Would have taken away from Hera's special place in the universe, but wouldn't have had me thinking "Oh, fuck you Galen" during all of the projection sequences.

Yeah, I had that same problem. Perhaps I could buy it if they'd given him a few minutes of screen time justifying to himself how all the blows of his recent history made him unlikely to be an acceptable dad to anyone.

Athena's mouth was bound.

Even so, noises are still possible, and she was close enough that even a small throat-sound could be heard. I suppose I'll go with the idea that she was really really out of it to the point that Athena didn't realize in the moment who was outside the closet and that she had no cognizance that she herself was in pain or bound. Especially given how out of it she still was when she found Helo.

I was surprised that Boomer's jump could do so much damage to a ship that has withstood nuclear explosions. I think rather than radiant energy, the damage from being too close to a jump is from space itself distorting to fill the suddenly absent volume and yanking nearby objects (or parts of objects) along with it.

Does make coordinating jumps with dozens of nearby spaceships a more impressive feat.

It seems likely that the ship isn't going to make it. Poor sad Galactica.

Blind optimist that I am, I am convincing myself that since we all expect the series to end with a massive amount of pain and hopelessness that we will be pleasantly surprised.

The last look of the pianist to Kara was so fatherly. I really liked those scenes a lot. Of course, the music has always been on the top of the list of things I like about this show so the more the better. (couldn't bring myself to say merrier)

There was another thign that was said earlier - something about a "lab". Not the resurrection hub. Maybe that's where the Daniel came from.

On the other hand he was a Head!PapaThrace - someone Kara needed to talk to much as Head!Six and Head!Baltar are people Baltar and Caprica needed - were they all Daniel? I thought that we didn't believe that the visions that Sam was talking about were Daniel.

And I also was upset that the Chief has so completely forgotten Nicky. It makes no sense at all.

Pushing Daisies - I read this on TVShowsondvd but it is originally from Ausiello: Warner cannot set dvd release dates until ABC airs the last three episodes or their option runs out. (It runs out in September.)

Bear McCreary blogs about "Someone to Watch Over Me."

There’s a scene where Slick confesses his writer’s block and tells Kara that he’s been “at it for four days now. It’s Hell.” Those were my exact words...

Now it makes sense why that line struck me as profoundly honest and unscripted.

I really wish Nicky had never been written into the show in the first place. Because the way he was written out pretty much guarantees that I'm going to feel no sympathy for Tyrol losing his imaginary daughter after fucking abandoning his REAL STILL ALIVE CHILD. Not his biologically, sure, but he was Nicky's parent for 2 years. He doesn't get to walk away from that and take any of my sympathy with him.

I don't know how often this happens in real life, but I think it's a completely repugnant story line.

I took the imaginary daughter to be a projection of Hera, and so the disappearance was just confirmation that Hera was gone, and Chief was freaking out over Hera, not the imaginary daughter. I dunno, I suddenly leapt to a place where the girls were "daughters of an 8" and therefore they were suddenly both Hera. That the loss of the imaginary compounded the loss of the real.