[Cowperson]

Hot Dog!!! You ole sea dog you!!!

That was pretty funny. Obviously there were some shenanigans just prior to New Caprica or on New Caprica, probably before marriage to Gaylon, unless you want to think the worst of Cally.

Wasn't it Hot Dog scratching his crotch one episode with Helo saying "I hope she was worth it buddy!!"

The only disappointing thing I found in the episode was Gaylon's rather sudden allegiance to the Cylons, entirely plausible I suppose but I don't think there had been any lead up to it.

Tigh seems to be loyal to humanity although also unabashedly thrilled to be a Cylon daddy . . . . . but boinking Tricia Helfer in a cell would put a smile on anyone's face anyway.

Cottle's nurse, paramedic Kaye Ishay is obviously going to be involved in something nefarious regarding Six's baby in a future episode. (Minor trivia - she's (Kerry Norton), Apollo's (Jamie Bamber's) wife in real life.

This does all seem to be leading to a dark, dark ending, which should be no surprise since the cast has been pretty much saying that very thing for months.

Significant charaters are going to be dying along the way and, as I noted earlier, we should ponder what kind of ending we would need for the cast to describe it as alternately "tragic," "poetic," and "beautiful," leaving many of them in tears after they'd read the final script.

It is also an ending so final that there won't be possibility of sequels. Too dark? Particularly if it's a drawn-out popping off a few at a time, a destructive spiral of scratching and clawing each other's eyes out rather than a heroic, climatic final explosion of a Battlestar? I guess that might be something that comes down to personal opinion.

Perhaps Adama will now be taking on the roll of a "dying leader." His pill-popping and grimacing as well as his sudden attention to fastidiousness seemed to have some emphasis. It wouldn't surprise me to see Adama and Roslin off themselves together. They're becoming centre-points for divisiveness. Will they remove themselves?

The creators apparently did a lot of research into suicides, with the conclusion that a lot of those close to those killing themselves stating "they never saw it coming." That was the theme they wove into Dee's suicide.

Zarek's roots are showing again. Convicted terrorist, quick to council insurrection and violence to achieve power, ties to black marketeering and influence peddling in a past episode, a manipulator . . . . . and once had signed off on a death warrant for Gaeta.

Gaeta's sudden, overwhelming distrust and hatred of anything connected to Cylons is obviously tied in with his experience in the webisodes preceding the season.

Considering what the marooned Sharon told him about her activities on New Caprica, the selling of "hope," no wonder he's skeptical of teams of Cylons showing up on every ship in the fleet with a miracle FTL cure.

I guess Starbuck is going to keep her little secret of finding herself dead . . . . . and we still don't know what Leoben said at the Cylon party once he got back to their ship.

I'm still favouring the whole bunch going down in a bloody trail of destruction where no one is left alive but Starbuck, Hera and Six's child, which I would now presume is going to be a boy . . . . . from which the tale of "all that has happened before will happen again" begins anew.

Minor notes: RD Moore confirmed in a blog that they did find Earth 2000 years in the future of our own, Dana D'Biers does indeed stay behind on Earth, Dee will not be coming back through some resurrection miracle and Ellen is indeed the fifth Cylon. The inference from his comments is that we will be seeing Ellen again somehow.

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