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Paranoia in the fleet has reached fever pitch. The President suspects Adama and vice versa. The Commander has been acting strangley though, and The Pres, has ways of finding out.

Adama left Galactica unannounced, just as a lone cylon fighter enters range and returns just as Appollo damages it. Adama has a surprise aboard the shuttle. Colonel Tighs wife.......

I loved this episode. Tension, suspicion, laugh out loud moments (the dinner party, the confrontation in Baltar's lab.) Tigh's wife is hilarious a total lush, but is she a Cylon? It seems Baltar has finally picked his side and he aint with us.

No more till the 3rd of January (Boo Hiss) They'll be showing Prince Charming for the next two weeks (Yay Sean Maguire, he's biggish in the States you know?)

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I saw this last night, and I found it a little dissapointing. It was a good ep in itself, but it didn't seem to move any of the existing plots along.

I was hoping for some progress on the Galactica Boomer. Seems Baltar is going to keep this little secret for her. I suppose she is going to get away with it until caprica boomer shows up. If everyone passes the cylon test, what makes people convinced it works?

How long can Baltar get away with talking to himself? Several people have already caught him out, and now Starbuck walks in while he is w**king in the lab (you can take those asterisks anyway you want).

It was good seeing the Cylon army being fully mobilised against Helo and Caprica-boomer. I wish they'd spend a little more time on these two though. You only get a scene a week. Looks like Helo is a little suspicious of Boomer (although he doesn't even know about the cylons looking human yet).

I was surprised that the President suspected Adama. As soon as the cylon whispered it last week, she shoved him in an airlock and made a speech about how he is trying to sow the seeds of mistrust. Looks like she wasn't listening to herself. I thought she'd be smarter than that, although I wonder if she's suffering sideeffects from the camala she's been taking. Is it now assumed that the Cylons can mimic the form of existing humans? It would seem unlikely that Adama could be a cylon model, seeing as he has a son. The President did say something about him being replaced. Thinking about it, has Adama told the president that the received the note saying there are only 12 models of cylon?

Did the rogue cylon raider get away in the end? This plot seemed to tail off a bit

Oh, and Tighs wife seems a complete nightmare. I think I wasn't the only one hoping she'd be a cylon.

I loved the character of Mrs Tigh. She was hilarious, I for one am glad she's not a cylon (or is she?) Number 6 did seem a little bit threatened by her presence (or was she just jealous that mrs Tigh was flirting with Gaius?)

I think it showed exceptionally well, how paranoia can destroy the bonds of trust and friendship within even the smallest and tightest group. An interesting psychological study. With, as I mentioned, some really hysterical moments of comedy.

I agree, this seems to be a poor plot device to keep the audience wondering who is and is not a cylon. it's not realistic that Baltar could get away with not finding any cylons at all.

I'm also finding it a little strange that cylons seem to get conflicted emotionally, want to fall in love and interbreed with humans, if that’s what they wanted why not just infiltrate human society instead of nuking it back to the stone age ?

Maybe the "one true god" that has been mentioned a couple of times means that the cylon attack was a religious war. I hope that some of these threads develop and they are not all red herrings.

Just my 2 cents.

I'm hoping they are not going to start spinning these plot lines out for as long as they can. In the early eps, it looked like they were going to tackle them quickly, but in the last few eps, they seem to have been slowing them down. I thought this in Six Degrees of Seperation as well. It looked like they were going to resolve the 'Gauis as traitor' plot, but by the end of the ep, they were back to the status quo. I know that Gauis is a good character, and we didn't really want to see him executed yet, but I thought he might end up living on a base ship, like in the original series. Lets hope they aren't going to fall into the Trek style of episode.

I know that Baltar has decided he is on the side of the cylons, but we know he will do anything that protects his own skin. I'm surprised he hasn't grassed up Boomer, as he would seem like more of a hero, and it would validate his Cylon detector. He isn't particularly close to boomer, and Number 6 didn't seem to care what he did.



I think the motives of the cylons will be revealed as we go on. The emotional conflicts and the interbreeding stuff isn't particularly logical, but then religion rarely is.

You're right - It’s just occurred to me that Gauis hasn’t proved his Cylon detector works to anyone except himself and number 6, we the audience know it does because we saw Boomer’s red results. Everyone else aboard Galactica has just had to take his word for it . .

I think Baltar's detector does w**k, but if anything it's going to serve the Cylons' interests. Coupled with the 'false' accusations against Gaius a few weeks ago, people are unlikely to disbelieve what he's telling them. To this end, it looks like that particular situation was orchestrated to perhaps make sure that people didn't look to closely at his findings from the Cylon detector. Think about it, if Gaius passes Cylons who fail the test (like Sharon), then they'll be free from suspicion to be able to continue monitoring the fleet, infiltrating them, toying with them, whatever they want to.

I thought the episode itself was average for Galactica's standards so far. There flashes of interest, like the continued Helo storyline, and the suspicions against Adama following on from the previous episode, but the only real note of particular interest was that final scene. I'd been wondering why Baltar hadn't told anyone about Boomer, but from that it seems quite clear that he has little intention of unveiling any Cylons who may be hidden.

I hate Tigh's wife.

The only thing I have to say this ep was the brilliant scene between the two Cylons - an incredible dynamic.

When it seems that the human situation couldn't get any worse, Baltar is giving everyone a green. Every week I think that the humans will make a breakthrough, have something to pick up their spirits, and it just gets bleaker.

Pretty soon I'll watch an ep and then slit my wrists :lol:

This is the first episode where I've been checking the time to see how much longer there was to go. I'll be interested to see what else they do with Tigh's wife, because in the context of this episode I didn't think the character worked at all. Some funny moments, but all in all I found it pretty lacklustre.

No, not up to the standards set by the previous three or four episodes, but still, not bad, just ok. The only moment I found particularly interesting in terms of advancing the plot was the final scene where it becomes clear that Baltar's fiddling the test results.

Strangely an average ep when compared to the others, some funny moments and some moments that were meant to be funny :ermm: The Cylon activity on Caprica looked stunning, fantastic CGI :) The Boomer/Helo story was short as usual, but gave us enough to keep more than interested. Number 6’s eyes watering at the thought of feeling the two’s emotions was very interesting, I look forward to seeing how that turns out. I’m finding the Cylon/Human/Religion theme to be puzzling, but I’m sure all will be clear at some stage :)

Mrs Tigh was just plain stupid imo, hope she goes away very soon, and I don’t think she is a Cylon – it seems a bit too obvious, but I could be completely wrong :unsure:


Loved the beginning bit with Star Buck walking in on Baltar :lol: The very end was hilarious too, they were all in the lab congratulating and making up but Baltar was sat in the middle of them all spinning in his chair looking ridiculous, no one said anything :lmao:

I usually loathe the dinner scene with the dissipated loudmouth embarrassing the more civil companions, but that scene saved this episode for me. I was bored with the proceedings leading up to that. At the dinner, the drama intensified. However, it gave away the ending -- of course, Ellen couldn't be declared a Cyclon -- even Baltar's secrecy was predictable (in case the writers need her services in the future).

Kate Vernon was very good and cheaply sexy as required by the role. Michael Hogan was very believable as the smitten Tigh. Olmos's directing was good enuf not be distinguishable from the more professional directors.

From that dinner to the end, the story was character-driven, even slightly melodramatic. Still, it managed to advance the storyline and even incorporate the scifi elements.

Too bad about the usual (and paradoxical) emotion-envy on the parts of the androids.