Starbuck, however, is getting on my nerves. She all but puts a noose around Kat's neck and then, in an act of "mercy" gives her some sleeping pills, but is too cowardly to stick around for the end. I'm rather tired of her self-absorbed bullsh*t.

Well even ignoring the fact that the two of them have never really gotten along Starbuck had some pretty legitimate reasons to be pissed off. Those viper pilots really need to depend on eachother since one screwing up can easily mean the death of another. This is probably a large part of the reason why Starbuck was so mad about Kat getting hooked on stims, because Kat was putting everyone else at risk while high. Now finding out that Kat was lying about who she was, that she was actually a drug runner, and someone from her old life was exerting some kind of influence over her. Starbuck now had very legitimate reasons to doubt Kat's trustworthiness and reasons to think that Kat may have been placing herself and other pilots at risk.

Well even ignoring the fact that the two of them have never really gotten along Starbuck had some pretty legitimate reasons to be pissed off. Those viper pilots really need to depend on eachother since one screwing up can easily mean the death of another. This is probably a large part of the reason why Starbuck was so mad about Kat getting hooked on stims, because Kat was putting everyone else at risk while high. Now finding out that Kat was lying about who she was, that she was actually a drug runner, and someone from her old life was exerting some kind of influence over her. Starbuck now had very legitimate reasons to doubt Kat's trustworthiness and reasons to think that Kat may have been placing herself and other pilots at risk.

Okay, Starbuck and Kat had previous issues, but from the start of this episode Starbuck was a total d*ck to Kat, automatically assuming that Kat was witholding food, which is the only reason she started stalking her. As far as the pilots depending on each other, it was Starbuck, not Kat, who keeps putting wedges into the team.

Starbuck has become a self-destructive self-absorbed a-hole and she doesn't care, even after repeated chances to redeem herself. Her attacks on Kat were never about team unity, and when finally confronted with her own prejudice she would rather Kat "go away" in the guise of a mercy death than suck it up and show some friggin' compassion.

I'm rather tired of her self-absorbed bullsh*t.

I'm rather tired of her self-absorbed bullsh*t.

Man, I'm right with ya on this... I'd even go further and say you could apply this same comment to half the cast. I'm finding it hard these days to find a character I actually like :(

Starbuck, however, is getting on my nerves. She all but puts a noose around Kat's neck and then, in an act of "mercy" gives her some sleeping pills, but is too cowardly to stick around for the end. I'm rather tired of her self-absorbed bullsh*t.

However, the whole exploration of what happens during resurrection is a little scary to me in where it can lead the storyline. Specifically, I'm afraid we're could veer off into JJ Abrhams territory a la Lost, where there is continual tease but never any resolution. This is already happening to some extent; surely D'Anna knows at least SOMETHING about the Unseen 5 she could tell Baltar, and why should trans-ressurection dreams be about the UF anyway?

There is hope, tho. Basically, the experiences between bodies impliy the Cylons have a religious soul. The next logical step is for D'Anna is to realize she will never be able to enter the afterlife as long as she continuously resurrects into a new body in this life. So I'm calling it - when Lawless's guest shot is up, D'Anna will deliberately die outside of range of a resurrection ship. Sort of a Cylon version of Flatliners.

However, the whole exploration of what happens during resurrection is a little scary to me in where it can lead the storyline. Specifically, I'm afraid we're could veer off into JJ Abrhams territory a la Lost, where there is continual tease but never any resolution. This is already happening to some extent; surely D'Anna knows at least SOMETHING about the Unseen 5 she could tell Baltar, and why should trans-ressurection dreams be about the UF anyway?

There is hope, tho. Basically, the experiences between bodies impliy the Cylons have a religious soul. The next logical step is for D'Anna is to realize she will never be able to enter the afterlife as long as she continuously resurrects into a new body in this life. So I'm calling it - when Lawless's guest shot is up, D'Anna will deliberately die outside of range of a resurrection ship. Sort of a Cylon version of Flatliners.

It doesn't have to necessarily be religious. Could be that when their mind is being rebuilt by the resurrection mechanisms, they are put in touch with repositories of information that they otherwise can't access... or something. D'Anna filtering that through her religious framework on the world sees it as visions from between life and death or from god or something. A more pragmatic cylon might see it more like a brief attempt through a noisy channel to sync a small, size limited, database with a much larger one that has a very different organization.

However, the whole exploration of what happens during resurrection is a little scary to me in where it can lead the storyline.....

There is hope, tho. Basically, the experiences between bodies impliy the Cylons have a religious soul.

It doesn't have to necessarily be religious. Could be that when their mind is being rebuilt by the resurrection mechanisms....

I'd actually prefer it to be religious. Because, if they make it technical it would require too much Star Trek technospeak to explain it all. A religious reason they could leave mysterious without requiring all explaining technical mumbo jumbo.

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There is hope, tho. Basically, the experiences between bodies impliy the Cylons have a religious soul. The next logical step is for D'Anna is to realize she will never be able to enter the afterlife as long as she continuously resurrects into a new body in this life. So I'm calling it - when Lawless's guest shot is up, D'Anna will deliberately die outside of range of a resurrection ship. Sort of a Cylon version of Flatliners.

>The Cylon plot seems unrelated at first, but it's clear that the two lines are heading for a collision fairly soon...

Au contrair. In addition to the obvious Eye of Jupiter connection we're building up to, the viewer is obviously meant to compare and contrast Kat and D'Anna's changing attitudes to facing death. At least, that's what jumped out at me...

— it might have been nice if the food shortages had been mentioned last week as a growing problem —

The problem and development in this episode were good, but in some ways I found last week's held together better. I found this week's a bit choppy, or perhaps I should say, "jumpy."