BSG question: was that bar on the Galactica? In the Hanger Bay where the civilian refugee camp is set up?

And here is something that's been bugging me for a while: Why is the Algae planet a desert? Shouldn't it have been more hot and watery?

I also want to know what the bar would be serving at this point, given that they should have run out of things to ferment about the same time they ran out of food...

BSG: Yeah, there was a lot that didn't add up, but I liked the way they shifted perspective back to Baltar and somehow made him an interesting character again without really changing things. I also liked the online scene, which could have easily replaced any of that boring Lee Adama's tortured relationship shit and made the show better. I really like that I am suddenly convinced that fucking Baltar of all people is the real hero of the show at this point and that I seem to have more or less sided with him and Caprica against both Galactica and the Cylons. I also like that Roslin's authoritarian streak has brought me around to the point that I cringe whenever she's on-screen, because she used to be my favorite character on the show but now she's turned into Dick Cheney. And I love where I think (unspoiled) that they're headed: humanity as we know it as Cylon hybrids. Because I think the humans on the show have an alien streak they haven't shown us yet, something that's evolved into what we think of as humanity by cross-breeding with Cylons. They look like us, but they are not us.

I liked the way they shifted perspective back to Baltar and somehow made him an interesting character again without really changing things.

I agree, Corwood. I thought to myself that it's amazing that Baltar remains awesome no matter how many times they tread over the very same ground.

The same cannot be said for the Quadrangle of Bore.

The same cannot be said for the Quadrangle of Bore.

Seriously. I could not give less a shit about the Lee and Kara thing. They're assholes. We get it. I bet that war is hell, too, and that hookers have hearts of gold.

Yes, I don't understand how scenes between Caprica and Roslin didn't make it to the actual episode.

I only saw what they showed after the episode - scifi.com kept giving me a connection error when I tried to watch the bonus scene online - but that Caprica-Roslin scene was better than anypart of the episode-as-aired.

I forgot to mention that I took "Take A Break From All Your Worries" to be a play on "Lay Down Your Burdens".

Oh, god, I'm still so over Baltar. His histrionics tire me even more than Lee's watery waffling. Everything thing is shrieking or mustache twirling or hand wringing with him. He did a thing, and he hopes it doesn't mean he was a bad person. I get it. I might buy that as remotely interesting if he hadn't been a self-serving coward after the initial fuckup.

If he was a Cylon the whole time, he's the most pathetic model imaginable, and I'd rather see the line boxed than have more than one of him around.

As for Dee...I haven't forgiven her for Billy. I know two wrongs don't make a right, or whatever, but romantic sympathy for her I just don't have. Even if she had a spotless record (I'm heartless-bite me), she was an idiot marrying Lee just for the scant hope she'd have a bit of him for a teeny bit of time. That's the sort of ridiculousness that would make me shiver with frustration (and absolutely no sympathy) if a friend of mine did it.

Ah, that's a good one Corwood.