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Thought you might like this article located here: https://right-thoughts.us/index.php/weblog/comments/battlestar_galactica_he_who_believeth_in_me/ Battlestar galactica - He Who Believeth In Me SPOILER ALERT BELOW THE FOLD.  You’ve been warned. Vipers in the launch tube in 3, 2, 1… When we last left the crew, Tigh, Tory Foster, Anders and Chief Tyrol were listening to some Dylan and finding out they was toaster-riffic.  See also Starbuck risin from the dead and Jesus Baltar scurrying away. The episode/season picked up precisely there, right in the middle of everything.  Random thoughts, the day after we watched: - Starbuck in a brand-spanking new beautiful Viper claiming she woke up orbiting earth. What the frack?  My only guess is wormhole physics.  Hence the reason that “Watchtower” was able to get through, otherwise time becomes too much of an issue.  She found a wormhole/thin spot in the fabric of space/time, and who the hell knows which version of her - or her ship - is actually back.  I do not think Starbuck is a Cylon.  I think they are making it way, way to easy to think she’s the last one.  Could be a double bluff, but I just think it’s lazy.  kara already hates herself, how would this be any different?  Now, destroying her further by making Zack a Cylon and she has to kill him...or try to...now that’s some shit for Thrace’s ass. - Massive dogfight sequence, which was really awesome to see again.  I *love* these ships, Colonial and Cylon alike. - Jesus Baltar.  Need I say more?  This fucking guy has the worst best luck ever.  I mean, sure he’s hated by 99.97623% of all remaining humans and a large portion of the Cylons as well, but could he come up smelling like roses more frigging often?  Get jumped in the toilet by murderous parent intent on revenge?  No worries, mate, Hottie Cultist #351 will beat your assailants to death with a pipe.  Cult member’s kid dying of viral encephalitis?  No worries.  You just say a prayer and he’ll be fine, dude, then they will all believe you are Jesus.  More pussy for you, my friend. - Anyone else catch that Laura is staying in Bill’s quarters?  I smell old people sex.  Well, not literally smell it.  Ben Gay and KY.  Eww.  No, I mean look for a whole future episode based around the very non-Ozzy and Harriet scenarios that living situation will conjure up. - I like where Tigh’s defiance about his nature is going.  He’s been fighting demons his whole life, and when push comes to shove, he always makes the right decision...eventually.  The scene in CiC where he shot Bill in the face was great, as was his absolute defiance about who and what he is.  He’d rather die than help the Cylons even if he is one.  It raises all these nature/nurture, will versus instinct type questions.  Can you choose to be human?  Is there something special about the Final Five that allows them to make decisions rather than follow programming? - Fucking Starbuck.  She can’t just knock on Roslin’s door and say ‘Ma’am I really really need to speak with you about these jumps.” and based on their shared experiences with the arrow and religion and the tomb and map and shit, convince Laura to listen to her.  No, not Starbuck.  She has to throat-chop two Marines, knock her husband out with a pistol whipping and then go threaten Laura at gunpoint.  That’s Starbuck for you. Problem here is, I’m not sure what I want to see.  I want them to get to earth so I can see what happens, but if I’m thinking about them as people I care about, Laura’s caution is warranted and she;s probably making the right decision. - One minor writing complaint.  When they are standing by the memorial wall, Kara says to Anders that she worries she was grown in a Petri dish.  I realize that I’m probably the only person watching who thought of this as a flaw, but Petri dishes were named after a specific person.  Richard Petri invented them in 1887.  It’s kind of stupid to think that they also had a guy named Petri who happened to invent a little dish for growing shit in a lab.  A better line would have been “Is it possible that they grew me, another me, in a test tube” or “in a lab somewhere.” Saying “Petri dish” is too Earthy.  It shook me out of the moment.  Not for long, though. - The position Lee is talking about in the government.  Vice President? - It seems like most of the major players are coming around to the idea of accepting Cylons as “one of us.” Save for Starbuck of course, who told AndersCylon that if she ever found out he was, well, what he is, she would put a bullet in his fracking head.  See?  This Zack idea I keep kicking around would be AWESOME.  And note that Lee and Bill were specifically discussing what would happen if Zack came back and was a Cylon.  And the guy that played Zack in the flashback way back when?  His agent refuses to comment on whether or not his client is working on the show. I’m just saying. All in all I REALLY enjoyed this episode.  Tons of shit happened, loads of forward progress.  LOVE love love the space battle and the fight in the bathroom.  One weird thing I’ve noticed is that the vast majority of great BSG episodes feature the bathroom.  Weird. Looking forward to more.  If they can maintain half of this episode’s forward momentum, excitement and intrigue, I will be fracking thrilled.  BSG feel like it’s back. So say we all. (?)