Is Casey really Kara's daughter? Were they really able to save her ovary, wherever it was, when Kara took out the farm? I have a hard time believing it is her daughter. It seems to me the sort of thing that is just a ruse to get her to cooperate. Even the injury seemed like it might have been staged, though it probably wasn't. You can totally understand Kara's reaction, though. Hurting kids is not cool. Even if she's not her daughter, she feels responsible.
...Having said all that, I think the introduction of Casey is a silly complication and one that yet again smacks of The X-Files. In fact, Scully had not one, but TWO miracle babies on that show.
Doesn't it seem like if Casey is really a human/Cylon hybrid that she would be more of a big deal than she seems to be?
Just when I was really starting to like the idea that Caprica Six and Baltar could connect without their fantasy counterparts, they go and shoot Caprica in the head! Now, she will just download of course but it frustrated me. We then got yet another fantasy Six scene and I am just so tired of those. And we have to question the motivation of fantasy Six now, since Caprica Six didn't want Baltar to sign the thing, but fantasy Six did.
Even though he eventually buckled with a gun to his head, I was proud of Baltar for refusing to sign the order. He still refused for a good minute even with the gun to his head. Moments like this are why I have a hard time seeing him as a villain. He's really just a patsy in this scenario.
The dissent among the Cylons proves to me that they do not have a plan. They have a bickering committee. And I truly do not understand their motivations. They have gotten to the point where they are rounding people up and executing them for no reason. Great, suddenly they are Nazis. But WHY? How is that even remotely justified? A few scattered terrorists blow up your buildings and you execute them? If they just want humanity dead, surely they should let the bombings continue! The Cylons can always download again. Rounding up innocents truly will only anger the humans more. Surely they realize this? I feel like there hasn't been enough time for the situation to build to this place yet. It's only been four months. The Cylons really have to show good faith, but they aren't.
Brother Cabbal (or however you spell it; the Dean Stockwell guy) suggests rounding up people and executing them publicly as a deterrent to crime. The problem with this scenario is that when they finally do start rounding people up, they DON'T execute them publicly! The "death squads" drive them out to a secluded area to kill them. How does that deter anything? That sort of action only riles people up!
With Sharon made an officer, I guess we have a Boomer again. And we learn that she got married too! She married Helo. Odd how that came about. That would never have happened if Roslin were president.
I flatly disagree with Tigh. He suggests that sending people on a suicide mission is the same as what they are doing here. "Dead is dead" he says. I'm not certain he's thinking straight. This must just be about vengeance for the eye. It doesn't really make tactical sense otherwise. What WOULD make sense is to recruit Sharon and Caprica Six as suicide bombers because they can just download again afterwards. Though it was good to see people actually arguing the point. I couldn't believe that everyone just went along with the idea.
Some time ago I compared Baltar to Lando Calrissian. And in a way he is. He's constantly being played by the Cylons. He isn't really responsible for most things he does; he's doing the will of the Cylons. But there's another Lando in this episode, and that's Ellen Tigh. She will do whatever she has to for Saul, but that means doing underhanded things. Sneaking secrets to the Cylons is the equivalent of putting Han in carbon freeze. It seems traitorous, but in her own way she was just trying to help. I am waiting now for someone to use the line "This deal is getting worse all the time."
Can we question the logic of having trucks to move prisoners in? Not that I'm totally against trucks on the show. They've already been established last season on Caprica. But this is a whole new planet. Where did they come from? It is doubtful the planet had trucks lying around, and certainly not the Cylons. So who built them? Were they built by the Colonists? Were they built by the Cylons? Where do they get the raw materials? Do they run on gasoline? It felt like an image used just to be shocking and familiar when there is no logic for having them on New Caprica. And as I noted above, there's no real logic for driving them out to shoot them anyway.
It was good to see Zerek again, and that he sort of made peace with Roslin. Though it is unfair of them to blame Baltar. This would have happened regardless.
And then the episode ends with Callie running away from the sound of gunfire. Rather a predictable television moment. I highly doubt they will be dead, since they wouldn't kill Roslin. Well, we shall see.
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