Tory comes out of the closet too
Also, the Centurion didn’t jump in front of the blast to save Baltar, neither had time to react and didn’t know it was coming. The Centurion took the brunt of the blast and got tossed into the wall.
Didn’t get to see the preview, Norwegian television doesn’t air the show [well, one season back] so it’s either X or wait until my [pre-ordered] DVDs arrive, sometime next year . . . And the X cuts the preview pars.
ETA: So, can someone pretty please spoilerbox the entire preview? =]
Unless, that’s just another vision of what he’s thinking. It might not be real.
I hope not, though.
Ditto. The emotions she showed while listening to Baltar’s confession just slaughtered me! To hear that this man truly was partly responsible for the destruction of your world(s) and claims to feel no guilt–that’s got to hit hard. And you could see Mary reacting to every blow.
I like Adama’s “about time” comment. It’s fitting and, well, true. Plus, it’s not like she doesn’t already know he loves her.
Wouldn’t that be…
pantry
…?
Anyway, I think this might have been the first time Roslyn knowingly referred to a Cylon by a gendered pronoun - she was using the words “her” and “she” when discussing the Three. In all other cases I can remember Roslyn prefers to use “it” when talking about Cylons (except maybe for Athena, but she’s less firmly established as the dreaded enemy…)
I remember her saying “it” when referring to the Hybrid but I’m pretty sure she switched to “she” at one point.
It’s got to be hard for her though. Athena has been accepted by the Galactica crew and more importantly, Adama. It would be REALLY rude to refer to Athena as “it.”
Re: the previews. Adama has already accepted Athena and we know he’s a soft touch. Adama & Tigh will sock each other and wrestle around and then hug and make up. C’mon, Adama IS a soft touch. Roslin of course will have her finger on the airlock button.
That episode was The Balls. Not balls; The Balls. Absolutely tip top. And thank heaven they’ve re-humanised Roslyn. I was really starting to think that Mary McDonnell was reaching Captain Janeway levels of terribleness, but apparently it was all intentional. So that’s good.
So, in terms of remaining episodes - am I right in thinking that there are just two left now? It was a 13 episode season that was commissioned, right, and Razor counts as two, apparently; so can there really only be 90 minutes of BSG left? Seems like a lot to wrap up in that time (particularly given that they squandered 45 minutes on a presidential search committee and some rubbish about a cat).
22 episode season. So there’s one more, then the break. Then the last ten episodes, uh, later.
I think there’s only 60 minutes left. Next’s week’s ep is the last one until some undetermined time in 2009 as far as I can tell.
Ah, good stuff. Not sure where I got the idea it was a 13 episode season from. Ta for that. (And you, Rubystreak.)
Don’t know if you guys find lolcats funny (I’m ambivalent), but someone made a page or 3 of BSG-related ones. Though I have to admit I didn’t get the first one.
They update those things so the first one I saw might not be the one you saw but I saw “I 8 all teh corners.”
They cut the corners off all their papers, books, etc. People have wondered what they do with the corners.
Yes, that’s the one. Thanks for the explanation.
Actually no, they don’t get rid of all the corners, they manufacture the books with twice as many corners. 
Maybe because that’s how many they’d shot before the writers’ strike. That also means SciFi is holding out on us.
Just. One. Hub.
Really?
I know that RDM needs some sort of MacGuffin to put the Cylons in some sort of apocalyptic endgame, but, please.
One would expect redundancy in something as key as a resurrection hub.
Then again, I’d be all for, say, multiple FTL drives in things like hubs and resurrection ships.
There’s purposeful suspension of disbelief, and then there’s … stupid.
Still, RDM stupid is way smarter than much of the other programming out there, and BSG packs a potent, character-driven punch.
The last cycle of episodes will be amazing, and the prospect of a post-BSG SciFi programming slate is bleak.
cerberus The way I understand it is that the Cylons have been greatly constrained by logistical concerns. At first they seemed like this indomitable robot army from beyond the reaches of the colonies, but the reality is that the humans had dominated a good proportion of the resource rich planets. Which is what drove the impetus for the Cylons to come and get them.
Also, as for redundancy, part of the problem with redundant backups is that you can end up with conflicting data sets. That would be problematic when trying to keep your memories in some sort of continuity. So the idea of having a single resurrection hub at this initial stage isn’t so unfathomable. Remember the Cylons didn’t attack capriciously (no pun intended) they attacked due to a human incursion into Cylon space. They felt that they had to in order to be safe. Or at least that is what is implied. Otherwise they only had 40 years to build what is admittedly a quite impressive fleet. A lot of R&D on the skin-job lines, placing the sleeper ‘final five’ within the human colonies with real lives and backgrounds. Perfecting a system of resurrection ships and a resurrection hub, building a fleet of basestars and raiders, as well as an army of centurions.
As Donnie Rumsfeld would say, You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want.
Starbuck wasn’t on the Basestar, and Anders would’ve been where she was, so… no.
Roslin had a recovered memory of seeing Baltar meeting with Caprica Six, in a public place in Caprica City, on the day she got her cancer diagnosis (IIRC), which would’ve been nigh unto the last day of the Colonies. But she only saw them together, and did not know what they might’ve been up to.
Based on that preview, it may have actually been Lee about to airlock the Cylons, not Roslin.
If you are going to nitpick for the hell of it, at least use things actually in the episode. Not only might they need to make some course changes without revealing themselves, but show it in the damed episode. And you did hear the part about disconnecting the cables and having the fighters coast to the target, right? That would also involve one of those laws.
Screw Boomer, did Cavill make it into a new body and off the thing before the explosions started? Stockwell is way too cool to go out like that.
So…I’m in the camp that Baltar believes what he’s saying. I don’t think he was just bored and try to stir up trouble.
I was thinking of her in my head as “The Ghost of Chemos Future”. 
Unless the Cylons don’t know how to build them. They might be from God or the Final Five before they went undercover. It could be from back in the Lords of Kobol days. Maybe we’ll see, maybe this is just something they’ll never cover.
One would expect redundancy in something as key as a resurrection hub.
“I control the hub and while I’m not going to declare myself dictator, it might behoove all of you to remember that I can blow it at any time. Just so’s you know.”
The Cylons almost remind me of vampires in V:TM. They’re tough, and in some ways unkillable. However, if they come across something that CAN kill them permanently, like sun or fire, they are the biggest damn cowards in the universe.
-Joe
There are still more Cavills out there.