# Battlestar Galactica 3.06 Torn 11/3 (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011 "2006-11-03T19:20:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/1 "2006-11-03T19:20:09Z")
We finally appear to be moving away from New Caprica storylines and back toward the search for “Earth”. What’s up with the plague afflicting the Cylons? What are the next clues on the “road to Earth”. Just what is Lee’s new position? Is Dualla a Cylon? Is Gaeta gay? Do the Colonials know Baltar is a guest/prisoner/pet of the Cylons? Will we get to see more of how things are in the rest of the Fleet? ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/2 "2006-11-03T19:26:07Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] Just what is Lee’s new position? [/QUOTE] Ballast. at least until he loses that fat suit. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/3 "2006-11-03T21:10:11Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] What’s up with the plague afflicting the Cylons? [/QUOTE] Six learns that the GSP™ is a symptom of a social disease. Glowing Spine of Passion. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/4 "2006-11-03T22:10:14Z")
I didn’t know there was a plague. Is that in the previews or something? Is it a spoiler? Is this thread all open spoilers? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/5 "2006-11-03T22:12:11Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Is that in the previews or something? [/QUOTE] Yes, along with Baltar asking Six What, am I a Cylon but then he’s an idiot, and besides, Mr. Hilton didn’t write the back of the book. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/6 "2006-11-03T22:41:39Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] …at least until he loses that fat suit. [/QUOTE] Hopefully it won’t take long. It looks so fake. Besides we need to see more Apollo skin to balance out all the 6/3/8 skin. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/7 "2006-11-04T00:06:12Z")
Think he’ll have stretch marks once he loses another stone or two? ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/8 "2006-11-04T00:15:53Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Think he’ll have stretch marks once he loses another stone or two? [/QUOTE] I think they’ll just let people think he was young enough that he can fully recover from plumping up. Even though, realistically, he should probably keep that little roll of belly fat that’s so hard to get rid of. In a universe with artificial gravity, teleporting jump drives, and indetectable Cylon skinjobs who have modems in their arms, it’d be the most absurd of quibbles. I predict we’ll see at least three posts complaining about it in the episode thread where they have Jamie Bamber shirtless, sans fat suit, again. Also: the virus thing is in the episode description DirecTV has available, and it’s been there all week. So I’d put it into the category of preview spoilers. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/9 "2006-11-04T00:32:04Z")
I do recall in the previews from last week or maybe the week before or some such, them mentioning a virus. Someone - I think Apollo - commented “we’re talking genocide.” I figured they were talking about a virus similar to the virus the Cylons used against the Colonial military network. I didn’t realize there was going to be an actual plague. What a cheap way to even the odds between humans and Cylons. I hope RDM’s not planning on making it an AIDS allegory. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/10 "2006-11-04T01:10:58Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] I do recall in the previews from last week or maybe the week before or some such, them mentioning a virus. Someone - I think Apollo - commented “we’re talking genocide.” … [/QUOTE] Well I heard online that the Cylons intercept a beacon of some sort from **EARTH** 🙂 that’s carrying the virus. Of course that raises a shit-load of questions. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/11 "2006-11-04T02:09:38Z")
Hey, where’s Cervaise? ---
**Author:** ![Agnostic\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Agnostic\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agnostic_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/12 "2006-11-04T02:24:39Z")
RDM is a bad man! That shot of Boomerbot was purely gratuitous. He should be ashamed of himself. I am so very happy he decided to do it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/13 "2006-11-04T02:24:58Z")
I’ve come to believe that 6 really is an angel sent by “God”. And even the Cylons find Baltar’s habit of “talking to himself” weird. And Lee appears to be CAG again. His viper said “Major”, but it could just be because they haven’t repainted it yet. “Athena”, what an interesting choice for Sharon. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/14 "2006-11-04T02:37:28Z")
Is the Hybrid new model of Cylon instead of one of the 12 models? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/15 "2006-11-04T02:53:04Z")
The probe thingy in the infected BaseStar looked remarkably like the Nomad probe, looks like the Meatbags in that BaseStar were imperfect… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/16 "2006-11-04T03:00:28Z")
Mrs. Plant and I said, “Nomad!” at the same time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/17 "2006-11-04T03:04:29Z")
What exactly does the Hybrid do? She doesn’t get a vote and the Cylons are in control of the baseship. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/18 "2006-11-04T03:04:46Z")
That was the best episode of the third season so far. I’m glad the more we learn aobut the Cylon world, the less we understand about them. Just a fantastic episode! ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/19 "2006-11-04T03:05:36Z")
Eh. Although I liked lots of the little bits in this episode, it all added up to setting up the next episode. Was _not_ happy with the hybrid. We’ve seen that, on Doctor Who season 1, Ron. Try harder, next time. But it looks like the other 12 models don’t consider the hybrid one of the 5 missing models – the hybrid doesn’t get a vote. The last bit with Kara and Saul was good – that gut-wrenchingly-bad sort of good. ---
**Author:** ![Grossbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba8739/32.png) [@Grossbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grossbottom)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011/20 "2006-11-04T03:08:29Z")
I really really liked this episode. Starbuck appears to have squared her ass away, and for a minute there I thought Saul was going to put that pistol in his mouth. Although I love his character, I’ve got to say that doing that would have knocked everyone on their ass. I’m glad he didn’t, but I thought you could tell Moore at least toyed with the idea. The probe is really fascinating: didn’t the fourteenth colony leave long before the Cylons even existed? [QUOTE=alphaboi867] Is the Hybrid new model of Cylon instead of one of the 12 models? [/QUOTE] Can’t be; Six said they didn’t discuss those models and then proceeds to discuss her. I’m guessing a hybrid is part meatbag cylon, part mechanical. Maybe a harder and more intensive interface is required to run a basestar. [QUOTE=Loopydude] Hey, where’s Cervaise? [/QUOTE] Maybe they boxed him. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlestar-galactica-3-06-torn-11-3-spoilers/379011.md?page=2)