[CaptainCrunch]

Ok, my thoughts and if this gets long, its just too bad for you.

We knew that the season and the trial was going to end tonight, and we also knew from Ron Moore that at least one of the 5 Cylon's would be revealed, and we certainly got both and more in spades. The show certainly threw the morality play into chaos as Adama over the last few episodes has become cynical and a bit of a single minded hard ass, first with his threats against the strikers, the Callie, then declaring that Baltar didn't deserve a trial, then basically shunning his son. Tonight he took a small step into the light by encouraging his son to basically go outside of all legal practices by making a long speech that condemmned the human legal system, and in doing so set a traitor free. I have to admit that Gaeta lying on the stand took me by surprise in a small way, and his smug little smile as he did it was disturbing. I really enjoyed Baltar's defense lawyer who in the end used Apollo's honesty against his own trial strategy. Now we have to ask ourselves who were the people that saved Baltar in the end, are they part of an appeasement group that needs a hero, Cylon agents or sympathizers.

to be honest, I misjudged things totally, I had guessed that Baltar would be executed and would wake up on a Cylon basestar thus becoming one of the lost 5, and because of his death and ressurection, would become a jesus like figure for both the human's and the Cylons and would lead them both to earth. Boy would I suck as a script writer.

The dream in the entry to the opera house became a little more surreal as all members of the dream including Hera were equally effected by the dream, and they threw doubt into the missing 5 as Caprica stated that they shouldn't have been able to link like that. We knew that Athena was a cylon and hera was a half cylon and Caprica was a cylon, but Roslin being linked into it pointed to her being our mysterious Cylon.


Interesting point in using "All along the watch tower, to be honest I had figured out the tune from the way they were all humming it throughout the episode, now was this music some kind of Cylon code activation or was it a signal from earth activating the missing 5 cylons?

Revealing 4 out of 5 Cylon's was a pretty interesting turn around and a little un expected, and its interesting that Anders lost his wife to the Cylon's, Tyrell went through hell because of a cylon, Tigh had his eye ripped out of his head by a Cylon, but Torres was a relatively minor character. The interesting statement at the end was when Tigh and Torres basically pledged thier loyalties to thier masters, Tigh with Adama and Torres with Roslin, will history repeat itself and the machines will betray thier masters again? Interesting that we didn't see the 5th Cylon, which means that it wasn't on the Galactica, that leaves two, one is Apollo which isn't likely since he is Adama's natural son, the other is Starbuck, but she also had a biological mother and father. So who's the fifth Cylon or is it waitng on earth for both species to show up.

Nice swerve by Katee and Moore who interviewed on the web as being done with the show, to make an appearance, but is she real or a dream character in the same way that she died, and is she actually leading Lee to earth or to his death? Thats the true cliff hanger as the show ended with a view of what could be the planet earth, and Starbucks assertation that she'd been there.

All in all this was the Galactica that I think I was waiting for all season, it had a bit of everything as we dipped back into the mythology, into human morality and the sense of justice, some nice looking special effects, a massive twist in who the Cylon's were and two huge cliffhangers?

1) Who were the people with Baltar?

2) Is it Starbuck for real, and can she lead them to earth.

September seems so far away.