Re: Battlestar Galactica Season 4
My full thoughts on the episode are at my blog as
--Shut the door.--. I won't reprint them in their entirety here, as there's some stuff which may run afoul of the forum's content rules and also the rules regarding spoilers appearing in previews for next week's episode, but here's a bit of it:
About Anders turning the Cylon fleet away:
Since we no longer have the Cylon point of view, this is a bit of a puzzler. Is it a command Anders unwittingly sent the Raider? Is it that the Raider recognized him as a Cylon, and, like the Centurions, was programmed never attack a human-form Cylon? If so, then is it only since Anders and the rest have been activated that this has been possible? Anders has confronted many Centurions in the past without similar results, though Caprica Six did kill a Number Three on Caprica in order to protect him... perhaps it was some subconscious programming that made Six protect him, beyond her moral objections.
Also, there's a certain amount of irony in Roslin claiming that he visions are sent by the Gods to guide them to Earth, but Kara's photographs of Earth and her insistence on following the path she took are "a trick."
Anyone else catch that Baltar's attacker was Connor, one of the members of the circle who were executing collaborators at the beginning of season 3?
As for what the Cylons know of the Final Five, Caprica Six says that they're programmed not to think about them. If that's the case, who did the programming? What kind of programming is it? Is it what we humans refer to as brainwashing? Certainly it's not very effective programming, as Number Three spent a great deal of time thinking about them.
