The Face of the Enemy webisodes

These webisodes center around Gaeta. It's nice to involve a secondary character. And unlike previous webisodes, we actually gain information here. We learn what it was that Baltar knew about and whispered to Gaeta that caused him to attack.

The story itself isn't much. There's an 8 who no one trusts, and it turns out with good reason because she slowly kills them. Was she going to kill Gaeta? Who can say? What none of this really answers is whether the jump was in fact an accidental glitch or whether it was planned. I don't expect that it was planned, but with the 8 doing so much bad for the rest of the webisodes, one has to wonder. And guess what? It all goes back to New Caprica again! That stupid New Caprica that ruined everything rears its ugly head. We find that Gaeta had some sort of affair with an 8 who was rounding people up and killing them. Wait a sec, did Cavil know about this? And I thought that the Eights were siding with the Sixes back then. It seemed like the "death squads" thing was a new drastic measure at the start of the third season. But this story wants us to believe the Cylons had been killing people for some time. It seems a little out of place.

Ultimately, this story is just to set up that Cylons are still bad and no alliance is a good idea. I like that Gaeta sings again. But what's this about him being gay or bisexual or whatever? Or is kissing a dude on the mouth just innocuous? I don't think so. It's irrelevant, and I hate when stuff like that comes onscreen just for no reason. Maybe Gaeta turned to dudes after being turned off by canoodling with a Cylon.

Overall reaction: Meh. But better than the previous episode. Sort of.