So true.

Killing Dualla seems like a copout - you know -- from the whole triangle situation.

Glad that they didn't do that.

On the one hand, the racist doctor plot kind of blew. On the other hand, Helo spent an awful lot of this episode in his underwear, and we got to see Head!Baltar again. So not a total loss.

Exactly. It all evens out.

Could this have been set-up for something else?

I just finished listening to the podcast, and according to RDM, it was supposed to be a setup for a (now-dropped) plot point connecting a massacre of Saggitarons on New Caprica to Baltar and his trial, also involving Zarek and peripherally Gaeta. But, they decided not to go that way with the trial after they had already filmed this ep, so they removed some things to make it less "This Is Important!" set-up for something that is no longer important, but had to leave in some stuff that ends up going nowhere (the racism, Dualla's coming to terms with her heritage, etc.).

I loved the Head!Baltar scene! I still have hopes for Head!Baltar and Chip!Six to be in the same scene together someday.

I loved the Head!Baltar scene!

I smiled so hard. When the hell does BSG ever make you SMILE? Geez. She wants to be human like he wants to be a Cylon! They're so made for each other!

Also, I'm sort of getting pissed at the "bonus scenes." It's like they're rubbing in our faces that they didn't bother to show us the good stuff.

However, my theory that Sam cannot be possessed by a demon is now shot to hell, damnit.

Man, I'm just pretty much rolling in the spoilers like a cat in catnip.

...the fact that they have gone canonically with Evil!Possessed!Sam just makes the Dean MPreg story I read months ago seem that much more plausible. (In which Sam is possessed, and kidnaps Dean, and, ah, does very hotbad things to him, and then is unpossessed, and they are both traumatised beyond the telling of it, and then Dean discovers that the demon left him pregnant, and that it's going to rip its way out of him, and that he can't easily kill it (in a Darla-esque manner) - and when he comes close to managing to kill it...discovers that it's human.A baby girl. And of course Dean is trying not to blame Sam, but is thoroughly screwed up, and Sam is blaming himself, and it's just all Very Bad Indeed. Um. And I have to say, although this is almost the only MPreg I've ever read, I thoroughly enjoyed it. In a oh-crap-yes-that-is-actually-canonically-plausible kinda way. Um. Not that canon would ever go there, because of the gay, but the demon wouldn't be squeamish about the manner in which it breaks the boys into tiny wee pieces, I think.)

The podcast was kind of depressing this week, because I think their original idea for the episode was much more interesting than the Racism is Bad, Especially The Eugenics Kind ep they ended up with. If the Saggitarons aren't going to be an ongoing plot, why not trim down that side of the ep, and leave in more Helo character development moments?

I did like the scene in the bar, even if the "Boy, Saggitarons suck, don't they? Did we mention that they're the colony we all think SUCKS?" dialogue was pretty heavy-handed. It was the first time in forever Dee's had a scene that wasn't about being married to Lee Adama.

I just wanted so badly for the doctor's storyline to have some kind of twist to it. Even if it was just that he was experimenting on them (instead of flat-out poisoning), or that he was giving them the right treatment, but the interactions with their own herbal remedies turned out to be deadly. Something. Anything.

I'm listening to the podcast now.

Part of me thinks that they didn't just ditch this episode because they got Bruce Davison to guest in it.

Dresden Files: Folks over at TWOP are wondering what I was -- is Heather the Werewolf INSTEAD of Susan the Vampire ? I guess we will see.