The precap has been changed again, and now reads that "four live in the fleet" rather than in secret, since the secret is out. Though doesn't that mean that 11 are known, and not "seven are known"? And the opening title music was missing! I wonder if they got rid of it entirely, or just scrapped it here because the episode was running long.
It turns out that yes, indeed this blown up Earth is in fact the Earth they've been looking for. Or at least that's what we are being told right now. And the thirteenth tribe were... your ready?... CYLONS. That's right. The story has completely ceased making sense. This whole time they've been searching for the missing thirteenth tribe, and it turns out to be Cylons! Are you kidding me? The "final four" or five or however many there are were colonists on Earth when it got blowed up. But this needlessly complicates things. The humans build Cylon robots. The Cylon robots kidnap and torture humans for tissue and make Cylon humanoids and hybrids. That makes sense. But now we are supposed to believe that humans made humanoid Cylons while on Kobol, and then when they were expelled from paradise BOTH the humans and the humanoid Cylons built robot Cylons that blew them all up?! That's the stupidest thing ever! That's even dumber than the superscouts playing baseball. Furthermore, this means that the "final five" predate the "12 cylon models" by an enormous length of time. So who programmed those 7 to know that there were a total of twelve? Doesn't this mean they are completely different? Doesn't this mean the "final five" have very little to do with the others, and so grouping them all together as 12 has been a big lie the whole time?
Moving on with this notion, I am certain that there were more than 5 different "models" of Cylon on Earth at its peak. So does that not mean there are vastly more than 12 Cylon models, and if so, where the frack are the rest of them? Why didn't they download again? Or are they off in magical holy Krypton land with "God"?
No big surprise about the transmission coming from the wreckage of Kara's Viper. Once the found the wreckage, I knew they'd find Kara. Though this now begs the question of how the wreckage from inside the swirling clouds ended up on Earth...
Anders says that it has been two thousand years since they lived on Earth. REALLY? Two thousand years? And the planet isn't habitable? I have a hard time believing that, since the Cylons at least were living on the nuked Caprica RIGHT AFTERWARD.
If Earth was populated by Cylons, does that mean Cylons wrote "All Along the Watchtower"? What an insult to Bob Dylan!
I dislike Lee's little speech about how now they are "free to go where we want to go" without the promise of Pythia and bread crumbs of Earth dragging them down. I hope he doesn't really believe that. That sort of thinking is part of a philosophy that sees all religion and faith as a fetter and that only when it is relinquished can you be free. But that's nonsense. And it certainly hasn't seemed to comfort anyone else in the fleet.
And it sure didn't do anything for Dualla who shot herself in the head!! What sort of writing is that? There's no motiviation for it, she just does it. It's the sort of thing writers do when they don't know what to do; they kill off characters hoping that a moment of shock value will equal drama. Well, we've done the crazy deaths already on this show. I'm tired of it, and Dualla deserved better. And it didn't even make sense. Really, finding a devastated planet leads her to suicide within a day or two?
I've been wondering just what makes Kara the harbinger of death. Maybe it's the Dualla thing. Maybe Kara's responsible for her death. But that still seems lame, and I feel like I've been teased with things that have never played out sensibly.
May I just ask if they actually surveyed the entire planet? Because they all just walk around the same cityscape, but a planet is a BIG place. I don't know why science fiction has such a hard time getting a handle on that. It seems planets are always written as one big homogenous biome, when we know that our own planet is nothing like that. So why would this Earth be? Maybe other parts are less damaged. Maybe it's still colonizable. I mean, if they can live on New Caprica, I bet they could maybe live here. Of course, New Caprica is just another example. Why didn't the humans just live on one side of the planet, and the Cylons on the other? DUH.
And then the big reveal at the end of the episode: the fifth and final Cylon is.... Ellen? No way. That just makes it all the more silly than it was before. And I'm not convinced she's "the fifth" when, as stated above, there must have been MANY different Cylons on Earth. And doesn't it seem just too darn convenient that Ellen and Saul were together, then died and were reborn and got together? And their marriage certainly didn't demonstrate a love beyond time, space and death, did it? This show gets dumber by the minute and it is a real chore to watch now.
Oh, and I've now begun rooting for Roslin to die as soon as possible.
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