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.

Okay, does this make any sense?

I thought the piano player was Starbuck's father and that his image came out of her own mind. Since I am now assuming she is half-cylon, I figure she has the power to do the visualization stuff that Boomer did with Tyrol.

One thing I didn't particularly like about the BSG episode is that I thought it was a little too heavy in the ship=Roslin symbolism, which I assume will only get WAY worse next week.

a little too heavy in the ship=Roslin

I didn't pick that up at all. I barely remember her in the ep, beyond signing Boomers extradition papers and collapsing at the end.

Interestingly, Bear mentioned that a Roslin/Adama subplot got completely cut from the ep.

does this make any sense?

makes sense to me! Although I'm not sure that it then follows that her father was Daniel . . . could be that her father was a child of Daniel or one of the other Final Five, and Starbuck is 1/4 cylon.

eta that I hope he is Daniel because Roark is hot!

Adama says something like "I'm not giving up on this ship" and then we cut to a reaction shot of Roslin in the same room.

Then when Galactica get a hole in the side, she passes out. I just wish they had softened that a little. I get that Roslin and Galactica are both dying.