I almost felt that there was too much going on, and that there was almost no progress because of that.

Sure, there was a little progress in all of the plotlines that were in the episode, but it was scattered among them all and it ended up just feeling like baby steps with no overall progress.

I almost felt that there was too much going on, and that there was almost no progress because of that.

Sure, there was a little progress in all of the plotlines that were in the episode, but it was scattered among them all and it ended up just feeling like baby steps with no overall progress.

I concur! It's a lot of build up, we're obviously going somewhere, but isn't it time to be at the top of that first roller coaster hill already?

Was it just me or did it seem like Baltar's Six was more than just a halucination...

Was it just me or did it seem like Baltar's Six was more than just a halucination...

I noticed that as well. Also, that Six gave Tori an interesting look at the very end of the episode. Was it jealousy, "You're one of the Five!", or something else?

Was it just me or did it seem like Baltar's Six was more than just a halucination outside the temple when he was being beat up by the guards outside the temple. When Six picked him up, it looked like someone was holding him up from behind. When they showed it from the perspective of everyone else, it still looked like he was being held up, but this time by an invisible entity.

Was it just me or did it seem like Baltar's Six was more than just a halucination outside the temple when he was being beat up by the guards outside the temple. When Six picked him up, it looked like someone was holding him up from behind. When they showed it from the perspective of everyone else, it still looked like he was being held up, but this time by an invisible entity.

I'm thinking Baltar's head-Six is more than just a hallucination, as is Caprica Six's head-Baltar. We now know they can move between the flesh/skinjob Baltar and Six. I am wondering if the two can manifest in one person/cylon at the same time? I'm also wondering if they can act as messengers?

I enjoyed this very busy episode.

As for Chief, he has proven to himself that he does have other capabilities -- he pulled a 24 hour shift and didn't need sleep. He did what he did so he would be removed from a position of responsibility on Galactica's flight deck. He believes Cylon programming can override free will. He doesn't want to be used to sabotage the fleet's defenses.

-Joe

He's now just the latest of the four to cease to be a person AND for me cease to be a meaningful character on the show. Everything hes done is meaningless. Tori and the Chief are now plot devices to move along the story. Not to say that's bad, but thats what they are now. Anders character isn't as deep as the chief and I predict his cylon meltdown to happen in the next episode and to be a key factor in stopping Starbuck from finding Earth. Tigh stands as the best character of the four left and really the only one who I think has a chance to stay human. Six's games with him this episode are really interesting and I think she's aiming at making him feel more human and not more cylon. I'm certain the way she was acting that she knows hes one of the five. If Tigh ends up melting down and betraying Adama, I'll be really dissapointed.

I like the gods vs the one true god and such, but, to me, they are dwelling on it rather than tastefully hinting towards it.

I like the gods vs the one true god and such, but, to me, they are dwelling on it rather than tastefully hinting towards it.

Agreed. Plus, Xena already did that, and I can't help drawing comparisons. ;)

They're drawing upon the same historical events, of course. The Battlestar galaxy not only has the Classical pantheon and a Judeo-Christianesque God, this ep also mentions a Mithras cult.

"This remarkable explanation of the tauroctony is based on two facts. First, every figure found in the standard tauroctony has a parallel among a group of constellations located along a continuous band in the sky: the bull is paralleled by Taurus, the dog by Canis Minor, the snake by Hydra, the raven by Corvus, and the scorpion by Scorpio. Second, Mithraic iconography in general is pervaded by explicit astronomical imagery: the zodiac, planets, sun, moon, and stars are often portrayed in Mithraic art; in addition, numerous ancient authors speak about astronomical subjects in connection with Mithraism. In the writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry, for example, we find recorded a tradition that the cave which is depicted in the tauroctony and which the underground Mithraic temples were designed to imitate was intended to be 'an image of the cosmos.'"