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It's wrong of me but I almost found McCay appealing while tripping on enzyme. And oh gods that doctor's voice just does me in. If he played a larger part in every episode I might have to start watching the show. Ooh and Mitch Pileggi's in this one looking all grim...and perhaps mildly constipated. Even so I find it somewhat sexy.

But what is up with alien chicky in what's his face's cell? I keep flashing back to "Hardware Wars" and the line "But Basketball is a peaceful planet!" Oh hey she's making plans with uh, Sheppard? I want to call him Alex as that was his name on "Cupid" (for which I still hate him). Anyway, she's either an evil alien agent or doomed to die. In any case the sooner she leaves the screen the happier I'll be.

Oh and can I just say that the wraith are the goofiest villains ever? And not just because they look like albino rastafarians either, rather that I believe their typical scripts read thusly:

Wraith: "Take him!"

Wraith: *hiss*

Wraith: *grr!*

Wraith: "Soon we will feed! Ha! Ha! Ha!"

Wraith: *hiss*

Wraith: "I shall savor your defiance!"

Wraith: *dramatic hiss*

Jesus, they make the Borg seem eloquent by comparison.

Ah so chicky is a spy, color me surprised. And in a completely unexpected turn of events Ford shows up just in time to save the day with all his weapons and the writers don't even try to explain it. Why? Because they just don't care. Fair enough.

Oooh, unconvincing space battle, though Rodney identifying Sheppard's ship amongst thousands of others made me laugh. Yeah, so married. And Sheppard single handedly manages to destroy two villains' ships because he's just that good. Of course now they think he's dead, but we know that anyone that good can't be dead, don't we? Right on cue the Stargate engages and our heroes walk through completely unscathed. How? Fortunately Captain Exposition fills in the blanks with a completely unrealistic explanation.

Hint that Ford will be back, "Dun, dun, duuuuuuuunnnn!" and roll credits.

Enough of that, on to BSG!!!

Quick reminder of what happened several months ago, which was lots and lots, oh and lots.

Vipers are launched and the two remaining battlestars are going head to head. I'm already squealing over the music playing at this point, holy christ the drums! Ooh, new kind of cylon vessel and in goes Starbuck on a stealth mission to take some pretty pictures of what they're up to. All on her own because she is just that fucking cool, in and out smooth as silk.

Best line so far, "Frakking frakkers!" from one of the viper pilots, heh. The Pegasus pilots think they're such hot shit, but Starbuck's trainees are holding their own. Apollo sneaks off to contact Starbuck, who's more than a little confused about what's going on. Heh, of course Starbuck distracts everyone when they think she's a cylon raider.

"We're all friendly, so let's just be...friendly!" Starbuck, I love you so much.

"Another one of her crazy ass stunts, thank the gods!" from Tigh, hee.

And of course the Admiral is now madly in love with Starbuck for having had the balls to sneak into the cylon fleet all on her own, I swear she looks like she wants to rock Starbuck's world. Can't say as I blame her. *lusty sigh*

Phone calls from Aelf so far: 1

Oh, hey, looks like Tony's the main bad guy in Underworld 2...maybe I really do have to see this one as he may survive more than 10 minutes. Cool.

Colonial One is holding a conference between the president, admiral and commander. Laura is doing her best to reason with them both, but the Pegasus commander doesn't seem too keen on compromise, indeed she's being a bit of a psycho. Laura just schooled her and Adama is not at all happy. I'm with Adama.

Woah, Kara just got a promotion to Captain! And she's CAG!! She outranks Apollo now, oh that's going to be interesting.

"Do you always get what you want?" Admiral Kane

"Most of the time, sir." Starbuck

"Good...me too..." Admiral Kane

Um, slashiest moment on BSG to date.

"I'm afraid this can only end one way...you've got to kill her." Holy crap! Laura lays it all out for Adama and she's abso-frakking-lutely right, if he doesn't hit the Admiral first she's going to kill him. What wouuld happen to the civillian fleet? She'll fucking abandon it, that's what.

