This show is great; too bad it only comes on once per week (after a year of waiting)! !

He tries to kill the Cylon he thinks is Boomer on Kobol. She doesn’t resist. He suddenly has a sharp pain. She says something like “What did you expect?” or something. What does he experience pain trying to strangle her?

The episode where it’s his anniversary. It’s not flashbacks that he’s walking through, he’s walking through a vision he’s created for himself in the present. This is the same thing that one of the Cylons reveals to Baltar when they’re on one of the base ships. “You’re walking through a steel hallway, while I’m walking through a beautiful forest.”

The one Cylon, first season, tells Laura “Adama is a Cylon.”

Maybe he was telling the truth?

More interesting to me at the moment (after just watching Eye of Jupiter Pt I the first time) is who the Cylon skin jobs really are. I think they may actually be the Olympian gods and goddesses. I’m thinking this, admittedlyinfluenced by just listening to Karen Armostrong’s The Great Transformation, all 19disks, because the ongoing struggle among the Cylon skin jobs re whether to exterminate, ingoreor let mankind slide is reminiscent of the arguments among the Olympian deities in works such as the Iliad and throughout Greek mythology. ANother contributing factor is the Cylon int he tub who runs the base ship and babbles nonsense which actually is a metaphor– exactly like the ORacle at Delphi. It’s interesting that it seems to take Baltar, who is imbued with a background of human culture and knowledge, do decpiher “the eye of the husband of the eye of the cow,” etc. much as though the Cylon neural netweork has to tap in to the human collective consciuosness to understand what’s going on. A third factor is th evolution of compassion in some of the cylon models, leading them to function in roles of assisting humanity (like an angel a bodhisattva, or a Prometheus) — Athena being the foremost example but even Caprica Six. Any irony in Athena, the goddess who helps the wandering Odysseus, the Greek human warrior/adventurer/improviser, rescuing Adama and Helo, and the whole human race, so many times? Finally, Armstrong writes about the cyclical changes in ancient cultrues between the “high god” who is distant and uninvolved in daily human life vs the pantheons of lower gods of the hunt, agriculture etc who form the day to day devotional pantheon. As civilizations progress the primacy of the “high god” is first great, then wanes, then resurges, depending on the needs of the culture. In some cycles Yahweh or Allah is one of many in the divine court, in others heis the supreme and even only god. Is the divine hierarchy here that Colonial culture is in its polytheistic phase while the cylon/olympian pantheon is plugged in to the “high god” and recognition that they are merely superhuman in many ways but not truly divine — because they lack compassion, vulnerability, the ability to die and reproduce or escape their own stories/legendary frameworks? Are the FInal 5 the olympian deities who the first six (perhaps subdeities or demigods like Hercules (oh what a giveaway) cannot directly see becausethey are yet another hierarchy above?

Naaaaahhhhhhh!

In the new 4th season, Galactica and the Cylons will find Earth, but not our Earth … I’m pretty sure the producers won’t make the same mistake as in Galactica 1980.