Well, everyone seems to mostly have forgotten about this group, but just to be a completist....

Watched the epi this morning on the live stream. Very tense. I really enjoyed it. Lee not a weeney for a change. A little too Planet of the Apes for my taste, but it's about what I expected. I guess that explains why they know Dylan and Shakespeare.

Two immediate questions:

1. Why did NO ONE ask Three where the fifth cylon was?
2. The hookups in the final scene were werid to me: Tory reaching for Anders, Cap6 for Tigh. Poor Baltar, what is he now, chopped liver?

I'm not really sure if she knows who the fifth is, but if she does, it's definitely no one she knows ,other wise she would have said something.

What's bothering me the most:
1. is the post-nuclear apocalyptic (I say nuclear because of the gieger meter) is the near future, far future, distant past?
2. Where the frak are the other cylon models? did they follow them?
3. Who killed the human civilization on Earth? did we have a war with ourselves or someone else? (cylon baseship anyone?)
4. Why o why are the next episodes coming out in 2009? >

Seriously? 2009???

So annoying. In the meantime we will have webisodes and Caprica, the spinoff. And perhaps a movie. Still, jeeze.

Well, I thought some parts of the episode were great with some real suspense.

My husband and I did joke, as they were panning the post-apocalyptic Earth, that we were going to see the statue of Liberty any moment (instead we saw the Brooklyn Bridge). This also reminded me of Asimov's Foundation and Earth where they find the mythical earth and it is wasted or under water (it's been ages since I've read it but that's what I remember).

Deanna said there were four of the final five in the fleet which suggests the fifth and final comes from someone else. 1. the person orchestrating all of this (very Asimovian. Think: R. Daneel Olivaw) 2. a centurion 3. someone on, say, Caprica 4. something/someone else.

I expect the rest of the cylons will be coming along; as also the Centurions (tell me there won't be a a rebellion there of some sort).

I didn't care for the Adama falling apart bit; thought it out of character without adequate justification. I'm not one to probe the psyche of a TV character (their psyches exist in what is told and what is show only, as far as I'm concerned); but they seemed to have tossed out the rule book as we noted in previous episodes. Gaius is much LESS interesting the way he is now. The cylons are less interesting, except for Deanna who has a bit of the edge that the rest used to have.

Was Tori looking at Leoban and growling?:-)

Maybe the final cylon is an ape. ;-)

Yeah, that is pretty weird.

Adama falls apart. Baltar is voice of reason.

What is next, Centurion hippies?

I liked the last few moments of this episode, even though it all seemed very rushed. "Oh we found earth, let's go there, now we're there...Oh crap."

One thing though that struck me as really weird - from everything the Colonials have seen about all the different kinds of Cylons, doesn't it seem that Tigh is the least believable as a Cylon? From Sharon/Helo, they know that Cylons can have a kid with a human, so Tyrol doesn't really break any rules, as far as the Colonials know. Yeah, he seems to have a bit of history with Adama, but its already been established that there were skin-jobs in the fleet for a while longer than they thought. Anders and Tory, whatever, no one knew much about them in the first place. But Tigh - he and Adama have known each other for like 30 years.... I guess I just didn't get Adama's reaction. It seemed like "Acting" (said in a pretentious voice). The falling apart, crying drunkeness seemed much more realistic than the anger. But I guess the writers are counting on the viewer to think that Deanna knows who the final five are, the final five know pretty quickly that she can identify them, so there's not really any point for Tigh to claim to be a cylon unless he is one because its not like the Colonials can fool her.

I hope we see more of the fallout from Anders, Tigh, Tory, and Tyrol being revealed as Cylons, because the whole thing happened so quickly & then they are all together on Earth and it seems like nothing matters except the fact that the place is wasted. I would almost think that the revelation of at least some of the final four would have more repercussions, especially for Adama and Starbuck. I mean, Starbuck just found out her husband is a Cylon. While I liked her reaction of total stunned disbelief followed by her looking completely shattered in the hangar (for once, some actually great acting rather than rage and "scenery chewing" as littlegeek calls it....), I want to see something more about her reaction. And I think Sharon needs a role in all this, even though she's a different Sharon than the one who was in love with Tyrol. Certainly she has got to feel something....