Okay, now I'm really sad that Lee is no longer the voice of reason and morality. I love Helo for it, but I can't help but feel that I've witnessed the death of why I'd loved Apollo so.

He might still be, except for issues of genocide of non-human races. Everyone has their blind-spots.

And they totally should have taken the beacon onboard. (They could have quaranteed it.) But I suppose that would have revealed too much too soon - they gotta have stuff to do for a few more seasons.

I thought that was going to go the other way. That the plan would work, but that Baltar's Basestar, with a few accompanying ships, would have already gone far enough out to avoid the plague and isolate themselves. So we'd wind up with a small fleet of the last surviving Cylons. And I was so very excited about that idea that I'm disappointed now.

I thought Boomer (Athena, whatever; she'll always be Boomer to me) getting magically saved was pretty lame. Though the fact that she literally waved her hand and said "Whatever" while explaining it almost redeemed the whole thing.

I thought that was going to go the other way. That the plan would work, but that Baltar's Basestar, with a few accompanying ships, would have already gone far enough out to avoid the plague and isolate themselves. So we'd wind up with a small fleet of the last surviving Cylons. And I was so very excited about that idea that I'm disappointed now.

I was thinking (before the episode) that Adama could tell the Cylons, "We have a way of killing all of you. So stop following us around and being mean to us." So then humans and Cylons have an uneasy truce, and they go their separate ways, and... show looses all conflict... so my idea sorta' petered out there.

I thought Boomer (Athena, whatever; she'll always be Boomer to me) getting magically saved was pretty lame.

I was thinking that they'd just give her shots once a week or whatever. You know, like many other chronic diseases, she'd just live with it.

He might still be, except for issues of genocide of non-human races. Everyone has their blind-spots.

I hope you're right, tommy. I think I was just really turned off by the sudden frat-boy callousness from a character that hasn't really experienced anything personal with the Cylon. It's all just very cold. I was also really hoping that with Lee heading the executions, we'd see him do the horrible deed, but the Cylon survive the downloading and now have a personal vengeance against Apollo for executing them. I want some kind of Apollo/Cylon connection! Adama has Boomer, Helo has Athena, Kara has Leoben, Baltar has Six (and now it looks like D'Anna). I just really want to see Apollo's interactions with the Cylon get personal, to any degree.

Also, I was hoping that there'd be some brief Kara interaction with the infected Leoben. Their connection is just to wonderfully f*d up to let the opportunity slip by like that.

I was thinking that they'd just give her shots once a week or whatever. You know, like many other chronic diseases, she'd just live with it.

me too!

I was thinking that they'd just give her shots once a week or whatever. You know, like many other chronic diseases, she'd just live with it.

I did like Roslin being all "Put 'em all in the airlock!" while Adama had qualms. She's totally Delenn without the headbone.

Also liked Baltar being both Judas and Jesus.

I dunno. Lots of very interesting ideas in that episode. But I wound up feeling like they pulled back from all of the most interesting parts. Is that really it for the virus? They aren't going to even try to think of another way to infect the Cylons? I'd have assumed it was setting up something for later, but at the end it felt like Roslin was all "Oh well, never mind," at the end. Hmph.

Is that really it for the virus?

Yeah, I was expecting them to do a whole arc with it.

I was also thinking (before tonight's EP) that they could cure the hybrid basestar chick and then they'd have their own pet basestar....

They had all this cool exposition in Part I that they didn't use tonight. Oh well - this exposition should pay off in the future....

Well, they can always go back to the Lion's Head Nebula.

I would assume that from there they are moving onwards to Earth. (They really should have picked up that beacon. I'm sure there are messages from the 13th Colony in it.)

I'd just like to give a shout out to The Doctor's hair and scooter. Also, I have a major jones for Rose's shoes.

Carry on.

His hair was nuts - loved the scooter.

Rose was the most colorful thing in 1950s London.