These are all the original airdates.


1/21/07
    "Rapture" (Part 2 of 2)

12/15/06
    "The Eye of Jupiter" (Part 1 of 2)
    3.11: On the algae planet, civilian crew and some military, including Apollo and Dualla, are collecting algae and supplies for the fleet.  A Raptor lands on the planet at regular intervals to collect things and get updates and stuff, and apparently, Starbuck has been piloting these missions a whole lot.  Dualla has noticed and mentions it to Apollo, and he brushes it off in an "oh, that's Starbuck" kind of way.  Dee seems a little jealous, like she doesn't really buy that explanation.  I don't blame her.  Lee goes to meet the Raptor and Starbuck, and as soon as he gets inside the ship, they start making out.  Guilty!Adultery!Squee!  Wow.  I am surprised.  Okay, not that surprised, but I thought it would have taken a little longer for Lee and Kara to start cheating on their respective spouses.  I guess they just couldn't handle being apart anymore.  EEEE!  Lee stops because he feels guilty.  Kara doesn't feel that guilty, heh heh.  Lee says he wants to get a divorce, implying that Starbuck should too.  Kara isn't going there, and she talks about marriage being a sacrament.  "Divorce is different, this is just bending the rules."  Lee still isn't comfortable because it's a big deal to him.  "So I won't divorce and you won't cheat.  So where does that leave us?" she asks with a touch of sadness.  "Trapped," he replies, equally sad.  WHOA.
    On the Cylon basestar, Baltar talks to Sharon, who is with a crying Hera.  Sharon says Hera is not well.  Uh oh.  On the algae planet, Tyrol wanders off by himself, perhaps drawn by something, and he finds ancient ruins of a temple.  He wonders if this is where the Eye of Jupiter, left here by the 13th tribe, would be.  Then, the Cylons suddenly jump into the system and don't attack.  They want to talk to Adama, so he reluctantly lets Baltar and a few Cylons come onto Galactica.  Yikes.  Baltar is still trying to figure out if he's a Cylon.  On Galactica, the Cylons meet Athena, Adama, and Roslin.  Athena identifies the Sharon model as Boomer, the one who shot Adama and then was killed by Cally.  Athena and Boomer stay behind and have a tense exchange in the hall about the baby that Boomer says is alive.  Athena says she knows where her loyalties lie: with the humans.  She still doesn't believe Boomer about Hera even though Boomer basically lays out the whole story for her.
    At the meeting, the Cylons says they want the Eye of Jupiter, and they believe the humans have found it (even though they really haven't; they've just found the temple, but not the Eye).  Baltar does a lot of the talking, and Roslin can't stand listening to him, so she leaves the room.  Give us the Eye, says the Cylons, and we'll let you go...and give you Baltar.  Baltar starts freaking out; this was not originally in the plan.  The Cylons go back to their basestar to give the humans some time to think it over.
    The people on the planet have to look for the Eye and find it before the Cylons come, and things are tense.  Anders is on the planet too, and he and Kara have a very tense meeting.  Apollo orders Anders to command the civilians to help defend the temple against the Cylons while Tyrol and the others look for the Eye.  Apollo and Anders start to fight, and Starbuck has to get between them.  Anders says something sarcastic about not wanting to get between "you and your Major."  He's very bitter.  In the temple, Tyrol talks about being raised in a religious home, but rebelling against it.  Now he's confused, conflicted, and remembering things his priest father used to talk about with relation to the Eye.  I have to say, even though we still have no idea how that relationship happened, the Chief and Cally are pretty cute. :)
    They discover that a star in the system is about to go supernova, so they have to find the Eye and get the heck outta there before they all die anyway.  The Cylons are convinced that the humans have the Eye, and the Cylon who pretended to be a priest before whose name I can think of right now wants to wipe out the humans once and for all.  Not all Cylons are on board with that plan, but they plan to take the Eye and then take out Galactica.  D'Anna and Baltar believe that they share a special destiny together, and when "Caprica" (that's what they call Baltar's Six) wants to know just what the hell the two of them have been up to, they basically kick her out of their spiritual destiny club.  Poor Six.  She's totally confused and upset about it.
    Anders makes a good speech to the civilian workers about staying together and getting out in one piece, and Apollo tells him he'd make a good officer.  Anders is still bitter and implies that he knows about Apollo and Starbuck's affair.  The temple is called the Temple of Five, and there's stuff written in the scriptures about the 'chosen one' and other things I don't understand.  Dee gives orders and plans for the inevitable Cylon attack, and there is understandable tension between Dee and Starbuck.  I think Dee knows, too.  Starbuck is supposed to take the Raptor on a recon mission or something by herself, but she runs unexpectedly into a bunch of Centurions already on the planet's surface and gets shot down!  Eek!  Apollo and Anders fight about sending people out to rescue Starbuck.  Anders wants to go get her right away, and Apollo can't take the risk of leaving the temple for the Cylons.  Rescuing Starbuck right then would endanger everything.  But they're shouting at each other, and Lee yells that "I have known her and cared about her a hell of a lot longer than you!"  So, I don't know what's gonna happen on the planet with humans fighting and Cylons converging and Starbuck in trouble. :(
    Adama tells Roslin what Boomer told Athena, and it seems like he didn't know about it?  I have to go back and look at that episode again, because I'm surprised that Adama acts like he wasn't aware of what happened with the baby.  She says it's all true, and he walks out on her.  He then tells Helo and Athena that it's true, and Helo is angry.  So is Sharon.  Then she says she wants to see Hera.
