I'm just mad that Starbuck slept with Baltar. But then that's mitigated by the fact that she just used him for sex.

Which just proves her point that she's a screwup, because really there are a number of better choices than the insane Baltar.

and jettison him.

Poor Cylon!CKR

Which just proves her point that she's a screwup, because really there are a number of better choices than the insane Baltar.

Yeah, it it kinda' a cry for help.

Or maybe she just ran out of cigars.

I apparently have the lowest standards in the world or something. I like the show and the characters a lot.

Hey! I am insulted by extension. OK, no I'm not. But I do like the show a lot even though some of the individual characters bug/bore me (not a new experience in TV watching, really). I have the love.

OK, but I do have to say that watching the deleted scenes from this ep make the scene where Lee gets on Kara's case about Baltar even less understandable to me. There's one with the two of them, and, well, I don't see how he got from the deleted scene to the scene we saw in the ep. But, whatever, it's a deleted scene, so I guess it doesn't, technically, have to fit in. Still, it's odd.

I was going to say that I wanted to see someone beat down Baltar -- maybe Adama -- but Baltar is too pathetic for a beating.

Yesterday I was watching Sharpe's Regiment and there were pompous asses and truly insane people who needed a good beating, but instead they either got off or were just left crying in a river. Which - whoo! Shame, but on the other hand was much less than what he deserved.

I finally had the chance to catch up with BSG. I loved the episode, especially the teaser. Oh, God, that music. So gorgeous. And all that heightened emotion and despair. It left me quite breathless.

Lee was being a prick, but I didn't mind, because he'd struck me a bit too much of a squicky-clean golden boy so far (well, except for that bit in which he tortured a prisoner with Starbuck.) And Roslin's newly-emerged religious fanaticism both fascinates and frightens me. Also: kudos to the writers for having Starbuck use people for sex--I understand Starbuck from the old BSG was a playboy, and it had kind of chafed my hide that they seemed to have shied away from making Starbuck promiscuous just because she was "a girl".

I thought Starbuck was still a wee bit too conflicted over the sex. Not a playboy analogue like I was hoping.

I thought Starbuck was still a wee bit too conflicted over the sex.

Wasn't she conflicted only when Lee got mad at her? Or when she realized (during the Baltar boinkage) that she loved Lee (if that's what happened)?

Yelling Lee's name was way not slick. The almost-secretly wanting to have meaningful sex with someone else tarnished it for me.