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Thought you might like this article located here: https://right-thoughts.us/index.php/weblog/comments/battlestar_galactica_razor/ Battlestar Galactica - Razor If you can believe it, I have *not* watched the online “Razorettes” or watched them mushed in commercial breaks of whatever show Sci-Fi was trying to get me to watch.  I figure it’s so long until the season and this is just bonus information anyway.  We did watch Razor tonight, and here’s my take (spoilers below!). I think that Razor was made so that we could understand Caine a little more.  As it stood, I simply thought she was a cold bitch and somewhat of a monster, but I never had much respect for her as a warrior or a leader. I still don’t.  She got lucky with her network being offline, and her crew performed in fight after fight out of fear of her, not respect or love or dedication.  She’s even worse than I thought before Razor.  She’s more of a monster than any one of the toasters.  I can understand Caine’s initial reaction toward Pegasus Six.  I mean, she not only let a Cylon on her ship and on her bridge, but she slept with one.  Trusted one.  Gave a Cylon access to intimate thoughts, moments, etc.  I can understand wanting to hurt that Cylon, and watching crew member after crew member die only compounded the problem.  That’s not an excuse to murder civilians, to shoot your XO, to be a monster...to not only order your security officer to torture a Cylon, but to humiliate her, to make her afraid...to, as Caine put it, degrade her.  Once she knew they were raping Six repeatedly, she let it go on.  For ten months. There’s just nothing that makes that OK.  Contrast her with Adama, who is a warrior, a tactician and still a human being. On the other hand, as the Old Man put it, he had Laura and SaltySeaDog and Apollo in his face to keep him human.  When he stepped over the line, he had something and someone to help him step back and regain his humanity.  Caine was the ultimate authority as far as she knew. She answered to no one.  She had no one to tell her no.  She wasn’t mentally stable enough to accept her XO questioning her decisions unless she was accountable to someone else.  She was walking, for lack of a better phrase, a razor’s edge before the war.  The fact that she was now the supreme Colonial military authority in the galaxy, and maybe the last Battlestar around drover her right over the edge.  She was not cut out to have ultimate authority. The biggest shame of Razor is that we were introduced to Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen only to have her die at the end.  Lovely woman, Ms. Chaves-Jacobsen.  Born in Hong Kong, she’s Portuguese, Norwegian, Chinese and English, raised since age 12 in Australia so she comes by the accent naturally.  Too bad Kendra had to die.  She felt like she had to atone for allowing Caine to turn her into a monster.  Again, there’s that element caine was missing; the humanity that makes you feel bad when you do something horrible. It was pretty cool to see old school Cylon Centurions.  Although if I had to quibble - and I do - it was pretty obvious that they were rendered as new model robot Cylons and they just slapped Centurion skins over the models.  They were shaped wrong and moved exactly like the new ones. The only other observation I really have, aside from loving the BSG action after such a drought, is that we kind of already knew Starbuck was going to lead humanity astray.  My current working theory is that Kara believes she’s seen Earth, is NOT a Cylon and doesn’t know she’s being manipulated. It was a pretty damn good taste of BSG, all in all.  What’d you think?