    Adama says he will nuke the algae planet to keep the Cylons from getting the Eye.  Will they really nuke it?  The Cylons think they're bluffing, but I don't know...  D'Anna and Baltar get in a ship and head for the planet and the Temple.  Anders goes off to find Starbuck.  Will Lee be able to stop him?  Will Tyrol find the Eye in the Temple of Five?  What's happening to Starbuck?  Will Helo and Sharon ever see Hera again?  AAAAAHHHH!  So many unanswered questions!  But it was a good episode.  Not as good as the last two eps before this one, but still really good.  I wonder if the Chief will find the Eye in time.  I'm itching to see what it is. :D
   

12/8/06
    "The Passage"
    3.10: Because of tainted rations, the fleet is going to starve soon if they don't find food immediately.  Sharon is scouting for a way through this violent radiation storm in space to get to this planet on the other side that might have food.  The pilots all pool their remaining rations and share.  Starbuck gets angry with Kat because she thinks she's holding food back, but Kat denies it.  They're all weak and starving and very on edge.  Plus, Starbuck hates Kat anyway, so where's the surprise there?  Sharon comes back, having found the planet, and she's pretty sick but gonna be okay.  There's plenty of algae for their food recycling system, so they have to bring the fleet to the planet, but getting through the storm is almost impossible.  They devise a plan in which pilots in Raptors lead fleet cruisers through the storm because navigation is impossible for the larger ships by themselves.  Apollo and Starbuck seem to be okay with each other after the boxing thing, but they don't seem to be any closer than normal.  Hmm.  A shady civilian from Kat's past runs into her on Galactica, and he wants to know if the crew knows "who you really are."  She is very agitated and wants him to go away and shut up.  
    On the Cylon basestar, we learn that D'Anna has been "killing herself" over and over so she can keep downloading and resurrecting again and again because it has some kind of spiritual significance for her.  Baltar wants to know if he's a Cylon once and for all so he can "stop betraying one people and be a hero to another."  He asks a confused and distraught D'Anna if she's seen his face before, and D'Anna can't give him and answer, either because she truly doesn't know or she isn't willing to say.  She and Baltar go to the hybrid, and he puts his hand in the fluid.  The hybrid grabs him!  And she starts babbling things about the Eye of Jupiter that no one seems to understand.  Weird.
    Tigh is back in C&C, and the pilot ships have started to lead civilian ships through the radiation storm, called the cluster, and it's brutal.  They have to make several jumps through the cluster and find their civilian ship after each jump so they can give lead them to the next jump.  It's almost impossible to see anything, and Hot Dog loses his fleet ship in the mess.  They complete this process several times, each time the radiation taking more of a toll on the pilots.  Kat also loses a ship in the cluster.  Starbuck sees Kat and the shady guy, Enzo, and becomes suspicious.  Starbuck confronts Kat in one of the most intense scenes I've ever seen between the two of them.  Kat tells her the truth: she was a drug runner before the Cylon attack.  She transported people and drugs, and Kat isn't even her real name.  Starbuck says that smugglers are how some Cylons were rumored to get into the Colonies, and says that if Kat unknowingly (or knowingly) helped a Cylon, that makes her a traitor.  Kat is really upset and says she's not a traitor.  It's so intense that they are really, really close, all up in each other's faces, and Kat is crying.  She begs Starbuck not to tell Adama; she'll tell him herself.  Starbuck backs off, and I think she decided to let Kat tell the Admiral herself.  Whoa.  I mean, there has always been friction between those two, but that scene was unbelievable.  They were so close at one point, and there was so much anger and tension and emotion flying everywhere, I was afraid Starbuck was either going to kill Kat or kiss her or something.  I don't think I breathed very much during that scene.
    Kat is really getting sick from the radiation; her hair is starting to fall out in large chunks. :(  On one of the last lead pilot procedures, Kat loses her ship again and they tell her to jump away, but she doesn't because she is determined to find her ship.  The radiation levels will kill her, and everyone on Galactica is worried when time goes by and she doesn't show.  But then she jumps in, having found her fleet ship and saved it.  She's in very bad shape, and everybody claps for her on the hangar deck, even Starbuck.  In the infirmary, Starbuck visits a dying Kat and apologizes.  Wow.  The emotional content of this episode for Starbuck and Kat was off the charts.  Starbuck has tears in her eyes as she hands Kat a bottle of enough sleeping pills to get the job done if Kat decides she wants to end things.  Then Starbuck leaves quickly so Kat won't see her cry. *sniffle*
    Adama comes to see Kat and tells her he's making her the CAG again.  It's not said, but it's understood by both of them that she's going to die soon, so making her the CAG is a beautiful, symbolic gesture of honor and trust.  She tries to tell him the truth about herself, but he stops her.  He doesn't need to know.  He stays with her and talks to her, telling her he always wanted a daughter, but got stuck with boys, hehe.  The pilots gather together to put Kat's name in the CAG's spot on the rank chart.  It's very sad.  Starbuck goes to the place on Galactica where people have put up pictures of dead friends and loved ones, sort of a large memorial, and she puts up Kat's picture.  She even cries a little bit.  And we see Lee watching her from several feet away.
