Battlestar Galactica Finally Moves Along

Frak, the last few episodes have just been long and blah blah blah and set-up. Finally we get some action!!! Lots of gun pointing and shooting and killing. Excellent.

Plus we still get some blah-blah-blah in the form of Bald President Roslin and her thoughts on religion and death. That was actually interesting though because Mary McDonnell is such a great actress, she really sucked me in to those scenes.

But the real meat of the episode was all the action, centering around the Cylon offer of a truce. We open with a mutiny, Starbuck being overthrown because she wants to jump to a Cylon baseship for help finding Earth while everyone else wants to go home. There's a Mexican standoff and Anders shoots Gaeta in the leg, ensuring that Gaeta will lose that leg and that I will hate Anders forever.

Starbuck decides to instead take a Raptor to the baseship. Anders, Athena, and a random chick (Red Shirt alert!) go with her. I was hoping Anders would get his dumb undercover Cylon ass outed, mostly because he shot MY MAN!

So that crew jumps to the baseship and - shocker - the Red Shirt gets it. That's a little too predictable for this show. I'm disappointed. Six kills her, as revenge for the chick killing a Six back on New Caprica. Then there's another great Mexican standoff with Anders taking out some of his misplaced Frak-I'm-a-Cylon aggression and threatening to kill Six. The Gina Six intervenes and, in a pretty cool scene since the characters are played by the same actress, Gina Six kisses Six and then shoots her in the back of the head. NICE!

Starbuck visits the ship's Hybrid and the Hybrid tells her 3 things. A dying leader will know the truth of the Opera House. (So that's the Pres, I don't know what the truth is.) The missing 3 will give you the 5 who come from the home of the 13th. (That means the Xena Cylon knows the identity of the final 5 Cylons, who came from Earth and presumably know the way back.) And - oh yeah - Starbuck is the harbinger of death. So there's that happy news.

The baseship jumps to meet Helo and the gang with -20 seconds to spare. So now they can all travel happily back to Galactica.

Whew. A lot happened. Finally.