Willravel

I think it's safe to assume that all previews for the next episode contain spoilers.
You forgot about Kat already?

There are only a few characters that probably won't die (perminantly): Admiral Adama, President Roselyn, Apollo, Starbuck, Baltar, and the cylons. Everyone else is fair game including: Helo (though that would espically piss me off), Athena Sharon (she could be boxed), Dee, Anders, Tigh, Tyrol and his wife, Gaeta, and Tom "where the heck did he dissapear to?" Zerek.

Neeways, how amazing was that episode? It had me on my seat the whole time. We got to hear "Prelude to War" by Bear McCrary as Adama was preparing to nuke the planet and it really drove the urgency and danger home. The looks on everyone's faces changed it from a bluff situation into a real possibility. He's just crazy enough to do it.

I'm still wrapping my head around Starbuck and Apollo. They really are the Ross and Rachel of the 12 Colonies. Will they? Won't they? So now Starbuck is suggesting that she can't get a divorce because marriage is a sacred promise, even though she fracks around with all sorts of sailors and such. Are we to assume that their marriage vows don't include singlular devotion? Also, I'm really dissapointed in Apollo. His character has been back and fourth, but it seemed as if he always was trying to do the right thing. He fought his father and Tigh when they were wrong. He fought Zarek. He fought the various Pagesus captians. He might as well have a big yellow S on his chest. While he obviosuly has intamacy issues (Lee loves the hookerfolk), I didn't see him cheating on his wife with a married woman, even if he is in love with her. Another thing that's funny to me, Jamie and Katee have great chemestry, but their love scenes are kinda awkward. Is that intentional?
As to the main storyline: I'm beginning to be confused about the connection between the final 5 and the Eye of Jupiter. De'Anna is continually committing suicide because she feels she is becomign closer to the truth about the final 5 and also the true nature (and face of) the cylon God. The final 5 are presumably only 40 years old at the most. We've found a temple that was prophisized in the sacred books of Kobol, it has 5 pillars. When the hybrid cylon grabbed Baltar, she said "Intelligence, a mind that burns like a fire," presumably referring to Baltar, "...find the hand that lies in the shadow of the light, in the eye of the husband, in the eye of the cow." Thanks to Baltars reasoning, we figure out that Hera is commonly called cow eyed Hera, and the husband of Hera is Zeus or Jupiter. To this, De'anna suggests a connection between the cylon god and the theology of the 12 Colonies. Baltar figures that the Eye of Jupiter is hidden in a cluster of starts (shawdow of light). The hand? Baltar thinks that the hand is some sort of artifact...but then makes the connection between the five fingers and 5 faces...did he really mean the final 5? I mean there were 5 priests at the temple at one time, according to the scriptures, but could Baltar mean that: 1) the final 5 have accepted the Colonial theology to be their faith and have taken the place of the 5 preists? 2) The final 5 are hiding on the planet? 3) The final 5 have some connection to the history of the temple and thus the voyage of the 13th tribe?

And what about the massive coincedence that they all arrived at once, just before the star was going to go nova (as Gaeta and Baltar pointed out)? Could this show finally move from coincedence to an actual higher power playing a role? I mean the other stuff was history, though the stuff about Laura being sick and leading the people is really amazing, but this is getting silly. Also, I wonder what roll the cylon eventually play in the mythology of the 13 tribes reuniting? I need to get that book!

Neeways, enough ranting for now. I await January with eager anticipation.