    This was an amazing episode.  I mean, really incredible.  We don't see it, but we're meant to assume that Kat died shortly after being made CAG again.  I am so sad.  I was really starting to like Kat.  But this episode gets five stars from me.  Seriously.

12/1/06
    "Unfinished Business"
    3.09: Wow.  Oh, wow.  This is one of my most, most favorite episodes of BSG ever.  This was definitely the most squee-worthy episode I have ever seen.  SO MUCH SQUEE.  There was so much information in this ep, this is gonna be kind of a long recap.  The episode starts with Helo and Apollo boxing in a ring, and everyone is cheering.  Sharon is cheering for Helo from the sideline, and Dualla is there for Lee.  While boxing with Helo (and it seems to be a bout of playful aggression between them, not necessarily any real animosity), Lee flashes back to things that presumably happened on New Caprica (NC): waking up alone on the ground, kissing Dualla, seeing Kara.  
    Starbuck and Anders are in the barracks, apparently having just had sex, and Kara gets dressed to go to the "dance."  She's being very detached with Anders, and he says, "I want you back.  I want our marriage back."  She says something about not being ready, and he says maybe she'll never be ready.  "Maybe because I'm not what you really want after all." (Perhaps because...Lee is what she wants?)  She coolly leaves and goes to watch the boxing.  At first, she watches with a grin, but the grin fades as she flashes back to waking up on the ground on NC with someone male whose face we can't see (LEE???).  She gets closer to the ring and cheers on Helo and Apollo.  Helo wins, but not by that much, and Athena jumps on him to congratulate him.  Hee, so cute.  Kara teases Lee as he goes to take his dog tags out of the running.  "I'm done, Kara," he says, sensing that her teasing isn't so good natured.  She comes up really close behind him and takes off her dog tags.  She reaches around in front of him and drops her tags in the box with the others.  "I'm not."  The angry tension is off the charts, and Dualla watches them from across the noisy room.  
    Half of this episode takes place on New Caprica, 8 months before the Cylon occupation, so that makes it about three or four months after discovering NC.  Lee and Dee walk together and talk on NC, and Starbuck and Anders tease them about making it so obvious.  There is going to be a celebration for breaking ground on the new settlement, so that's why so many BSG officers are on the planet, including Adama.  He sees Roslin, and he tells her she looks nice in her oufit.  "It's good to see you, Laura."  AWWW.  
    Back in the present, Laura and Bill watch the boxing ringside.  She knows lots about boxing and loves a good fight because her father loved boxing.  Bill explains that the rank-less tournament allows the crew to work out things amongst themselves in a controlled way.  Hot Dog calls out Starbuck; he wants to fight her.  Lee watches as Dee massages his shoulders, and he briefly flashes back to NC again: seeing Kara and Anders, and walking past them with a dark look.  Kara looks upset too.  (At this point, I was freaking out; I had no idea what the heck had happened between them on NC, and it was starting to look irreparable...little did I know.)  Starbuck easily beats Hot Dog, and then we see who I think was Kat and Racetrack fighting.  Kat beats Racetrack.  
    While all of this is happening, we flash back again and again to the scene of Lee walking closer to Kara and Anders and eventually passing them by.  What is the significance? I wondered.  On NC at the celebration, Bill and Laura talk about the settlement, and she mentions something about building a cabin.  Honestly, the two of them are so adorable, I'm thinking about making them Official.  Apparently, Adama turned down Tyrol and Cally's initial request to settle on the planet to have the baby.  
    Back in the present, Adama climbs into the ring and challenges Tyrol in front of everyone.  He is taken aback, but gets in the ring.  Adama hits him hard.  In fact, I would feel comfortable saying that the Chief was getting his ass kicked.  Adama hisses at him that he's a soldier, is this how he fights his enemies, etc.  On NC at the celebration, there is lots of dancing.  Lee dances with Dualla, and also with Kara.  In the present, Lee and Kara catch each other's eye, and the staring is blazing, angry.  On NC, night has fallen on the party, and Bill and Laura are lying side by side on the ground, watching the stars (HEE!).  She thinks maybe they (humanity) should try to enjoy the time on the planet, like taking a break.  She's almost lying on his chest!  She's definitely leaning on it, with her hand resting on his chest.  EEEEE!  
    In the present, the Chief gets up to fight, angry now.  Laura, on the sidelines, is worried, presumably for Adama.  On NC, the party has died down, and Lee brings Kara a drink.  Anders is passed out under a table, and Lee and Kara drink together.  In the present, Tyrol comes back into the fight with a vengeance, and he knocks Adama down.  Between rounds, Laura gets in Adama's corner and tells him he's crazy, but if he's going to do this, this is how to win.  Yay.  Flash to NC, Adama tells Tyrol that he and Cally can settle on the planet.  In the present, Tyrol beats Adama down finally, but he helps him up.  In the ring, Adama tells the crew that he let himself get too close to them, get too much like their friend instead of their leader, and he won't let this crew disband again.  He's going to keep the family together and strong now.  
