Since I'm going to be stuck at work ANYWAY

[trinityvixen]

Ugh, the boss just Does Not Get It. Giving me two-and-a-half hours of work at FOUR is not okay. I am totally coming in late tomorrow.

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But since I'm here: HOLY SHIT BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.

It's amazing how apathetic I was to season three and yet totally psyched-out-of-nowhere I was for season four to start. It hit me about a week before the premiere, and suddenly I caught myself just STARING at the ads on the side of Pandagon and willing time to move faster. (The fact that it started up so close to my birthday makes the waiting all the more painful.)

So, BSG:

Biggest flip-out moment of all, by far, was Anders staring down the Raider and triggering it to leave. SO AWESOME. Because Sam is absolutely adorably adorable; most definitely not an asshole (which puts him in the minority on this show); insanely cute trying to fly a viper (so weird!); and HOLY FRAK HE IS A CYLON.

I needed that moment. I needed it because no matter what the creators have said or what appeared to be the case last season, there's still some part of me that completely balks at the reveal of the four of the Final Five. It's not even Tigh that does it, what with his being strangely old and having been around during the last cylon war. It's the Chief being a cylon that kills me. The heart of the show is a robot. My mind, blown! Some part of me is still going, "Not the Chief. Not Chief Tyrol, surely." "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley," says the show. THE CHIEF IS A CYLON TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?!?!?!?!

Yeah, a little freaked, can you tell? Because now it's proven. Aiya. So freaked I can't care about Starbuck being alive. In fact, in comparison, I could care less. Except for that awful exchange she and Anders have as she starts to question whether her miraculous return might not have intervening hands on it. She's so sure she's not a cylon or a trap or anything wrong, but if you fly in the face of overwhelming sanity, you start to crack. And Anders is sitting there trying to do his job--he's sorta a less sex-potty version of Six (LESS?) crossed with a less whiny Eight--and love and comfort her from a position of authority on the subject of her totally not being a cylon. AND SHE THREATENS TO SHOOT HIM. IN THE FACE. IF HE IS A CYLON. (WHICH HE TOTALLY IS.)

And then she whacks him across the face when he doesn't jump to join her "Let's threaten the President with a shooting in the face until she does what I say" plan. I'm with TWoP's Jacob on this: it's so crazy, it HAS to be Starbuck. Even D'Anna--if she weren't in a box--would look at this plan and go, "No, thanks, I'll just take my pills."

In general, though, they need to get the LONG, SIGNIFICANT LOOKS BETWEEN THE SECRET CYLONS shots out of their system. One, two episodes of that at most before I start to get annoyed. I get it. O-to-the-M-and-the-G, Adama, Roslin, et al. are talking about the cylons' crazy plotting WHILE CYLONS ARE STANDING RIGHT THERE. We get it, m'kay? Let's get to the confessions--Tigh will go to his grave before he'll tell Daddy Adama that he's a toaster (apparently, according to viridian, Michael Hogan would have preferred to go to his grave having not played a cylon), but Anders and the Chief are kinda suckers and they will totally spill the beans to someone. My money is on Anders cracking first or being outed first by virtue of generally being more open about feelings and stuff and more overtly traumatized by being a robot than anyone else seems to be. I want to see the Chief talk to his wife, especially. Talk about trauma.

Also, I'd find it hilarious if Adama made some comment about how nice it is that Tigh is checking out other women, completely misreading the looks passing between him and Tory. Things of that nature should happen to amuse me seeing as Ellen Tigh is no longer around to do it and all scenes involving Baltar have become ridiculous to an unfunny degree.

And this is not a spoiler, this is me taking bets, feel free to answer in comments: First of the final four to be outed...? When will that happen (mid-season, next episode, last)? Last cylon is...?

(I answer myself: Anders, mid-season, and the last cylon is freakin' Doc Cottle because that would be megawesome.)

Comments

[teneda.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna have to guess Billy boy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Keikeya

And his reveal will be the next to last ep.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Good guess, but I'd say not. I'm almost positive that it was meant that it should have been Billy, and that would have been devastating. However, when he was killed off, Tory took over his role and was the cylon. I doubt Billy is the cylon. He's been entirely out of the picture for over a season.

I also doubt that, regardless of whom, the reveal of the last cylon will take place before end of season. Just because he/she will have some answers that the other four of the Final Five do not and will need time to deliver them and for the ensemble to react.