory is now able to see, if only in glimpses, Head-Six.

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

I don't know, don't you think that part of that gift of reason, either as a direct or indirect consequence, will extend to the "lesser" models being able to make those distinctions? If nothing else, the Centurions will figure out sooner or later that the Known Seven have that ability. The show has already played with the Centurions inability to distinguish between models (New Caprica!)

They totally deserved it, but oh, oh, this Cylon-on-Cylon violence thing is just getting started. (Boy, the Sixes are real trouble makers, aren't they?)

So Head!Six is aware that Tory can see her, so she leaves? But why can't she see Head!Gaius? I went back to scene and you're right, it's done so very deliberately and while we haven't often seen her in blue, the dress has had its moments. Do you think all of the Final Four will be able to see her? That could get interesting. (Just *imagine* if Tigh had been able to see her all along!)

[theclevermonkey.livejournal.com]

It's hard to say with the Centurions, and while the New Caprica plot did use indistinguishably as a plot point, it's excellent set up to bring up that Boomer disagrees with her "sisters" as set up for more shenanigans.

Obviously we don't have a lot to go on, but I'm not sure that the gift of reason is enough to allow the centurions to distinguish - Humans can't tell them apart, by and large, and some humans I've met even have the gift of reason! ~_^

I guess we could read that Head-Six leaves because Tory can see her. Part of me wonders if the Final Five can perhaps only see Head-people out of the corner of their eyes, like Reapers see Gravelings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveling#Gravelings) - which is perhaps why Tory didn't see Head-Gaius... though she did seem to be very uncomfortable the whole time, so perhaps she could sense Head-Baltar? I dunno, it's a thought.

I've thought since the Final Four were mentioned, and we learned about how the Cylons see the inside of their ships, that perhaps the Final Four might manifest themselves as mental projections rather than travelling about physically. That's been a little blown out of the water with the end of S3, but it's still possible that the final Cylon is doing that. Alternatively, it also occurred to me the other night that perhaps the Hybrids create head-people.

I can't wait to know!

[theclevermonkey.livejournal.com]

Also, this is interesting. (http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/)

[akeyoftime.livejournal.com]

This universe is holding onto so many secrets - it's going to be fun to watch them come out into the open!

That was a neat link, about the music. Thank you!