    Laura helps Bill out of the ring, and Tigh (who has been refereeing) says "this dance is over."  Kara gets in the ring and yells at Lee.  She wants to fight him.  "It's over, Kara," he says in a dark, weary tone.  She won't let it go.  "So what?  You have the guts to try and frak another man's woman but not to fight one?"  WHA?  Does that mean that-- "I wonder if Dee knew what she was getting.  Think she would've settled for sloppy seconds?" And Lee whips around and punches Kara in the face.  Oh, he'll fight her alright.  They get in the ring and start punching the sh*t out of each other.  The fight is raw and aggressive, and blood flows from both their faces.  Flash back to NC again: Lee and Kara walk around in the middle of barren nowhere, and she says the spot they come to would be a nice place for a house.  She says she'll give up flying because the war is over, so the fun part of flying is too.  Lee asks her to walk him through the future life of Mrs. Kara Anders, and she makes this surprised, unpleasant face.  "I'm not getting married."  Lee wonders what, then, is the point?  "You love him, right?" "Where are we going with this?" asks Kara, and the subtext is screaming that she knows they're heading into discussing the Lee and Kara relationship.  "Where are we going?" Lee asks back, and it's clear that he means "we" in the "me and you" sense.  He says this is the rest of your life, and is this how you wanna spend it, and who you want to spend it with?  
    Fast-forward to the present: Starbuck and Apollo are still trying to beat the crap out of each other.  Anders and Dualla, side by side, watch the fight.  "Looks like they're trying to kill each other," says Anders.  "That's one perspective," says Dualla in a flat, resigned tone.  Flash back to NC: Picking up right where the conversation left off, Lee moves closer and closer to Kara before slowly leaning in and kissing her.  She's a little wary at first, but soon kisses back.  And people?  This is a GOOD KISS.  Then they make love on the ground, right there in the open in the middle of nowhere on New Caprica.  Afterward, they're lying there, and Kara says, "Well, that makes things more complicated."  "Yeah," says Lee, but he's so happy that it doesn't seem like it's that complicated for him.  "What are we gonna do?" she asks.  He props himself up on one elbow so he can look in her eyes.  "We accept it."  He says that in the morning, he'll tell Dee and she'll tell Sam.  Just like that? she says.  "Just like that," he replies with a smile.  "We tell them how we feel, we shout it to the skies!" Lee declares, and she laughs at him because she doesn't think he'll really "shout it to the skies."  He defiantly gets up, still stark naked, and shouts into the empty night as loud as he can, "MY NAME IS LEE ADAMA, AND I LOVE KARA THRACE!  AND I DON'T CARE WHO FRAKKING KNOWS!" She laughs some more because she is amused and surprised that he actually did it (and because I think she's happy).  He says she has to do it too, and he'll keep shouting until she does (and he really keeps shouting).  So she giggles and gets up to stand next to him, and they both still have no clothes on.  She falters once, but then shouts out, "KARA THRACE LOVES LEE ADAMA!" And they're happy.  And they kiss some more.  And Ellen is dying, dying, dying of the sad squee, because she knows that something is going to go terribly wrong.  
    Back at the fight in the present, Apollo knocks Starbuck down, but she kicks his leg out from under him and kicks him down too.  On NC, Lee wakes up in the dirt, alone.  He looks around for Kara, but she's not there.  He wanders back to the settlement and runs into his father, who tells him he missed all the morning's excitement.  Lee thinks he might mean problems "upstairs" on Galactica or with the Cylons, but Adama says no.  "Kara got married."  Lee is shocked at first, and then it looks like he has trouble getting his breath.  He's clearly devastated.  He sees her walking with Anders a ways off (and this is the scene we've been flashing back to in pieces the whole ep).  Adama tells him that Kara and Anders are settling on NC with a few others from BSG.  In the present, Starbuck and Apollo are still fighting, and now it becomes clear why.  Flash back to NC: Kara woke up with Lee, panicked, and left.  Lee walks to meet Anders and Kara, and Anders tells him how she woke him up, found a priest, and dragged him down by the river to get married.  "Can you believe it?"  Lee looks right at Kara, and only at Kara. "No, I can't believe it," he says flatly.  "It was my idea," says Kara, and it looks like she's doing her best to hold back tears.  Your idea, Lee repeats with a touch of bitterness.  Anders, sensing the vibe, asks if they want a minute alone to talk, and Lee just turns to him and shakes his hand to congratulate him.  Lee wishes him luck, and, turning to walk past Kara and away, says "you're gonna need it."  He walks away from them both, and immediately finds Dualla and kisses her.  And my heart broke for him.  
    Back in the present, Starbuck and Apollo are tired, but they just keep fighting and remembering that scene the morning after, when she married Anders because she was too scared to be so vulnerable with Lee.  They weakly swing at each other, fighting, fighting.  Then the grapple a bit until they just stop fighting and hold each other tightly.  OMG, the squee.  They hold each other in the middle of the ring, bleeding and bruised, and Anders and Dualla look on while the crowd starts to disperse.  Anders is irritated and says he's outta there, while Dualla stays to watch with tears in her eyes, like she knows exactly what's happening in that ring and why.  Kara whispers into Lee's shoulder, "I missed you."  Lee looks like he's trying not to cry, and he whispers back, "I missed you too.  I missed you too."  She smiles.  And that's where it ends.  The final scene was so heavy with emotion that I very nearly cried myself.  It all makes perfect sense now.  They love each other, and they both know it, but she was too scared to take the risk, so she married another, safer man.  And broke Lee's heart.  So he found solace with another woman.  But they still can't get over the fact that they love each other, and they both know it.  GUH.

