The “Adama Manuever” is the single most balls-to-the-wall, hardcore ass-kicking of righteousness I’ve seen on television. It was a good as anything Josey Wales ever did. It was a good as Rooster Cogburn taking the reins in his teeth and charging alone against a gang of outlaws with guns blazing. Hell, it was as good as Cowboy Bill Watts chasing the Freebirds out of the arena with a baseball bat. 
I agree. Some of the Cylons have shown they’re pretty good cold readers, and you never know how detailed their profiles on people are. How did they know about Starbuck’s special destiny? Plus, we never saw New Caprica get blowed up as planned, and Adama never sent so much as a single Raptor to check, did he? So how do we know the Cylons didn’t comb through the settlement later, find Ellen’s body and determine she’d been poisoned?
Fair enough. In fact, I have to admit that the constant griping by some folks during season 2 got on my nerves, since I found many of the episodes griped about to be perfectly entertaining. I’ll try to dial back the whining a bit.
Oakie, I hope you’re right about the finale. I’ve been fastidiously avoiding spoilers, but it sounds like they have Big Things lurking in wait. Whether or not I’m thrilled about the particulars of those Big Things, I’ll be very pleased to see the storyline get back to the colonists’ struggle for long-term survival. And who knows? I wasn’t thrilled about the ending of season 2 until they gave us the first 3 episodes of season 3. At this point, I’m willing to take major events as a worthwhile setup, whether or not I’m happy with how they unfold at the moment.
As far as character development goes, I think I’m a bit frustrated at the unrealized potential we see in some cases. That potential could still become actuality, and I have to remind myself of that. It would be nice if every character were as well-crafted and well-acted as Tigh, but that may be just a wee bit unrealistic to expect. (“You’d better have the Doc take a look at that hand.” I’m still chuckling.)
We got Six totally starkers in that one episode where Baltar was musing about their hypothetical child while pacing the (empty) cell. Remember? First Six was dressed sort of Starbuck-y, with a cap, and then Baltar looked away and turned back and she was straddling the chair without a stitch on. I think it counts.
Oddly, though, the naked-but-covered bits we’ve seen on Six (in the detention cell, before in Baltar’s Caprican dreamhouse) are roughly the same amount of skinnage we’ve seen on Apollo (in the towel). Different dangly bits were being artfully concealed, but it was about the same level of “whoah! naked – aw, almost.”
Same with the naked Boomers. But with a lot of CGI’d extra naked surface area.
… this is a far better topic to discuss than those wretched spoilers, too.
Dang, someone agreeing to something like that on the interweb? You’re not playing fair!
I’m not going to deny that there were lots of duds since “Exodus”, but I like to read these threads for interesting commentary (I have a speculation based on the spoilers that I won’t bother throwing out there until after the next episode airs) and discussing the possibilities of who is what and why whatever happened happened.
I don’t like coming here for people trying to decide if this episode deserved a nine or a nine-point-five on the “totally sucked ass-o-meter”.
-Joe
I thought so too, except that bit about how he lost Ellen, how she [Ellen] loved him, was his whole world, and did he ever tell her? Yeah, the second bit could have been a cold read, but how did she know there was a wife in the first place, that she was dead? I think the 6 was being given information… whether from real, internal Baltar, or some sort of download from the other Cylons wherever they are, in the form of a hallucinatory Baltar, I don’t know.
I am thinking of when we were told that the Cylons imagine an environment around them that conforms to what they want to see; I wonder if 6’s imaginary Baltar is just an agreeable way for the Cylons to communicate with her while she’s captive. She’s somewhat alienated from her own people, but still fantasizes about Baltar, so maybe they are using that as a way of keeping her around and getting her info. Maybe not, who knows.
He’s the best thing on the show for me. He’s doing a great job.
Why should Caprica Six have to guess about the Tighs’ relationship?
She was on New Caprica when he was in detention, being tortured for information, and she was a turncoat spy frakking the priest-model meatbag (I can’t remember its name offhand) and passing on resistance secrets. I think we can assume that the toasters shared intelligence with each other. There’s no telling how much Six might know that way.
I assumed Six knew that Tigh had a wife, and who she was too. Brother Cavil didn’t exactly strike me as circumspect, in that regard. And it wouldn’t be unusual for the Cylons to be familiar with the Galactica’s bridge crew and family.
Caprica wasn’t talking about Tigh per se when she was saying that bit about him never telling the one he loved that she was his whole world – she was applying her own feelings to Tigh. Caprica just lost someone who was her whole world, and whom she never told so – D’Anna.
That’s always been the case with the Sixes – they’ve been able to cut to the quick, because they’re only exposing the same flaw or pain that they, themself, have. Six has done this to Baltar, a lot, but also to pretty much everyone else that she’s come in contact with (not excluding other Cylons, such as Sharon).
Or, they could just be bitches. 
I really had to laugh when SciFi advertised next week’s trailer (tonight’s episode) with “the episode you’ve been waiting for all season.”
It was too true! (or, lets hope it is, anyway)
I’m wondering what they’re going to offer as summer reruns. I know there are rumors about a movie, allegedly going straight to DVD, but probably shown on SciFi first. I got to see most of Season 2 last summer, but I’d really like to see the mini-series and Season 1…