Phone calls from Aefl: 2

Back to cylon Sharon who's all traumatized by her almost rape, and the Doc and Adama are being really fucking sweet to her actually. And they've gone all protective which is kind of cute really. Ah and the boys are cooling their heels in the brig as Apollo comes down to visit and give them the good news that they're not going to die right away. He then lets them know that they almost caused a battle between the two Battlestars. The Chief quite rightly asks, "What's goin' on? I thought the cylons were the enemy."

Yay Baltar fantasy world! I've missed Baltar's fantasy world. Aww, sounds like Gaius doesn't like his old ocean front house theme any more. Holy christ Six has managed to reveal more skin than I would've thought possible even on cable. Her discussion of her love for Pyramid is kinda hot...

And now it's time for Kane to play "torment the cylon", fortunately Gaius has a very rational and reasonable way to get her to stop without being too obvious. Go him! Of course then the psycho Six tries to kill him, after which she begs him to kill her. Baltar is deeply traumatized by both.

So is the new "Chief" a cylon or am I just being paranoid?

Uh-oh...the Pegasus used to have a civilian fleet but "something happened to them"? Cue ominous music. Fortunately Tigh knows just who to pump for info and how, and the first officer of the Pegasus is just dying to talk. Oh fuck me, Kane ordered the civilian fleet stripped and left for dead the ones they couldn't use. I think they're referring to a ship called the Scylla, yay Greek mythology! Ok she also ordered people murdered if they disobeyed her commands. Fucking psycho.

Phone calls from Aelf: 3

Uh-oh, Apollo isn't at all happy about Starbuck outranking him. What is that mark on the back of Kara's neck? Going to have to watch this again later to catch all the stuff I'm missing this time around.

Gaius is doing what he can for psycho Six who seems to be responding slightly. Yeesh she truly has had the stuffing beaten out of her. She's talking now, and describes being a fully aware agent who wants nothing more than to die so she can be reborn in a new body back amongst the cylons. The "resurrection ship"? Holy crap, they have to destroy this as a backup for all the cylon agents, it'd cripple the enemy fleet all right. Baltar's not so sure he did the right thing in telling Kane.

Awwww, Bill and Laura are having a moment. He goes to tell her what he knows about the former civilian fleet that Kane ruthlessly dismantled. Laura isn't surprised at all, Adama comments that she's become "so bloody minded". In reality she's become aware of her own imminent mortality, and that Adama is the only one who will save their civilians when she's gone. The conversation about a new cylon body and Adama's, "I can't see you as a blonde." is too cute for words. "Commander, she won't hesitate to kill you, don't let her." Laura's right, Bill, you're going to have to take her out.

Yay more Chief time! I love the Chief! He's finally come to terms on the whole Sharon thing, that man deserves a great big hug. If they weren't clearly enamored of Sharon I would begin to think that this was the second slashiest moment in the series to date...

Adama is lost in thought, about the upcoming battle or how he's going to take Kane out? And what is Kane contemplating we wonder? Much the same thing I'd bet. Yeah she's reading his logs again, trying to figure out what he's going to do so she can stay a step ahead of him. Bitch doesn't have a chance.

Apollo and Starbuck appear as a united front with a somewhat risky plan. Apollo will fly the Blackbird at the resurrection ship solo and take out its FTL engines, the battlestars will attack the base ships. All the fleets are going to be involved, and Kane is ordering marines onto the Galactica to take out Adama. And holy crap, is he ordering Kara to kill Kane? For a few seconds I can't breathe...

Yep, Starbuck's to kill Kane and Kane's first in command is to take out Adama. "Downfall" holy crap. "Start it with Adama." "I want you to pull out your weapon and shoot Admiral Kane in the head."

Remember to breathe, remember to breathe....

EJO's delivery of that last line was so fucking good...so...fucking...good. And the teaser for next week, how can I possibly wait an entire week for the next episode? *sob*

Phone calls from Aelf: 5 (but we lost connection at one point so it doesn't really count)

*sob* Seven days for resolution? Kara holding a gun on Kane and Kane spitting, "Frak you!" AIIIEEEE!!!