11/17/06
    "Hero"
    3.08: I was very pleased to find that this episode started with Laura Roslin fondly looking over the dossier that "Bill" gave her two years before when all the craziness began.  Then Laura remarked that "Bill's" 45th anniversary of starting military service was coming up, and she wanted to give him a medal.  The fleet needs something like that, and "Bill" deserves it.  Apparently, Admiral Adama and The Presidentrix are completely on a first name basis now.  Squee.  Unexpectedly, three Cylon raiders jump into the area.  Alert fighters, Starbuck and Kat among them, are launched, and it appears that two of the raiders are chasing and shooting at the third.  Starbuck and Kat destroy the first two, and are about destroy the third when it transmits to Galactica, and Adama has it brought aboard.  They get it onto the hanger deck, and out spills a guy!  Everyone is suspicious and pointing guns at him, but Adama recognizes him as Bulldog (played by guest star Carl Lumbly of "Alias," Dixon squee!), a pilot he thought was lost on a mission three years before.  The Cylons had him in captivity all that time.  Bulldog tells them that he saw the Cylons on his basestar getting sick, really sick, and Adama and the others assume it's the disease from the 13th colony; it's spreading.  
    Adama tells Roslin that three years before, while they were both assigned to the Valkyrie (Adama's ship before Galactica), they were sent on a mission to the Cylon armistice line supposedly to stop a Tauron mining operation from getting too close to Cylon space, and Adama says that the Taurons shot down Bulldog's stealth ship in cold blood, and Adama left because he thought Bulldog was dead.  It's insinuated that this is not really what happened, but Adama isn't saying.  "It's my mess," he says.  D'Anna has a bad dream where she gets shot on Galactica and wakes up...naked in bed with Baltar and Six.  Uhhhh, o-kay.  Tigh gets on Adama's case about not telling Bulldog what really happened three years ago.  Stupid Tigh, still all cranky about Ellen and making everyone miserable.  Bulldog comes to see Tigh, and Tigh tells him what really happened.  Adama also calls Lee to his office and tells him the truth.  Actually, confesses is probably a better word.  Apparently, the mission that came down from the top military brass was to go to the Cylon armistice line, take a stealth ship into Cylon space, and gather evidence to confirm or debunk theories and suspicions that the Cylons were building a military machine and were massing for an attack.  Bulldog piloted the stealth ship, and when two unknown ships suddenly jumped into the area, one of them winging Bulldog's ship and disabling him so he was floating helpless in Cylon space, Adama made the hard decision to shoot Bulldog down so that he would not be detected by the Cylons and an intergalactic war would not be started.  However, Bulldog ejected and survived in his ejector seat long enough for the Cylons to pick him up.  Crying, Adama admits to his son that he believes he started the conflict with the Cylons.  "I started it," he says.  Lee assures his father that it was not his fault: "You were one man." "It only takes one."  A heartwrenching scene, this one.  The Old Man really believed that he was responsible for the Cylon attack and near-extinction of the human race. :(
    D'Anna apparently has been having these bad dreams a lot, and for some reason I do not understand, she orders a Centurion to shoot her in the head, and she flashes through her lives and resurrects, blathering something about there being something beautiful between life and death.  No idea what's going on there.  Starbuck analyzes the video they have of the three Cylon ships, and she notices something very wrong.  Bulldog, full of the truth and vengeful rage, calls Adama to him.  Starbuck goes to Tigh with her discovery: "They let him escape."  Bulldog takes Adama by surprise and beats him up, and then he tries to choke him with a pipe.  He's angry and upset about being left there to die, and Bill asks him if they might not have let him escape.  Bulldog can't handle that idea, and so is about to kill Adama when Tigh arrives and saves Adama.  He tells Bulldog that the Cylons let him escape and let him think that they were dying of the disease because it was a story the humans would believe.  They wanted Bulldog to come back and learn the truth so he would kill Adama.  The Cylons wanted Adama dead, and Bulldog was the means they had to do it.  That takes all the wind out of Bulldog.  
    Adama tries to give Roslin his resignation, but she won't let him.  She says that she's giving him a medal and he's darn well gonna accept it because the fleet needs him.  The fleet needs a hero to look up to, and that's him. "It's not for you, it's for them."  This was an excellent scene between the two of them.  He obviously still feels so guilty and responsible, but she won't let him give up on all the people counting on him.  Love it.  The medal ceremony is kind of sad because everyone is so proud of the Admiral, and he still feels bad.  Bulldog is going to another ship, and when he leaves, he and Adama salute each other, and it's the military equivalent of forgiveness.  This was a really good episode.  I enjoyed it.  HOLY FRAK TWO WEEKS FROM NOW: A boxing tournament on Galactica?  All the tension that now plagues Apollo and Starbuck's relationship will explode in the boxing ring.  They showed a few brief moments of Anders and Dualla standing by the ring, watching them fight.  Anders says, "Looks like they're trying to kill each other," and Dualla says, rather flatly, "That's one perspective."  I'm tentatively excited about this, y'all. :)

11/10/06
    "A Measure of Salvation" (Part 2 of 2)
    3.07: I am SO relieved.  I'll tell you why in a bit.  So this episode picks up pretty much where the last one left off.  A bunch of Raptors with a bunch of people, including Apollo, Athena, Racetrack, and Hot Dog, go to check out the dead basestar.  They actually board the thing and start poking around, stepping over dead Cylon bodies.  I was seriously freaking out for Sharon.  They're trying to see what they can get from the Cylon computer when a bunch of the "dead" Cylons start waking up!  They take prisoners and get the heck out of there, and it's a good thing too because the basestar self destructs not long after they get off.  Doc Cottle quarantines everyone because they don't know yet that humans are immune.  
