I thought that was the conquest of the Colonies and the extermination of the humans. That last bit seems to be what the task force following the fleet was sent out to do, and what the Cavil faction is still determined to do.
That seems to be the goal of the Natalie faction - they’re more interested in exploring religion, and are coming to see the humans as part of a *greater * plan - God’s. They were able to restrain the kill-'em-all faction in the Council, perhaps with the argument that the humans could be killed at any time but meanwhile let them find some more inhabitable planets for us to colonize later on, and maybe even Earth with all those other humans we can kill too.
Which is pretty ironic, because the whole point of Six seducing Baltar was to get access to the defense mainframe so she could install an easily penetrated back door.
Baltar was slinging the bullshit left and right about the Cylon detector, and they hadn’t quite figured it out yet. He detected Boomer, but was afraid to out her in case she snapped and killed him or (I imagine) somehow revealed his involvement in the destruction of the colonies. I don’t think anyone but him and Head-6 knew that it really worked. As I understand it, he didn’t really test Tyrol, but just lied and said he did. Soon afterward, people started to suspect, “Hey, this Baltar guy’s full of it. He’s probably been lying all along and that Cylon detector was a waste of our resources. He tested Boomer and never told us she was a Cylon, and he’s such a chickenshit that he’d run from her first thing if he knew.”
Athena sticking a wire in her arm is a plot hole, but I can figure out an easy fanwank for it: Cylons who know what they are have special abilities to “commune” with machines, and they can control their nerves enough to send deliberate electrical signals and interpret signals from other machines. Why’d she needed to jam it into an artery? Um…it’s easier for them at pressure points?
Yes, that is the problem. It’s supposed to be a site to talk about tv, for which they summarize what’s happened in their recaps. Derivative prose art that is a meditative flit through the program doesn’t help.
… also, it reads kind of like really bad fanfic. And some of the fora comments read like fanboi gushing over (really bad) fanfic. And that makes me twitch and totally understand the high school bully impulse, which I do not find a pleasant thing.
