I want to just rewatch the reaction shots in this episode, because there were some great ones:
- The look on Apollo's face when Anders told him, "I know my wife. I know how she is. We've been married a year and a half. Do you think you’re the first?"
- The expression on Adama's face when he discovered that Laura had lied about Sharon and Helo's baby being dead.
- The disbelief when Boomer told Sharon that her baby was still alive.
- The hurt look on Caprica's face when she found out that Baltar and D'Anna were cavorting and leaving for earth without her.
- The pissed glare that Roslin gave when she found out that Adama was going ahead with the nuclear launch.
- And best of all, the shock, disgust and disbelief by Adama when he found out that Baltar was still alive and on a Cylon ship.

Oh, then there was the expression on my face (and that of the entire audience at the screening I saw) when the words "To be continued" popped up on screen. There was actually an audible gasp. Sure I realize in my mind that there is no way that the nuclear attacks can happen. There are too many important people down on that planet, Apollo, Starbuck, Tyrol, Baltar and D'Anna, that's a big hunk of the cast. At least most of them have to survive, right?

I am however worried about Anders. Was Starbuck trying to suggest him for a suicide mission in order to solve her impossible dilemma with Apollo? He won't cheat and she won't get divorced. That was some bizarre logic she had there. Which made me think that maybe her suggestion to Apollo to deploy Anders, knowing that he wasn't skilled in this field, might have been her attempt to off her husband. It is either that or she was trying to make nice with her hubby by helping him get a big new job so that he wouldn't be so angry about all the cheating.

I also didn't get why Dean Stockwell thought that wiping out the Galactica would wipe out the entire human race. As soon as the Cylons blipped on to the radar, the rest of the human-filled vehicles leapt out of the neighborhood. Not saying the humans wouldn't be hard hit if they lost the Galactica crew, but they'd still be around.

I really still can't get over how Baltar felt like he was at home on the Galactica, and how he seemed to think he'd have a chance of returning there at some point. Number Six had some sense, "You know you can't return. They'd toss you out the nearest airlock and throw a party." Considering that at least once per episode, that is my exact reaction to him. He's just so icky. And I can't believe that Brother Cavil actually thought that throwing Baltar into the mix would sweeten the pot instead of acting as a tart taste. I thought Roslin put it best, "The less this man says, the better this will go."

I was interested in the whole gods stuff and the eye of Jupiter. I thought it was cute that Tyrol wasn't a non-believer, but yet he found the temple, like it was calling out to him or something. Especially since he tried so hard to blatantly disobey the gods and his parents, "I would dance around naked with porn magazines to defy them."

But the most interesting concept that I thought was explore more in tonight's episode was the idea that the longer the Cylons are around the humans, the more they start to develop feelings and ideas of their own and the less robotic they become. I know that they've been delving into that all along with Sharon. But to also see D'Anna go out on her own with a concept in order to complete herself serving plan to find the final five Cylon models, was a cool twist. As was seeing how hurt Caprica was by D'Anna and Baltar's actions. Her desperate, "I loved you when everyone else wanted you dead," comment sounded quite a bit like deep human emotion and less like something a machine would say.

Basically I thought it was a great episode, the cliffhanger left me wanting more and not wanting to wait until the end of January, but it could be a lot worse, so I'm trying not to complain too much.

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