    Meanwhile, Lucy Lawless (whose name is D'Anna, I finally found out) informs Baltar that they are convinced that Galactica invented the disease and Baltar was working with them to get the Cylons to the beacon to kill them all.  Of course they're wrong, but that doesn't stop them from torturing Baltar to get the information they think he has.  Six is upset by seeing Baltar in pain.  After much screaming, Hallucination!Six, um, "helps" Baltar with the pain.  I don't know if D'Anna believes Baltar that he had nothing to do with it or not, but she eventually stops torturing him.  Cottle figures out that all the humans are okay, but he's still not sure about Sharon.  Helo was so worried, and it was adorable.  They prisoners they have are one Six, one Leoben, one Sharon, one Simon, and one Aaron Doral.  They already know about the beacon with the disease, but Simon tells them about Baltar's whereabouts and the help he's giving the Cylons.  They are all shocked and angry, with good reason.  
    Apollo then has a brainwave and suggests that they use the dying Cylon prisoners that they can't cure to wipe out the entire Cylon race.  They simply jump into Cylon shipping lanes, wait for the fleet and a resurrection ship to show, execute the prisoners, and watch the disease spread and kill every Cylon.  Helo asserts that such a thing would be genocide, and by doing it, humanity would lose a piece of its soul.  He says that it's wrong; what if there are more Cylons like Athena, who would choose to be good?  No one really listens to him, though.  Doc Cottle determines that because Sharon carried a half-human child, her body was equipped with the right antibodies to fight the disease, and she is immune!  That is why I am so relieved.  Helo was relieved too.  He was so happy, and there was lots of celebratory kissing.  Those two are so cute, honestly.  Helo tells her what Roslin and the others are talking about doing, and Sharon is devastated, but she says that she made a choice to wear the uniform and be with the humans, and she'll keep her word.  
    Admiral Adama says that Roslin has to be the one to make the choice, and he is reluctant because he thinks Helo might be right: they will lose a part of their souls if they do it.  Roslin, however, it resolved, and orders the plan into action.  So, they jump to the appropriate place and wait for the Cylons.  Starbuck and the pilots get into Vipers to fight off Raiders while they execute the prisoners.  Can I just say how elated I am that Starbuck got her act together and is back in a plane?  So happy.  Anyway, the fleet, complete with a resurrection ship, shows up to attack, and they're all set to execute the prisoners when they get into the holding cell and find all the Cylons dead already.  Helo tampered with the oxygen, venting it and suffocating the Cylons long before the resurrection ship arrived, so they died and didn't download.  Realizing the plan is shot, the human fleet gets the heck out of there.  Helo goes to Sharon and tells her that they'll be coming for him.  "They're always coming for one of us, right?"  He did what he thought was right, and I love him dearly for it.  He tells Sharon that he can't live without her, and she puts her arms around him and says, "I'll always love you, Helo." *dies of the squee*  
    Adama and Roslin discuss what happened, and they call each other "Laura" and "Bill"!  Yay!  They both suspect who was responsible, but don't say it.  Roslin wants to know who will be heading the investigation, and Adama says there won't be one.  "I'm closing the book on this."  "How convenient."  Adama says that they determined that the disease matches one that humans cured 3000 years ago, right around the time that the 13th colony left.  So at least they know they are on the right path to Earth.  "So are the Cylons," says the Presidentrix.  Ooooh.  A good episode.  Loved, loved the Helo/Sharon moments.  Oh, and there's no way Baltar can go back to the humans now.  They'll shoot him on sight.  And I think that Adama decided not to investigate the deaths of the Cylon prisoners because he's secretly relieved that Helo did that.  Helo saved them from making a huge choice they might have come to really regret, and I think Adama knows that.  Maybe he doesn't feel right prosecuting Helo for something he's grateful for, deep down.

11/3/06
    "Torn" (Part 1 of 2)
    3.06: The Cylons want Baltar to tell them how to get to Earth because they've decided they want it to be their new home.  Baltar panics because he doesn't know precisely and they will kill him unless he proves useful, so he gives them what information he has on a point in space that he worked out that could lead to Earth.  Apollo and Starbuck and others are back in Vipers and training, but Starbuck does something careless and causes an accident.  She manages to land the ship okay, but Lee is furious.  "You wanna die?  I don't give a frak what you do, Kara," but don't do it in one of his planes.  Lee tells her she's done flying.  I doubt that.  However, it's clear that Lee is angry with her, and I wonder if it's only because of her carelessness in the bird or because of how she flushed their relationship down the toilet before New Caprica.  Something to ponder.  Anyway, Julia and Kacey (the kid that Leoben told Starbuck was hers but wasn't) come to see Kara because Kacey wanted to.  Starbuck rebuffs them rather rudely.  Sad for the poor little girl. :(  OH, HOLY CRAP.  Lee is pretty again, thank GOD.  So very, very pretty.  
    In an interesting coincidence, Gaeta sifts through Baltar's work tells Roslin and Adama that they should head for the same point in space that Baltar told the Cylons to go to because it might lead to the path to Earth.  So the fleet heads in that direction.  Six tells Baltar about an ability Cylons have called 'projecting' wherein they can see the world as they want to see it rather than how it is.  Hallucination!Six then implies that perhaps 'projecting' is the answer to Baltar's question about who she is and what she is and why he sees her.  "Am I a Cylon?!" Baltar, panicking, demands.  But he doesn't get his answer.  Six tells him that they never talk about the other five models of 'skin job' Cylons.  Baltar is trying not to freak out about the possibility that he could be a Cylon.  
    On Galactica, Sharon gets a new call sign: Athena.  I love it.  I think it's awesome.  Now I can call her Athena and distinguish her from the other Sharon, the one that was on Galactica and shot Adama.  Yay!  Tigh and Starbuck, still angry and bitter and messed up from the Occupation, stir up dissention and discontent amongst the pilots and officers on Galactica.  It's not pretty.  Tigh scoffs at the people who weren't on New Caprica during the Occupation, implying that they're not trustworthy, and word of this gets back to Adama.  He lays down the law with Starbuck and Tigh, telling Kara that she better get her act together and act like an officer or she better get the hell off his ship.  He even kicks her chair over!  He tells Tigh to stay in his quarters until he's worked through his crap, but it doesn't seem to make a difference in Tigh's attitude.  Kara, however, chops off her long hair and puts her uniform on.  YAY.  I am so happy to see my Starbuck back, I can't stand it.  She even goes to see Kacey and Julia, and it's very emotional when she gives Kacey a hug.  Aww.  
    The other important thing that happened was that when the Cylons sent a basestar to Baltar's suggested coordinates, it and all the Cylons on it get infected with some sort of disease.  Baltar goes to check it out because he's human, right?  He finds a probe on board that the Cylons found floating space there and took aboard.  It seems to be the source of the deadly disease, and it also seems to be from the 13th colony!  From us.  Hmm.  Athena and Racetrack jump to the coordinates in their Raptor, and they are surprised and unnerved to find the dead basestar there.  They get the heck out of there, but I am worried that Sharon might have the sickness now!  And there's no cure.  If anything happens to Sharon, I'll be beside myself with unhappiness. :(  This was a good episode, and I am so happy that Starbuck looks to be getting back on track.  And there was no Anders!  Weeee!  Although, I worry about the future of Lee and Kara's relationship...

10/27/06
    "Collaborators"
    3.05: Now that the remaining humans are back in the fleet, the issue of punishment for Cylon collaborators has to be dealt with.  Unbeknownst to Roslin and most everyone else, Tom Zarek (currently President by default since the Cylons have Baltar) authorizes a "jury" of six people to secretly and quietly try, convict, and execute all serious Cylon collaborators.  Tigh, Anders, the Chief, and some other people I don't know are the six.  They "disappear" about twelve people, including Jammer, who gets convicted and flushed out an airlock.  Pleasant.  They finally come to Gaeta, and most of them are ready and willing to execute him because they believe he sat back and did nothing while the Cylons created death lists and killed people.  None of them know that he was the informant who continually gave the resistance important information.  
    Anders and the Chief are unwilling to convict him based on circumstancial evidence, so Anders leaves the jury.  Gaeta tries to explain himself to Starbuck, but she isn't listening.  She's having trouble adjusting to life aboard Galactica after her imprisonment, and she's just a tad angry.  She and Anders aren't doing so well because of how much she's changed (yay!).  So the jury approaches her to replace Anders, and she does.  They all vote Gaeta guilty, and after much pressuring, the Chief gives up and agrees.  They are about to flush him out of an airlock when Starbuck angrily taunts Gaeta to beg, to tell them all the "crap" about being the informant and using the "yellow dog bowl" as the signal.  The Chief is all, "what?!" because he knows what that means.  He frees Gaeta and explains to the others that Gaeta was the their source, that they wouldn't have known about the death lists or lots of other things if it weren't for him.  Gaeta quietly walks out.  Poor Gaeta!  He did the best he could.  Frankly, if he'd left Baltar, the resistance would not have gotten any information from the inside.  So there.  And that's pretty much it for the "jury."  
    Starbuck is still all messed up.  Oooh, and Lee has been working out!  He's losing the weight, and we'll be getting the pretteh back soon.  HEE.  Laura Roslin and Tom Zarek do this funny switcheroo thing and basically trade places: she's President, and he's Vice President.  I feel much, much better now, don't you? :)  Oh, and Laura issues a fleet-wide pardon so humanity can start fresh.  She found out about Zarek's executive order to deal with collaborators and wasn't precisely happy about it.  So this is her solution.  That's pretty much it.  Except that no one but the Chief will be Gaeta's friend now. :( Sad.

10/20/06
    "Exodus, Part 2"
    3.04: First of all, I want to say how happy I am with the result of this episode.  So happy. :D  Adama and Galactica jump back to New Caprica while the "insurgents" blow things up and create chaos on the ground.  Because Sharon got the launch keys for the ships back, they can get everyone to the ships and jump away from the planet.  Galactica does the frakking coolest thing ever and descends toward the surface so it can drop off a couple Vipers to help the people on the ground trying to get everyone out of Cylon detention.  Galactica jumps away just before hitting the ground.  So awesome.  The Cylons realize that the situation has gotten out of control, and they decide to set a nuke off and kill everyone.  Gaeta almost kills Baltar, but doesn't.  Shoot dang.  
    Anders gets Starbuck out of detention, but she goes back for the kid.  When she gets there, Leoben is there and says he won't let Starbuck take the kid unless she tells him she loves him and all that crap.  She angrily gives in and says "I love you" a few times, and Leoben kisses her a lot.  He's all, I will remember this moment forever, and she's all, so will I.  And then stabs him.  That's my girl.  She grabs the kid, tells Anders she'll explain later, and they get the heck out of Dodge.  Baltar and Six go after Lucy Lawless to try and stop her from setting off the nuke.  They stumble onto baby Hera and her dead mother, apparently killed on the way to their ship.  Hera is alive and crying, and Lucy Lawless wants to hold her.  So now I guess the Cylons have Hera.  Uh-oh.  
    So while everyone on the surface is getting to ships and jumping away, Galactica is trying to hold off four Cylon basestars by itself.  It looks like the end for the hopelessly outmatched ship when Pegasus suddenly shows up and allows the severely damaged Galactica to get away.  Pegasus holds off the Cylons as long as it can before everyone escapes in Raptors and jumps away.  Pegasus rams into a basestar and is thus destroyed.  So now there is only one Battlestar left, and it's Galactica.  I have to say that I am so happy.  I hated Pegasus from the beginning.  Roslin and her peeps get away on Colonial One, and it looks like she's basically in charge.  They find out that Hera and her mother didn't make it, and I think they think they're both dead.  Baltar doesn't get off New Caprica; he stays with Six on the planet.  So Adama is a hero and everyone is okay.  
    Starbuck is just about to tell everyone who the kid with her is when a young woman walks up and tearfully thanks Starbuck for saving her daughter.  HA!  The kid was never actually Starbuck's.  It was just some little girl that Leoben kidnapped.  Starbuck is sad, but I hope she gets over it.  She's much cooler without a kid, anyway.  Lee and Dualla are gross and sappy, and my hopes for Kara/Lee grow ever dimmer.  But at least the show is back on track.  Battlestar Galactica and the fleet, trekking through the universe, searching for Earth.  Awesome.  One final happy note: Tigh poisons his wife to death before they evacuate.  So long and good riddance, I say.  Next week: Collaborators are being "disappeared."  Ooooooh.

10/13/06
    "Exodus, Part 1"
    3.03: Tyrol and his people get there in time to save Cally, Roslin, Zarek, and the others from being executed.  Sharon and the soldiers from Galactica destroy the ambushing Cylons, and the plan proceeds.  Adama prepares to jump back to New Caprica and tells Lee to wait 18 hours for him to come back, and after that, he is to take the fleet and continue the search for Earth.  It was very emotional and sad.  Kara is really starting to freak me out.  She is suddenly all in love with the half human, half Cylon kid that Leoben says is hers.  It's weird.  I have nothing against the kid, but it just doesn't seem like Starbuck to me.  I keep hoping that it's just part of her plan to escape.  Roslin and the resistance get ready to help Adama from the surface as best they can.  Sharon successfully infiltrates the Cylon headquarters, but has to hear from Lucy Lawless that Adama lied to her, that her baby is still alive, that they faked Hera's death.  I don't know if Sharon believed it or not, but it scares me, especially since it's true, and it could jeopardize the now close relationship Adama and Sharon have.  I wonder how Helo would feel about it if he knew, too. :(  So, now everyone is waiting for the sh*t to hit the fan and for Adama to get there.  I have to say, Roslin looked so happy and relieved to hear that Admiral Adama was coming back for them, I had to squee.  I remember that little kiss he gave her and how close they got last season, and I'm sure she does too.  Yay!  Now, if only things can ever be like they were before all this New Caprica nonsense.  With everyone married and suddenly having all kinds of children, I don't see how.  It upsets me.

10/6/06
    "Occupation"/"Precipice"
    3.01, 3.02: AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!  That's how I feel about that.  There is so much going on, it's impossible to cover absolutely everything.  So I will just stick to the most important things.  Cylons occupy New Caprica.  People are being detained and tortured.  Tigh is newly released from detainment, and he rejoins the resistance, led by the Chief and Anders.  Kara, unbeknownst to anyone else (they just know she's missing), is in the captivity of Leoben, presumably the copy that she tortured a while back.  Galactica, Pegasus, and the fleet have been gone for four months.  Adama is running combat drills, preparing for the moment when he will go back and try to retrieve his people.  Lee is pudgy, cranky, and soft.  The resistance fighters turn to suicide bombings to try and throw the Cylons off.  To make an example, the Cylons start rounding up resistance leaders and random people, initially intending to detain them, but ultimately forcing Baltar to sign an order for their summary executions.  Cally is on the list.  Galactica makes contact with the resistance and sets up a meeting point.  Adama commissions Sharon (one Helo brought back from Caprica, the one who had the baby) as an officer.  That was awesome.  He sends her to rendezvous with the resistance and help get their ships back.  Ellen Tigh sells them out, though, and the rendezvous is ambushed by Cylons.  The episode ends with the Cylons preparing to execute people, Laura Roslin and Tom Zarek among them.  So that's all the business.  Here is the really crazy stuff.  Chief Tyrol and Cally are definitely very married and have a son.  Sharon and Helo are married, so now her name is Sharon Agathon.  HEE!  Not only are Starbuck and Anders married (blech), but apparently Lee and Dualla are married too.  Leoben reveals to Starbuck that when they stole one of her ovaries when she was held in the breeding farm back on Caprica, they made a baby after he fertilized the egg.  He brings out this blonde toddler kid who is supposedly Kara's child!  ACK!  Crazy.  I don't know what's gonna happen here.  I really don't.  So much for Kara/Lee, then.